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October 11, 1913- *i * t ^ ^ ^

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***IN THE SHADOW OF THE
MOUNTAINS

Ruined in Wall Street, Foster goes West to
the Rocky Mountain gold district and is taken
into partnership by an old man whom he saves
from a tough gang. Claim-jumpers attack him,
but are driven off. Foster comes East to raise
money and is arrested for using the United
States mails to defraud, but is proven innocent
by the rich nuggets brought from the mine by
the old man. A story full of adventure.

Released Friday, October 10th

***THE FOREMAN'S TREACHERY
Produced in Wales

The mine foreman discovers rich ore, conceals
his find and tries to buy the mine from the dis-
couraged owner. Learning of a miser who has
hidden his hoard in the abbey courtyard, he at-
tacks him and kills him in the struggle. He
throws suspicion upon the lover of the miser's
daughter, who is arrested after a thrilling ride
down a mountain side in an ore car. The fore-
man is proven guilty and is blown to atoms while
fleeing from the lover.

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**THE GIRL AND THE OUTLAW

A story of the big woods in which an outlaw risks his life
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**TWICE RESCUED

A thrilling rescue in which a girl leaps from a row boat into
the arras of a man in a speeding motor boat.

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*BILL'S CAREER AS BUTLER

Stolen clothes and recommendations cannot make a butler
out of Bill.

Released Monday, October 13th.

**THE FAMILY'S HONOR

A drama of the Spanish War in which a young Spanish girl
saves the family name after her brother's disgrace.

Released Tuesday, October 14th.

*THE WIDOW'S SUITORS

Two rivals for a widow's hand seek advice from a third
man. Never again!

Released Wednesday, October 15th.

**HIRAM GREEN, DETECTIVE

The Eagle Eye Detective Agency makes a hero of Hiram.
Released Monday, October 20th.

*REGINALD'S COURTSHIP

Poor Reggie gets in over his head in the social swim.
Released Tuesday, October 21st.

*HIS FIRST PERFORMANCE

Tommy's Pa and Ma break up the show.

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JAFFA, THE SEAPORT OF JERUSA-
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"THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII"

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George Kleine's presentation of "The Last Days of Pompeii" marks the
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Established 1908 Established 1913

Volume VIII October 11, 1913 Number IS

NICHOLAS POWER

( Cameragrapher )

TN my photographic days, quite the most, or at any a long, long time to come. Of course, he has got to die
rate one of the most original, men in that business like the rest of us. But he is such a treasure to the
was a witty Irishman. He lived to a fine old age ; motion picture field that we must keep him as long as
died the possessor of a nice estate and plenty of money, we can. Nicholas Power is witty, clever and warm-
He used to make photographic cameras, big and lit- hearted. One of the happiest experiences in my last
tie, which were a joy to handle. Have you ever seen lustrum was to sit and listen to his mordantly humor-
a microscopist fondle over a
Zeiss high-power, high-grade
microscope? I have. And I
have done a great deal of the
fondling. I was once the pos-
sessor of a beautiful Zeiss mi-
croscope. 1 seldom used it in
actual microscopic work. But it
was a joy to me to turn the
milled head and feel the ex-
quisitely wrought out move-
ments of the machine. I write
"wrought out" advisedly. The
finish of these scientific luxuries
is imparted by hand — oh, but if
I tried to put my feelings on
paper on handling delicate op-
tical instruments I should fail,
even though I exhausted Web-
ster in the process.

Well, my Irish friend whose
name was "Pat" (never mind the
surname) made cameras as deli-
cate in their movements as
beautiful microscopes. They were built of Spanish duce. They "deliver the goods."
mahogany years and years old. It had been pickled. One of the most interesting exhibits at the New
It had been ripened. And oh, the beautiful polish he York Motion Picture Exposition in July was the
put on those instruments. They were good to look at Nicholas Power exhibit and one of the most inter-
and to use. Those were the happy days when it was esting figures there was Nicholas Power himself. He
a distinction to be a photographer. Now it ain't. The did not see me, but I saw him and it pleased me to
kodak is omnipresent. "Everybody's using it, using it, see the evident interest Mr. Power took in explaining
using it." My camera friend began life in a back not merely the practical uses of his much-loved cam-
shop, slept under the counter at nights, but died in a eragraph, but to expound the optical principles in-
bed that a wealthy society beauty might envy. volved in projection. To this day I can remember the

I don't want my friend Nicholas Power to die for (Continued on page 16)

NICHOLAS POWER

ous story of his wanderings in
the East. He had taken a vaca-
tion and probably needed it as
much as he deserved it. We all
need vacations. Not everyone
of us deserve them. I deserve
vacations, but I don't need them
for I hate holidays.

I theorize that Nicholas Power
in the projection machine field
is the analogue of my camera-
making friend. I believe that
Nicholas Power (more power
to him and all power to him)
began business life in a back
shop and slept under the coun-
ter. Slept with parts of his ma-
chine, as my camera friend
did, and as that absolutely un-
manageable and erratic Thomas
Edison is said to do now. These
men are the despair of their
wives, daughters and families,
BUT they get there. They pro-

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THE DARK HOUSE AND THE PICTURE

ONE effect we hope of the erection in Central New
York and the centers of other large cities of
photo-drama houses, especially and exclusively for
the exhibition of the motion picture, will be the dis-
appearance of the dark house. The dark house is an
abomination in the eyes of all lovers of good motion
pictures properly projected amid suitable environ-
ments. The dark house is a melancholy confession
of theatrical failure or ineptitude.

The dark house is dark because there are no plays
to fill it. There are plays, but the people who put on
plays are mostly unable to tell a good play from a bad
play. That is why these theatres are dark.

In Central New York, and indeed in some of the
outlying sections of the city, there are always these
dark houses. Sepulchres of buried hopes ; graveyards
of unrealized ambitions ; tombs, mortuaries, morgues —
we just hate to see them because they typify failure.
Into these morgues comes the savior of many a
diminishing bank balance, the motion picture. At the
present time in the Broadway section of New York
City there are a dozen of these places. Pictures are
put in and indifferently projected and hastily arranged
music flung at the picture as our confrere, J. M. B., is

constantly pointing out elsewhere. The picture becomes
literally a feature of these mausoleums. A substitute,
any old thing you like, as long as the house is kept
from going dark.

Of course, it's business — pro tempore — but the pic-
ture suffers in public esteem. Mr. David Horsley is
talking about building high-grade theatres. Well let
him start on Broadway or in the center of other large
cities ; tear down these dark houses and put real mo-
tion picture theatres in their places. Because in New
York the best motion picture houses are away from
the center of things. It is a moot point whether the
New York center of things is the best of things with
regard to amusements. Broadway, according to keen
observers, is being rapidly shorn of its glories. Even
New Yorkers, the most pleasure-loving people on the
face of the globe, are becoming sensible in their
pleasure-taking. They can get high-grade theatrical
performances and good motion picture exhibitions
on their own doorsteps, so to speak, so why should
they worry about Broadway? Especially when there
are so many dark houses there and so many other
theatres which are but registrations of failures and
the fatuity of infatuated angels.

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY MOTION PICTURE
SCHOOL

The photographic school at Syracuse University will
probably, by the end of the year, be housed in a home
of its own, as plans are now under consideration for
a special building comprising on the ground floor a
lecture room, studio, four darkrooms, plate, lens and
shutter-testing rooms and the usual offices. On the
first floor will be built a portrait and motion-picture
studio, 30x60 feet, in which it will be possible to stage
any ordinary play.

Professor E. J. Wall, who is in charge of this de-
partment, hopes to have installed in the new building
a Hurter & Driffield plate-testing machine with its
complement, a special photometer, a complete optical
bench, these instruments now being on the way. With
these he hopes to make the school a reliable testing
establishment for lenses, plates and papers. There will
also be put in, at the earliest possible date, a shutter-
testing machine. A photomicrographic department is
to be fitted up and spectrographic work is to be under-
taken ; the necessary equipment being all on the spot,
only want of room preventing its being installed ere
now.

The department has received many donations in the
form of apparatus. George Eastman has given a com-
plete series of kodaks, developing tanks, etc.; the Edi-
son Company has donated projecting machines; F. J.
Marion, of the Kalem Company, a motion-picture cam-
era and printer; the Ansco Company, two of their
printing machines ; the Bausch & Lomb Optical Com-
pany, a complete set of lens-grinding tools and a lens
in the various stages of grinding from the raw glass;
(Continued on page 17)

By Z€-

\ LITTLE help is worth a ton of sympathy. Two
months ago my heart began to bleed for Mr.
Arthur Hopkins, for I knew by instinct and reasoning
that he was backing a forlorn hope. His destruction
was about as certain as the ship, the loss of which has
led to the erection of a beautiful monument parallel
to the axis of the Park Theatre on Columbus Succle,
Xew Yark City. Columbus Succle is a morgue, the
graveyard of many reputations, good, bad and indiffer-
ent. It has a statue of Columbus, the Maine monu-
ment, a Cafe Des Enfants. So it's out of the the-
atrical running on this showing and will never be in it.

I was determined to see "Evangeline" and did.
Strange though it may read, "Evangeline" is an Eng-
lish classic — not by any means entirely an American
one. It finds a place in British school books. The
story has been familiar to me since boyhood, and the
character of the beautiful girl who lost her lover in a
military melee only to find him years afterwards a
dying man in a pesthouse is one of the most beau-
tiful of all time. Longfellow immortalized himself
with this type of beautiful, patient, suffering woman-
hood.

With Edna Goodrich in the star part, an adequate
support, good staging and costumes, "Evangeline"
should have been a success in the land of its birth.
It never stood a chance of success here in Xew York,
because New York, as Madam Simone recently pointed
out, does not stand for the imaginative, the intellectual,
the thought-provoking in its plays. It wants rapid
action, surprise, change, excitement, first, last and all
the time. It does not want poetry on the stage; it
wants drama of "Within the Law" type, or surprise of
the "Seven Leys to Baldpate" kind.

"Evangeline" is one of the most weird, haunting
producti ons I have ever seen. I have seen some of
the most beautiful productions by some of the great-
est stage producers of the world. To me the presenta-
tion of the poem in dramatic form was almost flawless.
As for Miss Goodrich in the part of Evangeline, she
approached within measurable distance of my ideal
of the character. She was intensely good. There is
all the more reason for regretting, therefore, that in
the opinion of those who stand for good in the play

world this production was spattered with mud by the
baser kind of New York critic. Believe me, some
of these critics are a pretty bad lot, backed up by
pretty bad influences. However, as I surmised and
expected, the production is good enough for multiple
reel form and I hope that Mr. Hopkins, his associates
and Miss Goodrich will take this friendly hint and
turn Evangeline into a five-reel motion picture and sell
it on the state-right plan. They will make more money
that way than they possibly could by attempting to
force this poem upon people who don't want it. The
motion picture public is not so easily led away from

its ideal as the theatrical public. Thank heaven !

* * * *

Last week the theatrical men of Xew York held a
meeting and wondered why their houses were so often
dark, why so many of their plays were failures, and
why they could not now get $2.00 a seat with the readi-
ness that they could at one time. Mr. Hopkins sup-
plies the reasons in his failure with "Evangeline."
Such a thing is against the "interests" of the New York
theatre. It is against the syndicates, it's against the
"angels," it's against the "powers that be," in fact, of
the Xew York stage. It's against the trust or trusts,
the rings and the inner rings : it's against the grafters
and the crooks who vitiate and dominate XTew York
theatricals. It is not necessary for these men to hold
meetings on this subject; they know or ought to know
that the public has been frightened away from Xew
York theatres. They have been frightened, and are
being frightened, into the motion picture theatre, thank
goodness. And the motion picture theatre at last is
out of the hands of the crook and the grafter. It
has defeated the "interests," and all the king's horses
and all the king's men (— All never again put the motion

picture theatre of this country in a subsidiary position.

% * * , *

I don't know anything about Mr. Hopkins or his
entourage, but I give him this advice on his record :
That he get into the picture game as soon as possible.
That is if he can make "Evangelines." This is the
kind of feature film that we want. We in this country
want the classics of the country sympathetically filmed.
Why, such a picture as that of "Evangeline," if made
now, can be used as a complement to or supplement of
school books for centuries. Children, while studying
the poem for its English, could have it also illustrated
by means of such a picture as this. Mr. Edison, a

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wise and shrewd man, argued recently that school in-
stead of being unattractive to the average kid could
be made really attractive by means of motion pictures.
Mr. Edison is right. All boys and girls when they
reach adolescence or intelligence are interested in the
motion picture. So I hope to live to see "Evange-
line" made by Mr. Hopkins and his associates passing
through the schoolrooms.

^ ^ * ^

I read Mr. Hopkins' letter in the New York Times
the other day. He hit out at some of his critics good
and hard. No doubt they deserved it. I have been a
critic myself and a pretty severe one. I have also
been a dramatic author and the most roasted writer
in London. I once wrote letters like Mr. Hopkins did
and got whacked for my pains and troubles. The
whacking I got made me a motion picture man with
faith in the boundless future of the motion picture.
Nothing like the argumentum ad hominum. Go thou
and do likewise, Mr. Hopkins. And upon me sivvy,
I would like to see lovely Edna Goodrich on the screen.
She looks to me as if she would be a fine image in
pictures.

^ ^ 2f£ Ifi.

More and more the theatrical men are turning to
the picture field as a refuge — something to which
they can turn with the certainty of getting back the
money and labor which they expend in their produc-
tions. The stage at its best is full of uncertainties. If
you got the truth from Mr. Frohman, you would
probably find that his failures vastly outnumber his
successes. Also that some of the other great the-
atrical names are not always synonymous with uni-
form or even comparative successes. The picture, on
the other hand, is establishing a different reputation.

It is this: That with given conditions, success may
be made a matter of almost mathematically calculated
exactitude.

* * * *

In other words, you can put down so much money
and calculate upon a certain return. I should be be-
traying secrets (but I won't, s'welp me, never) if I
told you how much money the All Star put down
for 'Arizona" — how much money they expect to make
and will make. They started out on a definite for-
mula, a formula which I have given again and again :
a good story well acted and well photographed.
"Evangeline" is a mighty good story ; it is wonderfully
well produced and acted. All that is necessary now
is to have it well photographed, well advertised and

it will make money.

* * * *

"Evangeline" is not the only high-class production
here in New York that has been mercilessly knocked
during the last year or two. It is commonly said by
theatrical people in my hearing now that "this or that
piece would make a fine picture." Most good pieces,
most good plays will make good pictures. The great
plays of the future will be good pictures. The great
writers of the future will be great photoplay writers.
The ordinary stage is by no means dead. It will al-
ways live as pointed out before. It will produce good
actors and actresses, some good plays, but it will in-
terest a minority of the amusement loving public. The
predominant partner in the amusement field is the
motion picture. For the picture interests the ma-
jority, and by the law of representation majorities
rule in politics and all the other affairs of life. Man
is a majority, i.e., he outnumbers the woman by points.
And that's why HE rules. Isn't it so, ladies?

NICHOLAS POWER

(Continued from page 13)

beam of rays which shot along the specially erected
optical system on the Power stand like a beam of light
from the lighthouse at sea.

One of the greatest treats you can have is to let
Mr. Power take you over his factory downtown in
New York City. Downtown ! That is in the purlieus
of Brooklyn Bridge. The home of the cameragraph
is a busy hive in this crowded section. It was when
I was there. Maybe now they have a big plant out
in Jersey. Mr. Power himself took me around and
personally explained the use of every part in the
cameragraph, every part and its relationship with
other parts. He virtually took a cameragraph to pieces
_and put it together again.

"There it is," he said with a wave of the hand;
"nothing new about it, nothing wonderful ; it just
grew from year to year by experience." You feel
when you are in Mr. Power's company that you are
in the company of a good man, a good mechanician
and a good fellow. Mr. Power is proud of his work

and his success and he is devoted to his family. I
am going to nail him down to a promise he made
two years ago. He was going to take me out and
give me a good time. He could not fix a date then.
Why? because his time, as he put it in such a noble
way, was primarily that of his wife and daughters.
Happy man.

I am not a mechanician and I know little about
motion picture projectors — as yet. Still I may add to
my experiences by becoming an operator. You never
can tell. The Power's cameragraph always impressed
me as a wonderfully ingenious growth, clever, well
made, efficient and good to handle. A machine which
deserves its success. It helps to popularize motion pic-
tures. As I wrote once before, the first projector
that I handled in 18'96 worked like a coffee grinder,
but the Power's cameragraph is a thing of "sweetness
and light."

Nicholas Power is a prominent person and per-
sonality in the picture field and a popular one. One
of those men of whom you cannot easily see too
much. I am writing this "quite unbeknownst" to
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think he will dislike it. There is a proper curiosity in
the great motion picture field to know something of
the personalities of the pioneers — the real working
pioneers. Not the advertised butcher, the baker, the
candlestick-maker, but the REAL WORKERS. That
is why I am writing this article. Nicholas Power
is and has been a good worker and that is why I
write about him on the front page of this number of
the Motion Picture News. T. B.

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY MOTION PICTURE
SCHOOL

{Continued from page 14)
while the C. P. Goerz American Optical Company
has loaned a fine anastigmat lens.

It may save many applicants trouble if it be ex-
plained that the course extends over two years and
comprises the necessary art and chemical training re-
quired to fit any one to qualify either as an expert with

the camera, in the laboratory, or the studio. The de-
mand for skilled workers is greater than the supply
and already posts are open to those who graduate,
not only in connection with the motion picture, but
also in photographic factories. This explanation is
necessary, as many seem to think that photography
can be learned in two or three months ; but it takes
longer than this to become an expert motion-picture or
studio operator.

The school was only started last January, with Mr.
Wall as instructor, but he has now been made profes-
sor and the outlook for the future is more than en-
couraging. Such a school as this, absolutely inde-
pendent of any manufacturing concern, ought to take
its position in the States as the final court of appeal
in all photographic matters. It certainly deserves sup-
port, not only that of the motion-picture men, but that
of photographic manufacturers and the trade gener-
ally, since its work will be in the interests of every
branch of the photographic art.

"What's the Use?"

THE following article is written,
not so much for the benefit of the
operators of New York City (and yet in
a way it applies to them), as it is for
that of the men who hope to become
operators and procure license cards.

The point of the article is contained
in the following paragraph and the wri-
ter wishes there was some more em-
phatic way of making it plain to you
than by just the use of printer's ink.

''It is absolutely impossible and like-
wise more than foolish for men who
are trying to obtain license cards to at-
tempt to bribe the Examining Board, or
by the use of influence, political or other-
wise, force the issue of a license unless
they are competent to pass the examina-
tion given to them by the Board."

Before proceeding to show how un-
wise the bribery method is, let me first
state the experience of a few of the de-
luded ones that have tried it; these are:
''Orlandi Baldi attempted bribery by
passing a sum of money to one of the
Examining Board, was promptly arrest-
ed and at a hearing before Magistrate
Breen was held for further action under
$1,000 bail. At his next hearing before
Magistrate Barlow his bail of $1,000 was
continued and he was held to await the
action of the Grand Jury. When the
case was again called it was found that
he had jumped his bail and evidently
left the city. A bench warrant has been
issued for his arrest.

"Jacob Targoff, attempted bribery by
passing a twenty-dollar note to the Ex-
aminers at the conclusion of his exam-
ination. He was detained until an offi-
cer arrived, arrested, and at his hearing,
at the Criminal Court Building before
Magistrate House, he was held under

$1,500 bail for trial May 16th last. At
his hearing before Magistrate McAdoo
he was held without bail for the action
of the Grand Jury.

"Julius Tietze, charged with bribery,
sent money and cigars through the mail
to the Electrical Engineer, and also
wrote promising more money if 'helped
across.' At his hearing before Magis-
trate Campbell he was held for the ac-
tion of the Grand Jury."

There are numerous other cases of at-
tempts to bribe the Examining Board,
and as you can see even the Engineers
of the Department have not escaped,
and sums ranging from $5 to $100 have
been offered, not only money bribes, but
presents of every kind from cigars to
wax dolls have been offered. They have
all met with failure, and most of those
who have tried this method are facing
serious trouble, and in spite of all ru-
mors to the contrary the Examining
Board is as innocent of accepting graft
as ever, will undoubtedly remain so.

Not so much blame can be attached to
these men for trying to bribe their way
through the examination as to those
who are directly responsible for their
action (and in most cases these parties
are operators), who tell these men that
they had to pay for their cards and that
that method is the only sure way to get
by the Board.

The Department of Water Supply,
Gas and Electricity is in possession of
information which is slowly but surely
cornering these parties, and very soon
they will find themselves in just as bad
a fix as the men they have told to try
bribery — the license cards of several of
these "agents" have been taken away
by the Commissioner.

There are many men holding cards in
New York City to-day who obtained
their cards by paying money for them,
and who actually think that the money
they paid found its way to the Examining
Board, but such is not the case, and I
will prove it to you by introducing to
you the slick "Mr. Fix It" and by
doing so show you where the money
went.

Having been told that paying for a card
is the only sure way of obtaining one,
the candidate is introduced to this "Mr.
Fix It," who, to hear HIM tell it, is a
personal friend of not only the members
of the Examining Board, but of the
whole department from the Commission-
er down to the office boy. "Mr. Fix It"
takes the candidate down to the depart-
ment, shows him the place to get his ap-
plication blank, helps him to prepare it,
and likewise file it. He then tells him
that it will be necessary to answer a few
of the questions before the Board, which
questions he attempts to give the an-
swers of. He then takes his money and
awaits the day of the examination.
Down-town with him he goes, leaves
him in the hallway while he goes in to
talk with the Commissioner, the Engi-
neer, the Examination Board as the
case may be, comes out, tells him that
he has fixed it, and he goes ahead and
tries his luck. If he is successful by his
own efforts "Mr. Fix It" is in just as
much money as he has given him ; if
not, he tells him that something was
wrong and either returns his money or
keeps it until he tries again. "Mr. Fix
It's" talk with the powers that be has
not in any way concerned him or his
examination, and has only been used for
the purpose of deceiving him. Of course
if he passes he gives him to understand
that the money went to the Examination
Board.

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It is not hard to see why so many men
foolishly try bribery to get cards, when
they are repeatedly told by so many of
the agents of "Mr. Fix It" how they had
to pay anywhere from twenty to a hun-
dred dollars to get through, and these
men not being lucky ( ? ) enough to know
this slick gentleman try it alone and so
get into serious trouble.

As a result this has not only made se-
rious trouble for the candidate, but has
placed an ill-deserved stigma upon the
Examining Board ; so once again I ask,
"What's the use?"

UNDER THE BLACK FLAG
101 Bison — Three-Reel Drama

Of all the black-hearted wretches
in history, 1 believe Henry Morgan
takes the allegorical cake. For crime
and all-around malignancy he makes
the notorious Lucrezia Borgia, of
poison fame, pale into insignificance.
There is also a romance woven in
among the strands of villainy. Mor-
gan captures a Spanish ship and puts
all to death, except a padre and a
child who escape by a miracle and
land at the Island of Caracas. Mor-
gan gains the hatred of his mate,
through striking him. It is this ha-
tred that later proves his undoing.

Twenty years pass by, and Mor-
gan has gained great power, being
known as the Governor of Jamaica.
The King, however, having heard of
his piratical methods, sends an em-
bassy to arrest him. He escapes and
goes to an old ship, known as the
Undertow, which is kept by Teach, the
mate, whom he had struck, and who
recognizes Morgan. Morgan and his
men, with the help of Teach, capture
the King's ship, where he again sets
himself up as a pirate. He deter-
mines to take the town of Caracas.
In the fight Juan and his sweetheart
are captured. Juan bribes Teach to
let him go., and after a long ride he
brings help from a neighboring gar-
rison. The pirates are captured and
put to death, with the exception of
Morgan, whom Teach captures and
starves to death in a most cruel man-
ner.

It is pictures of this class that a
certain large proportion of the thea-
tregoers demand, and when the
theme is made historical, as well as
bloody, the remainder of the audi-
ence are pleased. David M. Hart-
ford plays the pirate.

Every Monday will find a new Edi-
son comedy release, as that company
has decided to make a comedy re-
lease regularly on that day.

The comedies already listed on this
Monday schedule are: "A Short Life
and a Merry One," "Bill's Career as
Butler," "Hiram Green, Detective,"
and "The Hornet's Nest.''

Two Spies

A Romance of the Balkan War — Gaumont Two-Reel Feature

DESPITE the fact that the recent
war in the Balkans held the inter-
est of the entire world, there are com-
paratively very few dramas produced
using this as a basis. Our own Civil
war has its hundreds of stories, which
are told to admiring millions daily,
and the same applies truthfully to
the Revolution, Franco-Prussian, and
even the old Roman wars.

Therefore this picture of Gaumont
is more interesting. The plot cannot
be called new, but it is action, from
the first sub-title to the "Passed by
the National Board of Censorship,"
and good, hair-raising action, the
kind that makes some of the modern
Wild West shows look like an Evan-
gelical mass meeting.

As the title would indicate, there
are two spies, one a Bulgarian. Boris,
and the other a Turk, Nissiml. The

story opens with their bidding fare-
well to their sweethearts and de-
parting for their respective regi-
ments.

The Turk is given orders to locate
the Bulgars and ascertain their
strength and to make drawings of
their fortifications. At the same time
Boris, the Bulgarian hero, receives
orders to blow up the railroad so as
to prevent ammunition reaching the
Turks. He is successful, but is dis-
covered by Nissiml. Both are wound-
ed in the ensuing fight and Boris
goes to the house of Nissiml's sweet-
heart. Mistaking her, in his delirium,
for his own fiancee, he begs her to
kiss him. Nissiml sees this and in
despair gives himself up to the Bul-
gars and is shot as a spy. Boris dies
in the girl's arms.

A good release.

ITALA COMPANY MOVES ITS
OFFICES

The Candler Building, 220 West
Forty-second street. New York, will
henceforth be the address of the
Itala Flim Company, who moved
their offices from the Columbia The-
atre Building last week. The Itala
Film Company now occupy part of
the suite on the tenth floor of the
Candler Building formerly used by
the Exclusive Supply Corporation.
This office is directly opposite the

All Star Feature Corporation's offices,
an advantage to Harry R. Raver,
who as director-general of the Itala
and president of the All Star, found
it inconvenient to have his interests
geographically scattered.

Mr. Phil Gleichman, representing
the World Special Films Corpora-
tion, has engaged Mr. B. H.
Brient, local manager for the Mutual
in Indianapolis, to take charge of
their new offices.

LUBIN PHOTOGRAPHERS

Top Row: — From left to right — William Black, Edward C. Earle, Wm. Cooper, Lloyd
Lewis, David Newton Davidson, Roswell Johnson, Robert Smith and Gerry Hotaling.
Bottom Row or 2nd row: — From left to right — P. J. MacCaffery, E. E. Blackwell, Julian
Tessier, Fred Chaston, Delberth Davis and Jack Frawley.

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SCREEN CLUB ELECTS
OFFICERS

The Screen Club was organized in
September, 1912, when King Baggot
was chosen president; John Bunny,
vice-president; Gilbert M. Anderson,
second vice-president; and Arthur V.
Johnson, third vice-president. Near-
ly all the prominent members of the
profession, both in the manufactur-
ing and acting ends, are members,
including such well-known names as
Siegmund Lubin, Carl Laemmle, Ad
Kessel and Adolph Zukor.

King Baggot was re-elected to the
presidency by unanimous consent, no
one being found who would run
against him. Joseph W. Farnham
was elected vice-president; Hopp
Hadley, secretary; William Haddock,
recording secretary, and Jacob Ger-
hardt, treasurer. Governors elected
were: Arthur Leslie, "Bill" Quirk,
James Gordon and David D. Wall.
The Screen Club has just moved into
new quarters.

William F. Haddock, one of the
best known directors in America, has
been engaged by Augustus Thomas
to assist him in the staging of "Sol-
diers of Fortune" as a "silent" drama
for the All Star Feature Corporation.
The services of Mr. Haddock were
secured for the one production only.

The engagement of Mr. Haddock
was rendered necessary because of
the fact that Lawrence McGill, who
regularly assists Mr. Thomas, will
be detained in New York finishing up
the work on "Checkers," while Mr.
Thomas and Mr. Haddock, with a
company headed by Dustin Farnum,
will be at work in Cuba on "Soldiers
of Fortune.''

MASTERPIECE IN MOTION
PHOTOGRAPHY

What has heretofore been consid-
ered the impossible in the motion pic-
ture trade was the release of films of
events taken that day and exhibited
that night.

The Commercial Motion Pictures
Company. Inc., of 102 West 101st
street, the owners of the sole and ex-
clusive right to take motion pictures
of the World's Series Baseball Games
for the year 1913, granted to them by
the National Commission, have en-
tered into contracts with various ex-
changes and exhibitors throughout
the United States to print, develop
and deliver the films of the games the
same night that the game is played.

The games concluded about 5
p. m., and in the City of New York
in about twenty-one theatres full and
complete reels of the game played
that day were thrown upon the
screen.

The contract for the exclusive right
to exhibit these pictures during the

week of the games was awarded by
the Commercial Motion Picture Com-
pany to the Loew enterprises.

The factory of the Commercial Mo-
tion Pictures Company was kept
a-going twenty-four hours, and will be
kept a-going continuously until two
days after completion of the series.

Mr. Roskam, when interviewed,
stated that the demand for prints of
this series has been unprecedented,
evidencing the fact that throughout
the entire United States, and in Aus-
tralia and Cuba, fans are keeping a
watchful eye on the games.

The ability to exhibit trie film the
same night of the game satisfied the
long-felt want, and expressions of
commendation and approval are being
continually heard throughout the
trade of the wonderful accomplish-
ments of the Commercial Motion Pic-
tures Company.

THE third annual convention of New
York State Motion Picture Exhib-
itors' League of America will be held at
the Hotel Rochester, Rochester, N. Y.,
on October 15th and 16th. Indications
point to the biggest effort put forward
in this direction so far.

The hotel is a magnificent structure
with every modern convenience, and has
been placed at the disposal of the visit-
ing exhibitors. The main floor and the
corridors will be filled with some of the
prominent manufacturers' exhibits per-

The above named company have
various contracts with boards of
trade and chambers of commerce in
the largest cities in the United States,
to take motion pictures of the inter-
esting events and features in connec-
tion with such cities, evidencing the
added field of employment of motion
picture photography.

THE GIRL OF THE SUNNY
SOUTH

The American Kineto Corporation
has purchased the exclusive rights for
the whole world for "The Girl of the
Sunny South" — a four-reel feature
film adapted from the play by Travers
Vale and produced by the Pilot Film
Corporation.

State right buyers who are inter-
ested should communicate with the
American Kineto Corporation direct.

taining particularly to the interest of
motion picture exhibitors. Prominent
speakers will be on hand, including the
Mayor of Rochester and several sena-
tors. Preparations have been completed
for auto rides, banquets and a general
line of entertainments in the city where
the manufacture of photographic mate-
rial is known the world over. It will
be to the interest of every exhibitor,
either non or active member, to come to
Rochester, see what's doing and join the
League.

EXECUTIVE AND CONVENTION COMMITTEE, THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION,
MOVING PICTURE EXHIBITORS' LEAGUE OF AMERICA,
NEW YORK STATE BRANCH NO. II

Top Row — Left to Right — Geo. Wunder, first vice-president; Jules Greenstone, second
vice-president; G. L. Tyler, Press Committee; F. C. Pierce, Exhibit Committee, Geneva,
N. Y.

Lower Row — Left to Right — J. J. Farren, Press Committee; W. A. Calihan, Secretary;
A. N. Wolff, President; F. C. Gerling, Press Committee; W. C. Hubbard, Treasurer.

The New York State Convention

THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII

The Photo Drama Company's Spectacle, Presented in America by George Kleine

13 IG things done in a big way by

big minds of a creative nature
are what comprise history and tradi-
tion to-day as handed down to us as
masterpieces of construction whether
it be art, literature or any of the
other forms that assume shape in this
particular. So it is with cinematog-
raphy. It is taking its place in the
hall of fame to be recorded there in
some of its integrals as a work that

shall be considered a creation of the
past which is worthy of the respect
and admiration of future ages.

Such is "The Last Days of Pom-
peii," a masterful production built on
a large scale that will edify, thrill, en-
tertain and enthrall its viewers. The
very essence of a bigness that is in-
describable is evident throughout it.
It takes hold of a bulky theme and
wields it into a form that is graphic
in the extreme and illustrious to its
last particle. It molds out a story
and a picture that leaves nothing un-
desired, marking an event in photo-
playdom that has made its indelible
mark for the future to marvel at and
be guided by.

"Pompeii" is viewed with the ex-
pectation of seeing something fine,
something extraordinary, and some-
thing that will linger in the memory.
It even goes farther than this — it
leaves one with an unutterable feel-
ing of admiration that cannot be de-
scribed. You realize that you have
seen something that has surpassed
your expectations — something that
will linger in your memory as one of

the big things that it has been your
pleasure in life to behold. Your feel-
ings overcome your power of speech,
you wish that it were possible to re-
cord them in a similar way the pic-
ture is recorded you have viewed, and
then cast this picture on the screen
and say, "That is how it impressed
me."

Like "Quo Vad's." its predecessor,
it is an exceptional picture. Like it

m

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also it is exceptional because it is dif-
ferent than "Quo Vadis." It is dif-
ferent than any other picture ever
cast on the screen because of its
broad scope and wide appeal. A pho-
toplay of the magnitude of this pro-
duction cannot be faulty, as' its ap-
peal to the human interest is so pow-
erful that the mind travels with the
flashing visions, unconscious of its
surroundings, and only attracted by
the concentrated appeal of the marvel
that it beholds.

It is faultless also because the mind
becomes infatuated with the subject
and the eye, obeying the command of
its master, sees only the virtues, not
even making a subconscious note of
an irregularity, if there be any. We
went to criticise, but our pencil lay
idle and forgotten in the wonder of
the unwinding scenes before us. It
is truly a masterly production, done
by a big mind on a massive scale. It
is a photoplay marvel we wish the
whole world could see.

Each and every scene is thoroughly
representative of the period of the
action of the picture. An elaborate-
ness and a finish is given them that
is an assurance of their authenticity.
One gets views of the streets, of the
pillared houses, of the baths and most
impressive of the vast coliseum, with
its thousands upon thousands of peo-
ple gathered to watch the gladiators
and the lions feast upon their human
prey. An awe-inspiring spectacle is

SCENE FROM "THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII"

SCENE FROM "THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII"

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when the mount of Vesuvius throws
out its molten lava and smoke, illu-
minating the clouded heavens with
its scorching flames, casting a light
-that strikes terror to the very core
of the heart. Throwing their inci-
dental shadows over this are the huge
boulders, which are cast from the
mouth of the volcano, spreading death
and distress in their course, creating
havoc wherever they fall and wither-
ing to ashes the many homes and
palaces of the fated city. Then one
sees the panic, consternation and pan-
demonium that reigns. People run-
ning hither and yon, crossing and re-
crossing their paths seeking safety
where there is none. Loved ones
being separated, children weeping,
mothers pining and fathers raving,
and all to be consumed by this agent
of fate that is stretching out its fiery
arms reaping lives by the score. This
scene perhaps is the most wonderful
of the entire production. But that
which impresses one as the most
beautiful and artistic is a view of
the entire city from the distant
shores, as Vesuvius, majestically
looming high above the surrounding
peaks, belches forth its missiles of
death, and a darkness covering the
surroundings that is evidence of an
awful catastrophe that is sending hu-
man souls into the beyond.

These scenes are not alone in their
impressiveness, the picture abounds
in them, showing a careful study o'~
the architecture of that period and
of the mode of living.

The acting is superb throughout.
Capable players interpret these an-
cient characters in a convincing
manner. The character of Glaucus,
a wealthy Athenian nobleman, as in-
terpreted by Signor Ubaldo Stefani,
portrays a true characterization.
Signor Stefani acts his part with an
ease and grace that shows a thorough
knowledge of his art. Signora Eu-
genia Tettoni. as lone, a beautiful
Greek maiden, sweetheart to Glau-
cus, is a lady of personality that
shows itself in her acting, which is
splendidly done. Arbaces, an Egypt-
ian high priest of the Temple of Isis,
is played by Signor Antonio Trisanti.
He plays the part of a villain and
hypocrite, a role that is very seldom
appreciated. But he plays it so well
that he is due for considerable praise.
Apaecides, brother of lone, pupil to
Arbaces, is played by Signor Cesare
Gani Carini. While this role does
not call for much acting, the little
it does require is done well by Signor
Carini. The most difficult role and
the one that is bound to bring forth
much praise for its fair interpreter
is that of Nydia, a blind Thessalian
flower-girl, as presented by Signora
Fernanda Negri-Pouget. Never for
a moment does this young lady for-
get that she is afflicted with blind-

ness. Her presentation of the role
also demonstrates that she must have
given the actions and the methods of
the blind a thorough study before at-
tempting the part before the camera.
One thoroughly realizes the utter
darkness that afflicts her as she
gropes her way, slowly progressing
where others walk with a certainty
that only emphasizes the more her
affliction. And in the darkness of the
terrible day, when havoc and terror
reign, she guides those who can see
through this hellish disaster to safety.

The costuming is rich, beautiful
and elaborate. It is complete to the
last detail. Also noteworthy are the
titles. They are well worded, nicely
selected and properly placed.

This film was made by the Am-
brosio Company at Pompeii, Italy,
from the novel by Lord Bulwer-

Stratonice, wife of Burbo, an inn-
keeper.

Accompanied by Sallust, his friend.
Glaucus one evening goes to the tav-
ern of Burbo to place bets on the
coming gladiatorial contests. After
seeing the blind girl frightfully
whipped by Stratonice, he purchases
her from Burbo and takes her to his
home.

lone is the recipient of a letter
from Arbaces, suggesting that she
come and visit him, and intimating
that his magic can show her the
falsity of Glaucus. She accepts the
invitation and the Egyptian conjures
up a vision in which lone sees Glau-
cus making love to other women.
Overcome by emotion, Arbaces em-
braces her. An instant later he is
felled by the heavy hand of Apaecides.
lone then flees to the home of Glau-

SCENE FROM "THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII'

Lytton, and the scenes of the drama
take place about 79 A. D.

Glaucus, a handsome and wealthy
Athenian nobleman, living in the city
of Pompeii, is the sweetheart of lone,
a Grecian girl of great beauty. Apae-
cides, Ione's brother, is a young man
of religious tendencies and the pupil
of Arbaces, a crafty, lewd and un-
scrupulous Egyptian high priest of
the Temple of Isis. An intense but
unworthy love for lone has long been
nourished by Arbaces. He despises
his handsome rival, Glaucus, and plots
his downfall. Cursed with blindness,
Nydia, a sweet-minded Thessalian
flower-girl, is madly in love with
Glaucus, whom she has never seen,
but whose kindly voice and ever-
ready purse have many times light-
ened the hand of her cruel mistress.

cus, where Nydia, her heart torn with
jealousy, ministers to the terror-
stricken girl. In the meantime, his
faith shattered,' Apaecides prepares to
denounce Arbaces and renounce the
creed of Isis.

Nydia the following morning goes
to the Temple of Isis. to seek solace
for her aching heart. There she meets
Arbaces and confides her love to him.
The crafty Egyptian promises to se-
cure from the witch of Vesuvius a love
potion, which, if administered to
Glaucus, should make him love Ny-
dia forever. Glaucus and lone, in the
meanwhile, while strolling on the
mountainside, are caught by the rain
and seek refuge in the witch's cave.
The curse of the sorceress is brought
down on Glaucus by killing her sacred
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FOR THOSE WHO WORRY O'ER PLOTS AND

PLAYS

By William Lord Wright

To Qualify for Edison

THERE is no use handing posies
to the Edison output. There isn't
a script writer in the land who doesn't
become ''chesty" when he receives a
check from the Edison concern. The
Edison Film Company, in Moving
Pictureland, is what Harper's or
Scribner's is in Magazineville — the
height of ambition to the literary
worker. Horace G. Plimpton, man-
ager of negative production, kineto-
graph department, Edison Film Com-
pany, has, in no small measure, con-
tributed to making Edison films what
they are. Keen, discriminating and
intelligent, he is certainly without a
peer in his line of work. Recently we
requested Mr. Plimpton to answer a
few questions which we deem inter-
esting to script writers. We asked
him if there were noticeable improve-
ment in contributions the past year;
what form was desired in preparing
multiple reel scripts; his opinion on
the question as to whether in the
near future the writer would not be
permitted more latitude in the tech-
nical 'form of script, etc.

Mr. Plimpton is as anxious as we
are to aid deserving authors and he
readily replied as follows:

"There is a noticeable improve-
ment in the quality of scenarios sub-
mitted. Not so much because of the
'free lances,' but because people of
more ability are going into the busi-
ness. There are vast numbers of im-
possible scenarios still submitted and
I presume this condition will always
continue, but there is a noticeable in-
crease in the number of plots by peo-
ple who are qualified to write sce-
narios and in this way the average
quality is improving.

"The Edison studio is open for
strong two-reel subjects. I can sug-
gest no difference in preparation of
these from single reels. The main
thing is the plot. We not only favor
crediting authors on screen and pos-
ter, but have done so for a long time.
This has been an Edison policy for
about two years, I think, and I be-
lieve we were the first to do it. As
scenario writing becomes more of an
art, I imagine- the authors will go
more into detail from an understand-
ing of the screen possibilities.

"It is certainly most essential that
the producing man should realize
what the scenario writer is driving at.
I have known cases where a really
good plot was not done justice to be-

cause the author had not made his
central idea perfectly clear. As to
your question of 'directors directing
and editors editing,' I take it that you
mean to suggest there should be some
co-operation between the author and
the producer. This would be an
ideal condition and is, in fact, some-
times done by the company; that is
to say, we have had scenario writers
who were near at hand and who wrote
extensively for us, who have discussed
the plots beforehand with the produc-
ing men to the advantage of the pic-
ture.

"Of course, this depends a great
deal upon the personality of the
writer and the producer, and in most
cases is not feasible owing to the dis-
tance. Naturally, upon buying a plot,
we want to make the best we can of
it in our own judgment, and we do not
hesitate to change it either much or
little, as we think best. Were the au-
thor at hand it is quite possible that
a discussion with him might be of
mutual benefit."

It is encouraging that Mr. Plimp-
ton finds a noticeable improvement
in quality of scripts submitted the
past year, and perhaps this will si-
lence the more pessimistic critics. It
is a pity that author and producer
cannot more frequently consult, either

by mail, or personally. Recently an
author's script was turned down after
long consideration. The director had
misgivings. That author made a trip
to the studio, explained his ideas as
to the production of the story to the
director, who in this case was for-
tunately open to argument.

The author's detailed ideas as to
artistic touches, which could not be
embodied in the present form of
script with its 300-word synopsis, re-
sulted in the filming of a picture play
that promises to make 'em all sit
up and take notice.

The Ohio Censors

It may be wise for the photoplay-
wright to remember that he now
must write to please two censorship
boards instead of one. M. A. Neff,
president of the Exhibitors' League
of America, lives in Cincinnati, O.
He was instrumental, during the last
session of the Ohio Legislature, in
having passed a law requiring a state
board to censor motion pictures. The
board was recently appointed, and
consists of Mrs. Maude Murray Mil-
ler, a welfare worker and a former
member of the Springfield News staff,
a newspaper owned by the governor;
T. W. Maddox, of Columbus, a Re-
publ'can and former theatrical man,

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and H. E. Vestal, of Ada, a Demo-
crat, and an exhibitor of motion pic-
tures. Here are some of the things
that will come under the ban of the
Ohio Censorship Board, according to
recent announcement:

Murder, suicide, harrowing death-
bed scenes, violent death in all forms.

Intoxication, use of liquor, gam-
bling.

Use of firearms for other than show
purposes unless in battle scenes.

Indecent or suggestive situations or
actions, love scenes that tend to dis-
gust and cruelty to animals.

Mrs. Miller is quoted as stating:
"A cowboy can carry a revolver at
his hip, but we have decided that he
must not shoot anyone. In fact, we
will bar discharges of firearms except
in scenes depicting battles. Even in
battle, though, a soldier must be
careful how he dies. If he simply
topples over, he will be passed. But
if he takes up time by struggling and
writhing about in his last moments,
off the film he must go. We must
look at a film with the eyes of a
child, and in eliminating scenes we
must cut out all that would have other
than a good effect on children." The
Cleveland Local of the Motion Pic-
ture Exhibitors' League has passed
resolutions calling on film companies
to test the constitutionality of the
Ohio law. In the meantime, it will
be well for photoplaywrights to work
with an eye to the requirements of
the Ohio law, for the manufacturers,
from a business standpoint, will en-
deavor to try and observe the require-
ments of this new Board of Censors.

On the Other Foot

In advice to photoplaywrights,
Marc E. Jones, in the Photoplay Mag-
azine, writes the following: If you
must use a clip, do not use one that
permanently clips the sheets together,
as most editors read by taking each
sheet off as they read and placing
it on the bottom, and practically all
the professional writers send the
scripts out undipped.

Then along comes to us a plaint
from a very successful script writer.
Win. A. Corey: "Will you kindly use
whatever influence you have with our
masters, the editors, to correct the
pernicious habit a few of them have
of fastening the leaves of rejected
manuscripts with paper clips? Every
clip thus used leaves a deep crease,
and is a sure earmark of rejection
that goes with the script to the end
of its travels. One editor recently
was so extremely 'careful' of a manu-
script of mine that he used two clips,
one fo fasten the leaves together and
another to hold in place the rejection
slip. Th's particular editor needs
somebody to put the 'punch' in him.
Will you do it? I don't dare, for
his comoanv recently bought a play
of me." We know this particular

studio, and must say "tut tut," three
times, to the offending reader in ques-
tion, for it is a script reader who per-
sists in this work.

This One Pleases Us

Here is a little article written by
Karl von Kraft for The Photoplay
Author. We think it worthy of re-
printing:

"There is a class of photoplay-
wrights who think that the only
strong plays are those which smell
to heaven. They believe that the only
useful function of a censor is to
swing. But you and I, whose photo-
plays need not be fumigated, naturally
take a different attitude toward the
censor and his work — we are more
interested in meeting our own ideals
than in escaping the condemnation
of those argus-eyed authorities, the
members of the 'boards'; consequent-
ly, when we consider their demands
we do not 'view them with alarm.'
There was an old farmer once who
delighted in his ability to evade the
board of health — that was the height
of his achievement. He is dead now
— the germs got him, on a day when
the board of health didn't. Really,
if a man hasn't sufficient sense of
what is wholesome for young people
to see, how can a set of rules help
him? Of course, all this is not to
argue that censorship is needless, for
we know better; but it is to urge
upon every photoplaywright to ask
himself four questions about each
script he writes or plans to write: 1.
If the play deals with wrongdoing,
will the spectators be taught, even in-
directly, to admire the wrong act?

2. If mercy toward wrongdoing is
shown — as it may well be in many cir-
cumstances— does the exhibition of
mercy tend to make the spectators
think lightly of the effects of crime?

3. Is the intentional wrongdoer made
to suffer a just retribution before he
is restored to the favor of honest men?

4. Is the final effect of the play uplift-
ing, or does it leave the spectator with
a twisted view of right and wrong?
The great novels, the great poems,
and the great plays of all ages have
uniformly been written by men and
women whose teachings through their
art have been in harmony with the
universal conceptions of what is truly
good and what is really bad. To pro-
duce works of this character, they did
not go to official or non-official critics
for their standard^, but they studied
what I may call the public conscience,
which in a thousand ways comes
sooner or later to the judgment seat
and passes upon all questions of right
and wrong. Be sure that the tone —
the general moral tendency and final
effect — of your photoplay is in har-
mony with this great universal feeling
of right, truth, decency and justice,
and you will have become your own
safe and sane censor."

Kinemacolcr Treatment

Writes an Oakland, Cal., author:
"Kinemacolor recently made me an
offer of $10 for the idea of a picture-
play, saying that the idea was all they
could use. They sent another one
back with the suggestion that it be re-
written and again submitted, which I
did, thanking them for the sug-
gestion." Thanks were coming to
Kinemacolor and you did the correct
thing in expressing appreciation.
Ten dollars is fair pay for an idea,
also. If this author had developed
his idea properly he would have re-
ceived three times $10.

Schools and Schools

Mr. Arthur Leeds in the August
number of The Photoplay Author,
published at Springfield, Mass., dis-
courses upon "Teaching Photoplay
Writing by Correspondence." He
correctly quotes us as being antago-
nistic to fake correspondence schools
for pictureplay writers, but unlike cer-
tain others conducting correspondence
courses, he concedes that the trade
journal editors have had much mate-
rial on which to base their arguments.

Mr. Leeds approaches the question in
a dignified and able manner, devoid of
personality or innuendo. He says re-
garding the Home Correspondence
Course: "I feel that I am working
on honor; that I must do my part;
and added to this is the knowledge
that to do otherwise than give my
very best and most careful attention
to mv pupils, leaving nothing undone
which will tend to help them toward
success in the work they are taking
up. would deservedly bring me the
reproaches and criticism of every de-
cent-minded and conscientious editor
and writer." Arguing consistently
that pictureplay writing can be taught
by mail. Mr. Leeds continues: "It is

VILMA WHITMAN

Leading Lady, Lubin Western Stock Co., in
" The >Mate of the Schooner Sadie."

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not the object of this course to im-
plant talent, and its teacher positively
will not lead any pupil to suppose the
presence of talent when it is obvious-
ly absent. It does successfully de-
velop, guide and instruct the gifted
mind. What can be learned can be
taught. The average teacher of pic-
tureplay writing by correspondence is
satisfied so long as the pupil enrolls,
pays his tuition fee regularly and com-
pletes his course. What becomes of
him afterward is a matter of no im-
portance to his late guide, counselor
and friend. It is my aim and intention
to prove to Messrs. McCloskey,
Sargent, Wright, Woods and every
other honest, fair-minded editor or
critic that at least one correspond-
ence school can 'deliver the. goods.'"
It has not been so much the school
idea in itself that we have been fight-
ing as the grafting ignoramuses who,
by misleading advertising and carbon-
ed lesson sheets of unvarying form,
have separated the unfortunate writer
from his hard-earned money. We
have never yet scored a school until
we had an opportunity to look over
the "courses of lessons." With the
exception of the Home Correspond-
ence School course, we have found
little in any of the others worth the
money asked. Many of them contain
drivel that must be unlearned by pain-
ful experience before the "graduate"
can hope to market his product. We
can honorably recommend the Home
Correspondence School course to
those who feel they must take this
sort of schooling. The advertising
campaign of this Home Correspond-
ence School course is conservative

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and consistent. Professor Esenwein's
course of short story writing is stand-
ard. In fact, the character of the in-
structors, the material furnished
students, and the general backing and
atmosphere in connection with this
course appeal to us. We can recom-
mend the instruction and we are say-
ing a great deal when we commend
any school.

Director Allen Curtis, of the Uni-
versal, is producing a series of "Jake

and Mike" pictures, with Max Asher
as Jake and Harry McCoy as Mike.
They are to be released under the
"Joker" brand, and are bound to
find favor. They are broadly bur-
lesque and in a class of their own.
Jake and Mike are at present act-
ing in "To the Rescue," in which
photoplay they set to work to get a
girl from a life-saver, and after many
adventures are shown up as they de-
serve to be. The play is by Harry
Wulze.

Mystery of the Silver Skull

Vitagraph Two-Reel Feature (Oct. 4)

The plot of this story is new, con-
trary to the sage advice of philoso-
phers that there is nothing new under
the sun. In motion pictures that say-
ing is daily getting more and more
believable, and it is therefore a relief
to see something that is possessed of
one feature that has not already been
worked to death. Billy Steele comes
to New York to dispose of some of
his property in South America. While
completing the arrangements with
Lawlor, a dyed-in-the-wool crook, he
discovers a woman at the latter's safe.
She begs for- her liberty and he, see-
ing that there is something more in
her than a mere thief, lets her go.
As they turn to leave the room he
discovers a small silver skull on the
floor and takes it home to his yacht.
O'Keefe, the mate, is a man of a se-
cret past, whom Billy had never
understood.

Billy finds the address of Josephine,
the mysterious thief, and calls on her,

when he hears that she is to wed Law-
lor, the man he caught her trying to
rob. She receives him, and at his in-
stitution tells a part of her story suffi-
cient for Billy to appreciate that she
needs his help. Her father has been
unjustly accused of killing a man years
before while in a poker game with
Lawlor, and in order to keep Lawlor
silent he has to give in to his demands.
Thus the engagement of Josephine to
Lawlor.

In the meantime O'Keefe has turned
up at the house at a critical moment,
having found the silver -skull, and ac-
cuses Lawlor of the murder. It then
comes out that the skull had played
a prominent part in the murder, hav-
ing been worn by the murderer, and
when the mate saw it aboard the
yacht, he gives out the truth, after
having kept silent for many years, be-
ing paid by Lawlor to do so. Josephine
and Billy are married and go to South
America on their honeymoon.

SCENE FROM "THE LIFE OF ST. PATRICK"

4-reel Feature film — taken on the exact spot made memorable by Ireland's apostle and
enacted by Irish peasants in ancient historical costumes.

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Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address: Music Department, The Motion Picture News

THE exhibitor is very inconsistent.
He wants a daily change of pro-
gram, with no repeaters; he will even
refuse a film already shown in his
town, but how about music? Music to
him is of no consideration, as long as
his musicians can make some no.se,
and he does not care if the noise is
the same each day of the week. The
musicians can repeat over and again
the same selections played at other
theatres. They can play the same
selections day after day, week after
week, month after month, and even
several times during the same show.
In other words, they have the same
march for all pictures where such
music is desired, the same plaintive
selection for a death scene, the same
hurry-up music, etc.

If the exhibitor is indifferent to
this perpetual repetition of the same
tunes, the patrons are very much
bored, and their only relief is to go
to different theatres.

The Herald Square Theatre has the
reputation of having a very good or-
chestra, and the reputation is well
earned, as too often the music carries
away the audience without the least
respect for the picture.

The Herald Square Theatre has a
delicious orchestra for an open-air
concert or a summer park, where
much flaring of brass instruments and
bass drums is necessary to overcome
the street noise. As to motion pic-
ture music, I do not believe that the
orchestra of the Herald Square The-
atre is just the thing.

On Wednesday, October 1st, during
the film of Essanay, "A Ray of God's
Sunshine," the orchestra played such
a lively overture, in the Wagner style,
that the audience, forgetting the poor
little girl on her bed of suffering
with the mother in agony at the
thought of the father spending in a
saloon the dollar given him so kindly
by the doctor to buy the necessary
medicine, applauded the music. It
was a real Wagner selection, starting
with a terrible crash of the cymbals,
of the drums and of all the brass in-
struments.

Yes, the audience forgot all the de-
cency, and even the sight of the sick-
bed did not temper the admiration of
certain persons for such an orchestra.
A proof that such music distracts the
attention from the screen.

Certain persons seem to go to a
motion picture show not to look at
pictures but to listen to music. A
mighty poor taste, as generally no
new music is heard and too many se-
lections are repeated the same day.

The lovers of Wagner music,
after the first part of the film,
gradually realized their applause
was out of place and general at-
tention was then drifted from the
music to the screen. At nearly the
end of the film, an enthusiast of noisy
music tried to applaud, but when he
found no response he did not insist
but flushed and seemed ill at ease
for having tried to call an encore.

I am not the only one to pass such
a remark, as a gentleman called to
see me to express his indignation
and to ask me if there was not a way
to infuse a little common sense in
either the manager or the orchestra
leader.

It seems to be Wagner week at the
Herald Square theatre, as every day
the cymbals, drums and brass instru-
ments make enough noise to drive
anyone crazy. I cannot blame the
manager as he is a very wise and
well-intentioned gentleman, and fear-
ing that his audience could be an-
noyed by either the Salvation Army
or the political speakers holding
meetings every evening at the corner
of Broadway and Thirty-fifth street,
he has ordered his orchestra to make
an abuse of drums, cymbals and brass
instruments, to drown the noise from
the street.

At the same theatre and during the
same evening, the scientific film of
the Pathe Freres, "Oxygen," was
shown. It was a most remarkable
series of experiments, not only very
interesting but educative. A perfect
silence on the part of the orchestra
would have been more preferable
than the noisy music, especially dur-

ing the experiments with the mouse,
to show to the public that we cannot
exist without oxygen.

I may not understand the good-
hearted dispositions of Mr. Drum-
mer, who when he saw the poor
mouse turn over on its back in the
jar, for lack of oxygen, brought down
his arm with all its might on his
cymbals and his foot on the pedal of
the bass drum, to wake up the poor
mouse and try to bring the little ani-
mal back to life. Too bad, but the
efforts of the drummer and of his
faithful companions, the brass instru-
ments, did not operate the desired
miracle and the mouse would have
died if the scientist had not been mer-
ciful enough to open the jar and in-
troduce some exygen.

The tail of the Pathe production
was scenic views of "Along the Padas
River," and there was nothing in the
film to warrant a noisy music. In
fact, a softer music would have been
more in harmony with this beautiful
scenery.

It is always the same question. The
exhibitor allows himself to be guided
by a few noisy patrons and ignores
the sentiments of the majority.

There is no doubt that the manager
of the Herald Square theatre praised
himself on having secured such a
good Wagner orchestra when he
heard one hundred patrons applaud
the music during the dramatic film of
the Essanay Company, and said to
himself: "What the public wants."
Now, if the manager had taken the
trouble to take a seat in the audience
and to listen to some of the com-
ments, or study the faces of the other
spectators, he would have found that
for one hundred who had applauded
at least five hundred patrons were
much dissatisfied.

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Broncho Billy" Gets Square

Essanay

Is a motion picture theatre a con-
cert hall or an exhibition of pictures?
It must be one or the other, as both
cannot harmonize. It is very annoy-
ing when your mind is concentrated
on a picture, to have your neighbor,
with his eyes riveted on the ceiling
as if dreaming, whistling the tune
played by the orchestra or beating
the time. A motion picture show
cannot be a music hall, as, if the pic-
ture is played as it should be, it is
impossible to execute a complete
symphony from beginning to end.

J. M. B.

ERNEMANN PROJECTORS ON
THIS MARKET

The firm of Heinrich Ernemann, of
Dresden, Germany, the largest man-
ufacturers of projection machines
and cameras in that country, have
opened a branch office for the United
States and Canada in New York un-
der the management of Messrs. Hoff-
man and Bader. The name of the
New York branch is the Ernemann
Photo Kino Works, of 114 and 116
Fifth avenue. The company will put
its new projector, the "Imperator,"
on this market very shortly. The
Ernemann reputation should secure
for this projector the attention of all
motion picture exhibitors. It is pop-
ular, we read, in Europe. Now that
the tariff has been reduced, it stands
a chance of competing with produc-
tions on this side of the Atlantic.

Winifred Kingston, who has been
playing the lead in the Cort-Morosco
production of "The Elixir of Youth,"
has been engaged by the All-Star
Feature Corporation to play the role
of Madame Alvarez in their forth-
coming production of "The Soldiers
of Fortune."

WILLIAM WEST

Of the Edison Co. as Silas Marner.

WITH all the multiple reels that
have been turned out within the
past two years, it seems almost im-
possible that there is a producer, or
even an acting company, that has not
taken part in at least a two-reel sub-
ject. We find this to be the case,
however, in this instance with
"Broncho Billy," whose series of pic-
tures under the Essanay brand have
a wide reputation. "Broncho Billy
Gets Square" is the very first multi-
ple reel subject turned out by the
Western company of the Essanay
Film Mfg. Co. It, perhaps, is a great
novelty because of this. Like the
other Essanay "Broncho Billy" pic-
tures, we find G. M. Anderson play-
ing the good Samaritan to a brother
in love. He also gets his revenge
and rights a wrong done an Indian
maiden who found favor in his eyes
in the forgotten past. Appropriate
settings, to give the picture a West-
ern atmosphere, and structures cor-
rect in architectural design as well as
well-chosen outdoor scenery com-
plete the scenic effect of this photo-
play.

A price has been put on the heads
of both "Broncho Billy" and Dave
Kirkland, outlaws, by the State, also
freedom to either one of the two who
would turn state's evidence. The two
have been brothers in crime for a
long time, and when the handbill an-
nouncing the reward and offer of
freedom is read by "Broncho Billy,"
he dismisses it with a smile.

In one of their rides they come
across a pretty Indian maiden carry-
ing water from a stream to her tepee.
When Dave offers his assistance she
indicates that "Broncho Billy" has
found favor in her eye, whom she
permits to assist her. Dave, who has
always considered himself a ladies'
man, becomes somewhat peeved at
this incident, and the more he broods
over it the more enraged he becomes
and determines to have revenge on
"Broncho Billy."

The first opportunity that presents
itself he advises the sheriff where his
pal can be found. The sheriff com-
pels Dave to accompany him and the
posse to the cabin occupied by the
two outlaws. "Broncho Billy" hears
their approach and barricades all the
doors and windows, using one from
which to direct his defence. He
fights vigorously and bravely and is
only outwitted when his cabin is set
afire and is overcome by smore When
placed in ja'l he learns of the part
Dave -olayed in' his capture and deter-
mines to be revenged for the coward-
ly deed, sending Dave a note which
read, "Every dog has his day."

"Broncho" .has served fifteen years,
growing old and gray, losing his in-
dividuality behind the grim walls of
the prison atoning for his crimes.
After leaving the prison walls behind
him, he sets out on the mission he
swore to fifteen years ago — to get
square with Dave Kirkland. Afier
days of travel he reaches the Indian
village, where he finds White Feather,
the Indian maiden, now a gray-haired,
broken-down old woman. She relates
to him how Dave came to her with
the story of "Broncho Billy's" un-
faithfulness, and that he had gone to
a far distant part of the country to
avoid her, and how Dave became her
squaw-man and lately abandoned her,
leaving the raising of two children
to her care. "Billy" promises to find
her husband if she will accompany
him in his quest.

Dave in the meantime has become
an itinerant gambler. His rovings
bring him to the little town of Sennet,
where he ensnares the greater por-
tion of the male populace into a game
with him with the result that he se-
cures most of their money. An espe-
cially heavy loser is Harry Todd, the
postmaster and proprietor of the gen-
eral store in the town, who is com-
pelled to sign a statement deeding
over his property to Kirkland if his
note is not paid within thirty days
from date. *

Todd has a lovely young daughter
who is engaged to Ned Lyle, a ranch
owner. Kirkland, since meeting Grace,
has been paying a good deal of at-
tention to her. He proposes mar-
riage to her but is refused. He then
approaches her father with the
threat of foreclosing on his note if
he does not persuade his daughter to
become h's bride. In order to save
her father, Grace consents. A min-
ister is secured to perform the cere-
mony and is about to pronounce the
words of marriage when "Broncho
Billy" arrives with White Feather
and several Indians from her tribe.
White Feather, in the presence of
those assembled, produces evidence
of her marriage to Dave, who is re-
turned to the village at the points of
guns by the Indians. "Broncho Billy"
then sends for Ned, who takes advan-
tage of the presence of the minister
and is married to Grace.

C. J. Ver Halen.

Anna Laughlin, of "Wizard of Oz"
fame, will greet her friends as a mov-
ing picture star on October 11th, when
"Anna Laughlin in the Rebellious Pu-
pil" will Se released. Miss L^utjhlin
will also be seen in "The Flirt" as co-
star with Charles Dickson.

CURRENT FILM RELEASES OF THE GENERAL FILM COMPANY, INC.

, tu c i tr r,,v;„ 2. The Vampire, Kaleni.

1. The Kvil Kye, Lubin. ,,'„.. Fdison

S. Wheels of ustice, Kleine-Cines. > I , if I T'hlko

:,. The Love Loot of the Romany, Essanay. ''• rhe Haunts of Fear> 1 athC-

28

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

The Fall of Constantinople

Gaumont

T T is safe to say that the history of
*■ the world practically dates from
the capture and holding of Constan-
tinople by the infidels and the ousting
of the Christians. There are certain
divisions of the pages of history and
this is one, medieval history dating
from this period.

This city, the key to the Bosphorus,
was at that time. i. e., 1453, held by

Constantine XIII, the last Christian
emperor. The Sultan Mohammed IT
commenced the siege of the city on
April 6th of that year, commencing
with the usual religious ceremony. The
whole picture, with the religious
scenes taken out, would hardly have
been worth consideration, but with
the realistic ceremonies it is a mas-
terpiece. The mob scenes throughout
are beautiful, and the colors wonder-
ful. The last night in Byzantium,
where the women are praying in the
Church of St. Sophia, while the men
are on the walls outside, fighting to
keep the Moslem out, is especially
mentionable. The city is finally cap-
tured, and Constantine, as a common
soldier, dies fighting. He is afterwards
beheaded in a gruesome manner, and
his head is paraded in the streets be-
low. The carrying off by the Turkish
troops of the women who had been
converted into Christians was mar-
velous, and the writer has never seen
such wonderful placing of colors.
Throughout the effect is most dra-
matic, with the exception of a soldier,

who is supposedly dead, but who in-
sists on talking and smiling. In this
one place the effect is spoiled. The
captured ladies are right in modern
style as far as nudity of costume is
concerned, although it is all tasteful,
and there is nothing at all that would
offend the sensibilities of the most
critical audience.

A. M.

MUTUAL TO DO GENERAL PUB-
LICITY ADVERTISING

Since the formation of the Mutual
there has been talk of advertising the
program controlled by that certain
body in a national way; to use the
various national mediums and other
means employed by the large adver-
tisers of this country to draw the at-
tention of the public to their product.

The Mutual Film Corporation
comes forth, not with big talk of a
million-dollar campaign, but with an
idea that sounds reasonable and well
thought out. The ultimate aim of
this campaign they are planning will
be national; for the time being, how-
ever, it will be confined to Chicago,
then spread throughout Illinois, and
gradually spread all ways from this
central point until the whole of the
United States is covered. It has not
been definitely announced what medi-
ums of publicity will be used in this
advertising, but it is intimated that
street cars, painted display signboards
and the daily papers will come in for
their share of this advertising. Mr.
Flaherty, former manager of a local
Mutual exchange, will conduct this
campaign through the Nicholas Finn
advertising agency. One method it
is thought they will employ is to call
attention to the various theatres in
a certain locality using the Mutual
program by means of signboards.

In making this step, the Mutual
Film Corporation is taking the in-
itiative in an advanced movement
that has long been expected. They
are demonstrating the courage of
their convictions and advancing the
art and business of motion pictures.

THE TEHDKNC V KOK LONG th
FILMS pi

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protraa

nit good lot ihc
• general or art

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I lung hints.

tacy ob the
ant all the*

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only
thr i

• ill rrgulaic Ihc length of

rahitiiiort would show their
>( a normal tpecd the danger
>l be to great. v»t a* the
irt are limited, rtpcctally >n
'l»t and tniall town*, ahnr
ihn* Irom 7 JO \f 10 p in
rthibifi-rt hate to tpeed up
me if thry want to thow a
lm of from nine to twrUe
tig the two and a hall houit

hen adirrtitin* thr picture

Id I sincerely believe that M
film ol three or lour reels

rtitrd »ith a t njjlr potter.

mrntiofiiag the wbrr of
retulla would be more Ml-

i inter ib Montgomery. Ala.
'I feature wat enough to de-
ie receiptt. and as aoon a*
eel potter wat displayed in
the theatre, the manure r

commonly

:h is well
r tub-titles

frequently tamely force* them to Uy the perforaiiou of the Mm. n U im

hi a few week* the egg* that they p»«*iblc 10 hare what could be called

should lay in month* While he may a constant, steady picture without

gam a quicker tupply of fresh eggs. more or let* licfceCI N*o matter how

M *4o*B wot sutiaaii the laying ca- impercept Me can be the flicker, the

pwdiy of the hen. but he shortens her irregulatK>nt in the perforation or the

Bseful life defects in the carbons, this flicker, al-

Whilc we are in a treat age of though reduced to it* minimum, is

progress, it i« impottible to find hurting the best eyesight when al-

tnaoatjll gte—iin writers with enough lowed to go on for hours without any

bright, new and original plots to pro- intermission.

duce over one hundred film* per week. Good advice amounts to nothing and

and bv trying to force them, we mere- cannot Mop the petty jealouty of the

doe« n.

tat
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■ him was a
iy rrelv it woi

the put their neighbors out of bus

ikes and they are going to »top at

if a ing. unless they are Mopped b

i of authorities— and this will be thr

•an- come, as the Roard of Health sri

io«f a potttivr decline in *>n<.\ in 1 t -

sake of the put

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Lar ^n braocS of Eclair Film

3Q

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

necessary to explain the rather com-
plex stories of the average feature
films.

All these objections from our
friends of the South are not only jus-
tified, but they have not escaped the
attention of the North, and, while the
feature films are holding the boards,
there is nevertheless a powerful
under-current. We have some very
good feature films deserving of the
name of FEATURE, but, on the other
hand, we have too many rank imita-
tions, and to-day the manufacturer
does not seem to care to produce
split or one-reel subjects, but he
stretches and pads any kind of sce-
nario into a numberless-reel sup-
posed feature.

For this reason the market is over-
loaded with very poor feature films,
and as the lovers of motion pictures
are getting^ tired of these worthless
productions, they even refuse to bite
when a real good feature is shown.
To tell the truth, the exhibitor does
not try to prove in his advertisements
that this real feature film is out of
the ordinary, but to follow his vulgar
ways of advertisements, he uses to
advertise the good features large, ugly

and sensational posters of the style
of the worthless features.

If I was to show the genuine "Quo
Vaa.s nun, I would discard all post-
ers, but, on the other hand, I would
decorate my lobby to give it an an-
tique Roman appearance, I would have
the doorman or other men in the
lobby dressed in old Roman style,
with perhaps an old Roman chariot
in front of the ticket office.' The only
advertising would be in the shape of
a couple of fine hand-painted cara
signs, neatly framed. I cannot give
a sketch of my idea, as the decora-
tion would have to fif the lobby har-
monize with the building and be in
keeping with the pocketbook of the
manager. Twenty-hve or fifty dol-
lars spent in such decorations would
bring more business than fifty posters,
and would create the impression that
the production is of enough impor-
tance to warrant such an expense.

The wise exhibitor, the one making
real good money, does not fall a prey
to the feature agents. He knows that
his patrons do not go to a motion
picture show to be tired out with a
long, overstretched film, but go to
have a good t'.me, an hour of rest.

They call for much comedies, and, as
to dramas, they want something with
much action.

In referring to the South, I can
state that from July 25 to December
31, 1912, the feature men met a flat
Waterloo in Montgomery, Ala., as the
three theatres devoted to the white
population, the Orpheum, the Plaza
and the Empress, did not give up theit
regular programs to show outside
features. They were as much solicited
as the theatres of other towns, but
they could not see the feature film
proposition as a profitable investment.

This question of long programs and
of long productions is not only dis-
cussed in the United States, but is
at the present time the general topic
of Europe. The foreign papers are
devoting much attention to the ques-
tion; they are giving a sound warn-
ing. In our next issue I will be
pleased to give the views of Le
C o u r r i e r Cinematographique of
Paris, in an article entitled "Put on
the Brakes, S. V. P." Yes, it is time
to put on the brakes, or the industry
will slide down the road of ruin at
a too great speed.

J. M. B.

In the Days of Trajan

American

THE American Film Mfg. Co. will
release this two-part picture on
October 20th. It is one of the series of
costume pictures that this company
is putting out. The wardrobe em-
ployed is of an obvious richness that
does this company credit. Also it
has been staged in an elaborate man-
ner that gives us views of splendid
settings of the period depicted. The
leading roles in this picture are inter-
preted by George Periolat as Tra-
janus, Caroline Cooke as Valeria,
Vivian Rich as Princess Octavia, J.
Warren Kerrigan as Decebalus,
Louise Lester as Queen of Dacia;
Charlotte Burton as Thais, and Jack
Richardson as Junius Publius.

The action of the picture is set for
the year 100 A.D., when Trajanus
was Emperor of Rome. The picture
opens showing Empress Valeria on
her litter being carried to the bath
attended by the ladies of the court.
The Emperor has prepared a "Tri-
umph," as the ceremony was known
in those days, and the victims were
marched in Rome to the throne.
Decebalus, Prince of Dacia, is among
them accompanied by his mother,
the Queen of Dacia. The Prince is
promised his freedom by the Em-
peror if he will swear allegiance to
Rome. The Queen, however, replies

for him saying: "In Dacia we are
royal and shall not be vassals of
Rome." Angered at this, the Em-
peror sends them to the dungeons of
the Circus Maximus to await their
fate in the arena. The Emperor's
daughter, Octavia, who is present at
the Triumph, shows her admiration
for the princely bearing of Decebalus
and her sorrow at his sentence.

Everything is prepared in the arena,
the Emperor is in the imperial box,
and all is ready for the conflict of the
gladiators. The prisoners are brought
forth to the arena where their shat-
tered and bleeding bodies are thrown
upon the ground to die.

Decebalus is compelled to go into
the conflict with a brother Dacian,
with whom he plots the death of the
Emperor. They fight and the Dacian
is thrown to the ground in the battle.
While the throng is rejoic'ng in a
seeming victory, the two combatants
throw off their masks and, vault into
the imperial box. The hand of Dece-
balus, however, is stayed by the prin-
cess. Fie recognizes her and is eas-
ily made prisoner by the centurions
in attendance.

Thais, a Greek, and the wife of
Junius Pubhs. Prefect of Rome, is
enamoured of the Prince and goes to
the dungeon to see him. Her visit

there is made known to Junius and a
Roman is sent to bring her before
Trajan. Decebalus takes advantage
of the guard, who has released Thais,
springs on him, and invests himself
in the guard's apparel and walks
forth, meeting the nobles of Rome,
who do not recognize him. He meets
the Princess, who again asks him to
become a Roman. The Emperor has
learned of his escape and has him
seized.

A guard announces to the Emperor
that the Huns are at the gates of
Rome. Decebalus, hearing this, an-
nounces that he will fight with the
Romans as the Huns are also his ene-
mies. He is placed in command of
one of the legions. The encounter is
seen, and then the return of the vic-
torious army into Rome. Decebalus'
success gives him the right to de-
mand a favor, and his first request is
for his mother's freedom.

This is granted and as a further
reward Trajan gives him his daugh-
ter, Octavia, as his wife, and sends
him back to Dacia to reign over his
own country in security.

The report in one of the New York
daily papers that Miss Lillian Walker
had gone to San Francisco, thence to
Hawaii, was a startling surprise to
the Vitagraph Company. Miss Walke.
is in her accustomed place in the stu-
dio and on the day of the report met
her fellow-workers with her usual,
dimpled smiles

Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address: Exhibitors' Department, The Motion Picture News

|N the management of a theatre, the
*■ exhibitor should know, and he
would know if he was looking at the
pictures himself, that there is noth-
ing more annoying than to miss a
title or a sub-title. To miss the first
title is practically to lose the sense of
the picture, as this first title is gener-
ally a sort of introduction to the
story. To miss a sub-title in the mid-
dle of the reel often disconnects the
whole story.

The great drawback of the motion
picture theatre is the constant stream
of patrons walking in and out dur-
ing the performance. If you have to
move from your seat to allow some
one to pass at the time of a sub-title,
you lose the thread of the story.
Same when the selfish man in front
of you insists on standing up while he
removes or puts on his overcoat. If
he was a gentleman, if he had any
manners, he would wait until he
reaches the aisle or lobby to put on
his overcoat. Ladies are as selfish —
they will raise both arms to either re-
move or push in their long hatpins,
etc

I don't know if the managers have
realized this annoyance, but if so
they seem to pay a very little atten-
tion to it, not to say that they add
to it by running the pictures in too
quick succession without the least in-
termission. The new picture jumps
so quickly on the curtain that too
often the patrons don't know if it is
the same picture or a new one.

We all know that at the end of a
picture there is always confusion
in the auditorium. So many persons
walk out, so many other patrons from
the rear seats run to get the newly
vacated front seats, and add the nu-
merous persons who have been wait-
ing in the lobby for seats.

According to the size of the audi-
torium, this confusion varies from
one to three minutes, and during this
confusion the seated patrons cannot
enjoy the show.

There should be an intermission
between each picture, and if the lights

were to be thrown on during said in-
termission, there would be less con-
fusion as, by being able to see the
seats, there would be less time wasted
on the part of the patrons.

A short intermission would rest the
eye and the mind, and not only facil-
itate the service, but please the lov-
ers of motion pictures who do not
like to miss part of the story.

To-day an intermission is more
urgent than at another time, since
the fad came to throw on the screen
the cast of the play with the names
of the actors, and since the patrons
are taking such a deep interest in the
photoplayers. How can anyone read
the cast during the confusion of
changing of seats if the new picture
is thrown on the screen at the tail of
the previous one?

The main trouble is that most of
the managers do not mix with the
audience. When they look at the pic-

tures, it is generally at the first show,
when the audience is very slim, con-
sequently no confusion. They sel-
dom visit other motion picture thea-
tres, and when they do so, they gen-
erally take in part of the show, stand-
ing in the lobby talking with the
owner of the place, paying very little
attention to the show proper.

If some of the exhibitors and man-
agers would sit in the audience,
watch and listen to the different com-
ments, they would learn many things.

For instance: It is very annoying
for an audience to hear the operators
talk, laugh and pass comments in the
operating booth, or, as it was the
case in a New York theatre, to have
the usher step in the operating booth
and fight the operators — not w'th his
fists, but with his tongue. It was
out of place during a love scene de-
picted on the screen, to hear the oper-
ator say: "If you don't shut up I will

SCENE FROM "THE MESSAGE OF THE DEAD"

Eclectic Film Company

32

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

throw you out — you have no business
in this booth." Then the usher to
answer: "I have a perfect right to en-
ter this booth," etc.

As so much has been said and pub-
lished against motion picture thea-
tres, calling them fire-traps, etc., it is
policy to avoid all undue noise and
movements that can scare an audi-
ence. On account of all that has
been published, the patrons are natu-
rally timid and the least thing can
start a panic.

In one of the large motion picture
theatres of New York, the patrons
of the balcony were thrown into a
sort of panic when one of the ushers
started to run for the dressing-room,
removing his uniform coat on -the
way. This run and the action of the
usher removing his coat, made the
patrons very uncomfortable for a few
minutes, as they had an idea that
something was wrong on the stage —
perhaps fire. The truth is that the
usher asked to be relieved for the
balance of the evening, and when per-
mission was granted, he could not
control his pleasure and, without rea-
soning, he started to run for the
dressing-room.

The managers should be on the
lookout for all undue noise and move-
ments, and should also see that no
cne be allowed to light a match to
hunt for something on the floor.

The fall season is here — so are the
new uniforms.

New uniforms are all right in one
sense, but they look pretty bad when
the personal appearance of the man
does not harmonize and when the
uniforms are made too large to fit
different sizes.

In a theatre of New York, the door-
man looked resplendent in his new
uniform. It is true to state that he
is an old employee, and as he is
faithful to his duties, the uniform
looks like if made to order. The
ushers are a different proposition.
They are not regular, they can be
changed any day, consequently the
uniforms are large, ready-made sizes,
to fit the average man. One of the
ushers had a very dirty pair of old
shoes, his collar was a dirty, mussed,
soft affair, looking more like a rag
than anything else around his neck;
his hair was unkempt, etc.

I cannot blame the poor fellow
much, as at the rate of $5 for seven
days of twelve hours of work each
(the wages paid by the said theatre)
it is impossible to find a man saving
enough from his board bill to be able
to buy new shoes, new collars, pay
for the washing and the shines.

A man can work for $5 ushering in
a theatre when it is evening work
only, as during the day he can be
employed at something else, but $5
per week is entirely too low to se-
cure the services of a clean-cut man
to act in a theatre. J. M. B.

THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII

(Continued from page 21)
reptile. The lovers leave the cave in
panic. When Arbaces arrives shortly
after he has no trouble inducing the
witch to give him a potion that
"shall sear and blast the brain, to
make him idiot, raving mad, while yet
the heart beats on."

Nydia meets Arbaces, secures the
"love potion" and gives it to Glaucus.
When she realizes the havoc she. has
wrought from his ravings, Nydia is
overcome with remorse and follows
the insane man as he rushes through
the streets, reeling from side to side.
Apaecides in the meantime has had a
stormy scene with the Egyptian,' and
goes forth to cool his" fevered brain
to the seashore. Arbaces follows and
"murders him. Glaucus comes stagger-
ing into the scene and the wary
Egyptian, realizing his condition, takes
advantage of it and calls loudly for
help, charging Glaucus with the mur-
der. Nydia, who has followed, is
seized by the Egyptian and carried
away to the dungeons. Glaucus is
haled before the Senate and con-
demned to die by wild beasts in the
arena at the coming games.

The day finally arrives and the
mighty stands are crowded with thou-
sands of gay Pompeiians, intent upon
seeing the rare spectacle of a pa-
trician thrown to the lions. Nydia,
in her dungeon, plans escape. By
playing upon the superstitions of her
negro keeper she succeeds in locking
him in her cell. Realizing that it had
all been her fault, the blind girl fran-
tically makes her way to the home of
Sallust, friend of Glaucus, who has re-
mained home from the great spectacle.

Things were at their height in the

Coliseum. The gladiators had pa-
raded, the people had howled them-
selves hoarse over the valor of the
gladiatorial combats, and everything
was in readiness for the great feature
of the day's sport — the death of Glau-
cus. The thunderous voices of the
thousands of people yell "Glaucus to
the lions!" The Athenian was given
a short sword and roughly pushed in-
to the arena. The hunger-maddened
lions are released from their cages.
The wild and disheveled form of Sal-
lust suddenly appeared leaping from
the boxes . and shouting, "Remove
Glaucus, the Athenian! He is inno-
cent! There stands the murderer!"
A guttural roar went up from the as-
sembled thousands, in which could be
heard excited cries of "Arbaces to the
lions! Arbaces to the lions!" At that
instant the sky suddenly darkened and
from distant Vesuvius there shot into
the sky a shaft of hellish fire. Panic
seized the multitude and pandemonium
reigned. In the confusion Arbaces
escaped. The reason of Glaucus was
restored by the frightful catastrophe.
He felt Nydia's hand in his, leading
him through blinding hail of cinders
to the home of lone. They found
lone prepared for death, but the gen-
tle Nydia led them both through the
Stygian darkness to the Temple of
Isis. Here they met the distracted
Arbaces and saw him crushed to death
by a falling pillar of his own idola-
trous church. In a blackness, where
only the blind could see, Nydia guided
the two lovers to the seashore. Know-
ing them safely aboard, Nydia sud-
denly threw herself into the waters of
the bay. Her love task ended, the
blind girl at last found the eternal
rest she sought. C. Ir'VJ .

SCENE FROM "JANET OF THE DUNES"

Edison.

^stxuctioii Department

Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address: Construction Department, The Motion Picture News

CONSTRUCTION, APPEARANCE, ADVERTISING— THREE IN ONE

THE object of this department is
to help the exhibitor in the con-
struction of his theatre and to keep

FIG. 1

him posted on anything of real value
in construction, decorations, etc.

It would be easy to fill pages, and
this without moving from my desk,
as day after day I have visitors who
have something on which they want
a write-up, so as to help them to
create a demand. I am not here to
help to promote a lot of useless or
impractical devices to the detriment
of the exhibitor.

While it may sound queer, I must
state that the real good and useful
devices do not go begging, and, to
discover them, one must be all the
time on the go.

I was the first man to advocate the
cork flooring as the most sanitary,
less slippery and noiseless floor for
a motion picture theatre. While the
manufacturer of this pulverized and
pressed cork flooring was signing
big contracts with hospitals, banks
and other such institutions, he was
laughing at the idea of the cheap lit-
tle motion picture theatres. When I
described the floor in my article on
construction on April 30, 1910, the
manufacturer realized that motion
picture theatres offered a new and
important field to work.

It was the same with the Von
Duprin self-releasing exit doors, and
the agents of this good invention
would have never addressed the mo-
tion picture theatres if I had not
called the general attention in an-
other article on December 24, 1910.

While office buildings, banks and
other institutions were equipped with
the indirect lighting system, the man-
ufacturers had no use for the motion
picture theatres until I gave them a
notice in my article of January 28,
1911, and placed one of their fixtures
in my Chicago office, to serve as a
demonstration.

It would be too long to enumerate
all the good devices I investigated and
described for the benefit of the ex-
hibitor building or remodeling his
theatre.

To-day, I lay a new claim. The
first man to show how the exhibitor
can not only save his plastic orna-
ments by having them coated with
bronze but can greatly improve the
appearance of his theatre by making
all the ornaments look like solid
bronze instead of retaining the dying
style of the white gingerbread ef-
fects.

Theatres of to-day are no more
temporary constructions to last, like
the buildings of an exposition or of
a fair, a few months. On account of
the stability of motion pictures, the
theatres of the future must be sub-

stantial constructions to last many
■ years.

By talking of a coating of bronze,
I do not mean paint, but I wish to
refer to a new art, the Katholion
bronze.

Katholion bronze is a perfected
science of depositing metals on iron,
wood, glass or plaster cores. It is a
casting in every sense of the word, a
tough, dense, imparted, workable
metal covering of any thickness de-
sired. Its only competitor is a cop-
per, brass or bronze casting.

This coating is not a mere thin
sheet of bronze applied on the plas-
ter, wood, glass or any other desired
material, but by an electro-plating
process, the coating is made homo-
geneous with the surface on which it
is applied.

FIG. 2

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Brass railings, brass easels and
frames that are so hard to polish and
keep polished can be made in wood
or iron and coated with bronze.

We know that the poster frames
are made of wood and covered with
a thin sheet of brass, and we know
that the least knock on said frames
leaves a bad dent. These dents will
not appear on frames coated with
bronze, because the coating is heav-
ier and there is no air between the

green bronze, and dark green cur-
tains, etc.

Katholion bronze is not only much
cheaper than bronze casting, but is
very much lighter in weight.

Illustration 1 shows an outside
lamp of very fine design and practi-
cal on account of its cheapness.

While the columns, cornices, dome
and grill work of the ticket booth
could be made of Katholion bronze,
the panels of the base could be bas-

pany, recently toyed with a real rat-
tlesnake in the production of a pic-
ture in Los Angeles. Von Meter
showed nerve, as a perfectly good
rattler was employed. The snake lay
on a table and the picture was cut just
as the reptile coiled and struck. Von
Meter jumped out of the way in time
to escape the fangs.

FIG. 3

wood and the coating. With Katho-
lion bronze, any designs of mould-
ings can be used to make the poster
frame more artistic and at same time
to avoid the long flat brass surfaces
so hard to keep well polished.

Katholion bronze offers great pos-
sibilities to enhance the beauty and
richness of a motion picture theatre.
For instance: Instead of having the
panels of the doors solid, made of
plate glass with a curtain in the back,
of stained glass, etc., the panels
could be made of Katholion bronze.

FIG. 4

A door, imitation mahogany, with
the panels made of bronze and a
dark red -curtain back of it, would
produce a great effect. Many other
beautiful compositions could be made
on the same order: doors, imitation
walnut, with the panels of old or

reliefs of the same composition. It
would be too long to enumerate all
the possibilities for Katholion bronze
in the construction and decoration
of a motion picture theatre.

The accompanying cuts will give an
idea of some of the possibilities of
Katholion bronze.

Cut No. 2 shows the specimen of
a statue to surmount the ticket booth.

Cut No. 3 shows a bronze cove
molding for cornice, and also a
bronze capital for a column.

Cut No. 4 shows an exterior bal-
cony of bronze.

Cut No. 5 shows a wall bracket.

These illustrations are a few speci-
mens of what can be done with the
new art process, known as the Katho-
lion bronze, and if the reader is in-
terested in this new process, he will
find that light fixtures, tablets, grille
work, statues, hand-rails, friezes, bas-
reliefs, fountains, etc., are fully illus-
trated in the catalog of the com-
pany.

The beauty with the Katholion
bronze is that you can give it any de-
sired finish — red, black, old green
bronze to suit the other decorations
of the theatre. For instance, if the
locks and handles on the doors of the
new theatre on Eighth avenue, New
York, called Ye Drury Lane, had
been in imitation green bronze, they
would harmonize with the other old-
time decorations and old lamps.

At the offices of the Katholion
Bronze Company I was shown some
oak leaves with acorns, lace-work,
etc., coated in bronze, without alter-
ing the smallest details.

J. M. B.

Harry Von Meter, the new charac-
ter man of the first American com-

FIG. 5

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INTERESTING FILM REVIEWS

Educational — Industrial — Scenic

Birds of the Southern Sea Coast.

Edison. (Oct. 6.) — Just why the
camera is able to get so near birds
and take pictures of them in their
native haunts, without their so much
as fluttering a wing in protest, the
writer cannot understand fully. Many
times he has tried as a kid to get
near them, only to fail. The Edison
Company in the picture above quoted
catches the birds in all positions. The
"street scavengers." alias buzzards,
alias vultures, were the most interest-
ing, and their fights right in the streets
of a city were grotesque.

Along the Padas River. Pathe. —
The Padas River is in the home of
the celebrated headhunters, i. e., Bor-
neo. The natives are shown at their
principal labor of gathering the ex-
pensive woods which grow there. The
scenery is of the tropical variety and
is delightful.

Ethel Barrymore's Home. Kine-
macolor. — Miss Barrymore's wonder-
ful home in Mamaroneck. N. Y., is the
mecca for all natural and artificial
beauty lovers. It is one of the most
delightful spots imaginable, and the
visitors that daily crowd to the beau-
tiful fountains and trees are never
tired of talking of them. The Kine-
macolor Company does full justice to
the scenery, and the colors are ex-
quisite. Her two youngsters are pic-
tured, together with a number of other
boy scouts, in various poses and at
different labors. This is one of the
series of Famous Footlight Favorites
Off the Stage. Others in the set in-
clude Bessie McCoy, Anna Held, Lil-
lian Russell. Blanche Ring, and Ray-
mond FTitchcock.

Panorama Oi the Cities of Algiers
and Tunis. Powers. — These cities al-
ways hold a fascination for the Euro-
pean, whether in fiction or in life. No
white man has ever learned the in-
tricacies of life there, and it is doubt-
ful that anyone ever will. The only
fault to be found with the Powers
picture is its brevity. Not enough of
the life was shown. The view of Al-
giers, in particular, looking from the
breakwater, is wonderful, but this the
camera missed. Internally, the city
is awful, but its external view might
be rated as the eighth beauty of the
world.

Riding the Flume. Pathe. — The
State of Washington, among its other

acquirements, has a reputation for the
number of power-houses run by water.
This water is often fetched from the
tops of the highest mountains in cov-
ered wooden and cement channels,
called flumes. The Pathe Company
has taken some splendid pictures of
the Spokane Falls and the power-
house run by the water in the city
of Electron. The scenic effects, as
seen from the railway which traverses
the entire course of the flume, are
excellent. The film, however, is too
short for so good a subject.

A Journey Through Crimea. Pathe.
(Oct. 7.) — Crimea, the cause of one
of the greatest conflicts in the his-
tory of the world, has been taken by
the Pathe Company as the scene for
some very interesting pictures. The
natural beauty of this country makes
it especially interesting, but the pic-
ture lacks finish. There are moun-
tain scenes, mosque scenes, street
scenes, etc., but there are no group
scenes. In the study of a foreign
country, especially one so very re-
mote as Crimea, the natives hold as
much interest, or more interest, than
the actual scenery. Their mode of
living, their costumes and habits,
their work and methods with which
it is done, are what we want to see,
too. The picture makes a good filler,
and the photography has the usual
Pathe quality.

Oxygen. Pathe. — The science of
chemistry, a deep and interesting

Regular

In the Clutch of the Paris Apaches.

Gaumont. (Oct. 18.) — A typical
French melodrama, vibrating with
action and bloodshed, but possessing
some new features which tend to
make it most interesting. Tt is in
four parts with good acting and
splendid photography, particularly
the interior scenes. Jane Mary Lau-
rent plays the lead with her usual
care for the smaller things that arc
so much in the make-up of the gen-
eral film.

Little Marie, whose father has dis-
appeared and whose mother has died,
runs away from school and falls into
the hands of the Paris Apaches,
where she becomes a drudge of all
work, together with a hunchback

study, is little understood by the av-
erage person, who little realizes its
great influence on our daily existence.
That air contains 21 per cent of oxy-
gen few know. Hence this film is an
important one, and the Pathe Com-
pany has brought it out in great de-
tail. The experiments which are
shown on the screen are veryr realistic,
the photoplay being excellent.

Plants that Eat. Pathe. (Oct. 7.)
All plants "eat," viz., vegetable life
absorbs the rain and richness of the
earth, in order to live. But how
many people know that there are
plants that not only eat animal life,
but digest it. The Pathe Company
shows a number of these plants in
Canada in the act of eating bugs, etc.
The pictures are well taken.

How Mountains Grow. Pathe.
(Oct. 7.) — By the use of plaster mod-
els, the audience is able to follow
the growth of these mountains. That
they do grow has for years been an
accepted fact, but to be able to sit
and watch them slowly enlarge is
wonderful. Deposits from the bot-
tom of the sea contract and force
their way to some small mound,
where they stick, more forming on
top of them and so on ad infinitum.
The great dangers to navigation re-
sulting from the growth of these hills
cannot be estimated. The Pacific is
the worst field for these and coral
reefs, which are similar in that they
''grow."

Releases

whose name is Bosco. The father
returns after_ his long absence and
receives a letter from the Apaches
demanding ransom. Hs goes to their
haunt, and is overpowered after he
has paid the demand. The police,
however, rescue him. The leader.
Talmin, escapes with Marie and flees
to Nice, followed by Bosco. Here,
after a series of adventures, Marie is
rescued and returned to her father,
who adopts Bosco for his bravery.
The Villa Carmen, shown in this pic-
ture, is beautiful. Apache work must
pay well in Paris when they can live
in such a castle as this.

Hansel and Gretel. Venus.- How
many times as a kid have you read

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this wonderful story of Grimm's?
And were you ever tired of it, or of
hearing your mother read it to you
in the evening when you were to be
put to bed? And then in the night,
didn't you dream of fairies and gob-
lins? Well, I am sure that I can re-
member that time, and it wasn't long
ago, either. Don't you remember the
witches, and the gingerbread house?
That part should never be forgotten.
The story, as played by the above
company, is thoroughly comprehen-
sive, though perhaps a little "spooky"
for the "wee sma' bairns." But it is
thoroughly good and clean, and will
be enjoyed by thousands of tots be-
fore long, I hope.

Back to Life. Rex. — A two-reel
Western drama, introducing J. War-
ren Kerrigan and others, formerly
with the American Company. The
part played by him, however, did not
seem suitable. Kerrigan makes a
wonderful hero, if he has the part
exactly fitted for him. He is best as
a matinee idol, and where he per-
forms wonders in bravery and skill.
In this picture he has to become
a man hated and despised by all
for his alleged cowardice, until one
day he kills a man in self-defense
and is forced to run away. He is
wounded and is doctored by the wife
of a gambler whom she had left be-
cause she believed she was no longer
wanted.

They fall in love with one another
but the marriage vows keep them
apart, until the gambler is killed.
When the cowboys arrived and saw
him dead they hastened away. Some-
one in the audience remarked that it
was the first time "the boys had not
lifted their hats and stood reverently
near the body." But that is true.
There is too much of that sentimen-
talism introduced and the Rex Com-
pany are doing good work in setting
a precedent. The photography was
very poor in places, being apparently
underdeveloped.

The Rivals. Kinemacolor. — The
Kinemacolor Company cannot re-
ceive too much credit for their work
in placing before the public in such
a form this wonderful creation of the
brain of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Although the play has been active for
the last half century, it is surprising
how many people there are, who, al-
though they have read the play, have
never been able to see it because of
the almost prohibitive box office
rates. Now there is no excuse, and
the writer, who has seen both the
legitimate and the production by the
Kinemacolor Company, personally
prefers the latter as it covers the
field, he thinks, in a more complete

manner than the legitimate was capa-
ble of doing. Of course the great
acting of Joseph Jefferson as Bob
Acres is missed. William Winter
Jefferson, his son, however, carries
the part through very well. The
story is so well known to all that it
would be but waste space to detail
it. The costuming and the scenery
throughout was perfect, and the act-
ing certainly left nothing to be de-
sired.

Cast of characters: Bob Acres, one
of the rivals, William Winter Jeffer-
son; Captain Absolute, another rival,
Gaston Bell; Sir Lucius O'Trigger,
another rival, Gilbert Coleman; Sir
Anthony Absolute, the captain's
father, George Staley; David, Bob
Acres' servant, Samuel Hines; Fag,
the captain's man, Dallas Anderson;
Faulkland, Milton Boyle; Doctor,
David Young; Mrs. Malaprop, Flor-
ence Stanley; Lydia Languish, Lor-
raine Frost; Lucy, the maid, Rae
Ford.

Father John; A Ragpicker of Paris.

World Special. — Typically a French
picture, with the French love of the
risque, and with a sufficient touch of
spice to make it interesting and not
objectionable. The character of
Father John is one which enlists the
sympathy and love of the audience,
despite the fact that he is a hard
drinker. The story opens with the
adoption of Marie, who is the daugh-
ter of a bank messenger. The latter
was k lied by the villain, Garouse,
and his money stolen.

With this money the man is able

to obtain the title of Baron Hoffman
and is comfortably wed. Marie has
become a dressmaker, in the mean-
time, and is enamored of Henry de
Berville, a wealthy young man, to
whom the Baron wishes to marry his
daughter, Claire.

In order to do this he hires a mid-
wife to get rid of the illegitimate
child of his daughter. Mme. Patard
does this, but places the baby in the
care of Marie, afterwards stealing it
again. The police are informed, and
throw Marie in prison because they
think that she has killed the child.
Through some clever detective work
John secures a confession from the
Baron and the midwife of their com-
plicity in the affair, and Marie is
freed to wed Henry. A clever pic-
ture, which will not offend the most
aesthetic taste.

Cast: Father John, Mr. Duquesne;
Garousse - Hoffman, Mr. Paglieri;
Henry de Berville, Mr. Maupre;
Marie, Mile. Renee Sylvaire.

A Romance of Erin. Domino. (Oct.
16.) — A two-reel feature of the Mutual
program, which, although possessing
but a cut and dried plot, pleases every-
one by the number of beautiful scenes
and the clever acting. The class of
audience to which sensational and
melodramatic endings appeal will like
this picture, which is on the lines of
the old-fashioned "blood and thun-
der" and "penny dreadful," possessing,
however, the redeeming features of
real Irish wit and strategy. The story
originated in the mind of William H.
Clifford.

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THE MESSAGE FROM THE
DEAD

Eclectic, Three Reels, October 16

A corking good story, with splen-
did acting and fine settings. As a
general thing the French are not
noted for their developing, but in this
case there is not a flaw. A picture
that will make a name for itself.

A youth is adopted by an eccentric
old man. The following night the old
man is killed by his nephew with an
ax, the blame, however, falling on a
nearby woodcutter who was in the
house that day and had left his ax
there. He is convicted on the cir-
cumstantial evidence and sent to
prison, while his daughter is left to
look out for herself. Gaston, the
nephew, in the meantime has gone
away but later he returned to his old
home and lives there. He meets
Jean, the daughter of the woodcutter,
and attempts to make violent love
to her.

The boy, Philip, who witnessed the
murder of his guardian, and who has
the evidence to convict- Gaston, has
lost his mind through the shock. The
woodcutter, having been freed from
jail, returns to his daughter in time
to prevent her being insulted by Gas-
ton, who excites the neighborhood
against the woodcutter, and as they
are about to hurt him, he raises an
ax in his own defence. This, together
with the burning of his house later,
brings back the vanished mind of the
boy and he turns over to the police
the proof of Gaston's guilt and the
latter is arrested.

There are many strong points in
the narrative which are well carried
out in the drama.

A. M. ;

A HUSBAND'S STRATEGY
Great Northern

This is a dramatic story dealing
with the quarrel, separation and final
reunion of a young married couple.
According to the plot, the Countess
Holten invites Aileen, the wife of a
rich banker, James Perrin, to help at
a charity bazaar. We are next given
a glimpse of this function and Aileen
appears to have attracted the favor
of young Count Holten, an army
officer. Mrs. Perrin is a stall-holder
and the count proves to be one of
her best customers and pays her at-
tention. During an intermission, the
count is discovered kissing the hand
of Mrs. Perrin, and later meetings
disturb the peace of mind of- the
banker. He tries to put a stop to the
flirtation, but does not succeed, and
in the course of time he is served
with divorce papers.

Aileen makes her home with her
aunt and accepts a position as com-
panion to Miss Clara Evans, a
wealthy spinster. Mr. Perrin pays

the latter a visit at a seaside resort
and pretends to show her marked at-
tention. Every moment of Aileen's
waking moments is tortured by the
thought of what might have been.
Soon a party is organized to visit a
ruin in the locality, and Perrin bribes
the old caretaker to lock himself
and his wife in the ruins after the
others have departed. They wander
through the deserted chambers, which
are said to be visited by ghosts, and
finally visit the battlements.

After awaiting the dawn, a recon-
ciliation is effected, and when the old
caretaker returns to his duties, hus-
band and wife are reunited.

X.

to go to Philadelphia for a day or so
to get their business affairs properly
adjusted.

Mr. Arthur Ashley was a profes-
sional stock actor in several stock
companies throughout the country
before joining the Vitagraph Com-
pany, namely, Poli's Stock Company,
in the East, et al. Mr. Ashley has
been with the Vitagraph about six
months and together with Miss
Florence Dyer, who was formerly on
the stage and is now with us, take
parts in "The Aristocratic Penitents,"
which is to be released with "Wild
Beasts at Large" as a special ex-
clusive general film release.

NOTES OF THE TRADE

Two comedies from the pen of
Junie McCree will be released by
Reliance on October 20th, as a split
reel offering. "Oh, What a Night" is
the title of the first comedy, while
the second, which is a vehicle for the
Hippodrome mule, Pete, will be the
first of a series of "mule" stories, en-
titled "Two Men and a Mule."

The Cleveland-Fidelity Booking
Offices report great activity in that
establishment last week entertaining
out-of-town guests. No less than
fifty managers of theatres that book
attractions through those offices
found it necessary to come to New
York on business at this time. Of
course, they all state it is only a co-
incidence that so many of them
should have pressing engagements
here during World Series week, but,
nevertheless, none of them failed to
attend one or more of the big games.
Some of them found it also necessary

The Lubin Film Company has sent
two more troupes south for the win-
ter. Director Wilbert Melville will
locate in Los Angeles, Cal. He takes
a company selected from the best
Lubin players and two carloads of
equipment.

F. J. Grandon and his company go
to Birmingham, Ala., where arrange-
ments for a new studio have been per-
fected, including quarters for the
players, rough riders and horses
which always figure in Mr. Grandon's
pictures. This arrangement will leave
five companies still at the Philadel-
phia plant and four in the South and
Southwest.

Miss Ida Lewis and Joseph P.
Swickard have been engaged to play
characters in the "Ricketts" Amer-
ican Company. Both have had ex-
tensive experience on the legitimate
stage and in pictures and their work
on the screen is highly commendable.

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NOTES OF THE TRADE

Director A. E. Christie, of the Uni-
versal, is putting on a series of West-
erns, as his comedies are away ahead
on releases. The main office have
called for more of his Westerns. He
has just finished "The Golden Prin-
cess Mine," with Eddie Lyons and
Ramona Langley in the leads, and with
Lee Moran as the heavy. There is a
tense situation when Lee is impris-
oned in the mine by an Indian whom
he has tried to double-cross, and who
starts a rock slide which fills the face
of the cave.

For the benefit of a charitable in-
stitution, the Lubin cowboys of Betz-
wood gave an exhibition of Western
riding at the Jefferson Riding Park
on Saturday, October 4th. The riders
were Harry K. Loomes and George
Steele, of Montana, Joe Riley, Harry
Webb and Jack Wright, of Wyoming,
"Kid" Bill Arthur of Texas, Miss
Elsie Woodward of Dakota, and
others.

The exhibition consisted of racing,
lasso throwing, trick riding, breaking
of bronchos, Indian and cowboy
fights and stage-coach hold-ups, catch-

ing steers, sports and pastimes of
fancy riding. The show was given
under the direction of Harry K.
Loomes and lustily cheered by over
o,500 people.

Stephen S. Norton, Harry C. Mat-
thews' camera man, is having a good
time in the East during his holiday,
according to his letters to old chums
here. He has not yet decided just
when he will return.

Written by the author of a Broad-
way success and played by two stars
with Broadway reputations, the Reli-
ance regular release of October 15th
is of considerable interest. Will
Hough, of "A Stubborn Cinder-
ella," writes the scenario, while
Charles Dickson, who starred in
"Incog," and Anna Laughlin, of "The
Wizard of Oz," "The Top of the
World" and other well-known pro-
ductions, played the two leading
roles.

V. R. Day, general manager of the
Essanay Film Mfg. Co., is in the
West, personally directing the activ-
ities of the taking of the "Buffalo

Bill" pictures by this company. Mr.
Day expects to return in about a
month.

George Magie, of the Universal
Film Mfg. Co., is in Chicago and will
remain for some time, looking after
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FEATURE FILM NOTES

The Gene Gauntier Feature Play-
ers are back from Ireland with some
feature productions which they made
in and around the Lakes of Killarney.
Miss Gauntier, while abroad, was
presented with a blue-blooded Irish
terrier, who, it is said, will take a
leading part in a forthcoming pic-
ture.

Admirers of Shakespeare will ap-
preciate "The Taming of the Shrew,"
which will be released soon as a
three-part feature on the regular pro-
gram.

"The Lady of the Lake" is another
classic in three reels scheduled for
early release.

A. Warner, vice-president Warner's
Features, Inc., has contracted with
the new Plaza Theatre in New Or-
leans, and the Crystal Theatre, Hous-
ton, Tex., for the complete program
of Warner's Features. The new
"Plaza"' is owned by Herman Fitch-
enberg.

Mr. Rogers, of the Union Film
Company, of Chicago, states that his
company is purchasing most of the
releases put out by the Exclusive
Supply corporation. While this com-

pany is young, it claims a splendid
business.

Mr. Spencer, of the General Special
Feature Film Company, expects to
take a trip to New York City very
soon for the purpose of augmenting
his already large program by a per-
sonal selection of some of the big
pictures which are being offered in
the East.

P. B. Elliott, manager of the Union
Film Company, of Indianapolis, one
of the foremost feature exchanges of
that city, spent last Thursday in Chi-
cago, acquainting himself with the
various angles of the feature game
as it is handled in Chicago.

The Ammex Company, for a long
time inactive, have come back into
the field as manufacturers of feature
films. Their first release will be "The
Barrier of Blood." the second "The
Reckoning," both in two reels.

J. C. Graham, general manager of
the Universal Film Mfg. Co., arrived
in Chicago last week on business for
the Universal and expects to return
to New York City on Tuesday. His
main mission was the deal which is

pending between the Universal and
the Standard Film Exchange. The
papers in this deal are said to be pre-
pared, but as yet no signatures have
been attached. The minor differences
which now exist, it is expected, will
be settled within the week. This will
mean that the Standard Film Ex-
change of Chicago and Louisville,
and the Milwaukee Film Exchange
will be the property of the Universal
Film Mfg. Co.

The Exclusive Supply Corporation,
outgrowing its suite of offices on the
tenth floor of the Candler Building,
220 West Forty-second street. New
York City, last week moved across
the corridor to occupy Suite 1006, the
offices recently vacated by the Inde-
pendent Film Company and Warner's
Features.

William Fox, the vaudeville mag-
nate, has arranged with the Theatre
Film Company, owners of the New
York State rights to "Arizona." to
show this six-part photo-drama in all
of his principal houses. The produc-
tion will be shown for the first time
in public in New York City at the
Crotona Theatre, 177th street and
Park avenue, on Monday, October
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NOTES

The Edison- Company is now issu-
ing music cues for all Edison films.
They are being prepared by a well-
known orchestra leader, who has had
years of experience in vaudeville and
motion picture houses, and are being
printed in the Kinetogram, the Edi-
son house publication.

The Nostrand Theatre, 625 Nos-
trand avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., is the
first motion picture theatre built under
the new New York State laws. Mr.
Machant is the president of the com-
pany. The theatre seats five hundred
and fifty people in plain chairs and
fifty box chairs. This theatre will be
equipped with a ladies' retiring room
and gentlemen's smoking room. His
old theatre was the leading one in
this neighborhood, and was such a
success that he has spent over $9,000
in alterations. The American Seating
Company is putting in the seats and
the Typhone Fan Company the ven-
tilation. The house carries a widely
diversified program. The opening at-
traction will be the four-reel feature,
"The Resurrection," featuring Blanche
Walsh, owned by the Unique Com-
pany, 145 West 45th street. At the
opening Mr. Machant will welcome
anyone interested in looking over his
new house.

Willie Miller, of Edinburg, Ind.,
wrote to the Kleine Optical Company,
stating that he was interested in
theatre equipment, and to kindly for-
ward a projection machine, drawing
on the Union Trust Company, Edin-
burg, Ind., for the necessary funds.
The machine went in due course, and
in due course, also, went a sight draft
on the Union Trust Company. A
week elapsed, and then Manager
Frank Hough was stunned by the re-
ceipt of the draft returned by the
bank, with a note attached saying:
"William Miller unable to make pay-
ment. Stated intention was to pay
on the instalment plan. Party about
twelve years old."

Carlyle Blackwell, of the Kalem
Company, -will be installed at the old
Essanay studios between Hollywood
and town next week. "Colonel'' C
Rhys Pryce goes with him. He will
have his own company, which will in-
clude Louise Glaum. Mr. Blackwell
will produce social dramas and light
comedies. Director J. P. McGown
will also have a company at the same
studios. He will take Bert Hadley
Chance Ward, Helen Holmes, Wil-
liam Brunton, G. A. Williams, Leo
Maloney and others with him. By
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fourth year with the Kalem Company;
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American M. P. Machine 50

American Theatre Curtain Supply Co 49

American Film Mfg. Co 49

American Cinematograph Co 41

Associated M. P. Press 41

Amusement Supply Co 47

Ames Publishing Co 47

Associated M. P. Schools 47

Benedict, Phil P 44

Bennett, Chas H 40

Brady, C. A 38

Calehuff Supply Co 10

Chicago Song Slide Exchange 44

Cleveland, W. S 42

Cosmos Specialty Co 40

Eastman Kodak Co 49

Eclectic Co 8

Edison. Inc.. Thos. A 4

Essanay Film Mfg. Co. 40

Excelsior Drum Works 50

Famous Players Film Co 45

Foos Gas Engine Co 10

Fulton, E. E 47

General Film Co 52

General Special Feature Film Co.... 45

Greater New York Slide Co 39

Gunby Bros 41

Harding Photo Engraving Co 49

Hart Booking Bureau 47

Hotel Martinique • 39

Hymes, Sol 47

Illinois Theatre Supply Co 47

International Film Service 6

Katin M. P. Supply Co 47

Kleine, George 5

Kinemacolor Co 3

Kinematograph Weekly 41

Lakeside Film Exchange 45

LeCourrier Cinematographique .... 47

Lubin Manufacturing Co 7

Lyon & Healy 41

Manhattan Slide Co 38

Mestrum, Henry 47

Mirror Screen Co 11

Midgar Features 45

Murphy, C. J 47

New York Film Co 43

Newman Mfg. Co 47

Niagara Slide Co 47

Novelty Slide Co 45

Pan-American Laboratories..... 45

Peerless Tire Co 40

Photoplay Co 47

Picture Theatre Equipment Co 40

Power Co., Nicholas 38

Precision Machine Co 2

Schneider, Eberhard 47

Smith & Browne 25

Special Event Film Mfrs. Co 38

Sterling Camera Co.... 39

Theatre Specialty Mfg. Co 34

Thomson, A. E 45

Universal Film Mfg. Co 51

Union Features 2

United States Factories Co 37

Unique Feature Film Co 45

Vitascope Co 11

World's Best Film Co 45

World Special Films Corp 45

Writers' Magazine 41

FEATURES IDEALS are bringing
over a four-reel subject from the
Parisian studio in which Mile. Polaire
is the leading character. They have
featured her particularly in this pro-
duction and it is another world-beater.

Mile. Polaire is delighted to be
called the ugliest in the world. She
wears a pearl ring in her nose. She
says. "It is a fad I started two months
ago in Paris, and when the American
women try it, they, too, will wear them.

The French actress has arrived here
from Europe within the past two
weeks, and when the steamer
reached the pier she was weeping,
being troubled about the loss of her
pet pig. One day, while she was hold-
ing the pig on deck, it jumped out
of her arms into the sea. Around its
neck was a collar studded with dia-
monds and rubies, but Mile. Polaire
would not say whether she was crying
for the pig or her jewels.

An incomplete report published in
a few trade journals tending to imply
that the temporary injunction ob-
tained by the Liebler Company against
the film production of "In the Bishop's
Carriage ' applies to every print o. this
film, produced by the Famous Players
Film Company, violates the spirit of
the writ as in text and effect the in-
junction was only designed to pro-
hibit the Famous Players Film Com-
pany from manufacturing, producing,
exhibiting, or causing to be manufac-
tured, produced or exhibited any films
based on the subject during the pend-
ency of the action, but is not intend-
ed to govern, and does in no manner
restrict, the exhibition of the prints
released before the issuance of the in-
junction.

Thomas W. Ross, who has starred
in the original production of "Check-
ers" and who made the hne "Gee,
ain't it hell to be poor" a little more
generally known than the national
anthem, has been engaged by the All
Star Feature Corporat'on to play the
role he originally created for the
photoplay production of "Checkers"
soon to be made. This production
will, of course, be made under the
stage direction of Augustus Thomas,
who acts as general director of pro-
ductions for all the silent plays which
are to be made by the All Star Fea-
ture Corporation.

Other engagements made for the
All Star production of "Checkers" are
Katharine La Salle and William A.
Williams. M:ss La Salle last season
played opposite to Edmund Breese in
"The Master Mind." Previously she
was leading woman for Thomas W
Ross in "The Only Son," and was
seen as The Governess in "Shorty
McCabe." Miss La Salle plavs Pert
Barlow, opposite to Mr. Ross, in
"Checkers."

For leading juvenile Williar A.
Williams has been engaged. Mr Wil-
liams was starred in "Quincv Adams
Sawyer" for three years and starred
himself in "The Lottery Man" for one
year.

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TERRITORIAL rights to Indiana
and Illinois for the All Star Feature
Corporation's production of "Arizona"
have been acquired by the Famous
Players Film Service, of Pittsburgh.
This purchase is in addition to the
rights of Western Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky, already
purchased by the same service.

The Gaumont Company, which re-
cently purchased the right to present
this great six-reel production of the
famous Augustus Thomas play in the
British Islands, have increased their
territory to cover all the other British
possessions, with the exception of
Canada, which has already been sold
to the Feature Film Company of Can-
ada.

That a great success was scored
when Augustus Thomas put on his
own play for the All Star Feature
Corporation is well proved by the buy-
ers of territorial rights increasing
their territories; more especially when
the purchasers are such people as the
Gaumont Company and the Famous
Players Film Service.

Mr. C. B. Case, of Syracuse, will
look after the business of the World

Special Films Corporation in that
city.

The original headquarters of the
World Special Films Corporation
have been found too small for the
needs of the company. They have
taken the offices in the rear of their
present quarters, which gives them
one-half of the ninth floor of the
World's Tower Building. A project-
ing room is being fitted up.

News comes from Rome that the
Cines Company has completed ar-
rangements to reproduce the drama
"Madame Tallien," written by V. Sar-
dou. For this purpose, Director
Guazzoni, the producer who made
"Quo Vadis," has employed the oper-
atic troupe of Gandusio Borelli-
Hiperno, well known throughout con-
tinental Europe for its rendition of
Sardou's masterpiece. It is not known
at this time how many reels will be
required to tell the story.

Numerous demands for bookings,
orders and state right privileges have
gone into the mails of the Commer-

cial Motion Pictures Company, Inc.,
the past week. Every state, city and
hamlet will be booked before the World's
Baseball series are over. The Marcus
Loew's Circuit has purchased the sole
and exclusive right to show the pictures
the same night of the New York games,
and the next day of the Philadelphia
games, in Greater New York, and a
great many of their out-of-town the-
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complete prints, measuring approxi-
mately two thousand feet, showing
every game, event and important
play, will be sold to exchanges,
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sire to book the completed pictures
of the entire series through the vaude-
ville and motion picture theatres of
the country.

With "At the White Horse Tav-
ern," "The Senator" and "The Van-
derbilt Cup" as well as recent suc-
cesses, Sidney Rosenfeld has com-
pleted a picture drama entitled "The
Heart of a Rose," which will be re-
leased by the Reliance on October
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MR. E. MANDELBAUM, president
of the World Special Films Cor-
poration, has acquired the exhibition
rights to "The Last Days of Pompeii,"
made by Pasquali in Turin, Italy. Mr.
Mandelbaum is one of the pioneers in
the film industry and a man well and fa-
vorably known among exhibitors. He
organized the Lake Shore Film &
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Special Films Corporation with head-
quarters in New York, to handle
nothing but this class of films.

Mr. E. A. Fenton, formerly of the
Kinetograph Company, has been en-
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treal, Toronto and Winnipeg. These
offices will be open within the next
ten days or two weeks.

The Industrial Moving Picture
Company is making the official mo-
tion pictures of the trip from Chicago
to Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn.,
of the National Paint, Oil & Varnish
Association. They have just finished
a series of pictures for Mayor Knotts,
who will use the films in his cam-
paign for re-election as Mayor ot
Gary, Ind.

Their operator left Chicago with
the members of the National Paint,
Oil & Varnish Association, and will
film all of the interesting events inci-
dental to this outing. These films will
be kept as a matter of record and w 11
also be used at entertainments given
under the auspices of the various
Paint, Oil & Varnish clubs of the
United States. The pictures taken
for Mayor Knotts show Gary's
Mayor in various characteristic speak-
ing attitudes, including scenes perti-
nent to his political platform. This
film will be used by Mayor Knotts in
his impending campaign.

The Photo Drama Company's six-
part production, "The Last Days of
Pompeii," presented in America by
George Kleine, opens at the Amer-
ican Theatre, Spokane, Wash., Tues-
day, October 14th, for an indefinite
run. This will mark the first per-
formance of the picture in this coun-
try.

The record price of $42,500 was
paid in London last week at auction
for three-year rights in a film of "An-
tony and Cleopatra" for the British
Isles. The first bid was $20,000.

The purchase price is considered a
great bargain, as "Quo Vadis" has al-
ready made $15,000.

The Theatre Film Supply Com-
pany, who are handling the New
York State rights to "Arizona" with
other feature films, have moved their
offices from 12 Union Square to 71
West Twenty-third street, New York
City.

Mr. Felix F. Feist, manager of the
Chicago office of Kinemacolor Com-
pany of America, was in New York
this week for a couple of days and
made a trip amongst his friends in
the trade. One object of his visit to
New York was to secure another
large shipment of machines to take
care of contracts he has placed in
his territory.

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THE General Film Producing Co.,
makers of the "HERALD FILMS,"
received a telegram from their pho-
tographer, who is now in Nome, Alas-
ka, stating that he has secured some
good pictures of Nome before and
after the disaster that almost wiped
that city away. The pictures taken
before the disaster arrived in New
York to-day and show the whole city,
besides incidents and places surround-
ing Nome. They are very clear and
very interesting. These pictures were
made with the assistance of Governor
Stone, of Alaska, and the U. S. rev-
enue cutter "Bear," which went to
the assistance of the stricken city.

Augustus Thomas, director-general
of productions for the All Star Fea-

ture Corporation, has secured the as-
sistance of Henry M. Blossom, au-
thor of "Checkers," in the staging of
Mr. Blossom's novel and play as a
"silent drama." Mr. Blossom drama-
tized his own novel in the play which
made Thomas W. Ross famous as
"Checkers." From this dramatiza-
tion and from the novel itself a sce-
nario has been prepared by Eustace
Hale Ball and Lawrence McGill, and
upon the basis of this scenario the
play will be staged under the super-
vision of Mr. Thomas, with assistance
from Mr. Blossom.

Arthur D. Gans, representing the
Interstate Feature Film Company, of
Baltimore, while on a buying expedi-
tion to New York last week pur-

chased the rights on the Itala-Dan-
mark subject, "The War Correspond-
ents," for Delaware, Maryland, Dis-
trict of Columbia and Virginia. Mr.
Gans has succeeded Warren A. Kline
as manager of the Interstate, Mr.
Kline having decided to give his full
attention to his theatre interests. The
Electric Theatre Supply Company, of
Philadelphia, will have the exclusive
rights on forthcoming Itala subjects
in the territory mentioned, in addi-
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Southern New Jersey.

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AMBROSIO Feet

27 — Aissa's Dream (2 Parts)

4— The Wild Guardian (2 Parts)

11 — Chopin's Nocturne (2 Parts)

18— The Two Mothers (2 Parts)

AMERICAN

2— The Badge of Honor (Dr.) 1000

4 — Crooks and Credulous (Dr.) 1000

6 — A Pitfall of the Installment Plan

(2 reels) 2000

9 — Taming a Cowboy 1000

11 — Calamity Anne's Sacrifice (Com.) ... 1000
13 — Courage of Sorts (Com.) 625

13— Making Pig Iron 375

16— The End of Black Bart (Dr.) 1000

18— The Making of a Woman (Dr.) 1000

20— Hidden Treasure Ranch (Dr.) 1000

23 — The Step Brothers (Dr.) 1000

25 — In the Mountains of Virginia (Dr.). 1000

27— In the Days of Trajan (2 reel Dr.). 2000
30— In Three Hours (Dr.) 1000

1 — Follies of a Day and Night (Com.). 1000
BISON

30 — Shon, the Piper (2 reel Dr.)

7— The Girl and the Tiger (3 reel Dr.).

11 — Fighters of the Plains (2 reel Dr.)..

14 — In the Wilds of Africa (2 reels)...

18 — Through Barriers of Fire (2 reel

Dr.)

21— The She Wolf (3 reel Dr.)

25 — The Cowboy Magnate

28— The Black Masks (2 reel Dr.)

]— From Dawn Till Dark (2 reel Dr.).

BRONCHO

24— The Silent Hero (2 reels) 2000

1— The Greenhorn 2000

8 — Forgotten Melody (2 reels)

15 — The Reaping (2 reels)

22— The Black Sheep (2 reels)

29 — From Out the Storm (2 reels)

5— The Veteran (2 reels)

CRYSTAL

30 — Baldy Belmont as a Roman Gladi-

ator (Com.)

5 — The Norwood Case (Dr.)

7 — Dress Reform (Com.)

7 — Baldy Belmont Wanted a Wife

(Com.)

12 — The Woman and the Law (Dr.)

14 — Pearl's Mistake (Com.)

14 — Getting the Grip (Com.)

19— Hearts Entangled (Dr.)

21 — Willie's Great Scheme (Com.)

21— The Turkish Rug (Com.)

26 — Robert's Lesson (Dr.)

28 — His Rich Uncle

28 — The Game that Failed (Com.)

2 — A Hidden Love (Dr.)

DE-KA-GE (Features)

23 — Death or Divorce

30— The Stain

DOMINO

25— Highland Romance (2 reels) 2070

2— Exoneration (2 reels) 2000

9 — God of Chance (2 reels)

16 — Romance of Erin (2 reels)

23 — Heart of Kathleen (3 reels)

DRAGON
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11— Sea Waif

19 — Blindness of Courage 3000

24— Her Last Ride 3000

8 — Daredevil Rodman Law (Special) . .

ECLAIR

«4 — A Puritan Episode (2 reel Dr.)....
88 — Why Aunt Jane Never Married

(Com.)

1 — Jacques the Wolf (2 reel Dr.)

5— Private Box No. 23

5 — Polyps — Organisms Which Inhabit

Stagnant Waters

8— One of the Rabble (2 reel Dr.)

15— From the Beyond (3 reel Dr.)

19 — He Loves to Be Amused

19 — Oxygen

22 — Big Hearted Tim (2 reel Dr.)

26— The Terrible Outlaw (Com.)

29— Cynthy (2 reel Com. Dr.)

2 — Success With De-feet

2 — Organisms Which Inhabit Stagnant

Waters

ECLECTIC
1 — Thrust of Hate

1 — Dr. Nicholson and the Blue Diamond
8 — The Voice of the Wild

It — Wl>e» Paris Loves

2 — Vendetta

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-The Fire Fly 4000

-A Life for a Life

-The Gallows of the Gods 4000

FRONTIER

-The Moonshiner (Dr.)

-The Shop Girls Big Day (Com.)...
-A Girl of the Dance Halls (Dr.)...
-When Father Goes to Church (Com.)

--Harmony and Discord (Dr.)

-Curing the Doctor (Com.)

-The Brute (Dr.)

-Miss Fairweather Out West (Com.). '

-Tim's Atonement (Dr.)

-When Spirits Walk (Com.)

-His Conscience (Dr.)

GAUMONT

-The Doctor's Sacrifice 1000

-Weekly No. 81 1000

-Tiny Tim in Society 1000

-A Ballet Girl's Romance 1000

-Weekly No. 82 1000

-A Matrimonial Raffle (Com.)

-Snatched from Death (Dr.)

-Simple Simon's Grizzly Hug (Com.)
-The Venom Institute of Sao Paulo

(Edu.)

-Dolly's Strategy (Com.)

-Tiny Tim Kidnaps a Baby (Com.)..

-The Accusing Eyes (Dr.)

-Mexican Pearl Smugglers (Dr.)

GEM

-None But the Brave Deserve the — ?
-Sanitary Dairy Plant, Washington,

D. C

-The Bachelor Girls' Club (Com.)..

-The Surf Maidens (Com.)

-His Double Surprise

-A Trip Through Tunis and Algiers..
GREAT NORTHERN

-Won by Waiting (Com.) 1000

-A Good Catch (Com.)

-Caught in His Own Trap (Com. Dr.)

-The Baltic Sea (Sc.)

GREAT NORTHERN SPECIAL

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UNIVERSAL
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IMP

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-In Peril of the Sea (Dr.)

-Bleeding Hearts of Jewish Freedom
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-His Priceless Treasure

-Whimsicalities by Hy. Mayer

-The Stolen Love (2 reel Dr.)

-Thou Shalt Not Rubber (Com.)

-Hidden Fires (Dr.)

-The Daredevil Mountaineer (2 reel

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-The Beggar and the Clown

-Leaves from Hy. Mayer's Sketch

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-The Big Sister (2 reel Dr.)

•The Anarchist (Dr.)

-Tane of Moth Eaton Farm (Dr.)....
-His Hour of Triumph (2 reel Dr.) .
ITALA (Features)

-Unmasked

-A Leap of Despair

-Queen's Jewels 3000

JOKER

-The Cheese Special (Com.)

-The Tramp Dentists (Com.)

-Throwing the Bull (Com.)

KAY-BEE

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The Bully (1 reel)

-Venetian Romance (1 reel)

A Woman's Wit (1 reel)

-Borrowed Gold (1 reel)

-For Mother's Sake (1 reel)

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Their Husbands

A Healthy Neighborhood

-A Quiet Little Wedding

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KOMIC Feet

-It Happened in Haverstraw

-An Overall Outing

-Dobbs Forgot the Coal

-The Birthday Party

-Old Heads and Young Hearts

LEWIS PENNANTS

-Decreed to Die 3008

—My Boy

LUX
By Prfeor

-The New Governess (Dr.) 975

-Mollie's Umbrella (Com.) 555

-In a Granite Quarry (Ind.) 375

MAJESTIC

-The Ice Man's Revenge

-The Van Warden Rubies

-The Wedding Write- Up

-Through the Sluice Gates

-Always Together

-Revenge

-The Scenario Writer

NESTOR

-The Simple Life (Dr.)

-Roger, the Pride of the Ranch (Dr.)

-Patsy's Luck (Com.)

-Their Two Kids (Com.)

-The Brigand (1 reel W. Dr.)

-Under Western Skies (Dr.)

-Hawkeye's Great Capture (Com.) . .
-Tightwad Buys a Laundry (Com.)

-A Man of the People (Dr.)

-Curses! Said the Villain (Com.)....

PILOT

-The Green-Eyed Monster (Com.

Dr.) lOOfl

-Getting the Evidence (Dr.) 1000

POWERS

-The Pilgrim — Messenger of Love
(Dr.)

-The Escape (Dr.)

-His Pal's Bequest (Dr.)

-The Kid (Com.)

-A Man In the World of Men (2
reel Dr.)

-Playmates (Dr.)

-The Bee Industry (Edu.)

RAMO

-The Current (Dr.) 3000

-The Current

RELIANCE

-The Rebellious Pupil (Dr.) 1000

-Poor Old Mother (1 reel)

-The Flirt (1 reel)

-A Knight Errant (1 reel)

-Oh! What a Night

-Two Men and a Mule (Series 1) . . . .

-The Heart of a Rose

-Hearts (2 reels)

-The Real Mother

-Two Men and a Mule (Series 2) . . .
REX

-Shadows of Life (2 reel Dr.)

-The Echo of a Song (Dr.)

-Memories (Dr.)

-The Criminals (2 reel Dr.)

-The Thumb Print (2 reel Dr.)

-When Death Unites (Dr.)

-The Clue (Dr.) .

-Jewels of Sacrifice (Dr.)

SOLAX

-The Hunchback (Com.) 1000

-Handcuffed for Life (Com.) 1000

-Bachelor's Waterloo (Com.) 1000

-Fisherman's Luck (Com.) 1000

-Ish Gabibble (Com.) 1000

SCANDINAVIAN FEATURE

-Wandering Folk (2-reel Dr.)

THANHOUSER

-The Deep Sea Lair

-The Silver-tongued Orator

-A Girl Worth While

-A Peaceful Victory

-Beautv in the Seashell

-The Mystery of the Haunted Hotel..

-The Old Folks at Home

-The Silver Tongued Orator

-How Filmy Won His Sweetheart...

-A Twentieth Century Farmer

VICTOR

-The Winner (2 reel Dr.)

-The Girl of the Woods (2 reel Dr.)

-For Old Love's Sake (Dr.)

-The Restless Spirit (3 reel Dr.)

-The Spender (2 reel Dr.)

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Sept 22— The Law and His Son (Dr.)

Sept. 25 — A Saturday Holiday (Com.)

Sept. 25— The End of the World (Com.)

Sept. 27 — The Influence of the Unknown

(Dr.)

Sept. 29— Dyed, But Not Dead (Com.)

Sept. 29— With the Aid of Phrenology (Com.)

Oct. 2— A Tender-Hearted Crook (Dr.)

Oct. 4— The Chieftain's Sons (Dr.)

Oct. 6— His Secret (Dr.)

Oct. 9 — Never Known to Smile (Com.) ....
Oct. 9 — Scenting a Terrible Crime (Com.).

Oct. 11— So Runs the Way (Dr.)

Oct. 13 — McGann and His Octette (Com.)..

Oct. 13— Aunts, Too Many (Com.)

Oct. 16 — Red and Pete, Partners (Dr.)

Oct. 18— The Girl Across the Way (Dr.)

CINES
Georg* Klein*

Sept. 2— The Sign of the Black Lily (Part I

& II) (Dr.) 1970

Sept. 9 — The Mysterious Man (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 1980

Sept. 16— High Treason (Part I & II) (Dr.). 1800
Sept. 23 — For His Brother's Crime (Part I &

II) (Dr.) 2000

Sept. 30— Misgotten Gains (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 2100

Oct. 7— The Flower of Destiny (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 2000

Oct. 21— The Wheels of Justice (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 2000

EDISON

Sept. 27 — A Proposal from the Sculptor (Dr.). 2000

Sept. 29 — The Stolen Models (Com.) 1000

Sept. 30 — A Daughter of Romany (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 1 — Damascus and the Ruins of Baalbek

(Sc.) 500

Oct. 1 — Mr. Toots' Tooth (Com.) 500

Oct 3 — Why Girls Leave Home (Com.) 2000

Oct. 4 — The Contents of the Suitcase (Dr.). 1000
Oct. 6 — Birds of the Southern Sea Coast

(Des.) 300

Oct. 6 — A Short Life and a Merry One

(Com.) 700

Oct. 7— A Wilful Colleen's Way (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 8 — The Pink Granite Industry at Mil-
ford (Des.) 400

Oct. 8 — Boy Wanted (Com.) 600

Oct. 10 — In the Shadow of the Mountains

(Dr.) 2000

Oct. 11 — The Girl and the Outlaw (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 13 — Bill's Career as Butler (Com.) 1000

Oct. 14— The Family's Honor (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 15 — The Widow's Suitors (Com.) 1000

Oct. 17 — The Foreman's Treachery (Dr.)... 2000

Oct. 18 — Twice Rescued (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 20 — Hiram Green, Detective (Com.) 1000

Oct. 21 — Reginald's Courtship (Com.) 1000

Oct. 22 — Jaffa, the Seaport of Jerusalem (Sc.) 400

Oct. 22 — His First Performance (Com.) 600

Oct. 24 — Silas Marner (2 Parts) 2000

Oct. 25 — A Proposal from — Nobody, being the
fourth story of 'Who Will

Marry Mary" (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 27 — Across Swift Current Pass on Horse-
back (Sc.) 400

Oct. 27 — A Hornet's Nest (Com.) 600

Oct. 28 — A Daughter of the Wilderness (Dr.). 1000

Oct. 29 — The Horrible Example (Com.) 1000

Oct. 31— Janet of the Dunes (Dr.) 2000

ESSANAY

Sept. 19— The Right of Way

Sept. 20 — The Redeemed Claim (Dr.)

Sept. 23— For Old Times' Sake (Dr.)

Sept. 24 — Love Incognito (Com.)

Sept. 25— Days of the Pony Express (W. Dr.)

Sept. 26 — In Convict Garb

Sept. 27 — Why Broncho Billy Left Bear

County

Sept 30 — A Ray of God's Sunshine

Oct 1-A Successful Failure (Com.) 1000

Oct. 2 — The Belle of Siskiyou (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 3 — Tony, the Fiddler (Special — 2 parts

—Dr.) 2000

Oct. 4— The Struggle (Dr.) 10(10

Oct. 6— The End of the Run (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 8 — The Riddle of the Tin Soldier (2 reel

Dr.) 2000

Oct. 10 — Pete's Insurance Policy (Com.)

Oct. 10 — The Sea Scouts of America (Top.) .

Oct. 11 — The Influence of a Child (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 13 — The Hermit's Ruse (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 14 — Three Scraps of Paper (Dr.)

Oct. 15 — The Vampire (2 reel Dr.) 2000

Oct. 15 — Their Waterloo (Com.)

Oct. 16 — A Borrowed Identity (Com.)

Oct. 17 — Broncho Billy Gets Square (Dr.)

(Parts I & II)

Oct. 17 — The Troublesome Telephone (Com.)
Oct. 17— The Boston Floating Hospital (Top.)
Oct. 18 — The Railroad Detective's Dilemma

(Dr.) 1000

Oct. 18 — "Alkali" Ike and the Wild Man

(Com.)

TCAT.EM Feet

Sept. 27 — A Demand for Justice (Dr.) 1000

Sept. 29— The Atheist (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 1— The Battle at Fort Laramie (2 reel

Dr.) 2000

Oct. 3— And the Watch Came Back (Com.} . .

Oct. 3 — Historic Boston (Edu.)

Oct. 4 — The Railroad Inspector's Peril (Dr.). 1000

Oct. 6— The End of the Run (Dr.) 1000

Oct 8— The Riddle of the Tin Soldier

(Special 2 Parts — Dr.) 2000

Oct. 10 — Pete's Insurance Policy (Com.) . .
Oct. 10 — The Sea Scouts of America (Edu.)
Oct. 11— The Influence of a Child (Dr.).. 1000

Oct. 13— The Hermit's Ruse (Dr.)

Oct. 15— The Vampire (Dr.) (Parts I, II

& III)

Oct. 17— The Troublesome Telephone (Com.)
Oct. 18 — The Railroad Detective's Dilemma

(Dr.)

LUBIN

Sept. 18— The Clod (W. Dr.— 2 reels) 2000

Sept. 19— The Love of Beauty (Dr.) 1000

Sept. 20 — Her Present (Com.) 400

Sept. 20 — His Reward (Com.) 600

Sept. 22— Poker Paid 400

Sept. 22 — This Isn't John 600

Sept. 23 — A Mexican Tragedy 1000

Sept. 25 — Self Convicted 2000

Sept. 26 — Winning His Wife 1006

Sept. 27 — The Great Discovery 1000

Sept. 29— The Invader 1000

Sept. 30 — The Actress and Her Jewels 400

Sept. 30 — The Constable's Daughter 600

Oct. 2 — The Special Officer 2000

Oct. 3 — The Scarf Pin 1090

Oct. 4 — For Her Brother's Sake 1000

Oct. 6 — The Counterfeiter's Fate 1000

Oct. 7 — The Two Cowards 1000

Oct. 9 — Breed of the North 2000

Oct. 10 — The Drummer's Narrow Escape.... 400

Oct. 10 — Going Home to Mother 600

Oct. 11 — The Higher Law 1000

Oct. 13 — The Fiancee and the Fairy 1000

Oct. 14 — A Deal in Oil 1000

Oct. 16 — The Taking of Rattlesnake Bill 2000

Oct. 17 — The Mate of the Schooner Sadie.. 1000

Oct. 18— The Highest Bidder 400

Oct. 18 — A Sleepy Romance 600

Oct. 20 — Father's Choice 400

Oct. 20 — All On Account of Daisy 600

Oct. 21 — Her First Offense 1000

Oct. 23— The Evil Eye 2000

Oct 24 — The Man in the Hamper 1000

Oct. 25 — Mother Love 1000

Oct. 27— The Man of Him 1000

Oct. 28 — Making Good 400

Oct. 28— Giving Bill a Rest 600

Oct. 30 — The Rattlesnake (2 reels) 2000

Oct. 31 — A Momentous Decision 1000

Nov. 1 — When the Prison Doors Opened. .. 1000

G. MELIEB

Sept. 4 — A Day at Singapore (Sc.) 1000

Sept. 18 — Home Life in Japan (Manners and

Customs) 1000

Sept. 18 — A Japanese Funeral

Sept. 25— A Cambodian Idyll (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 2 — Things Japanese (Edu.) 1000

Oct. 9 — Cast Amid Boomerang Throwers

(Com.) 1000

Oct. 16— Scenes of Cochin-China (Sc.) 1000

PATHE FRERES

Sept. 24 — The Secret Treasure

Sept. 25 — Glacier National ParK

Sept. 25 — Sago Industry in Borneo

Sept. 25 — Pathe's Weekly

Sept. 26— Birds of Prey

Sept. 26 — Sicily, the Picturesque

Sept. 27 — Fish with Storage Battery in its
Brain

Sept. 27— The Pearl of the Bosphorus (Con-
stantinople)

Sept. 29 — Pathe's Weekly

Sept. 30 — Lillie's Nightmare

Sept. 30 — Deschutes Canyon (Washington) ....

Oct. 1 — Oxygen

Oct. 1 — Along the Padas River

Oct. 2 — Pathe's Weekly

Oct. 2— The Depths of Hate

Oct. 3 — A Clever Story

Oct. 4— A Wall Street Wail

Oct. 4 — Riding the Flume

Oct. 6 — Pathe's Weekly No. 56

Oct. 7 — Plants Which Eat

Oct. 7 — How Mountains Grow

Oct. 7 — A Journey Through Crimea (Travel)

Oct. 8 — The Smuggler (Dr.)

Oct. 9 — Pathe's Weekly No. 57

Oct. 9 — Two Mothers (Special— 2 Parts —
Dr.)

Oct. 10 — The Millionaire's Ward (Dr.)

Oct. 11 — Talkative Tess (Com.)

Oct. 13— Pathe's Weekly No. 58

Oct 14 — A Yankee in Mexico (Dr.)

Oct. 14 — The Petrified Forests of Arizona
(Geology)

Oct. 15— The Bullet's Mark (Dr.)

Feci

Oct. 16 — In the Haunts of Fear (Dr.) (Parts

1 & II)

Oct. 16— Pathe's Weekly No. 59 (News)

Oct. 17— Her Hour (Dr.)

Oct. 18 — A Plant with Nerves— Mimosa

Pudica (Botany)

Oct. 18 — St. Claude and Its Environs, France

(Sc.) :

SELIG

Sept. 17 — Tobias Wants Out (Com.) 1000

Sept. 18 — The Redemption of Railroad jack

„ (Dr.) 1000

Sept. 19 — The Rejected Lover's Luck (Com.

„, Dr.) 1000

Sept. 22 — The Young Mrs. Eames (2 reel

„ Dr.) 1500

Sept. 22— Sissybelle (Com.) 600

Sept. 23 — Bumps and Willie (Part I — Com.). 1000
Sept. 24— The Capture of "Bad Brown" (Dr.). 1000
Sept. 26 — The Policeman and the Baby

(Com.) 500

Sept. 26— The Taj Mahal, Agra, India (Edu.) 500
Sept. 29 — The Invisible Government (Dr.

2 reels) 2000

Sept. 30— The False Friend (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 1 — The Cattle Thief's Escape (Dr.).. 500

Oct. 1 — Rangoon, India (Edu.) 500

Oct. 2 — Our Neighbors (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 3 — John Bousall of the U. S. Secret

Service (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 6 — The Conscience Fund (2 reel Dr.).. 2000
Oct. 7 — The Missionary and the Actress

(Dr.) 1000

Oct. 8 — The Dream of Dan McGuire (Com.). 1000

Oct. 9 — Saved from the Vigilantes (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 10— Ceylon Tea Estate (Edu.) 50C

Oct. 10— Only Five Years Old (Dr.) 500

Oct. 13 — The Bridge of Shadows (2 reel Dr.). 2000

Oct. 14 — The Silver Grindstone (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 15 — As a Father Spareth His Son (Dr.). 1000

Oct. 16 — The Golden Cloua (Dr.) 500

Oct. 16 — The Abduction of Pinkie (Com.)... 500
Oct. 17 — The Woman of the Mountains (Dr.). 1000

Oct. 20— The Finger-Print (2 reel Dr.) 2000

Oct. 21 — Surf and Sunset on the Indian

Ocean (Edu.) 500

Oct. 21 — Dishwash Dick's Counterfeit (Com.) 500

Oct. 22 — Dorothy's Adoption (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 23 — Life for Life (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 24 — Destiny of the Sea (Dr.? 1000

URBAN ECLIPSE
George Kleine

July 11— The Statue of Fright (Dr.) (Part I

and Part II) 1770

Aug. 12— The Mong-Fu-Tong (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 1800

Aug. 19— The Clown's Revenge (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 2000

Oct. 14— The Last Minute (Dr.) (Part I

& II) 2000

Oct. 28— The Rajah's Diamond Rose (Part

I & II) (Dr.) 2000

VITAGRAPH

Sept. 22— Daddy's Soldier Boy (Dr.) 1000

Sept. 23 — Extremities (Com.)

Sept. 23 — Scenes in Singapore

Sept 24 — The Other Woman (Dr.) 1000

Sept. 25— The Race (Dr.) 1000

Sept. 26 — Bunny for the Cause (Com.) 1000

Sept. 27 — Under the Daisies (Dr. — 2 parts).. 2000
Sept. 29— When the West Was Young (Dr.). 1000

Sept. 30— Which? (Com.) ...1000

Oct. 1 — The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction

(Com.) 1000

Oct. 2— Salvation Sal (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 3 — The Treasure of Desert Isle (Com.

Dr.) 1000

Oct. 4— The Mystery of the Silver Skull (2

part Special — Dr.) 2000

Oct. 6 — Ann of the Trails

Oct. 7 — A Homespun Tragedy

Oct. 8 — When Friendship Ceases

Oct. 9 — Heartbroken Shep

Oct. 10 — Cutey's Waterloo

Oct. 11 — The Test (Special Two-Part Fea-
ture)

Oct. 13 — Mrs. Upton's Device

Oct. 14 — The Ballyhoo's Story

Oct. 15 — Master Fixit

Oct. 15 — Buddhist Temples & Worshippers..

Oct. 16 — The Outlaw

Oct. 17 — Matrimonial Manoeuvres

Oct. 18 — The Pirates (2 Part Special)

Oct. 20— The White Feather

Oct. 21 — Luella's Love Story

Oct. 22 — Sleuths Unawares

Oct. 22 — Low Caste Burmese

Oct. 23 — The Doctor's Secret

Oct. 24— On Their Wedding Eve

Oct. 25 — The Next Generation (2 Part

Special)

Oct. 27 — At the Sign of the Lost Angel

Oct. 28— In the Shadow

Oct. 29 — Father's Hatband

Oct. 30 — Bianca . . .'

Oct. 31— Fatty's Affair of Honor

Oct. 31 — Performing Lions

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Its the Average that Counts!

Almost any service gives you a good picture occasionally.
But your house isn't judged by its special performances. You
can't tell the public to judge you by one program and over-
look another.

General Film goes on steadily producing the best single
reel and multiple features that can be obtained today. Some-
times one shoots high up above everything you can remember.
That kind of picture marks an epoch. We try to make them
all that way. And because we do try to make them all epoch-
making pictures, we never drop below an average that is
consistently higher than the most spectacular and widely-
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"THE FINGER PRINT"

Two Reels. Released October 20.

Suppose you were a detective playing cards with a
man whom you suspected of a pearl robbery. Would
it occur to you to ink your cuff, brush it against his
fingers and then use his cards as finger-print evidence?
That's the turning point in this gripping story of two
college roommates, a girl, a gang of gamblers and a
great detective.

"THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE"
Cine-Kleine. Two Reels. Released October 21.

An intense story centering about the supposed mur-
rit of a successful novelist. In reality he is saved by
peasants and finds the love of one of them. One epi-
sode is the falling of a bridge, plunging two men into
the water. Wonderful realism in beautiful exteriors.

"A DAUGHTER OF THE UNDER-
WORLD"

Kalem. Two Reels. Released October 22.

A minister's adoption of an unfortunate girl whose
life has been wholly vicious starts this remarkable fea-
ture. The climax comes when the girl returns to the
underworld to exonerate her benefactor from a murder
charge. She finds the real murderer — her brother.

"THE EVIL EYE"

Lubin. Two Reels. Released October 23.

People thought Don Alma had the evil eye, because
the power of his glance had once saved him from a
lion. The beautiful Sobre was warned against him,
hut when ortce she met him she found the emotion in
her heart wasn't fear — it was love. A beautiful story
of strong personality in a romantic setting.

"THE DEATH SONG"

Patheplay. Two Reels. Released October 23.

She was just his wife until she found she had 3
voice — but then she became an artiste with a career.
It brought her money and fame and the love of a cele-
brated composer. The husband was left behind — until
lie realized it. What he did and how it affected the
other two — that's the crux of this big, effective picture.

"THE LOVE LUTE OF ROMANY"

Essanay. Two Reels. Released October 24.

Romany — the land of romance! Its people are dif-
ferent from the rest of us, and when the lovely gypsy
girl was thrown by circumstance between two young
lovers the call of the open road led her safely out of
their lives. Exquisite in conception is this idyll of love
and the great outdoors.

"SILAS MARNER"

Edison. Two Reels. Released October 24.

All the resources of the Edison studios have been
called into play to make this adaptation of George
Eliot's novel all that it should be. The theme of the
old miser awakened into a new life of tenderness and
sympathy by the coming of a little girl into his life has
made a masterpiece for the films.

"THE NEXT GENERATION"

Vitagraph. Two Reels. Released October 25.

A young ship-designer finds a flaw in the plans which
his uncle has made for a new liner. Yet the older man,
.jealous of his nephew's skill, succeeds in having the
great four-funnelled ship launched. In mid-ocean, with
gayety at its height, the disastrous shock comes. Then
panic, fighting for the life-boats. Fearful, powerful
realism here.

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Volume VIII

October 25, 1913

Number 16

AUGUSTUS THOMAS

An Appreciation of "Arizona's" Author

WOULD you rather make motion pictures or
be an ambassador?" I asked Mr. Thomas, as
we sat talking pictures after the usual introduction.
My victim started. He was obviously unprepared for
such a question, and. of course, I meant him to be.
He knew practically
nothing of me, but
I had a clear outline
of his career for the
last twenty years in
my mind when I put
this question. Yet
without hesitation,
and with a slight
smile, he replied :
"I would rather
make motion pic-
tures." There were
many paragraphs in
the newspapers not
long ago stating that
President Wilson
had offered M r .
Thomas an embassy
in Europe. Paris
and Brussels were
mentioned as likely
places.

The personality
of Mr. Thomas is
extremely agree-
able. He does not
convey to you the
idea of having any-
thing to do with
stage matters. He
is a type of the well-
bred man of affairs, affable, cultured, easy in manner,
and, above all things, sure of himself.

He has evidently caught the virus picturitis. He
talked to me with real enthusiasm of the details of the
making of "Arizona." He is a practical man. He

discovered that in picture-making the chiefest asset is
time, and that time is wasted more lavishly than
money. So he invented a simple detached leaf sys-
tem of charting the movements of all the characters
in his films, indicating how long they were on in a

scene, what they
wore, and so forth.
He is a veritable
Bertillon of the film.
"If every little
movement has a
meaning all its
own," it also, in
Mr. Thomas' phil-
osophy, has a finan-
cial value. It should
not be wasted, it
should be made in
the proper place ; re-
corded, kept tab of.
In the making of a
motion picture, every
movement must
count. For the first
time in my experi-
ence, I had encount-
ered a personality of
a mathematical na-
ture in the making
of motion pictures.

Mr. Thomas has
large plans for the
future. He is car-
rying them out, I
perceive, mathemati-
cally. He is a good
business man, and
has good business associates. On the evening when
I met Mr. Thomas he had an appointment. I hinted
to him that it would be a delight to me to sit with
him and look at his picture "Arizona." He incon-
(Conlinncd on page 16)

AUGUSTUS THOMAS

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Hp HE logical growth of The Motion Picture News
into its present form has brought us numerous
words of congratulation and encouragement. These
have been freely expressed by word of mouth to all
members of the staff, and they have also taken form
in many letters addressed to the individuals whose
names are printed on the top of this page. We take
this opportunity of gratefully acknowledging these
appreciative words. They are an encouragement to
us to adhere as closely as possible to the policy that
we outlined in May last, namely, to stand for the best
interests of the motion picture art and industry.

Will all those, therefore, who have written us on
this subject or have spoken to us, accept the thanks of
the staff of The Motion Picture News for their com-
pliments and encouragements?

The highest aspiration of The Motion Picture News
is to represent the art and industry of the motion pic-
ture in a dignified, honorable and progressive spirit.
The editorial policy of the paper is animated solely
by principles of justice allied with a determination
to promote the interests represented in these pages
to their best possible advantage. As proximate time
progresses, it wili be seen that these pages will mani-

fest a literary value, artistic finish and consistency
of policy not excelled by any other publication of the
kind in the world.

IS THE SHORT LENGTH FILM DOOMED?

117 EEK by week, as we study the motion picture
* * press of the world, we find that this theme is
constantly to the fore. At the moment of writing
we have French and English publications in which
the subject is discussed. It is a serious matter for the
manufacturers to consider. A great deal of nonsense
is said and written about feature films. Feature
films, as we pointed out in these pages many weeks
ago, only respond to a desire on the part of the pub-
lic for longer and better pictures. For that matter,
every film is a feature film if it is good enough and
long enough.

Mr. Paul Kimberley, representing J. F. Brockliss,
of London, was in New York last week. He is a
shrewd, intelligent young man. He gave us a con-
cise survey of the conditions of the London market —
that market which is the principal centre of the art
and industry in the world. On that market at the
present time, short length films, that is, half-reels and
one-reels, as made in this country, are becoming use-
less. They are not wanted and they don't sell. They
must be superlatively good if they do. Mr. Kimber-
ley named many alleged American brands of films
which won't sell. In mercy to these manufacturers
we suppress their names.

All the evidence tends to show that the answer to
our question is in the affirmative. Better and longer
pictures, not too long, are needed. Careful study of
the situation persuades that the unit of the future is
likely to be the five-reel picture. The I wo-hour-and-a
half-entertainment — the two-hour-and-a-half net —
is the one that practice has proven out to be the need
of the public. The motion picture public is rapidly
manifesting its needs, in the way that the theatre-
goer manifested its needs. Those needs as they are
making themselves apparent seem to supply other
and additional affirmative replies to the question head-
ing this article.

The picture is at its transition stage in every possi-
ble one of its many aspects and features. Prominent
state right men and others tell us that these small-
length pictures, half-reel and one-reel, are doomed.
These state right men should know. They are prob-
ably correct.

A MOTION PICTURE COLLEGE OR
INSTITUTE

TN another part of this week's paper, an enthusi-
astic young correspondent whom we personally
know to be interested in the scientific progress of the
motion picture, makes a suggestion to which we ex-
tend our cordial endorsement. It is this : that there
should be founded a society for the study of the

(Continued on page 16)

By z€.

"D EN J AMI N ALTAIAN, who died the other day,
was a man after my own heart. He had the
loftiest possible ideals. His beautiful store on Fifth
avenue, the splendor of its administration, the loving
care extended to his horses, excited my keen admira-
tion when I first made the acquaintance of these
marks of high-mindedness. I reasoned it out that
the man at the head of these enterprises must be
a virtuoso — a sincere lover of the best things in life.
So it proved to be. Mr. Benjamin Altman has shown
himself great in his death. He died bequeathing to
this city one of the finest art collections ever gath-
ered together by one man. In respect of being a
collector he transcended the late J. Pierpont Morgan,
who as a collector was too acquisitive, too eclectic,
not sufficiently discriminative. Discrimination was
the forte of Mr. Altman.

1\ TR. ALT MAN'S munificence is bound to have a
great effect (strange though this may read) on
the future of the motion picture. For the more you
study good "still" paintings or pictures of any kind,
the more you are likely to be able to understand and
appreciate good motion pictures. The motion picture,
as we in this paper are constantly insisting, is an art-
istic product. Mr. Altman got together some of the
greatest artistic representations in the world. These
pictures are of an educational nature. As Thomas
Constable is alleged to have said, "A good picture is
seen at a glance." Now if you look at good still pic-
tures, whether they are photographs, paintings, etch-
ings, or what not, they will lead you to appreciate
cognate or allied qualities which you see in pictures
which have motion.

TT70ULD you be surprised to learn that, in my
* ▼ humble opinion, Mr. Andrew Carnegie is tak-
ing a course which, although he probably has not so
calculated, will operate by helping the great cause of
the motion picture? This is the endowment of the
Palace of Peace in Europe and the support of the
peace propaganda. I can imagine the reader screw-
ing up his face and saying something like this : "What
on earth has this to do with the motion picture?"
It has a great deal to do with it, friend reader, as

you will concede by the time you get to the end of
these paragraphs.

* * * *

npALKING about pictures with a friend from a
distant part of the world a few days ago, he
interjected thusly: "For goodness sake, don't send
us any more military pictures. We are sick and tired
of the blues and grays — the Civil War subjects. The
people that go to theatres don't want them. Tell the
film makers not to make any more." I pass on the
advice, dear brethren. Take it. It's good ; it's sound
sense. The public is sick of war subjects on the screen,
just as the public is sick of war between nations.

HP HE bravest soldiers hate war. General Sherman
is alleged to have called it "hell." Kitchener and
Roberts, the British generals who have years of con-
quest in all parts of the world to their credit, who
have been miscalled butchers, are two of the kind-
est-hearted men I have met and they hate war. But
war is their trade, and they ply their trade as I am
plying the pen that writes this paragraph because it
is my trade. The difference between Roberts and
Kitchener and me is that I like my trade, though it
does not make me a General or get me medals or
glory.

* * * *

MR. CARNEGIE is a shrewd man. He has
been shrewd in business, and although he is
laughed at for many of his theories, he can foresee
the time when universal peace will prevail on the
earth. It must prevail. War will become so costly
that no nation or two nations will be able to afford
the money to play the game. So he has backed up
the peace propaganda and built this Peace House for
the purpose of teaching the lesson that war is waste
of money. We of the general public have not yet got
to Andrew Carnegie's advanced stage of thought. I
am writing generally. But it is a distinct sign of
progress when you have evidence forced upon you
that the millions and millions of people who go to
motion picture theatres are sick of wars on the screen.
They are sick of the Spanish-American War, they
are sick of the Civil War, they are sick of the Boer
(Continued on page 17)

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AUGUSTUS THOMAS

(Continued from page 13)

venienced himself to the extent of some hours in
order to give me the double delight of looking at a
picture of which the author and maker sat by me.
This is the kind of enthusiasm that I like.

Mr. Thomas saw the whole of his play, as his mind
conceived it, in film form. For the first time he and
his friends heard and saw some of the effects re-
ferred to the play, but which were neither shown nor
illustrated in it.

A man of Augustus Thomas' type is a strong addi-
tion to the all too-short list of motion picture makers.
Besides being a scholar, a man of refinement, ideas
and ideals, he studied graphic art in his earlier years.
He knows how to compose a picture. Were he a
photographer, he could take a well-composed group.
If he took a single photograph, he would see that the
figure would be correctly posed. If he painted, drew
or sketched, he would do so in compliance with the
canons of composition. He knows the value of light
and shade.

Then, above all this, he has the innate aptitude for
the work. Not all the scientific knowledge in the world
can explain the reason for the indefinite, indefinable,
"something" in the individual which makes for artistry.
Poeta nascitur non fit — the poet is born, not made —
so is the painter, or the sculptor, or what not. So, it
appears, is the motion picture maker. Mr. Thomas
has a natural aptitude for making pictures, whether
they be stage pictures, motion pictures, colored pic-
tures. He is what we conventionally call an artist.
He has temperament and style. I am told that his re-
hearsing methods are simple. He gets his effects, he
gets his actors and actresses to do things, by simple,
persuasive directional powers. Some directors shout,
others scream, others go black in the face. I have
seen them do all this. Mr. Thomas knows what he
wants, when he wants it, why, where and how he
wants it. And knowing all this, he gets what he wants
by mental rather than by physical means. He directs
by the powers of his mind rather than by the power of
his lungs and arms. He does not get mad.

Directors vary very much in their methods. Noth-
ing to me is so fascinating as to watch a director
making a picture, especially if I am familiar with the
story or have acquainted myself with the recognized
requirements of the story in action. One of these
days I would like to see Mr. Thomas direct his
pictures.

In the All-Star list of coming subjects you will find
the names of many popular stage successes which are
to be turned into pictures. These will succeed in vir-
tue of their reputation with the public. Take, for
example, the story by Richard Harding Davis which
is being made this very moment in Cuba. This will
probably be a good picture, and it will succeed largely
because the book and the author are known.

But what I want to see, what many of us want to

see, are motion pictures made by men of the caliber
of Augustus Thomas on original stories. The process
of exhaustion is going on rapidly. Old themes, old
stories are being adapted for the stage, and the won-
der is frequently expressed, "Where will you get your
stories from in the future?" In fact, this question
has been addressed to me personally many times within
the last three weeks by students of the photoplay. My
reply is "From brains." If men of the type of Augus-
tus Thomas will sit down and write original stories
for the motion picture, then an advance will have
been made.

Meanwhile, the Director-General of the All-Star
Company is to be congratulated on his rapid success.
His methods deserve commendation and they deserve
study. If you want to see a well-acted American film,
study the acting of the story of "Arizona" in that film
— study the groupings, settings, light effects. Study
the scenario as it is presented in the film. "Better men
and methods." This has been the cry of those of us
for years who realize the possibilities of the picture.
Augustus Thomas is one of the men and his methods
are some of the methods that we have aspired after.
He and they are here, he and they should be studied.
For while there is only one Augustus Thomas, there is
room in this business for very many of his type.

I hope as I think that this little appreciation, for
such it is, fits the picture of the man which is here
shown. Mr. Thomas is a fluent and convincing
speaker. He is agreeable to listen to. I hope some day
he will talk in public on the making of motion pictures.
I hope to have the pleasure of hearing him, and that
many others will join me in the pleasure. The Lambs
Club should bear this hint in mind.

T. B.

A MOTION PICTURE COLLEGE OR
INSTITUTE

(Continued from page 14)

science and art of motion pictures. We say there is
need for such a body, there is room for it, and we
propose to take steps to hasten its formation.

The motion picture has its associations of manu-
facturers ; here in this country it has its Screen Club.
It recently held an exposition. In Europe there are
congresses and manufacturers' associations devoted
to the motion picture, but there isn't any one society
anywhere devoted to the study of the picture, as an
artistic, scientific, industrial product. Take any other
art, science and industry, and you will find they have
many societies which are in existence for these pur-
poses. Let us select photography, upon which the
motion picture is based. Here in the United States
there are over 100 societies, conventions and the like
meeting throughout the year, devoted to the advance-
ment and study of still photography.

Of course, the motion picture has its ex-
hibitors' leagues, but so far these bodies have done

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17

absolutely nothing to advance the art and science
of the motion picture. They have not added to our
knowledge.

What is needed here in New York is a society
where those interested in the motion picture can meet
and discuss the optics, chemistry, physics, art and
manipulation of the motion picture ; how it is made
from beginning to end; how the picture is exposed,
printed, developed ; how it is toned, fixed, and the
like.

Only this week, with the appearance of this publi-
cation in its final and permanent form as The Motion
Picture News, we have been personally asked by
many enthusiastic young motion picture men when

we shall be able to find space for scientific articles
dealing with the actual making of the picture. These
will come soon.

Meanwhile we give the idea of this proposed so-
ciety for the study of motion pictures our hearty sup-
port. At an early date we will see that a meeting is
called so that the initiatory steps can be taken. We
think that such a man as Professor E. J. Wall, who
is professor of photography and motography at Syra-
cuse University, might fittingly be the first president.
Mr. Wall is experienced in society work, and his
name at the head of the proposed society would be a
good one, and one carrying considerable weight in the
world of art and science.

RIGHT OFF THE REEL

( Continued from page 15)

War, all wars, in fact, excepting now and then a
Waterloo or Gettysburg battle.

""T)EACE hath her victories no less renowned
than war." The motion picture theatre is
still in its infancy. Now, fellows, don't throw things
at me. Read more carefully. I say the motion pic-
ture theatre is still in its infancy. Other people, you
know, don't include the word "theatre." They stop
at "picture." The motion picture theatre can more
or less directly be made the focal point of all the
best teaching and human knowledge that can be ob-
tained— progressive teaching, uplifting teaching,
teaching which influences the human mind for the
better and the best. However, these military pictures,
if they have disgusted people, have proved of nega-
tive advantage here and there.

ifc ^

T AM not arguing against military pictures, but
let's have fewer of them. Let us have pictures
of military life by all means, but not war or carnage.
Military training is good for the manhood of the
country, and therefore good for the country as a
whole. The Boy Scout movement, which is spreading
around the world, is military in its theory. It will
make good m^n of the boys, strong men, physically
and mentally. We all ought to be able to bear arms
and build ourselves well in body as well as in mind.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature. War will
probably not be abolished in the life-time of anybody

on this globe ; but if in addition to a realization of the
costliness and the horrors of war, we also get by phys-
ical training and development to appreciate the fact
that war is a useless waste of valuable human lives,
then there will be another argument in favor of Mr.
Carnegie's foresight. Prosit, Andrew!

^ ^ ^ ^

A GAIN I come around to my old theme; it is the
women and children who hate war. They suffer
the most. The men don't suffer; they fight and die.
It is the widows and orphans made by war who suf-
fer. Men don't suffer by fighting; it is just brutal
sport to them. According to the evidence there is very
little real bravery in war, very little. Mark what I
write — bravery. There is plenty of savagery, which
is a different thing to bravery — savagery actuated by
brutal passions (and sometimes Scotch whiskey).

^ ^ ^

'T'HE bravest man I ever knew, however, was a
soldier. He narrated the instance of his bravery
to me with the modesty of a true hero. He was in a
review of troops when Mr. Roosevelt was President.
My friend had to stand in line with his hands by his
side on a blazing hot day in July. The temperature
was 116° in the sun. The rays beat down upon the
head of my military friend as a big fly settled on his
nose, sat there, stuck there, and stung him, as the
President passed and repassed. And yet my friend
dare not lift a hand to remove the torturing insect!
Well, if that is not bravery, it is something better.
It is endurance. And it takes a brave man to endure
torture — especially torture at 116 degrees in the sun.

IMPORTANT NOTICES

In future, and commencing with this issue, The
Motion Picture News will be dated one week ahead,
e. g., this number bears date October 25th.

Owing to extreme and sudden pressure on our space,
several articles are held over till next week, including
"Construction Department," and other interesting
communications.

"FEATURE FILMS" : WHO FIRST USED THIS
PHRASE?

At a moment when so many are writing and talk-
ing of feature films as new, it is interesting to note
that the Columbia Film Company advertised "Fea-
ture Films" in the News of December 25, 1909.
Can anybody antedate this?

18 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

Challenge to a Noted Judge Inspired the
Latest Big Feature Picture

"A Boy and the Law" the Result of an Editor's Dare

BY WILLIAM W. YOUNG

Manager, The Youth Photoplay Co.

' I * HERE is an unusual photoplay
A story back of the new five-reel
feature, "A Boy and the Law," that
it strikes me is worth telling. That
film is the result of a challenge — a
challenge to a noted judge.

Last spring, as editor of The Pub-
lishers' Guide, I asked Judge Willis
Brown to contribute an article on
"Soul vs. Sensationalism in News-
papers," and the burden of his article
was a plea for a squarer deal for the
boys and girls of the country in the
daily press. He pointed out that the
only times our young people get into
the papers are when they commit
crimes or get into serious trouble of
some kind. In the article he said that
in his personal experience as judge
he had almost daily come across
child stories of an uplift character
that would make excellent newspaper
copy, and that no moving picture
scenario writer ever could imagine
stories half so good, so thrilling, so
heart-appealing as some he men-
tioned.

That led me to invite Judge Brown
to write another article, on the sub-
ject of motion pictures. It was head-
ed "True Sensationalism in Motion
Pictures," and rang so true, was so
convincing, that I was pleased to see
it reprinted in The Exhibitors' Times,
with favorable comment by the ed-
itor.

In that article Judge Brown urged
the supplanting of vicious produc-
tions with a better, more wholesome
kind that would please the larger por-
tion of motion picture patrons, tend
to gain new patrons, and thereby in-
crease the profits of the exhibitors.
He pointed out that schools, settle-
ment houses and churches are putting
in motion pictures and demanding a
higher type of subjects which, while
entertaining, will educate, and better
human conduct, and he declared that
to him it seemed utter silliness on the
part of motion picture producers and
exhibitors not to awaken to the ap-
parent demand of the very people to
whom they must owe their future
business. Among other things he
said:

"As a former youth, and in behalf
of the growing citizenship, I plead
for common sense to enter the busi-
ness of motion pictures and that at
least a portion of the vast business
be given to the proper exploitation
of youth, and that some recognition
be given the children, who, in their

impressionable age, take and hold
what the eye witnesses and what the
story tells far more than the fixed
adult.

"To dignify youth and youth
achievement, to make work and good-
ness of heart attractive, to instill pa-
triotism in the boy of this day, mean
but to delight both youth and man-
hood and to grow prosperity. The
money-maker in the motion picture
business will be the man who plays
his business to ALL, not a half or a
still smaller percentage, of the peo-
ple.

"If I ran a motion picture house I
would consider that my greatest
profit would come by inducing those
who do not now visit motion picture
houses to come to mine. I would get
after the stay-at-homes. In pleasing
them I would still hold the present
patrons. I would make patrons de-
sire to have their children see the
good, pleasing and helpful things
rather than have numerous parents
keeping their children away from the
show."

That is where the challenge of
which I spoke came in. After reading
the manuscript, and before publish-
ing it in the August Publishers'
Guide, I went to Judge Brown and
challenged him to produce a scenario
for a motion picture production that
would meet the requirements stated
in his article and yet would be of suf-
ficient popular interest to appeal to
the present-day motion picture thea-
tre manager.

He accepted the dare and soon
brought to me the scenario of "A
Boy and the Law." It is the real
life-story of Willie Eckstein, one of
the many wayward boys whom Judge
Brown encountered in his court and
in whom he has maintained a pa-
rental interest.

So human, so thrilling in parts, so
instructive and so comprehensive was
this story that I immediately saw in
it all of the elements of a wholesome
popular photoplay, with the result
that a company was organized for
its production and exploitation, and
for the production and exploitation
of other photoplays with youth and
youth achievement as the basic ideas.

I did not rely solely on my own
judgment, either, but took this sce-
nario to several noted educators, min-
isters, social workers, and, what is
more to the point, several experienced
motion picture producers and thea-

tre owners, and all agreed that Judge
Brown had in this story met all the
requirements stated in his article and
had outlined a photoplay that would go
in any theatre on its merits and enter-
tain as well as instruct and uplift.

I have known Judge Brown for
several years and have watched his
wonderful work with misunderstood
boys, and I felt quite confident of the
outcome of my challenge. No man
has had a better opportunity to study
child life than he. He is the origin-
ator of the Parental Court idea; he
wrote the Juvenile (Parental) Court
laws of Utah, Indiana, and other
states, and is the author of the Fed-
eral "Parental and Educational Courts
Bill" recently introduced into Con-
gress by Representative Richmond P.
Hobson. He was the first judge of
the Juvenile Court in Salt Lake City,
and later of the Parental Court of
Gary, Indiana, and he organized the
first Boys' City, the famous Boys'
Farm near Gary, and the more fa-
mous Boys' City in Michigan. Also,
he is chairman of the National
Youth Achievement Committee.

Besides, he is not unfamiliar with
photoplay requirements, for I have it
on good authority that one of the
most successful — financially and
otherwise — special features that Selig
ever put out was "A City of Boys,"
which was nothing more than a series
of scenes depicting the life of the
hundreds of boys in Judge Brown's
Boys' City. That was merely scenes,
mind you, with no plot, while in "A
Boy and the Law" the activities of
the boy municipality are shown as
incidental to a remarkably interest-
ing story.

This real life-story of Willie Eck-
stein is acted throughout by the
young man himself, and Judge Brown
personally appears in all of the
scenes of which he was a part in real
life.

The story begins ten years ago in
a town in southern Russia, the early
scenes showing vividly the persecu-
tion of the Jews in that country.
Willie's father is prosperous, provid-
ing well for his family, consisting of
a wife, little daughter and two boys,
of whom Willie is the elder.

While Willie is away in school an
edict is issued by the governor of the
state in which his parents live to the
effect that all Jews who came to the
state subsequent to 1886 must leave
before a certain date. Failure to do
so means that all property of those
remaining will be confiscated. Wil-
lie's father is among those who must
leave. Willie receives a letter from
his mother describing the occur-
rences and telling him of their new
humble home in a distant state. A
number of other boys also receive
word of the persecution of their peo-
ple by the Russians.

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Willie is persuaded to join the
Eneckva, a secret society, meeting in
the basement of an old church in the
outskirts of the town. He makes an
impassioned address and immediately
is recognized as a leader in the so-
ciety.

In the meantime his parents are ex-
periencing still worse persecutions in
the village to which they go, and
finally his father is killed by Cos-
sacks. The grief-stricken mother
writes the sad news to Willie. On
receipt of the letter he is greatly ex-
cited, and at a secret meeting of the
Eneckva he stirs the boys to great
enthusiasm, urging them to do some-
thing against the officials who perse-
cute, plunder and kill their parents.

Officers ransack Willie's room and
find law-defying literature. Willie
and two other boys are arrested and
taken to jail, from which they escape
in a thrilling manner down a high,
rocky cliff. Willie, eluding searchers,
makes his way to the home of his
mother, and tells her he must flee
from the country. His mother hides
his student uniform and gives him a
peasant's suit, and he starts for
America, where he arrives after
many days of anxiety for fear he
might be apprehended by the police.
After days of fear of deportation,
Willie finally is permitted to land in
free America and make his way to
Salt Lake City, where his uncle is in
business.

His conception of law and author-
ity, formed in a land of persecution,
making him look upon all legal re-
straint as oppressive, soon leads him
to protest against school rules, the
authority of the teacher, the dictation
of his uncle and aunt, to say nothing
about defying community-made laws.
He finally leaves home and becomes
a newsboy, a street wanderer, a fre-
quenter of poolrooms, and a member
of a rough gang of boys.

The principal of the school writes
to Judge Willis Brown, of the Juve-
nile (Parental) Court in Salt Lake
City, telling him that Willie is be-
yond her control and must hereafter
come under the jurisdiction of his
court.

The first meeting of Judge Brown
and Willie occurs on a street corner.
Willie is smoking a cigarette in defi-
ance of the state law. The young
gangster is surprised that the Judge
does not exercise the authority he
possesses, but instead talks to him in
a friendly manner. He has continu-
ally refused to accompany his aunt
to see the Judge, and this striking
illustration of the Judge's methods
greatly puzzles the boy. Finally Wil-
lie, with a crowd of boys is found in
a poolroom, and all of the boys, to-
gether with the proprietor, are taken
to. Judge Brown's office. The scene
of the Judge punishing the pool-

room proprietor for debauching boys
and encouraging them to disobey law;
the surrender by the boys of all their
tobacco, and their frank confessions
to this Judge, of whom they were not
afraid and to whom they would not
lie, is a matter of great interest and
surprise to Willie.

Judge Brown interests progressive
women of Salt Lake City in the need
of moral education for boys rather
than punishment in a reform school.
The women respond liberally and
present to him an 800-acre farm to
be used as a place where boys might
have an opportunity to grow right —
one of the most practical reform in-
stitutions ever founded in the United
States.

The Judge gathers up eighteen of
these misunderstood boys, Willie
among them, and drives with them
to the farm where they will build
the City of Boys. And now comes
the building up of this boy-run mu-
nicipality in the Western canyon; the
making of a real Boy City, and the
running of a boy farm. Willie Eck-
stein is elected Mayor — the first
Mayor of the first Boy City.

What happens to the boy that will
not work, the real conduct of the
farm, the payment for labor and for
board in real money actually earned,
the business of the bank, the amuse-
ments, the unusual real life which ac-
tually happens in this first Boy City,
adds greatly and instructively to this
true story.

Willie's development, his changed
attitude toward law when he is put
in the actual game of living, is so
marked that Judge Brown sends him
to an Eastern college. Later, in the
State University of Missouri, Willie
takes up the agricultural course. One
day he receives a letter from the
Judge informing him that he has pur-
chased a farm and that as soon as
the University term ends he may
have the position of manager. Wil-
lingly he accepts. Then comes natu-
ralization. Willie becomes a full-
fledged American citizen and voter.

During the period of Willie's de-
velopment into American citizenship
his mother is struggling along in dis-
tant Russia. The boy assists her as
much as he can from his scanty funds,
after he has learned the wisdom of
leading the better, law-abiding life.
One evening, alone in his room in
the country residence of Judge Brown,
Willie writes to his mother, encloses
the fortnightly money-order, and with
it is sending his photograph. With
satisfaction he rests in his easy chair
pnd beholds a vision of the mother
in the little home in far-off Russia,
with the children about her, anxiously
waiting for the letter from the absent
boy across the sea. He imag:nes he
sees the postman come, bringing the
letter with the loving message, the

money-order and the picture of the
young American citizen — -her boy.

The door opens and Judge Brown
enters. Unheard by the dreaming
young man, the Judge quietly ap-
proaches and places his hand on Wil-
lie's head. The Judge presses the
boy's hands and tells him that trust
and love and a square game will al-
ways win, and that his mission should
be not only to live squarely because
of those depending on him, but as an
example for other boys; yes, and even
for men and women who have not
"found themselves."

That is the big point in all of Judge
Brown's wonderful work with boys.
That is the big point in this true life-
story, with all of its excitement, its
drama, its comedy, a really uplifting
and thrilling true motion picture. It
teaches people, boys and girls espe-
cially, how to find themselves, and
that playing square and living fair is
the only true road to happiness.

Above all, it is a story of youth
achievement, and youth is the one
thing of universal appeal in art. in lit-
erature, in drama, and most of all in
moving pictures.

James Neill is producing "The Pas-
ser-By," by del Ruth, with J. War-
ren Kerrigan in the role of the Passer-
By. He comes unheralded and goes
unknown, and in between whiles he
manages to complicate matters and
straighten out some tangles. Warren
Kerrigan has a part of which he makes
the most.

MISS GENE GAUNTIER

Who has just returned from Ireland, where
she produced a number of notable Irish three-
part features which will be released through
the programme of Warner's Features.

Tiny Tim Kidnaps a Baby

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For the Love of a Toreador

Kleine-Cines

THIS two-reel Cines production is
scheduled for release on Novem-
ber 4th. It is an especially delightful
picture, because it deals with a fiery-
blooded race in two of their native
games, love-making and bull-fighting.
The Cines Company some time ago
invaded Seville, Spain, for the mak-
ing of this picture. Spanish actors
are employed and Spanish scenery is
evident throughout it. The scenes,
situations and effects are all worked
out differently than we have been used,
to witnessing them, undoubtedly ac-
cording to the Spanish principle. They
have all the fire and atmosphere of
this Southern country in them, and
assist to tell a convincing story. The
dancers and toreadors are of the type
that are thoroughly convincing. A
very splendid view of the arena in
which the bull-fight is held is given,
showing its thousands of people, also
the streets peculiar to Spain and also
the houses of this country, with their
barred windows, along which white
roses twine their course. The picture
is well acted and tells an interesting-
story. .

Pablo, the famous toreador, meets
Lola, a Spanish dancer, at the dance-
hall, and immediately he captivates
Lola by his manliness and wit. Mi-
caele, a Spanish belle, who is at the
dance, extends an invitation to Pablo
to call. Paquello, another toreador,
very much in love with Lola, is jeal-
ous of Pablo. A quarrel is the result
of this jealousy, and the two part
bitter enemies.

A short time before the great bull-

THE trials of Mr. Newlywed and his
wife form the plot of this Great
Northern comedy. Newlywed asks
his wife to stop at the jewelers to get
his watch which he had left for re-
pairs. On her way she pays a visit
to a young girl friend who is soon to
be married, and before leaving she
borrows a magazine which she has
picked from the library table. In this
is a note from her friend's fiancee
making an appointment for the same
evening.

Newlywed finds the magazine, and
likewise the note, and follows her out
when she visits the house of her girl
friend. Here Mrs. Newlywed bor-
rows a raincoat and is not recognized
by her husband. But when her girl
friend emerges, hubby mistakes her
for his wife, and sees her meet
her admirer. In reality Jack is tak-
ing Doris to the home of his parents
to introduce her as his future wife.

fight, so widely advertised through-
out Seville, Spain, Pablo calls on the
pretty dancer, Lola, and she, seeing
a rose pulled carelessly through his
sash, accuses him of his love for Mi-
caele, pulling the rose from his sash
in her jealousy and stamping on it.

Pablo visits Micaele, whose father
is keeper of the bulls. He is so pleased
with the six fine animals selected es-
pecially for him that he promises Mi-
caele to sacrifice a bull in her honor
in the ring. Paquello, hearing of
this, calls upon Lola and arouses her
jealousy.

The day of the great fight arrives,
and the two toreadors saunter into
the ring under the admiring eyes of
the thousands. The fight follows, and
Pablo succeeds in killing a huge bull,
which, amid the plaudits of the mul-
titude, he gallantly offers to Micaele.
Suddenly the shouts of the crowd are
arrested by the appearance of Lola,
who, knife in hand, seeks to stab the
smiling Micaele. Leaping forward,
Pablo receives the blow intended for
her. In the excitement Lola escapes.

The conscience-stricken girl, sev-
eral days later, her anger cooled,
goes to the home of Micaele, where
Pablo lies injured, to ask his forgive-
ness. The hot-tempered Spainard re-
fuses to overlook her action and tries
to drive her from the house. Plead-
ingly, her hands upraised, Lola falls
before a burning holy candle and an
instant later the house is aflame. Lola
is then arrested and taken away to
a merited punishment.

C. J. V.

In the midst of the rejoicing hubby
tushes in and declares that "your
son's sweetheart is my wife." Mat-
ters are rather complicated until Mrs.

A FAMILY MIX-UP

Newlywed enters and explanations
follow. All is well that ends well,
and the assembled company toast the
future bride and groom.

Gaumont, October 30

One cannot divest himself of
the idea that Tiny Tim is at times a
naughty little boy. His latest esca-
pade, though ending happily, for a
while troubled two happy parents and
subjected a baby to rough handling.
Madame Lillie is the proud mother
of a dear little girl of six months.
Neither the mother nor the father
can do too much to brighten its life,
and the nurse is as anxious as they
are to deck its path with roses. While
in this mood they hear "Tiny Tim"
singing in the street. The wander-
ing minstrel, standing beneath the
window, sings:

"I give thee all — I can no more,
Though poor the offering be,

My heart and lute are all the store
That I can bring to thee."

So plaintively does he warble that
he touches the hearers' hearts, and is
invited into the house to sing to the
baby. Smitten by her charms, he
tries his very best, and leaves loaded
with acceptable presents. Such an
impression has been made upon his
susceptible heart that he returns the
following day to see the baby. Julie,
the nurse, does not view his visit with
favor, and hustles him out. With a
wry face he goes. Suddenly a daring
idea seizes him; he determines to
carry off the baby.

Stealthily he walks through the
rooms until he reaches the nursery.
He pops the baby in a sack and
makes off at full speed. Nor does he
stop until he feels he is safe from
pursuit, and, with the child still in
the sack, lies down and goes to sleep.

Julie, meanwhile, has been assist-
ing in the packing of the luggage, as
the family are off on a holiday. Then
she goes for the baby, making the
astonishing discovery that she has
disappeared. Events now move with
lightning rapidity. The distracted
parents send for the police, and In-
spector Richardson arrives with his
trained dog, Nick, of Barrow-on-the-
Hill. The sagacious animal is given
a garment to get the scent, and real-
izes at once what is required of him.
Even before the parents have finished
their explanation, Nick is out of the
house and pelting away in the track
of "Tiny Tim."

He finds the missing pair, and, con-
cluding that the baby is in the sack,
seizes it in his mouth and rushes
back. Within a few minutes of his
departure the dog places the sack at
the feet of the Inspector. The baby
is found to be none the worse for its
strange and unexpected outing. The
dog, however, concludes that his task
is not finished, and, returning to the
spot where "Tiny Tim" is asleep, un-

A Family Mix-Up

Great Northern

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ceremoniously drags the culprit to
the house.

Nick has proved his ability, and,
incidentally, the value of the police
dogs bred at Barrow-on-the-Hill. But
"Tiny Tim" is forgiven. All con-
cerned realize that it was love for
the child that led him to cause so
much anxiety, and in the last scene
we see the baby, Nick, and "Tiny
Tim" a happy and contented family.

Prisoner in the Harem

Blache Four-Reel Special

(Featuring the Countess de Marstini)
A picture that undoubtedly has a
very favorable future. It is a "corker,"
that not being the best Websterian
English, but it is expressive, and in
this case suits the subject. It is not
often that we have a real, live Count-
ess to pose for a picture. We have
them on the legitimate stage, and
we have a dancer in vaudeville who
is the daughter of an Earl, but there
are few who act in the motion picture

COUNTESS BE MARSTINI

dramas. This is also one of the very
best animal pictures ever shown, there
being lions supernumerary and a tiger,
who seems to know more than the
plain rudiments of "acting."

Toru, a miser's daughter, is sold
to the Rajah (the story being laid
in India) for a bag of gold. This is
much against her will, and Akbar,
her lover, decides that he will help
her all he can. While he is prospect-
ing his chances, he comes across a
tiger, who has the proverbial thorn in
his foot, and this he removes and thus
makes a friend. Together they pro-
ceed to the palace, where the tiger
so scares the eunuchs that Akbar is
able to get inside the palace and res-
cue the girl. The settings inside the
palace are wonderful, and the Blache

Company must have spent a great
deal of money and time in fitting
out the reception room.

They are caught again, and the
lover is brought to the palace, where
the Rajah orders him to be thrown
into a cage with his tiger to be eaten
alive. This not working, the lions
are also let in, but the tiger protects
his friend. The lions are excellent.
Their actions are most realistic. When
this scheme fails, the Rajah decides
to kill Akbar himself. He is, how-
ever, killed by the tiger. Toru is to
be sacrificed as the Rajah's widow,

STANLEY TWIST
From Dopester to Picture Maker?

Mr. Stanley Twist, who was for a
considerable period identified with the
Selig Polyscope Co., of Chicago, 111., is
no longer connected with that organiza-
tion, and proposes at an early date in-
itiating, so far as we can learn, a film
proposition of his own. Mr. Twist is
a young man of great acquirements both
of education and temperament. He be-
longs to that young school of motion
picture men which perceives the artistic
possibilities of the picture and is ani-
mated by good ideas in respect, not
merely of the making of the picture,
but also as to its publicity end. He can
make good artistic ads. As a scholar
he is full of progressive ideas. We
shall watch Mr. Twist's career with in-
terest. It is constantly said that new
and better men are still entering this
primeval business. Mr. Twist is one of
our rising hopes.

but at the moment that the flames
are about to reach her, the English
soldiers, headed by Akbar, arrive and
rescue her. There is a battle and the
Indians are defeated.

Countess de Marstini is undoubtedly
a most beautiful woman, but she does
not possess great skiil as an actress,
the action, however, covering her
weakness. Why does not the director
of the Blache films allow someone
to be killed in their war scenes? In
this picture it is some time before
any of the shots tell, although there
are three cannon in use. A. M.

A PERILOUS RIDE

Taking a recent photoplay entitled
"A Perilous Ride," Wilbert Melville,
director of the Lubin studio at Los
Angeles, required a small isolated-
looking railroad station close to the
track, with an old-fashioned chimney
built against the outside. Miles and
miles of adjacent country were
searched but no such structure could
be found. Realism not only in acting
but in atmosphere is Melville's hobby.
He would have the real thing and no
makeshifts. A piece of the Salt Lake
railroad track was rented and the
Lubin director i built himself a com-
plete depot of the primitive persua-
sion, inside and out, signal tower,
platform, telegraph connections and
every detail necessary. Rude as the
structure was, it cost over $1,000, all
just to take one scene in the picture
which the director insisted must be right
or nothing.

'TpHE "Barbary Coast," the famous
A "tenderloin" in San Francisco,
where originated the turkey-trot, griz-
zly bear, Texas Tommy, bunny bug,
and other "modern" dances which have
revolutionized dancing and relegated
the old-fashioned two-step and waltz
to the obsolete class, is closed. But
before its day ended, caused by the
revoking by the San Francisco Board
of Supervisors under pressure of pub-
lic opinion, a motion picture archive
of it was taken which, as a film show-
ing the underworld, is probably un-
excelled.

This film, made by the Progressive
Film Producing Company, at the
head of which is Sol Lesser, active
principal in the Golden Gate Film
Exchange and the newly formed
Northwestern Film Exchange, was
taken on the last days and nights of
the old regime on the "Barbary
Coast." Taken with the aid and as-
s'stance of the Chief of Police of San
Francisco and under the protection of
hismen.it records accurately a merry,
sinister life.

The Barbary Coast

A "Progressive" Feature

Fifty thousand slummers, it is esti-
mated roughly, crowded four blocks
of sidewalks during the last hours of
wide-open license when Carnival was
indeed King. Of poignant interest
are these camera views of the crowd
which, knowing that their tenderloin
was to be no more, were determined
to make the most of it while it
lasted.

The night views are photographic
masterpieces, taken as they were un-
der the strongest of innumerable arc
lights.

The Midway cafe, its name derived
from the Cairo thoroughfare, where
500 dancing girls were employed, is
one of the places taken both exte-
riorly and interiorly. There are also
intimate film glimpses of the interest-
ing "characters" which swarmed in
the notorious district, including tatoo-
ers, street fakers, slummers of all so-
cial degrees, dancers of varied re-
spectability, etc.

The film will be sold as a feature.
Its length very nearly approximates 1,400
feet.

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23

Motion Picture Exhibitors Association
of Greater New York

THE largest attendance of New
York exhibitors took place at a
meeting of the Motion Picture Ex-
hibitors Association of Greater New
York, held in their rooms, No. 136
Third avenue, on Thursday, October
9th, Samuel H. Trigger presiding.

When the meeting was duly opened
and the secretary's report had been
read and adopted, Mr. Grant W. An-
son, treasurer of the above organiza-
tion, stated that the profits accruing
from the exposition amounted to
$8,295, out of which $2,750 had been
sent to the National League to pay
the railroad fare of the national vice-
presidents who attended the New
York convention, at the rate of five
cents a mile one way.

Two hundred and sixty dollars
($260) in cash and checks had been
paid to Mr. Clem Kerr and Mr. Lou
R. Thomas, and one hundred and fifty
dollars ($150) counsel fees, the bal-
ance of $5,135, was paid to the New
York Local, out of which a check
for $2,567.50 had been paid to Mr.
Davis, state treasurer of the New
York State Exhibitors Association,
and another check of $600, being the
per capita taxes due to the State As-
sociation by the New York City Lo-
cal. Here Mr. Anson stated that the
New York Exhibitors during the year
that we had been associated with the
National League, had paid to that
body over four thousand dollars
($4,000). and asked what we had re-
ceived in return? This question, how-
ever, was dropped as we are not desir-
ous of having any controversy with
that body.

After the treasurer's report had
been accepted as read, the following
resolutions were unanimously car-
ried:

Whereas, our business necessitates
our utmost assistance in electing a
Mayor who is not, and never has
been, opposed to the working class,
but has dealt fairly towards all, and
whose character has always been
above reproach — a man with liberal
ideas who can give us a liberal admin-
istration, therefore, be it

Resolved, that a letter be sent to
each exhibitor throughout Greater
New York asking for their co-opera-
tion and assistance to elect the Hon-
orable Edward E. McCall for Mayor
at the forthcoming election.

The following resolution was also
adopted:

That a campaign committee com-
posed of one hundred and fifty exhib-
itors representing every assembly
district in Greater New York with
Harold W. Rosenthal as chairman.

be appointed for the purpose of visit-
ing every picture theatre and having
the slides of Mr. McCall displayed
upon the screen at every performance
and also procure speakers for those
theatres to give a three-to-five-min-
ute lecture daily.

That whereas the fire risks in a pic-
ture theatre has become practically
nil and the insurance rates retained
for same are a higher percentage than
those of any other business, be it

Resolved, that a committee wait on
the Board of Fire Underwriters and
endeavor to adjust matters so that
we may have an equitable and just
rate as compared to other lines of
business. Committee appointed: Mr.
Hollander, Mr. Landau, Edward Val-
ensi, Frank Tichenor, J. A. Koerpel,
Mr. Tisch.

That whereas the old block system
of procuring a program whereby the
exhibitors had a full knowledge of
what reels they were to receive a
week or ten days in advance, and
whereas the said block system has
not been in use by a number of ex-
changes, and there are quite some
petty annoyances in a number of the
exchanges owing to the exhibitors
being unable to secure their pro-
grams in time to open their theatres,
be it

Resolved, that a committee wait on
the managers of all exchanges and
endeavor to have a system inaugu-
rated whereby all reels can be col-
lected at night and they can then be
ready for delivery early the follow-
ing morning, and also to ask said
managers whether or not the old
block system would meet with their
approval as we consider it very essen-
tial to our business and mutually ben-
eficial to both manufacturers, ex-
changes and exhibitors. Committee
appointed: Mr. Lee A. Ochs, Mr. C.
R. Martineau, Mr. Bauerenfreund and
Mr. S. H. Trigger.

Following the passage of the above

CHECKERS," with Thomas W.
Ross in the title role, is definitely
announced as the next release of the
All-Star Feature Corporation, whose
first release, "Arizona," was put on
the market about three weeks ago.

As a novel by Henry M. Blossom, Jr.,
"Checkers" first came into popularity
some ten years ago. Its story had to do
with racing, and the novel had also a
strong love interest. Stirred by the

Committee, Mr. A. Coleman, stated
that he had sold over one thousand
tickets and several boxes for the ball
to be held December 15th at Terrace
Garden.

Mr. William Brandt, chairman of
the Program Committee, reported
progress to the extent that over one
thousand dollars worth of ads had
been received to date, and that esti-
mates for our souvenir programs
would be in by next meeting, at
which time a vote would be taken as
to which printer should receive the
contract.

The meeting was then adjourned.

East New York Branch Meeting

A meeting of the East New York
branch of the Motion Picture Exhib-
itors Association of Greater New
York was held at the Empire The-
atre, No. llA Sumpter street, Brook-
lyn, on Monday night, October 13th;
Mr. William H. Hollander in the
chair.

There were forty-five local mem-
bers present and the following speak-
ers were given the courtesy of the
floor and spoke on the forthcoming
municipal campaign and the effects
it will have on business in general
and the motion picture industry in
particular. Mr. Frank Mann, candi-
date for Assembly, Sixty-fifth Alder-
manic District; Mr. Thomas L. In-
graham, candidate for Assembly,
Twenty-third Assembly District, and
Mr. Joseph Monahan, Democratic
candidate for Alderman of the Sixty-
third Aldermanic district.

Mr. Philip Kaplan, of the Theatre
and Motion Picture Review, spoke on
the educational advantages of the mo-
tion picture.

A committee appointed at the last
meeting to report on all East New
York theatres in reference to number
of reels run and the admission fee,
stated that all exhibitors in that sec-
tion were running four reels of pic-
tures for five cents, and on Saturdays
and Sundays were running five reels
for ten cents, and that the whole of
the Eastern New York organization
were working in harmony and uni-

great popular success of his novel, Mr.
Blossom dramatized it, and it was pro-
duced in 1903 with Thomas W. Ross,
who will appear in the photoplay ver-
sion, as the star. The play met with
immediate and immense success, and cer-
tain of its speeches have passed into
slang which is still preserved in the
speech of the street. There are few
theatregoers who have not a keen rec-
ollection of the scene in the Arkansas

resolutions, the chairman of the Ball son.

" Checkers " to Be Produced by All-Star Feature

Corporation

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Standard Exchange Sold

grocery store where Mr. Ross as "Check-
ers" says : "Gee, ain't it hell to be poor."
And there are few who have forgotten
the great betting ring scene with its
exciting "Come on, Remorse." The play
was used as a starring vehicle by Mr.
Ross for two whole years, when it was
done on the popular price circuits for
two more years, after that passing into
stock, where it has been a great favorite
ever since.

From the play a scenario has been pre-
pared by Lawrence McGill and Eustace
Hale Ball, and working from this scen-
ario the new production for the camera
has been staged under the personal su-
pervision of Augustus Thomas, director-
general of productions for the All Star
Feature Corporation. The photoplay
will be in six parts and will contain
more than two hundred scenes. The
race track scenes were staged at Havre-
de-Grace and at Laurel, Md., during the
race meetings there, and in the great bet-
ting ring scene there were employed hun-
dreds of actors. The cast of principals
was selected personally by Mr. Thomas
and contains many well-known Broad-
way names. Playing "Pert Barlow,"
opposite to Mr. Ross is Katherine La
Salle; and William A. Williams will be
seen as "Push Miller," the race horse
tout.

The staging of "Checkers" was com-
pleted by Mr. Thomas just in time for
him to catch the steamer for Santiago,
Cuba, where he is now putting on
"Soldiers of Fortune" for the All Star
Feature Corporation ; this play being the
third release scheduled by the All Star
and reported as due about December 1st.

A SOCIETY WANTED

New York, Oct. 13, 1913.
To the Editor:
Sir:

The rate of growth of the motion
picture industry is so great that it
seems to me that if a society could
be organized for the purpose of ad-
vancing the science of motion pic-
tures it would be a great benefit to
the inventors as well as the manu-
facturers.

This society should be organized
at an early date and, having monthly
lectures on the various motion picture
apparatuses by the different authori-
ties, the advantages derived by becom-
ing a member of such an organiza-
tion are manifold.

You are assured of my co-opera-
tion with you in the forming of this
organization. Wishing you every
success, believe me to be,

Respectfully yours,

SAMUEL WEIN,
51 East 98th Street,

New York City.

Miss Clara Kimball Young appears
in the two-reel feature, "The Test,"
with Harry Northmp, which will be
released in October. It is considered
one of the Vitagraph's best dramas.

THE selling of the Standard Film
Exchange, of Chicago, owned by
Joseph Hopp, to the Universal Film
Mfg. Co., which has been pending for
the past month or more, was consum-
mated on Saturday, October 11th.
While the papers were signed on this
date, the actual date of the Universal
ownership was October 6th. By this
deal the Universal has added another
exchange to their large list, and gives
them absolute control of Chicago
from the standpoint of the booking
of their program. Although the
Laemmle Film offices are still under
individual ownership, a harmonious
working agreement is in effect be-
tween the three offices that is equiva-
lent to Universal control. In view
of the fact that Carl Laemmle is
president of the Universal, and one of
its biggest stockholders, the Laemmle
offices will remain as they are until
other exchanges buying the Uni-
versal program are purchased, as it
is the aim of the Universal Film Ffg.
Co. to either own or control the ex-
changes.

The purchase of the Standard Film
Exchange, of Chicago, included the
branch office at Louisville and also
the Milwaukee Film Exchange, of
Milwaukee, Wis.

Mr. George Magie, who has been
in Chicago for some time, looking
after the interests of the Universal
Film Mfg. Co. in the purchase of
the Anti-Trust Film Service Co., will
make Chicago his headquarters, with

offices in the Standard Film Ex-
change. Mr. Magie will act as a dis-
trict manager, controlling and over-
seeing the business of the Universal
throughout the Middle West. There
will be no changes made in the work-
ing force of the Standard. Mr. Will
Hopp will continue as manager and
Mr. Harthill as assistant manager.
Mr. Joseph Hopp will stay with the
exchange for several weeks in an ad-
visory capacity.

Mr. Joseph Hopp has an interest
in the Union Film Co., of Chicago,
Cleveland, Des Moines and Detroit.
He states, however, that he will not
take an active interest in this com-
pany, but will leave the direction to
other hands. He states that he has
no definite plans for the future, as
four good offers in a manufacturing
and importing way have been pre-
sented him. He has not decided his
course for the future, but states that
he is going to remain in the mo-
tion picture business in one of its
branches.

Mr. Hopp is listed among the best
known exchange men in the business,
and is known by practically everyone
connected with the industry. He has
had a very successful career in the
film business, starting some seven
years ago with very small office room
in the Unity Building. Of course,
like everyone else who has made a
success, it was predicted that he could
not put it over. He certainly put it
over, and put it over big.

SCENE FROM "THE LURE OF NEW YORK"

(Four-reel Feature Film New York Film Company)

FOR THOSE WHO WORRY O'ER PLOTS AND

PLAYS

By William Lord Wright

Good Things Coming

\T7 E have arranged for a series of
» V chats with the editors of Univer-
sal, Eclair, Kinemacolor, etc. These
communications are not glittering gen-
eralities but contain some "hot stuff"
calculated to help the script writer in
his work. The two-reel script, author's
credit, technical form, etc., will be
touched upon by these ladies and gen-
tlemen. Don't miss any of these gold-
mines of practical information.

Persona Non Grata

Fake correspondence schools and
writers known as "school graduates"
are persona non grata in these editorial
offices. Kindly take notice:

Universal Film Manufacturing Com-
pany.

Selig Polyscope Company.

Eclair Film Company.

Lubin Manufacturing Company.

The Selig Policy

The Selig Polyscope Company, of
Chicago, through Editor J. F. Pribyl
sends the department the following in-
teresting and meaty statement: "Will
say that we do not encourage the so-
called correspondence schools for scen-
ario writers, and rarely purchase manu-
scripts sent out by photoplay brokers.
We aim to do business direct with au-
thors and read all manuscripts sub-

NED FIRLEY

Of the Vitagraph Players as a North Carolina
mountaineer

mitted to us by free lance writers. Oc-
casionally we make a 'find,' and en-
courage such writer in every way pos-
sible. We favor crediting authors of
meritorious scripts on both screen and
poster, and are now following this rule.
We like all our scenarios written fully,
with a comprehensive synopsis. Usually
scripts are edited before submitting to
producers, and we endeavor to have
our producers follow the scripts as
closely as possible. Wish you every
success." That the Selig editorial de-
partment likes all scripts written fully
will be interesting news to many writ-
ers. This means that Selig editors are
willing to give the author reasonable
latitude in developing his ideas and will
appreciate all suggestions, references,
etc., embodied in the script that will
tend to make clear the original idea.
Synopsis need not necessarily be con-
fined to 300 words, but we are of the
opinion that a story can be readily de-
scribed in that number. We believe the
time is coming when editors and pro-
ducers will look kindly on the more
fully written script ; we think the tech-
nical form of plot presentment is slow-
ly being altered. More of the success-
ful authors are shifting from the bare
outline of action to the more complete
detail which is necessary sooner or
later, if the real idea and the atmos-
phere meant by the author is to be com-
pletely retained by the director. Miss
Justice, who has written some very ac-
ceptable stories for Selig, writes out
her plots fully and freely, and is not
chary of writing in suggestions and
hints which she believes will be useful
to the producer. Bannister Merwin
and some others write scripts full of
minute detail, and we are always guilty
of the trick unless completely frowned
upon by editor and producer. We re-
peat, that with multiple reel stories in
demand, the more detailed story will
become essential. This does not mean
a verbose script teeming with petty dia-
logue and useless words. It does mean
a script the action and story so fully
written out by the author that there
will be no opportunity to escape his
honest inspiration.

As to Story Rights

A New Orleans photoplaywright
wishes a list of the concerns which per-
mit authors the fiction rights on stories
sold. There is no such list. It is pos-
sible that the editor buying the picture-
play plot may consent to surrender the
fiction rights, but this question should

be taken up with the purchaser when
the author's release form is received.
The correct method to obtain a copy-
right on a novel or short story is to
comply with the provisions of the Copy-
right Act of March 2, 1913. The full
name, address, street and number of the
copyright claimant should be furnished
in the case of each application sent to
the copyright office for registration of
a claim to copyright. Address your ap-
plication to Thorvald Solberg, Register
of Copyrights, Library of Congress,
Washington, D. C. Your postmaster
will frank this application if you so
request. In return you will receive
complete application cards and other in-
structions.

The Work of a "Graduate"

The following is a verbatim copy of a
scenario received at the editorial office of the
Universal Film Manufacturing Company, the
author mentioning in his letter that he is a
graduate of the National Authors Institute:
SYNOPSIS.

In a swell restruant Hay Cummins and Wm
Dalian seated eating enters her lover opposites
she sees him gets excited soon exit Collins
mad.

Next eve at her home Collins enters wants
his engagement ring she begs forgive ness at
last he forgies next day Collins enters her
home in automobile. He raps at door she exit
ready they exit. In forrest they stop sit in
shade he begs her to be true she promises he
lays head on her lap she kisses him they get
up embrase and make out for weddin.

Later in her home guests arrive also minister
pair gets married they have supper. Later
husband leaves her for the day pair very happy
that eve enters an automoble to her home Wm
Dalian asks her to go along she goes along
they enter i. theatre husband in the gallery

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Director, Lubin Stock Co.

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sees pair mad. He gets a revolver exit to them
pointed gun wife exited police sees it enters
dodges revovlver he exit pair ahead Collins also
to pol.ce station chief pardons Mr and Mrs
Collins police exit with Dalian to lokup. Hus-
band ex.t wife after. On pavement she enters
husband demands forgiveness he refuse how
ever to go home together year later wife in
bed baby in crib. Husband in hotell drunk
makes racket gets put out next morn wife
making breakfast husband enter wants money
wife refuses he strikes her over she exits he
thinks over it also exit after wife lying under
a tree road side he wants to make up she
refuses but gets her home. That eve they go
to hotell husband at bar orders a drink for
wife waiter exit with drink to parlor Wm
Dalian also at bar sees waiter going he sneaks
after. Husband sees Dalian but waits waiter
serves exit. Dalian enters wife make love she
on his lap waiter enters tells to quit huggin
husband enters grabs Dalian and kicks him
out. He tells w.fe to exit she refuses but
goes at last.

Wife in bed baby in crib. Husband enters at
bed, looks at her sorry looking he enters
bed rums away. Wife exit bed looks cross she
lays on floor. Soon husband turns. Sees wife
on floor. She gone he sits up looks for her he
exit bed he finds her on floor he takes her in
bed. Wife awake sits up husband demands her
love for him she refuses shakes herself lays
down. He looks sorry enters bed. Next morn.
S tting room Mr. Coll'ns sits very sick. Mede-
cine before him. Wife enters with waiter he
drinks he watches her with his eyes she pats
him on head she sits in his lap he fells better
she kisseshim that day they go to store with
bady enter baby cloth dept. They buy the
finest coatMr Collins fits baby. Back turned to
wife in distance enter Mr Dalian stops he
winks at Mrs Collins sees him she throws many
kisses to DallanDallan exits backward cannot
part at last he exit wife watches. Mr Collins
done. They exit wife last. Sorry. Sorry full-
looking deep thinking.

THE HALL OF FAME

Roy McCardle, the humorist, wrote the first
moving picture plot about fourteen years ago.

Editor C. B. Hoadley, Universal staff, is
now collaborating with Captain Peacock on
some fine stories, after enjoying a well-earned
vacation in Connecticut.

George Hall, well-known author, has gone
over to England to write stories for Director
Herbert Brenon.

Horace Vinton, well-known script editor and
author, is in Texas this winter as director for
a prominent feature film company.

Harvey Gates, late of the Dramatic Mirror,
and a versatile chap, has become an associate
editor of the Universal Weekly.

Harold Hoadley, youngest son of "Pop"
Hoadley, and a chip off the old block, is mak-
ing good as a script writer. He comes by the
writing germ honestly and just cannot help it.

Jack Byrne, as clever a writer as he is a
director, has joined Warner's Features and
will go south to write and direct his own
pictures.

Walter MacNamara, one of the standbys in
the Imp studio, is the latest entrant among
photoplaywrights to turn out librettos. He
is also going to take the stump for Mitchel,
New York candidate for mayor. Truly, we are
becoming a versatile bunch!

The thousands of admirers of Giles R. War-
ren, author and director, will be interested to
know that he is turning out some exceptionally
good "Juno" features for the Whitman-War-
ren Film Co. The first release will be awaited
with interest.

George Tucker is just another case of a
script man making good as a director. He is
being assisted by Walter MacNamara. George
L. is visualizing some wonderful pictures at
present and his many friends are glad.

A Word to Miss Jessie Kinerock

Miss Jessie Kinerock — never mind her
address — asks if it is strictly essential
to one ambitious to become a motion
picture actress to "graduate from a
course." She believes that if "gradua-
tion" is not essential for success that
she will journey to New York City and
engage in the "lucrative profession."
Jessie says she understands that the
work is "easy and attractive."

Jessie, remain with your mother. The
great big city of New York is no place
for a friendless girl. In your town

you probably have a sweetheart, and we
will bet something that he doesn't wish
you to become an actress. The adver-
tisements you read in some publications,
Jessie, about "colleges for motion pic-
ture actresses" are fraudulent. First,
the art cannot be successfully taught by
the correspondence route, and secondly,
the supply of motion picture actresses
and actors far exceeds the demand.
There are many capable actors and ac-
tresses, having years of dearly bought
experience, now on the waiting lists of
the various motion picture studios. Do
you think there is an opportunity there
for an inexperienced girl ? When you
read those misleading advertisements,
do not be deceived. Take our word for
it, Jessie, there is nothing they can teach
you— we know. Continue to enjoy the
work of your favorite motion picture
actors in the "Idle Hour" at home. You
would probably break your mother's
heart were you to steal away to New
York as your letter intimates you might
do. And, Jessie — your own heart would,
maybe, be broken before you returned
home.

From "Pop" Hoadley

"Pop" Hoadley, friend to the script
writer, stops work on a two-reel Christ-
mas feature he is rounding into shape
long enough to say something of inter-
est to you: "The crying need just now
with Universal is for animal stuff in
which an elephant, tigers, lions, camels,
snakes, a chimpanzee, and other var-
mints can be featured. The lions and
tigers are comparatively wild, but the
elephant and the 'monk' are well
trained. The company is going to film
a series of pirates and sea stories.
Scripts dealing with political intrigue
will be considered — big, gripping themes
with plenty of action-melodramas pre-
ferred— that are up-to-date with a met-
ropolitan atmosphere. We are in the
market for stories of the Jews and
Russians, but the stories must ring true
and the writer must thoroughly under-
stand his subject. The two-reel story
to be considered by us must have sev-
eral 'wallops,' not a single-reel plot
padded. I would advise the novice to
stick to the short story that can be told
in 1,000 feet. The most of the extra
reel scenarios are written by men on
the staff. King Baggott, home from
England, will surely work in two and
three-reel pictures. George Tucker
may direct, and stories for a strong
male lead will be in demand. Stories
for Florence Lawrence will be consid-
ered. They must be written for a
woman lead, of course. She will appear
in only multiple reel pictures, and the
stories must be strong ones. Harry
Solter, who is directing her produc-
tions, likes society dramas with a strong
and unique plot with the bulk of the
work cut out for his star. He is a fine
judge of a story and difficult to please.
Stories must be exceptionally good for

him." Remember that in submitting
plots for Universal stars that excep-
tionally good work is essential, just as
it is for any of the other first-class con-
cerns. Universal is paying satisfactory
prices for acceptable scripts, and we can
assure writers that they will receive
courteous and prompt treatment.

Troulile for Eugene B.

Eugene Berry Watt, operating "The
National Authors' Institute," in a
small office in the Gaiety Theatre
Building, this city, is the first of hit,
kind to be reached by the postoffice
authorities. This is a good work
merely begun. The postal secret
service men say that Watt and his as-
sociates have obtained about twenty
thousand dollars in a couple of years
through their system of treating
would-be playwrights. The "In-
stitute" has advertised extensively in
magazines and newspapers (not the
Motion Picture News) soliciting the
submission of manuscripts and
promising immediate fame and
fortune to all "clients." Fees, ranging
from $2 to $20, have been required
from the ambitious and inexperienced
writers who have "fallen" for the
game. The complainant im the specific
case in which Watt has been arrested
is a cook in Paterson, N. J. She has
been paying a large part of her small
savings to have the "Institute" place
her "dramas." Watt was arrested and
convicted in 1908 on a charge of using
the mails for fraudulent purposes. On
account of his youth he was paroled
from the Federal prison at Atlanta.
One week after his release he is said
to have opened the "National Authors'
Institute." Here is Watt's ad:

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Address: Music Department, The Motion Picture News

WHY is it that an orchestra can
cue a vaudeville act, no matter
how silly it might be?

Why is it that the very same or-
chestra cannot cue a good motion pic-
ture?

To solve this sort of problem I vis-
ited a number of vaudeville theatres
of late. The Lincoln Square The-
atre, Sixty-fifth street and Broad-
way, New York, offered a program
which gave me a good chance to
make a fair comparison.

When I reached the theatre an
amusing Essanay film was on the
screen; I did not see the title but it
was depicting some fun at a summer
beach. The orchestra went along
without any attention to what was
taking place on the curtain.

The Essanay film was followed by
the Macks in a dancing and song act.

The orchestra started its work.
When the Macks would sing, the
musicians would play the music of
the song; no matter how many songs
the Macks had, the orchestra was
there on time with the goods. It was
the same for the different dances;
the orchestra followed them as cor-
rectly as did the songs.

Why, then, was the orchestra able
to follow the antics of the Macks in
their vaudeville act, and could not
play the picture of Essanay?

The worst had to come. The act
called "The Princess Minnecome," a
sort of Indian affair, appeared on the
stage and the orchestra did some very
clever work. This Indian act is ex-
cellent and is worth the whole ad-
mission on account of the good sing-
ing, and the old Indian chief shows
himself a great master of the guitar.
His playing called for several en-
cores. I can truly state that never
before have I heard such wonderful
guitar playing.

The orchestra did not go on a wild
rampage while the Indian was play-
ing his guitar, but the musicians had
the common sense to stop entirely,
to listen and enjoy this great guitar
playing.

During the act "Princess Minne-
come" the orchestra followed cor-

rectly both the songs and the dances.
It was clever work on the part of
the musicians, and this excellent mu-
sic, with the beautiful settings and
light effects, enhanced the beauty of
the act.

On top of the "Princess Minne-
come" came a Western picture of
Pathe Freres, "The Secret Treasure."

The orchestra, most likely tired of
having paid such constant attention
to the vaudeville act, neglected them-
selves. The musicians started on a
selection, and without the least re-
spect to the picture on the screen
they kept to the same tune.

When the miner, wounded in a
fight with the Mexicans, is brought
to his cabin and dies in the arms of
his daughter. When the faithful In-
dian servant is captured and tortured
by the Mexicans. When the Indian
saves the gold of the dead miner and
refuses a reward from the daughter,
etc., the same music was played all
the time. No slow movements, no
hurry-up music, no plaintive tones ac-
cording to the scenes, but the same
thing as if the music had been fur-
nished by an automatic musical in-
strument. No sound effects, no fir-
ing of guns, trot of horses, crackling
of flames when the cabin is destroyed
by the flames started during the at-
tempt of one of the Mexicans to as-
sault the girl.

This Pathe production was butch-
ered by the orchestra, while it could
have been made a hit like the vaude-
ville act, "Princess Minnecome," if
the musicians had been willing to pay
as much attention to the picture as
they did to the act.

The reason is very simple. If the
orchestra had butchered the vaude-
ville act like they did the picture, the
actors taking part in the act would
have raised much fuss; as this act,
"Princess Minnecome," is their bread
and butter and is booked in other
theatres, it could not stand for a
fiasco at the Lincoln Square Theatre.

On the other hand, both the Pathes
and the Essanays are very indifferent
as to the music given with their pro-
ductions. As they never make a com-

plaint the orchestra does not care,
and as long as there is no one to
knock, why should the musicians tire
themselves to try to enhance the
beauty of a picture by giving it the
proper music?

Someone will answer me: "Vaude-
ville acts are changed twice per week,
while the pictures are changed daily,
consequently, when the orchestra has
to play the same vaudeville act from
three to four days in succession, the
musicians can give it more care than
when they have to cue new pictures
daily." While this answer would not
be out of place in certain theatres, as
I fully realize that it is hard work on
the part of the leader to cue new pic-
tures, it is not the case with the Lin-
coln Square Theatre, where the pic-
tures, like the acts, are changed twice
per week.

Theatrical booking agents have no
standing orders with the vaudeville
artists as our film exchanges have
with the manufacturers. A booking

L. B. CARLETON

Director Lubin Stock Co.

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agent will find engagements for good
artists, but he does not sign contracts
with poor artists to palm them off
on the vaudeville managers, while the
film exchanges, with their standing
orders, have to force bad and good
films on the exhibitors.

A bad film, like a good one, must
make its round, must yield so much
money in three months to pay the
expenses and profits of the film
renter. Consequently, no matter if
a good production is enhanced by
some appropriate music, the said film
follows its regular route just the same
and does not earn more money to
the exchange; same as a bad film,
butchered with some noisy music, fol-
lows its route just the same without
decreasing the profits of the renter.

The exhibitors and musicians say
to themselves: "If good music does
not prolong the life of a picture and
if noisy music does not shorten the

THE SCARLET LETTER
Kinemacolor (Three Reels)

In dealing with such a subject as the
"Scarlet Letter" it is very necessary
that gloves should be used, so that the
prudish feelings of a number of people
may not be injured. The "unwritten
law" has ever been a ticklish subject,
both in literature and in drama, and
especially in motion pictures, where
there is not the chance to twist words
and phrases.

Hawthorne, in writing this master-
piece, was able to twist his phrases so
that the effect, though not diminished,
was not as bald as it must necessarily
appear in pictures. But the strength of
the piece lies in the fact that although
we know that the Minister and Hester
are thoroughly wrong, that they are not
deserving of our sympathy, if all the
ethical rules are right, we nevertheless
feel for them at the end with furtive
eye-wipings. They are indeed strange
objects for love.

How the Minister, knowing the ter-
rible punishment in the eyes of the
world that awaits him, will not confess
his complicity in the affair, letting the
girl take all the public blame. How he
brands himself, and how the husband,
returning, knows him to be the man, and
how finally before the whole world he
takes the blame, is clearly and wonder-
fully told. The story is in every way a
truthful production of the original ; the
costuming and settings are truly won-
derful. The photography is of the usual
good quality. The beautiful moonlight
water scene which acted as a finale was
superb in its splendor. A truly notable
release. The Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
was played by Charles Perley, and Miss
Linda Griffith played the girl. The
"Scarlet Letter" as a theme is per-
ennially popular with film makers, and
the latest effort does entire justice to
the subject.

A. M.

rental power, why waste time, money
and energy to try to play the pic-
ture?"

Vaudeville is different. The same
act can fall down in a couple of
weeks on account of bad music, while
it can be made the success of years
if properly accompanied.

If the vaudeville artist is going to
see that the orchestra is going to do
the right thing, to keep the reputa-
tion of the act, the film manufacturer
is quite indifferent, as the quality of
the music does not change his stand-
ing orders with the film exchanges,
nor does it change the number of
his releases.

I am pleased with my visit to the
Lincoln Square Theatre, as I had a
chance to see two Western plays in
succession, one in a vaudeville act,
the other in motion pictures, enabling
me to make a just and impartial com-
parison.

When in 1910 I reviewed the "Peni-
tent of Florence" at Mr. Geo. Kleine's
offices, Chicago, I asked Mr. Sam Le-
vin, manager, and Mr. W. E. King,
leader, of the Orpheum Theatre, to
see the film and to prepare some
special music. These gentlemen took
my advice and prepared the most
elaborate and appropriate musical
program, including organ, mando-
lin solos, choir voices behind the cur-
tain, etc. The film and show were
much advertised. It was an immense
but ephemeral success. Mr. G. Kleine
did not sell more prints, the exchange
did not yield more, because on ac-
count of the daily change the "Peni-
tent of Florence" had, like all other
films, to follow its scheduled route.

Next week I will be pleased to
state how the Bijou Dream, of Bos-
ton, and the Colonial, of Norwich, are
making a success with their music.

J. M. B.

A Message from Mars

(United Kingdom Film)

THIS is the first production of this been banished
company in the United States, and
one cannot but predict a prosperous fu-
ture when such good taste is shown in
their primary choice. "A Message from
Mars" has been played in the legitimate
form in this country by nearly every
stock company, but I cannot remember
to ever have seen it in the "cinemato-
graph version," as our over-seas cousins
call it. Charles Hawtrey is playing the
leading part in this latest production, the
same as he played in the original. The
story seems to be too well known to
need any retelling; suffice it to say that
in this version many parts have been
added, though none of the original lines
have been greatly altered. There are a
number of new scenes, but there is the
same old story told in four parts. The
first part introduces the messenger (C.
Holman Clark) leaving Mars, having

until he shall reform
some mundane person. He is met again
in Horace Parker's house, where he
starts his cure of the latter's selfishness.
The next part follows his cure, and
shows how it is working, and in the
last he is seen to leave Horace and re-
enter Mars in peace with all. The set-
tings are especially remarkable for their
fitness, and the photography is good. As
to the cast, the simple fact that Mr.
Hawtrey has the lead is sufficient rec-
ommendation. The scenario adaption is
by J. Walter Waller from the original
text by Richard Ganthony. The whole
production abounds with trick work and
"fade-outs," with a few double expo-
sures for good measure. Mr. McEn-
nery is the local representative; his ad-
dress is the second floor of the Heidel-
berg Building.

A. M.

PILLORY SCENE FROM "THE SCARLET LETTER'

30 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

On the Road

SPRINGFIELD, MASS. In a pre-
vious issue I made the remark
that few theatres had appropriate
names. I have found a new example
in Springfield, Mass. There is a the-
atre called the "Globe," but its proper
name should be "Alhambra," on ac-
count of its front being very much
on the Moorish order. It is a very
fine front, and I would have been
pleased to secure a photograph of
it for the benefit of the readers of
this paper if too numerous posters had
not been in the way of the camera.

The "Lion," also displaying too
many posters, has nothing ferocious
about it to warrant such a name. It
is a plain square store arch, prac-
tically minus ornaments. The only
lion in the place may be the manager,
who tries to capture all the business
of the main street by offering, as he
calls them, "Bargain Days — Ten (10)
Reels for 5 Cents." Two reels for
one cent is certainly enough of an
alluring proposition to enter the cave
of the lion.

The "Bijou." No better and no
more appropriate name could have
been found for such a beautiful and
refined theatre. The name Bijou is
not new, on the contrary it is rather
common, as it has been used without
discernment. Bijou is a French name,
the translation of which is "Jewel,"
and the Bijou Theatre, of Springfield,
is a real jewel in the crown of cine-
matography.

For more particulars of this cozy
theatre I refer the reader to the Con-
struction, Advertising and Appearance
departments of our next issue.

The "Princess" is an old small
house on the main street, but entirely
remodeled, redecorated and under a
new management. The Princess is
doing a good business and there is a
reason, as the picture is well projected
on a new Mirroroide screen. While
the exterior of the Princess Theatre
is rather pretentious, it is a good de-
sign, and the lobby is not disgraced
by an abuse of posters.

While the New Broadway Theatre
is not a motion picture house, it
is a fine specimen of theatrical
architecture. It is imposing, yet sim-
ple and of good taste. At night it
is a beautiful sight, with the numerous
lights in the cornices.

The "Edisonia" is a new house,
with about six hundred seats. Every-
thing is new and fresh and looks very
attractive. The Edisonia is owned
and managed by Mr. R. F. Smith,
who also owns the "Mirror." The
name Mirror was given to the theatre
because Mr. Smith is a great believer

in the merits of the Mirror screen,
and while he is waiting for a new
Mirror screen from Shelbyville, Ind.,
for his new Edisonia, he is using
the one he had in his old house, the
Princess.

The "Plaza" is a pretty good-sized
theatre, about 800 seats. The exterior
is of good design, with a fine electric
sign. The Plaza is combination vaude-
ville and pictures, under the man-
agement of Mr. John M. Carney, and
owned by the Goldstein Bros. It
would be well for the doorman of the
Plaza to go to a military school or be
a member of the local militia, to find
out that cuffs are not allowed on
trousers, especially when they are so
high as to show the ankle, and that
military discipline wants the uniform
coat buttoned.

The Reel, Pictorial Subway, Lyric
and Gaiety complete the list of the-
atres of the main business section of
Springfield.

The "Nelson" (Fox's house), Court
Square, Gilmore and Poli's are, like
the Broadway, regular play-houses,
not much interested in motion pic-
tures, except to show a few reels once
in a while.

Worcester, Mass.

Worcester had the reputation of be-
ing a very slow and conservative
town, worse than old Philadelphia.

I have not been able to ascertain if
the above opinion is still in force in
general business lines, but as to mo-
tion pictures I can state that Worces-
ter is far ahead of other cities, both
in beautiful theatres and in deceptive
schemes.

The "Pleasant" Theatre is unique,
and if I use this word it is because
the Pleasant has features of its own,
unknown in other places.

While it is the simplest theatre, it
is in its great simplicity a most beau-
tiful and refined motion picture house.

The admission is 10 cents and 15
cents, and I will surprise the reader
in repeating the statement made by
Mr. E. W. Lynch that his business
has greatly increased under the ad-
vanced rates. In other words, an ad-
vance in the price of admission has
decided many members of the better
class to patronize motion pictures,
who in former days would not visit
the small and cheap dumps.

Mr. Lynch fully admits that he had
to offer something extra to warrant
the advance, but he did not follow
the foolish notion of the foolish ex-
hibitors of adding to the programme.
The extra inducement offered by Mr.
Lynch is in the shape of the most re-

fined theatre and of the most courte-
ous service.

For the details of this beautiful
theatre, I refer the reader to the Con-
struction and Appearance departments
of this issue.

The other side — the deceiving game
— is very discouraging, as it seems
that while the Pleasant Theatre is
doing its best to uplift motion pictures
and place them on a higher plane, the
Family Theatre is doing its utmost
to pull down the industry with a pro-
gramme of eleven (11) reels for 5
cents. Such an announcement works
well. There is a rush for the ticket
office, where you are told that it is
5 cents general admission and 5 cents
extra for the seat. A neat little game,
but as you do not wish to look cheap,
you pay the extra nickel.

What is the result? You pay 10
cents to see eleven reels run at such
a speed as to hurt the eyesight, while
for 5 cents you could have enjoyed a
shorter programme, it is true, but
of a better selection of pictures, better
projected and with more comfort at
the Majestic.

The law of Massachusetts, requiring
an intermission between each reel, is
a good thing for Worcester, as no
human being could stand the bad
flickerings of the eleven reels at the
Family without an intermission of at
least a couple of minutes between each
reel. Same with the ventilation. No
one could remain in such a poorly
ventilated theatre for a show of eleven
reels if the ushers were not to throw
open the exit doors during the inter-
missions.

After two reels at the Family The-
atre I had to walk out, as my eyes,
could not stand for much more flick-
ers, and with a rather mucky day on
the outside, the interior atmosphere
was too overcharged for me to enjoy
the show.

Worcester is not rich in motion
picture theatres. A few doors below
the Family Theatre is the Majestic,
a smaller but very neat, clean, well-
managed house. The projection is
very good, practically free of flicker;
the attendants are very courteous, and
the ventilation excellent. On account
of its small seating capacity, 325
chairs, the Majestic cannot follow the
foolish policy of long programmes,
and suffers much from the unscrupu-
lous competition of the Family

The New Park and the small Bijou
are the other houses devoted to mo-
tion pictures. The Poli, the Plaza,
the Franklin, are regular vaudeville
and road houses. The Worcester, the
opera house of the place, is showing
Geo. Kleine's "Quo Vadis."

Boston, Mass.

I was not much impressed with
the motion picture show business of:
Boston.

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

3i

While some theatres of Boston have
taken up the fad of posters, most of
them are moderate in their advertis-
ing, one of them, the Bijou Dream,
using no posters.

The theatres in general did not ap-
peal to me; they are not inviting, they
look a good deal like the narrow,
crooked streets of good Boston. Most
of the theatres show vaudeville, or
have many poor singers, and this is
done to satisfy the law, which requires
an intermission between each reel.
As the cultured class does not care
for cheap vaudeville acts, this may
explain the reason why Boston, with
streets overcrowded with shoppers,
has not a larger number of good
houses for the real lovers of motion
pictures. The theatres of Boston
seem to be patronized by the common
people and not by the residents of
the celebrated Back Bay. It is true
to add that the good folks of Boston,
who are so strict on the observance
of the Sabbath, are not so particular
as to the work done during week days.
For instance, too many theatres fol-
low the fad of the Family, of Wor-
cester; they announce a big show at
5 cents, and you have to pay extra
for a seat. The would-be honest man-
agers have signs in front of the ticket
offices reading: "All Seats Free."

When I saw a sign in front of the
Washington Theatre reading, "The
Finest and Best-Equipped Theatre in
the United States," I thought that the
sign was worth the admission. I am
sorry to state that it was a deception.

A good architect could have used
the too much width of the auditorium
to provide small stores on busy Wash-
ington Street, and could have added
to the length of the place by taking
several feet from a too large foyer.

If the reader will turn to the Con-
struction department he will find that
the arrangement of the curtain of the
Washington Theatre does not deserve
the name of being the finest and best-
equipped theatre in the country.

The projection is good, as they have
a direct throw by having the operat-
ing booth located at the end of the
main floor.

At the Beacon Theatre the ushers
seem to know their duties. They are
alert to show seats, to memorize the
vacant places, to ask the patrons to
rise so as to allow other persons to
pass, etc. It was a pleasure to see
them work. On the other hand, the
ushers do not seem to be posted on
the military style, as they keep their
uniform coat opened at the neck, be-
cause they want to wear turn-down
collars.

The Beacon Theatre has, like the
Pleasant, of Worcester, the screen on
the back of the stage, with the sides
or wings of the stage forming a
shadow box. This shadow box has

too much bright gold and light colors,
and as the heavy frame of the screen
is already of a too bright gold, the
picture is not shown to the best ad-
vantage. The screen proper is too
large for the size of the auditorium.

In the Construction department I
give a diagram of the sidelights of
the Beacon Theatre. They are regular
clusters of five bulbs each, throwing
too much light on the side seats and
shining in the eyes of the spectators.

The Olympia is the big theatre, giv-
ing an extra long programme (vaude-
ville and pictures).

The owners of the Olympia are
erecting a new theatre to be called
Olympia also. This new house will
seat 3,200 persons, according to an
immense billboard covering the whole
front of the new place. The billboard
states also that the theatre will be
provided with escalators, or moving
stairs, fountains of sparkling ice-water,
big shows, small prices, a full or-
chestra with a $150,000 pipe-organ,
etc. As many persons may doubt the
cost of such a pipe-organ, I repeat
the figures ($150,000) to show that
it is not a typographical error.

Like many other men I have been
opposed to giving the vote to women.
To-day I am compelled to change my
views, because from my own experi-
ence in the motion picture game I can
safely say that if women would put
as much common sense in the man-
agement of state or municipal affairs
as they do in the motion picture
show business we would have cleaner
politics and less taxes to pay. In the

motion picture field women seem to
have more brains than men, and less
of this terrible petty jealousy which
is creating such great havoc in many
centers. Women are more charitable
than men, more patient, more con-
ciliating and less spiteful.

Out West I had the pleasure of
being acquainted with a number of
ladies who were very successful in
the management of theatres. In the
East I am getting acquainted with
such ladies. One of the most pleasant
chats I ever had on motion pictures
was with Miss L. Montgomery, of the
Hippodrome Theatre, of Passaic, N. J.,
when she gave me her views on the
pictures in general, and as I then
stated at the time, her argument was
the best and most concise that I
ever heard.

Mrs. J. Clement, of the Bijou
Dream, of Boston, has been another
revelation to me.

Suppose that I should advertise as
follows:

THEATRE FOR SALE— Frontage
on street about 10 feet; no plastic
ornaments; theatre is located on sec-
ond floor; no posters are used; no full
orchestra; no pipe-organ, but a single
piano; managed by a woman.

No one would pay any attention to
such an advertisement, but consider
it a losing proposition. The idea of
a theatre on a second floor, without
a lobby, without space to display
posters, without the present fad of
a full orchestra or pipe-organ, etc.!
(Continued on page 38)

IN THE SHADOWS (3 PARTS)

Warner's Features with Gene Gauntier in the title role.

Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address: Exhibitors' Department, The Motion Picture News

IN the Advertising department of
this issue I say that the Bijou The-
atre, of Springfield, Mass., draws the
best attendance because the manager
does not deface the front of the the-
atre with a lot of sensational posters.
While it is my strong belief that sen-
sational posters keep away the cul-
tured class, I must state that other
features in the management of a the-
atre must be taken into consideration.
For instance, a clean and inviting
lobby will not draw if the attendants
are dirty and uncourteous.

The success of the Bijou Theatre
is then due to the able management
of Mr. E. L. Knight, who is particu-
lar on all the details and wants every-
thing to work in perfect harmony.
Mr. Knight believes in little things
. that often work better results than
the big displays. The cut flowers at
the Bijou Theatre do not only please
the eye, but give an appearance of
refinement to the place and at the
same time are an attention greatly
appreciated by the ladies.

Because flowers are cheerful, they
are found a little everywhere, in the
reception rooms, on the dining tables
and even in the automobiles.

Mr. Knight has not only potted
plants on and near the stage of his
Bijou Theatre, but he has each day *
fresh-cut flowers placed in glass hold-
ers around the lobby. These cut
flowers, with courteous ushers in at-
tendance to take up the tickets and
show seats, create such a favorable
impression on the patrons as to pre-
dispose them in favor of the show.

Everything is in perfect harmony
at the Bijou Theatre, from the side-
walk to the back of the stage. No
sensational posters to mar the good
appearance of the theatre, no tough,
unkempt and uncourteous attendants
to offset the effects of the cut flowers.
The same atmosphere of refinement
reigns all over the place, even in the
private office.

The attendants at the Bijou Theatre,
of Springfield, Mass., are uniformed,
but instead of wearing the military

style, they are dressed in black
trousers and tuxedo coat, spotless
white stiff-bosom shirt, clean collar,
black necktie, well-polished shoes,
etc. They are clean-cut fellows of
natural good appearance and manners,
and very courteous.

It is this great attention to all the
small details that makes of the Bijou
the most refined and most successful
motion picture theatre of Springfield.

We know that cheap vaudeville has
a tendency to cheapen motion pictures,
and for the sake of the industry I
have fought the cheap vaudeville until
few theatres use it. I am, then, pleased
to repeat the words of Mr. Knight:
"Discontinued vaudeville and singers
over a year ago and business increased
at once."

Good manners are not taught; they
are a gift; they are born with the
man. You can educate a man to be
polite and courteous, as we can silver
a brass spoon, but as the brass will
show as soon as the spoon is rubbed,
so will the bad manners, ugly temper,
vulgar talk of the man who is called
down or when he gets excited.

A man can keep clean even working
in a factory, while another man can-
not keep clean in the best equipped
office. A man can wear old clothes
and look still a gentleman, while an-
other man can wear the finest clothes
and remain a bum.

Mr. Knight is a born gentleman of
manners, and everything around him
inspires confidence.

Mr. E. W. Lynch, of the Pleasant
Theatre, of Worcester, Mass., is a
gentleman of the same type.

The attendants of the Pleasant
Theatre are neatly uniformed, are very
attentive to the work and courteous
— a great item in the success of the
place.

Mr. Lynch, like Mr. Knight, be-
lieves in plants and flowers, he has
a number of potted small trees around
the ticket office and at the foot of
the elegant marble staircase.

The uniform is getting popular.
The managers seem to believe that
the uniform is as important as the
picture or the posters, in other words,
that they cannot open a theatre with-
out having uniforms for the attend-

SCENE FROM "THE LOVE LUTE OF ROMANY"

(Essanay 2-reel Dramatic Subject)

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33

Edison Players Publicly Welcomed

ants. While I do not wish to discour-
age this belief, I am sorry to see
that in too many places they do not
know how to wear the uniform in the
proper military style. The managers
allow their employees to turn up the
trousers to show some fancy hosiery,
or allow them to keep the coat un-
buttoned to show a flashy necktie.
The trouble is that managers do not
furnish the military standing collar
with the uniform and allow the attend-
ant to wear any style of turn-down
or soft collar.

This has been my general remark
during my trip through some of the
New England States. To the excep-
tions mentioned in these pages, I
have to add the Bates Theatre, of
Attleboro, Mass., where Mr. John F.
Patten is particular on general ap-
pearance. His men present a neat
appearance and wear the uniform cor-
rectly.

J. M. B.

ESSANAY TIME-TABLE

Don Meaney, advertising manager,
has put over another one. This time
his originality takes the form of a
time-table scheduling all the releases
of the Essanay Film Manufacturing
Company for a month in advance. The
front and back cover of this folder,
which conveniently fits the pocket, is
artistically designed with a blue back-
ground and white and red decorations.
The October issue of this folder has
the pictures of Broncho Billy and
Ruth Stonehouse on its covers.

Mr. Meaney designates the road
over which these pictures travel as
the Fast Service Route, leaving Gen-
eral Film Stations. He employs rail-
road terms in the descriptions of the
releases. The Western releases he
terms Niles Special and the California
Sunset. He uses the word dispatched
instead of released, and in many other
ways has made this folder interesting
and attractive.

We have handled this time-table with
feelings akin to that of the individual
contemplating a pleasure trip to distant
and picturesque parts.

POWER'S CAMERAGRAPH AT
CARNEGIE LYCEUM

Hugh O'Donnell, the well-known
lecturer, delivered a lecture on the
Panama Cannal at Carnegie Lyceum
on Sunday, October 12th.

A large audience enjoyed the won-
derfully clear pictures which were
projected by a Power's Cameragraph
and dissolver.

THE recent departure of the Edi-
son players from Searsport, Me.,
was the occasion of a remarkable
demonstration. They have been in
Searsport all summer, and during
that time have made personal friends
with many people in town.

Photographer Kugler has been a
regular member of the church choir, and
others had identified themselves with the
life of the town to such an extent that
the people had come to consider them
more than mere visitors. This was ap-
parent when, on the Sunday before their
departure, the minister made them the
object of his remarks, emphasizing the
fact that their stay in Searsport had
done much to dispel the ill-founded
prejudice against theatrical folks, and
have shown them to be serious people
with an honest purpose. On the day of
their departure the entire population
turned out, the school children all car-
rying flags bearing the legend "Good-
bye, Mary," while over the main street
stretched a huge banner reading "Good-
bye, Mary Fuller."

When a line of automobiles had
drawn up before the hotel, Judge J. B.
Black as spokesman made a compli-
mentary farewell speech, in which he

How Marshall Field & Co. Use the
Motion Picture

The well-known house of Marshall
Field & Co., Chicago, issue the fol-
lowing circular to their customers:

MARSHALL FIELD & CO.

A Special Feature for "Made-in-Chicago
■Week."

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Every Morning from 10:30 to 12 and After-
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THE PUBLIC IS INVITED

These pictures — taken in our own mills — are
wonderfully instructive. They mark the most
comprehensive effort ever made in showing all
the processes of Cotton Textile Manufacture.
The pictures are marvelously clear — each step
in the manufacture of every product may be
as easily followed as if those seeing them were
standing before the great mills. Children
especially should see these films.

The complete series will be exhibited each
day. The morning exhibits will show the
preparation of cotton yarns and the making
of Valmore and Utopia Ginghams and Lake-
s-'de wool-finished Cotton Blankets. In the
afternoon exhibits will be seen the manufacture

expressed the pleasure of the people
of Searsport at having the Edison peo-
ple in their midst, and sincerely hoped
that the next summer would find them
back in town again. Judge Black closed
his remarks by presenting to Mary
Fuller a bound copy of the history of
the Twenty-sixth Maine Regiment, of
which he was a member.

Walter Edwin, director of the com-
pany, made a short reply, in which he
expressed the appreciation of the players
at the courtesy which had been shown
them during their stay in town. Then,
while the Searsport band played "Auld
Lang Syne," and the crowd cheered, the
autos started for Belfast with the play-
ers and their baggage.

Included in the company, besides
those already mentioned, were Bliss Mil-
ford, Elsie MacLeod, Augustus Phillips,
Frank McGlynn, Richard Neill, John
Sturgeon and Harry Beaumont.

The people of Searsport did not con-
fine their enthusiasm to speech-making
and brass bands, but when "Joyce of
the North Woods," the Edison two-reel
film made at Searsport, was released,
those who were fortunate enough to
own automobiles motored sixty miles to
see it run.

of Zion Laces and Lace Curtains, Burlington
Hosiery and Athena Underwear. ^

We have five sets of films as fol-
lows:

Making yarn from raw cotton, time required
18 min. This film precedes each of the fol-
lowing exhibits:

Making Zion Laces 12 min. Lace Curtains 17
min.

Making Lakeside Wool-finished Cotton Blankets
21 min.

Making Valmore and Utopia Ginghams IS min.
Making Burlington Hosiery 12 min. Knit

Underwear 15 min.; also the above four

in one straight exhibit.

Total time required 2 hours.

The Sievers Amusement Co., of
Peoria, 111., has under construction
three new houses. The Hippodrome
(1,400 seats) will open October 20th
with pictures and vaudeville. The
Duchess (600 seats) is expected to
open December 15th, and the Crescent
(over 1,000 seats) early in 1914. The
latter two will run straight pictures.
Mr. D. Robinson, local manager of
the Sievers Amusement Co., will then
have almost a corner on the market
in the down-town motion picture busi-
ness of Peoria, for he already operates
two houses, the Empress and Princess.

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P ic t

I HAVE fought the posters. I am
still fighting them, and for this
reason I am getting the ill-will of
many persons, including the poster
printers.

I am not advocating complete abo-
lition of the posters, but I am against
the ugly, sensational posters and the
abuse of posters.

Artistic posters would improve the
business of both the exhibitor and of
the poster printer. It is true that
there would be less posters used, but
then the theatres would improve in
appearance, and the printer, able to
charge more for high-class posters,
would make up in quality what he
would lose in quantity.

While single hand-painted card
signs cost money, theatres ordering
from three to four card signs daily
can obtain them at about 50 cents
per sign.

A sign painter of Montgomery,
Ala., was very clever. In making
his scrolls he would invariably re-
serve a space in which he could paste
the portrait of the leading actor or
the trade-mark of the manufacturer.

I do not see why the designers of
posters do not use their imagination
to uplift the industry by composing
artistic advertising sheets, instead of
wasting their time and energy trying
to make the film more sensational and
more repulsive to the public.

If the artist would draw the title
of the film, the name of the manu-
facturer, copy the trade-mark, reserve
a space in the center for a photograph
of an actual scene, or a couple of
spaces, and, as the painter of Ala-
bama, reserve a small space in the
scroll-work for the portrait of a lead-
ing actor, he would produce a very
artistic poster that would sell at a
higher price, a poster that would up-
lift the show business, give a better
appearance to the theatre and be less
objectionable to the neighboring
stores.

All managers must do some adver-
tising. Those who refuse to display
the sensational posters and go to the
expense of having show cards painted
would gladly appreciate real artistic
posters and save themselves the
trouble of having to paint their own
advertising sheets. The managers
who conduct first-class theatres know

by experience that while the patrons
like to see the titles of the pictures
to be shown, the names of the manu-
facturers and of the leading actors,
they object to the ugly sensational
posters. Patrons do not care to see
an exaggerated illustration of the
film, but as they all have a fancy for
certain trade-marks and certain act-
ors, all that they ask to see in front
of a theatre is the title of the picture
and the trade-mark of the manufac-
turer. Some lovers of motion pic-
tures want Biographs, Vitagraphs,
others want Kay Bees, Keystones,
still others want Bisons, Nestors.
Some of them will not miss a show
where Maurice Costello, King Bag-
gott, G. Anderson, Florence Law-
rence, etc., appear. The names and
trade-marks of the best manufacturers
and of the leading actors are better
drawing cards than posters.

Springfield, Mass., is not yet ad-
dicted to the fad of an abuse of post-
ers. While a few theatres, like the
Lion and the Globe, have a rather
too large display of posters, the other
theatres of the main street are more
moderate, and the Bijou has none.

• When I called on Mr. E. L. Knight,
the business manager of the Bijou
Theatre, I had to congratulate him
on the absence of posters and on
the excellent appearance of his lobby.
Congratulations were reciprocal, as
Mr. Knight was pleased to find a
paper with broad-minded views ad-
vocating the suppression of the highly
sensational posters, which in his
mind cheapen the appearance of any
theatre displaying them. Mr. Knight
agrees that an abuse of posters not
only defaces a lobby, but is a disgrace
to the community, and is strongly
objectionable to the various stores
having the misfortune to have a mo-
tion picture show as a next door
neighbor. Mr. Knight claims also,
and in this case follows my views,
that a large display of ugly and sen-
sational posters keeps away more pa-
trons than it brings trade. Evidently
Mr. Knight has some very strong
ideas on general appearance, and he
believes that the money spent in post-
ers can be spent more judiciously in
making the place more attractive and
more refined.

The only advertising in front of the

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35

Bijou is neatly painted card signs,
giving the names of the pictures and
of the manufacturers, and occasion-
ally a few photographs from actual
scenes. i 4

The experience of the Bijou is
worth noting, as, although the seating
capacity is one thousand chairs, at
8.15 p. m. standing room was at a
premium, while the other theatres of
the main street, with less seats, were
not overcrowded.

Mrs. J. Clement, of the Bijou
Dream, of Boston, Mass., has the.
same views. The advertising at the
Bijou Dream is made through neatly
framed card signs and a few occa-
sional photographs.

Mrs. Clement claims that an abuse
of sensational posters acts a good
deal like the supposed feature films
and extraordinary inducements. These
posters can, and generally do, bring
a crowd, a crowd that cannot be ac-
commodated and that overtaxes the
employees of the theatre and makes

everything unpleasant for everyone,
even the patrons. Then the next day,
unless you can advertise a couple
more of sensational features or offer
more inducements, your business falls
flat, and the manager has to work
high and low to find more sensational
posters and more inducements to try
to keep up his business.

Mrs. Clement is not after the rush
of one day; she wants a steady and
regular patronage, and, while the lady
cannot brag of days with crowds
blocking the sidewalk, she has the
satisfaction of knowing that day after
day, week after week, she has good-
sized houses of regular, satisfied pa-
trons, who know where to go to see
carefully selected pictures, projected
correctly and accompanied with the
proper music.

When I called at the Bijou Dream
Theatre at 11 a. m. I noticed a min-
ister coming down Washington
street, and without looking at the ad-
vertisements he took his place behind

me at the ticket office and followed
me to the auditorium, via the esca-
lator. No minister of the gospel
would like to be seen entering a the-
atre hidden behind a lot of sensa-
tional posters, while a minister is not
ashamed to visit Mrs. Clement's place.
It is the same story with the better
class, and this is why Mrs. Clement
is so successful.

Providence, R. I., is not yet follow-
ing the fad of too many sensational
posters, but then there is practically
no competition, as seven places show-
ing motion pictures (three of them
big vaudeville houses) is not much
for a town of over 200,000 inhabi-
tants.

As an advertising scheme the
"Nickel" Theatre has a number of
extra large portraits of the leading
men and women of the best manufac-
turers. These portraits, about 18x22,
are neatly framed and arranged on
the walls of the lobby.

J. M. B.

THE EXCLUSIVE PROGRAM

AS a pioneer Independent in the
film business, I can say safely that
the Exclusive Supply Corporation has
been more successful, has made
greater strides toward progress than
any other organization during recent
years, considering the short space of
time that it has been in operation.
The reason for this success beyond
question of doubt must be attributed
to merit. The manufacturers con-
nected with the Exclusive are among
the best firms, and are, perhaps, in
better position, due to their excep-
tional facilities, to produce the high-
est class of product with which to
maintain the lead of quality in the
realm of features. These companies
have long maintained supremacy in
the feature field, and are continually
striving to improve upon previous ef-
forts. Hence Exclusive features are
more in demand and more profitable
to the exhibitors than are any other
features.

The motion picture business has
been one of steady advance from the
beginning, and, to my mind, the in-
troduction of the feature has contrib-
uted largely to the thriving condition
of the industry. When one stops to
consider that it is little more than two
years ago that the Great Northern
Film Company placed upon the mar-
ket the first feature film, the strides
that have been made since then are
little short of marvelous The com-
pany which I represent was the first
to realize the possibilities of multiple

BY INGVALD C. OES

(Abstracted)

reel subjects and the industry was
not slow to look into the future
through the same telescope.

The most recent achievement of the
Great Northern Company is a nine-
reel production of Gerhart Haupt-
mann's stirring novel "Atlantis." It
required considerable persuasion and
a substantial money offer to gain the
consent of the distinguished German
author, winner of the $10,000 Nobel
literary prize. It was only with the
distinct understanding that the sub-
ject must be given with the magni-
tude that the story requires that
Hauptmann consented.

I am going into these details briefly
in order to show the spirit and en-
terprise of a firm that undertakes to
make a nine-reel feature. The first
move of the company was to charter
one of the Scandinavian-American
steamships of 12,000 tons, and with
her officers and crew she steamed
into the North Sea to give realism to
the story. Another steamship to be
sunk was bought outright, as was
the ill-fated Roland in the Haupt-
mann novel.

Camera men were sent to the four
points of the compass to carry out
the author's wishes. It is estimated
that the production will represent an
outlay of $60,000 when ready for
presentation. The sinking of the
Roland and the rescue of only fif-
teen of the passengers and crew is a
real feature endeavor, proving the
strides made in this industry.

Madame Orloff will be seen in the
principal female leading role. She is
an actress of renown in the European
capitals; and Unthan, who was Haupt-
mann's inspiration for the part of
Arthur Stoss, the "Armless Wonder,"
will be seen in his original part.

Another of our multiple reel series
in the near future will be "During the
Plague," in which Rita Sachette, the
famous dancer and actress, plays the
principal female role. Betty Nansen,
acclaimed as the "Bernhard of the
North," is another who has been en-
gaged to appear in a feature serijs
which already has been begun.

It is enterprise such as this tha; is
calculated to lend strength to the fea-
the program and impress the trade
with the importance of selecting the
best.

KLEINE ENLARGES OFFICES

In addition to occupying practically
the entire third floor at 166 North State
street, Chicago, and a large suite of of-
fices in the Long Acre Building, New
York City, General Manager McCara-
han has been compelled to rent a num-
ber of other suites on the fourth floor,
despite the fact that almost all the avail-
able space on that floor is already occu-
pied by the various departments of the
big Kleine organizations. An entire six-
story building at 20 East Illinois street
is given over exclusively to the photo-
graphic department and the storerooms
of the Kleine Optical Company.

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

THE EXCLUSIVE SERVICE OF
THE GENERAL FILM CO.

The announcement made last week by
the General Film Company that Exclu-
sive Service would become a fact on
October 13th was received with enthu-
siasm.

Over three hundred letters of request
for rates and information were received
at the offices of the Exclusive Depart-
ment at 71 West Twenty-third street
the sixth day following the publication
of the Exclusive Service advertisement
in the trade papers.

The idea seems to be popular with the
big and little exhibitor, the former see-
ing in it a means of enlarging and hold-
ing his patronage, and the latter rejoic-
ing over the prospect of having the
"regular" program all to himself.

The Exclusive program will be made
possible by the manufacturers turning
out additional new material.

An interesting development of the
General Film's new scheme, as evi-
denced by the character of the letters
received to date, is the interest which
it has aroused in the ranks of the so-
called "legitimate" theatres.

Managers of every variety of theatre
— from opera house to vaudeville — have
responded to the call. It is said that
one of the most prominent booking
managers in New York has asked for
prices on a circuit of 250 theatres which
he is prepared to swing over to pictures
if he can be assured of absolute protec-
tion against competition.

This seemingly sudden determination
on the part of the "regular" managers
to go over to pictures may probably be
attributed to the falling off in business
in the majority of "circuit" houses last
season, to a woeful lack of even pass-
able road attractions with which to fill
up booking for the current season; to
the fact that, for the first time in the
history of the game, it will be possible
to secure a regular service of high-class
picture programs that can only be seen
in one house in each district for a period
of ninety days.

Under the new plan of the General
Film Company a manager will be able
to advertise his picture program as ex-
tensively as he pleases and to put over
the same amount of publicity as he did
for his "dramatic" attraction, with the
positive assurance that the business thus
created will not be divided with any
other house which may be showing
pictures.

Junie McCree, who has made every-
body in the world laugh at least once,
is writing some new comedies that
should receive a royal welcome. More
about Junie's visit to the Reliance
later.

Rodman Law has had another lucky
escape. But the pitcher that goes fre-
quently to the well takes a chance once
too often.

Trade

IN "Back to Life," J. Warren Kerrigan
has a part after his own heart,
a romantic Western role. He imper-
sonates a man who is dogged by mis-
fortune, and who finds comfort in a
sick woman whom he is able to help.
The woman in the hands of Pauline
Bush was a beautiful creation. The
story is by De La Parelle and Allen
Dwan and the producer James Neill.

"Being a heroine in a motion pic-
ture drama is no sinecure," says Miss
Marion Tanner, "especially when the
part calls for a twenty-foot dive into
chilly water and a struggle with two
perfectly horrid men."

Miss Tanner was engaged by the
Mittenthal Film Company to play the
heroine's part in a drama entitled
"The Auto Bandits of New York."
In one scene she is chased to the
edge of a pier on the Hudson River
and dives off, followed by two ban-
dits who struggle with her in the
water. The men were instructed to
put realism into their work — and they
did — but with disastrous results to
Miss Tanner, who swallowed water
enough to render her unconscious for
fifteen minutes.

"The Auto Bandits of New York"
in three parts, is the first of a series
of melodramas which will be released
by Warner's Features, Inc., to the
theatres using their feature service.
It will be followed shortly by "Sir
Highwayman of Death Valley," a
dramatic story well known to the
older generation of playgoers.

Notes

Charles Clary, formerly leading
man at the Selig Company, Chicago,
who made his first appearances un-
der the auspices of the Selig Company
in photoplays in Chicago, in associa-
tion with Miss Kathlyn Williams, in
a vivid transcript of African life in
"Back to the Primitive," "Captain
Kate" and "Lost in the Jungle," has,
after several years, gone back to this
association in a medium that promises
superior results. Mr. Clary was trans-
ferred to the Edendale Studio in Los
Angeles, and has since been advanced
to the leads in the big new studio in
the Selig Zoo at Eastlake, and will ap-
pear in the the series of daring, di-
verting and spectacular plays from
the romances of Harold MacGrath.

A pipe organ costing $40,000 is one of
the features of the new theatre to be
erected at 227-229 West Forty-first street
by George Kleine, Sol Bloom and
others, for the purpose of showing only
spectacular Kleine photoplays. An un-
usual contract let in the construction of
this mammoth picture theatre was that
covering the making of scenery. Ap-
propriate scenery will be made for each
photo drama.

Will Hough, author of "A Stubborn
Cinderella," has written a clever pho-
toplay entitled "The Flirt," which will
appear as a Reliance offering about
the middle of October.

"THE GAMBLER'S RUIN"

(Gaumont 2-reel Featura)

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37

TRADE NOTES

The principal objection to Kinema-
color has always been the extra ex-
pense of installing two machines to
project black-and-white and the nat-
ural-color motion pictures, which re-
quire special projection apparatus.
Formerly the Kinemacolor machines
were all imported from England, but
now the Simplex people are turning
out a special machine which will
project both monochrome and colored
pictures. Accordingly, the Kinema-
color Company has mapped out a very
unique plan and scale of prices, so
that exhibitors in small towns will
be able to use the natural-color pic-
tures as an added feature to their reg-
ular programs. This class of service
is a genuine novelty to exhibitors,
and the prices will range as low as
$20 per week, the idea being to show
Kinemacolor in places where it has
never been seen.

Another radical departure for the
Kinemacolor Company is the selling
of machines, which could formerly be
obtained only under a leasing con-
tract. By a novel but simple me-
chanical contrivance, the Kinemacolor
machine can be transformed into a
black-and-white machine, and perfect
projection guaranteed for both nat-
ural-color and monochrome pictures.
The price of this machine has been
set at a comparatively low figure, so

that exhibitors who have room for
only one machine may secure this
combination projector.

The principal reason for the sale
of Kinemacolor machines is that the
company may be able to meet the
demand for booking of the special
features that will be released from
time to time, such as Weber and
Fields' plays, Maeterlinck's "Blue
Bird" and the Panama Canal pictures,
for which latter there is a renewed
demand. Under the former system it
was necessary to transport the pro-
jecting outfit from town to town, like
a theatrical road show; but with gen-
eral installation of machines capable
of projecting Kinemacolor pictures,
the problem is reduced simply to ship-
ping the reels, while the expense and
time of setting up the machines will
also be eliminated.

Robert Leonard is producing ''The
Primeval Test," a novelty. In this
play a young husband gets advice
from an eccentric old doctor regard-
ing his wife's affections, and resorts
to the ways of primeval days. Bob
Leonard takes the part of the hus-
band and Margarita Fischer is the
wife, and both have wonderful acting
parts. Reese Gardner, a new-comer,
is the man who interrupts the seren-
ity of married life, and John Burton
takes the part of the eccentric doctor.

Many handsome new moving pic-
ture theatres that have been built
under the 600 seating capacity ordi-
nance are installing Kinemacolor as
a special feature worthy of their
standing in the amusement field.
Among these the Empress Theatre,
at 181st street and St. Nicholas av-
enue, New York, and the Arena and
Marathon theatres in Brooklyn, be-
gin service next Monday.

The new Duffield Street Theatre,
in Brooklyn, which, it is claimed by its
builders will equal if not excel the
beautiful Regent Theatre in New
York, has contracted for Kinemacolor
as one of the features of its opening
season. The Bedford, another Brook-
lyn picture theatre which ranks as
one of the finest of its class in the
East, has also contracted for Kine-
macolor service.

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A Statement from Cleveland Exhibitors'
Press Committee

ON THE ROAD

{Continued from page 31)
Yet with all the above mentioned
drawbacks, the Bijou Dream is the
refined motion picture theatre of Bos-
ton, with a constant regular patron-
age.

The success of the Bijou Dream is
due to the able management and good
common sense of its manager, Mrs.
J. Clement.

Mrs. Clement has the courage of
her opinions. She does not believe
In posters, as with her good taste she
claims that posters cheapen the ap-
pearance of a theatre, so she has ban-
ished posters from her theatre. The
programme is advertised by means of
neat card signs and a few photographs
occasionally.

While Mrs. Clement is a good musi-
cian herself, she claims that a pipe-
organ or a full orchestra cannot fol-
low the picture in all the quick and
constant jumps, and to her the only
appropriate music is a single pianist
who can play the picture. To this
effect, Mrs. Clement pays a high sal-
ary to a very competent pianist; she
changes her piano twice a year and
has same tuned every week. The re-
sults are that Mrs. Clement has the
reputation of having the picture
played correctly, and even the great
lovers of music of Boston prefer the
single piano of the Bijou Dream to
a full orchestra or pipe-organ to ac-
company the pictures.

Mrs. Clement is very particular on
the selection of the pictures, and be-
cause she always offers a well-bal-
anced programme she has made the
reputation of the Bijou Dream, and
made of this theatre the refined mo-
tion picture show of Boston. J. M. B.

Last Monday the Indianapolis News
held a free exhibition of "Quo Vadis"
for the students and inmates of the va-
rious state schools and benevolent in-
stitutions of Indianapolis. Among the
hundreds of interested visitors were
three hundred children of the State
School for the Deaf. A curious phase
of the affair was the presence of one
hundred blind children, who listened in-
terestedly to the incidental music and
the description of the picture by their
teachers.

Miss Helen Gardner and her com-
pany of feature players will hereafter
release their three-part productions
through the program of Warner's
Features, Inc.

Miss Billie West, formerly with the
American Film Co., has joined the
Majestic Co. to play leads under the
direction of Mr. Albert W. Hale, and
she is doing some excellent work in
a coming Majestic release called "The
Wedding Write-Up,"

WE regret the necessity of this
statement, which we submit to
our fellow exhibitors in explanation
of our action since the New York con-
vention, and up to present date of
writing.

As the strongest local in Ohio we
have supported Mr. Neff to a man in
all things, at all times, except on the
censorship question. Upon that ques-
tion we have differed with him at all
times as a matter of principle only. It
is conceded by Mr. Neff's best friends
that the loyalty of Cleveland delegates
saved him from defeat for re-election
for president at the last National Con-
vention, for with a divided state dele-
gation he would have had no chance.

Since then the Ohio State Censor law
has gone into effect and as a result our
loyal members, while submitting to the
law's decree, have been desirous of
making a friendly test of the consti-
tutionality of said law. Upon this we
are a unit, the result of two special
meetings recently held. We were in
hopes that whatever the outcome we
should naturally be a harmonious unit
after the courts' final decree, but we
regret to report that our fellow mem-
bers on the State Board of Censors
have shown no desire to act impar-
tially, but on the contrary have stirred
up a newspaper controversy which has
been unpleasant for local exhibitors.

THE Eclectic Film Company has
disposed of the state rights for "Les
Miserables" for the territory com-
prising the entire State of New York
to the Gordon Olympia Company,
658 Washington street, Boston, Mass.
The Gordon Olympia Company is
the biggest exhibitor operating in
New England and upper New York.
When seen recently, Mr. N. H. Gor-
don stated that the company had pur-
chased a ten-thousand-dollar organ
which is to be used in connection
with the presentation of "Les Miser-
ables." This adjunct, for which a
suitable musical program has been
compiled, should prove a salient fea-
ture. The resources of the purchas-
ing company guarantee that the
proper exploitation of this film will
be given in the territory just ac-
quired.

The state rights for "Les Miser-
ables" for Western Missouri, Kansas
and Oklahoma have been purchased
by Mr. William Sievers, of the New
Grand Central Theatre, St. Louis,

The climax came when Mr. Neff
caused to be published an article in
which he condemned and ridiculed our
entire 'local membership.

Our most conservative members con-
sider this extremely humiliating and un-
called for, and they resented this action
on the part of Mr. Neff by voting at
our meeting on October 1st to return
our charter and withdraw from the
M. P. E. L. of America. The matter
was again brought up for final action
at a special meeting to-day which re-
sulted in our withdrawal as a League
local.

The best of feeling prevailed at the
meeting and after dissolving as a
League local all present unanimously
voted to reorganize temporarily as the
Cleveland Exhibitors' Association.

We are perfecting plans for a solid
local organization wherein every motion
picture theatre will be represented upon
our roster, and as Cleveland has been
the central battleground of attack from
"cranks" of all kinds, we shall be well
prepared to meet all comers this winter
as usual.

Fraternally yours,

A. MAHVER, SAM BULLOCK,
W. J. GLIMMS.

Press Committee,
Cleveland Local No. 1, M. P. E. L. of A.
October 8, 1913.

Mo., who already controls the rights
for this production in Illinois and
East Missouri. At the presentation
of "Les Miserables" at Mr. Sievers'
theatre in St. Louis, the film created
such a sensation that people were
turned away by the score. At Or-
chestra Hall, in Chicago, 111., where
"Les Miserables" had been showing
for some time past, it met with the
same reception.

The entire country has now been
sold out for "Les Miserables," with
the exception of Western Canada,
west of Port Arthur and Fort Wil-
liams, and three territories in the
States, namely, Nebraska and Iowa,
Texas, Minnesota, and North and
South Dakota. The Eclectic Film
Company has decided not to sell the
state rights for "Les Miserables" or
any other of their features in the ter-
ritory consisting of Arkansas, Louis-
iana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, North and South
Carolina.

The Eclectic Film Co. and
"Les Miserables"

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39

PATHE ANIMAL PICTURES

Mr. J. A. Berst, general manager of
Pathe Freres, has just closed contracts
which assure to that company a new and
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THE Hour of Triumph. Imp. (Oct.
30.) — One of the best productions of
the Imp Company. G. L. Tucker, the
director, deserves commendation for
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wright has his drama refused, but the
manager realizes that he is a great
actor and casts him for a part in an-
other production, for which he has
been unable to find a leading man with
sufficient strength. The new leading
man has a sickly wife, who, unless she
gets from the city, will die of the

white plague. Consequently he works
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poorly played, and the rest of the
cast are in despair. But in the last
scene he rallies and carries so much
strength into his part that the play
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the curtain drops he receives the news
that his wife has died, and from that
moment on he is incapable of anima-
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The Black Sheep. Broncho. (Oct.
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Taming of the Shrew. Jupiter.
(Oct. 27.) — Shakespeare's immortal
comedy of the above title is far too
well known to everyone to necessi-
tate the telling of the story. The
work of the Jupiter, alias Ambrosio
Company, in getting this before the
public in such a form is most com-
mendable. It has often been said
that if one were to try and produce
Shakespeare without his wonderful
wording it would undoubtedly fall to
the ground. But this is disproved,
for Sothern and Marlowe, with all
their art, could not have produced
anything more intelligent than this,
nor could they have pleased the same
audience more.

The Van Warden Jewels. Majes-
tic. The first reel of this picture is
a little weak, and spoils the effect, as
the story really possesses some
strength. It is a detective story, of
the usual kind, not having anything
sufficiently original to recommend it.
The Van Wardens are society people
and while they are entertaining week-
end parties their jewels disappear.
The audience is kept in doubt as to
who the thief is, the son being blamed
as he is known to be heavily in debt?
The real thief is caught after some
clever work by a friend of the
brother. He is one of the house

guests and an adventurer. There is
a pretty love story interwoven in the
yarn. A. M.

THE LIFE OF ST. PATRICK

(Condensed story of the film. For
illustrations see next week's issue.)
The "Life of St. Patrick" is his-
torically interesting to all to whom
the patron saint of Ireland is but an
iota of more importance than a name.

This reproduction of some leading
incidents in the life of the saint has
been prepared by Mr. J. Theobald
Walsh, with the co-operation of a
large number of Irish peasantry,
working for the pure love of the
cause, and the scenes have been all
prepared on Irish soil as near as pos-
sible to the places where history and
tradition tell us the actual events took
place.

We are shown the baptism of little
Patrick; how at the age of five he
receives at his mother's knee his first
knowledge of the story of the Cruci-
fixion.

Later we are shown how he is cap-
tured and taken away to Ireland. He
lands at the Giant's Causeway, and is
sold as a slave to King Milcho, an
Irish King.

For six years he tends his master's
sheep. Then there appears an angel,

who bids him return to his native
land to prepare himselt for a great
mission. As the chronicler puts it:
"He left Ireland a fugitive to return
a conqueror."

He studied under his uncle, St.
Martin, of Tours, and began to preach
Christianity among the Gauls. A
vision appears to him calling him to
Ireland. He sets sail, is driven from
the Irish shore by hostile Pagans,
and at last lands among a friendly
community.

He interests his hosts in his mis-
sion, he is invited to their religious
ceremonies, where he so impresses his
listeners with his definition of the
Trinity by utilizing the shamrock-
leaf as an object lesson that he con-
verts a large number of the audience.

Then we are shown how the mis-
sionary was imprisoned, released by
an angel, and immediately set forth
to attempt the conversion of his for-
mer master, King Milcho. Later on,
at an enormous gathering, met to cel-
ebrate the Baal festivities, Patrick
performs miracles, drives the reptiles
from the land, and destroys the altars
of the idolaters.

He lived to a great age. and his
death was mourned by the entire
Irish nation.

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The Test. Vitagraph. (Oct. 11.)
The name "The Test" does not seem
to be the most appropriate that might
have been chosen out of the many
available. In this case "The Test"
means little, as it refers to such a
small part of the drama. Dick tests
the man that is flirting with his wife
and finds that he is wanting in nerve,
and yet he leaves them together.
That is where the title fails to en-
lighten. However, the name, in this
case a small item, is the only fault
to be found, while there are many
things to recommend it to public
favor.

One of these is the wonderful emo-
tional acting of Clara Kimball Young
as the misguided wife. Her disguise
as a native was also good. The story
offers nothing brand new. It tells of
the jealousy of a woman of her hus-
band, which is entirely undeserved.
His brother officer and friend betrays
his confidence and plants in her head
mischief of all sorts.

The test comes when the husband
discovers the truth, and cuts the
cards with Larry Gordon to deter-
mine who will stay with Eleanor, and
who will leave for the plague camp
in the interior of Africa. The hus-
band wins, but goes in Gordon's
place as he thinks that is what the
girl wishes. She, however, repulses

Larry and in disguise joins her hus-
band and nurses him back to life.
Great attention is paid throughout to
details, and the scenery is excellent.

PATHE WEEKLY No. 57

It is one thing to pick up the daily
paper — one that specializes in for-
eign news will only serve in this
case — and to read through its pages,
analyzing and getting a mind picture
of the most important items, but it is
quite another thing to see them as
plainly as though you were right on
the scene. That is the duty of the
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photographers are as keen reporters
as any star on a New York daily,
when it comes to ferreting out the
important news and getting it.

No. 57 of the Pathe Weekly covers
many countries, opening with pic-
tures of Travers Island in New York,
where they show the amateur ath-
letic sports, following with the un-
veiling of the Harry D. Thomas mon-
ument at Cleveland, O. The youth-
ful King of Spain, who has miracu-
lously escaped assassination so many
times, makes an interesting picture.
The strike of 7,000 miners in Colo-
rado is followed by the giving away

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JOHN J. CAULLET, manager of the
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reports capacity business for four
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of many bushels of apples in Denver
of that state, by the Governor, to
poor worthy citizens. "Steeplejack"
Wilson is pictured in Jersey City in
some of his dangerous work, then a
journey to Paris to see the Sultan of
Morocco, then back to the National
Park in Montana, then to Nebraska,
and then after a lengthy and interest-
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the recent tariff bill just passed.
Surely a pleasant trip!

PATHE WEEKLY No. 58

The truth of the few lines which
precede the foregoing story must
surely be evident to all. What a won-
derful thing it is when we come
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sit in one spot and see the world in
motion before our eyes, but, unlike
the reading of the news of the
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authentically, and not with the tam-
pering that ofttimes accompanies sto-
ries in the press. We read that a
nine-hundred-year-old turtle has been
caught, and that it weighs fifteen
hundred pounds, and that it is to be
stuffed and placed on exhibition. But
to be on the spot, almost, and see the
turtle is most realistic.

(Continued on page 48)

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(Continued from page 44)
The children ot Harlem, New York,
a part of the most congested section
of the city, want another park. They
have but few and it is hard for them.
Their petition and their actions in
presenting it are accurately regis-
tered by the camera-man. The Mis-
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great T. R. on his way to South
America, where he will study politics;
the launching of a new gunboat in
Palermo, Italy — what can be more
education — and finally, by the way of
something lighter, the famous car-
toons of Bud Fisher are run.

The Current. Ramo Three-reels.
There is no greater trouble-bringer
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and distress to all that come in con-
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and sister living in the country, are
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father's death in order to earn their
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been accountable for most of the
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death of the father. The son gets
work in the city only to be discharged
frequently because of his outbursts
of temper. His bad habits lead him
into evil ways, and finally he becomes
a gambler.

Lois, the girl, comes to the city
and gets a place in a department
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from one of the owners and leaves.
She goes into the chorus of a show
and makes a success. The brother
and sister meet later and he "grafts"
everything possible from her. Finally
her fiance gets him a position. Lois
marries a wealthy youth, after his
father had put her through a test to
determine her worth.

Lois again meets the department
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plane, and he again insults her, even
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and steals some jewelry and throws
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her brother, who determines to do
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off. A good, exciting story that will
make a mark.

The Prairie Trail. Bison Two-reel.
A good war story, vibrating with ac-
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Colonel's daughter; Red Wing, an
Indian girl, loves him. and she in turn
is loved by the Indian chief. The In-
dians, led by a renegade, attack a
settlement and kill some white men,
and then decide they will capture the
pay train. To do this it will be nec-
essary to blow up the tracks. The

soldiers hear of this through Red
Wing, who also notifies the train.
The scene where she tells the en-
gineer is cleverly played. She swings
on the engine from her horse. The
train is stopped and reversed in time
and a running fight ensues. The In-
dian girl is killed in saving the man
she loves.

does not seem to care, when he re-
ceives a letter from his childhood
friend asking him to call at her old
home. Here they meet again and
she returns him his money as a wed-
ding dower.

The Spender. Victor Two-reels.
With Florence Lawrence and Tom
McAvoy in the leading parts, a drama
is sure of being cleverly played. The
part of Flo is one that is exactly
suited to the peculiar nature of Miss
Lawrence and she plays with all her
energy. The story starts with the
childhood of two children, Tom and
Flo, switching immediately to years
afterwards, when they have both be-
come "grown ups."

Flo has become a successful actress
and Tom is the town's spendthrift.
They have lost all trace of each other.
Flo recognizes Tom one night at the
theatre and violently flirts with him,
to his great disgust. By many tricks,
she at last gets to know him, and he
becomes interested. She gets him to
give her a large check each time he
calls. Finally he becomes broke, and

Temptation of Jane. Imp Two-
reel. If there was a little more of a
moral lesson attached to this picture,
it would be of more value from an
educational standpoint. As a drama,
it is a success from start to finish. A
girl comes to the city to make her
living, and meets with a profligate.
The latter is wealthy and has nothing
at all to do but amuse himself. She
is working at the time as an artist's
model. The man sends her presents
of clothes, all of which she returns.
Finally she attends a party given by
him in her honor.

At this affair the man finds a note
to her from her mother, telling her
to be virtuous, and it changes his
whole attitude. The mother arrives
unexpectedly and the young million-
aire introduces her as his future
mother to the crowd of society peo-
ple present. The part of Jane is
played by Jane Gail. It is directed
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(Continued from page 48)
by George L. Tucker, wrio also car-
ries the leading part successfully.

The Queen's Jewels. Itala Three-
reel. Poor old Dumas, Sr., has sure-
ly turned over in his grave within the
last few days. Imagine his wonder-
ful story, "The Queen s Necklace,"
which is a continuation of the "Three
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modern drama, with the application
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opinion of the writer, a more fasci-
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Can you imagine anyone being able
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1 would wager that the above picture
by the Itala Company would create
more of a sensation than the original,
in drama, of the same sort. The story
is almost identical, excepting the mod-
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express train, a bicycle, automobiles
galore, and other odds and ends too
many to mention.

When the Queen, as in the original
story, finds that she must have her
brooch (in this case) she sends the
lover ©f her maid, who is an aero-
naut, to recover it from the lover
(who represents , the Duke of Buck-
ingham), to whom she had given it.

He starts with an aeroplane but is
waylaid on the return journey and,
having but a short time to make con-
nections, tries an auto, then a freight
train, and then a passenger train,
from which h© makes a wonderful
leap for life. Then the bicycle, and
finally on foot he enters the city. But
here he is captured again and held.
His hiding of the pin while the search-
ers are at work on him is something
the Itala Company are to be proud
of.

His final escape from the prison
and hand-over-hand walk on a thin
rope, which gives way, are excellent.
For genuine thrills one ought to see
this picture. Finally he lands at the
palace, just in time to give the queen
her brooch, which she has to wear at
the ball. The introduction of the dif-
ference in time is also a good idea.
The whole film is fine. A. M.

A Life for a Life. Film Releases
of America. Three reels. The story
has to do with the time of the "little
general," Napoleon the first, whose
army of devastation in its march
through the heart of Europe prob-
ably caused more graves to be dug
than any other one affair in modern
history. His conscripts were drafted
from the universe, the world was his
suppliant, and his name the terror of
all. Such was the great Napoleon as
history brings him to us.

In this case, Peter, a youthful Ger-
man, is fighting against the invader,

having been dragged away from his
home and sweetheart to fight for his
fireside. He is wounded and captured
by the French and manages to write
a letter home telling of his capture.
The girl determines she will join him
and sets out on a horse. After a
series of adventures she arrives at the
enemy's camp, and through a mighty
clever and original ruse, succeeds in
getting part of the uniform of the
French to Peter, and in this disguise
he makes his escape.

The wonderful scenery shown
throughout could not have been
"caught" anywhere but in the Alps,
where the story is laid. The pair go
to an inn, where they are surprised
by the French and the girl is cap-
tured. In escaping by a rope she is
recaptured and her lover is taken at
the same time. He is sentenced to
be shot the following morning. The
girl, by giving herself to the Captain,
obtains his permission to substitute
blank cartridges for the ball. The
Captain, however, unknown to the
girl, changed the order and Peter is
really killed.

This part is pathetic and one can
hear the sympathies of the audience in
repressed "sniffles" and eye wipings.
The idea is an old one and has been
successfully worked abroad before.
The girl, finally, when she realizes
that she has been "double crossed,"

kills the Captain and surrenders her-
self.

The Gambler's Ruin. Gaumont
two-reels. It will not be overesti-
mating the value of this picture if I
say that it is by far the best picture
that I have seen in a very long time.
This refers in general to photogra-
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picture in itself is a strong object les-
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its hold on humanity.

Six months after Cecilia and Peter
are married the gambling craze com-
mences to show itself in their daily
life, and it is not long after that be-
fore they are separated and the man
is on his downward path to oblivion.
However, after a time when he has
become penniless, he seeks his
father's aid for money and meets
with a refusal. The setting in the
father's rooms are very good. The
father is an old inventor and the cam-
era shows him seated among his in-
struments. He bears a remarkable
resemblance to Thomas A. Edison,
the American genius.

Cecilia also refuses to help Peter,
now that he has become such a wreck.
(Continued on page 52)

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"IN THE DAYS OF TRAJAN"

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Peter, in order to get money, robs a
house in the country in which Cecilia
is now living, she having moved there
to avoid his attentions. He discovers
her and in a moment of fear strangles
her and robs her body. The father
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Peter is caught as a suspect, his
father tries out his invention, not
knowing who the suspect is, and finds
out that he is guilty. Then he dis-
covers Peter's identity, and the fact
that he has this criminal for a son so
shocks him that he drops in a faint,
and so the picture closes.

Much effect is gained throughout
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use of a mirror. The part of Cecilia
is played with much effect by Jane
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INDEPENDENT

AMBROSIO Feet

Sept. 27 — Aissa's Dream (2 Parts)

Oct. 4— The Wild Guardian (2 Parts)

Oct. 11 — Chopin's Nocturne (2 Parts)

AMERICAN

Oct. 2— The Badge of Honor (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 4 — Crooks and Credulous (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 6 — A Pitfall of the Installment Plan

(2 reels) 2000

Oct. 9 — Taming a Cowboy 1000

Oct. 11 — Calamity Anne's Sacrifice (Com.) .. .1000

Oct. 13 — Courage of Sorts (Com.) 625

Oct. 13 — Making Pig Iron 375

Oct. 16— The End of Black Bart (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 18 — The Making of a Woman (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 20— Hidden Treasure Ranch (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 23— The Step Brothers (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 25 — In the Mountains of Virginia (Dr.). 1000 Oct.
Oct. 27 — In the Days of Trajan (2 reel Dr.). 2000 Oct.

Oct. 30— In Three Hours (Dr.) 1000 Oct. 14

Nov. 1 — Follies of a Day and Night (Com.). 1000 Oct. 16

Oct. 16

FEATURE RELEASES

Missing Woman 2500 Oct. 2

The Firefly 3600 Oct.

— Life for a Life 2700 Oct.

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BISON

Oct. 7— The Girl and the Tiger (3 reel Dr.).
Oct. 11 — Fighters of the Plains (2 reel Dr.)..
Oct. 14 — In the Wilds of Africa (2 reels)...
Oct. 18 — Through Barriers of Fire (2 reel

Dr.)

Oct. 21— The She Wolf (3 reel Dr.)

Oct. 25 — The Cowboy Magnate

Oct. 28— The Black Masks (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 1 — From Dawn Till Dark (2 reel Dr.).

Nov. 4 — Captain Kidd (3 reel Dr.)

Nov. 8 — The Prairie Trail (2 reel Dr.)

BRONCHO

Sept. 24— The Silent Hero (2 reels) 200Q

Oct. 1 — The Greenhorn 2000

Oct. 8 — Forgotten Melody (2 reels)

Oct. 15 — The Reaping (2 reels)

Oct. 22— The Black Sheep (2 reels)

Oct. 29 — From Out the Storm (2 reels)

Nov. 5 — The Veteran (2 reels)

CRYSTAL

Oct. 7 — Dress Reform (Com.)

Oct. 7 — Baldy Belmont Wanted a Wife

(Com.)

Oct. 12 — The Woman and the Law (Dr.)

Oct. 14— Pearl's Mistake (Com.)

Oct. 14 — Getting the Grip (Com.)

Oct. 19— Hearts Entangled (Dr.)

Oct. 21 — Willie's Great Scheme (Com.)

Oct. 21— The Turkish Rug (Com.)

Oct. 26 — Robert's Lesson (Dr.)

Oct. 28— His Rich Uncle

Oct. 28— The Game that Failed (Com.)

Nov. 2 — A Hidden Love (Dr.)

Nov. 4— Girls Will Be Boys (Com.)

Nov. 4 — Ashamed to Take the Money (Com.)
Nov. 9— When Duty Calls (Dr.)

DE-KA-GE (Features)

June 23 — Death or Divorce

June 30 — The Stain

DOMINO

Sept. 25— Highland Romance (2 reels) 2070 Oct. 20

Oct. 2— Exoneration (2 reels) 2000 Oct. 23

Oct. 9 — God of Chance (2 reels)

Oct. 16 — Romance of Erin (2 reels)

Oct. 23 — Heart of Kathleen (3 reels)

DRAGON
(Formerly Ryno)

Sept. 1© — Blindness of Courage 3000

Sept. 24— Her Last Ride 3000

Oct. 8 — Daredevil Rodman Law (Special) . .

Oct. 15— Dare Devil Rescue (Special) 3000 Oct. 23

ECLAIR

Oct. 1 — Jacques the Wolf (2 reel Dr.)

Oct. 5 — Private Box No. 23

Oct. 5 — Polyps — Organisms Which Inhabit

Stagnant Waters

Oct. 8 — One of the Rabble (2 reel Dr.)

Oct. 15 — From the Beyond (3 reel Dr.)

Oct. 19 — He Loves to Be Amused

Oct. 19 — Oxygen

Oct. 22 — Big Hearted Jim (2 reel Dr.)

Oct. 26 — The Terrible Outlaw (Com.)

Oct. 29— Cynthy (2 reel Com. Dr.)

Nov. 2 — Success With De-feet

Nov. 2 — Organisms Which Inhabit Stagnant

Waters

Nov. 5 — The Revelation Calliode (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 9 — Oh, What a Dream (Com.)

Nov. 9 — Amber Stone (Edu.)

ECLECTIC

Sept. 8 — The Voice of the Wild

Sept. IS — When Paris Loves

Oct. 2 — Vendetta

Oct. 16 — Message of the Dead

Oct. 30 — The Doom of the Ocean 3000

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FRONTIER

—A Girl of the Dance Halls (Dr.)...
— When Father Goes to Church (Com.)

— Harmony and Discord (Dr.)

— Curing the Doctor (Com.)

I— The Brute (Dr.)

! — Miss Fairweather Out West (Com.).

— Tim's Atonement (Dr.)

When Spirits Walk (Com.)

— His Conscience (Dr.)

i — Slim Gets the Reward (Com.)....
I — The Girl and the Bandit (1 reel Dr.)
GAUMONT

— Weekly No. 82 1000

— A Matrimonial Raffle (Com.)

— Snatched from Death (Dr.)

— Simple Simon's Grizzly Hug (Com.)
-The Venom Institute of Sao Paulo

(Edu.)

Dolly's Strategy (Com.)

Tiny Tim Kidnaps a Baby (Com.)..

The Accusing Eyes (Dr.)

Mexican Pearl Smugglers (Dr.)

The Interrupted Message 1000

Weekly No. 86 1000

Monty and Molly Seek a Divorce

(Com.)

GEM

— None But the Brave Deserve the — ?
— Sanitary Dairy Plant, Washington,

D. C

— The Bachelor Girls' Club (Com.) . .

-The Surf Maidens (Com.)

-His Double Surprise

-A Trip Through Tunis and Algiers..
GREAT NORTHERN

-The Baltic Sea (Sc.)

-A Husband's Strategy 1000

-Who Is Who 982

-A Dilemma 1000

GREAT NORTHERN SPECIAL

-The Rival Brothers 3000

-Secret of the Old Cabinet 3000

-In the Bonds of Passion 3000

UNIVERSAL
-The Great Circus Catastrophe (3

reels)

IMP

-His Priceless Treasure

-Whimsicalities by Hy. Mayer

-The Stolen Love (2 reel Dr.)

-Thou Shalt Not Rubber (Com.)

-Hidden Fires (Dr.)

-The Daredevil Mountaineer (2 reel

Dr.)

-The Beggar and the Clown

-Leaves from Hy. Mayer's Sketch

Book

-The Big Sister (2 reel Dr.)

-The Anarchist (Dr.)

-Jane of Moth Eaton Farm (Dr.)

-His Hour of Triumph (2 reel Dr.).
-The Temptation of James (2 reel

Dr.)

-The Old Parlor (1 reel Dr.)

ITALA (Features)

-Unmasked

-The Gypsy Kiss 2200 Oct. 10

-Queen's Jewels 3000

JOKER

-The Tramp Dentists (Com.)

-Throwing the Bull (Com.)

-Mike and Jake Go Fishing (Com.)

-Love and Limburger (Com.)

KAY-BEE

-Loaded Dice (1 reel) 1000

-The Bully (1 reel)

-Venetian Romance (1 reel)

A Woman's Wit (1 reel)

Borrowed Gold (1 reel)

-For Mother's Sake (1 reel)

KEYSTONE

-Bowling Match 1135

Billy Dodges Bills 1000 Oct- 2«

Across the Alley — Abelone Industry .1000 XCt' o?

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Schnitz the Tailor ". . °ct- 31_

Their Husbands

A Healthy Neighborhood Oct. 10 — '

A Quiet Little Wedding Oct. 17

The Tanitor — Making An Automobile Oct. 24 —

Tire Oct. 27—'

The Speed Kings: Earl Cooper, Oct. 31-

Teddy Tetzlaff Nov. 3

KOMIC Feet

— It Happened in Haverstraw

An Overall Outing

— Dobbs Forgot the Coal

— The Birthday Party

Old Heads and Young Hearts

LEWIS PENNANTS

-Decreed to Die 300f

My Boy

LUX
By Prieur

In a Granite Quarry (Ind.) 375

— When a Man's Married (Com.) 750

•Terrible Bobby (Com.) 235

MAJESTIC

The Ice Man's Revenge

The Van Warden Rubies

■The Wedding Write-Up

— Through the Sluice Gates..

— Always Together

■Revenge

-The Scenario Writer

NESTOR

Patsy's Luck (Com.)

Their Two Kids (Com.)

•The Brigand (1 reel W. Dr.)

Under Western Skies (Dr.)

Hawkeye's Great Capture (Com.) . .
•Tightwad Buys a Laundry (Com.)

A Man of the People (Dr.)

Curses! Said the Villain (Com.)

Western Hearts (1 reel Dr.)

His Wife's Burglar (Com.)

PILOT

The Green-Eyed Monster (Com.

Dr.) 10M

Getting the Evidence (Dr.) 100*

POWERS

-His Pal's Bequest (Dr.)

-The Kid (Com.)

-A Man In the World of Men (2

reel Dr.)

-Playmates (Dr.)

-The Bee Industry (Edu.)

-The Lesson the Children Taught

(Com.)

-The Heart of a Cracksman

RAMO

-The Current (Dr.) 300(1

-Wives 3000

RELIANCE

-The Rebellious Pupil (Dr.) 1060

-Poor Old Mother (1 reel)

-The Flirt (1 reel)

-A Knight Errant (1 reel)

-Oh! What a Night

-Two Men and a Mule (Series 1) . . . .

-The Heart of a Rose

-Hearts (2 reels)

-The Real Mother

-Two Men and a Mule (Series 2)...
REX

-The Criminals (2 reel Dr.)

-The Thumb Print (2 reel Dr.)

-When Death Unites (Dr.) /

-The Clue (Dr.)

-Tewels of Sacrifice (Dr.)

-The Pine Needle Test (2 reel Dr.)..
-The End of the Road (2 reel Dr.)..

-The Haunted Bride (Dr.)

SOLAX

-Handcuffed for Life (Com.) 1000

-Bachelor's Waterloo (Com.) 1006

■Fisherman's Luck (Com.) 1000

-Ish Gabibble (Com.) 1006

Rogues of Paris 4000

The Movies 1000

SCANDINAVIAN FEATURE

-Wandering Folk (2-reel Dr.)

THANHOUSER

The Deep Sea Lair

•The Silver-tongued Orator

A Girl Worth While

A Peaceful Victory

Beauty in the Seashell

The Mystery of the Haunted Hotel..

The Old Folks at Home

The Silver Tongued Orator

How Filmy Won His Sweethear" . . .

A Twentieth Century Farmer

VICTOR

The Winner (2 reel Dr.)

The Girl of the Woods (2 reel Dr.)

For Old Love's Sake (Dr.)

The Restless Spirit (3 reel Dr.)

The Spender (2 reel Dr.)

The Ring of Sorrow (1 reel Dr.)..

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BIOGRAPH

Sept. 29— Dyed, But Not Dead (Com.) ......

Sept. 29 — With the Aid of Phrenology (Com.)

Oct. 2— A Tender-Hearted Crook (Dr.)

Oct. 4— The Chieftain's Sons (Dr.)

Oct. 6 — His Secret (Dr.)

Oct. 9 — Never Known to Smile (Com.) .

Oct. 9 — Scenting a Terrible Crime (Com.).

Oct. 11— So Suns the Way (Dr.)

Oct. 13 — McGann and His Octette (Com.) . .

Oct. IS — Aunts, Too Many (Com.)

Oct. 16 — Red and Pete, Partners (Dr.)

Oct. 18— The Girl Across the Way (Dr.)

Oct. 20 — The Van Nostrand Tiara (Dr.)

Oct. 23— The Winning Punch (Com.)

Oct. 25— The Madonna of the Storm (Dr.)..

Nov. 23 — A Fallen Hero (Com.)

CINES
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Sept. 2— The Sign of the Black Lily (Part I

& II) (Dr.) 1970

Sept. 9 — The Mysterious Man (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 1980

Sept. 16— High Treason (Part I & II) (Dr.). 1806
Sept. 23 — For His Brother's Crime (Part I &

II) (Dr.) 2000

Sept. 30 — Misgotten Gains (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 2100

Oct. 7— The Flower of Destiny (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 2000

Oct. 21— The Wheels of Justice (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 2000

Oct. 21— The Wheels of Justice (Dr.) Parts I

and II

EDISON

Oct. 6 — Birds of the Southern Sea Coast

(Des.) 300

Oct. 6 — A Short Life and a Merry One

(Com.) 700

Oct. 7— A Wilful Colleen's Way (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 8 — The Pink Granite Industry at Mil-
ford (Des.) 400

Oct. 8— Boy Wanted (Com.) 600

Oct. 10 — In the Shadow of the Mountains

(Dr.) 2000

Oct. 11— The Girl and the Outlaw (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 13 — Bill's Career as Butler (Com.) 1000

Oct. 14— The Family's Honor (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 15— The Widow's Suitors (Com.) 1000

Oct. 17 — The Foreman's Treachery (Dr.)... 2000

Oct. 18 — Twice Rescued (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 20 — Hiram Green, Detective (Com.) 1000

Oct. 21— Reginald's Courtship (Com.) 1000

Oct. 22 — Jaffa, the Seaport of Jerusalem (Sc.) 400

Oct. 22 — His First Performance (Com.) 600

Oct. 24 — Silas Marner (2 Parts) 2000

Oct. 25 — A Proposal from — Nobody, being the
fourth story of 'Who Will

Marry Mary" (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 27 — Across Swift Current Pass on Horse-
back (Sc.) 400

Oct. 27 — A Hornet's Nest (Com.) 600

Oct. 28 — A Daughter of the Wilderness (Dr.). 1000

Oct. 29— The Horrible Example (Com.) 1000

Oct. 31— Janet of the Dunes (Dr.) 2000

Nov. 1— A Woodland Paradise (Com.) 1000

Nov. 3— Wild Wales (Sc.) 350

Nov. 3 — Porgy's Bouquet (Com.) 650

Nov. 4 — Tommy's Stratagem (Com.) 1000

Nov. 5 — Archie and the Bell-boy (Com.) 1000

Nov. 7 — A Face from the Past (Dr.) Parts I

and II 2000

Nov. 8— Elise (Dr.) 1000

ESSANAY

Oct. 3 — Tony, the Fiddler (Special — 2 parts

—Dr.) 2000

Oct. 4— The Struggle (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 6— The End of the Run (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 8 — The Riddle of the Tin Soldier (2 reel

Dr.) 2000

Oct. 10 — Pete's Insurance Policy (Com.)

Oct. 10 — The Sea Scouts of America (Top.).

Oct. 11— The Influence of a Child (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 13— The Hermit's Ruse (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 14 — Three Scraps of Paper (Dr.)

Oct. 15 — The Vampire (2 reel Dr.) 2000

Oct. 15 — Their Waterloo (Com.)

Oct. 16 — A Borrowed Identity (Com.)

Oct. 17 — Broncho Billy Gets Square (Dr.)

(Parts I & II)

Oct. 17 — The Troublesome Telephone (Com.)
Oct. 17 — The Boston Floating Hospital (Top.)
Oct. 18 — The Railroad Detective's Dilemma

(Dr.) 1000

Oct. 18 — "Alkali" Ike and the Wild Man

(Com.)

Oct. 21— The Way Perilous (Dr.)

Oct. 22 — Day by Day (Com.)

Oct. 23— The Kid Sheriff (Com. Dr.)

Oct. 24 — The Love Lute of Romany (Dr.)

Parts I and II

Oct. 25 — Broncho Billy's Elopement (Dr.)

Oct. 28— Thy Will "Be Done (Dr.)

Oct. 29 — Cupid and Three (Com.)

Oct. 30 — Greed for Gold (Dr.)

Nov. 1 — The Doctor's Duty (Dr.)

Nov. 4 — 'Quicksands of Sin (Dr.)

KALEM

Oct. 6— The End of the Run (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 8— The Riddle of the Tin Soldier

(Special 2 Parts — Dr.) 2000

Oct. 10 — Pete's Insurance Policy (Com.) . .
Oct. 10 — The Sea Scouts of America (Edu.)
Oct. 11— The Influence of a Child (Dr.).. 1000

Oct. 13 — The Hermit's Ruse (Dr.)

Oct. 15— The Vampire (Dr.) (Parts I, II

& III)

Oct. 17— The Troublesome Telephone (Com.)
Oct. 18 — The Railroad Detective's Dilemma

(Dr.)

Oct. 20— The Dumb Messenger (Dr.)

Oct. 22 — A Daughter of the Underworld (Dr.)

Parts I and II

Oct. 24 — Jimmie's Finish (Com.)

Oct. 24 — Betty Buttin and the Bad Man

(Com.)

Oct. 25— A Railroader's Warning (Dr.)

LUBIN

Sept. 23 — A Mexican Tragedy 1000

Sept. 25— Self Convicted 2000

Sept. 26 — Winning His Wife 1006

Sept. 27 — The Great Discovery 1000

Sept. 29 — The Invader 1000

Sept. 30 — The Actress and Her Jewels 400

Sept. 30— The Constable's Daughter 600

Oct. 2 — The Special Officer 2000

Oct. 3 — The Scarf Pin 1080

Oct. 4 — For Her Brother's Sake 1000

Oct. 6— The Counterfeiter's Fate 1000

Oct. 7 — The Two Cowards 1000

Oct. 9 — Breed of the North 2000

Oct. 10 — The Drummer's Narrow Escape.... 400

Oct. 10 — Going Home to Mother 600

Oct. 11— The Higher i^aw 1000

Oct. 13 — The Fiancee and the Fairy 1000

Oct. 14 — A Deal in Oil 1000

Oct. 16 — The Taking of Rattlesnake Bill 2000

Oct. 17 — The Mate of the Schooner Sadie.. 1000

Oct. 18— The Highest Bidder 400

Oct. 18 — A Sleepy Romance 600

Oct. 20 — Father's Choice 400

Oct. 20 — All On Account of Daisy 600

Oct. 21 — Her First Offense 1000

Oct. 23— The Evil Eye 2000

Oct. 24 — The Man in the Hamper 1000

Oct. 25 — Mother Love 1000

Oct. 27— The Man of Him 1000

Oct. 28 — Making Good 400

Oct. 28— Giving Bill a Rest 600

Oct. 30 — The Rattlesnake (2 reels) 2000

Oct. 31 — A Momentous Decision 1000

Nov. ] — When the Prison Doors Opened. . .1000

Nov. 3— The Double Chase (Com.) 1000

Nov. 4 — Magic Melody (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 6 — The Price of Victory (2 reel Dr.).. 2000

Nov. 7 — Cocoanut Industry (Edu.) 400

Nov. 7— Getting The Best of Dad (Com.) 600

Nov. 8 — Hiawanda's Cross (Dr.) 1000

Q. MELIES

Sept. 18 — Home Life in Japan (Manners and

Customs) 1000

Sept. 18- — A Japanese Funeral

Sept. 25 — A Cambodian Idyll (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 2 — Things Japanese (Edu.) 1000

Oct. 9 — Cast Amid Boomerang Throwers

(Com.) 1000

Oct. 16— Scenes of Cochin-China (Sc.) 1000

Oct. 23— Old and New Tahiti (Dr.)

PATHE FREB.ES

Sept. 29 — Pathe's Weekly

Sept. 30 — Lillie's Nightmare

Sept. 30 — Deschutes Canyon (Washington) ....

Oct. 1 — Oxygen

Oct. 1 — Along the Padas River

Oct. 2 — Pathe's Weekly

Oct. 2 — The Depths of Hate

Oct. 3 — A Clever Story

Oct. 4— A Wall Street Wail...

Oct. 4 — Riding the Flume

Oct. 6 — PatheTs Weekly No. 56

Oct. 7— Plants Which Eat

Oct. 7 — How Mountains Grow

Oct. 7 — A Journey Through Crimea (Travel)

Oct. 8 — The Smuggler (Dr.)

Oct. 9 — Pathe's Weekly No. 57

Oct. 9 — Two Mothers (Special — 2 Parts —

Dr.)

Oct. 10 — The Millionaire's Ward (Dr.)

Oct. 11— Talkative Tess (Com.)

Oct. 13 — Pathe's Weekly No. 58

Oct. 14 — A Yankee in Mexico (Dr.)

Oct. 14 — The Petrified Forests of Arizona

(Geology)

Oct. 15— The Bullet s Mark (Dr.)

Oct. 16 — In the Haunts of Fear (Dr.) (Parts

I & II)

Oct. 16 — Pathe's Weekly No. 59 (News)

Oct. 17 — Her Hour (Dr.)

Oct. 18 — A Plant with Nerves — Mimosa

Pudica (Botany)

Oct. 18 — St. Claude and Its Environs, France

(Sc.)

Oct. 20— Pathe's Weekly

Oct. 21— The Poisoned Stream (Dr.)

Feat

Oct. 22 — Dodging Matrimony (Com.)

Oct. 23— The^ rjeath Song (Dr.) Parts I and

Oct. 23— Pathe's' Weekly' No." 61 ' (News)
Oct. 24— Breeding Trout by the Million (Ind.)
Oct. 24 — Honfleur — An Old Coast Town of

Northern France (Travel)

Oct. 25— Gypsy Love (Dr.)

SELIG

Sept. 26 — The Policeman and the Baby

(Com.) 600

Sept. 26— The Taj Mahal, Agra, India (Edu.) 500
Sept. 29 — The Invisible Government (Dr.

2 reels) 2000

Sept. 30— The False Friend (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 1— The Cattle Thief's Escape (Dr.).. 500

Oct., 1 — Rangoon, India (Edu.) 600

Oct. 2 — Our Neighbors (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 3 — John Bousall of the U. S. Secret

Service (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 6 — The Conscience Fund (2 reel Dr.).. 2000
Oct. 7 — The Missionary and the Actress

(Dr.) 1090

Oct. 8 — The Dream of Dan McGuire (Com.). 1000

Oct. 9 — Saved from the Vigilantes (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 10— Ceylon Tea Estate (Edu.) 50C

Oct. 10— Only Five Years Old (Dr.).... 500

Oct. 13— The Bridge of Shadows (2 reel Dr.). 2000

Oct. 14 — The Silver Grindstone (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 15— As a Father Spareth His Son (Dr.). 1000

Oct. 16— The Golden Clouo. (Dr.) 600

Oct. 16— The Abduction of Pinkie (Com.) ... 600
Oct. 17 — The Woman of the Mountains (Dr.). 1000

Oct. 20 — The Finger-Print (2 reel Dr.) 2000

Oct. 21 — Surf and Sunset on the Indian

Ocean (Edu.) 500

Oct. 21 — Dishwash Dick's Counterfeit (Com.) 500

Oct. 22 — Dorothy's Adoption (Dr.) l«O0

Oct. 23— Life for Life (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 24 — Destiny of the Sea (Sr.} 1000

Oct. 27— The Pendulum of Fate

Oct. 28— When May Weds December

Oct. 29 — Two Sacks of Potatoes

Oct. 29 — A Muddle in Horse Thieves

Oct. 30 — Old Doc Yac and the Artist's Dream

Oct. 31 — The Dangling Noose

Nov. 4 — Slipping Fingers

Nov. 5 — The Probationer

Nov. 6 — The Conversion of Mr. Anti

Nov. 7 — The Schoolmarm's Shooting Match..

URBAN ECXIPSE
George Kleine

July 11— The Statue of Fright (Dr.) (Part I

and Part II) 1770

Aug. 12— The Mong-Fu-Tong (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 1800

Aug. 19— The Clown's Revenge (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 2000

Oct. 14— The Last Minute (Dr.) (Part I

& II) 2000

Oct. 28— The Rajah's Diamond Rose (Part

I & II) (Dr.) 2000

VITAGRAPH

Sept. 30— Which? (Com.) ...1000

Oct. 1 — The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction

(Com.) 1000

Oct. 2— Salvation Sal (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 3 — The Treasure of Desert Isle (Com.

Dr.) 1000

Oct. 4 — The Mystery of the Silver Skull (2

part Special — Dr.) 2000

Oct. 6 — Ann of the Trails

Oct. 7 — A Homespun Tragedy

Oct. 8 — When Friendship Ceases

Oct. 9 — Heartbroken Shep

Oct. 10 — Cutey's Waterloo

Oct. 11— The Test (Special Two-Part Fea-
ture)

Oct. 13 — Mrs. Upton's Device

Oct. 14— The Ballyhoo's Story

Oct. 15 — Master Fixit

Oct. 15 — Buddhist Temples & Worshippers..

Oct. 16— The Outlaw

Oct. 17 — Matrimonial Manoeuvres

Oct. 18 — The Pirates (2 Part Special)

Oct. 20— The White Feather

Oct. 21 — Luella's Love Story

Oct. 22 — Sleuths Unawares

Oct. 22 — Low Caste Burmese

Oct. 23 — The Doctor's Secret

Oct. 24— On Their Wedding Eve

Oct. 25 — The Next Generation (2 Part
Special)

Oct. 27 — At the Sign of the Lost Angel

Oct. 28— In the Shadow

Oct. 29 — Father's Hatband

Oct. 30 — Bianca

Oct. 31 — Fatty's Affair _ of Honor

Oct. 31 — Performing Lions

Nov. 1 — The Warmakers (2 part Special) ....

Nov. 3 — The King's Man

Nov. 4 — His Silver Bachelorhood

Nov. 5 — The Hoodoo Umbrella

Nov. 5 — Scenic

Nov. 6 — A Broken Melody

Nov. 7 — Flaming Hearts

Nov. 8— The Diver (2 part Special)

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STATE RIGHT BUYERS

Are going to make a lot of money out of the newest big release

"A BOY AND THE LAW"

FEATURING

JUDGE WILLIS BROWN

AND HIS FAMOUS PARENTAL COURT AND BOY CITY

It's the exciting life-story of a really wonderful boy, following him through
the persecution of Jews in Russia; imprisonment and escape to the U. S. ; through
law defying gang-life here; through the Juvenile Court and a great citizen fac-
tory till he becomes the first Mayor of a real City of Boys, and then on to hon-
orable American citizenship.

FIVE REELS OF REAL LIFE

Just the kind of feature every manager is waiting for — true, exciting, and
at the same time educational and uplifting. It will appeal to boys, girls, men
and women alike.

The most successful feature film Selig ever produced was Judge Brown's
"City of Boys," simply a few scenes in Boytown.

"A Boy and the Law" is Judge Brown's second and much bigger venture
in the Movies. It's a real Photoplay. He appears personally in many of the
hundred and fifty scenes.

It is good for the regular moving picture houses or may be booked in the
large theatres and opera houses at advanced prices. Some state right buyers are
preparing to do this. Premier in New York will be at the big New York Theatre
on Broadway the week of Oct. 27. Come and see it.

BETTER HURRY— STATES GOING FAST

YOUTH PHOTO PLAY CO.

W. W. YOUNG, Manager

7th Floor, Candler Building, 220 W. 42nd St., New York City

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THE FIRST "JOKER" COMEDY WILL BE RELEASED SATURDAY, OCT. 25TH,

to be followed by other "Joker" brand comedies every Saturday and Wednesday. They are
screams! They are going to tickle the whole world. DEMAND THEM!

THE FIRST WARREN KERRIGAN FEATURE WILL BE RELEASED MONDAY,

Oct. 27th, a 3-reel Victor entitled "The Restless Spirit." You'll see Kerrigan at his best,
in a lavish production. Make preparations for "Kerrigan Day" NOW !

THE THIRD FLORENCE LAWRENCE FEATURE WILL BE RELEASED FRIDAY,

Oct. 31st, a 2-reel Victor entitled "The Spender." Remember that your exchange will have
to charge you extra for it. Book it at any cost. YOU'LL MAKE A CLEAN-UP !

ANNOUNCEMENT SLIDES OF ALL OUR FEATURES CAN BE OBTAINED FROM

any Universal exchange for 25 cents each. It's the most inexpensive form of advertising
in the world. Go to it and build up your business at slight cost !

HANDSOME HERALDS FOR ALL UNIVERSAL FEATURES CAN BE OBTAINED

from any exchange booking the Universal Program, cheaper than you can get dodgers
printed in your home town. Boost your business on slack clays with heralds !

STUNNING ITALIAN BRONZE PHOTOS OF ALL OUR STARS MAY BE OB-

tained in 11x14 sizes for $1.50 per dozen, assorted. Send money and list of stars you
select direct to your exchange and you'll get a corking good bargain !

DON'T FORGET

"Captain Kidd," the most daring 3-reel Feature ever made in America, will be released
Tuesday, Nov. 4. The first of the great Pirate Series taken under the direction of Otis
Turner on San Francisco Bay. Most stunning 6-sheet, 3-sheet and two kinds of one-sheet
posters ever used for moving pictures. REMEMBER to demand it from your exchange !

UNIVERSAL FILM MANUFACTURING COMPANY

CARL LAEMMLE, President

Mecca Building, Broadway and 48th Street, New York, N. Y.

"THE LARGEST FILM MANUFACTURING CONCERN IN THE UNIVERSE."

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AMBROSIO'S MASTERPIECE

6 reels THE BETROTHED e reels

has been secured by L. Germain for the states of New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Ohio and Indiana

REMEMBER This is Ambrose's.

From the World's Greatest Romance, by Alexander Manzoni.

This production has taken nine months of artistic effort to complete, re-
gardless of cost.

WHAT MORE ? In presenting this extraordinary Photo-play, the Exhibitor offers his patrons

indeed a " thing of beauty and a joy forever." Its scenic effects are worthy
of Belasco.

T H E S T O R Y Mr. W. Stephen Bush, of the Moving Picture World, writes : " You laugh

and weep and laugh again and weep again, and it makes us feel glad we
are living."

BE IN THE LEAD AS AN EXHIBITOR— WE'LL SHOW YOU SOMETHING IN

FEATURES AND SERVICE

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WITH BRANCHES AT PHILADELPHIA, NEW JERSEY, CLEVELAND, DAYTON

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In All the Hubbub- Just Get This:

Shouting doesn't make a service good.

General Film would be just as desirable if we didn't
advertise.

The only reason we advertise is to tell you about certain
things which otherwise, you might have difficulty in find-
ing out.

We don't want to shout. We simply want to sit down
with you quietly and call your attention to the pictures them-
selves. They tell a story of excellence — consistent excellence
—that is self-evident. In other words, the goods that we are
selling, sell themselves to you and to your patrons — if you
give them a chance. This advertising is only to persuade you
not to overlook this chance.

"THE PENDULUM OF FATE"
Selig. Two Reels. Released Oct. 27

Lord Philip had to keep his marriage secret for twenty-five
years. And when his father, the old Earl, finally died, his
younger brother sought the title. Intrigue of the deepest
character follows the thread of this picturesque production,
until the family of the rightful heir comes into its own.
Dramatic and impelling action.

"THE RAJAH'S DIAMOND ROSE"
Cines-Kleine. Two Reels. Released Oct. 28

The unscrupulous Count had a way of showing his friends his
beautiful diamond rose and then leaving them alone with it.
If they touched it, an automatic camera caught them red-handed
and the Count asked big black-mail. The sister of a youth thus
dishonored exposed -the fraud — the diamond was bogus.

Lubin.

'THE RATTLESNAKE"

Two Reels. Released Oct. 30

A weird story of a man's gratitude to a snake for saving his
life. He takes the serpent home to live with him, and then con-
ceives the idea of having the snake kill the man who won his
sweetheart. He places it in the other man's bed. But when
the little daughter of the girl he loved creeps into the bed, it
is too much even for this half demented creature. He saves
her. Action" Whew!

"THE TOLL OF THE MARSHES"
Essanay. Two Reels. Released Oct. 31

An interesting presentation of the land swindler evil. The
company goes on selling swampland in place of farms until the
president takes his family to the scene of his operations where
his little daughter is lost in the marshes. Then one of the
victims proves his worth by risking his life to return the girl
and restitution is made.

MOTION PICTURE DANCING LESSONS
Kalem. Three Parts. Released Oct. 29

Something brand new — the tango and the turkey-trot and the
waltz taught by the screen. Wallace McCutcheon and Miss Joan
Sawyer, whose dancing has been the feature of the New York
Roof Garden this summer, appear in these interesting steps in
Mr. McCutcheon's studio, his "Ecole du Danse." Special music
with each film. A genuine sensation.

"WHEN CHILDHOOD WINS"
Patheplay. Two Reels. Released Oct. 29

Against her father's will a girl marries an artist. The angry
father cuts her off. They are separated for years until her little
daughter meets an old gentleman on the street and unknowingly
captures her grandfather's heart. The reconciliation comes when
the little girl falls ill. A wonderfully human, sympathetic story.

"JANET OF THE DUNES"
Edison. Two Reels. Released Oct. 31

Another brilliant feature by the author of "Joyce of the North
Woods." This time the heroine is a girl of the surf-pounded
beaches and the wind-swept dunes. She is reared by old Capt.
Billy who loved her mother. The girl delights in rummaging
through the library of one of the wealthy summer residents. He
finds her, and his friend, an artist, loves her. They find that the
wealthy man is the girl's own father.

"THE WAR MAKERS"
Vitagraph. Two Reels. Released Nov. 1

Here is diplomacy at its most exciting angle. The ambassador
tricks the Secretary of War to bring the new war plans to a
great dinner at the Embassy. Then all the guests receive a wine
that contains "the sleeping death." The beautiful- spy sails for
Europe with the plans, but is caught by the cleverness of the
Secretary's wife.

GENERAL FILM COMPANY, (Inc.)

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The fact that this learned body of scientists selected the Simplex projector for
their work is conclusive proof that it is scientifically correct and mechanically
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No greater ccmpliment can be paid to any machine than the endorsement of
such an Institution.

It should be of great encou "agement to the trade that the price of the Simplex
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(Copyright 1913, By Photo Drama Co.)

As Presented in America by

GEORGE KLEINE

Has Again Shattered All Known Attendance Records Here and Abroad !
This Magnificent Photo-Drama is Now Available for Theatres of All Kinds.

You Can Rent or Share

"The Last Days of Pompeii"! You can pack your house to the uttermost — clean
up a month's profit in a single day and leave in the minds of your patrons an un-
forgettable impression of a night of joy !

Thursday, October 16th, was a rainy, cold and foggy day. The Great De Luxe
Theatre at Evanston and Wilson Avenues, considered one of the finest picture theatres
in Chicago, billed "THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII" for a single night. Thou-
sands were turned away! Enthusiasm became almost a riot — help was needed to
keep the throngs in line at 20 cents a head ! Streets were impassable for the third
and last show at 9.30 P.M. ! Automobiles lined the curb for two blocks either way —
women fainted in the pushing crowds — electric fans over the box office were turned
into the mass, despite the cold — The De Luxe never saw its like before or since!

You can do the same. Write quick if you want the benefit of this mighty
subject while still new in your territory!

"The Last Days of Pompeii" was made at Turin and Pompeii, Italy.
5000 people were employed in the making — a tremendous throng that gives
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Keep Your Stars Before the Public!

Your Present Method of Advertising Attracts the Passer-By
Our Publicity Cuts Go Into the Homes and Bring Them Out
They Stimulate Old Business — They Create New Business

ENTERPRISING, progressive exhibitors
everywhere are successfully using the
amusement columns or the daily and
weekly newspapers to advertise their coming at-
tractions and to keep their
stars before the public. If you
are not doing the same thing,
BEGIN NOW AND
WATCH YOUR AUDI-
ENCES GROW. The best
way to get this publicity free
is to furnish your local news-
paper with it in the most con-
venient and attractive form,
the way the publisher wants
it. That's just what we are
doing for you. We know
how they want it and we are
supplying it accordingly. We
print in the accompanying
catalogue cuts of well known
and popular players. The
cuts and borders are gotten
up in newspaper style, ready
for use.

Every exhibitor should run
one or more of these beautiful
cuts in his local paper at least
once or twice per week.
Playgoers who have through habit been patron-
izing other houses regularly, will see your an-
nouncement, will be attracted by the picture of
an old favorite, and you will see new faces at
the performance and increased receipts at the
box office.

At regular intervals you should run in the
amusement columns a cut of one of the players
who appears on your screen, with the wording
below "Now Playing at ," insert-

The cut printed herewith is a sample
of the cuts we manufacture. We will
supply you with a similar cut of any
actor or actress in fllmdom.

ing the name of your theatre, followed by a brief
write-up of the actor or actress, which we supply.
These faces are old friends to thousands of play-
goers and many persons who have settled down
at home for the evening will
see the photograph of their
favorite actor or actress and
visit your theatre. In other
words these illustrations will
stimulate old business and
create new business, all of
which means increased re-
ceipts.

These New Process Cuts
are something new, something
the publisher of your paper
has perhaps never seen before,
and you will find that he will
be glad to run them for you. If
you print a program or if you
distribute circulars you can also
use the cuts for that purpose.

Under each cut we print
the name and number. The
price of the small cuts is 25c.
each, or $2.50 per doz., all
transportation charges prepaid.
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SHOUTING DOESN'T MAKE A
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but this massive production in six reels, produced at enormous
cost, will prove to be the greatest money -making attraction
ever put before the public. Motion picture lovers will demand
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ANNOUNCEMENT

We are now printing the word
" Eastman " on the margin of all our
Cine film. We want the exhibitor to
know when he is and when he is not
getting Eastman film. It will be to his
advantage — and ours.

Of course it will take time for such
identifiable films to reach the consumer
— so don't expect results at once — but
it's a step in the right direction — for
your interests and ours.

EASTMAN KODAK CO.

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UNITED KINGDOM FILMS ENGLAND

I See Americans First

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A Variety of "Flying A" Features by
Prominent Artists.

THE GIRL AND THE GREASER

A Western drama.

Release, Monday, Nov, 3, 1913.

WHAT HER DIARY TOLD,

An excellent society drama.

Release, Thursday, Nov. 6, 1913.

THE HAUNTED HOUSE.

A society drama enacted on the Pacific Coast.
Release, Saturday, Nov. 8, 1913.

ONE AND THREE SHEET STRIKING FOUR
COLOR LITHOGRAPHS ON ALL THESE
SUBJECTS.

Watch Announcements For
'THE TRAIL OF THE LOST CHORD."
A Powerful Two Part Adaptation.
Release, Monday, Nov. 17, 1913.

AMERICAN FILM MANUFACTURING CO., Chicago

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EDISON FILMS

Make the Edison two reel Friday release part of your regular weekly

program.

Coming Two Reel Releases

***SILAS MARNER

From the famous novel by George Eliot.

We have preserved all the dramatic situations of
George Eliot's great novel and have worked out her
vivid character descriptions in a way that is sure to
make a strong appeal to the thousands who are
familiar with the novel. The film, as a film, will
win the favor of those who do not know the novel
because of the many big dramatic moments in the
life of the weaver, Silas Marner.

Released Friday, October 24th

***JANET OF THE DUNES

From the novel by Harriet T. Comstock.

When Devant deserts his country bred wife she
flings herself into the sea, leaving little Janet in care
of Captain Billy. The girl finds a secret entrance
into a deserted house — Devant's — and is discovered
there by him although he does not suspect her
identity. An artist friend of his paints Janet, and
falls in love with her. Devant learns who she is
and, overcome by remorse, swears to atone for the
desertion of her mother.

Released Friday, October 31st

Coming Edison Single Reels

**A PROPOSAL FROM— NOBODY

Being the fourth story of "Who Will Marry Mary?"
Mary falls into the hands of a half crazed Maine guide.

Released Saturday, October 25th.

*A HORNET'S NEST

A case of mistaken indentity.

(On the same reel)

ACROSS SWIFTCURRENT PASS ON
HORSEBACK

Released Monday, October 27th.

*A DAUGHTER OF THE WILDERNESS

A powerful dramatic tale of the Canadian woods.

Released Tuesday, October 28th.

*THE HORRIBLE EXAMPLE

Picturing the downfall of a rabid prohibitionist.
Released Wednesday, October 29th.

**A WOODLAND PARADISE

Beautiful settings add to the charm of the comedy.
Released Saturday, November 1st.

-PORGY'S BOUQUET

A terrible warning to jealous husbands.

(On the same reel)

WILD WALES

Released Monday, November 3rd.

-TOMMY'S STRATAGEM

Tommy wins a home and unites a drifting couple.
Released Tuesday, November 4th.

** ARCHIE AND THE BELL-BOY

The bell-boy makes a man of pampered Archie.
Released Wednesday, November 5th.

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PRESENTS

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IN S1LV1LN REXLS

By

Jack London

We are the only authorized producers
in motion pictures of all Jack London's
literary work, past, present and future.

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aluminum paints and metalized screens such as so-called gold
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LOOK FOR OUR TWO REEL PICTURES EVERY THURSDAY
"THE PRICE OF VICTORY" Two-Reel Thursday, November 6th

A dramatic incident of the Civil War

"THE SEA ETERNAL"
Two-Reel Thursday, November 13th

A wonderful melodrama of the sea coast

"PARTNERS IN CRIME"
Three-Reel Thursday, November 20th

A powerful story of a gang of swell yeggmen

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Five Releases Each Week

"MAKING GOOD"
400 Feet Tuesday, October 28th

,.An odd courting episode with lots of
•laughs

"GIVING BILL A REST"
600 Feet Tuesday, October 28th

The sorrows of a husband who is too big for
enjoyment

"THE RATTLESNAKE"
2,000 Feet Thursday, October 30th

A strangely dramatic and physiological story,
with love intensified

"A MOMENTOUS DECISION"
1,000 Feet Friday, October 31st

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Volume VIII

November 1, 1913

Number 17

BIG BILL" STEINER

North American Film Corporation Takes the Field

T T NLIKE the poet of whom I wrote last week, the
^ film man can be made, given a modicum of in-
herited intelligence — brains ; in other words, experi-
ence, hard work and de-
votion to the business, you
can produce a film man
who will be a credit to
himself and the business.
In this class I place Wil-
liam F. (Bill) Steiner,
one of the best and most
experienced film men in
the business today. A real
pioneer. A man to be re-
spected, a man who de-
serves to "get his" (in the
local vernacular) in right
of hard work. Billy is a
young man — he is still un-
der forty — and should
achieve, as he deserves,
success.

Mr. Steiner is a product
of the epochal year of 1896
when the great chemico-
scientists, A. & L. Lu-
miere, made the modern
motion picture possible by
their beautiful produc-
tions. The world owes
much to the genius of
France, and in my humble
opinion certainly owes
much to French readiness
to demonstrate the artistic
possibilities of the motion
picture. This the Lu-

mieres, in my opinion, were the first to do. .Mark feature fill
what I say, the artistic possibilities. ( )ther great work- camera me
ers dealt with the industrial, the commercial, the busi- scenarios,
ness and other ends, but it is French genius and French or cranny
artists' work that made motion pictures possible. penetrate*

In those days Billy Steiner "slept under the counter."
He' began to sell motion pictures imported by himself
and others. Then a little later he began to make them

in a small way. Then still
later he began to handle
them commercially. So
much so that five or six
years ago Mr. Steiner was
at the head of the largest
film exchange in New
York City. He not only

ran exchanges but he ran
ran them

WILLIAM F. STEINER

1 theatres and

successfully.

It was a sight to go in
any morning into the Im-
perial Film Exchange and
see the floor black with
operators changing films.
In this way Mr. Steiner
made money and friends
and popularity, and added
to his experience and
knowledge.

Four and a half years
ago the Edicts and Ukases
from 80 Fifth avenue put
Billy out of business. By
way of complimentary re-
turn he had several suits
for damages amounting to
a million or two against
80 Fifth avenue. Num-
ber 80 made Billy bank-
rupt, but Billy smiled. He
made and sold Yankee
Films, he made and sold
ns. 1 1 c can operate a camera (he teaches
n), he can develop pictures, he can arrange
he can direct pictures. There isn't a nook
in this business into which Steiner has not
by hard practical experience.

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Mr. Steiner is the practical head of the North Amer-
ican Film Corporation which is shortly to assert itself
as a potent factor in the motion picture business of
the world. With Mr. Steiner there are associated
good practical picture men and makers. These men
under Bill's guidance have been quietly at work for
months past making stock in various parts of the
country.

I went down to the North American studio the
other day. It is the old Reliance studio in working
order. I was greeted, by many film friends there who
are basic parts of the North American organization.
I saw prints of some forthcoming releases. These
are well-acted pictures built around fine stories, well
photographed. They will please the motion picture
public of the world because they are good motion
pictures.

The North American controls twenty of its own
exchanges. Now the owning of twenty exchanges
makes any combination a powerful factor in the busi-
ness. And the North American is to be also, I think,
a good factor. I am betraying no secrets when I
say that Billy Steiner's vicissitudes in this business
have been almost contemporaneous with my own.
"A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind," and I
freely say that I feel friendly disposed toward Mr.
Steiner. There are many less worthy than he, less
experienced than he, less deserving' than he, but who
have been well advertised who are more successful.
But Billy should and will get his.

Mr. Steiner has hosts of well wishers throughout
the world. He is loyal, free handed and good na-
tured. He is a good fellow and a good man and be-
yond all he is a good film man.

Some of Mr. Steiner's pupils are doing exceedingly
well. He knows how to train them. Many an actor,
actress and producer owe their first chance to him.
He has helped them to success in the film business.
He is a thoroughly practical man and a hard worker.
Above all things, if popularity be an asset, the sub-
ject of this sketch has a large stock of it. So large
indeed that it would be difficult to estimate the num-
ber of his sincere well wishers. He has a band of
loyal helpers. A better and more experienced director
than Pierce Kingsley you could not find in a day's
march. And Pierce is loyally helping the North
American by producing some fine well-acted pictures.
But Pierce himself, good boy, will form the subject
of a separate sketch by and by. Then there is Jimmie
Maher and he, good boy, will figure in these pages.
Moreover, there are other prominent men of affairs
taking a hand in the business end of the North Ameri-
can. Their names and ratings, when they are
made known, will inspire the fullest confidence in
the efficiency of what is designed to be a great film
organization. But chiefest interest, of course, centers
this moment in the practical figure, and that is W. F.
Steiner. You cannot put a good man down. The fact
that he is a good man is almost a certainty as it as an

assurance that he is bound to make good. He is
making good pictures, and is going to distribute them
throughout the world.

The North American program isn't ready — but it is
nearly so, and when it is ready it will be seen that it is
worth handling, and that the pictures are being shown
in the best motion picture theatres. There is always
room at the top, and there is room for W. F. Steiner
and his organization to take a topmost place in this great
business. " 'Tis not in mortals to command success,
but we will do more. We will deserve it." This line
was written by William Shakespeare. It is applicable
to the subject of this sketch. It seems very repellent to
write of such an eng-aging personality in this form and
style. He is just plain Bill. He always was Bill and
always will be Bill to his friends. He is one of the few
men in the business of whom you never hear a harsh
or unkind word said. When adversity came he faced
it like a man and paid up. Some men face adversity
and don't pay.

The offices of the North American are at present in
the Exchange Building. I believe that new and large
offices are in course of being taken. The old Reliance
studio at present, well adapted for the work of staging
and developing, is to be enlarged. There is plenty
of spare ground space round about it. It is down
there at Coney Island, facing the water. It is well
situated. Within short distances from the studio, you
may get material for a variety of settings. Small
beginnings have great endings or rather very fre-
quently have great developments. There is no reason
at all why this Reliance Studio should not vastly ex-
pand and become as I think it will become, as big as
any similar building in the country. You need a big
studio and printing plant when you start in to make
a program of motion pictures. The North American
has made a good start, as I can testify. The world is
all before it, where to choose, and in my opinion it has
chosen a path which will lead it to great and every
expanding success.

^ ^ ^ ^

T T is all the more desirable that pioneer men of the
type of Steiner should be encouraged in this stage
of the motion picture business because of the entry
into it of many who have neither his knowledge nor
experience. To the pioneer belongs or should belong
the spoils. The newcomers will "get theirs" in course
of time when they have brought or paid for their ex-
perience. The fittest will survive and Bill is one of
the fittest.

In course of time, we shall have a central institution
devoted to the archives and records of motion picture
progress and Billy, good man, will surely figure in
those archives. It must be nice when you die to feel
that you are going to form part of the history of the
place you are leaving. Some certainty about that.
After you leave the earth there is still, it seems, some
uncertainty as Mr. Law is finding out.

Good luck, Bill !

By r€-

"QT. PATRICK was a gintleman ; he came of dacent
^ people ; he built a church in Doublin town, and on
it put a stheeple." He was a grand man, St. Patrick.
Patrick is one of the several names which should come
between the T. and B. of this page. Only I don't use
it or them. His Majesty of England has quite a num-
ber of Christian names in front of his surname. He,
however, prefers to be called plain George ; as I prefer
to be called plain Tom. When I saw, some time ago,
that a film on the subject of St. Patrick was to be made
and released, I was genuinely interested. I am a bit
of an Irishman myself and also a member of the
ancient faith, though English. I have lived in Ireland
and know the Irish intimately. Without laboring this
point, I can see the extreme importance and value of
such a film.

H^HE patron saint of Ireland was, if I have my his-
tory correct, a Roman patrician. He was a mis-
sionary and he converted the heathen. He was the
first primate of Ireland. The primate of Ireland re-
sides in the See of Armagh. It is one of the most
illustrious sees in the world. Cardinal Logue, the
present occupant, is the hundredth and something suc-
cessor of Patrick. You get an idea of the antiquity of
the See of Armagh — its comparative antiquity — when
I tell you that it is very near the Papacy in point of
age. The present Pope is the two hundredth and
something occupant of the Papal throne ; the present
successor of St. Patrick is the hundredth and some-
thing, so you see the latter is a pretty old job com-
pared with th~ oldest position of its kind.

* * * *

(~\ F all people on the globe, the Irish are probably
^'more devoted to their patron saint than any
other. The English have a very tepid devotion to
Saint George. But then the English are tepid people ;
cold and phlegmatic. The patron Saint of Scotland
is St. Andrew. The Scotch don't enthuse much over
their man. The Scotch enthuse very little over any-
thing but the haggis. Nobody but a true Scot can
eat haggis. St. Patrick was a good man, judged by
any standard of comparison, and his life is a lesson
for all. Some saints have been violent persons, accord-
ing to history. He was not. He not merely represents
a pattern of sanctity; he is a national sentiment, and,

being a sentiment, any picture around his personality
makes a strong appeal to the Irish race — who are emo-
tional, imaginative, generous and irrational.

* * * *

IF I were to go on at any length writing about this
particular subject I might get garrulous. So I
will refrain. But being a bit of an Irishman myself,
I love argument. It is one of the traits of the Irish
race, that they love arguments. Have you ever been
to Donnybrook? Here the typical Irishman is said
to trail the tail of his coat so that somebody may
tread on it and start a row. The Irish race labors under
many misapprehensions, the chiefest of which is that
all other people want to row with them. The English
are their pet aversion. Per contra — the English love
the Irish. They love them so much that they never
will grant them home rule for the simple reason that
they know the Irish would fight themselves to death.

* * * *

'TpO be serious, Ireland is properly known as the
-■- Isle of Saints. Through all the vicissitudes of the
ages, the majority of the Irish people have, rightfully
or wrongfully, as the case may be, stuck to the faith
of their forefathers. The north of Ireland people
are not true Irish in the so-called meaning of the term.
In England the greater proportion of the Roman
Catholics there are Irish. In the United States, of
the fourteen million Roman Catholics in the country,
the greater majority are Irish, and the same propor-
tion applies to Canada, Australia, Africa and other
parts of the world.

!|C . S$! 5jC J(C

CO a film on the subject of St. Patrick appeals to a
^ large percentage of motion picture theatregoers,
and, being on a good theme, it cannot but do good.
The life of any good man is a fit theme for a motion
picture, but when you come to a supereminent man
like Saint Patrick why, then, the good that is to be
done by influencing the minds of those who look at the
film is not easily to be measured. I think I am well
within the mark in saying that this is the first film
made on the subject of a life of a saint. We have had
Pagan Rome, Greece and other scenes of ignorant
profligacy made into pictures and now the balance is
to be adjusted and we are to have a life of a saint,
i.e., that of a good man.

{Continued on page 17)

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TEACHING THE SUBJECT

T F to Syracuse University belongs the credit of
being the first academical body to institute a pro-
fessorship of the motion picture and to afford its
alumni the opportunity of graduating in the science
and obtain, presumably, degrees, it is to another coun-
try that the credit must be assigned for taking a step
which places the study of the art and science of motion
picture making within the reach of people of limited
means. Last week we printed a letter and an article
dealing with the suggested formation of a motion pic-
ture society, college or institute. It must be evident to
all men of intelligence from this data that the question
of the proper study of the motion picture art and
science is in the air. The work is passing out of the
empirical or trial and error stage and the demand is
for real definite, concrete knowledge applied to the
subject. This knowledge can only be obtained by hard
study under proper guidance.

* * * *

T N various parts of Europe for the past twenty-five
years there have been founded polytechnics or tech-
nical institutes — we refer especially to Germany, Aus-

tria, France and England — where for a little money
you could study photography in many of its branches.
You could qualify by examination and get honors.
Many photographers and photo-engravers throughout
the world obtained their knowledge that way, and this
has led them to successful business. These places are
just like colleges where the casual day or evening
student can work up his subject.

* # * *

MOW we see with feelings of pleasure that the
Polytechnic Institute in London under Professor
E. Howard Farmer is opening classes for the study of
the motion picture or cinematography, as it is clumsily
called across the Atlantic. Professor Farmer is a
personal acquaintance and correspondent of our own.
In the last quarter of a century he has taught thou-
sands of photographers. Some of the finest pho-
tographic artists in the world owe their original tuition
to Professor Farmer and his efforts. Now we know
that the subject of the motion picture at the London
Polytechnic will be handled in such a way that the
classes of students will be able to gain a practical in-
sight into the subject. We wish we could persuade the
authorities of the polytechnics or high schools in this
country to do as Professor Farmer is doing across the
Atlantic ; that is, to give young students desirous of
studying the principles of the art and science of mo-
tion picture making the opportunity of doing so for a
small fee of a few dollars. It is apparent to us that
there are many thousands who would freely avail
themselves of the chance.

* * * *

"\X7"E feel so strongly on this subject, we realize so
fully its importance that we shall bring this is-
sue of The Motion Picture News containing this ar-
ticle to the notice of eminent educational authorities
in the hope and the expectation that the proper facili-
ties for studying the subject will be provided.

* * * *

THE more the pre-eminence of the motion picture
is studied the more clearly intelligent men will
see that even in the study of its making so many
rcurces of human knowledge must be tapped that it
is in itself an educative stimulator. Take anybody
with a perfectly clear mind and with natural intel-
ligence and start to make him a maker of motion pic-
tures. Just consider what branches of knowledge
you will oblige him to familiarize himself with. He
must "get acquainted" with chemistry and physics,
with theoretical and practical optics ; he must be well
equipped with what is conveniently called general
knowledge. He should certainly have more than a
nodding acquaintance with literature. The picture
maker in a sense must be looked upon as an author and
scholar, and film manufacturers and makers as in a
sense publishers. That is to say, those who are com-
petent to do the work from beginning to end, or at
least supervise it, must be, as it were, the possessors
of all possible knowledge. They make the picture ;.
the film manufacturer sells it.

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"RIGHT OFF THE REEL"

(Continued from page 15)

FOR saints, as I understand them, were just good
men, plain good men who worked, lived, suffered
and died for a cause. Such a film, therefore, in mak-
ing this wide appeal should be assured of a long
career. I hope the churches will take it up or rather
the church interested in this subject. I went through
years of training of a theological kind. I used to
breakfast, luncheon and dine on lives of the saints,
and I retain, 1 think, a pretty good idea of the salient
points in the lives of all the great saints. And, of
course, millions of others are in like mental degree
with me. But I think had I as a child and youth looked
upon motion pictures illustrative of their lives I might
have been more influenced. I might have led a better
life which is easily possible. And I might have been
by way of being a saint myself. But I have entirely
given up THAT idea. By the way, the reader may
not know that the United States has produced one
real saint. It might be a good thing to film his life
for the information of American Catholics.

1 ASSERT that this film cannot possibly be a bad
one because it is on a good theme. It is a good
feature film subject. Not many weeks ago I was lash-
ing the unsuitability of theme chosen for these feature
films. I put it to you, reader, who would you rather
see in films, Harry Kendall Thaw or St. Patrick? I
know what you will say in reply. Now we are com-
ing to the difference between a good and bad feature
film subjectively. Thaw is and was a degenerate. You
cannot possibly make a good film out of his stupid
adventures and misadventures, but out of the life of
a man like Patrick, who at least was a civilizer, you
cannot fail to make a good film. The- theme being
good, its treatment must be gcod in greater or less
degree. That stands to reason. There is a great
Ireland in the United States — a great Ireland of
sentiment and feeling. One of the greatest pleasures
I have had in New York City was to listen to Car-
dinal Logue. the successor of St. Patrick. He is an
old gentleman and a witty old gentleman, although a
Cardinal. With true Irish wit, he said when I heard
him talk, that he came to this country to discover a
new way of being killed — that is. by kindness.

ALL THE STARS AT THE ALL STAR NIGHT

Harry Raver Directs a Multiple-Reel Filler

TO wish Air. Philip Klein, of the
All Star Film Corporation, bon
voyage, there was held on Tuesday
evening last a beefsteak supper at
Healey's restaurant. Sixty-sixth street
and Columbus avenue, New York
City. About twenty-five friends of
Air. Philip Klein appeared to support
him and give him a send-off.

Air. Harry R. Raver, president of
the All Star Corporation, introduced
Air. J. W. Farnham as toastmaster.
Guests included Air. and Airs. Philip
Klein, Mr. and Airs. G. J. Cooke, Air.
and Airs. L. AIcGill, all of the All
Star organization; Air. Joe Aliles and
Mrs. Aliles, Exclusive Film Company;
Air. J. B. Clymer. Air. J. L. Hoff, Air.
L. Reeves Harrison, Air. McArthur of
the Moving Picaire World; Air. Wil-
liam Allen Johnston and Air. Thomas
Redding, of the Alotion Picture News;
Air. Fred Reecroft, Dramatic Alirror;
Air. and Airs. A. Rutler Graham; Air.
G. n. Proctor and Air. Wendell Alilli-
gan, Alorning Telegraph; Air. Arthur
Selwin, Airs. Raver, etc.

Joe Farnham, newly associated with
the All Star Corporation in an execu-
tive capacity, revealed unsuspected
powers of oratory, introducing each
speaker very tactfully.

It was suggested by Air. 1.. R. Har-
rison that the function being so agree-
able, it should form the nucleus of a
weekly social gathering. Air. Hoff, on
being called on t<> speak, protested
against being disturbed. On Farnham

expressing surprise that Thomas Red-
ding and j. L. Hoff should be seated
side by s de, the two shook hands cor-
dially. He called the former t e Dis-
rae'.i of the business, and in his reply
Disraeli told stories implying that
there was hope for motion picture ed-
itors to enter heaven. George Proctor
scored the oratorical success of the

evening by a witty speech in \vh ci. he
.reely criticised the toas. master, who
was paid by the pound for his services
that evening

Air. Ccoke, of the All Star Corpora-
tion, spoke appreciatively of his asso-
ciation with that body. At the end of
it all, Phil p Klein spoke feelingly of
(Coritiiutcd on page 19)

ALL THE STARS AT THE ALL-STAR DINNER

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The Toll of the Marshes

Essanay

A PHASE of life which is every day
experienced by many unfortunates
whose love of nature has compelled
them to answer the "Back to the
Land" call, but through the evil
schemings of land agents are victims
to unscrupulous money grabbers.

"The Toll of the Marshes" hits a
human strain and makes an interest-
ing story.

John Hammond, a young man
whose activities in a commercial way
have been confined to the city, but
whose remuneration was not big, de-
termines to take his mother south to
buy a small piece of property, work
a piece of farm land, and be independ-
ent. Mrs. Hammond, who knows
more of the world than her son,
pleads with him to continue where he
is, arguing that the future would
probably be brighter. John, however,
like most sons, prevails upon his
mother and wins out. He secures her
permission to invest their savings, a
few hundred dollars, into some land
in the Southern states.

Enthused over their new acquisi-
tion, they leave for the farm country
immediately. Their confidence in men
and the good things in life are shat-
tered when they discover that their
farm is nothing more or less than
swamp land. Without funds they are
forced to remain there until they can
earn enough to take them back to the
North.

We are taken back to the office of
the land president, where we see him
gloating over his victims and furnish-

ing his wife with the hard sweat and
blood-stained money his investors
had so willingly given up to him. John
and his mother manage to make a
bare living harvesting flags, but this
does not last long, as Mrs. Hammond
is gradually becoming a victim of
malaria. The swindling land agents
think little of their suffering victims,
of those little ones death is claiming
because of the terrible disease that so
easily is bred in the low, swampy
marsh land.

Rogers, the president of the land
company, takes a trip to the South.
He secures accommodations in the
best hotel the town affords. Rogers'
wife and child have accompanied him.
The daughter, at a time she is not
being watched, wanders off and gets
lost in the marshes. Mrs. Hammond,
completely worn out from her hard
work and the ravages of the on-creep-
ing fever, is compelled to have medi-
cal attention. John goes in search of
a doctor. On his return from the
doctor's house he finds Josephine
stuck fast in the treacherous marsh,
clinging to the weeds for her life.

Rogers is notified that his child is
lost. The man who had robbed the
poor for his own selfish sake, forgets
his wealth and risks his life in
Swampville, searching for his daugh-
ter. His land victims try to shoot
him. He offers reimbursement to all
in case his child is restored to him.
Hammond carries the child to his
tent, where the doctor is attending his
mother. Medical attention is given

her. Mrs. Hammond pulls through
all right. Rogers returns the money
for the land to Hammond?' Mother
and son agree to return to the North
and Josephine is returned to her
father. §3

THE GENERAL FILM GO'S
EXCLUSIVE PROGRAM

The General Film Company has
announced the addition of two more
reels to its Exclusive Service pro-
gram.

The original idea was to furnish
twelve reels a week, divided into
three programs of one multiple and
two singles every second day.

The first release of the "Exclusive
Service twelve-reel plan was made on
October 13th and proved a success,
so great that the General Film Com-
pany wizards who had, in solving the
Exclusive Service problem, accom-
plished a feat that has been consid-
ered impossible, were driven at top
speed to keep pace with the progress
of their idea.

Three months' hard work had been
put in by the committee in working
out the details of the new service,
and it was thought that every wrinkle
had been so well smoothed out that
their plans would slide along without
a jolt. But even the most confident
of the wizards had not looked for the
rush of bids which came in from all
parts of the country the first week
the service was turned loose.

Next week Exclusive Service pro-
gram will be made up of fourteen
reels, and it will be possible for any
exhibitor whose business requires it,
to secure a complete exclusive enter-
tainment without resorting to a single
"filler."

The General Film Company has re-
ceived, in addition to orders, many
letters expressing the gratification of
the exhibitor over the assurance that
the Exclusive program is not being
prepared at the expense of the regu-
lar program, which will continue to
be made up of the best quality films
that the ten licensed manufacturers
are able to produce.

Most of the letters express satis-
faction with the statement made that
Exclusive Service would not be fur-
nished in any locality where its use
might work a hardship on the ex-
hibitor who is already using licensed
service.

Mason Hopper, director, has been
engaged by the Universal Company
to produce comedies. Mr. Hopper's
experience as a director has been ex-
tensive, having been associated for the
past three years with the Essanay
Film Manufacturing Company in the
same capacity. Prior to entering the
film game he started in vaudeville.

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i9

OVER THE CLIFFS

In a forthcoming Eclair release,
"Over the Cliffs," Lindsay T. Hall
made a jump during the taking of
one scene from the top of a 228-foot
cliff down a distance of 30 feet. This
jump was taken from a pinnacle of
rock, extending out 17 feet, the sur-
face of which was but 6 inches wide.
This narrow space was all that stood
between Hall and eternity, and it is
absolutely one of the most daring
risks that has ever been taken by a
photoplay artist in order to add real-
ism to the same.

The camera operator confessed af-
terwards that he was unable to watch
the man jump, as he expected to see
him dashed to pieces on the rocks
below, and when the picture was over
the entire company was so unnerved
that operations were declared sus-
pended for the rest of the day.

This is but one of many such thrill-
.ing and hair-raising stunts which are
pulled off in this picture, and photo-
play patrons throughout the country
have something coming to them when
this Eclair production, "Over the
Cliffs." is thrown on the screen for
their edification and enjoyment. It
will be a three-reel Eclair American
feature film.

ALL TrjK STARS AT THE ALL-
*TAR NIGHT
((T^/gnucd from page 17)

the great-^partiness of his reception.

There vras dancing in which Mrs.
Klein. Air. Clymer and others distin-
guished themselves. Air. Raver danced
for the first time, and it is understood
that the writer of this article is about
to emulate Harry by and by. After the
dancing there was a lavish shedding of
champagne and more good washes for
Mr. Klein.

Then the whole of the part}' mo-
tored to ship side and literally saw
Philip Klein off the premises. There
is no doubt in our minds that he will
be cordially welcomed by the London
film trade, as he is the possessor of an
agreeable perse lality and has an in-
telligent grasp of the possibilities of
the motion picture business.

We heartily congratulate the All
Star on the success of a most enjoy-
able little function.

The Great Northern Film Company
announces that the film production of
Gerhart Hauptmann"s "Atlantis" has
cost $100,000. The feature will in all
probability reach twelve reels. The
sinking of a ship in mid-ocean and
the rescue of many of her passengers
is one of the exciting incidents of the
photodrama. The offices of the Great
Northern Company, in the World's
Tower Building. 110 West 40th Street,
is being asked for information con-

cerning this feature, but as yet Mr.
Oes is not- prepared to make public
his plans for its handling. A circular
is being prepared which will be sent
to the trade within a short time.

When Branch No. 11 of the Motion
Picture Exhibitors* League met in
convention at Rochester. N. Y., last
week their attention was directed on
one evening to an exhibition of War-
ner's features, staged in the Hotel
Rochester by D. J. Chatkin. local
manager for the Buffalo office of War-
ner's Features, Inc. Mr. Chatkin
scored a h'.t with "The Way to Hap-
piness"' and "Francesca da Rimini."

POWERS NO. 6-A PROJECTS

GEO. KLEINE SPECTACLE

The Geo. Kleine big production.
"The Last Days of Pompeii," opened
at the Bijou Theatre, New York, last
Monday. The show was well attended,
and the six-reel spectacle was beauti-
fully projected by Powers' Camera-
graph No. 6-A. It is to be a four-
a-day show.

Arthur D. Gans, representing the
National Feature Film Co., of Balti-
more, has purchased the rights on
' The Voice of the Wild" for Dela-
ware, Maryland. District of Columbia
and Virginia.

SCENE FROM "OVER THE CLIFFS"

»

WARREN KERRIGAN IN "THE RESTLESS SPIRIT'

(Victor 3-reel Drama, October 27)

FOR THOSE WHO WORRY O'ER PLOTS AND

PLAYS

William Lord Wright

Sir Herbert's Confession

THEATRICAL managers are
noted for the poor quality of
the drama they offer us. To quote
"The Film Man," of the Dramatic
Mirror: "Manufacturers of motion
pictures, the men who exhibit the
films, and the public that pays to
see them, are within their rights in
demanding treatment on a par with
that accorded purveyors of stage en-
tertainment." One almost believes
that stageland managers would do
better if they produced the plays they
reject. A drama that they believe
possesses popular appeal is put on
the stage and immediately shunted
off either by the police or an unap-
preciative public. Every season
Broadway has been strewn with such
wrecks. On the other hand, we read
of plays, such as "Paid in Full," which
went begging for months and was
then produced only in a half-hearted
manner by obscure managers, who
afterwards reaped a fortune. Indeed,
the query is pertinent — how many
plays which we would have enjoyed
have been suppressed by managers
who seemingly have one hand on the
till and the other on the public purse?
Sir Herbert Tree, according to the
Cincinnati Times-Star, has made a
confession that will perturb the
theatregoer, for Sir Herbert's sins
must be few compared with those of
his less intelligent rivals. The Eng-
lish actor-manager admits having re-

BENJAMIN F. WILSON

as Cleek in "The Chronicles of Cleek"

fused production to "Peter Pan,"
"Kismet," "The Prisoner of Zenda,"
and "If I Were King." It is a mat-
ter of theatrical history that they
eventually found production and great
success. This leads us to the inquiry:
How many good plays have been re-
fused in both stageland and filmland
and have never found production, be-
cause, mayhap, the technical develop-
ment was not such to suit some fas-
tidious reader? How many "Paid in
Fulls" and "Great Divides" have died
premature deaths because of editorial
rejection? It is something on which
statistics are impossible, but it is
nevertheless interesting as a sugges-
tion. We dare some village Barrie
to send a "Peter Pan" to the ordinary
(we said ordinary) New York pro-
ducer. If it ever appeared it doubt-
less would be expurgated of poetic
charm and its name significantly
changed to "Peter Punch."

Kinemacolor Treatment

"Kinemacolor Treatment" has be-
come a significant expression among
photoplaywrights. It means the best
of treatment. We receive hundreds
of complaints weekly, of all kinds
and designs, but the magic name of
Kinemacolor is conspicuous by its
absence. It is a record to cause pride.
Mr. Perry N. Vekroff, editor for
Kinemacolor of America, writes the
following interesting communication
to the department:

"Being somewhat overstocked at
present, the Kinemacolor Company
of America-is considering such scripts
only as excell in originality of treat'
ment and strength of plot and situa-
tions. We prefer stories that can be
developed into one or two-reel com-
edies and modern dramas. An oc-
casional melodrama. Western or
otherwise, is also acceptable, provid-
ing it is written around some theme
which can elevate as well as thrill
and entertain. While the value of
a scenario is determined according
to the strength of the plot and orig-
inality of its treatment, the prepara-
tion of the script itself is also an
important factor. The less editing a
manuscript will require, the more its
value w'll be when the check is made
out to the author. In fact, technical
perfection in this respect is fast be-
coming one of our principal require-
ments, it being the policy of this
department to be abreast with the
progress of up-to-date and efficient

production. A concise yet compre-
hensive synopsis is generally the first
ear-mark of conscientious effort in
scenario writing. This should so out-
line the salient features of the story
submitted as to enable our readers
to grasp its value at once. Sub-
titles and the description of the action
itself should likewise be short and
clear. The author must bear in mind
that the director will endeavor to
'put over' the story in as few feet
of film as possible. Indulgence in
details, other than those essential to-
ward development of the plot, are
quite unnecessary. The sad deficiency
of most authors in this respect is
perhaps largely responsible for the de-
lay in their being credited upon the
screen. Technically perfect scenarios
are few compared with those that
must be edited and practically re-
written that it would hardly be just
to make a general practice of a cour-
tesy to which only a limited number
of authors are entitled. In the instance
of our own department, the privilege
of screen publicity is extended only
when the benefit thereof promises to
be of equal advantage to ourselves as
well as to the author. As to the ques-
tion whether directors should best
confine themselves to directing and
editors to editing, the writer's experi-
ence in both capacities has taught him
to believe that best results can be
obtained through the close co-opera-
tlon of editor and director, rather
than through any arbitrary arrange-
ment between the two. During the
course of production many a con-
tingency is likely to arise whereby the
play may be marred or improved, as
the case may be. It would be a pity,
indeed, if the director, for fear less he
infringe on the editor's province, hesi-
tated to make a change here and there
which would improve the play as a
whole. No matter how carefully a
scenario may have been prepared at
the editor's desk, parts of it are bound
to turn out differently at rehearsals.
The director, therefore, should be in-
vested with sufficient authority to
alter according to the dictates of his
better judgment. For, after all, when
all is said and done, it is he who is
held responsible for the success or
failure of the production."

Fdilor Vekroff puts the proper re-
lationship of editor and director con-
cisely and logically. Anent his argu-
ment as to film and poster credit for
photoplaywrights, we differ. If an

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author writes an excellent script he
should be credited therefor. To credit
only those names "which will be a
benefit to both author and manufac-
turer" is rather a selfish attitude. If
an obscure writer turns in deserving
work and receives poster and film
credit therefor, his name ere long will
possibly prove valuable to the pro-
ducer, just as his script has proven of
value. Mr. VekrofFs statement is valu-
able to all writers, particularly the
question of script preparation.

The Woes of Authorship

Here is a letter from a lady who
has experienced the woes of author-
ship. We have endeavored to tear
away some of the tares and thistles
that have obstructed her upward jour-
ney along the literary path, and pre-
dict that she will be heard from
sooner or later, now that she is start-
ed right: "I've come to you because
I have not been able to get the help
I need from people who, generous or
not, never fail to collect in advance.
Not wanting to work in the darkness,
I paid the 'school' $22.50 to teach me
the art of photoplay writing. Among
my exercises, was a play about a
woman whose husband objected to
equal suffrage. He is nominated, be-
comes ill, and his wife jumps into
the fray and wins his election for
him. I thought it was a comedy, but
the 'faculty' said it should be devel-
oped along serious lines. I acted up-
on the suggestion, but the editors
would have none of it. Later I sent
it to an 'expert.' He tore it to pieces
and told me to write it another way.
I did so and sent it to him, and he
said, 'It is too weak.' If he had told
me how to strengthen the weak
points, I would still have my faith.
Now I am at the beginning again. I
feel that my money has been spent
in vain, and that I am as much in the
woods as when I started. I want to
know the truth about my work, and
how to bring it up to standard. I
have done my best to make a good
play, and have bought all the 'expert
help' I can. It's up to you and your
generosity." We violated a neces-
sarily strict rule in this particular in-
stance, and read the play that accom-
panied the above letter. It was writ-
ten in longhand, good handwriting,
but nevertheless longhand. The script
proved the author a careful student
of technic and familiar with proper
lay-out. For the first script it was
exceptionally well prepared. The
story was too long for a single reel
and too short for a multiple-reel pro-
duction. The plot was hackneyed as
a drama, but the idea could be turned
into comedy, and by its very nature
succeed excellently well. We advised
the writer to forget the "school in-
struction," to rent a typewriter, to
take a notebook and visit the motion

picture theatre and dissect the play-
lets; we urged her to subscribe for
and read all motion picture publica-
tions, and, finally, to be independent
of "professors" and "sharks," and to
use her own ideas, which, in this in-
stance at least, might have won her
an early market and saved her the
expenditure of $22.50. The advice we
gave this lady is applicable to hun-
dreds of others of our readers.

Hennessy Is 111

George Hennessy, the only man who
ever had the courage to state, after
trying the game, that photoplaywright
correspondence courses are imprac-
tical, has been very ill in Bellevue
Hospital, New York. Word reaches
us that he is slowly improving. We
are glad to hear it, for the game could
ill afford to lose so versatile and volu-
minous an author as Hennessy. He
will probably be glad to hear from
his friends. We said friends — not
"pull-seekers."

The Hall of Fame

James Dayton, head of the West-
ern Universal script department, is
doing some extraordinary work. Ac-
cording to Universal press sheet, he
wrote twenty-seven sc.ipts during
July and August, every one of which
was produced.

Jack Byrne, staff reader .under
Editor-in-Chief Calder Johnstone, of
Universal, is doing some fine com-
mercial work. He is also a splendid
director, and is producing the com-
mercial features in great shape.

Universal employs eleven script-
writers on the coast.

The screen adaptation of "Tess of
the d'Urbervilles" is a triumph of silent
art. Everyone is wondering who wrote
the picture story. It was Benny
Schulberg, of course, and he did it
under pressure, and that is just when
he works the best.

Maibelle Heikes Justice stopped
writing two-reel features just long
enough to dash off a vaudeville one-
act sketch for Robert Drouet, who
was waiting for it. and there are more
coming. Then Captain Peacocke is
going to do it again. Verily, it seems
that stageland's stars are turning to
photoplay writers for material.

Miss Louise Lester, better known
in filmland as "Calamity Anne," writes
all her own scenarios in which she
plays this character.

The Slough of Despond

Four heads of correspondence
schools, inclding Eugene Berry Watts,
whom we here and now dub "Kilo-
watts," are in the slough of despond.
Uncle Sam has been taking the
"course." "Everybody cannot do it."
If you have any complaint to make
anent any particular "schools." mak-
ing money through misleading adver-

tising, write to the Postoffice De-
partment, Washington, D. C.

Word from Buffalo
C. E. Horton, 361 Normal avenue,
Buffalo, N. Y., wishes Mr. Sargent to
inform him about his Inquest Club,
and we suggest that Mr. Horton ad-
dress Box 70, Madison Square Station,
New York City. Horton also says
"I have noticed in several of the mag-
azines, devoted to writing in general,
some articles on 'How I Wrote and
Sold My First Photoplay,' which were
apparently written by persons know-
ing little or nothing of the game in
the least. Now I haven't exactly ar-
rived yet myself, but I do feel that I
could write a very good article on
how I did write and sell my first one.
I read three of Charles Van Loan's
interesting and instructive stories in
the Saturday Evening Post." Horton
has read the entire series, then. We
never read those "first photoplay es-
says" he mentions because they fre-
quently make us weary. The clipping
Mr. Horton encloses from a news-
paper "syndicate" page advises an
"amateur producer" to write to Nell
Shipman for information as to how to
"present a motion picture play in
some leading theatre."

You Can Afford It
A photoplaywright stated recently
that he could not afford to revise his
scripts at present prices. Present
prices are not ideal, we admit, but
you can afford to revise your scripts
for no price at all. Whatever is worth
doing is worth doing well. One out
of a hundred writers can send out
stuff first draft, and send it out com-
plete and intelligently. Have pride
enough to send out finished work, and
when the halycon days come you will
be among the first to profit thereby.
From a Script Reader
A manuscript reader on the edi-
torial staff of one of the best known
film concerns sends us this: "I like
to give any assistance in my power
to budding scenario writers because I
agree with you that it is to them
the picture producers will have to
look in the coming future. I admit
that the 'free lance' writer at present
has a difficult time to place his stories,
except they be of exceptional merit
and embrace very original ideas, as
the staff writers are in touch with the
directors and know exactly what de-
scription of stories are required by
them. Then, also, each director has
usually some star in his company who
has to be exploited, and the staff'
writer has the opportunity of studying
their requirements. All this mitigates
against the chances of the 'free lance'
writer, but the staff writers havj near-
ly all been 'free lances' and have
served their apprenticeship. Writers
must recognize that nothing is gained
except by hard and continued effort.

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23

I believe that giving credit to authors
on posters will assist in stopping
plagiarism, and it will be an induce-
ment to the better class of writers to
enter the field." This letter is inter-
esting, coming as it does from no
editor-in-chief, but one of a staff of
men who frequently decide whether
or not a script is meritorious enough
to merit the attention of the editor-
in-chief. In commenting thereon, we
assert that there is entirely too much
"star exploiting" on the motion pic-
ture screen. This evil has been car-
ried from stageland to filmville.
Stories are written in certain studios
purposely to exploit and pamper some
high-priced lead who howls to high
heaven if a good, consistent plot is
submitted in which he fails to have
the lion's share of business. Many
star writers of yesterday are not star
writers of to-day. The work of sev-
eral is noticeably hackneyed. The
-course of natural events makes it so.
The "free lance" writer of to-day may
be the staff writer of to-morrow, and
the evils of the "leading man" sys-
tem we hope to see overcome sooner
or later, although in justice, it must
be stated that Edison and several
other companies do not countenance

the evil which mitigates very often
against the true worth of output.

Short Story Writing

A Milwaukee, Wis., correspondent
writes: "Your advice has proved very
valuable to me, and now I am going
to take another step forward. I am
going to try my hand as a short story
writer. It will not be my first effort,
as I have been writing stories for
practice for over a year, but now I
would like to write for publication.
What form do you use in writing the
short story? Do you place a synopsis
before the story proper? What books
would you advise me to read, and
where would you advise me to secure
a lot of competent publications in the
field? I am fighting shy of 'schools,'
and want to get started in the busi-
ness right, just as you started me a
year ago in the script-writing profes-
sion, in which I have achieved some
•success, thanks to your departments."
There is a great demand for good
short stories up to about 5,000 words.
Any magazine editor is glad to read
original work that shows talent. Many
script writers are turning to the short
story field, just as fiction writers are
entering the photoplaywriting pro-

fession. Because one has achieved
some success as a script writer is no
argument that he may win in fiction.
The work is not similar only that
in both you must be familiar with
the writer's tools and trade, and know
how to put pen on paper. Many are
versatile in both fields of endeavor,
the latest and most notable instance
being Maibelle Heikes Justice, who
devotes one month to fiction work
and another to motion picture plays.
We have utilized several rejected pho-
toplay plots for short story plots with
success. We have also, with per-
mission from kindly magazine edi-
tors, utilized our magazine stories
for motion picture plays. In fact,
the first photoplay we ever sold
was taken from a magazine story we
had previously sold to a magazine.
However, in such instances the per-
mission of the editor in question must
first be gained, and this permission
had become difficult the past year.
Dr. Esenwein's "Short Story Writing"
and Phillips' "The Plot of the Short
Story" are recommended to those am-
bitious to succeed in the field of fic-
tion. A subscription to "The Writers'
Magazine" is also money that is well
spent.

What Her Diary Told

American

IN this one-reel picture the Amer-
ican Film Mfg. Co. is releasing an-
other good subject played by their
second company. They are to be com-
mended for the inside scenes, which
are nicely finished and furnished. The
exteriors also are of the kind that are
evident in so many American pictures
and noted because of their beauty
and picturesque background effects.

Miss Winifred Greenwood and Ed-
ward Coxen in the leading roles carry
their parts well. The photography is
of the kind for which the American
Film Mfg. Co. is famous. It is clean-
cut, shows splendid detail, and is al-
ways well in focus. The picture is
well constructed and has an interest-
ing story running through it.

Although Janet Warren is in love
with Harold King, her desire for
wealth and position has taken deep
root and leads her to marry John Wil-
bur, a young man of high social stand-
ing. Janet, like many other impres-
sionable young ladies, keeps a diary,
and on the night of her marriage con-
fides the story of her love for Harold
to her little book. As the weeks pass
John is puzzled by her indifference,
never dreaming that she had married
him for his wealth and position.

One evening, as John chances into
her boudoir, he finds her diary on
the dressing-table and reads it. He

comes across the paragraph relating
her love for Harold King. He is
stunned and heart-broken and decides
to leave her immediately and make
it possible for her to marry the man
she loves.

Through his attorneys he arranges

for a monthly allowance of two thou-
sand dollars to be given her and all
his wealth at his death. He then
leaves for the mountains, where he
becomes a prospector. His absence
causes Janet to awaken to the love
she bore him. Her efforts to trace
him, however, prove futile, and her
pining for him makes her ill. On the
advice of her physician she goes into
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FAKES IN MOTION PICTURES

(From the Scientific American)

A KNOWLEDGE of the various
methods by which photographs
may be produced is of no small value
to the amateur and professional
worker. The well-nigh insatiable de-
mand which exists for curious and
interesting pictures makes it neces-
sary for the latter to be up-to-date
and original in his output, while the
former is always desirous of surpris-
ing his circle of acquaintances by
some new evidence of his skill. By
following hints readers will be able
to produce an almost endless number
of strange and deceptive pictures, not
a few of which will be provocative of
mirth.

Moonlight effects in photography
are generally gained by trickery. Of
course it is possible to take photo-
graphs by moonlight, the exposure
varying from thirty minutes to two
hours; the results, however, are rare-
ly satisfactory, owing to the move-
ment of the shadows producing a
blurred effect in the finished print.
To obtain a moonlight picture of the
approved sort — a fine cloud effect
with the moon casting a long line of
brilliant light upon water — special
preparations must be made.

A rather cloudy sunset must be
chosen. Then, when the sun drops
low on the horizon and is partially
obscured by the cloud bank, one
seizes the opportunity to secure a
snapshot (the lens being well
"stopped down") right into the eye
of the light. The plate thus obtained
should be slightly under-developed.
If all has gone well, the resulting
negative will supply a picture exactly
resembling a moonlight effect, and by
carefully gumming a small circle of
opaque paper upon the film, one is
able to print out the "moon" into the
bargain.

Photographs in which the snow ap-
pears to be falling are usually pro-
duced by artificial means. If the sub-
ject is to be a portrait, the sitter
should be garbed appropriately and
placed before a wintry background.
When the negative is obtained it
should be dried and well varnished,
then place flat upon a table with the
film side uppermost. Take a soft
toothbrush charged with rather thick
India ink and carmine mixed up with
water, and draw it over the teeth of
a comb, which should be held some
little distance from the negative. If
this operation is carefully managed
the result will be an irregular spatter-
ing of the pigment upon the varnished
film, and when this is dry a print will
be produced which looks just as
though the negative had been taken
in a snowstorm.

Photographs of the class in which
ghosts or visions appear may be
"faked" in several ways. The first of
these may be described in the dupli-
cate exposure method. Suppose, for
example, we wish to photograph a
man inside a bottle which will hold
no more than a pint of liquid. To ac-
complish this apparently impossible
feat, proceed as follows:

First, photograph the bottle stand-
ing upon a dull black support and
with similar background. While fo-
cussing take care to mark out what
will be the bottle's boundaries on the
plate by fixing little pieces of gummed
paper to the ground glass screen of
the camera. Then get your man to
stand or sit in a chair upon a black
cloth, with a smooth black curtain
behind him. Focus upon him so that
he falls within the boundaries of the
bottle — this being easily managed by
means of the gummed paper guides.
Finally, expose the plate which has
already been used to photograph the
bottle; and when this is developed,
your friend will duly appear — inside.

This method will be found in prac-
tice to explain many pictures which
at first seem very astonishing. To
make a "vision fake," arrange a little
scene, such as a bare room with an
empty hearth, with your model sit-
ting listlessly in the foreground.
Make your first exposure on this
scene, being careful to mark out on
the ground glass screen the space
into which the vision must fall. A

dark curtain, or dark woodwork,
should occupy this space in the first
picture. Now procure a sheet of dead
black paper, mount it evenly upon
stiff card, and with a little Chinese
white sketch out an appropriate vis-
ion.

If you cannot do this yourself, get
an artist friend to help you; but see
that the sketch is placed in the cor-
rect spot, i.e., the spot which you have
arranged for it to occupy in the fin-
ished picture. When the sketch is
finished, set it up before the camera,
focus and see that it falls within the
required boundary upon the screen.
Then expose again the plate which
has already done duty, and — if no
miscalculations have been made — an
interesting "vision" picture will re-
sult.

The ghost "fake" may be made in
exactly the same way, only in this
case an appropriate scene would be a
deserted churchyard, with your model
posing in awestruck attitude beside
a tomb. In all photographs of this
kind the reader should bear in mind
that a dead black background does
not appreciably affect the sensitized
plate, but a show plate should be
used whenever this is possible as by
this means any slight tendency to
"fog" will be obviated.

Another way of obtaining this par-
ticular k'nd of freak photograph is to
fit a tube in front of the lens. In-
stead of using a cap. the tube should
be closed with a kind of folding door

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25

arrangement, so that one-half of the
lens may be uncovered at a time. A
still more simple plan is to use a cap
which covers only one-half the aper-
ture, and to control the exposure by
means of a shutter behind the lens.
This method, however, makes it nec-
essary to "stop down" the lens to at
least 1-3, and a long exposure is thus
rendered inevitable.

It is well known that the nearer
an object is to the camera the larger
it appears to be in proportion to
other objects in the picture; and by
taking advantage of this fact some
astonishing pictures may be obtained,
particularly if a lens of somewhat
short focus is employed. Not long
ago the writer saw reproduced in a
popular magazine a photograph
which was described in all serious-

ness as depicting a cabbage of gigan-
tic proportions.

Doubtless, most people who looked
at the picture were deceived for the
cabbage partially obscured a whole
family of five or six persons who
stood somewhere in the background.
Yet in reality the vegetable was of
only ordinary proportions, and mere-
ly looked large in proportion to the
human beings because of its nearness
to a lens of short focus. In the same
way, if a fisherman has caught a fish
six inches long it may be made to ap-
pear gigantic in the photograph. By
means of his rod and line the fisher-
man may hang the fish a good six or
eight feet nearer the camera than he
himself is, and the lens does the rest.

Very laughable caricature photo-
graphs may be made by simply mov-

ing the "swing back" of the camera
out of the perpendicular. Your friends
may be made to look like reclining
giants, or dwarfs with big heads. In
fact, an almost endless variety of
quaint deformities may be devised by
varying the elevation of the camera,
and the angle of the back. Care must
be taken, however, to "stop down"
the lens as much as possible, in order
to bring the whole picture well into
focus. This, of course, means that a
good light is required, otherwise the
exposure must be a long one, and
poor model may move and spoil it.

Phil Gleichman, vice-president and
general manager of the World Special
Films Corporation, left New York to
open branch offices in St. Louis, New
Orleans and Dallas, Texas.

Motion Pictures in Teaching Children

(From the New York Tribune)

HOUSE-ORGANS

We (The Bioscope) have pleasure
in giving publicity to the following:
To the Editor:

Sir — The exhibitor's life is such a
busy one nowadays that he has per-
force to limit his reading to the abso-
lutely essential for the well-being and
good running of his business. In
these circumstances it certainly seems
to me that many of the elaborate
house-organs and magazines issued by
some of the manufacturers are weary
reading, and serve no good purpose,
unless it be to the printers: It is true
that many contain good advertising
and useful information, hut, alas! both
these are only too frequently lost
amongst a number of biased so-called
"articles," and a mass of excerpts
from various papers, the latter, of
course, always being stale by a good
week. I. for one, have always read
them beforehand in the papers or pe-
riodicals in which they have originally
appeared, and, doubtless, hundreds of
other exhibitors find themselves in the
same position. As to trade "news,"
will the trade papers give me the real
thing, not the spurious article — manu-
facturers' advertising, of course, I
want to read, but why shouldn't it
be plain and sensible? After all, hon-
est advertising need not be disguised,
nor spoiled like good fare is with a
poor sauce. Yours, etc ,

London. AN EXHIBITOR.

The Feature Photoplay Co. has
transferred its offices from the Ex-
change Building to the Candler Build-
ing at 220 West 42nd Street. The
program which the Feature Photoplay
Co. has mapped out for its future in-
cludes the best product of foreign
manufacturers and many productions
of its own make. Mr H. A. Lande
is, as usual, at the helm of the Fea-
ture Photoplay Co.

IF Thomas Edison's theories, borne
out by actual test, are to become a
general medium in the public schools
of the land, it is goodby to the time-
honored primer and the phonetic
method of grouping A B C's. Weighty
treatises on phys cs, chemistry, as-
tronomy and botany will become the
understandable playthings of the
youth not yet in his teens by means
of the motion picture.

For instance, Mr. Edison proposes
to show to the children of the land
a cat. Further, that cat will walk,
trot, switch its tail, lap its milk from
a saucer, nurture its young and creep
stealthily on its rodent prey. Its form
and habits will be instilleo. into youth
so that when the ability to tell of it
is acquired cats will be an open book
to the juvenile student.

Mr. Edison has gone about evolving
the most astounding method of mental
culture in history. His staff of special-
ists is being constantly enlarged and
his photographers have been given
carte blanche to obtain material from
any point in the world.

How carefully and understandingly
he has entered upon the development
of this new step in education may best
be determined by the admission of
the inventor himself that he listed
between 700 and 1,000 of the subjects
for child study, and so far only 50
or 60 have actually been developed
into film form

These subjecfs are assigned to ex-
perts in'tbe particular field thev cover,
and those experts devise the way and
the material to put them 'n scenario
form. Finallv thev are taW-n to the
lrbora'o "y < : "*'r. Edison ,-'nd a chiss
of children is brought in. The reels
arc run off. and Ed:?on and his corps

of assistants plainly can see what
stands the test and what does not.
Then comes the revision — the cutting
out and the adding to — in an effort
to make every point clear.

Mr. Edison takes an ordinary house-
fly, magnified thousands of t.mes, and
with the aid of the motion picture he
teaches the child its every motion, and
its habits of living.

Twenty-five years ago a primary
teacher stood before a chart on which
was a line drawing of a dog. Beneath
this picture were phrases similar to
these:

"I see a picture."

"It is a picture of a dog."

"The dog can run."

"It can bark, and also it will bite."

"It has long hair and a tail."

Naturally the child acquired those
facts concerning the dog with rapidity.
He probably had a dog at home and
studied its habits. But when he came
to the subject of the elephant it was
a different story. He had only the
picture to rely upon If that child
could have had an elephant for close
inspection the result would have been
more quickly accomplished.

That is just what Mr. Edison pur-
poses to supply. He's going to bring
the elephant from its jungle haunts
in South Africa and put it on a screen
in act on before the child

Child interest is one of the greatest
problems of school life. Truancy has
been the bane of educators for years.
Those who have investigated declare
that motion picture instruction will
remove much o" this delinquency. It
will create a tremendous interest in
education. The child, instead of ab-
l o-ring the coming of a school day,
wi'l hasten to classes with expectancy.

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"WHAT HER DIARY TOLD"

(Continued from page 23)
the mountains to seek comfort and
new environment

John, while working his claim, is
injured by an unexpected explosion.
As they carry him toward his cabin,
Janet passes in her auto. In gazing
on the victim of the catastrophe she
is shocked to recognize her husband.
He is placed in her care and hurried
to the shack and medical aid secured.
On the earnest pleadings and sincere
protestations of love on the part of
Janet the two are reconciled.

PLAYERS' ELECTROS FOR EX-
HIBITORS' USE

A unique plan has been put in active
service by the New Process Electro
Corporation, of New York, whereby
the exhibitor may get cuts of the
screen players at a much smaller price
than he has hitherto been paying.
These cuts are especially available for
program work, or for use in the local
newspapers. It is the experience of
the writer, on small papers, that a
city editor will always use a story
if a cut is to run with it. He will
not put his paper to the expense of
making the cuts for free advertising,
but he will always use the cut, even
though he does not wish to use the
story.

The plan of this company is to
supply cuts of any player in their cat-
alog, in any company, at a very nom-
inal fee, together with an authentic-
biography. The scheme should be
most successful.

ARIZONA IN MICHIGAN

Arizona and the next eleven of the
big feature productions to be made by
the All Star Feature Corporation will
be handled in Michigan by the Casino
Company, of Detroit. The deal was
closed after the members of the Casino
Company had made a special trip to
New York to conclude the negotia-
tions. Eight large theatres in Michi-
gan are directly controlled by the
Casino Company, which is beginning
to rank as one of the largest and
most successful of the firms renting
feature films to exhibitors in the Mid-
dle West.

TRADE NOTES

Mack Sennett, managing director
of the Keystone films, has added a
new burden to his shoulders. He has
taken twenty boys and girls, ranging
from the age of four to twelve years,
and is training them for motion pic-
tures. They will be seen shortly in
"kid'' comedies.

A picture just finished, "Love Sick-
ness at Sea," was made upon the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company's
boat "Harvard," the fastest passen-
ger-carrying ship that floats the
American flag. This ship was char-
tered by the Keystone Company, and
during a run down and up the coast,
a full reel was made. This picture
portrays the improvements that have
been made in fire drills aboard sea-
going vessels, and this was used as
a basis upon which a great comedy
was made. A company of fifty people
made this trip, and over two hundred
of the employees of the boat were
used in the films.

A Keystone comedy, "Speed
Kings," just finished, shows Santa
Monica and the Coronada races, Earl
Cooper, winner of both, is used in
this subject, as well as his Stutz No.
8, present holder of the world's road
race record. Teddy Tetzlaff, another
world's speed champion, is also used,
along with Barney Oldfield, Ralph De
Palma, Spencer Wishart, and several
more of the racing celebrities of this
and foreign countries.

Mr. James Cornelius, formerly of
Kansas City and the Famous Players
Film Co., has been appointed man-
ager of the St. Louis office of War-
ner's Features, Inc., succeeding M. J.
Goldbaum. On October 17th, Mr.
Cornelius, assisted by Mr. Samuel
Grant, district manager for Warner's
Features, Inc., in the middle West-
ern States, gave an exhibition of the
new and future Warner releases to
a large gathering of exhibitors from
St. Louis and surrounding territory
in the Lafayette Theatre.

The World Special Films have just
bought the marvellous Eclair film,
"Protea," and will have it ready for
the exhiibtor about November 1st.
This is one of the most remarkable
films ever brought out.

Walter MacNamara is the latest to
be added to the staff of Universal
directors. For the past year he has
been connected with the Universal as
photoplay writer, and for the past few
months has been acting in the double
capacity of assistant-director and
author.

Mr. MacNamara has had a good
record as a film author. He has writ'
ten King Baggot successes and most
of the later successes of Miss Jane
Gail.

Cecilia Loftus has been added to
the gallery of Famous Players. The
Famous Players Film Co. has engaged
this artist to appear in the novel and
play, "A Lady of Quality," by Frances
Hodgson Burnett. Miss Loftus began
her dramatic career under the direc-
tion of Daniel Frohman. In two years
she had succeeded so capably that
Mr. Frohman made her leading lady
with E. H. Sothern, then under his
management. By a coincidence, as in
the case of James K. Hadkett, Miss
Loftus returns to Mr, Frejaman's di-
rection under new conditions, through
the medium of the motiorivpicture.

The organization of the World
Special Film Corporation is gradu-
ally assuming large proportions.
Branch offices have been opened in
Chicago, Cincinnati, Atlanta and Kan-
sas City lately. For the Chicago office
F. H. McMillan, formerly of the M. &
F. Feature, has been engaged as man-
ager. In Cincinnati, G. J. Trask; in
Kansas City, S. J. Berman, and in
Atlanta, C. G. Bailey. Extensive al-
terations have been made in all of
these offices, and they are now ready
for business.

Daring exploits are performed in
the Eclipse films, released in America
by George Kleine. The Eclipse Com-
pany never asked an actor to perform
a more daring bit of work than that
done by "Arizona Bill," leading man
for "Eclipse," in a coming two-reel,
i he name of which has not yet been
determined. There is a spectacular
touch in this film as the Bleriot mono-
plane in which are seated "Arizona
Bill" and his wife blows up and falls
to the earth, taking the two perform-
ers with it. This occurs in full view
of the camera.

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Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address: Music Department, The Motion Picture News

I AM pleased to be able to state that
once in a while an orchestra will
try to do justice to a picture and show
what can be done to enhance the
beauty of certain productions.

When the film of Essanay, "Tony
the Fiddler," was shown at the Circle
Theatre, Broadway ar.d Fifty-ninth
Street, New York, the orchestra sur-
prised me in the efforts of its leader
to take advantage of certain features.

Each time that Tony was shown
on the screen, playing his fiddle, the
musicians would stop, except the vio-
linist, who would accompany Tony on
his violin. The effect was great, as
the sentimental tunes of Tony's play-
ing were not drowned by a full and
noisy music, but on the contrary, the
soft playing of the violinist gave the
impression that the notes were com-
ing from the picture on the screen and
not from the orchestra pi".

As there was nc nois: no cr.sb of
cymbals, bass-drums and other instru-
ments, the audience enjoyed greatly
the production, and the c m nents
heard in the house were favorable.

On October 9th 1 had the misfor-
tune to witness the same Essanay
film, "Tony the Fiddler." at the Bijou
Theatre, of Providence, R. I. I sa>
"the misfortune" as the good impres-
sion I had retained of the production
vanished at the miserable piano play-
ing. It was not the same picture, all
the sentiment was gone. It was a
common picture.

Mrs. J. Clement, of the Bijou
Dream, of Boston, has some strong
views on music. She is opposed to a
pipe-organ and to a full orchestra,
as she claims that the party accom-
panying the picture must not only
memorize much, but must improvise
most of the time. Mrs. Clement claims
that no matter how efficient can be
the members of a full orchestra, it
is impossible to have them improvise
the same k:nd of music at the same
time, especially when the jumps from
one scene to another are so nuick on
the. screen. Mrs. Clement claims that
all'that is needed is just enough music
to follow the actions of the picture

and create the desired impression on
the audience. She believes in a good
pianist, and she is paying the highest
wages to her lady pianist, she insists
also on having the piano tuned each
week and changed every six months.

If Mrs. Clement was not right in
her views she would not have the best
patronage of Boston, and the fact that
the most cultured class patronizes the
Bijou Dream is a proof that Mrs.
Clement fully understands the music
question for motion picture shows.

I met in Norwich, Conn., at the
Colonial Theatre another manager,
Mr. Chas. McNulty, who has views
identical with those of Mrs. Clement.
He believes in a good pianist and a
drummer, but Mr. McNulty wants the
drummer to follow the pianist's or-
ders and not to go by himself. The
pianist is Mr. Chas. A. Dowsett. whom
I was pleased to meet, get his views
and hear him play a picture. Mr.
Dowsett studies the theme of the pic-
ture, and he seems to put his whole
soul into his work. While his fingers
run on the keyboard, his mind is not
on something else, but on the picture
alone. The lovers of motion pictures
of Norwich so well appreciate the
efforts of Mr. Dowsett that they come
to the Colonial Theatre in preference,
and, as they like to compliment him
on his clever way of playing the pic-
ture, he is greatly encouraged, and
tries to better himself day after day.

Why are the photoplay houses of
small towns far ahead of the ones of
the big cities? Merely because in a
small town everybody knows every-
one. A good picture, a fine projection,
appropriate music go from one person
to another. The manager, the pianist,
the operator are praised, and all these
praises are a constant encouragement
to do better. In a large city it is
selfishness, it is indifference. The pa-
trons strangers to the manager, to
the pianist and to the operator, walk
away without a word of praise.

I had the pleasure of hearing the
Wurlitzer Unit Orchestra at the new
"Heights'' Theatre, on Wadsworth
Avenue and 181st Street, New York.

When such a wonderful instrument is
in the hands of a competent pianist,
like the one of the "Heights" The-
atre, great effects can be obtained.
I was charmed with the rendition on
the Unit Orchestra.

The new "Olympia" Theatre, of
Boston (in course of construction),
announces a full orchestra and a pipe-
organ to cost $150,000. I could hardly
believe the sign, as I cannot see the
advantage of such an expensive mu-
sical instrument to accompany the pic-
ture. When I asked some persons of
Boston if the announcement was not
a bluff, I was told that generally Mr.
Gordon means what he says.

The only argument I can offer on
this wonderful pipe-organ is that it
will put a stop to the fad of pipe-
organs to accompany Western scenes
of fighting cowboys and Indians. The
pipe-organ has been a fad like the
abuse of posters, and as long as a
pipe-organ could be purchased at
$2,000 or $3,000 on the installment
plan, many exhibitors took up the fad,
and to be able to meet their obliga-
tions, they placed a cheap dance-hall

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pianist at the keyboard of the organ.
Now that Mr. Gordon comes up with
a pipe-organ to cost in the six figures,
it will be so prohibitive that the ex-
hibitors will not follow the fad and
will even stop buying organs to cost
in the four figures, as a pipe-organ
of $3,000 -will not compare favorably
with the one of $150,000. The pipe-
organ has been a mere fad — because
Jones had an organ, Brown had to
have one, etc.

Critics are not always fair, and in
their haste to find fault, often over-
look a kind action.

This was the case at the Herald
Square Theatre, of New York, on a
Thursday evening, when the drummer,
animated by a great desire to save
motion pictures from the constant
slurs of the enemies, tried to shield
what in his good judgment was a cruel
scene.

The film in question was "When the
West Was Young," a Vitagraph.
When the kind Indian takes care of
the settler's little girl, who had be-
friended him and who had been killed,
is attacked by other Indians, he de-
fends the little girl by killing one
of the pursuers. While the Vitagraph
gives us to understand that there is
actually a murder, they do it in such
a manner as to avoid any bad feelings
on the part of the spectators. They
show the Indian raising his tomahawk
and dropping it on the head of the
other Indian, and it is done so quickly
that no one has time to see the actual
blow.

The drummer of the Herald Square
Theatre thought that such a scene
would unnerve the audience and per-
haps create a panic, so, full of good
intentions, he made up his mind to
change the chill that would have gone
through the audience into a laugh.
He was clever and succeeded beyond
all expectations, as when he used
something like a mallet on an empty
dry-goods box, he created a genuine
sensation. What a sound! Yes, it
was a sound that called for a laugh,
and women, instead of taking their
handkerchiefs to wipe off some tears
at the sight of the Indian falling dead,
had to hide their faces behind their
hands to try to suppress a laugh. I
have seen so many pictures that I
consider myself self-proof, but in this
case the laugh was too general, ton
contagious, and I had to join the
crowd.

While I said in other pages that
it would be far better to omit certain
sound effects than to produce them
incorrectly, I must admit that im-
proper effects, as in the above case,
have the advantage to detract the at-
tention from the picture and conse-
quently allow some supposed objec-
tionable scenes to pass unnoticed.

One fault with many drummers is
that they do not reason the sound

effects, and have the wrong idea that
they must exaggerate their effects to
create the impression that they are
working.

Many drummers are like many ex-
hibitors who want to show a big
picture to please the persons sitting
in the rear of the house, to the detri-
ment of the patrons of the front and
middle seats. The drummer wants
to make much noise to be heard from

MORE than a year ago Stan Twist,
in Chicago, entertained his breth-
ren of the "gray goose quill" on the oc-
sation of the Chicago convention. Now
on assuming a position with the World
Special Film Corporation, he sets in
to keep up the character. On the even-
ing of Wednesday, at the Cafe de
Paris, he gave his second annual love
feast, at which there were present,
besides himself and Mr. E. Mandel-
baum, the president of the company,
the following: James J. Hoff, The
Moving Picture World; William A.
Johnston, The Motion Picture News;
Mabel Condon, the "Shy Girl'' of
Motography; Arthur Leslie, Ernest
Shipman, J. W. Farnham, and George
D. Proctor.

Mr. Mandelbaum, whose long and
honorable association with the busi-
ness entitles his words to respect,
stated that his company had in prep-
aration a series of pictures of a high-
ly artistic nature, details of which he
preferred at present to withhold. Mr.
Mandelbaum is conservative in his
methods and prefers to conduct his
business along sure and well-defined
lines.

He is in the business for the good
of the business, and not merely as a
temporary speculator of the in-and-
out kind — a far too common figure in
the motion picture field hitherto.
Moreover, he believes in co-operation
between motion picture press, manu-
facturers and exhibitors — a policy
which is entirely that of this paper.
We desire to say that the policy of
the World Special Film Corporation
as outlined by Mr. Mandelbaum has
our support.

Stan Twist, as usual, made himself
agreeably evident to his brethren of
the pen. His debut in New York, if
we may so put it, was an entire suc-
cess. As we made clear last week,
he is well equipped, mentally and ar-
tistically. Moreover, he is a sincere
picture man — a factor which entitles
him to our commendation.

The World Special held a most suc-
cessful function, indeed. Stan Twist
has the savez of making his fellow
"movie scribblers" his friends. In re-

the last seats, without realizing that
he is a bore on more than half the
audience.

When he gives the horse trot, he
never considers if the horse is in the
back or foreground, if he travels on
grass, muddy roads, snow, asphalt or
pavement, it is always the same trot
effect. He does not even look if there
are one or more horses.

J. M. B.

turn they of the craft extend to him
their best wishes for success person-
ally; and success also to the World
Special and its amiable president, Mr.
E. Mandelbaum.

The following is the menu:
The Movie Scribblers' hardest task
— "To eat, when there's drinkng to be
done."

Hors d'oeuvre a la World; Oysters
a la Mirror; Soup a la Billboard;
Fish a la News; Entree a la Syndi-
cate; Green Peas, Telegraph style;
Potatoes Motography; Squab a la
Pompeii; Salad La Miserable; Ice
Cream Worlds Special.

Cocktail; Chateau St. Bris; Pom-
mery. — Cafe de Paris, New York.

Guglielmo Marconi, the electrical
engineer generally credited with the
invention of wireless telegraphy, like
our own Edison is not content to rest
his laurels upon the invention and the
corralling of sounds ne'er before heard
o'er land or sea, but has gone on in
other directions of science. One of
his latest discoveries is the produc-
tion of an explosive, known as the
Marconi dynamite, which is instinct
with terrible energy, yet subject to
control that does not have death as a
resultant from its vibration. An ex-
emplification of this new and power-
ful explosive was given at Chicago re-
cently at the La Salle Hotel as an
entertainment feature of the banquet
to State bankers. In this experiment
Mary Ruth Newkirk, a clever tot who
has appeared in Selig motion pictures
from time to time, was incarcerated
in a safe, and the door was blown off
with a charge of Marconi dynamite,
and the little lady stepped forth, smil-
ing and unharmed.

E. Mandelbaum, president of the
World Special Films Corporation,
returned from Cleveland this week,
reporting big business on "Les Mis-
erables" and "The Betrothal," which
they control for Ohio. Indiana and
Kentucky. At the Knickerbocker
Theatre, in Cleveland, "Les Miser-
ables" played to close to $:!.500 on
the week.

Movie Scribblers Move in Love Feast

Stan Twist a New York Host

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

On the Road

Attleboro, Mass.

I HAVE always claimed that the big
cities have the poorest motion pic-
ture shows, while the small towns are
far ahead in the game.

Attleboro confirms this statement,
as it was a genuine pleasure for me
to find two well-managed theatres in
this small place, after my rather poor
experience in the crooked and nar-
row streets of Boston.

When I entered the Bates Theatre,
of Attleboro, the atmosphere was so
clear and everything was looking so
bright that I knew the house to be
spotlessly clean. The fresh gray
walls, relieved with neat gold mould-
ings, the dusted chairs, the well-pol-
ished brass railings, the curtains at
the windows, hanging on brass poles,
in fact, everything denoted the great-
est care.

While the theatre is on the second
floor of a brick building, it is large
and well ventilated, and fitted with all
the latest improvements, like the Von
Duprin Self-Releasing Doors, the In-
direct Lighting System, etc., features
not always found in the theatres of
the larger cities.

The neatly-uniformed and most
courteous attendants added a great
charm to the place. The doorman
seems to know everyone and every-
one, even the children, knows him, yet
while answering all questions, he does
not show any undue familiarity; he
knows how to keep his place and be
respected.

Mr. John F. Patten, the manager, is a
perfect gentleman, extremely polite,
courteous. He does not wear his hat
nor does he smoke or chew while on
duty, and, like his doorman, Mr. Pat-
ten seems to know everyone and the
patrons seem to like to meet him in
the lobby.

The Columbia is a smaller house
under the management of Mr. A. H.
Allen and leaves nothing to be . de-
sired as to cleanliness, comfort and
safety. Like the Bates Theatre, the
Columbia would be a great credit on
Washington street of Boston.

While the Bates Theatre shows li-
censed pictures, the Columbia shows
the Mutual program, and as both
houses change their pictures three
times per week, Monday, Wednesday
and Friday, they do not conflict with
each other, but, on the contrary, they
give a chance to the patrons to see
all the pictures shown in Attleboro.

As both Mr. Patten and Mr. Allen
work in harmony, motion pictures
will be prosperous in Attleboro,
and there is no danger to fear long
shows of from ten to twelve reels
for five cents. Few posters are used.

Providence, R. I.

With a population of over 200,000
inhabitants, Providence has more
pawn shops than motion picture thea-
tres. I had to do a lot of tramping
before I could locate six picture
houses, while I could see the three
balls in every direction.

As I could not believe that Provi-
dence was so much behind the times
in the game of motion pictures, I
questioned three exhibitors. Two of
them gave me the number of shows
to six (6), while the third one claimed
seven. My census is six, as follows:
Straight pictures:

Casino Theatre.

Bijou Theatre.

Nickel Theatre.
Vaudeville and pictures:

Union Theatre.

Bullock's Amusement Co.

Scenic Temple.
The Union is the finest and newest
vaudeville house, entirely fireproof,
with a seating capacity of over 2,000
chairs.

The Bullock's Temple of Aumse-
ment is an old church remodeled. On
the first floor is a large billiard par-
lor, while the theatre proper is on the
second floor. Bullock's Temple is re-
splendent in a fresh coat of paint.

The Scenic Temple — here again the
word "temple" is used as the build-

r

ing is also an old church transformed
into a theatre.

In the three above named houses,
vaudeville is the backbone, while the
pictures are the side line.

The Casino, the largest motion pic-
ture house of Providence, is located
on the second floor of an old building,
but the manager is doing a good busi-
ness because his projection is the best
and due, as he claims, to a mirror
screen.

The great advantage of the mirror
screen is its high cost, which practi-
cally prohibits the use of a too large
screen, and we all agree that a mod-
erate sized picture is always richer
in details and photographic quality.

The Bijou is the most beautiful
photoplay house of Providence. It
has a white front of a neat and sim-
ple design with a fine electric lighting
display. The interior does not corre-
spond with the exterior. It is som-
bre of color with nothing to relieve
the eye. There are too many ceiling
lights. The floor is not inclined, and
as the curtain is too low on account
of its great dimensions, the heads of
the persons sitting on the front chairs
show on the lower part of the picture.

The Bijou, as the finest theatre, has
not the courage to ask a straight ten-
cent admission, but the cashier sells
a five-cent ticket and the patrons have
to pay an extra five cents for a re-
served seat, as more than half of the
house is in reserved seats. The ten-
cent front seats of the Bijou should
not be the reserved ones, as we know

HOW GEORGE KLEINE'S "aUO VADIS?" IS BILLED

The above gives one a partial idea of how George Kleine's "Quo Vadis?" is being billed
throughout the country. The cut shows the corner of Fulton Street and Fourth Avenue, at
the entrance to Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. The photograph was taken August 3, 1913.

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

that the best seats in a motion pic-
ture theatre are not in the front rows
but in the rear of the house.

The Nickel has a less pretentious
front, although it has been freshly
renovated and painted. The lighting
under the balcony is poor and gives
too much illumination of the heads
of the spectators to enjoy a good pic-
ture. The five clusters of four lights
each, or twenty lights, could be re-
placed advantageously by two indi-
rect light fixtures.

Providence needs a first-class mo-
tion picture theatre to show a first
run of good pictures and less of the
imported sensational supposed fea-
tures, with appropriate music, etc.

Notwithstanding the numerous pawn
shops, Providence is a rich, prosper-
ous town, and even if conservative,
there should be enough lovers of mo-
tion pictures out of a population of
over 200,000 inhabitants to support a
first-class ten-cent photoplay house.
New London, Conn.

New London has only three motion
picture theatres. To be correct, I
should say two, as the Lyceum is the
general playhouse for vaudeville, road
shows, etc.

At this writing, the Lyceum is
showing vaudeville and the Universal
program.

Licensed pictures are shown at the
Empire theatre, while the Orpheum
shows the Mutual productions.

The three houses average a seating
capacity of one thousand chairs each.
They all show vaudeville and while
they each complain of the competi-
tion of the others, not one of them is
willing to give up vaudeville to show
straight pictures only. While the
manager of the Orpheum believes
that there is more money in showing
straight pictures, he is afraid to try
the experiment.

The Orpheum is the only theatre
with a front of some importance, the
exterior decorations are in good taste,
original, and could be make very at-
tractive with effects of colors.
Norwich, Conn.

Like New London, Norwich has
three houses. They all show pic-
tures but they do not follow the same
idea of their neighbors of New Lon-
don.

The Auditorium is the regular
vaudeville and shows pictures of the
Universal program.

The Davis Opera House is the big
theatre devoted to passing road
shows and pictures of the Mutual
Corporation, when no special show
is booked.

The Colonial is the straight photo-
play house with the licensed pictures.

This arrangement is far superior to
the one of New London, as real lov-
ers of motion pictures — and we have
plenty of them — can go to the Colo-

nial where they can see a better run
of pictures, well projected and ac-
companied with appropriate music.
Those who like pictures as a side line
and prefer vaudeville, can go to the
Auditorium. There is no doubt that
even in small towns we have enough
lovers of motion pictures to support
a straight photoplay house. It if was
not so, Mr. Charles McNulty would
not have gone to the expense of re-
modeling his Colonial Theatre. If
Mr. McNulty spent much money in
fixing the whole building, repainting

A MESSAGE FROM MARS
Charley Hawtrey in Motion Pictures

The release of the picture entitled
"A Message from Mars'' by the
United Kingdom Films Co. will serve
to introduce to the motion picture
public of this country one of the most
finished comedians on the other side
of the Atlantic. This is Charles Haw-
trey. Mr. Hawtrey has for many years
been the acknowledged light comedian
par excellence of the English stage.
He is another John Drew. He will
be remembered as having made a
great success in the "Private Secre-
tary" over twenty years ago. He is
debonair, alert, fascinating. The
play, "A Message from Mars,"' on
which the film is made, is popular
with the public. In the character of
Horace Parker, Hawtrey made one
of his greatest successes. The sup-
porting company in this film includes
many of the original performers in
the play. Mr. C. Holman Clark, Mr.
Hubert Willis, Miss Kate Tyndall are
thoroughly well-known artists.

LUNG YI-SUNG, A WEALTHY
TRAVELER, VISITS KLEIN
OPTICAL CO.

One of the visitors at the offices
of the Kleine Optical Company re-
cently was Lung Yi-sung, a wealthy
Chinese, now touring the world in
search of information concerning
American pictures and picture-makers
which he can use to advantage in the
new China. Mr. Yi-sung says that
picture theatres in Shanghai do not
open until nine o'clock and run until
midnight, that the cheapest seats are
75 cents in American money and $1.75
for the highest. Needless to say, the
motion picture show is a rare institu-
tion and patronized only by the
wealthy. Mr. Yi-sung believes that
a splendid opportunity exists in China
for the same character of picture the-
atres that he finds here, and thinks
that the remarkable interest in pic-
tures evinced by his fellow-brothers
on the coast can be duplicated among
the five hundred millions of his na-
tive land.

and refurnishing the Auditorium, it is
that he has a prosperous thea-
tre, it is that there is a class of per-
sons in Norwich who do not care
much for cheap vaudeville, and we
find such classes everywhere, even in
New London.

Our friends of New London should
take the hint and one of them at
least should abandon vaudeville to
his competitors and give all attention
to a perfect projection of the best
pictures.

J. M. B.

EDISON TO START NEW
SERIES

Edison is shortly to begin releas-
ing a new series of detective stories
under the title "The Chronicles of
Cleek." They will be mystery tales,
founded on the stories by Thomas
W. Hanshew, which have been all the
rage in England. They will be pub-
lished in this country simultaneously
with, the film releases by the Short
Story Magazine. Each film will be
released on the last Tuesday of the
month, beginning November 25th.
Ben Wilson will appear in the title
role.

MARGARITA FISCHER RECOV-
ERING FROM ILLNESS

Margarita Fischer, a popular mo-
tion picture actress and a delightful
personality, has been sick, so sick that
a slight operation was necessary. This
little lady found out what a wonderful
favorite she was with the general pub-
lic, as well as with her studio com-
panions. She received flowers and
cards from people she never heard

of and her stage companions, even
many of the extra people, sent beau-
tiful bouquets of flowers. One little
tot gathered a bunch of field flowers
and sent them up with a little note,
full of real affection and bad spelling.
So many flowers were received that
the hearts of many sufferers in the
other wards were made happy. She
is around again and hopes to be in
harness soon.

Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address: Exhibitors' Department, The Motion Picture News

SOME time ago I visited a new the-
atre. Not a five-cent house, but
a supposed refined photoplay theatre.

The theatre must represent a large
investment, as everything is first-class
and nothing has been spared to in-
sure the comfort of the patrons.

Yet there was something queer in
the atmosphere of the place, some-
thing that did not seem to harmonize
with the rest. The best illustration
to my mind is the country boy dressed
in an evening dress and making his
first appearance in society. His clothes
may be of the finest material and
workmanship, but he does not know
how to wear them, he does not feel
at his ease and he is the target of
everyone.

The doorman and the ushers had
new uniforms, very neat in pattern
and well-made, but somehow they did
not seem to fit, because the men did
not know how to wear them, and, like
the country boy, they did not feel
at ease. To tell the truth, the men
were not the clean-cut fellows to
make efficient and courteous attend-
ants, they were of a low type, most
likely engaged because they were
willing to work at low wages.

As I said in a previous issue of this
magazine, good manners are born
with the man and, while they can be
taught to a certain degree, the vulgar
man will always show his true nature
at one moment or another.

You cannot expect good manners
from the attendants if the manager
has no manners himself.

The manager of this new theatre is
a man who was lucky to make some
money, but in gaining wealth he did
not change the manners of his former
days.

When the manager saw me seated
and enjoying the show, he came to
shake hands and to thank me for
having called on him. Keeping his
hat on and still holding a smoking
cigarette between his fingers, he took
a seat next to me and started to give
me some details on his new theatre.
His voice was not muffled, and, as

he could not see that he was annoy-
ing the patrons, who had paid an ad-
mission to enjoy the pictures and not
hear someone talk, 1 had to excuse
myself so as to put a stop to the
conversation.

When in the lobby in the full light,
I was surprised that the manager,
after spending so much money on
the building and even on uniforms
for his attendants, had not bought a
new suit of clothes for himself. He
was looking very shabby in his per-
sonal appearance, and he did not look
like the manager, at least not a man
to be approached by the patrons.

The result will be a poor business,
and the manager will wonder why
his patrons go somewhere else and
shun his beautiful theatre. He will
say: "I have done everything, I have
spared neither money nor pains to
build a most refined theatre."

I know a number of successful man-
agers, who, while they do not wear

the regulation uniform, have a special
dress to wear while on duty. They
keep in the office a fresh suit of
clothes, and they don same before
the opening of the show, so as to
look neat and inspire confidence.

The question of personal appear-
ance does not seem to enter in the
mind of the motion picture exhibitors
and managers. They do not seem to
realize the importance of good man-
ners and neat appearance, even in
places where the admission is five
cents only.

Appearance and manners have made
great progress in the United States
during the i last twenty years. I re-
member when waiters, sales-people,
etc., were allowed to go to work in
any sort of clothes, as long as their
forms would be covered. To-day it is
a different question.

Hotels, restaurants, lunch-rooms,
cafes, soda-fountains, etc., compel
their employees to wear either black

SCENE FROM "THE LURE OF NEW YORK"

Four-reel Feature Film, New York Film Co.

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33

or white jackets, to wear clean linen,
in other words, to take care of their
personal appearance. Same with the
sales-people. The department stores
compel their employees to wear cer-
tain dresses. It is general all over
the country, good manners and neat
appearance is the keynote to success.

The owners of a big department
store "in a suburban town, who are
strict on the personal appearance of
their sales-clerks, cash-girls and other
employees, yielded to the temptation
to erect a photoplay theatre on a va-
cant lot adjoining their stores. They
placed a manager who does not seem
to know much about appearance, as
the attendants of the theatre are a
great contrast to the employees of
the stores. I don't see why the own-
ers, so strict on the personal appear-
ance of the employees of the stores,
do not enforce the same policy on
the attendants of the motion picture
theatre. It cannot be a question of
the price of admission. The patrons
paying ten cents admission to see mo-
tion pictures are entitled to as much
courtesy and clean service as the
women who purchase a spool of
thread, a paper of pins or a glass of
soda.

It is, I am sorry to tell it, that the

same prejudice exists in the minds of
the exhibitors as in the minds of the
enemies of cinematography, viz.: Mo-
tion pictures are the low amusement
of the common people, consequently
do not call, for good manners or ap-
pearance.

This is the whole secret. Too many
of our exhibitors, and of our manufac-
turers, to tell the truth, have this
wrong idea, that motion pictures are
to be classed with the side-shows of
the fairs and circuses, or to be the
ornament of the Bowery and of other
such thoroughfares. With such a be-
lief, the exhibitors do not see the need
of a polite, clean, neat and courteous
service. The manufacturers, on their
side, do not want good, uplifting
scenarios, but on the contrary, they
will produce any scenario, no matter
how unnatural it can be, as long as
it is sensational.

Evidently, as every rule has its ex-
ceptions, we have a number of manu-
facturers and exhibitors who are doing
their very best to uplift cinematog-
raphy, but they are few, and some
of them in course of time fall by the
wayside because they lack faith in a
better future for motion pictures. Yes.
when men with no means, men who
have been known to hide themselves

so as to avoid a collector, can brag
of making a little fortune by putting
out feature films and claim that they
never spend over one thousand dol-
lars on a production but get the
money by putting out sensational
posters, it is enough to discourage the
honest manufacturer, who spends
thousands on a single negative Un-
less this manufacturer has a great
faith in the future he will fall and
imitate the unscrupulous ' little manu-
facturer by making sensational films
to please the passions of the low
classes. Same with the exhibitor who
tries to uplift the business.' He goes
thus far and because he sees his neigh-
bor make an ugly display of posters,
give souvenirs, he is tempted to do
likewise.

The day is coming when this wrong
prejudice will make room for a bet-
ter sentiment, and it is because motion
pictures are here to stay that many
men are working hard for the uplift-
ing of the industry by investing large
sums of money in the building of fine
theatres and the production of high-
class films. These men, with enough
faith in the future, will naturally and
gradually push out of the field both
the unscrupulous manufacturer and
exhibitor. J. M. B.

Boosting the Business in Berlin

THE Berlin motion picture shows,
or "Kinos," as they are called
more frequently there, have finally
found the panacea which makes the
multitude storm the ticket office.

Up to a few weeks ago they seemed
to belong to the past, for the people
did not patronize them any longer.
Thirty or more had to close their
doors. Then for a while the man-
agers did some thinking and experi-
menting. They combined a vaude-
ville show with their theatres, en-
gaged acrobats arid songstresses of
whom the audience always was in
doubt whether it would not be better
if the song birds handle the heavy
dumb-bells and the strong man try to
sing the "Last Rose of Summer."

It was of no avail. The public did
not stream en masse, the sheriff final-
ly arrived, unmercifully attached the
cash box receipts and closed the
doors. And in many instances the
kino show ended with a free-for-all
fight.

Necessity, however, the greatest in-
ventor on earth, finally found the
ways and means to change the condi-
tions in favor of the impoverished
manager. The great achievement of
technical sciences was pressed into
service, and to-day the kinos again
are overcrowded, and that state of
affairs has been reached which the

manager in Goethe's Faust dreams

of:

''When to our booth the current sets
apace,

And with tremendous, oft-repeated
urging,

Squeeze onward through the narrow

gate of grace:
To reach the seller's box, a fighting

host,

To get a ticket break their necks al-
most."

You sit in the kino and look at a
series of pictures of a detective story.
The bloody murderer is chased and
jumps in the swiftest touring car that
is in existence. The police get in an
express train.

And now reality sets in. The mad
race between the two machines is
depicted. The spectator hears the
noise of the approaching beasts, the
thundering of the heavy locomotive
on the steel rails, the whistling of the
steampipe and the chug-chug of the
auto. The . two monsters draw nearer
and nearer. You hear the mewing
and spitting and groaning and notice
the approaching glaring lights. The
noise increases, steam and sparks are
emitted into the stage, and finally a
rattling and crackling auto and a
screeching and squeaking locomotive
stop at the stage in front of the

dumbfounded spectator. The detec-
tives jump from the machine, the
fleeing rogue is caught and the play
goes on according to the plot. The
melodrama that commenced with pic-
tures is now finished by real actors.
So far the people in this nerve-tear-
ing center of over civilization have to
go to attract a crowd.

But if the teel-tempered thoughts
of a new era spontaneously enter the
world of imagination, if Thalia is vis-
ited by Count Zeppelin, then such a
wonderful scene may happen as we
had the pleasure of witnessing last
week at the open air theatre in little
Wannsee.

Hebbel's monumental Gyges drama
was given in the presence of a small
but artistically inclined and appre-
ciative community of connoisseurs.
The spectators were deeply moved
by the strong prehistorical and myth-
ical play when suddenly, from the dis-
tance, near the end of the show, a
howling and roaring noise was heard
that drew nearer and nearer. Was it
old Helios himself who drove up with
his several fiery stallions to witness
the scene so familiar to him? When
the people looked up they saw a big
Zeppelin cruiser sweep by at the
height of not more than about 300 feet

Tt was the most unique demonstra-
tion and object lesson of the wonder-
ful development of human genius
within 3,000 years.

The new era greeted the far past.

Adve v X ising

IT is a fad. Nothing else than a fad
to display too many posters.
A new theatre has opened its doors
on Eighth avenue. It is not an old
common store transformed into a
photoplay house. No, it is a specially
constructed building. The Drury
Lane is the name. This name means
something and reminds us of the fa-
mous old London theatre where so
many famous dramas and spectacular
plays have been staged.

The owners of the new theatre did
not, like others, adopt an architecture
contrary to the meaning of the name,
but they have an entrance and lobby
of ancient English construction, to
conform to the name of Drury Lane.

The antique woodwork, decora-
tions, ornaments, lamps, and even the
poster frames, give an odd appear-
ance to the building which is rather
pleasing and that would denote that
the Drury Lane is a theatre devoted
to the refined class of lovers of mo-
tion pictures.

We know that this part of Eighth
avenue is not what could be consid-
ered one of the best districts of New
York, as the colored element is very
strong and it is frequented by certain
characters. For this reason, the per-
sons who have to reside in the imme-
diate neighborhood were praising
themselves at the sight of having a
refined motion picture theatre, con-
ducted for the benefit of the best ele-
ment.

The dissatisfaction is that the man-
agers of the new theatre could not re-
sist the poster fad and thought that
they had to copy their neighbors, the
small dumps in which you have to
hold your nose and feel that you have
to scratch yourself during the show.
Yes, the Drury Lane has most of its
antique woodwork and decorations
covered with posters, not as many as
the theatre a few doors below, but in
course of time they will come to it.

Evidently the colored and low ele-
ments, the frequenters of the cheap
dumps, were delighted to see that the
Drury Lane would not be a refined
photoplay house in which they would
feel out of place, but, encouraged by
the vulgarity of the display of posters,
they came in force.

The projection is excellent. To be
correct, I should say the light is ex-

cellent, as no good projection can be
obtained when the managers, not able
to give a show of over forty-five min-
utes, crowd four full reels in less than
forty minutes. This is the show that
the low element wants, plenty for the
money without considering the qual-
ity. The two-reel drama feature of
Selig, "The Conscience Fund," was
butchered on account of the speedy
actions. It was ridiculous, not to say
out of place, to see nuns in the parlor
of the convent running like mechan-
ical toys. A regular Punch and Judy
show. How could it be otherwise, as,
by my watch, the operator gave nine
(9) minutes to each reel.

The exterior of the Drury Lane is
odd, fine, and has an atmosphere of
refinement; the light on the screen is
excellent; the music, although not fol-
lowing the picture exactly, is of the
best and far superior to what is heard
on1 Broadway. With all these advan-
tages, it would have been easy for the
managers to cater to a better element,
with less posters and less reels. Three
reels at a speed of eighteen or twenty
minutes would have assured a good
steady patronage and would have kept
others out.

On my right side I had an Italian
woman with a baby in her arms.
While the baby was not crying (he
was sleeping) I could smell that it
was Saturday evening, waiting for the
weekly wash. On the left I had a
colored man, who must have been on
his way from work. In front of me
I had two characters that you meet
on the Bowery. One was sleeping
and the other insisted on keeping his
cap on his head during tne whole
show.

Yes, there was a sort of usher — a
tall young man in his Sunday clothes
and a high fashionable collar, more on
the order of a cuff. It may be that on
account of his high collar, the young
fellow could not lower his head, and
this would explain why he could not
see the sleeping man and the one who
insisted in keeping his cap on.

When will the exhibitors reason the
question of posters and realize that
this great abuse is doing more harm
than good to the prosperity of cine-
matography?

Even the six and eight-sheet pos-
ters do not seem to answer the pur-
poses any more, as the exhibitors who
have no respect for their neighbors

SCENE FROM "THE GAMBLER'S RUIN'

Gaumonr (3 Reel) Feature Film.

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35

add now to their large display of post-
ers, banners with big black and red
letters that can be seen at a great dis-
tance.

The other day a theatre in Four-
teenth street, near Broadway, dis-
played the following banners:

Indian Blood.

Convict's Sweetheart.

From Out of the Depths.

The Kid Gloved Crook.

Sentenced to Jail.

The Wages of Sin Is Death.

The Exposure of a Great Crime.

How to Make an Innocent Victim
Guilty.

Woman in Black.

Is there any wonder that the clergy,
the press, and our best citizens are
opposed to motion pictures when they
see such titles flashed on our main
thoroughfares?

While these films may be good and
contain no objectionable scenes, the
titles convey an unfavorable impres-
sion and seem to say that motion pic-
tures are scenes of murders, assaults,
crimes, prisons, tortures, infidelity, in-
justice, etc.

We claim that motion pictures are
to become the great educat'or of the
world, and to this effect several of our
manufacturers are already producing
films to show scientific experiments,
industries in operation, scenic views
from all over the world, pages of an-

cient and modern history, passages
from the Scriptures, etc. On the other
hand, Fourteenth street raises its
voice and says: "Motion pictures are
the school for crimes." Read over the
above titles and let us know if such a
1st of films is not enough to convey
the impression that motion pictures
t.re a teacher of crime.

What opinion can strangers have of
New York when they cannot pass our
main streets — Fourteenth street is
considered a main street — without
having to blush at such posters.

Is it advertising motion pictures?
No. It is not even advertising the
show, as these posters and banners
are, in most cases, very deceiving:
they are there to catch a number of
the suckers and hayseeds who come
to the metropolis to see the sights.
Regular lovers of motion pictures do
not patronize Fourteenth street much.
While we know that thousands of
good members of the numerous small
towns and villages surrounding New
York come to the city to visit places
that they would not patronize at
home, I don't know if it is good for
the industry in general to allow cer-
tain exhibitors to give such a black
eye to cinematography.

If we have a number of outside vis-
itors with money to burn and who
want to see things that have been kept
away from them, we have, on the

other hand, many schools, churches
and other institutions wishing to adopt
motion pictures for an educational
purpose and who send delegates to
study the question. These delegates,
most of them strangers to New York,
do not know their way to the uptown
respectable theatres, like the Regent.
Riverview, Heights, etc., but follow
the crowds and find themselves in the
congested districts, where they have
to face motion pictures under the
worst conditions. One failing of man
is to go by the first impression, and if
these delegates have the misfortune
to pass Fourteenth street and see the
sensational posters and banners, they
are liable to give up the task of inves-
tigating and to return home with an
unfavorable report.

Such unfavorable reports, and many
have been made, retard the progress
of the little pictures such as the Uni-
versal Educator. If, on the other
hand, these delegates could see some
of our best films, like "Quo Vadis,"
"Oxygen," "The Lagging Industry,"
"The Culture of Cocoa," "Last Days
of Pompeii," "Arizona," "David Cop-
perfield," etc., they would return home
delighted with motion pictures and
make a favorable report.

As I said, these posters and banners
do not advertise the pictures, not even
the show, but they retard the progress
of cinematography. J. M. B.

"The decadence of the single-reel
release seems inevitable. Its length
does not allow the picturization of
stories of cumulative power and thus
variety of plot is limited.

"In the widening of the Exclusive
program's distribution has been ex-
hibited the ever interesting and some-
what amusing trait of human nature
that one always wants what the other
fellow has. In certain territories our
program for some time went begging,
but just as soon as the Exclusive
rights were secured by an individual
or company, every competitor in that
territory realized that he also wanted
the program."

A noted star to soon be presented
in motion pictures will be James
O'Neill, the romantic actor, in the
characterization he has interpreted for
more than five thousand times on the
stage, "The Count of Monte Cristo,"
to be released by the Famous Players
Film Co. November 1st.

Influenced by the quality of the sub-
jects thus far imported by the Film
Releases of America, Harry Samwick,
representing Exclusive Features, Inc.,
of New York City, has contracted for
the entire output of this feature com-
pany for Greater New York, New
York State and Northern New Jersey.

Joe Miles Tatts of the Exclusive Program

TXY following the line-*®f least re-
sistance the program ©f the Exclu-
sive Supply Corporation has achieved
a great growth. That line of least
resistance is that of the feature film.

The foresight of the officers of a
number of film manufactories some
time ago has resulted in the estab-
lishment throughout the country of
a program which meets the needs
and wants of exhibitors and specta-
tors.

Five months ago the Exclusive was
inaugurated. It then began with a
monthly output of nine feature sub-
jects and twenty-one single-reel re-
leases of the Gaumont, Great North-
ern, Itala and Solax brands. Since
that time several standard brands
have come under the Exclusive ban-
ner, forming a program of balanced
weight and strength.

Free from politics, with fair-mind-
ed business men as its officers, and
a staff of reputable employees, its
clean-cut methods have earned for
the Exclusive a good reputation.

A few days ago, before a meeting
of representative motion picture men,
Joseph R. Miles, general manager of
the Exclusive Supply Corporation, in
commenting upon the demand for

high-class feature subjects, spoke well
of the productive results of the Ex-
clusive Manufacturers in their efforts
to meet this demand with quality sub-
jects. Mr. Miles said: "While I
am proud of the success of our pro-
gram, I attribute the attainment of
that, success alone to the fact that
our brands are of such recognized
quality that the names alone assure
their sale. The character of our or-
ganization is such that not only is
competition not eliminated but is en-
couraged to such an extent that a
keen rivalry exists among our manu-
facturers to break sales records.

"Strength is being added to the
strong. The addition of two more
American brands, the Laclede and
Great Western, with two feature re-
leases each monthly, beginning early
in November, and the New Ammex,
beginning November 1st with a West-
ern feature every two weeks, will give
balance to the aggregation of foreign
brands, including as they do, the pick
of the pick from the studios of Gau
mont, Great Northern, Itala, Eclectic,
Film Releases of America and Lewis
Pennant. The American brands now
on our program include Solax, Blache
American, Dragon and Ramo.

ffishuctioii Department

Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address: Construction Department, The Motion Picture News

CONSTRUCTION, APPEARANCE, ADVERTISING— THREE IN ONE

THE Motion Picture News repro-
duces in cut No. 1 the outline
plans and in cut No. 2 the exterior
of the "Bellevue," of Newark, N. J.,
devoted mainly to photoplays. It was
designed by Architect Nathan Myers,
of the Woolworth Building, New
York, and Cort Theatre Building,
Newark, N. J.

Cut No. 1 Plan — A, commercial
building, stores, offices; B, entrance
to theatre; C, the lobby; D, the
foyer; E, ticket office; F, resting
room (ladies'); G, smoking room;
H, emergency exit through commer-
cial building; I, auditorium; J, exit-
on alley; K, operating booth; L, M,
exits; N, stage and screen; O, dress-
ing rooms.

The reader will note that the archi-

ILLUSTRATION NO. 1

tect has a practical experience in the
planning of theatres, as in the accom-
panying plan it is shown that he pro-
vides a long and narrow auditorium,
the best disposition to insure a good
projection. At the same time, the most
valuable part of the lot is devoted
to a commercial building, reducing
much the rent on the theatre proper.
A very spacious and handsome vesti-
bule, followed by a fine lobby and
a foyer, off of which are located the
men's and women's retiring rooms
and ticket office, occupy the wing, hav-
ing frontage on the main street.

The auditorium is 36 feet by 91
feet, and comfortably seats almost six
hundred. A mirror screen of size the
largest ever made is one of the fea-
tures of an otherwise perfectly

equipped vaudeville stage. The screen
is hung on six steel cables and is coun-
terweighted the same as elevators, and
is safely and easily raised and low-
ered' by one man. The building is

(2) THE BELLEVUE THEATRE, NEWARK, N. J.

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

37

absolutely fireproof in all parts, and
is provided with sprinkler and stand-
pipe systems, and receives the best
insurance rating on the local ex-
change. The most minute care has
been taken in all details of the house,
inclusive of seating, ventilating, light-
ing and electrical work.

Architect Nathan Myers has over-
come the great drawback of the mir-
ror screen when used for a combina-
tion vaudeville and picture house. To
my knowledge, many exhibitors de-
sirous of showing their pictures on
the celebrated mirror screen, had to
give up the idea because no practical
device had been suggested for the
raising and lowering of the said
screen.

The small cut,

No. 3, shows the

(3) OPERATING BOOTH, BELLEVUE
THEATRE

beautiful operating booth of the
"Bellevue" Theatre.

The "Bijou" is the most successful
motion picture theatre of Springfield,
Mass. There is not a more inviting
home for motion pictures. Larger
houses exist, but none more artisti-
cally complete in all details for the
comfort of the patrons. The exte-
rior is simple but dignified, with con-
crete walls and stained-glass win-
dows. Perhaps a resemblance to some
building in Mexico is first suggested.
On either side are the steps leading
to the balcony; then the enclosure on
the right side of the lobby is com-
fortably fur. ished as a ladies' parlor,
while on the left side is the ticket
office and the smoking room. Six
swinging doors leading directly into
the foyer.

As stated in "Advertising the Pic-
ture," the Bijou does not display post-
ers or banners, but the advertising
is done, as shown in the illustration,
through two frames and easels; one
containing a card sign of the pro-
gramme, the other a few photographs
of some of the actual scenes of the
pictures or of actors.

Cut No. 5 shows part of the interior
of the said Bijou Theatre, with the
private boxes. Three of these private
boxes are on each side of the audi-
torium. The curtains and potted

(5) INTERIOR VIEW, BIJOU THEATRE

plants around the stage show how
particular Mr. Knight is with respect
to all the details that can improve
the appearance of the place and please
the patrons.

Cut No. 6 shows the beautiful
Broadway Theatre of Messrs. Gold-
stein Bros., of Springfield. Mass.
This illustration represents the com-
ing architecture for photoplay houses.
Substantial buildings free from the
ginger-bread decorations of old days,
something to impress the public that
motion pictures are no more a fad
of a few days, but are here to stay.
Real palaces to house the great artis-
tic films produced to-day.

The appearance of such a building
is a better advertisement than posters
and banners, and is a safe guarantee
that the picture shown within can be
nothing else than the refined in every
respect. The men who are looking
for highly sensational films to thrill
their degenerate passions need not
stop in front of such buildings.

The Broadway Theatre is not ex-
actly a motion picture house, as it is
devoted to passing shows, but when
the Goldstein Bros, show films, they
are the best that can be secured.

Cut No. 7 is an illustration of the
arrangement of the screen at the
Washington Theatre, of Boston.

The curtain or screen occupies the
entire opening of the proscenium
arch and is painted white. The cur-
tain is not only too long and too wide,
but is out of proportion and larger
than the picture. The picture, as
shown in the illustration, occupies
only a portion of the curtain, and as
there is no border to separate the
picture proper from the balance of

the white curtain, the projection is
dull. The white sides around the
picture are hard on the eyesight.

Another drawback to this arrange-
ment is that for a curtain set on the
rear of the stage, the proscenium
arch is entirely too low. It is true
to state that the auditorium has a
rather low ceiling.

Cut No. 8 gives an idea of the pres-
ent floor space of the Washington
Theatre: "A" too wide an auditorium,
"B'' space wasted for a foyer, "C" the
ticket booth, "D" the office of the
manager.

(6) BROADWAY THEATRE, SPRING-
FIELD, MASS.

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

If the architect had followed the
plan shown in cut No. 9: "E" audi-
torium long and narrow, "F" space
for stores on busy Washington Street,

SCREEN, "WASHINGTON THEATRE

"G" ticket booth and lobby, he would
have made an auditorium -better
adapted for a motion picture show,
and would have gained much valuable
space for stores. The stores would
have yielded more rent than the sec-
ond floor, which floor could have been
used to give more ceiling height to
the auditorium, provide a balcony,
office and storerooms for the theatre.

While the Washington is not a bad
theatre, it cannot be called the finest
and best equipped of the United
States, as smaller towns can show far
superior motion picture theatres.

Cut No. 10 shows the arrangement
of the curtain at the Pleasant Theatre,
of Worcester, Mass.

As I said in my letter, "On the
Road," Mr. E. W. Lynch is a gentle-
man who fully understands the exhib-
iting game, who studies every device
and always tries to improve, so as to
increase the beauty of the picture and
insure more comfort to the patrons.

Mr. Lynch is a strong believer in
the "Mirror Screen" as the best cur-

(8) ILLUSTRATION

(10) CURTAIN, PLEASANT THEATRE

tain to bring out all the details and
give a depth to the picture. In addi-
tion, Mr. Lynch claims that the very
best screen will prove a failure if it
is not surrounded properly.

Mr. Lynch knows that unless the
screen is set back on the stage, the
picture is too close to the front seats
to be enjoyed by the patrons. In-
stead of having the wings of the stage
fitted up with regular scenery, as is
too often the case, Mr. Lynch draped
the whole stage with heavy dark cur-

tains, and by so doing, formed not
only a very effective shadow box, but
made it very pleasing to the eyes of
the audience. The mirror screen is
incased in a beautiful, handsomely-
carved frame, painted in a dull black,
with just enough old gold to relieve
the monotony.

A projection under such conditions
is bound to be the very best and en-
hance the beauty of the picture sev-
eral-fold.

This arrangement does not only

(9) ILLUSTRATION

(12) AUDITORIUM, PLEASANT THEATRE

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

39

benefit the picture, but gives such a
taste of refinement to the place as
to command the highest patronage.

Cut No. 11 shows one side and the
balcony of the theatre, and the sur-
prise is that a good picture can be
shown with such light-painted walls.
It is true that white-colored walls
have the tendency to dull the picture,
but in the present case the admirable
setting of the screen overcomes the
drawbacks of light walls. The beauti-
ful delicate decorations of the walls
and cornices add to the refinement of
the place.

Cut No. 12 gives a general view
of the auditorium from the stage, and
it will be seen that the same rich
effects of the stage are carried all
over the building, even in rich, heavy
portieres over the doors.

Cut No. 13 shows a corner of the
ladies' retiring-room.

The Pleasant Theatre was destroyed
by fire last March from crossed wires
under the stage. There were no casu-
alties, as with the admirable service
organized by Mr. Lynch, the patrons
-walked out without the least sign of
a panic. After the fire, Mr. Lynch
tore out the whole inside of the the-
atre and rebuilt the present beautiful
palace for motion pictures.

I am sorry that I could not secure
a photograph of the splendid white
marble lobby, with its monumental
staircases, and a photograph of the
uniformed attendants, to show that
everything, under the able manage-
ment of Mr. Lynch, works in perfect
harmony.

We hope to see more of these beau-
tiful theatres, they will do more than
anything else to uplift the industry,

provided the manufacturers take up
the hint and improve the pictures as
the exhibitors improve their theatres.

J. M. B.

Jules Burnstein, of the World Spe-
cial Films Corporation, returned from
the convention at Rochester Monday,
having shown to the exhibitors their
new film "Protea." It was voted one
of the most sensational and thrilling
ever shown on the screen. Jules made
quite a hit. [Jules always does. — Ed.
M.-P. N.]

EARL METCALF

Earl Metcalf was born in Aberga-
venny, Wales. Educated in Cincin-
nati University, also studied for West
Point. He organized a company of
Kentucky State Militia during the
night rider troubles in that State.
Metcalf has been twelve years on the
stage, with stock companies in Cin-
cinnati, Indianapolis, Memphis, Chi-
cago, New York City, Montreal, St.

Paul, etc. He was leading man for
Stella Hammerstein, and juvenile man
for Zelda Sears. Earl never appeared
on the screen except in Lubin films.

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

The Secret of tKe Mine

IN THREE PARTS LENGTH 2750 FEET

Copyrighted 1913 — Infringers Beware

See the Thrilling Mine Explosion

See the Daring Holdup of an Express Train

See the Spectacular Leap for Life

See the Marvelous Escape From Death

These are only a few of the gripping scenes in this beautiful feature.

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Since the purchase of "The Palace
of Flames" for territorial rights in
Alaska, the gold-seekers have become
so enthusiastic about motion pictures
that A. R. Thorne has purchased an-
other Itala subject, "The War Cor-
respondents," and is also negotiating
for exclusive rights on all Itala fu-
ture features.

Arthur D. Gans, representing the
National Film Exchange, of Balti-
more, has purchased the rights for
''Unmasked" for Maryland, Delaware,
District of Columbia and Virginia.
The Sedeg Feature Film Co., of New
.York City, has purchased another
copy of "Tigris" for Greater New
York City and Northern New Jersey.

Among, the purchasers of state
rights on "The Gypsy's Kiss" are
the Golden Gate Film Exchange, of
San Francisco; Northwestern Feature
Film Co, of Portland; Union Film
Company, of Chicago; Big 4 Feature
Film Co.. of Dallas; Weiland Feature
Film Co.. of Pittsburgh; Electric
Theatre Supply Co., of Philadelphia;
Exclusive Features, Inc., of New
York City, and Famous Players Film
Co , of Boston.

Joe Welch, whose Hebrew imper-
sonations have been delighting vaude-
ville audiences for many years, will
appear shortly in a three-part War-
ner's feature, entitled
for Wealth."

In writing to advertisers please mention "THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS"

INTERESTING FILM REVIEWS

Educational — Industrial — Scenic — General

THE Troublesome Telephone. — Ka-
lem. Oct. 17.) — A comedy which
presents several new features which
are clever and productive of mirth.
Something of a burlesque on real life.
A dentist is annoyed by his wife's
continuous telephoning. He is al-
ways having to leave his work and
answer her calls. Most of them are
merely assurances that "baby is not
fretting." or "baby shows signs of
getting her first tooth," etc. Finally
when he has a patient firmly en-
sconced in the chair, and has admin-
istered gas to him, he has to go home
and get rid of an annoying rat. The
story is sure to amuse.

The Boston Floating Hospital.

Kalem. (Oct. 17.) — This interesting
picture is on a split reel with "The
Troublesome Telephone." Boston,
ever a city of innovations, has here
set a precedent which might be car-
ried out by all the other cities, so
successful has it worked. The Kalem
Company states that it is the only
hospital of its kind in the world, and
for this reason it should be most in-
teresting.

There are two classes of nurses in
the hospital's employ, the "shore"
nurse and the "floating" nurse. One
follows up the work of the other.
Both the mother and child are looked
after by this hospital, and when they
have been nursed back to life and
happiness and are again sent ashore,
the shore nurses follow up the good
work by showing the people how
they should live to be conducive of
good health and morals.

A most philanthropic labor which
is appreciated by all whose good for-
tune it is to get in their care, instead
of going to the regular hospitals.
Fire drills and other safeguards are
demonstrated.

A Stolen Identity. Powers. — This
opening paragraph is not intended as
a "knock," for "A Stolen Identity" is
really a good story, but why certain
companies on the Universal program
will always use the engravings repre-
senting the "Roman Ruins'' of "The
Coliseum." I don't know. Whatever
the interior scene is, it seems these
decorations are bound to crop up.
Of course they are standard pictures,
etc., but are there not others? As
before mentioned, this is not a
"knock," merely a kindly suggestion.

"A Stolen Identity," although a
most improbable story, is one of
great interest, and holds the atten-

tion of an audience right through. It
is the tale of two men who are so ex-
actly alike that one steals the iden-
tity of the other in order to get some
property in the other's name. Just as
he is about to receive the money,
however, the rightful owner inter-
cepts him, having broken lose from
his prison. A very thrilling automo-
bile ride against time is one of the
featured parts. Very cleverly acted
in duplicate by Edwin August. Jeal-
ousy also has much to do with the
story.

Wynona's Vengeance. Bison. — A
tale of the Indian warfare in the
West, probably about the time of
General Custer. The Indians are on
the warpath massacring everyone,
until they are stopped by the soldiers,
who fire their village. Wynona is
adopted by the Colonel's daughter
and sent away to school. Her father,
the Chief of the Indians, in an en-
counter with an officer of the fort
disfigures him for life, thus turning
the man's hatred forever his way.

Wynona, on her return some years
later from school, inherits this ha-
tred and is badly treated. The chief,
her father, insists on the whites giv-
ing up the girl, and upon their refusal
attacks them. The fight is going
against the whites when Wynona, in
order to avenge herself for the in-
sults she had received, blows up the
fort and all within it. The story
thrills with action and excitement,
the finale particularly being very
good.

Lasca. Bison. — A clever and pretty
effect is gained in this picture by hav-
ing the sub-titles enclosed in boxes
made of bark and moss. The story
is a very beautiful one in poetry and
tells of the love of a man and its re-
sult. An old ranger is supposed to
be telling the tale of two companions.
He had once loved a girl and been
dearly loved in return, so much so
that when he roused her jealousy she
had stabbed him.

Later they are on the desert when
a storm breaks and drives a herd of
cattle on a stampede. The two of
them ride away on one horse, but are
unable to keep ahead of the herd.
When they dismount the horse gal-
lops away and the girl, Lasca, forc-
ing him to the ground, lays on top
and protects him from the hoofs of
the galloping of the cattle, losing her
own life in the attempt. A pretty
story and well told.

The Buccaneers. Bison. — The third
and last of an interesting historical
series of the Bison brand, dealing with
the lives of "famous pirates." The
stories are all historically correct, and
are most interesting. Capt. Jean La
Fette and the notorious Blackbeard
are the subjects of this last effort.
They are rival buccaneers, but the
latter is defeated by La Fette, so they
join hands and form a terrible alli-
ance. On one of their marauding
cruises La Fette adopts a little boy.
The years pass by and John is forced
to take a part in their looting, but
refuses to kill anyone, though there
is a reward out for his capture, as
well as that of his masters. His man-
hood finally awakes, however, through
the persuasions of a girl, and he re-
fuses to take any part in their future
transactions. The two are captured
through the treachery of Blackbeard,
but La Fette escapes, and when he
hears that John is to suffer through
the maliciousness of Blackbeard, he
returns and tells them that John had
been forced to take a part in the work
of the pirates and John is let free. As
he finishes his tale La Fette is shot
by his rival and dies in the court-
room.

The Dread Inheritance. Victor,
Two-Reel. — A splendid story, well
told and dealing tenderly with a for-
bidden topic. It is something on the
order of "Damaged Goods," but is so
told that young people in general will
have difficulty in understanding the
subject. The reviewer believes it to
be safe to show anywhere, and it
should have a big tendency to produce
good results. A father in dying im-
parts to his son the knowledge that
there is a possibility that he (the son)
may have inherited a terrible disease
from him, as in his youth he was
rather wi'd. The son goes aghast at
the news and breaks off his engage-
ment with his fiancee, deeming him-
self unworthy to associate with her.
He is examined by a doctor, who is
also his rival for the girl's hand. The
medical man withholds an opinion, thus
leading the younger man to believe
himself afflicted. Prayer finally ac-
complishes what other efforts would
not, and he knows he has miraculously
escaped. The mother of the girl
seemed a bit young for the part, but
played it well. J. Warren Kerrigan
and Jessylyn Van Trump played the
leads.

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Animated Weekly No. 84. (Oct. 15.)
— Containing nine news items of in-
terest. The photography is excellent
and the subjects taken very good. The
news is as follows:

1. Pontoon Bridge Accident — A se-
ries of accidents threaten to mar the
annual exhibition and manoeuvres of
the British Army Engineers at Ports-
mouth, England.

2. The Louisville Handicap — Iron
Mask creates a new world's record
when he travels the six furlongs in
1.10 2/5.

3. Unveiling Ceremonies at San
Diego — Many notables, including the
representatives of President Wilson
and the King of Spain, assist in the
dedication of a cross to Serra, first
white man to settle on the Pacific
Coast.

4. Aviation Carnival — World's fa-
mous aviators compete for the great-
est prize in aviation — the International
Aviation Cup — Rheims, France.

5. Weekly Fashion Hints — Suits and
dresses of velveteen and corduroy are
popular for Fall.

6. Battle of the Thames — Is re-en-
acted by prominent citizens of the
city of Louisville and is the feature
of the Kentucky Perry Centennial
Celebration.

7. Great Liberal Rally — Sir Wilfred
Laurier, ex-Premier of Canada, at-
tends the Liberal rally at St. Martine,
Quebec. Sir Wilfred Laurier lost his
Premiership through his advocating
the reciprocity treaty between the
United States and Canada.

8. Remarkable Marathon R a c e —
Many remarkable athletes participate
in the classic race of the South — the
Times-Despatch Marathon — Rich-
mond, Va.

9. Exciting Motor-Boat Race s —
The fastest motor-boats in the world
race for the International Motor-Boat
Trophy — Osborne Bay, London, Eng-
land. The race was won by the Maple
Leaf at the remarkable speed of 57
miles an hour.

The Mate of the Schooner Sadie.

Lubin. (Oct. 17.) — The moral of this
story is a little overdrawn, so that the
good effect that it should have is
greatly lost. It is, however, with the
exception of this an excellent drama.
Lute Drew is the mate of a schooner,
and is affianced to the daughter of
his captain. Knowing that the love
of drink must be in his veins, he as-
siduously keeps away from its lure,
until one day he is forced to take
a drink to honor his approaching wed-
ding. He immediately becomes a
raving maniac and tries to kill the
father of his sweetheart, failing in
which, and being chased by the police,
dives overboard and swims to the
"Sadie," which he boards. He im-
mediately proceeds to fill himself

with whiskey and then attacks the
captain again, this time injuring him
seriously. He then dives overboard
again, but does not reappear.

Pathe Weekly No. 59. (Oct. 16.)—
An unusually interesting number of
the semi-weekly, containing much
news of moment. The motor-boat
races in Oregon show some very
speedy traveling. Much trouble has
been experienced in Colorado, and es-
pecially in Denver, because of the
poor irrigation facilities. Governor
Ammons and Secretary Lane are
shown studying the situation. James
Whitcomb Riley, the beloved poet,
is seen in his home in Indianapolis on
his birthday, receiving the plaudits
and tokens of affection from the chil-
dren of that city.

The most interesting part of the
film was the chance offered to com-
pare the German soldiers with those
of this country. There was a review
before the Kaiser and his sons in
Berlin, and another in Washington
before the President. It must be ad-
mitted that in foot soldiery the Ger-
mans were perfect, while the Ameri-
can troops aroused a cheer by their
wonderful cavalry work. Scenes from
Oskaloosa, Iowa, and New York were
shown. The Panama Canal, nearing
completion, was very good. These
pictures, incidentally, have been ac-
cepted by the United States Govern-
ment as official documents. The clos-
ing baseball scenes were fair.

The Bridge of Shadows. Selig.
Two Reels. (Oct. 13.)— The great de-
sire of the manufacturers to produce
more than single reels has led to the

padding of several dramas that hither-
to have not had more than one thou-
sand feet. Not that this is necessarily
one of that class, but it does seem
that the picture above mentioned
would have greater strength were it
confined to the single reel. The story
deals with the failure of a large in-
surance company through the recent
floods in the West, and the consequent
poverty of the companies' employees.
The daughter of the president, now
by herself in the world, loses her po-
sition and wanders from one thing
to another, finally landing in a gypsy
camp. From this position she is
adopted by a wealthy family through
having brought back their lost child.
The hero, who had been a detective
in the employ of the company, is
wrongfully accused of theft and sent
to jail. After his release he cannot
obtain work and is desperate. Finally
the girl and. he are brought together
again by force of circumstances, his
innocence is established, and she re-
gains her wealth through the findings
of the court. ; -. • A. M.

The Cursed TBlug. Eclair. Three-
Reel.— The terlg|e curse of the drug
habit cannot rjjp|too plainly demon-
strated to an unjknowing public. The
word "unknowi'ife" is used advisedly.
This feature of^bhe Eclair Company
tells of the terrible effects of opium
upon a man of strong will and char-
acter, whose whole life and future is
wrecked through the baneful influence
of a drug.

Roberts parts tenderly from his
fiancee and goes to India to look after
some of his father's interests. While

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he is there he falls into the drug habit
quite by chance and it is no" time be-
fore he is a total wreck. Two coolie
girls, whom he has brought on the
ship with him on his return-voyage,
find a pair of gloves that tag girl at
home had given him as a memento,
and the sight of them causes him to
have his last vision, in which he sees
his sweetheart dying at home, and
the shock is such that it causes his
own death. A strong picture, which
carr.es a good moral.

The Veteran. Broncho. (Nov. 5.)
— A two-reel feature of the Broncho
Company which does not in the least
follow their regular style of produc-
tion, inasmuch as it is a drama of
modern days, referring to the days of
the past, when the North and South
were fighting one another. Amos
Hood is a veteran of the war, but is
living at his own home with his wife,
Martha, and his daughter on the pen-
sion received from the government.
Owing to an error the pension is held
up and Amos sees the possibility of
poverty and the old home going. He
is invited to a banquet, and there
presented with a medal. It is pitiful
to see him stealing food from the
table to take home instead of eating
it. On his arrival home he finds that
his wife has died in the meantime,
and life seems dead to him from then
on. His comrades have in the mean-
time taken up a collection for him and
arrive at the house when he is in the
middle of his sorrow, accompanied by
a brass band. The situation is ex-
plained to them and they mourn with
him. A sad tale, but well acted and
moves our sympathies.

From Out of the Storm. Broncho.
(October 29.) — If one-half of the
criminals who leave prison were to
reform, there would still be needed
another twenty-five per cent to catch
up to the number of convicts who
turn good in motion pictures. Of
course it is necessary, once in a while,
but to quote the New York Amer-
ican, "in 'real' life they don't, but in
'reel' life they do." A noticeable dif-
ference. This drama is the story of
a girl who formerly was a crook, has
turned good, and is married to a
ranch foreman when her old pal turns
up. She starts to leave with him,
but on their way they rescue her hus-
band, who has just been injured. The
crook reforms now. Indians are in-
troduced, with cavalry against them,
which supplies some action. The
former crook is killed by the red-
skins. A fine realistic rainstorm is
also introduced.

The Passer-by. Rex Two-reel. — A
quaint picture, which, although ut-

terly dissimilar, somehow reminds
one of "The Servant in the House,"
which is probably still fragrant in the
minds of all. There is a little diffi-
culty experienced in following the
thread of the story. As the title
shows, the hero is just a passer-by
who joins a merry throng, and after
settling a love affair in which he has
to fight a duel, disappears down the
road. A strong drama and well di-
rected.

The Jew's Christmas. Rex Two-
reel. — An original and good story
written by Lois Weber, who, to-
gether with her husband, Phillips
Smalley, produced and acted the lead-
ing parts. The cast is made up care-
fully and the interpretation excellent.
How Rabbi Isaac, who cared naught
for any Christian and disinherited
his daughter for marrying a Gentile,
but who later became reconciled to
the Gentile, is well told. The rabbi
has been reduced to poverty, and is
living almost a pauper's life when he
meets his little grandchild and ex-
pends his last cent to buy her a
Christmas tree. He does not know
her name, nor her relationship to him-
self, but he loves her. Through the
child reconciliation is brought about.
The Jewish praying in the tabernacle
is most instructive, the ceremony
being genuine.

The Pink Granite Industry at Mil-
ford, Mass. Edison. (Oct. 8.)— The
post-office at 33rd Street and Seventh
Avenue, New York, as well as the
new Pennsylvania Railroad Depot,
nearby, are notable examples of the
uses of this stone. The mine or quarry
at Milford has been in operation for
seven years and makes a good picture.
The stone is seen in the various
stages, from blasting to the finished
article. The drilling with pneumatic
tools, which cut a 1^2-inch hole at
the rate of 12 feet an hour, and the
smoothing and splitting processes are
well demonstrated.

Buddhist Temples and Worshipers.

Vitagraph. — Among the hundreds of
religions and creeds of this earth,
there is none more intricate and in-
teresting than the belief of all of the
Tndias, Buddhism. Possessing many
features similar to that of Christianity,
yet on the whole totally different, it
is indeed a most interesting topic for
anyone, whether he possess the mind
of the theologian or not. Their
method of worship, their various hopes
and beliefs, and a comparison of these
with the expectations that the Christ
taught, form a deep study. The Vita-
graph is, of course, unable to go into
the matter as deeply and earnestly as
they would have liked, but the most
vital points are shown.

MOVIE CENSORS

If Company Owning 3,000 Films Suc-
ceeds in Its Contest May Be
Minus Jobs

The legality of the act creating the
Ohio State Board of Motion Picture
Censors may have to be determined
by courts, and there is still a possi-
bility of the inspectors losing their
jobs, according to developments at
Columbus, O., recently.

A large film company, with head-
quarters at Cleveland, has refused to
abide by the law requiring all pictures
shown after November 4th, to be in-
spected by the censors and will not
allow the board to inspect any one of
its 3,000 films.

Two scenarios accepted by the Re-
liance for early release are by act-
resses of the company, and in both
cases the authoress has been cast for
the leading role.

Carey Lee is responsible for the
photoplay "For Love of a Man," or
"The Woman Who Began Again," in
which she will appear in the star part.
Writing scenarios is not a new de-
parture for Miss Lee, as several of
her literary efforts have found their
way to the screen.

With Irene Hunt, who will be seen
in her own drama, entitled "The
Other Woman," however, photoplay
writing is a new line of endeavor,
"The Other Woman" being her first
attempt at writing.

Western features, long wanted to
balance the Exclusive Supply Corpo-
ration Program, will now be available.
Three companies releasing aggregate-
ly six and eight features monthly have
signed contracts with Joseph R. Miles,
general manager of the Exclusive Sup-
ply Corporation.

One of the companies, the Ammex,
is not unknown, but the two others,
the Laclede and Great Western
brands, will start fresh.

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Editors, Thomas Bedding and Tohn M. Brad-
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Editor, Wm. A. Johnston, 220 W. 42nd St.,
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Making Pig-iron. American. — A
subject which always , holds the inter-
est of the audience. We can see iron
every day in its hard state, but to see
it melting and running like water is
indeed a novel sight. The American
Company first shows the loading of
scrap-iron which is lifted by means
of a powerful electro-magnet. Blast-
furnaces having a capacity of five
hundred tons are also shown full of
molten metal. The loading and ship-
ping is also novel. A good release.

Making of an Auto Tire. Keystone.
(Oct. 27.) — Twenty years ago the rub-
ber industry in this country was in
its infancy. A few manufacturers
were prosperous, but the market had
not grown. To-day, with the great
demand for bicycle, motorcycle and
automobile tires, the business has be-
come one of the country's greatest.
The Keystone Company shows all the
processes the rubber passes through,
from ordinary Para to "non-skid"
tires. The vulcanizing, baking the
rubber for three hours at 290° F., and
the final tread.

The Primeval Test. Universal.—
A suggested new method for curing
wives of unfaithfulness, and for bring-
ing them back to the husband thor-
oughly chastened. Whether the method
would really work in life is a matter
of surmise, but it makes a good story,
and that is what we are after. There
is plenty of action to the two reels,
and the work of Marguerita Fisher
and Bob Leonard is of their usual
standard.

Imagine yourself with an unfaithful
wife, or rather a wL"e that wants to
be unfaithful, and in order to cure
her, you take her to the mountains,
far away from civilization, and there
give her the clothes of the prehistoric
cave dweller, and inform her that
until she had learned to love you
there she will stay. Would it work?
Too much work is the cause of the
husband's carelessness and the reason
for her seeking comfort from others.
But when her would-be lover finds
her later when the cure has been ac-
complished, he is no longer "in the
swim." The photography and settings
are good.

Captain Kidd. Uison. — The life of
the historic and notorious Captain
Kidd is the foundation of an interest-
ing drama by the Bison Company. It
is the second of a series dealing with
the lives of celebrated pirates, and is
interesting, if from a historical stand-
point only.

Captain Kidd was a gentleman, his
actions to the contrary. How he be-
came the scourge of the high seas,
simply because he believed himself to
have been jilted by his fiancee, ' is
graphically told in this drama. He re-
ceives a commission from the King,
William III, because of his great pow-
ers of persuasion over men, to go out
to sea and rid the highways of the
pirates that were such trouble to the
sailors. In taking leave of his sweet-
heart, he finds her in the arms of an-
other man, who was really her
brother, but whom Captain Kidd had

never seen. In anger he goes away,
and when out at sea becomes the
monster that we now know him.

The photography in the hold of the
ship was not up to par. The mechan-
ical rocking of the ship was done very
well and was most realistic. His first
act was to cruelly put to death two-
men whom he had caught conspiring
to steal the ship by provoking a mu-
tiny among the crew. Peggy all this
time was bemoaning her lover, and
finally decides to go to America. She
is captured by Kidd, and in her dying
breath she makes him realize that she
is innocent.

Widow M-lcr.ey's Faith. Domino.
Two reels. — A quaint old Irish tale
with a touch of the Irish romanticism
showing throughout. The picture
seems true to life, and the acting is
good. Widow Maloney and her son,
Dan, whom she idolizes, live together.
Dan is in love and is loved by a girl.
Mike also loves her. The latter is a
villain and plans to get the girl, so he
hires the local innkeeper, Dougherty,
to dope Dan and then shanghai him
aboard ship.

This is done and Dan's ship is
wrecked; after a series of mishaps he
reaches his native land with plenty of
money. The old house is for sale and
Dan buys it and then makes his iden-
tity known, giving the house to his
mother and the girl. Mike is then
shanghaied In turn, together with his
mates. Full of action from start to
finish, with a pleasant mixture of
Irish humor.

A GIRL OF THE SUNNY SOUTH

Four Reels. Adapted from the Play of the Same Name by
Travers Vale

American Kineto Company.

THE story of this motion picture is
placed about the time of the Civil
War in this country, scenes from which
are included in the tale with effect.

Searelle and Raymond, a lawyer, are
in love w th the same girl, the latter,
however, losing to his rival, who mar-
ries the girl amid much celebration
on the part of the negroes, who are

net at all fond of Raymond and his
aide-de-camp, Le Roy. The latter
adds much humor to the various sit-
uations, and one feels that despite his
villainous intentions he is worthy of
sympathy. The two go away to the
war together, but Raymond and Le
Roy, in order to disgrace Searelle,
forge a letter and so get Harry to
desert. He is caught and is shot, im-
mediately after being found by the
Federals and rescued half dead. He
has lost his memory, and after the
war wanders from place to place,
finally landing back at his own home.
Here, although no one knows him,
he sees Raymond and Le Roy kill the
girl's father when he had caught them
in the act of stealing some money,
but as his mind is a blank he forgets
it, and as he is on the spot, is sen-
tenced on circumstantial evidence.
Le Roy is caught with the money in

his possession and is sent to jail as
his accomplice. The two escape and
go to sea as stowaways. Through
the carelessness of Le Roy the ship

catches fire, and they take to a raft.
Then after a number of exciting and
animated adventures, they arrive back
home and take part in helping to con-
vict Raymond for his crimes.

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45

Phantom Dungeon, or The Treasure of

Baux

Union Features — Three Reels

The Judgment. Domino. — Two reels.
Richard V. Spencer, the writer of a
number of excellent scenarios, has
produced one of his very best in this
story of the stern law of the Puritans
and their interpretation of the "un-
written law." The tale tells of the
ruining of a girl, Mercy, the daughter
of a cobbler, by a dandy who has just
arrived in the settlement. When he
learns of her trouble he leaves and the
girl is banished from the colony and
wanders away.

Forty years pass by and Mercy,
now an old hag, is tried before her
own son in Salem for witchery. She
is found guilty and writes her confes-
sion, which she asks to be delivered
to' her son after her death. The mag-
istrate, upon reading the truth, learns
of his identity. An unusual picture,
which although not at all resembling
Hawthorne's 'Scarlet Letter," man-
ages to recall the latter to our mind.
The photography is excellent.

Matrimonial Manoeuvres. Vitagraph.
One reel. (Oct. 17.) — It is a pleasant
change to . see Maurice Costello in
comedy — not that he is not good in
drama — but because the writer believes
him to be a most versatile actor, and
so ought to be given a chance. In
this comedy, however, he does not ex-
cel, the part apparently not suiting his
style.

The story is not a very good one.
A young man promises to introduce
his aunt to a nobleman, for which she
suggests that she will pay handsomely.
He gets an actor friend to imperson-
ate a lord, which he does very well.
The aunt, however, discovers that she
has been "buncoed" when she sees this
same erstwhile lord on the stage in
town. She gives her nephew just time
enough to make the next boat out.

A Woman o; the Mountains. Selig.
One reel. (Oct. 17.) — A very fair melo-
drama, with plenty of action and sev-
eral new features. Stella is engaged
to a man named Brice, but loves the
foreman of a mine where she lives.
Brice is sent as a secret agent from
the Power Company to try and put
this smaller company out of business.

On his way he loses a paper in a
novel way. and this is found by Stella,
who sees that Brice intends to commit
a villainous ac'.ion. Brice with a helper
has placed a load of dynamite in the
tunnel, and is to set it off at 12 M.
Stella arrives just as the fuse is to be
touched off, and the foreman gets
there a second later, having ridden
through on a rope incline. A thrilling
ending.

THE very name itself is alluring
to a public demanding and in-
sisting on melodrama. And there is
plenty of excitement in this pic.ure,
although there is a generous amount
of romance to do with it. The story
is cf a young fellow who has had
plenty of money, but through adverse

circumstances is rendered penniless.
Because of this his engagement to
the daughter of Banker Stern is brok-
en off by both father and girl, and in
a moment of despair he is going to
kill himself when he has a vision of
his ancestors burying their treasures
in the old family castle, when Riche-
lieu was Cardinal of France and all
was terror.

McENNERY REFUTES FROH-
MAN'S STATEMENT

A deal of interest is being taken
in the threatened suit of Charles
Frohman against the United King-
dom Films and the future disposition
of "A Message from Mars." A few
days ago iMcEnnery received word
from Charles Frohman in which it
was claimed that he, Frohman, held
the sole playing and picture rights to
the film, a statement which McEn-
nery strenuously denies.

Speaking on the subject to a Mo-
tion Picture News man. Mr. Mc-
Ennery said: "Mr. Frohman's claim
is absolutely ridiculous, and outside

'i he vision was so real that he sets
out for the now ruined castle in
search of the fortune. Whiie he is
there he meets with an accident,
which brings him in contact with a
girl of the quarries, who helps him
and shows him a secret way into the
bcwels of the castle.

After much searching he recovers
the hidden valuables, but as he starts
out he finds that the men of that
neighborhood, having discovered his
secret, have walled him in. The girl
blasts the wall and sets him free. To-
gether they return to his home, where
he marries her, and when the banker
and his daughter try to make advances,
he introduces them to his bride.

of instructions issued to my lawyers
I am ignoring it entirely. 'A Mess-
age from Mars' as a picture subject
is the property of the United King-
dom Films; and we have ample evi-
dence to prove it. Furthermore, the
United Kingdom Films is a reliable
concern which would never lend its
name or give consideration to any
doubtful business proceeding."

The organization of the World Spe-
cial Films Corporation is extending.
Offices are now- open in thirteen
towns, extending from New York to
Kansas City.

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American Cinematograph Co 53

Actors Fund of America 51

American Film Mfg. Co 6

Amusement Supply Co 46

American Kineto Corporation...., 11

Associated M. P. Press 50

Associated M. P. Schools 51

Annex Film Co 58

A. Z 50

B

Brady, C. A 51

Berlin Aniline Works 11

Bennett, Chas. H 53

Bosworth, Inc 8

C

Calehuff Supply Co ' 53

Cosmos Specialty Co 55

Chicago Song Slide Exchange 46

E

Eastman Kodak Co 6

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Essanay Film Co 53

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Famous Players Film Co 52

Fulton, E. E 51

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Italian American Film Co 47

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Le Courrier Cinematographique. . . 51

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Location for Moving Picture House 46

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M

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Manufacturers Catalogue Pub. Co. 58

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Newman Mfg. Co 51

New York Motion Picture Co.... 59

New York Film Co 52

New Process Electro Co 4

P •

Pan-American Film Mfg. Co 52

Photoplay Company 51

Power, Nicholas 50

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Proctor, George 40

Picture Theatre Equipment Co.... 26

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Special Event Film Co 55

Schneider, Eberhard 51

T

Theatre Specialty Co 53

Thomson, A. E 52

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United Kingdom Films 6

Union Features 2

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Vernon Film Co 40

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World's Best Film Co 52

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-Caught at His Own Game (Com.)..

-The Bond that Binds (Dr.)

GAUMONT
-Simple Simon's Grizzly Hug (Com.)
-The Venom Institute of Sao Paulo

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The Anarchist (Dr.)

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KOMIC Feet

Oct. 2 — It Happened in Haverstraw

Oct. 9 — An Overall Outing

Oct. 9 — Dobbs Forgot the Coal

Oct. 16— The Birthday Party

Oct. 16 — Old Heads and Young Hearts

LEWIS PENNANTS

Sept. 6 — Decreed to Die 3006

Oct. 18— My Boy

LUX
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Oct. 24— Terrible Bobby (Com.) 235

Oct. 31 — Mabel Feigns Indisposition (Com.) 575

Oct. 31 — Percy's Heroism (Com.) 410

MAJESTIC

Oct. 11 — The Ice Man's Revenge

Oct. 12— The Van Warden Rubies

Oct. 18— The Wedding Write- Up

Oct. 19 — -Through the Sluice Gates

Oct. 21 — Always Together

Oct. 25 — Revenge

Oct. 26— The Scenario Writer

NESTOR

Oct. 22— Under Western Skies (Dr.)

Oct. 24— Hawkeye's Great Capture (Com.) . .
Oct. 24 — Tightwad Buys a Laundry (Com.)

Oct. 29— A Man of the People (Dr.)

Oct. 31 — Curses! Said the Villain (Com.)....

Nov. 5 — -Western Hearts (1 reel Dr.)

Nov. 7 — His Wife's Burglar (Com.)

Nov. 12— In the End (Dr.)

Nov. 14 — Love Luck and a Paint Brush

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PILOT

Aug. 7 — The Green-Eyed Monster (Com.

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Aug. 28 — Getting the Evidence (Dr.) 1000

POWFRS

Oct. 24— A Man In the World of Men (2
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Oct. 27— Playmates (Dr.)

Oct. 31— The Bee Industry (Edu.)

Nov. 3 — The Lesson the Children Taught
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Nov. 7 — The Heart of a Cracksman

Nov. 10 — From Mine to Mint (Educational)..

Nov. 14 — Cracksman's Reformation (Dr.) ....
RAMO

Oct. 15— The Current (Dr.) 3000

Nov. 5— Wives 3000

RELIANCE

Oct. 22 — The Heart of a Rose

Oct. 25— Hearts (2 reels)

Oct. 27— The Real Mother

Oct. 29 — Two Men and a Mule (Series 8)...

Nov. 1— The Colonel's Oath

Nov. 3 — A Sure Cure

Nov. 5 — The Dress of Lelita

Nov. S — Two Men and a Muler (Series 3) . .

Nov. 10 — The Power of the Sea

REX

Oct. 26 — When Death Unites (Dr.)

Oct. 30— The Clue (Dr.)

Nov. 2 — Tewels of Sacrifice (Dr.)

Nov. 6 — The Pine Needle Test (2 reel Dr.) . .
Nov. 7— The End of the Road (2 reel Dr.)..

Nov. 9 — The Haunted Bride (Dr.)

Nov. 13 — The Missionary Box (Dr.)

Nov. 16— The Blood Brotherhood (Dr.)

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Oct. 17— Bachelor's Waterloo (Com.) 1008

Oct. 24 — Fisherman's Luck (Com.) 1000

Oct. 25— Rogues of Paris 4000

Oct. 31— Ish Gabibble (Com.) 1000

Oct. 31 — The Movies 1000

SCANDINAVIAN FEATURE

Sept. 13 — Wandering Folk (2-reel Dr.)

THANHOUSER

Oct. 12 — The Silver-tongued Orator

Oct. 14 — A Girl Worth While

Oct. 17 — A Peaceful Victory

Oct. 19 — Beautv in the Seashell

Oct. 21 — The Mystery of the Haunted Hotel..

Oct. 24— The Old Folks at Home

Oct. 26 — The Silver Tongued Orator

Oct. 28 — How Filmy Won His Sweetheart...

Oct. 31 — A Twentieth Century Farmer

VICTOR

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Oct. 27 — The Restless Spirit (3 reel Dr.)

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Nov. 3 — The Ring of Sorrow (1 reel Dr.)..

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BIOGRAPH

Oct. 9 — Scenting a Terrible Crime (Com.).

Oct. 11— So Runs the Way (Dr.)

Oct. 13 — McGann and His Octette (Com.)..

Oct. 13 — Aunts, Too Many (Com.)

Oct. 16 — Red and Pete, Partners (Dr.)

Uct. IB — The Girl Across the Way (Dr.)

Oct. 20— The Van Nostrand Tiara (Dr.)

Oct. 23— The Winning Punch (Com.)

Oct. 23— A Fallen Hero (Com.)

Uct. 25 — The Madonna of the Storm (Dr.) . .
Oct. 27 — An Evening With the Wilder

Spender (Com.)

Oct. 30— A Barber Cure (Com.)

Oct. 30 — Boarders and Bombs (Com.)

Nov. 1— The Clock Stopped (Dr.)

CINES
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Sept. 9 — The Mysterious Man (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 1980

Sept. 16— High Treason (Part I & II) (Dr.). 1800
Sept. 23 — For His Brother's Crime (Part I &

II) (Dr.) 2000

Sept. 30 — Misgotten Gains (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 2100

Oct. 7— The Flower of Destiny (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 2000

Oct. 21— The Wheels of Justice (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 2000

Oct. 21— The Wheels of Justice (Dr.) Farts I
and II

Nov. 4 — Zuma, the Gypsy (2 parts — Dr. —

Special)

EDISON

Oct. 8— Boy Wanted (Com.) COO

Oct. 10 — In the Shadow of the Mountains

(Dr.) 2000

Oct. 11— The Girl and the Outlaw (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 13— Bill's Career as Butler (Com.) 1000

Oct. 14— The Family's Honor (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 16 — The Widow's Suitors (Com.) 1000

Oct. 17— The Foreman's Treachery (Dr.)... 2000

Oct. 18— Twice Rescued (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 20 — Hiram Green, Detective (Com.) 1000

Oct. 21— Reginald's Courtship (Com.) 1000

Oct. 22 — Jaffa, the Seaport of Jerusalem (Sc.) 400

Oct. 22 — His First Performance (Com.) 600

Oct. 24 — Silas Marner (2 Parts) 2000

Oct. 25 — A Proposal from — Nobody, being the
fourth story of 'Who Will

Marry Mary" (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 27 — Across Swift Current Pass on Horse-
back (Sc.) 400

Oct. 27 — A Hornet's Nest (Com.) 600

Oct. 28 — A Daughter of the Wilderness (Dr.).lO(iO

Oct. 29— The Horrible Example (Com.) 1000

Oct. 31— Janet of the Dunes (Dr.) 200"

Nov. 1 — A Woodland Paradise (Com.) 1000

Nov. 3— Wild Wales (Sc.) 350

Nov. 3 — Porgy's Bouquet (Com.) 650

Nov. 4 — Tommy's Stratagem (Com.) 100(1

Nov. 5 — Archie and the Bell-boy (Com.) 1000

Nov. 7 — A Face from the Past (Dr.) Parts I

and II 2000

Nov. 8— Elise (Dr.) 1000

• Nov. 10 — Camping with the Blackfeet (Des.). 500

Nov. 10— Seth's Woodpile (Com.) 500

Nov. 11— The Doctor's Duty (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 12 — His Nephew's Scheme (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 14— The Phantom Signal (Dr.— Parts I

& II) 2000

Nov. 15— Getting a Patient (Com.) 1000

ESSANAY

Oct. 15 — Their Waterloo (Com.)

Oct. 16 — A Borrowed Identity (Com.)

Oct. 17 — Broncho Billy Gets Square (Dr.)

(Parts I & II)

Oct. 17 — The Troublesome Telephone (Com.)
Oct. 17 — The Boston Floating Hospital (Top.)
Oct. 18 — The Railroad Detective's Dilemma

(Dr.) 1000

Oct. 18 — "Alkali" Ike and the Wild Man

(Com.)

Oct. 21— The Way Perilous (Dr.)

Oct. 22 — Day by Day (Com.)

Oct. 23— The Kid Sheriff (Com. Dr.)

Oct. 24 — The Love Lute of Romany (Dr.)

Parts I and II

Oct. 25 — Broncho Billy's Elopement (Dr.)....

Oct. 28— Thy Will Be Done (Dr.)

Oct. 29 — Cupid and Three* (Com.)

Oct. 30— Greed for Gold (Dr.)

Nov. 1 — The Doctor's Duty (Dr.)

Nov. 4 — Quicksands of Sin (Dr.)

Nov. 5 — Their Wives' Indiscretion (Com.).
Nov. 6 — The Rustler's Stepdaughter (W. Dr.)

Nov. 7 — The Death Weight

Nov. 8 — Broncho Billy's Secret (W. Dr.)..

Nov. 11— The Man Outside (Dr.)

Nov. 12 — The Last Laugh (Com.) . . .

Nov. 13 — The New Schoolmarm of Green

River

Nov. 15 — "Alkali" Ike's Auto (W. Com.)

Nov. 18 — The Lost Chord (Dr.)

Nov. 19— The Usual Way (Com.)

Nov. 20— The Cowboy Samaritan (W. Dr.)

KALEM

Oct. 13— The Hermit's Ruse (Dr.)

Oct. 15— The Vampire (Dr.) (Parts I, II

& III)

Oct. 17 — The Troublesome Telephone (Com.)
Uct. 18 — The Railroad Detective's Dilemma

(Dr.)

Oct. 20 — The Dumb Messenger (Dr.)

Uct. 22 — A Daughter of the Underworld (Dr.)

Parts I and II

Cc:. 24 — Jimmie's Fimsh (Com.)

Oct. 24 — Betty Buttin and the Bad Man

(Com.)

Uct. 25 — A Railroader's Warning (Dr.)

Ucc. 27 — High-Born Child and Beggar (Dr.).
Uct. 27 — Sports in Merrie England (Sports)
Uct. 29 — Motion Picture Dancing Lessons

(Special 3 parts) 3000

Oct. 31— The Speed Limit (Com.)

Nov. 1— The President's Special (Dr.) 1000

LUBIN

Oct. 2— The Special Officer 2000

Uct. 3 — The Scarf Pin 1080

Oct. 4 — For Her Brother's Sake 1000

Uct. 6— The Counterfeiter's Fate 1000

Uct. 7— The Two Cowards 1000

Oct. 9 — Breed of the North 2000

Oct. 10 — The Drummer's Narrow Escape.... 400

Oct. 10 — Going Home to Mother 600

Oct. 11 — The Higher Law 1000

Oct. 13 — The Fiancee and the Fairy 1000

Oct. 14 — A Deal in Oil 1000

Oct. 16— The Taking of Rattlesnake Bill 2000

Oct. 17 — The Mate of the Schooner Sadie.. 1000

Oct. 18— The Highest Bidder 400

Uct. 18 — A Sleepy Romance 600

Oct. 20 — Father's Choice 400

Uct. 20— All On Account of Daisy 600

Oct. 21— Her First Offense 1000

Oct. 23— The Evil Eye 2000

Oct. 24 — The Man in the Hamper 1000

Oct. 25 — Mother Love 1000

Oct. 27— The Man of Him 1000

Oct. 28— Making Good 400

Oct. 28— Giving Bill a Rest 600

Oct. 30— The Rattlesnake (2 reels) 2000

Oct. 31 — A Momentous Decision 1000

Nov. 1 — When the Prison Doors Opened. .. 1000

Nov. 3— The Double Chase (Com.) 1000

Nov. 4— Magic Melody (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 6 — The Price of Victory (2 reel Dr.).. 2000

Nov. 7 — Cocoanut Industry (Edu.) 400

Nov. 7— Getting The Best of Dad (Com.) 600

Nov. 8 — Hiawanda's Cross (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 10 — The Pride of Battery B (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 11 — A Miracle of Love (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 13— The Sea Eternal (2 reel Dr.) 2000

Nov. 14 — When the Clock Stopped (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 15— Whose Is It? (Com.) 400

Nov. 15— Badly Wanted (Com.) 600

G. MELIES

Sept. 18 — Home Life in Japan (Manners and

Customs) 1000

Sept. 18 — A Japanese Funeral

Sept. 25— A Cambodian Idyll (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 2— Things Japanese (Edu.) 1000

Oct. 9 — Cast Amid Boomerang Throwers

(Com.) 1000

Oct. 16 — Scenes of Cochin-China (Sc.) 1000

Oct. 23— Old and New Tahiti (Dr.)

PATHE FRERES

Oct. 3 — A Clever Story

Oct. 4— A Wall Street Wail

Oct. 4 — Riding the Flume

Oct. 6 — Pathe's Weekly No. 56-

Oct. 7— Plants Which Eat

Oct. 7 — How Mountains Grow

Oct. 7 — A Journey Through Crimea (Travel)

Oct. 8— The Smuggler (Dr.)

Oct. 9 — Pathe's Weekly No. 57

Oct. 9— Two Mothers (Special — 2 Parts —

Dr.)

Oct. 10 — The Millionaire's Ward (Dr.)

Oct. 11— Talkative Tess (Com.).

Oct. 13— Pathe's Weekly No. 58

Oct. 14 — A Yankee in Mexico (Dr.)

Oct. 14 — The Petrified Forests of Arizona

(Geology)

Oct. 15— The Bullet's Mark (Dr.)

Oct. 16— In the Haunts of Fear (Dr.) (Parts

I & II)

Oct. 16 — Pathe's Weekly No. 59 (News)

Oct. 17— Her Hour (Dr.)

Oct. 18 — A Plant with Nerves — Mimosa

Pudica (Botany)

Oct. 18 — St. Claude and Its Environs, France

(Sc.)

Oct. 20 — Pathe's Weekly

<~*ct. 21 — The Poisoned Stream (Dr.)

Oct. 22 — Dodging Matrimony (Com.)

Oct. 23— The Death Song (Dr.) Parts I and

Oct. 23— Pathe's Weekly No. 61 (News)

Oct. 24 — Breeding Trout by the Million (Ind.)
Oct. 24 — Honfleur — An Old Coast Town of
Northern France (Travel)

Oct. 25 — Gypsy Love (Dr.)

Oct. 27 — Pathe's Weekly

Oct. 28 — The Spinners of Speech (Ind.)....

Oct. 29— When Childhood Wins

Oc;. 30 — In Love and War (Multiple Reel).

Oct. 30— Pathe's Weekly

Oct. 31 — Love's Deception (Dr.)

Nov. 1 — Too Many Tenants (Com.)

SELIG

Sept. 26 — The Policeman and the Baby

(Com.) 60t

Sept. 26— The Taj Mahal, Agra, India (Edu.) 601
Sept. 29 — The Invisible Government (Dr.

2 reels) 2000

Sept. 30— The False Friend (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 1 — The Cattle Thief's Escape (Dr.).. 500

Oct. 1 — Rangoon, India (Edu.) 600

Oct. 2 — Our Neighbors (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 3— John Bousall of the U. S. Secret

Service (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 6 — The Conscience Fund (2 reel Dr.).. 2000
Oct. 7 — The Missionary and the Actress

(Dr.) 1080

Oct. 8— The Dream of Dan McGuire (Com.). 1000

Oct. 9 — Saved from the Vigilaptes (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 10— Ceylon Tea Estate (Edu.) 50C

Oct. 10— Only Five Years Old (Dr.) 500

Oct. 13— The Bridge of Shadows (2 reel Dr.). 2000

Oct. 14— The Silver Grindstone (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 15— As a Father Spareth His Son (Dr.). 1000

Oct. 16— The Golden Clouo. (Dr.) 600

Oct. 16— The Abduction of Pinkie (Com.) ... 500
Oct. 17— The Woman of the Mountains (Dr.). 1000

Oct. 20— The Finger-Print (2 reel Dr.) 2000

Oct. 21 — Surf and Sunset on the Indian

Ocean (Edu.) 600

Oct. 21 — Dishwash Dick's Counterfeit (Com.) 500

Oct. 22— Dorothy's Adoption (Dr.) 1800

Oct. 23— Life for Life (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 24— Destiny of the Sea (Or.j 1000

Oct. 27— The Pendulum of Fate

Oct. 28 — When May Weds December

Oct. 29 — Two Sacks of Potatoes

Oct. 29 — A Muddle in Horse Thieves

Oct. 30 — Old Doc Yac and the Artist's Dream

Oct. 31 — The Dangling Noose

Nov. 4 — Slipping Fingers

Nov. 5 — The Probationer

Nov. 6 — The Conversion of Mr. Anti

Nov. 7 — The Schoolmarm's Shooting Match..

URBAN ECLIPSE
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Aug. 12— The Mong-Fu-Tong (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 1800

Aug. 19— The Clown's Revenge (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 2000

Oct. 14— The Last Minute (Dr.) (Part I

& II) 2000

Oct. 28 — The Rajah's Diamond Rose (Part

I & II) (Dr.) 2000

VITAGRAPH

Oct. 6 — Ann of the Trails

Oct. 7 — A Homespun Tragedy

Oct. 8 — When Friendship Ceases

Oct. 9 — Heartbroken Shep

Oct. 10 — Cutey's Waterloo

Oct. 11— The Test (Special Two-Part Fea-
ture)

Oct. 13 — Mrs. Upton's Device

Oct. 14 — The Ballyhoo's Story

Oct. 15 — Master Fixit

Oct. 15 — Buddhist Temples & Worshippers..

Oct. 16— The Outlaw

Oct. 17 — Matrimonial Manoeuvres

Oct. 18— The Pirates (2 Part Special)

Oct. 20— The White Feather

Oct. 21 — Luella's Love Story

Oct. 22 — Sleuths Unawares

Oct. 22 — Low Caste Burmese

Oct. 23 — The Doctor's Secret

Oct. 24 — On Their Wedding Eve

Oct. 25 — The Next Generation (2 Part
Special)

Oct. 27 — At the Sign of the Lost Angel

Oct. 28 — In the Shadow

Oct. 29 — Father's Hatband

Oct. 30 — Bianca

Oct. 31 — Fatty's Affair of Honor

Oct. 31 — Performing Lions

Nov. 1 — The Warmakers (2 part Special) ....

Nov. 3 — The King's Man

Nov. 4 — His Silver Bachelorhood

Nov. 5— The Hoodoo Umbrella

Nov. 5 — Scenic

Nov. 6 — A Broken Melody

Nov. 7 — Flaming Hearts

Nov. 8 — The Diver (2 part Special)

Nov. 10 — Thieves

Nov. 11 — The Right Man

Nov. 12 — Fellow Voyagers

Nov. 12 — Scenic

Nov. 13 — Their Interest in Common

Nov. 14 — Fanny's Conspiracy

Nov. 15 — Miss "Tomboy (2 part Special)

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Oct. 30 — Speed Kings, Teddy

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Nov. 3 — Fatty at San Diego.
Nov. 6 — Love Sickness at Sea.
Nov. 10 — Small Town Act —

Milk We Drink (Split Reel).
Nov. 13 — Wine.

Coming — Zuzu, the Band
Leader — Two Reels.

Oct. 31 — Borrowed Gold.
Nov. 7 — An Indian's Honor.
Nov. 11 — For Mother's Sake,
■*Tov. 14 — Efficacy of Prayer.
Nov. 18 — The Claim Jumper.
Nov. 21— Days of '49.

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Nov. 5 — The Veteran.
Nov. 12 — The Impostor,
Nov. ?9 — War Correspondent.
Nov. 26— The Reformation.

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Nov. 6 — The Judgment.
Nov. 13— The Ghost.
Nov. 20 — Witch of Salem.
Nov. 27— Belle of Yorktown
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Once upon a time a man went fish-
ing. The man's name was Bill. Bill
didn't know anything about fishing,
but his intentions were excellent. He
studied the advertisements of the
fishing tackle makers. Then he pur-
chased an equipment of the finest rod,
reel, line, hooks and sinker. Taking
these with him, Bill put out in a brand
new skiff to the fishing grounds. But
when everything was ready for the first
cast, Bill found that he had entirely
overlooked a most essential item,
BAIT. Bait had not been mentioned
in the fishing tackle ads. Bill knew
nothing at all about BAIT. But his
confidence in his equipment was such
that he went right ahead fishing with
bare hooks. With a patience born of
ignorance Bill kept at his work until
the day was done, and then started to
reel up to go home. There was some-
thing heavy on his line. It proved to
be an old leather satchel. It was filled
with paper money — slimy and soft,
but still negotiable.

Bill's story soon spread throughout
the country — people everywhere be-
gan reading the fishing tackle ads and
investing their money in good equip-
ments and taking their time from reg-
ular business to go fishing for money
with bare hooks. Needless to say,
there were no more money bags
caught, and many a man who had
been well-to-do became well done and
ended his days in a county poorhouse.
But the lesson was valuable. Thou-
sands of other fishermen discovered
their folly in time. They set aside

their equipments for a while and
studied Bait. Then they experimented
a little, and found that, while an occa-
sional fish could be tempted with
cheap, dead bait, the big and frequent
catches could be made only with live,
fresh, selected bait. And thereafter
these men waxed prosperous, and
were known as successful fishermen.

The Motion Picture game is like
fishing on shore.

Bill is the Exhibitor. The tackle
and boat are the equipment and the
theatre. The good BAIT is the good
picture. Occasionally there is a Bill
who catches money with bad pictures.
He uses bare hooks. There are hun-
dreds of other exhibitors who have
heard of Bill's blind luck. They have
read the fishing tackle advertisements
and purchased the finest equipment,
only to find that the public will not
bite. These men should Study the Bait
Question Nozv. They should learn the
positive truth that no matter how fine
the theatre, or how happy the location,
it is the Picture that draws and holds
the crowds. The exhibitors who learn
this lesson will wax prosperous. They
will be known as successful exhib-
itors. Here's the answer to the bait
question: A selection of the finest pic-
tures in the world, made by the ten
manufacturers whose films have long
been acknowledged as incomparably
superior to all others, on one program.
On one program.

GENERAL FILM COMPANY
' (INC.)

200 Fifth Avenue NEW YORK

m

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November 8, 1913

Price, 10 Cents

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Moving Picture News

uEst. 1908

Exhibitors' Times

Est. 1913

Volume VIII

Number 18

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Proof of the
Pudding

Quality Stands the
Test of Service

Read the unsolicited opinions of "reel" live wires:

Salvin Rock, West Haven, Conn.

Precision Machine Co., New York.

Gentlemen: — I have vised the Simplex machine for several months and would say
that it is, in my opinion, the best and most satisfactory machine I have ever used.
Have had sixteen years steady experience as a moving picture operator and during
that time have used many good machines, but I consider the "Simplex" the best and
easiest running of them all. (Signed) J. P. Dibble.

603 Carolina Ave, S. E., Washington, D. C, Feb. 24, 1913.
To the Manufacturers of Simplex Machine.

Dear Sirs: — I believe in the "Simplex." I am a machinist of twenty-two years'
experience and have been operating five years, using all kinds of machines, and I
think I know a good one when I see it. (Signed) W. H. Marshall,

Chief Operator Avenue Grand Theatre.

San Bernardino, Cal., Oct. 16, 1913.
Precision Machine Co., 317 East 34th St., New York City.

Gentlemen : — Received the Simplex machine and I am well pleased with it. If
any one that lives in this locality inquires about a machine, tell them to go and look at
the Temple Theatre in San Bernardino and if they don't buy a Simplex they don't
want a machine at all. I am showing a better picture than any I have seen in Cali-
fornia. The patrons claim there is none like it in Los Angeles or San Diego, so
clear and steady. Wishing you continued success for your most excellent machine,
I remain, Yours very truly, (Signed) Guy Slipper, Temple Theatre.

Puch convincing proof of Simplex superiority is of tremendous value to the prospective buyer, especially when backed by the
Precision guarantee of accuracy of workmanship, high grade materials and that exclusive quality of projection.

Write for Catalogue B

Made and
Guaranteed by

PRECISION MACHINE CO.

317 EAST 34th
NEW YORK

ST.

AMERICAN -ECLAIR

n

You Want Fat Box Office Receipts; You Want Packed Houses; You
Want Pleased Patrons ; You Want a Reputation,

DON'T YOU? THEN BOOK

Every American-Eclair Film

2 and 3 Reel Dramas. Released every Wednesday.

Split and Full Reel Comedy and Scientific subjects. Released every Sunday.

"The Dopester" says, "We Are Receiving Letters From Satisfied
ECLAIR Exhibitors All Over the Country Every Day. Why Not Join the
Writing Class?"

UNIVERSAL PROGRAM EXCLUSIVELY

DEMAND THAT UNIVERSAL PROGRAM AND INSIST ON
AMERICAN ECLAIR FILMS.

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SEE

HOW WILD ANIMALS LIVE

MAMMALS - BIRDS - FISHES - REPTILES - INSECTS

SEE THESE ANIMALS

LIVE PLAY
FEED FIGHT

6000 feet of live, thrilling, gripping animals in their
natural state, photographed by naturalists (not hunters)
who depict the Romance and Adventures, Tragedies
and Joys of Animal Life.

24 Styles of Pictorial and Descriptive Lithographs —
Elabarate Heralds, Photographs, Lectures, Postal
Cards, and Advertising Novelties

STATES RIGHTS BUYERS-THEATRICAL MAN-
AGERS AND EXHIBITORS

WIRE, PHONE OR SEE

MIDGAR FEATURES

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

TO SPEND
QUARTER OF J) MILLION DOLLARS

"RESOLVED, That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
($250,000) be appropriated from the net surplus of the Universal Film Manufac-
turing Company for the purpose of exploiting the Universal Program in the
United States and Canada through^the medium of magazine, newspaper, bill-
board and street-car advertising, and that the executive officers of the Universal
Film Manufacturing Company be, and they hereby are, authorized to enter into a
contract with the Witt K. Cochrane Advertising Agency of Chicago, 111., on the
basis of the above-mentioned expenditure." (Unanimously adopted.)

THIS EXTRACT from the minutes of. a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Universal Film
Manufacturing Company, held Tuesday, October 28th, will give the exhibitors of America an idea
of our determination to teach the people that Universal exhibitors are showing by far the best pro-
gram of films in the world. Not a cent of this vast appropriation is to be taken from the fund which
is used for making our productions. On the contrary, it will come from the net surplus of the com-
pany— in other words, it would be "dividends" for the stockholders of the Universal if they preferred
dividends to a national advertising campaign.

THE FIRST one to benefit by this enormous advertising campaign will be the Universal exhibitor.
The second will be the Universal exchange. The third and last will be the Universal Film Manu-
facturing Company. Up to now, we have spent fortunes on improving the quality of the whole
Universal program. We have succeeded in reaching the highest point in quality ever attained by any
film concern. There is not even a close second to that Universal program. It is now our intention
to teach the people — the "ninety millions" — that the best theatre to patronize is the theatre that
shows the Universal program.

BE READY TO REAP THE BENEFIT OF THIS ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN from the very
beginning. If you are not using that Universal program now, communicate at once with the near-
est Universal exchange before it is completely represented in your neighborhood. You have either
seen or heard of the astounding things we have accomplished in the past few months. We are going
right ahead with our quality improvement and at the same time we are going to create a terrific, wide-
spread and never-ending demand for that Universal program. Now arrange with the nearest Universal
exchange for the whole program before your patrons demand it of you!

UNIVERSAL FILM MANUFACTURING COMPANY

CARL LAEMMLE, President.
"THE LARGEST FILM MANUFACTURING CONCERN IN THE UNIVERSE"

Mecca Building, 48th St. and Broadway, New York City, N. Y.

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Ornamental
Theatres

PLASTER RELIEF DECORATIONS

Theatres Designed Everywhere

Write for Illustrated Theatre Catalog. Send us
Sizes of Theatre for Special Designs

DECORATORS SUPPLY CO.

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CHICAGO ILL.

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building or your present theatre write us before
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House of Features Only

EXHIBITOR

Wire or write for open dates on any of the following features

Name Reels

LONDON BY NIGHT 4

WAR CORRESPONDENT 5

CRIMES OF THE CAMORRA 4

SLAVES OF MORPHINE 3

WOMEN IN BLACK 3

BLACK SNAKE 4

Spider Gang 4

Auto Suggestion 2

Brand of a Thief 3

Broken Hearts 3

Driven from Home ^ 3

Thaw- White Tragedy 1

The Critic 3

Child Labor Traffic 2

For Her Sake 2

Dante's Inferno 2

Steps of A Throne 4

Dagmar 3

Spectre of the Sea .-. 2

Revolutionary Marriage 2

Salome 3

Hidden Message 3

Brennen of the Moor 3

Pit and Pendulum 3

Foot of the Scaffold 2

Red Powder 4

Name Reels

Tony the Simpleton 2

Martin Luther 2

Romance of a Poor Girl 3

Her Vengeance 2

War of the Plains 2

Gambler's Victim 2

Tom Butler 3

Who Was Guilty 2

Temptations of a Great City 3

Robin Hood, Outlaw 1

Cleo and Pheleates 2

Red Rose of the Apache 3

Tristan and Isolde 2

In the Claws of the Vulture 3

Red Julia 3

East Lynne 2

Secret Treaty 3

Earl of Essex 3

Kelly from Emerald Isle 3

The Worker 3

Human Tortures 4

In the Toils of the Devil 3

The Dead Secret... 3

At the Risk of Her Life 3

As In A Looking Glass 3

Telephone Orameroy 1046 CHAS. H. STREIMER, Manager

EAGLE FEATURE FILM COMPANY, Inc.
71 WEST 23d STREET Masonic Building NEW YORK

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PRESENTS

THE SEA WOLF

IN SE/VILN REXLS

By

Jack London

We are the only authorized producers
in motion pictures of all Jack London's
literary work, past, present and future.

THE FOLLOWING TERRITORY SOLD TO

Progressive Motion Picture Co.

Pacific Building, San Francisco

California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona,

New Mexico.

BOS WORTH, Inc.

648 SOUTH OLIVE STREET LOS ANGELES, CAL.

no WEST 40TH STREET NEW YORK CITY

WM. L. ROUBERT, General Sales Manager

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A ZIP-BANG Cartoon
Which Snaps and Sparkles With Truth

There are two ways of reaching State Rights Buyers, Feature
Exchanges and Exhibitors — through the trade journals and the
Motion Picture Pages of the newspapers, which pages are
supplied direct from New York by the Syndicate Publishing Co.

This now famous Cartoon created such a sensation in Moving Picture Circles
when shown privately that it is reprinted here by permission of Arthur Leslie of
the Motion Picture Department of the

Syndicate Publishing Co.

11 East 37th Street New York

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Advertisers* Attention!

The November 29th issue of THE
MOTION PICTURE NEWS (pub-
lished November 2 2d) will be a special

Theatre Construction

Number

Replete with illustrations of the most modern theatres
(exteriors and interiors); plans and novel suggestions;
articles by a number of architects and experts on
arrangement, safety, decoration and equipment. The
number* will be widely distributed, particularly to new
theatres, those in process of construction and those
contemplated.

Advertising space for this issue
should he reserved at once.

Address for rates and particulars:

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Film Quality

Quality in the film — quality from
a technical photographic standpoint
is as important to the Exhibitor as
is interest in the story that the
film tells.

There's one film that's recognized
the world over as the standard of
quality — that is always used by
those whose effort it is to give the
Exhibitors the very best goods and
the very best service — Eastman film.

And it is identifiable. Look for
"Eastman" on the perforated margin.

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY,

ROCHESTER, N. Y.

Sound Effects Produce Natural Shows

It is unnatural to see something happen that
naturally produces a noise and hear nothing

The Excelsior Sound Effect Cabinet

Produces a combintion of mort sounds it ine time th»n jn» ether method

ENLIVENED PICTURES MEAN SUCCESS

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AN ASSISTED PROPOSAL

A Brewy Wettcrn Comedy 1 hursday.'Nov. 13th. 1913

THE DRUMMER'S HONEYMOON

A Comedy Sketch from Life

Saturday. Nov. 15. 1913

ONE AND THREE
SHEET FOUR COLOR
LITHOGRAPHS.

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BKI.OW i> .1 reproduction of one of our spcn.il service bulletins giving
aJvtint c notice ot new ami projected picture theatres.

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This bulletin is mailed to all our advertisers and not published, enabling them
to get in immediate touch with these prospects. Also a copy of publication carry-
ing your advertisement, given to each of these neir buyers.

Vox further information address:

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WINIFRED KINGSTON

As Madame Alvarez in the All Star Feature Corporation production of "Soldiers of Fortune " She knows the way to look.

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Motion Picture News

MOVING PICTURE NEWS EXHIBITORS' TIMES

Established 1908 Established 1913

Volume VIII November 8, 1913 Number 18

WHY IS AN ADVERTISEMENT?

^JpHE above title is rather a large one with which
to begin this informal series of little talks on
advertising.

OUNTLESS reams of paper have been used up
in attempts to answer this query.

^JpHE writer recalls an advertising men's banquet
at the Sphinx Club in London in which several
earnest young men bored the diners for several hours
with this very subject. Then the guest of honor was
called upon for the concluding speech. He was a
Napoleonic little man, known to a suffering world as
Doctor Munyon.

ifc. ;J;

^jpHE little man slid to his feet and with a sphinx-
like smile raised a forefinger. "Gentlemen," said
he. "There is hope!" The verbose young men told of
how and why the other fellow did it — after the other
fellow did it. Dr. Munyon made a living image of a
trade-mark which he built up to a million-dollar value
— and didn't tell.

* * *

JT'S a very big and platitudinous subject — this why
of advertising, and here are a few "whys" which
may offer some suggestions that may hit home — which
is the modest aim of this series.

* * *

''XA/^ advertise?" said a big manufacturer about
* two years ago.

JT is amusing to note that this same man had form-
erly been advertising manager of a weekly pub-
lication and now declined to swallow the medicine he
had so often prescribed for others. So he went to
the other extreme.

* * *

l-T E had a force of more than eighty field sales-
men, each costing him from $2,500 to $12,000
yearly. They kept his plant overrun with orders.
Then he saw a light. He started a small advertising

campaign and as he increased it he cut down his sales
staff. Now he does more business with thirty-odd
salesmen, and his selling cost is almost 50 per cent
less.

H4 • % • %

^J^HESE two go together, by the way — advertising
and field salesmanship. Either is expensive or
inefficient without the other.

^ ^ ^

"\X7HY advertise?" asked a well-to-do merchant.

He had the leading furniture store in the
city of Troy, N. Y. Forty years of hard work had
built up a fine business. It was there, solid and self-
sufficient, with customers enough and permanent. The
aged proprietor was about to turn it over to his son,
with the feeling that the business was secure — forever.

* * *

"V^THY insure?" was the answer. "You wouldn't
leave your store to-night if it were unin-
sured. You wouldn't turn it over to your son, if you
felt that he would let his policies lapse."

* * *

"J^OW, suppose a new concern with plenty of
" capital and experience comes here and starts
advertising. Where will your son and your busi-
ness be in two years ? Why not insure your store with
advertising — nozuf"

* * *

AND the conservative old tradesman did.
*

^JO here are two "whys" of advertising:

To sell goods economically — if you want to sell
them and market is open.

To insure their sale in the future, if you don't need
to sell them now and if your market happens to be
temporarily closed.

* * *

T>()TII of which "whys" apply very intimately, it
would seem to mc, to a number of makers of films
and theatre equipment supplies.

William Allen Johnston.

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Vol. VIII November 8, 1913 No. 18

This publication is owned and published by Exhibitors' Times, in-
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President, Wm. A. Johnston; Vice-President, Henry F. Sewall; Sec'y,
E. Kendall Gillette; Treas., Wentworth Tucker. The address of the
officers is the office of the publication.

PICTURES OR BOOKS?

NO one has ever accused Thomas A. Edison, the
wizard of East Orange, of being mentally de-
ficient. 'Twere rankest folly to speak thus of the
world's greatest inventor, and one whose glimpses in-
to the future are being realized in a way that is well-
nigh terrifying.

So when he predicts that some day motion pictures
will replace, at least, partially, text books in schools,
it behooves the world to listen respectfully.

His leading argument is that pictures illustrate many
subjects far more graphically than text books ever
can. Pictures can never teach logarithms or Greek
declensions, but as a vehicle for history or geography
the strip of celluloid can not be surpassed.

Travel has been called the greatest broadener of
the mind. Through the medium of motion pictures
one may be mentally transported to Jersey City, Hong
Kong, London, and Cape Town, within ten minutes.

The people walking on the streets, their dress, man-
ners and customs, may be seen. Books can not do that.
The scholar gets a much more vivid impression of
Burma by seeing a Burmese scene on the screen than
by reading "the Burmese are a peculiar people who
wear their hair in outlandish styles."

To the dull or indifferent scholar a text book is
a bug-a-boo. Motion pictures are not. Films may
never replace school books, but Mr. Edison is surely
right in saying that they will prove an invaluable
supplement.

SOURCES OF INSPIRATION

/^V NE of the recent successes of the art world in
Europe was a problem picture, if we may so call
it, entitled "The Fallen Idol." This picture was by
the Honorable John Collier, a well-known painter who
has made a specialty of problem pictures — pictures
that in the cant phrase take a note of interrogation
as the motive. These problem pictures are easily iden-
tifiable— because they excite curiosity. When you are
looking at them you are conscious of having a case
presented to you. You say to yourself, Well, what
is he or she likely to do next ? What is likely to hap-
pen? What will be the outcome of it? The majority
of great paintings, display incidents : historical, dra-
matic, and so forth. Modern art, however, is turning
more and more to the problematical. As in the play,
so in the picture. You are left guessing. Writers
and painters of advanced methods of thought think
it the right thing to leave you guessing.

Now, in this picture (there were reproductions of it
in the New York Times and other papers in this
country last summer) we see a man seated, as it were,
at his study table with a troubled expression on his
face. At his feet kneels in suppliant attitude a beauti-
ful girl, presumably his wife. The interior where
the figures are placed by the painter shows culture,
refinement, if not wealth. The man might have been,
in the mind of the painter, a successful professional
man — lawyer, engineer, surgeon, or architect.

Thousands of guesses were hazarded by those who
viewed the picture as to what it meant. Had the girl
fallen from grace? Been found out by the man? Re-
buked? Was she asking forgiveness? Would he re-
lent or not?

When we saw this reproduction in the newspaper
we realized its dramatic value. In fact, we cut it
out of the paper and preserved it as a text for an
article which we knew we would one day write. Now
we see that a film maker in Europe has taken this
picture as the kernel of a film story. He has drama-
tized it. He has led up to it. He has made the picture
motive the principal motive of his film play. He has
had it written up and round about. He has taken
this simple incident and made a film play of it.

To the best of our recollection, this is the first in-
stance in which a single picture has formed the in-
spiration of a film play. This film of a "Fallen Idol"
seems, by what we read, to be making a success. Have
we not here a valuable hint to film makers who are
constantly complaining of the dearth of original plots.
You have all the great pictures of the world to give
you inspiration. Nothing can be simpler than to turn
a hack scenario writer adrift in a great picture gal-
lery, tell him to select some of the incidents shown on
the canvas and write film plays around them. The
painful monotony of theme so evident in these motion
pictures would possibly be mitigated by the importa-
tion of a little picture gallery variety. Motion pic-
tures FROM pictures seems to us rather a good
"stunt." What say you, Messrs. Film Makers?

By r€.

COMNIFIC! Thank you, Mr. Klauber, of the New
York Times. I avow myself one of your con-
stant readers. Theatrical criticism is one of the many
trades I have touched at times — God help me. My
favorite author, Lord Beaconsfield (Disraeli) stig-
matized theatrical criticism as "the last resort of the
mentally destitute." I was not mentally destitute
when I took up the work; I was broke. At best it is
a thankless job. In return for all the appreciatory
and critical stuff that I have written in my career, I
have received far more kicks than ha'pence. But that
is in accordance with the fitness of things. A man
who is so far driven as to be a critic (conceding his
ability to think and write even Laura Jean Libbey's
stuff) deserves no pity.

-i^

CO having been a critic I endeavor to see what the
best men in the game are doing, simply, I guess,
by way of pity and sympathy. Most of us who have
been to school or college revisit those places in after
life just to see what it is like ; just to see the new fel-
lows suffer as we have suffered. I read theatrical
criticism simply because I like in a way to contemplate
the mental gymnastics in which a critic is bound
to indulge. And now and then I get an idea from
these gymnastics, which I can switch for use in my
mental survey of the motion picture field.

* * *

"\/T R. KLAUBER'S description of a recent play
as somnific is a master-stroke of incisive
writing. He tells anybody like myself, who is in the
game, that the play was dull, that it would send
one to sleep. It was somnific, somnificational, somnif-
icatic. Hey, fellows, here is a fine series of lingual
curiosities for you to struggle with. When you read
such a description as this in ordinary dramatic crit-
icism, you are driven to wonder whether, outside a
terse analysis of the play, detailed criticism is worth
a red cent. It suggests to you that the managing
editor of the daily newspaper might be content to
afford just sufficient space for telling what are the
salient characteristics of the play : no more ; no less.
Such as — well, such as can be readily imagined. You
could apply the principles of quantitative and quali-
tative chemical analysis to your play. When you sub-
mit a sample of an unknown body to a chemist for

analysis, he sends you a little slip in which he tells
you in effect that in a hundred parts of the substance
there are so many parts of this, that or the other thing
making up the "demnition total" (to quote Manta-
lini) of a hundred parts.

* * *

MR. AUGUSTUS THOMAS, as was pointed
out the other day, has adopted the synthetical
method of making motion pictures, because he charts
and plots the movements of his characters. He
builds up his pictures. That is synthesis. Analysis is
another thing. Analysis means that you simply take
the thing to pieces and see what it is made of. And
that is what Mr. Klauber did in his criticism from
which I am quoting. He practically said : "In a hun-
dred parts of this play there is somnificitis q. s." In
other words, the play, though good in many respects,
was so dull that it would send you to sleep. And
dullness is an unforgivable sin in any play — or in
anything which is designed to interest and amuse.

* * *

COMNIFICALITY (oh, my, how I do love to fon-
dle over this blessed word) is the besetting sin of
a very large percentage of motion pictures as now
made. They are dull because they are undramatic or
old in theme. They outrage the formula given time
and again : A good play, well acted, well photo-
graphed. Of course every photoplay cannot be a
good one any more than all stage plays can be good
ones. William Lord Wright on another page is doing
fine work in teaching the photoplay aspirant the rudi-
ments of the subject. He is attending to the story
part of the formula. He is inculcating the enormous
value in these photoplays of action. There wasn't
enough action in the play Mr. Klauber criticised, and
so he somnificated ! ! !

r WENT into the Automat the other day. This in-
stitution impressed me very much. There were
serried rows of little receptacles on the wall. You
drop a nickel into them, and you take pie or what you
want to the value of your nickel. You build up your
lunch by automatic means in 5-cents worths. You
get down, in the Automat, to the unit system of lunch-
ing. Well, that is what you have to-do in the matter
(Continued on page 16)

E. MANDELBAUM

Concerning the President of the World Special

^JpHE fluctuation in the motion picture business his policy deserves the commendation of this paper.

has brought to the fore a man who has the Mr. Mandelbaum is conservative in his methods and

capacity of playing a distinguished part in it — the outlook. He is one of those men whose business judg-

man who is the subject of this portrait. Mr. Mandel- ment in all affairs is animated by caution, by prudence,

baum was for many years
prominent in the exchange
branch of the business. He
now is president of the
World Special Films Cor-
poration. He bids fair to
be prominent in the picture
publishing and producing
end. Mr. Mandelbaum1 is
one of those men — quiet and
self-centered — ■ who shows
his mind by his actions. He
has associated with him the
popular and suave Jules
Bernstein, an acknowledged
master of exchange and dis-
tributing work. Then he has
enlisted the aid of Stan
Twist, a clever and cultured
young recruit to the great
New York film world. If a
man is known by the com-
pany he keeps, then Mr.
Mandelbaum demonstrates
that he is entitled to a place
of great esteem and respect
in the motion picture busi-
ness of the nation.

Mr. Mandelbaum is in his
intellectual prime. He is
eminently one of those who

realize what it is the fashion to call the "possibilities"
of the picture. He has shrewd business principles
allied with very fine ideals as to the proper qualities
of motion pictures. He is a man who would deprecate
sensationalism in posters, in subject, in dramatic treat-
ment. He stands for pictures which tend to appeal to
the better instincts of the human mind, and as such,

E. MANDELBAUM

by, above all things, common
sense. He realizes that the
picture at the present time
is the subject of a "boom,"
i.e., that a period of inflation
may be setting in. In this
crisis, for such it is, regard-
ed from an economic stand-
point, a man of the type of
Mr. Mandelbaum proceeds
warily. There are not want-
ing those who think with the
subject of this sketch that
over-production, over-capi-
talization and the other
symptoms of inflation, such
as have been apparent in oth-
er industries, like that of the
automobile, are plainly to be
discerned in the motion pic-
ture business. Reading these
signs of the times, Mr. Man-
delbaum is adopting a policy
of conservatism which is
bound, we think, to result in
success for the World Spe-
cial Film Corporation.

The "World Special,"
under the guidance of Mr.
Mandelbaum, should be
watched not for what it does
in the way of making pictures, but for how it does it.
A good business policy by any individual or corpora-
tion is bound to react favorably on the business in
general. There are many fly-by-night organizations
in the business which have all the potentiality of
"going up" sooner or later. And sooner than later.
But Mandelbaum, Bernstein and Twist shall endure.

^1

RIGHT OFF THE REEL

(Continued from page 15)
of these photoplays. In a reel of a thousand feet, in
order that the thing can get over, there must be a cer-
tain amount of automatically-provided pabulum. You
have to assure so many units of action — movement —
animation — thrills — call it whatever you will ; there
must be something doing, more or less, all the time.
In order to hold the attention of the audience you
must calculate this out, this something, with a fair
amount of accuracy.

^\ F course I am leaving out of consideration such
factors as the appeal to the emotions, the senti-
ments, the sympathies of the individual. This is an-
other matter. But many a bad play has succeeded
because it had plenty of action in it — I mean a badly
constructed play, old in theme. And many a good
play on a new theme, or at any rate an uncommon
theme, has failed because there was a lack of action
in it. It is the same with film plays. It is the plav
that is the thing, and there must be action. While
thought is a great factor in making this little old globe

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17

of ours go round on its axis, action counts most. Acta
non verba. It's what you do that counts ; not what
you think, or say. I think it is Kipling who, in one of
his finest poems, makes the celestial janitor say to the
would-be entrant, "What have you done?" It is the
doings in a picture that count in a major sense, not
the thoughts.

^ rj; ^:

nPHE moral of all this is that scenario writers, pro-
ducers, film makers, should assure as far as pos-
sible that there is action of the best kind in their film
plays. Some plays I have recently seen are deadly
dull. They have relied too much upon atmosphere
and sentiment for their effects. You must adjust the
constituent elements of your theme as hinted above in

order to produce a good play. You must never forget
that the motion picture is or should be in one of its
aspects an impressible agency. Impressible, that is,
in respect of affecting the mind through the brain. It
does not in the majority of cases appeal to the sense
of color. The film is monochromatic as a rule. There-
fore, to make up for this chromatic deficiency you
need to be insistent in your action in order that the
full effect may be made on the brain. A Kinema-
color picture may succeed in virtue of its colorifical-
ity — the story and the action being subordinated to
the color effect. But from a black and white picture
the color is absent, so in order to make up for this
deficiency you gotta give 'em plenty o' punch. So
punch, punch, brethren, and do not somnificulate, s'il
vous plait.

A VIVID VISUALIZATION OF A VIVID STORY

"The Sea Wolf," by Jack London, Does Not Lose Force on the Screen

JACK LONDON'S works are charac-
terized by an absolute knowledge of
his subject, a large consideration for
details and good descriptive power. In
this he outshines any contemporary.

It is for these reasons that his novels
are so easy to dramatize, and it seems
that this will account greatly for the
future success of the moving picture
version in seven acts of "The Sea
Wolf," produced by Bosworth, Inc. For
it will be a success, it cannot very well
be otherwise unless it be exhibited ex-
clusively in homes for the blind. Its
unescapable virility insures that.

The interpretation of that character,
"Wolf" Larsen, by Hobart Bosworth is
so good that it really defies description.
It is a hard character and it is doubtful
if any other actor could render the
emotional parts as well as does Mr.
Bosworth. This character, "The Sea
Wolf," is the dominant note of the
story. In comparison with him the re-
mainder of the cast sinks into insignifi-
cance. Try to imagine a man, rough
and uncouth, a veritable beast at times,
cruel to the last degree, a terrible bully
and yet with all this a philosopher and
student, and a constant reader of
Browning and the Bible. Is such a
type possible? Jack London made it
so in his book and Bosworth does the
same on the screen.

The action tells of the ship "Ghost,"
commanded by Wolf Larsen, and known
as a ''hell ship." Humphrey Van Wey-
den, a literatteur, is wrecked in the col-
lision between two ferryboats, and after
being in the water some time, is saved
by the "Wolf" and put to work imme-
diately as cabin-boy. Soon he learns to
hate Larsen and hopes for relief. His
troubles are numerous and supply much
of the life of the picture.

After the death of the mate, "Humph,"
the former art critic, is put in his place.
Through mutinies and disaster he helps
his chief, until the girl, Maud Brewster,
gets in the "Wolf's" clutches in the
same manner as Humphrey. "Wolf"
quickly learns to love her in his cruel
way, and "Humph" has much difficulty

and joining his brother, "Death" Lar-
sen. The "Ghost," now deserted save
for Wolf, is washed ashore on Endeavor
Island. Humphrey and Maude repair
the ship and sail away.

The last moments and death of Larsen
are masterpieces of acting. The final
scene shows Humphrey and Maude at

SCENE FROM "THE SEA WOLF"

in protecting her from insult. Finally,
when the "Wolf" is in the throes of
blindness, the malady which sometimes
afflicts him, the two leave the ship, hop-
ing to land in Japan, but are washed
on a desert island.

Larsen, now sightless, is power-
less to prevent his crew deserting

home, where they are starting the writ-
ing of their book.

By far the strongest scene is the
wreck in the San Francisco fog of the
two boats. It is a dramatic wonder.

It is very probable that the produc-
tion would not lose in strength if cut
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Spectacular Pictures His Long Suit

"Tom" Ince, of New York Motion Picture Corporation,
Stands Preeminent in This Field

' I ^HIS is the era of the high-salaried
producer of drama in motion pic-
ture form. This is only natural. At
present the producer, or director, is to a
production what a keystone is to an
arch. Without him the structure would
become a chance collection of discon-
nected units shaped by chance.

At the present the whole burden of
production, in the average studio, rests
upon the shoulders of the director.
First, he is the scenario expert. Scena-
rio departments fill their place, and it
is an important one, but their province
ends when that of the director begins,
and when a director doesn't want to
produce a script he very seldom does.
Then he usually revises the script to
suit himself, introduces his own style
of "business" and eliminates or adds
"stunts" until it is stamped with his
own personality or way of doing things.
Then he looks over the stage setting.
That, too, comes in his precinct.

When the players come on ready to
rehearse he is to constitute himself the
"makeup" expert. He passes on not
only details and suitability of dress, but
also as to the use of the "makeup box,"
with proper regard for how the players
will photograph and appear on the
screen. Then, when the rehearsing be-
gins, the director ofttimes plays over
every part in the picture himself, possi-
bly several times, that he may imbue
his players with the spirit or motif
which he wishes to have appear on the
screen.

With a need for such versatility in a
director, it is no wonder that the de-
mand is for a very capable man. Hence
it is the competent man — the man who
has been all things to all pictures pro-
duced under his care — that has won a
reputation for himself during the past
few years.

Of a Theatrical Family

The time is coming when the director
will only direct. The New York Mo-
tion Picture Company even now has a
system whereby the director only directs.
That is to say, he only supervises the
dramatic work of the players. He en-
ters the studio to find his sets all ready,
his act players all made up, and his
script fit to use. So all he has to do is
to rehearse and take a scene. That is a
director's idea of heaven.

From the ranks of the same firm, the
New York Motion Picture Corporation,
there has also risen one man who has
lived a strenuous life as a director. He
is Thomas H. Ince, scion of a well-
known theatrical family, an actor from
his boyhood days, who entered the mo-

tion picture business about three years
ago and now enjoys a reputation as a
producer of spectacular military and
battle pictures which is absolutely
second to none.

It was some three years ago that this
man saw the possibilities of the motion
picture art. He started as an actor, and
in three weeks was made a director.
Now he is famous in the industry.

In 1911 he joined Kessel and Bau-
mann and the New York Motion Pic-
ture Corporation. Since then he has
received a stock interest in several of
the brands produced by that big con-

j s

THOMAS H. INCE

Head producer of Kay-Bee, Broncho and
Domino films.

cern. These interests, together with his
salary, make his total income from
his work as a director about $1,200 a
week, or a yearly income of more than
$62,000.

"The Battle of Gettysburg" is per-
haps his most famous single production.
Making this single picture burnt up
more than $20,000 worth of powder and
gave employment for several weeks to
armies of "supes" large enough to
amply represent on the screen the great
warring forces of the Blue and the
Gray. In addition, he has had charge
of all Kay-Bee, Broncho and Domino
productions, and it is largely through
him that these brands have achieved
their reputation as spectacular produc-
tions.

So interesting a man and of such
creative ability naturally has had an
interesting career.

In the year of 1911 Mr. Ince joined

the New York Motion Picture Cor-
poration and immediately left for the
coast to take charge of productions.
After producing several single-reel
Western productions at the Los Angeles
studios of the company, Mr. Baumann
entered into negotiations with Miller
Bros., owners of the famous "101" Wild
West Show, then wintering in Los An-
geles, and wrested from several competi-
tors a contract for the use of the entire
"101" show for a series of spectacular
Western films.

The feature productions that followed
made Mr. Ince's name famous. His
original lead has been followed by other
companies, who immediately followed in
his footsteps to make two-reel produc-
tions.

Mr. Ince's rise in the picture busi-
ness from then on has been phenomenal.
He made the original name of "Bison
101" famous throughout the world, and
after the New York Motion Picture
Corporation lost the title through litiga-
tion, Mr. Ince established the prestige
of the Kay-Bee, Broncho and Domino
trade-marks here and abroad. Mr. Ince
is one of the associate owners of the
New York Motion Picture Corporation,
and holds the positions of vice-presi-
dent, general Western manager and
chief director.

His Fads and Hobbies Few

Personally, Mr. Ince is beloved by
every member of the companies he di-
rects. He is an indefatigable worker,
and is on the go night and day. In
other words, he is the main-spring in
the watch of the New York Motion
Picture Corporation.

Mr. Ince is perfectly familiar with
every angle of the producing end of
the business. In addition to his mar-
velous skill as a director, he is the
photoplay dramatist par excellence, and
without a rival in this difficult branch
of the profession.

As to his fads and hobbies, they are.
very few. When opportunity offers,
there is nothing that he likes better
than to take his gun and go deer-hunt-
ing. Last season he bagged one of the
biggest bucks taken in the Malibu
Mountains with a clean score through
the heart. The mounted head of the
five-point deer now adorns his library.
He also has one of the choicest collec-
tions of Indian wearing apparel, head-
dresses and bead-work to be found in
America, and is constantly adding to
this valuable collection.

Mr. Ince is still a comparatively
young man, being on the sunny side
of forty. He is married and the father
of two lusty sons. Mr. Ince has two
brothers, also in the picture business.
Ralph has been with the Vitagraph
Company for six years as leading man
and director. John is one of the leading
men with Lubin.

'i >-

OH, IT'S AN INTERESTING LIFE!

Punctuated by George D. Proctor

LIFE in the motion picture business
is kaleidoscopic. All the compo-
nent parts of the spectacle are nicely
straightened out when along comes an
unseen hand and gives the -whole thing
a shake. Then the units rearrange them-
selves in a different pattern. For fur-
ther information on the kaleidoscope
part of it refer to Joe Farnham, "Al-
kali Ike" Carney, Hector Streychmans,
Willie "Wishful" Hines, John B. Cly-
mer, Larry Griffith, Herbert Brenon,
State-rights buyers, actors and myself.
As far as I am concerned, I like the
way the world looks now the best of all.

There is nothing new nor novel in
writing about Joe Farnham, the weight-
iest of those who have made changes
during the week. Men and Arthur Les-
lie call him "Jolly Joe." That's al)
right as far as it goes, but if that sort
of pet name were popular, men would
some day call him "Brainy Joe," for
he's a student of the business. Joe
is now safely ensconced as right-hand
man to Harry Raver, president of the
All-Star Feature Corporation. Thus is
a happy family reunited. For Joe quit
"making the rounds" as an advertising
man way back last Winter to decorate
the front office of the defunct Film
Supply Company of America. Now he
is back again with his old playmates,
right where he wants to be, right where
they wanted him, so everybody is happy.

Which reminds me that the All-Star
crew, which has been making "Soldiers
of Fortune" in Cuba, is due back next
week. The roster includes Richard
Harding Davis, war correspondent and
author of tht book; Augustus Thomas,
playwright and head producer; "Silent
Bill" Haddock, whose return the new
Screen Club awaits with shivers, aide-
de-camp to Gus Thomas, and a picked
lot of players. Harry Raver showed
me some of the "still" pictures, and
the only comment was "they're doing
it right." It's not a bad little thing
for the business, either, to have men
like Thomas and Davis putting their
gray matter into it. There's room for
all, and may the best man be the most
prosperous.

By the way, I hear rumors of a new
concern to work along lines parallel
to those of the Famous Players and
the All-Star. Three firms won't over-

crowd the field, for, after all, there's
always room at the top, which being
freely translated means, "Good pictures
are always welcome."

With a Baedeker of Paris under his
arm, Augustus Carney, the famous little
"Alkali Ike" of Essanay pictures,
dropped in sort of casually Wednesday.
Carney has left his friends at the Niles,
Cal., studio and is now en route for
Europe, where he will spend a vacation
of several months, with the accent on
his old home in Ireland; for "Alkali
Ike" first saw the light of day 'mid the
lakes of Killarney.

Carney has no plans for the future,
but he should worry. After three years
in a little town, with no chance to be
frivolous, he feels he is entitled to kick
up his heels for a bit, and, on his re-

" ALKALI IKE"

In a "biled shirt" and string tie.

turn, will think about working again.
He's a little bigger than the dolls that
Don Meaney sent around to his friends,
but not so much.

During his brief stay, "Alkali Ike"
said a few of those things that I am
always glad to hear.

"Exhibitors do read and exhibitors do
think," he said. "I met a lot of them
last year when I was appearing at pic-
ture theatres, and on the whole I think
that, around Chicago, anyway, they have
tlie uplift idea. The folks that think
the operator in the booth is the only per-
son to see the motion picture publica-
tions are mistaken. The exhibitor reads
every editorial and every review he can
get hold of. Of course, he judges a
picture by the way his own patrons re-

{J

ceive it, but he is anxious to learn all
he can about the business and get all
"the different attitudes on it."

President Neff's censor board has
struck a very concrete snag out in
Ohio. The Mutual people at first op-
posed the dull weight of inertia to the
censor idea. They simply failed to show
their pictures. Now they have gone
farther and obtained a Federal injunc-
tion freeing them from the censors'
action. This will be water-tight till
December 6th, anyway. At that time
it comes up for argument.

Censorship long has been a vexing
question. President Neff proposed to
stage a conference of manufacturers
a while ago to discuss the subject.
Only two showed up and they were
only there to look around.

I asked one of them "why weren't
more there?" "The manufacturers
aren't taking any interest yet," he
said, "because they haven't been af-
fected." That was before the Ohio
bunch got going.

Now, when state censorship starts
the Mutual runs to Uncle Sam.

Without taking any sides, it is evi-
dent that the start has been made in
a series of events which will settle the
legal status of the first official censor
board.

Every picture has its buyer. Sort of
Napoleonic that. Like "every bullet has
its billet." Whether at eight cents a
foot or ten cents a foot, the buyer is
always found. That is, right now. Six
months from now things will be differ-
ent, judging by the way the barometer
is jumping. Remember that there are
only about twenty-five live State-rights
buyers, and most of these are either
tied up with standing orders with firms
who can deliver the goods, or are tying
up. Harry Raver, who has been mar-
keting films and doping out the situa-
tion for, lo, these many moons, says
that six months from now the man
with only one feature to sell will be
in an unenviable position. As Kipling
used to say, "That's another story."
It's a long if not sad story. More about
it later. Lots more.

Dignity doesn't buy any shoes, but
it's an asset which many have been
trying to apply more and more to the

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motion picture business. Then along
comes an advertisement with the word
"movies" spread all over it. Oh, well.

Whether it has dignity or not, the
business is here to stay. Mottoes are
bad things. One is supposed to stick
to them through thick and thin, and
they don't apply when the hundredth
turn comes along. But one motto is
"Down with the person who says 'the
motion picture business is only in its
infancy,' or 'the surface has only been
scratched.' " Ernest Shipman has it
right. He says that when he had a
lot of shows on the road the mention
of the fact in theatrical circles brought
a stifled yawn. Now when he tells his
old cronies he's in the motion picture
business, they prick up their ears and
want to be declared in.

The theatrical end of our local main
street pricked up its ears when the Bos-
worth seven-reel production of Jack
London's "Sea Wolf" was shown at the
Winter Garden. At least four hundred
were on the job, including Mr. Shubert.
They were mostly theatrical folk, all
eager to pick up a little knowledge of
the motion picture business. But that
can't be acquired in a morning, as many
have learned to their discomfort.

George Terwilliger, who can doctor
up a sick script and make it presentable,
has quit the Lubin scenario depart-
ment for the directing end of the busi-
ness. His next effort is a three-reel
subject, which will be released on the
exclusive program of the General Film
Company early in November. That sets
the seal of approval on his work before
I had a chance, but I was going to do
it, anyway.

William W. Hines, publicity man for
Noah in his famous voyage and for
many other things since then, is now
guarding Albert Blinkhorn's outer office
and caring for his publicity and ad-
vertising in his inimitable way.

King Baggot, King by name and king
by nature and in the hearts of his
friends, with the laurels of his European
trip fresh on his brow, is going after
more. I caught him over in Eleventh
Avenue a few days ago playing a "wop"
in "The Return of Tony." Leave it
to King to make a good picture; even
his director, George Loane Tucker, one
of the best, by the way, has sailed for
dear old London to join Harold M.
Shaw and his London Film Company.

Working by King's side was Charles
Eldredge, well remembered for his work
in Vitagraph pictures.

When it comes to actors, don't over-
look my alter ego, Harris Gordon. After
playing with Reliance and Eclair, he
was snapped up by the Famous Players

a few days ago and left for Boston to
take some scenes. Gordon put over a
juvenile lead in an Eclair production,
"Over the Cliffs," recently. This is the
picture in which Will Sheerer does a
head-stand off an eighty-foot cliff, or
something like that, take it from Bert
Ennis.

Carl Laemmle was again reminded a
few days ago of what the bunch at
the Universal studio at Los Angeles
thinks of him. He received as a pres-
ent a stuffed lion cub. The little rascal,
about two or three days old, has ;.
head three sizes too big for the body,
but blame nature for that.

Jeff Dolan, the famous demi-tasse, is
much exercised over the report that
he is going to leave the North Ameri-
can Film Corporation. He says he is
going to stay right under the wing of
Bill Steiner, and doesn't know where the
report started. Well, no more do I.

More glory for "Little Mary" Pick-
ford and King Baggot. A. Coleman,
chairman of the ball committee of the
Motion Picture Exhibitors' Association
of Greater New York, says they will
lead the grand march at the annual affair
at Terrace Garden on Monday evening,
December 15th.

Earl Metcalfe, of Lubinville, is one of
our best little week-enders. Every
Sunday finds him in the Screen Club
for a brief visit.

Watterson R. Rothacker, the young
and handsome head of the Industrial
Moving Picture Company, of Chicago,
is making one of his month-end visits
to New York.

It gives one sincere pleasure to note
steady and consistent improvement and
growing recognition for a screen player.
This goes for Jane Gail, formerly of
Lubin, with Imp for several months,
one of the few actresses in motion pic-
tures who has real brains and uses them.
She has a great emotional lead coming
in "Who Killed Olga Carew?" a sort
of a Craig Kennedy scientific mystery
story.

I caught Darwin Karr, late leading
man of Solax, hard at work at the Vita-
graph studio. He was working in the
coming feature production of "Mr.
Barnes of New York," which should be
considerable of a picture. The cast
includes Karr, Maurice Costello, Clara
Kimball Young and lot more good ones.

Got word from the new Tampa Film
Company, down_ in Tampa, Fla., on the
roster of which is Frank Beal, director;
Ed Carewe, leading man, and Jack
Byrne, scenario expert. Jack Byrne
says, "Our first picture, 'The Diamond
Smugglers,' is finished, and the second

is on the way. This town and sur-
rounding country is well adapted for
picture-making of the superior sort, al-
though it has some disadvantages in the
way of starving insects and other rep-
tilian gastronomes, which fairly revel
in the rich flavor of Northern blood."
Now, isn't that just like a script-writer?

Add to the list of "sailed for Eng-
land," G. Blake Garrison, president of
Midgar Features. He is now bound for
the other side on the Olympic. He will
visit London, Paris, Hamburg and Ber-
lin. Home again in December is the
program, with a bunch of good stuff
under his arm.

One interesting little war on our local
main street is that between the two
versions of "The Last Days of Pom-
peii." The Kleine-Ambrosio version has
now camped right across the street, at
the Bijou, from Wallack's, where the
Pasquali version is playing. Don't
make any mistake, though. Both sides
tell me that they have been helped by
the other. Which proves again that
there is plenty of room for all.

Pilot threatens to get back into the
game. James Gordon, former Edison
actor and producer and Famous Player
actor, is putting on his second feature,
"Hoodman Blind," out there in Yonkers.
Bert Angeles has been producing films
there, too, so all the signs of future
activity are in working order.

William Robert Daly, the well-loved
Universal director, is glad his leading
woman, Fritzi Brunette, is alive. She
was taxi-ing down to the studio in a
hurry a few days ago when the ma-
chine did a headstand down a cellar,
after crashing through an iron railing.
Fritzi injured her side, but now she's
as well as ever.

Hector Streychmans, who has ri-
valed Stanley Twist as a jack of all
trades and master of most in the film
business, is now entrenched behind the
publicity and advertising desk of Harry
Raver's Itala Company. There's Harry
Raver again, did you say? John Cly-
mer, who has been splitting his time up
between Itala and the Exclusive Supply
Corporation, found, a few days ago, that
the growth of the Exclusive made that
concern take up more and more of his
time. No man can serve two masters,
so he chose Exclusive. Now Streych-
mans has added another square to the
checkerboard of his life. He has been
very busy since he escaped from Chi-
cago, and kind hands have turned the
kaleidoscope often for him. A few
weeks ago he was the big noise, those
words are used advisedly, at the oPces
of the Pasquali-American. Then I
heard of him acting as steerer with the
Pilot Company. Now he is back down-
town in the heart of things.

FOR THOSE WHO WORRY O'ER PLOTS AND

PLAYS

William Lord Wright

The Unusual Thing

THE usual thing in photoplays is
to be avoided and the unusual
thing is devoutly to be wished. The
usual thing usually reads well in
script; it seems to stand for a whole
lot. The usual thing has much technic
and an ancient idea; the unusual thing
sometimes appears quite '"skimpy" in
script, but cleverly develops the un-
usual idea. The copy of the successful
fiction-writer frequently does not
"stand up well" in manuscript, and
the same rule is applicable to other
forms of literary endeavor. But the
skilled writer's stuff that does not
make the immense hit in script, fre-
quently proves mighty successful in
cold type or on the screen. Edison's
"One Hundred-Dollar Elopement" is a
case in point. In script form the plot
would appear very transparent to the
inexperienced editor, but the story
struck Edison's readers and producers
right between the eyes. It contained
the unusual thing. The story is not
so impressive. A giddy maiden is
placed by her father in a girls' sem-
inary. A worthless young man starts
a flirtation with her. The head of the
seminary discovers the elopement
plans. She notifies the girl's father.
He hands the young man $100 to sign
a paper giving up the girl, and then
he takes the young man's place and
meets his daughter and returns her
to school. It is the character work
and the fine shadings in the action
that make this story the unusual thing.
Several notes figure in the action. But
one is flashed, the rest are put over
by suggestion and are plainly under-
stood. The text of a note flashed on
the screen about every one hundred
feet detracts from the atmosphere.
Edison producers understand this fact.
The first letter sent to the girl is
read, but its text is not flashed at all.
Every-day sort of people are shown
in action and they perform every-day
sort of business without the aid of
firearms, ball-rooms, death-bed scenes
or automobile chases. The unusual
thing comes right along to the end
of the picture. The father and the
preceptress of the seminary are mu-
tually attracted. In the last scene
the girl whispers to her father and
looks at the preceptress. The father
smiles bashfully. This is all. How-
ever, suggestion was skillfully put
over; everybody understood what was
sure to happen sooner or later; and
the ending played upon the imagina-

tion of the spectators in a psycholog-
ical way. The picture was the most
popular in the evening's program of
four playlets. It is a good example
of the quiet, convincing story of
every-day life, and it took the audience
into the confidence and spirit of the
play. It is the kind of story that
would-be photoplay wrights should
study.

The Needs of Eclair

Mrs. F. Marion Brandon, versatile
editor of the Eclair Film Co., writes
the following interesting communica-
tion: "The Eclair is very decidedly
in the market for free-lance work, but
it discourages correspondence school
'students' and unknown authors from
submitting their scripts, as the Eclair
standard is of the highest, and it has
seldom, if ever, been able to use
scripts other than those by already
established photoplay-writers. I shall
be glad to receive split-reel comedies
of the first order. Also two and three-
reel scripts of unusual dramatic value.
We wish no Mexican, Western nor
mining scripts. We might consider
one and two-reel comedies occasion-
ally. Only the work of recognized
authors, as I said before, is desired.
Scripts are to be type-written and
stamps covering their return are to be
enclosed. I think two-reel scripts will
become the unit in photoplay releases.
One can't do justice to a strong story
in less than two reels. The exhibitors
are not keen for three-reel stories or-
dinarily. The theatrical magnates are
now plowing into the photoplay field
with gigantic productions like 'Quo
Vadis,' 'Arizona' and 'Tess of the
d'Urbervilles.' I think the public will
find its happiest medium of enjoyment
in the two-reel films, while split-reels
and one-reels will simply be used as
'fillers.' To get back to the discussion
of Eclair's wants, I might say that
we pay market prices for a script sub-
mitted where the action is worked out
in such a way that we can turn it
over to a director without the expense
of revision. When, however, only his
idea is acceptable to us, we make the
author an offer for it which he can
accept or not — as he pleases. As to
crediting the authors of photoplays on
screens and posters, I am strongly in
favor of this movement. There seems
to me to be no reason for the authors
remaining in obscurity, since every
other form of literary and dramatic
work gives him full meed of recogni-

tion. I really think it makes for bet-
ter results, since a man who knows
his work will be tagged with his name
is more apt to exert himself conscien-
tiously."

We are glad to note that Eclair
joins the leaders favoring credit for
authors. We do not incline to the
argument of some writers that film
and poster credit will banish pla-
giarism, but we believe it will have
a tendency to check it. If credit on
both poster and film is granted deserv-
ing writers it will do away with the
habit of some few exhibitors of falsely
advertising themselves or their friends
as authors of photoplays that are
shown. This action has occurred in
a number of instances. It does the
real author an injustice, and gains
money and reputation for others by
false pretenses. Perhaps it is because
so many correspondence school scripts
are descending upon the defenseless
heads of Eclair readers that the bars
have been put up against the unknown
author. Now, we have a warm spot
in our heart for the beginner in the
field. We do not wish to see him the
victim of discrimination. Every writer
was unknown at some day and date.
Booth Tarkington was strictly un-
known when he submitted the manu-
script of "The Gentleman from In-
diana" to McClure's Magazine years
ago. We remember to this day the
announcement by McClure's that "We
believe we have discovered another
unknown writer who is a master of
plot and action." The work of every
unknown writer should be carefully
read and considered. Frequently a
veritable nugget of gold is uncovered.

Photoplay Titles

Titles for photoplays are important.
Titles have shown great improvement
during the past six months, but there
is room for further betterment. Avoid
the long title. "The Adventures of
Mortimer Fitzgerald" may sound good
for a Bertha M. Clay yarn, but is not
aoropos for a film playlet. Try and
conceive a striking title, an all-em-
bracing title, a title that is catchy and
yet tells something. Any old title
will not do. Titles require thought
and study. Endeavor to name your
play so excellently well that the editor
will not change it.

Market Growing

"There ought to be markets for all
kinds of scripts for a new film concern

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is being launched every minute," writes
in a New York author. And our best
advice to the writers is to stick to
the well-known and proven companies.
Avoid the "wildcat" companies. Some
are all right and some are not.

The Pen as a Livelihood

Making a living by means of the pen
is frequently hazardous. Do not cut
loose from your regular occupation, if
you have one, until you are very very
certain that your literary output com-
mands a regular market. With a fan-
fare of trumpets a photoplaywright
broke into the script game a year ago.
He sold his first six scripts right off
the reel. He clerked in a jewelry
store. Confident that it was "easy" he
resigned as clerk. That was a year ago.
Since his resignation he has sold just
one script. He has no job. He had
better nursed the job. Even the stars
among the "free lances" have other
occupations to add to their incime. Of
course, if you can write novels and spe-
cial articles and short stories, along
with your photoplays, you can keep the
wolf from the door. However, de-
pending upon photoplays alone as a
means of buying coal for the family is
precarious. We recently received a
letter from Marc E. Jones admitting
that our antagonistic attitude toward
"photoplaywrights' associations" and
"mutual benefit societies" was correct.
It took Jones some time to see it, but
he says he has seen the light and re-
tired from "association" business. May-
be the above opinion on living by writ-
ing will reassure him of our attitude on
that subject also.

A Line from Hobart

C. D. Hobart, a Florida photoplay-
wright, writes as follows : "I really
think it is about time you heard from
me, for it is such men as yourself, Mr.
Sargent, Mr. Hoagland, Mr. Leeds, and
all too few others that the army of be-
ginners owe thanks, a mighty poor com-
pensation for the good work you
have done, are doing, and will con-
tinue to do. Here it was that I de-
cided to take a 'whack' at writing
a picture story. Please note that I
don't dare assume to call my primary
attempt a photoplay; in fact, it is a
shame to call it anything but 'a mor-
tification of crudeness.'

"An operator friend introduced me
to The Motion Picture News, and I
read every little thing that I could
about the photoplay, writing all the
while. Following the first, the com-
edy (?) came a serious problem (?)
story. The fifth attempt, a detective
drama, was accepted and the editor
asks for more American detective
stories novel in plot and full of ac-
tion.! Some of the things I do in
preparing a manuscript may be of in-
terest to others in the game, and I

take the liberty of mentioning a few
of them.

"I never write with pen or pencil
except to correct. I write the sce-
nario first, working my characters
naturally from one scene to another.
When the scenario is complete, then
I write the synopsis. The original
or first copy, I double-space; this
makes room for corrections and fill-
ing in between the lines. Every
manuscript sent out is listed in a little
book which I keep for this purpose.
Each company is given a double
page. On the left-hand page I put
down the name of the photoplay and
the date submitted. On the right-
hand page I put down the date of
its return, unless it happens to be ac-
cepted; then after the words "ac-
cepted," I state the price received.

"At last, but far from least, one of
my best friends is Noah Webster's
masterpiece, 'The Dictionary.' You
have my heartiest support in your
fight to protect beginners from cor-
respondence schools."

Mr. Hobart's letter contains much
of benefit to beginners and we rec-
ommend his system of working.

Here Is the Latest

The latest "come-on" literature is
from a "literary society" in Washing-
ton, D. C. We quote some para-
graphs of the circular letter being
sent out: "Simultaneous with the un-
precedented demand for moving pic-
ture scenarios that swept the country
there arose a number of so-called ex-
perts that prey upon earnest authors
by charging exorbitant prices for ab-
solutely worthless criticism.
Our special critic has been writing

many years. . . . One dollar for
every scenario," etc., etc. Don't "fall"
for this latest scheme. "Societies"
can be of no benefit to photoplay-
wrights.

Credit Where Credit Is Due

We are pleased to notice that Mr.
Arthur Leeds, editor of the Photo-
play Author, is also inclined to fol-
low suit and favor credit to writers
on screen and poster. Leeds has
been glancing through the leaves of
an old notebook and finds this writ-
ten long ago but applicable to-day in
some instances:

"The sooner the manufacturers see
the advisability of placing the au-
thor's name on all film titles when
the technique and dramatic value of
the scenario submitted justifies it at
all, the sooner will the desired plots
begin coming into them. Three years
after the foregoing was written, we
find that a few of the film companies
have adopted the policy of giving the
author his due on the film. It is
probably only a question of time be-
fore they will all do so."

We repeat, not only should the de-
serving author (deserving, mind you)
be credited on the screen, but his
name as author should appear on
posters. The Dramatic Mirror re-
cently printed some sprightly re-
partee between two playwrights as
to which of the collaborators should
be named first position on billing.
One playwright even cabled his argu-
ments from Europe. Universal is to
be commended for starting poster
credit for authors. We hope that all
other enterprising companies will fol-
low this example.

SCENE FROM "MADONNA OF THE SLUMS," 101 BISON 2-REEL DRAMA

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23

THE HALL OF FAME

Recently we guessed whom the Answers
Editor of the Motion Picture Story Magazine
might be. Editor Brewster informs us that our
.guess that appeared here was wrong. We
.guess no more.

Captain Peacocke and "Pop" Hoadley, both
of the Universal staff, are collaborating on
some comedies and dramas. Bet they are away
above the average.

Harold McGrath, noted novelist, threatens to
write photoplays for Selig. He may write a
series of stories under the general caption of
The Adventures of Kathlyn. There will be no
question about his name appearing on film and
poster.

Henry W. Mattoni, actor and dark-room
critic, has been putting over some thespian
stunts recently and his many friends will
readily recognize his good acting in certain
Famous Players films.

It is rumored that Director George L.
Tucker will go with the London Film Co. It
is said his first picture will be with Sir Herbert
Beerbohm Tree in the cast. Tucker, be it re-
called, gained his start as a script writer and
deserves all the good things he receives.

Walter MacNamara, Universal, is a versatile
chap and is adding to his sources of income
by writing tabloid musical reviews. He is
making a hit with the work. Mrs. MacNamara,
known in the theatrical world as Annie
Purcell, was for eight years prima donna at
Gayety theatre, London, England.

PERTINENT POINTERS

Write photoplays in the present tense.

Manuscript covers save the script but add
to postal expense.

Do not send scripts to editors with a request
for criticism.

Script editors are complaining that even the
experienced writers are neglecting to enclose
return postage with scripts.

A good leader or sub-title is a work of art.
Endeavor to have them blend as much as
possible with story atmosphere. Sub-titles can
be condensed and strengthened by painstaking
revision.

Many envelopes enclosed with scripts sent
to the studios are not large enough to accom-
modate the scripts when a rejection is deemed
necessary. This action is pure carelessness.

The address of Editor Hopp Hadley, Re-
liance Company, is now 537 Riverside Avenue,
Vonkers, N. Y. Scripts for Reliance should
lie sent there.

James Dayton is Pacific Coast editor for
Universal. Western address is Universal
Studios, Hollywood, Cal. He has given much
encouragement to "outside" writers.

An editor writes that in his opinion there
is going to be a great demand in the near
future for four-reel subjects and writers with
strong plots, that will bear being enlarged
upon, will do well to work them out to the
required length.

When one scene dissolves into another it is
termed a fade. However, this fade and trick
stuff frequently mitigates the sale of a story.
Trick effects mean a lot of work. Visions are
also annoying to handle and the writers who
persist in submitting the "dream stuff" soon
become unpopular in many studios. Effects
will never save a weak idea or pull up the
necessary threads of a story that should have
been woven in at the beginning of the plot.

The plot is .he foundation of the story.
Without an original and unusual idea all the
technique in the world will not sell your work.
You must learn to evolve an original and
log'cal plot before you can hope to succeed.
Practice makes perfect.

Keep your scripts on the jump. We have
abandoned our "morgue." Of course many a
rejected story will bear revision but revise and
keep it on its travels. You may have a good
plot and if it is permitted to lay in the
"morgue" too long the other fellow may think
it up and beat you to market.

Many seem confused by the cut-back. When
not overdone it is a detail that increases
suspense by the art of strong contrast. A
flash back to some action frequently tends to
intensify and hold up the plot. The number
of cut-backs in a story cannot be determined. It
all depends on the story. Biograph is particu-
larly strong on the cut-back and many pictures
released by that company show them. Proper-
ly used they stand for realism and the art of
suspense. John is about to take poison believ-
ing he has lost the packet of money with which
he was intrusted. He pulls the cork from
the vial r>nd a flash back shows the money
found and the messenger speeding to John.

Now a Director

George Terwilliger, formerly of the
Lubin Manufacturing Company edito-
rial staff, is now directing pictures for
that concern. That George will make
good goes without saying, as he is an
exceptionally bright fellow.

Use Simple Names

When writing a cast of characters for
a photoplay script use simple names.
Jack, John and Ned are better than the
Laura Jean Libbey style of cognoman.
Also it makes matters easier for the
producer, and the publicity man is fre-
quently grateful.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF
ALEC B. FRANCIS

The principal of this little biograph-
ical sketch, Mr. Alec B. Francis, pos-
sesses without doubt one of the most
likable and pleasing screen personali-
ties of any artist engaged in the work
of motion pictures to-day.

Finely proportioned physically, with
a handsome face and most charming
manner, Francis is at his best when
playing the leading role in society
and domestic dramas. His ability as
an artist is unquestioned, as he has
to his credit a long period of work
in legitimate, comic opera and vaude-
ville, both on this side of the water
and in England — the latter place be-
ing his home.

He was a huge favorite over there
in leading productions for years, and
it was indeed a fortunate stroke for
the exhibitor and photoplay patrons
that he abandoned his first love for
the silent drama, as his personality
and clever work have endeared him
to countless thousands throughout the
United States and Canada, who night-
ly watch anxiously for the appear-
ance of their favorite star in an Ameri-
can Eclair production.

With the versatility of the true ar-
tist, Mr. Francis is equally at home
in drama and comedy, and has done
some exceptionally laughable charac-
ters of the light comedy type for the
Eclair Company, although his forte
is straight dramatic roles.

He is happily married, takes great
interest and pride in his home, which
is a beautiful cottage situated near
the Fort Lee studios of the Eclair
Company, and his chief diversions are
the purchasing of clothes of the latest
mode and the running of his trim
roadster, with which he travels the
hills and beautiful country roads of
Fort Lee daily, going to and from his
work.

His admirers and friends are num-
berless, as he possesses a most lovable
disposition, and is always the man,
both off and on the screen.

NICHOLAS POWER EXHIBIT AT
THE ELECTRICAL SHOW

To the mind of the writer, after
careful investigation, it seems a bit
of bad business on the part of the
manufacturers of motion picture sun-
dries not to advertise in a more pro-
gressive manner than they do. When
such a splendid chance as the elec-
trical show offered itself, only one
of the many companies bought space.
Nicholas Power, with commendable
forethought, put in a five-machine ex-
hibit, and electrical experts from the
world over, who have come to the
city for the sole purpose of seeing
the show, saw Mr. Power's produc-
tion and marveled thereat, some of
them being so good as to leave an
order. One man in particular (name
on application), who was opening a
theatre in New York, had two ma-
chines. They were old ones, and when
he saw the Power's exhibit he had
them replace two of their new ma-
chines for his two old ones. That's
business ability! The sales depart-
ment has reason to be jubilant over
the success of the experiment.

David Munstuk, active head of the
M. & F. Feature Film Co., of Chicago,
has contracted for the entire output
of the Film Releases of America for
Northern Illinois, operative with "The
Voice of the Wild."

ALEC B. FRANCIS

1. New Maid.— Lubin.

3. Dreamy. — -Essanay.

5. In Time for Work. — Selig.

2. Tide of Destiny.— Selig.
4. Unmasked. — Pathe.

6. Mystery of the Crimson Trail. — Pathe.

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25

Adventures of a Camera Man with the

Greek Army

(From the Bioscope)

MR. ROBERT, the well-known
cinematographer, has just re-
turned to Paris after having been
with the Greek Army during the last
part of the Balkan War. He has
brought back with him 6,000 feet of
battle pictures and war scenes, which,
he claims, are absolutely unique.
Amongst them is a graphic picture of
the battle of Dshumaja. Every foot of
film depicts the horror of modern
warfare, and the havoc of bullets and
shrapnel.

Mr. Robert, in taking the pictures,
selected his subjects expressly with
the object of getting in motion pic-
tures a sermon against war. He him-
self adm.ts that he is satisfied on
that point. "If these pictures," he
said, "do not have the effect of turn-
ing everyone who sees them against
war, then I fear nothing ever will."
Mr. Robert, as might be expected,
has an exciting narrative to tell.
From the time he left Salonika his
hardships were uninterrupted.

He speaks in high praise of the
bravery and kindness of the Greek
soldiers, as against the diabolical bru-
tality of the Bulgars. He came across,
in the Red Cross camp, two girls
— Irish and English — who were the
only women in the camp. For ten
months they had been gallantly work-
ing with the ambulance corps.

All the time he was with the army
he never handled a firearm, and the
only "weapon" he carried was a tiny
silver knife, scarcely more than an
inch long. The 3,000 francs he had in
a purse sewed to his shirt were use-
less, but he could have obtained any-
thing there was to be had in exchange
for tobacco and cigarettes.

Reflecting on his adventures, Mr.
Robert likens his stay in Macedonia
to a weird nightmare, so strange did
it seem to be in the midst of all the
fighting and carnage. Much worse
than the bullets and shrapnel was
cholera. Worse than the scenes in
the firing line was the grief of the
bereaved ones at home. Many are the
tales Mr. Robert has to tell of the
heartrending episodes he witnessed
in the towns.

I was enthralled as he read to me
notes from his diary. It was on re-
ceipt of a telegram from the King of
Greece that Mr. Robert left Paris
for Salonika, taking with him a cam-
era and 8,000 metres of negative.
When he got to Salonika he found
that the King had left for the front.
He obtained the necessary papers,
which included a document author-
izing officers to aid him and allow
him to do whatever and go wherever

he liked. He and his companion were
given a first-class compartment in a
train bound for Demir Hissar. "The
cushions of the carriage," said Mr.
Robert, "were steeped in blood from
the wounded that had been brought
back. It was, however, impossible to
find accommodations elsewhere, so
we had to put up with it."

This was a grim foretaste of what
Mr. Robert was about to see in the
near future. The train proceeded at.
the rate of about three miles an hour.
On each side of the track was a huge
expanse of desolate, uncultivated
land. On the rugged ground were
strewn arms, cartridges, and the tat-
tered remnants of uniforms. The
journey took eleven hours instead of
three. At Demir Hissar, Mr. Robert
and his assistant were fortunate
enough to come across a military mo-
tor van, in which to travel to Libou-
novo, headquarters of the Greek
Army.

"The ordeal of that ride," said Mr.
Robert, "was inconceivable; over
great boulders, bumping from side to
side, we rushed on. We were hurled
to and fro, and many a time the cine-
matographic apparatus pitched on top
of us. Not one of the motor fleet
could stand more than a day's work;
after that time the machines were in
the repairing shops for five days or
so."

The next morning Mr. Robert re-
ceived permission from the King to
proceed to the firing line. He went
forward in an automobile with Dr.
Anastasopoulos, who was in charge
of the medical arrangements. After
driving for about forty-six miles they
were obliged to turn back. All the
bridges had been blown up by the re-
treating Bulgarians, and the only
road through the Struma Valley was
choked with a seething mass of men,
the advancing and retreating armies.

"It was a sight," exclaimed Mr.
Robert, "that I shall never forget.
Picture the narrow valley, the river,
the road, and the mountains on each
side; thousands of men were pressing
forward to fight, and thousands strug-
gling back wounded and dying."

Next morning the cinematogra-
phers made another attempt to get
to the scene of action. They decided
to accompany a battery of artillery
which was going to the front. The
new automobile, however, was so
small that Mr. Robert had to decide
whether he would leave his camera
or himself behind. He decided to
leave himself. Mr. Robert rode for
eight hours. He had had nothing but
a cup of tea. and had not been on

horseback for twenty years, so that
his suffering may well be imagined.

At Simith he left for the frontier,
accompanying the first division, under
the command of General Manouso-
janakis. "The sounds of the cannon,"
he said, "grew louder and louder as
we pushed forward, and as the Struma
Valley was neared, shells exploded in
all directions. It was war. Frankb',
I admit that for the first hour under
this hail of bullets I experienced fear.
My whole body cringed for a time,
but the sickening sensation soon wore
off, and I witnessed the most horrible
and revolting sights with utter indif-
ference, possibly because I was so in-
tent upon turning the handle.

"Shells exploded within 50, 80, and
100 yards of us, shrapnel whizzed
whistling through the air, and men
were dying everywhere. The heat
was terrific. Then, by sheer luck, I
cinematographed a shell exploding
and falling amongst a Greek battery,
killing six men and injuring thirteen.
You can imagine how nearly impossi-
ble it was," exclaimed Mr. Robert,
"to film these bursting shells when
they were falling in all directions. I
just had to point my camera in the
air at random, hoping for the best."

One day a spy was brought into the
camp, and, seeing Mr. Robert's ap-
paratus, he instantly folded his arms
and fell on his knees, thinking that he
was about to be shot by a new type
of gun.

When a truce was declared, the
Greeks sent two officers to the ene-
my's camp to decide upon a neutral
ground. As the canopy was return-
ing, Mr. Robert saw the Bulgarians
fire nine shells in succession on the
riders bearing the white flag.

In the film you are shown the cav-
alry charging, the men rushing along,
and the officers on horseback expos-
ing themselves to the open fire. In a
flash the fearfulness of war is brought
home to the spectator. One impress-
ive scene shows the soldiers before
going to battle kissing a picture of
the Holy Virgin held in the hand of
an old priest. From beginning to end
this true motion picture story grips.
It is reality, and grim reality, all
through.

MOTION PICTURES WANTED
FOR EGYPT

Yannopoulos Cassaris & Co., B. P.
1220, Alexandria. Egypt, write to the
Manufacturers' Record as follows:

"We take the liberty of asking you
to give names of firms making 'cine-
matigraphe' films. We would like to
come in contact only with those of
the very highest standing. If satis-
factory arrangements can be made we
are in a position to do a very good
business, for we have a large clientele
throughout the Orient and in Greece."

CURRENT FEATURE RELEASES IN THE PROGRAM OF THE GENERAL FILM COMPANY

Escape of Jim Dolan. — Selig. 2. Phantoms. — Selig.

Phantom Signal. — Edison. 4. Sea Eternal. — Lubin.

The Boomerang. — Essanay. , 6. Express Car Mystery— Kalem.

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fistructioii Department

Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address: Construction Department, The Motion Picture News

T ILLUSTRATIONS No. 1 and No. 2
A show the exterior and interior of
the theatre recently erected in New-
ark, N. J., called the "Playhouse," by
Architect Nathan Myers, with offices
in the Woolworth Building, New
York and Cort Theatre Building of
Newark, N. J.

This theatre seats 750 and occupies
a lot 50 feet by 100 feet. There is a
small stage with dressing rooms and
alleys as required by the local De-
partment of Buildings. The building
is fireproof in its entire construction.
To gain width of house, a wall con-
struction of only a total thickness of
six inches was used. Trusses span
the auditorium, giving an air space,
and form a large duct to roof ventila-
tors, making a satisfactory natural
system of ventilation. The trusses
are carried on steel columns. The
boiler and coal rooms are located
under the sidewalk. The color scheme
has cream and silver predominating
and the indirect lighting system is
provided.

The facade is odd yet attractive,
and denotes that the "Playhouse" is
not a common, every-day theatre.
The facade is laid up in tapestry
brick, the general design tending
toward Spanish Renaissance.

The new uptown New York thea-
tres are safe and are models for the
future. There can be no danger of
any disaster, unless the spectators in-
sist on remaining seated, and even in
this case they would suffer no harm
as there is practically nothing to
burn.

With all the new methods of build-
ing with steel and concrete and dis-
carding wood and other such inflam-
mable materials, it seems ridiculous
that the law should ask for so many
exits and alleys. While the legisla-
tors seem to wander once in a while
on the question of "safe theatres," we
cannot blame them, as experience
has taught us that, in case of fire,
most of the victims are not burned
but tramped to death by an uncon-
trollable panic.

I have visited a number of new up-
town theatres. Some of them, as can
be seen by the accompanying illus-
trations, are in course of construc-
tion, and as the owners have been
kind enough to show me everything
and even to supply me with certain
figures, I have been able to draw the
plans shown on page 30.

The first illustration on the top of
the page shows the side exterior of
the new "Empress" theatre on 181st
street and Audubon avenue, and the
floor plan.

The auditorium is about 50 x 95,
with 650 seats. While it is to be
known as a motion picture house, a
small stage is provided in front of
the curtain, for either singers or a
dancing act.

The theatre is surrounded on the
west, south and north by ten-foot
alleys, atid on the east by Audubon
avenue. Two wide exit doors open
on the southern alley, while three

exit doors open on the northern al-
ley, with four other exit doors (two
of them under the operating booth)
open on Audubon avenue; in all nine
exit doors.

The main entrance to the theatre
is on 181st street, through a two-story
office and store building. The lobby
and foyer are wide and finished in
marble.

One special feature of the "Em-
press" theatre is in the construction
of the roof, in which are two large
skylights provided with a number of
iron shutters. All these shutters are
rigged on a single rope and by a sin-
gle operation the roof can be partly
opened for the hot summer evenings,
or closed in case of a storm.

The owner, in looking over the last
copy of The Motion Picture News,
was pleased to read the notice given to
the Kathodian Bronze Company, as
he was looking for such ornaments.

The "Empress" theatre was to open

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EXTERIOR, THE "PLAYHOUSE,"' NEWARK, N. J.

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on October 1st, but on account of de-
lays the opening will not take place
before November 1st.

The second illustration on the page
shows the exterior of the new
"Heights" theatre on Wadsworth
avenue, corner of 181st street, and
floor plan.

The "Heights" theatre is devoted to
high-class motion pictures exclu-
sively. They are projected on a
gold fibre screen and are accom-
panied by one of the Wurlitzer Unit
orchestras. The auditorium is lighted
with the indirect lighting system and
no side lights on the walls to shine in
the eyes of the audience. Six hun-
dred of the most comfortable seats,
carpets in the aisles, brass railings,
etc., complete the arrangements of
the auditorium. The "Heights" is an
up-to-date theatre, with none of the
old fads of white gingerbread decora-
tions; of a ticket office in the center
of the lobby; of an abuse of posters,
etc. Mr. W. A. Landau and Air. S. G.
Bock, his partner, have what can be
called, without contradiction, the re-
fined photoplay house of the neigh-
borhood.

There is not a stick of wood in the
whole place; it is all steel, brick, con-
crete and marble.

The auditorium proper is 45 x 115
with a ten-foot lobby and the ticket
office on the side. On both sides of
the auditorium are six-foot alleys.
On the south side four exit doors
open on the alley, on the north side
we find also four exit doors opening
on the alley, with the last one, the one
near the stage, connecting to a cov-
ered passage leading to 181st street.
Beside these eight exit doors, we have
the doors leading to the lobby.

As can be seen by the diagram,
there can be no casualty, as in case of
fire the whole audience could walk
out in less than a couple of minutes
without any pushing.

While the facade is free of ginger-
bread decorations, it is imposing in
its simplicity, and attractive.

The third illustration on the page
shows the floor plan of a new motion
picture theatre in course of construc-
tion on Amsterdam avenue, corner
of 177th street. While it will be a
smaller house, it has a special feature,
the one of combining a closed the-
atre for the Winter months with an
open auditorium for the Summer. The
owner has divided his lot into two
theatres, yet from the outside it will
appear as one building. The corner
lot is to be the covered auditorium.

wi.Lc the lot on the north side will
be me open space. The airdome is
not to be fenced with boards, but
enclosed in a brick wall.

in tliis construction most of the
exit doors are through the airdome.

I have discovered still another new
theatre in course of construction on
the southwest corner of Amsterdam
avenue and 160th street. I should
say in course of alterations, as the
building is not new. The first floor is
converted into a motion picture par-
lor of 25x100 feet with about three
hundred seats.

It is a rather cheap-looking affair,
with only one redeeming feature: the
operating booth is low enough to in-
sure a nearly direct throw, but the
ticket office, directly under the booth,
is very low of ceiling, not over five
feet in height. The ticket-seller will
have to be short in stature, and she
will have to remove her hat before
entering her cage, if she does not want
to crush her feathers.

The happy location of the booth is
more of an accident than a special
arrangement of the builder. The ceil-
ing being rather low at the entrance,
the height of the ticket office had to
be sacrificed to accommodate the op-
erating booth.

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As the floor has been sunk, there
is more ceiling height at the rear of
the house (perhaps feet), yet

not enough for the ridiculous size
of the screen. The screen is eighteen
feet wide, surrounded by a black
frame one foot wide. While the frame
of the screen touches the ceiling, there
is only thirty inches between the floor
and the frame, placing the screen en-
tirely too low.

The owner of the theatre will find
that his desire to. show a big picture,
in the hope of getting the patronage
of the other houses, will act against
his own theatre, as if the patrons can-
not enjoy the picture in full on ac-
count of the heads of the persons
sitting in the front seats, they will
go somewhere else, where they can
see a full picture, if even smaller in
size.

Architects of Philadelphia are pre-
paring for the next issue of The Mo-
tion Picture News plans and drawings
of the new theatre they are erecting
for the Campbell Amusement Co., of
Camden, N. J. J. M. B.

CHARLES CALEHUFF'S NEW

PREMISES
Philadelphia Jobber's Great Progress

In respect to motion picture appa-
ratus Philadelphia is recognized as
one of the most important trade and
commercial centers of the United
States in this line, affording a profit-
able market for the sale and ex-
change of the goods. The proof of
the fact has been shown by the growth
of so many firms engaged in the busi-
ness. Much of this success and pros-
perity, however, is due to the fore-
sight and intelligence on the part of
the men who are at the head of these
concerns.

Into this class of m'en, who possess
an appreciation of the situation in
Philadelphia, we would put Charles A.
Calehuff, president and general man-
ager of the Calehuff Supply Company,
which for some time has been lo-
cated at 50 North Eighth Street, and
which since experiencing such an ex-
tensive increase in volume of business
as to necessitate newer and more up-
to-date quarters, has leased the store
property at the northwest corner of
Thirteenth and Race Streets, which
will now enable them to carry on their
business even more expeditiously and
promptly than heretofore.

Mr. Calehuff is an acknowledged ex-
pert in his particular field of endeavor,
and by reason of the high-class service
he gives he has built up a reputation
in the local motion picture world that
is extraordinary. The workmen he
employs on the repair work are ex-
perienced men in the business and all
work is done under the supervision of
Mr. Calehuff himself.

The mirror screen. Edison machine,
Powers machine and motiograph are

all too well known as to their re-
spective merits to require any mention
on our part.

We congratulate Mr. Calehuff and
the firm which he has been instru-
mental in building up, and we wish
him success and prosperity in his new
home.

MAINE EXHIBITORS MEET

The Maine branch of the Motion
Picture Exhibitors' League of America
met in the Assembly Room of the
DeWitte Hotel in Lewiston, Maine, at
2 p. m., October 21st. President M.
Blumenburg, of Portland, presided.
Among the exhibitors present were:
E. L. Crawford, Brunswick, Me.; C.
H. Seymour, Houlton, Me.; J. J. Hone,
Presque Isle, Me.; C. J. Rush, Milli-
nocket, Me.; F. E. Mortimer, Free-
port, Me.; J. W. Greeley, Portland,
Me.; A. A. Allen, Bangor, Me.; F. H.
Hauson, Winthrop, Me.; H. W. Gilles-
pie, Calais, Me.; Wm. Shea, Eastport,
Me.; J. A. Emery, Bar Harbor, Me.;
A. P. Bibber, Lewiston, Me.; Wm.
Gray, Lewiston, Me.;' M. Blumen-
burg, Portland, Me., and O. F. Fer-
nandez, Old Town, Me. Many ex-
change men and Feature Film repre-
sentatives were also present.

The convention was a success, har-
mony and good-fellowship prevailing
throughout. Matters of importance
directly affecting the Maine exhibitors
were taken up, discussed, and acted
upon. The Maine State Branch of the
league now numbers over forty mem-
bers in good standing. An organizer
will be placed in the field, and the
members of the league expect to have
at least 95 per cent of the exhibitors
of the State of Maine join the league
before their next convention, which

To the Editor.

Sir: The big independent associa-
tions of New York, Pittsburgh, Mas-
sachusetts, Indiana, Cleveland, Minne-
apolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, Mil-
waukee, etc., and also unattached
exhibitors, who favor neither Webb,
Sweeney nor Trigger, would welcome
an open department as a medium of
communication on matters of interest
to each other.

You and others are ignoring this
vast body of men whose only interest
is the proper conducting of the mo-
tion picture business. At present we
find only a "league" department in
some papers. That is all right so far
as covers the "league'' with — accord-
ing to National Secretary Wiley — 3,000
members. What about the other 16,000
exhibitors?

Men who have sufficient brains and
intelligence to get out handbills, etc.,
for the modern picture theatre surely
have some rights to an open forum
as a means of exchanging ideas upon

will be held next February at Port-
land.

After Mr. Neff addressed the con-
vention, by unanimous vote the Na-
tional Organization and its officers
were endorsed, the Maine Branch be-
ing in thorough accord with the Na-
tional Organization. The State of
Maine will be represented at the Na-
tional Convention to be held at Day-
ton, Ohio, on the first Tuesday after
the Fourth of July, 1914. The con-
vention adjourned at 6 o'clock. A din-
ner was served in the DeWitte Hotel,
after which the members of the league
were entertained at Music Hall The-
atre and other picture houses in Lew-
iston.

Madame Orloff, of Vienna, one of the
most distinguished actresses on the Con-
tinental stage, is the latest acquisition to
the ranks of the Great Northern Film
Company. This gifted artist has ap-
peared in the principal theatres of
Europe, and enjoys the distinction of
being capable of playing a series of
varied roles. Her forte is the emotional,
but during her successful career on the
stage she has played many parts with
equal distinction.

It is with difficulty that the Great
Northern Company persuaded Madame
Orloff to appear in motion picture pro-
ductions, but when she accepted and en-
tered into the spirit of the advanced art
of cinematography she became en-
thusiastic over the possibilities. Madame
Orloff will be seen in the leading role
in the twelve-reel production of Gerhart
Hauptmann's "Atlantis," and she may be
expected to appear later in a number of
multiple reel productions which are in
the course of preparation by the Great
Northern Company.

the "big things" in connection with
the industry. We are tired of reading
"inspired" stuff from just one source,
and that generally gross misrepresen-
tations, as per the account sent out
by Mr. Neff from the Hollenden Hotel
meeting on October 13th, at Cleve-
land. In every paper it was a rank
fabrication. Such stuff is a gross im-
position upon your independent read-
ers. The paper with the open forum
for all signed articles from individuals
or associations will be the one for re-
sponsible advertisers. Let us have it.
Print this suggestion and watch the
response. Fraternally,

SAM BULLOCK,
Cor.-Sec, C. M. P. Association.

[The "inspired stuff" to which Mr.
Bullock refers was not printed in these
pages. And, moreover, the "open
forum" of our pages is available by
all who have the best interests of
the motion picture art and industry at
stake.— Ed. M. P. N.]

An Open Forum Wanted

Mvtsic and the

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Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address: Music Department, The Motion Picture News

IN talking of the opening of the "Em-
pire," a new photoplay house ul
Portland, Me., the Portland Press
says: "The first thing that strikes
you as you sit down and look at the
pictures being shown on the screen is
the music. You would think that there
was a whole orchestra there. But there
is not, it is but another sample of
the modernness of the place."

Then the Portland Press explains
that the supposed orchestra is com-
posed of a piano and a Dramagraph,
operated by Mr. Alfred Davis. The
Dramagraph, according to the descrip-
tion of the Press, is an arrangement
by which everything shown on the
screen can be imitated. All sounds
ranging from the cackles of a hen and
the cry of a baby to the booming of
a gun or the playing of a graphophone
can be reproduced on the machine.

As I described the Dramagraph in
a previous issue of this publication, I
have not much to add to the rather
meagre description given by the Port-
land Press.

While the Dramagraph can repro-
duce faithfully all the sound effects re-
quired in a motion picture, I wish
to correct a wrong impression. The
Dramagraph is not a toy, nor is it a
mechanical instrument to take the
place of the drummer.

Some persons have an idea that all
they have to do is to either turn a
crank, press down a pedal or pull a
string to obtain the desired sound
effects. A great mistake, as the
Dramagraph requires the service of a
conscientious drummer.

The various sound effects enclosed
in the cabinet of the Dramagraph are
the same kind of traps sold individu-
ally to the drummer, consequently
they require as much attention if it
is desired to have the correct effects
at the proper time.

The Dramagraph is an instrument
to save some money to the exhibitor
and help the drummer.

We know that the "souvenir craze"
is strong in the United States, every-
one helping himself to the property of
others, just to collect souvenirs. If

the traps of the drummer are loose on
the floor, on some chairs or tables,
there are always enough souvenir-
hunters to pick up some of them. One
exhibitor of Pittsburgh told me that
he had to spend over $300 per year
to replace the traps carried away by
visitors.

As all the traps are either nailed,
screwed or gummed in the cabinet
of the Dramagraph, the souvenir-
hunters have no chance to help them-
selves, and the traps saved during the
year amount to more than the price
of a Dramagraph.

To the drummer, the Dramagraph
is of invaluable help, as all the traps are
so arranged as to enable him to pro-
duce a number of effects at the same
time, a feat that he cannot accomplish
correctly when the loose traps are
scattered all over the place. For in-
stance, in the scene of a great storm,
accompanied by destruction and fire,
he can imitate the wind, the rain, the
thunder, the fire-alarm bell, the fire-
engine, the gallop of the horses, the
falling of some buildings or trees, even
the cry of the baby left in distress,
or of the animal running for a shel-
ter, etc.

To accomplish this the drummer
must be experienced and have a
knowledge of the Dramagraph, so as
to have under his control all the
pedals, strings and cranks to enable
him to work them quickly and even in
darkness.

The drummer who wishes to make
the picture talk should welcome the
Dramagraph, as he will find many pos-
sibilities in the instrument.

The Dramagraph is like the pipe-
organ or the Wurlitzer Unit orches-
tra; it is a marvel when under the
control of a man who knows his busi-
ness, while it will be the most dis-
cordant noise in the hands of the man
who will pull the strings, turn the
cranks and press on the pedals, like
the fellow who, while playing a Wur-
litzer Unit orchestra, was constantly
working all the keys and stops, as if
he was amusing himself or trying to
find the sound effect of each stop.

If a drummer has fifty or sixty traps
loose on the floor, on chairs or tables,
it is practically impossible for him to
find the right trap at the proper mo-
ment, and if the effect is not given at
the proper time, it is better to omit it.

I have been taught to look at the
pipe organ as the musical instrument
of the church, the same as the drum is
the instrument to mark the steps of
the soldiers. I then feel that it is sac-
rilegious to accompany a Western pic-
ture of a fight between Indians and
cowboys, a saloon brawl, a gambling
scene, etc., with the sweet melodious
tones of the instrument so well adapted
to sing the praises of God.

I am opposed to the pipe organ and
full orchestra because the exhibitor in
general will not and cannot always pay
the wages of proficient musicians.

The exhibitor in too many cases
wants to make all the money he can,
his greatest ambition is to force the
patronage by putting his neighbor
out of business.

The exhibitor wants a long pro-
gram, he wants a pipe organ and a
full orchestra, not to give a good
show to please the patrons but mere-
ly to brag: "I show nine reels, more
than any of my competitors — I have
a pipe organ against the piano of
Smith — I have an orchestra of six
pieces against the four pieces of my

THE HAPPY FINISH OF A ROMANCE OF
THE SEASON

Wallace Reid, the director, and his leading
lady, Dorothy Davenport, who were married in
Los Angeles on October 13.

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

How Wild Animals Live

Midgar Features — Five Reels

neighbor.'' This is the spirit, he does
not seem to care about the quality,
his desire is to beat his competitors.
He cares so little for the quality that
when he shows nine reels and wants
to have three shows during the even-
ing, he runs his reels at a speed of
ten minutes per reel; in other words,
he tries to show six reels in the time
required to show three reels properly.
He knows that reels run at such
speed are unsatisfactory, the actions
are so precipitate as to render them
unnatural, the patrons have no time
to read the sub-titles, consequently
they lose the thread of the story, the
strain on the eyesight is such as to
keep some patrons away. How can
you expect the exhibitor to be more
particular on good music, when he is
so careless in the projection of the
picture?

I have no doubt that the time is
coming when we will have full or-
chestras able to play the picture, but
before the exhibitors can make any
money with such musicians, they will
have to change their ways. They
must discard the ugly posters that
give such a cheap appearance to the
theatre; they must give up the idea
of long programs; come back to a
more rational show of three reels
only of the best and properly pro-
jected pictures. Musicians able to
play the picture are artists, they have
a certain pride, and they do not want
to be known to play in a side show.

There is no doubt that in the course
of time the manufacturers of films
will produce pictures to fit certain
music. This feature is not a dream,
it is coming, but when? When the
exhibitors will combine their efforts
to give a refined show, when the
theatres will be such as to encourage
the patronage of persons able to ap-
preciate fine pictures and good mu-
sic. The manufacturers are ambi-
tious, they are ready to lavish money
on good productions and uplift the
industry, but in the name of common
sense, they do not feel justified to
spend money, time and energy on
first-class productions when the ex-
hibitor of to-day shows, side by side,
a good picture with a punk film. If
a back alley manufacturer produces
a negative at a cost of $500 in which
he introduces some out of place sen-
sational thrills and is clever enough
to have very sensational posters, he
has more chances to dispose of his
prints than the . manufacturer who
spends $5,000 on a clean moral nega-
tive of high quality.

I do not discourage the full orches-
tra or pipe organ, but I advise all ex-
hibitors who have not the best pic-
tures, the patronage and the means
to pay first-class musicians, to aban-
don the full orchestra and the pipe
organ and to return to the piano
with a drummer. J. M. B.

A GREAT number of animal pic-
tures have been attempted before
with varying success, but there has
never before been anything produced
that is such a faithful reproduction of
animal life as it actually exists far
from the "madding crowd." Past
animal features have for the most past
introduced a few lions in some jungle
scene that is run in with a drama,
or perhaps a comedy. Some of the
larger manufacturers have a menagerie
for this sole purpose.

These pictures are not taken from
a menagerie, but are "caught'' right
on the spot, after patient and arduous
work on the part of the operator.
Many were the schemes, attendant
only on failure, tried, until finally suc-
cess met their stubbornness and the
pictures are the result.

The pictures are arranged in five
series so that they may be used as
lectures if so desired. The titles and
sub-titles are self-explanatory, and are
interesting in themselves. Caterpillars
and moths are taken for the first part
of the first lecture, thence shifting to
dormice in their nests. It shows the
difficulty of awakening them, and tells
a vivid story of how they live with
their young. The peacocks and
Chinese geese make good subjects,
particularly the latter. The ending of
the first reel deals with spiders, in-
cluding a diagnosis of the terrible
tarantula.

VITAGRAPH'S BIG CURTAIN

A magnificent castle with turrets
and parapets and towers pointing into
the cloud-hung skies is the feature of
one of the largest drop-curtain scenes
ever attempted in motion pictures.
The "drop" is eighty feet long and
forty feet high. It is the work of the
Vitagraph Company of America for
a play entitled "Heartsease." The
scene takes in not only the painted
castle, but a whole forward wing of
the building as well, reproduced in
wood and brick. This portion catches
afire in the play and is ravaged by
wind-driven flames that leap from its
windows and break through the crev-
ices of its stone walls. The entire
scene represents an old English castle
of the medieval type, with the accom-
panying • terraces, green lawns and
box-hedge gardens. A sparkling foun-
tain plays its leaping waters before
the front entrance of the dignified and
impressive old stronghold of barons
and beautiful women, and a luxury of
bright colors is supplied by the ar-
tistic flower-beds. The painting of
the large drop-curtain was done by
John Moore and the scene was
planned and laid out by Director L.

The second reel introduces some
snakes and insects, the latter part,
however, being devoted to the study
of the polar bear in various antics.
A dace snake, changing his skin, and
then, ravenously hungry, eating a
whole fish, first turning it round in
its mouth, presents many interesting
problems.

The third installment depicts the
lives of wild animals in Central Af-
rica. This picture was taken at a
great risk on the part of the operator,
who did not have anyone to help
him if needed. Lions and jackals eat-
ing their food and burying what was
left are shown. Vultures are photo-
graphed so nearby that the camera
was nearly touching them. The most
beautiful but dangerous leopard fin-
ished up this reel.

The fourth reel consists of birds and
animals we meet in our daily life.
Among these might be mentioned the
kinglet, cat playing with young rab-
bits, wild-cats and rabbits and ferret.
The fight between a water-beetle and
a worm is something original to the
picture world.

The concluding part consists but
of two subjects, namely, doves and
moor hens. The latter were very well
pictured indeed.

Every school in the world should
have these pictures on exhibition as
part of the curriculum.

A. D. M.

Rogers Lytton, both members of the
Vitagraph staff.

Miss Rita Moya, of 127 Brixton
Road, S. E., England, who is a well-
known comedienne there and shows
lantern slides in the motion picture
theatres of the British Isles, desires
to hear from American manufacturers
of song slides with a view of obtain-
ing lantern slides to show in her en-
tertainment.

SCENE FROM "A MOMENTOUS DECISION"

Lubin.

I HAVE said so much against post-
ers, especially against the large,
sensational posters, that I am afraid
of being called down. But instead
of receiving a knock, I am gratified
to know that my views are generally
endorsed.

A manufacturer of films asked me
to call on him, as he was anxious to
thank me for my stand on the abuse
of posters.

The manager of an important film
exchange told me: "You cannot fight
too hard this question of posters, and
you have our support. Posters are
not only an extra expense, but they
give us more trouble than the films."
This manager took me over his ex-
change, where I was surprised to find
an entire floor devoted to the mount-
ing and the storage of posters. He
told me that they use an average of
over one thousand yards of extra wide
muslin to mount their posters.

A gentleman who has been conduct-
ing a sort of reform in the decora-
tions for the lobby was pleased to
meet me and assured me of his co-
operation.

The exhibitors themselves take no-
tice. One of them, who does not
make an abuse of posters and shows
more posters to-day than in the past,
frankly admitted that the extra post-
ers did n"ot increase his patronage.
On the other hand, he feared that
the display of posters had chased
some of his regular daily patrons
away to make room for a less de-
sirable patronage. He told me that
on account of other work he had to
appoint an assistant manager, and this
young assistant, anxious to make
good, had an idea that he had to copy
the other places by increasing the dis-
play of posters.

While it would be too long to enu-
merate all the good comments, they
are nevertheless so encouraging as to
decide me to continue the fight, as I
fought cheap vaudeville.

At one time cheap vaudeville was
creeping everywhere, and the mana-
gers had come to the conclusion that
no pictures could be enjoyed unless
they were sandwiched between silly
vaudeville acts.

Suddenly, when the fight appeared
to be hopeless, cheap vaudeville dis-
appeared from most of the motion pic-

ture theatres. At the start no one
was willing to yield to good advice,
but every manager was waiting to see
the other man make the first jump.
When a few exhibitors took courage
to throw down cheap vaudeville, the
reform spread like wild-fire.

While I am against an abuse of sen-
sational posters, I am not against ad-
vertising. I believe in posters when
they are good, artistic, neatly framed
and used in moderation. Good post-
ers of good composition and colors
can decorate a lobby when they are
displayed in neat frames.

The poster should not be a design
from the imagination of the artist, as
too often the title of a film is not
appropriate and conveys a wrong im-
pression.

I remember a film called "Buried
Alive." This title was wrong, not to
say deceiving, as no one in the story
is made to go through the horrible
experience of being buried alive in a
regular grave, by grave-diggers, etc.,
as shown on the poster. The story
was of a miner caught in a cave but
quickly rescued by the other men.
The titles, like the illustration on the

poster, were merely to create a sensa-
tion and get the nickels from the ones
who look for something to thrill them.

In other cases the posters are dull,
stupid and keep many persons away
from a real good, moral picture.

The real trouble is that the exhibitor
is not willing to pay for the poster if
he can help it, as he believes that the
posters should be included in the film
service. Next, the film exchange is
not willing to pay much for this extra
luxury, and as the manufacturer can-
not get a fair price for good posters,
he has to curtail the artist and poster-
printer to have them made as cheaply
as possible.

Here again we meet the competition
of the printer who cannot secure the
orders of the film manufacturers, and
who place on the market "stock post-
ers." These posters, generally very
fantastic in composition and loud in
colors, are supposed to fit all pictures.

There is no doubt that if the manu-
facturer could get a fair return on
posters, he would be able to secure
better artists and pay more for the
printing of the posters.

Few exhibitors know that posters

GENE GAUNTIER PLAYERS IN IRELAND GATHERED AROUND CART OF
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arc often turning patrons away on
account of the similarity in the titles.
Years ago the manufacturers were
careful not to copy each other, and
when they would discover that the in-
tended title of a new release had al-
ready been used by another manufac-
turer, they would change the name.

To-day the manufacturer seems to
have no objection to similar titles. I
know of three films of "The Two Or-
phans," two films of "The Thief," sev-
eral films of "Quo Vadis," of "The
Last Days of Pompeii," etc.

If you advertise Geo. Kleine's "Quo
Yadis" you may lose many patrons
who, having seen the inferior produc-
tion of the same title, do not know
that several "Quo Vadis" films are on
the market.

One day two ladies stopped in front
of a theatre in Alabama, and, looking
over the posters, one said: "I have
seen this picture, it is not a new one."
The other lady answered: "No, it
cannot be an old picture, I come here
every day and they show only new
pictures never seen in town before."
To settle the controversy, the ladies
called on the manager, who informed
them that a film of the same title had
been produced by another manufac-
turer.

This manager would have lost two
admissions if the ladies had, as too
many do, judged the show by the post-
ers. The well-known reputation of
the manager to show the newest films
only, without repeaters, saved the day.

I have found that too many posters
make the patrons more or less skep-
tical, while the exhibitors who have
established a good reputation, con-
tinue to draw the best patronage with-
out cheapening the appearance of their
theatre with an abuse of posters. The
Alhambra of Indianapolis, the Bijou
Dream of Boston, the Regent of New
York, the Family of Philadelphia, the
Exhibit of Columbus and many other
successful theatres are doing the best
business with few posters. J. M. B.

A RELIANCE STAR

Anna Laughlin's next appearance on
the screen will be in "The Bracelet,"
a one-part modern drama, containing

The new Pathe outdoor studio in
St. Augustine is distinguished by at
least one unique feature. On the
grounds of the property is located a
spring, which tradition in the old
Spanish city states is the spring vis-
ited by Ponce de Leon in his search
for the fountain of perpetual youth,
and which for some time he took to
be the object of his search. For
years the former owners of the spring
charged admiss:on to this spring be-
cause of the tradition.

Bids have been received by Stuckert
and Sloan, architects, for the construc-
tion of a theatre on the south-west
corner of 52nd street and Wyalusing
avenue, Philadelphia. The approximated
cost is $14,000.00 Building 40 x 151,
brick and terra cotta. Will seat 500.

ANNA LAUGHXIN

a play within a play, presenting a ro-
mance of Colonial days.

Harry Spingler will be seen playing
opposite Miss Laughlin, both in "The
Bracelet" and in a new drama entitled
"Her Father's Daughter," by M. B.
Havey.

Isabel Daintry, of the London Pan-
tomimes, whose last appearance across
the "pond" was in "Cinderella," will
soon be seen in Reliance pictures, as
will Emelie Fulton and Mae Willard,
two beauties of Ziegfeld Follies popu-
larity.

RECRUITS AT SELIG ZOO

Notable accessions continue to ar-
rive at the Selig Zoo near Los An-
geles. Four more huge elephants
and a drove of dromedaries recently
came in on a special, and a police
permit had to be obtained to march
them through the streets from the
station to the Zoo. Of course, the
small boy came in large walking ma-
jority and spread the rumor that the
circus had come to town.

The dromedaries, after a couple of
days of rest and filling their double
stomachs with spring water, started
in to work for Director Huntly at the
Fdendale Studio in a desert picture
of North America, entitled "Through
the Centuries."

Superintendent Tom Persons had
provided a camel caravan, but as soon
as he saw the double-humped drome-
daries, he made them leaders. This
strange procession journeyed out to
the desert locations quite a distance
from Los Angeles in order to start
their trip "Through the Centuries."

UNIVERSAL DIRECTOR WEDS
LEADING WOMAN

The marriage of Wallace Reid, di-
rector and actor of note, and Miss
Dorothy Davenport, his leading
woman, both of the Pacific Coast
Universal studios at Hollywood, Cal.,
took place at Christ Episcopal
Church, Los Angeles, recently.

Mr. Reid is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Reid, his father being a
noted playwright. Miss Davenport
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Davenport, well-known actors, and a
niece of the late Fanny Davenport.

Mr. and Mrs. Reid were entertained
by Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Bernstein
and Mrs. Rose Janowitz at the Bern-
stein residence.

GEO. L. BARROWS, OF THE BER-
LIN ANILINE

Mr. George L. Barrows, the amiable
representative of the Berlin Aniline
Works, 213 Water Street, is well and
favorably known to motion picture
manufacturers all over the country.
The Berlin Aniline Co., supply film,
dyes, developers, etc., and are thus
basically interested in the making of
the picture. Moreover, and this is
the point of this article, the chemical
products of the Berlin Aniline Co. are
pure and effective in use. We write
this from practical experience as pho-
tographers and picture - makers.
George Barrows, as he is popularly
known, is always sure of a good wel-
come wherever he goes because he is
honorable, straightforward and reli-
able in his dealings.

The Motion Picture News is happy

GEORGE L. BARROWS

to publish this portrait of him and to
include him in its gallery of those who
be approbated. He is a credit to this
great business.

INTERESTING FILM REVIEWS

Educational — Industrial — Scenic — General

THE Death Song. Pathe Play. (Oct.
23.) Featuring Asta Nielson, the
clever German actress, who carries
the leading part with brilliancy. Wal-
ter Burke, having been injured in an
accident, is out of work. His wife,
Bella, who is somewhat of a musician,
makes a great impression on Carl
Viltzman, an impressario. He induces
her to go on the stage with him, and
after some trouble she secures Wal-
ter's permission. When they have
been on the road but a short time
Carl insults Bella and she recognizes
the fact that she has to be careful of
him. Walter, being cured, follows his
wife from jealousy. He meets Carl,
who tells him that his wife does not
love him and was going away with
himself (Carl). He believes this and
repulses his wife the next time they
meet. "The Death Song" is here in-
troduced, it being written by Carl as
his -masterpiece. Bella sings it, then
allows Carl to kiss her and then kills
him, giving herself up to the police
immediately. A story that leaves a
peculiar impression on one's mind.

Hearts. Reliance. (Oct. 25.) A
good addition to the Mutual program.
The story is well photographed and
the acting is good. A brother and
sister, who are very fond of each
other, are separated, the brother go-
ing to Paris to study art and the sister
remaining at home. A stranger comes
to the town, and, although all the
other girls try to get his attention,
he seems to want only "Sis," and final-
ly marries her, taking her to his city
home. She is very much out of place
there, among the "swell" people, who
try to make her feel cheap.

It seems that the Reliance Company
is getting the habit of some of its
contemporaries, viz.: the perpetual ex-
hibition of the pictures "The Colis-
eum" and the "Roman Ruins."

Finally Bert, the brother, returns,
and the husband, seeing him in the
arms of Sis, immediately becomes ter-
ribly jealous. She returns to her home
after his unfair treatment. Five years
pass, and Bert, a famous painter, has
made a reproduction of his sister's
face, which the husband sees and buys.
The meeting and immediate reconcili-
ation follow.

The J unior Partner. Thanhouser,
Two Reels. A pretty story with no
moral, unless it be "Don't Marry Roy-
alty." A girl chooses a duke, of Rus-
sion blood, against the wishes of her

father, who desires to see her married
to his junior partner. After the mar-
riage they go. to Russia, where she
begins to lead a very unhappy life.
A letter is received by the father
which he knows to be forged, and
when his partner reads it he sets out
for Russia. On his arrival he rescues
the girl by a neat trick, saving her
from future life in an insane asylum.
What would an escape be if there were
not the proverbial tower to make sen-
sation? On the way home they repair
to an old house and defend themselves
against the lackeys the duke had sent.
Through a miracle they escape
through an underground passage and
arrive home. The duke has conve-
niently committed suicide in the mean-
time and they are together again.

The Oath of O Tsuru San. Majestic,
Two Reels. A love story of Japan, in-
volving diplomatic relations. Zips, an
American inventor, while visiting in
Japan, is approached by the Govern-
ment of that Empire and asked to sell
his invention, a submarine boat. He
refuses and the Japanese depend on
trickery to get it. A girl makes love
to him, but in the process she falls
in love herself and marries him. They
return to America, where, true to her
oath, she helps to steal the plans, but,
this fulfilled, she retaliates by pre-
venting their being delivered to the
man-o'-war. The Japanese settings
are particularly good.

From Mine to Mint. Powers. (Nov.
10.) Bought from the United States
Motion Picture Company by the Uni-
versal, to be marketed under the brand
of Powers. Describing gold from the
mine until it is turned into actual
money. The picture is very interest-
ing, there being but one criticism:
the picture might have been made by
the proverbial Chinaman, who always
turned things around. The metal is
shown being sampled, cupelled, melt-
ed, cut in strips, punched, milled and
finally stamped and counted. There
are millions of dollars in sight. A
good release.

The Silence of the Dead. Gaumont,
Five Parts. If an American company
were to produce this film it is most
probable that its length would be
cut considerably. In other words, the
story is not of sufficient strength to
warrant this amount of film. The tale
is mysterious in character, and is hard
to follow because of a similarity of

names. It has many very commend-
able scenes and some excellent set-
tings. The finale is most emotional
and well acted.

The War of the Cattle Range. Bi-
son, Two-Reel. An interesting pic-
ture, which does not, however, pos-
sess any brand new features. Intro-
ducing "The Virginian's" pet saying,
"When you call me that, smile," sim-
ilarly to the way Dustin Farnum said
it. A girl goes West, being followed
later by her brother. The latter goes
wrong, but later reforms and
"squeals" on his former pals, the cat-
tle-rustlers.

Grand Opening of the Shichijio
Bridge. Melies. (Oct. 23.) The great
growth of the Island Empire is well
demonstrated in this picture. Japan
has for many years been content with
wooden bridges, but this new passage
is one unsurpassed in any country for
ingeniousness. It is built of solid
arched concrete, with steel founda-
tions. The ceremony at its opening
w_as most impressive. The oldest mar-
ried couple were the first to cross, be-
ing followed by the first trolley-car,
decorated and holding the officials,
and then a long line of the citizens.

The Evil Eye. Lubin. (Oct. 23.)
An allegorical tale, possessing a good
punch and presenting a timely motto.
The story deals with the return of

SCENE FROM "THE DRESS OF LOLITA"

Reliance release.

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Don Alva to his home, where he has
a reputation among the superstitious
of being a kind of mesmerist. His
eye is all-powerful. The people great-
ly fear him, and the girl is warned
against him. She, however, recognizes
his wonderful mind and loves him,
despite the accusations against him.
He finally conquers the superstitions
and marries the girl.

The settings are excellent and most
realistic. Romaine Fielding plays
with his accustomed care for details.
Plenty of excitement throughout.

The Lady of the Lake. Juno Brand;
Warner's Features. Taken from the
epic by Sir Walter Scott. The sub-
titles consist of lines from this famous
poem, then the action illustrating
them. The story is told in three parts,
with clever acting and good photogra-
phy. The story is, however, a little
hard to follow if one does not know
the original, but aside from this it is
a good release.

The Duke's Heiress. Gaumont.
Eighteen years ago the duke had been
most happy with his wife and their
baby, but then the latter ran away
to America. The duke at last finds
trace of them and sends his emissary
to bring back the girl, the mother
having died. She returns with him,
leaving the stage and her past life
to do so. The duke and his daughter
become very close friends, despite
their long absence from eath other.
Then a lover turns up and they are
happy until a former associate from
New York finds her. The rivals are
barely prevented from having a duel,
and the girl's brain becomes paralyzed
through fear that her former lover
will tell of her past life. He, however,
in remorse, leaves, and the girl's mind
returns through witnessing the dance
she was formerly in. A fair story,
well told, with a capable cast.

The Wheels of Justice. Cines-
Kleine, Two Reels. Plagiarism, one
of the meanest crimes one man can
commit against another, is taken as
the theme for this new film. The
tale is clear and well told, and the
settings are particularly attractive.
Wilbur Holmes, a successful writer,
has the manuscript of a new novel
stolen by Walter Gordon, a brother
writer. The latter, thinking he has

killed Holmes, puts the story on the
market as his own, receiving the credit
for it. Just as he is giving the toast
at a dinner tendered in his honor, he
is arrested, and Holmes receives the
credit he deserves. The picture would
have been better had one of the reels
been eliminated.

Surf and Sunset in the Indian
Ocean. Selig. (Oct. 21.) A split-
reel release of the Selig Company,
this part being about 150 feet in
length, and is added with the probable
intention of getting the desired 1,000
feet. The picture is pretty, but its
length is not sufficient to do justice
to such a good subject. Just enough
is shown to excite the curiosity of
the audience and make it wish for
more. Some very excellent moonlight
effects are gained.

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp.

Warner's Features. The one great
beauty of the "Arabian Nights" is the
fact that it will serve as an amusement
for the grown-up as well as for the
child. The stories were supposedly
originally told by a "grown-up" to a
"grown-up" and it is doubtful whether
they were really ever meant only for
children. The story as produced by
the Powers Company for Warner's
Features is certainly one that will in-
terest people of all ages. The story
is too well known to need retelling,
and if you are fond of good acting,
beautiful and truthful settings and a
little magical illusion work, you should
see this picture.

Animated Weekly, No. 85. At this
time politics are playing a very large
part in our national life, and it is in-
teresting to see a picture of William
Sulzer, the first Governor of the Em-
pire State to be tried for offenses and
impeached, especially when the picture
is taken with a few feet of the person
and is a good portrayal of him. The
Columbus Day parade in Boston is
also well photographed. From there
the camera goes to West Point and
takes a few feet of the football game
between Colgate and the Army. They
were very good. The visit of the King
and Queen in Northampton are also
shown. William S. Luckey, the win-
ner of the aviation meet on Staten
Tsland a short time ago, with his ma-
chine, both stationary and in motion,

is excellent. The celebrated comedian,
Harry Lauder, gracefully poses for
the camera-man in Blackpool, where
he was attending a carnival. Presi-
dent Poincare, of the French Repub-
lic, seems to like the camera. The
cartoons of Hy Mayer, usually such
a good section of the "Weekly," were
not up to their usual standard.

The Milk We Drink. Keystone. A
split reel with a comedy. The first
part of the film shows the old way
of getting milk, then switches to the
modern methods. The "modern,"
however, does not refer to the very
latest. The stalls and pastures are
shown, and there is the most scrupu-
lous cleanliness throughout. Each
consignment of milk is thoroughly
tested in laboratories for tuberculosis
germs. The method of pasteurizing
milk is interesting.

Twentieth Century Farmer. Than-
houser. Although this picture should
really fall under the head of "Regular
Reviews," I have taken the liberty of
placing it in the educational page, be-
lieving it is worth that honor. A girl
becoming engaged to a "farmer," and
believing him to be one of the almost
extinct kind, goes to a farm of this
latter class and learns how to take
care of the house, cook, milk, etc.
She is pleasantly surprised when her
husband shows her the modern farm,
with its electrical equipment, auto-
matic milkers, butlers and maids ga-
lore, and automobiles to burn. But
the best was the pigs' shower-bath.
A good exploitation of modern farm
life.

The White Vaquero. Bison, Two-
Reels. A very good melodrama, pre-
senting a novel idea. The troops are
called out to capture the bandit known
by the above epithet. While they
are hunting him he steals Dolores, but
fearing for her safety at the hands
of his accomplices, he lets her escape.
The soldiers attack them, but they
escape by a tunnel. The escape is
poorly directed, the bandits almost
running ri.Gfht in front of the sentries.
The Indians in the meantime attack
the women in the barracks and tbci
White Vaquero comes in and protects
them, being shot and killed while do-
ing so.

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Chicago Exhibitors and Aldermen
Discuss Ventilation

THE exhibitors of Chicago gath-
ered in the council chambers of
the City Hall on Friday afternoon to
discuss with the aldermen on the ven-
tilation committee the ordinance
which is being enforced by the health
and building commission of Chicago.

This ordinance, which was made in
June, 1910, and passed in December
of that year, but not put into force
until July, 1913, affects the theatres in
its following parts:

"The air in any room used as an
auditorium in buildings of Classes IV
and V, hereafter erected, shall be
changed so as to provide each person
for whom seating accommodation is
provided in such auditorium, class-
room or assembly hall with at least
1,500 cubic feet of air per hour."

"The air in any room used as an
auditorium in buildings of Classes IV
and V constructed prior to the passage
of this ordinance shall be changed
so as to provide each person for whom
seating accommodation is provided
in such auditorium, classroom or as-
sembly hall with at least 1,200 cubic
feet of air per hour."

"The amount of carbon dioxide in
the air of any such auditorium fre-
quented by the public shall not be
permitted to rise above 12 parts of
carbon dioxide per 10,000 parts of air,
measurements being taken at levels
from two and one-half feet to eight
feet above the floor, generally dis-
tributed; and the temperature in such
spaces when artificially heated shall
not exceed 70 degrees Fahrenheit. The
relative humidity shall not be less
than 40 degrees, nor more than 85
degrees."

Dr, Young, head of the health com-
mission, is championing the ordinance
and putting forth every effort to put
it into force. It is his claim that there
■ are 605 theatres in Chicago which
have an approximate seating capacity
of 254,388 and an attendance of from
four to five hundred thousand daily.
One hundred and nine of these the-
atres, he states, have no ventilation
whatever, while 177 have complied
with the ordinance, or are installing
equipment as required by the ordi-
nance. This leaves 319 which have
febeir theatres ventilated, but not ac-
cording to the existing ordinance.
These 319 are awaiting the outcome
•f the discussion which was held on
Friday and one which will be held by
a committee of motion picture theatre
©wners and the aldermen some day
next week. By these conferences the
exhibitors hope to effect a change in
the ordinance which will not make it
quite so drastic as it now stands.
It is the claim of many exhibitors

that if this ordinance is put into force
to the letter, it will mean that they
will have to close their theatres, as
the changes required would cost them
anywhere from one to three thousand
dollars, which is way beyond their
means.

Victor Shafer, one of the aldermen,
has cast his lot with the exhibitors,
and in his argument pointed out the
fact that the New York City ordi-
nance required only 500 cubic feet of
air per hour per person, and that sta-
tistics show that the death rate in
New York City is less than it is in
Chicago. It was the contention of
Dr. Young, however, that the figures
quoted were not arrived at by scien-
tific methods, while those in the Chi-
cago ordinance were.

A few weeks ago, on the recom-
mendation of Dr. Young, Mr. Whe-
lan's theatre, of Chicago, was closed
because he failed to comply with the
requirements of the ordinance as if
related to ventilation. In referring to
this, Dr. Young stated that the reason
of this was that at the time Mr. Whe-
lan applied for a license he agreed
to install the proper ventilation sys-
tem as set forth by the ordinance.
He, however, failed to do so, as he
considered that he was answering all
requirements when he supplied 1,000
cubic feet per hour per person. Mr.

Whelan opened his theatre again after
obtaining an injunction.

Attorney Horner, in his talk as rep-
resentative of the exhibitors, brought
out the points at issue in Mr. Whelan's
case and also other good arguments.
He maintained that if the ordinance
was good and was within its proper
jurisdiction, and was the minimum fig-
ure for the welfare of the health of
those who visited motion p'icture the-
atres, it would not be right to make
concessions in any case regardless of
the circumstances, as Dr. Young vol-
unteered to do, and that all theatres
should be compelled to live up to the
ordinance or be closed.

While his argument was well taken,
it ruffled the dignity of Dr. Young,
and he said that if the injunction
which was now pending was not up-
held, he would close every theatre in
Chicago not complying with the ordi-
nance within twenty-four hours.

Mr. Nielson, owner of the Parkway
and Stevens theatres, went into de-
tail, explaining the construction of
his theatres, telling of all the methods
he used to gain fresh air for his pa-
trons, and stating that still it did not
come within the requirements of the
ordinance. Dr. Young, in answer to
this, said that he had visited the Ste-
vens Theatre some time ago and found
the air decidedly bad.

Mr. Choynski, Mr. Cressy, Mr.
Shepard, a reformer, and Miss Har-
riett Vittum, another reformer, also
spoke; however, no definite steps were
taken to amend the ordinance. Those

PHOTOGRAPHING WILD LIFE

Artist's conception of work of camera man who made Midgar Features

'How Wild Animals Live."

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in favor of the ordinance, of course,
maintained that the 200,000 who vis-
ited the theatres should be given
more consideration than the six hun-
dred that owned them.

Mr. Choynski, who at the present
time is building a theatre, claimed that
the many contractors whom he had
approached could not guarantee to in-
stall a system that would work and
comply with the ordinance. It being
their contention that the supplying of
so much air would naturally make
the theatre cooler in Winter, they,
however, claimed that they would in-
stall a system that would get the
O-K of the city authorities, but would
not guarantee it to work.

Several of the aldermen on the com-
mittee seemed to be in favor of
amending the ordinance within what
the exhibitors consider reasonable
bounds.

THE ED-AU CLUB

The organization of the Ed-Au Club
of New York editors and authors hav-
ing at least ten produced photoplays,
was effected at the Taverne Louis, New
York City, last Saturday evening. Phil
Lang, Kalem editor, was elected presi-
dent, and Epes Winthrop Sargent was
elected secretary. Monthly meetings
will be held.

LOUISE HUFF

She is called the "Kate Greenaway
Girl of the Screen" because of her
likeness to the creations of the Eng-
lish artist of the last generation. But

LOUISE HUFF

she autographs her pictures Louise
Huff, and under the name she writes
"Lubin." Miss Huff is a product of
the South, having been born in Co-
lumbus, Ga.

WESTON APPOINTED MANA-
GER OF ALMO

\Jf R. Fred K. Weston, one of the
best known of younger element
in the motion picture business in Chi-
cago and the Middle West, was ap-
pointed general manager of the Almo
Feature Film Co., of Chicago, on
Tuesday, October 21st, succeeding Mr.
D. A. McKinney, who recently re-
signed.

Mr. Weston's experience in the busi-
ness has been of a varied nature, in-
cluding practically every branch from
the conducting of a State-right feature
to the management of an office. Mr.
Weston has been successful in his past
ventures, and it is expected that under
his guidance the concern will continue
to prosper and grow.

Bushman Plays Chicago Theatres

Francis X. Bushman, leading man
of the Essanay Film Mfg. Co., has
contracted with several of the better-
class motion picture theatres in and
about Chicago to give talks at these
show-houses on the making of the mo-
tion picture.

Mr. Bushman has an interesting act
that lasts about a half-hour. Fifteen
minutes of this time is used in ex-
plaining the actual making of the mo-
tion picture and during the remainder
of the act Mr. Bushman lectures on
a picture in which he portrays the
leading character. Both sections of
his offering are interesting.

"S. & H." Buys M. & F.

Only a few weeks ago we recorded
the facts in these columns that A. G.
Spencer and Mr. Hirschberg had pur-
chased the General Special Feature
Film Co. for $11,250 from Joseph
Hopp et al. These two enterprising
young men have added another fea-
ture exchange and a large program
to their business by their purchase
on Monday, October 20th, of the M.
& F. Feature Film Service from Mr.
Munstuck.

The M. & F. has been known as
one of Chicago's best and most suc-
cessful exchanges booking multiple
reels. Its growth and success have
been remarkable in view of the great
number of feature exchanges that have
sprung into existence in the last
twelve months. Those who are inti-
mate with the situation in Chicago
consider this a good buy. Its consoli-
dation with the General Special, an-
other strong feature exchange, it is
expected, will rank these two young
gentlemen and their concern amongst
the foremost in the Middle West.

In order to accommodate their in-
creased program it was found neces-

sary to find larger quarters. On about
November 1st the General Special
Feature Film Company — as the con-
cern will be known — will move into
the Powers Building, where a num-
ber of other feature exchanges are
now located. With their enlarged
holdings, this company will in the fu-
ture release four features each week,
selected personally by either Mr.
Spencer or Mr. Hirschberg.

Notes

The Photoplay Co., Inc., of Chicago,
a concern handling accessories and
machine supplies, as well as repair
parts, is one of the recent entrants
into the supply game in Chicago. Rob-
ert R. Barker, general manager of
this concern, who just returned from
a trip through the South in the in-
terest of his company, claims that
the sales surpassed his expectations.

A. V. Smith, brother to A. E., of
the Vitagraph Company, is spending
a few weeks in Chicago. Mr. Smith
is traveling through the Middle West
and expects to return to New York
City the first part of November.

WALLACH WITH WORLD
SPECIAL

Charles Wallach has severed his con-
nections with the True Feature Com-
pany and is now with the World Special
Films Corporation. 110 West Fortieth
Street.

TWO MASTEE MINDS

Richard Harding Davis, author, and Au-
gustus Thomas, playwright, swapping ideas
over script of "Soldiers of Fortune," which
they are producing in Cuba for All Star Fea-
ture Corporation.

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Trade Notes

WALTER PRITCHARD

Walter Pritchard is the name of
the young man whose likeness is given
herewith. Mr. Pritchard, though
scarcely more than a boy, is one of
the most active camera-men in the
business. He is a product of Bayonne,
N. J. A little over four years ago
he was in charge of the Centaur lab-
oratory there. Later, soon after the
birth of the Nestor Co., he was pro-
moted to do camera work. In a few
months the Nestor photography had
earned a world-wide repute for excel-
lence. "The Worth-While Film," as

WALTER PRITCHARD

Nestor was christened by Charles Si-
mone, became partly so through the
photographic efforts of Mr. Pritchard.
Two years ago, when the Nestor com-
panies (three of them) were trans-
planted to Hollywood, Cal., young
Pritchard was both camera-man for
the Fahrney Company and head of
the Nestor laboratory at the coast.
After having aided in making some
of the Nestor successes, he photo-
graphed the big Kay-Bee productions.
The Universal Co. re-engaged Mr.
Pritchard and put him to work on
special releases.

A new four-reel feature by L. J.
Rubinstein shows ex-Governor William
Sulzer in a drama bearing on recent
New York political events, to be known
as "The Shame of the Empire State."

"The Count of Monte Cristo," the
pride of every stock company in the
country, has been photographed by the
Famous Players Films, with James
O'Neill in the lead. Mr. O'Neill's in-
terpretation of this character is possibly
the most copied by his contemporaries.

RC. SEERY, manager of the Mut-
• ual Film Corporation Exchange,
located in the Malers building, was ap-
pointed manager of the H. & H. Film
Service Co., another branch of the
Mutual in Chicago, located on Dearborn
Street. This branch was formerly under
the direction of Mr. George Hutchinson.
Mr. Seery, under the new arrange-
ment, is managing both Mutual ex-
changes in Chicago.

Mr. Frank Flaherty, who formerly
managed the Washington Street ex-
change of this concern, is now manag-
ing the Des Moines office.

Daniel Webster McKinney, who has
been the general manager of the Almo
Feature Film Co. since its organiza-
tion, resigned from that concern on
Saturday, October 18th. Mr. McKin-
ney is not announcing his plans for
the future, but without a doubt he
will line up with something worthy of
his abilities.

Mr. G. Elmer Steele, who for the
past year has been a road salesman
for the American Tobacco Company,
traveling out of the Chicago branch,
resigned from that position October
18th to accept a position as traveling
representative for Moore Feature
Films, Chicago. Mr. Steele has made
an enviable record as a tobacco sales-
man, and will no doubt make a success
in the film business.

The new projection room at the
Warner's Features will be one of the
best in the country when alterations
are completed. At the present time
it is overrun with carpenters, plaster-
ers, and general mechanics, so busi-
ness is being conducted on the floor
below. They are, however, using the
new projection room on the eighth
floor, deeming it good enough for the
time being. A new mirror screen ;s
being installed which will take a large
picture. The sides of the room will
be decorated with plaster statues and
ornaments of various descriptions.

The National Board of Censorship,
in its report on George Kleine's "Last
Days of Pompeii," gives the educa-
tional value as "good," artistic value
"good," entertainment value as "good"
and moral effect "good." The printed
blank of the National Board contents
itself with the use of the mild word
"good," instead of excellent, splendid,
or other adjectives that might verge
upon the enthusiastic. Hence Kleine's
"Last Days of Pompeii" got the high-
est rating possible, and lest their

printed form should fail of its purpose
in this case, the National Board wrote
across the bottom: "Beautiful, won-
derful, very fine."

A man by the name of Herman J.
Brown, operating under the name of
the Famous Feature Film Service, in
Seattle, Wash., purchased the State
rights for "The Mysteries of Paris" for
Washington, Oregon and Idaho. A con-
tract between the parties was signed
at the time, delineating the territory
acquired. The Eclectic Film Co. now
ha.', reason to believe that the man
has closed his office in Seattle and
has become an itinerant peddler with
the film under his arm. It is feared
that Mr. Brown has crossed over the
border to Canada with the film and
will attempt to obtain bookings from
the Western provinces. The rights for
the Dominion of Canada for "The
Mysteries of Paris" are owned by the
Consolidated Film Co., Ltd.

Strong situations supplemented by
heart interest characterize "The Col-
onel's Oath" (Reliance), scheduled for
release on November 1st.

The Colonel, a Southerner of the
old school, vows that if his son mar-
ries his Northern sweetheart none of
his blood shall enter the old home-
stead. The marriage takes place, and
the Northern girl meets the Colonel's
oath with an oath of her own to the
same effect.

The son dies, leaving a daughter,
who, unknown to her mother, be-
comes acquainted with the Colonel
and wins his heart completely. He
is ready to recall his oath, but his
daughter-in-law stands firm.

Rosemary Theby and little Runa
Hodges are seen in this offering.

SCENE FROM "THE SEA WOLF"

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Trade Notes

SURGICAL TECHNIQUE ON
FILMS

Kinemacolor Photographs by Noted
Doctor

Motion pictures as an aid to prac-
tical surgery are rapidly becoming
mere and more important. One of
the first companies to enter this field
was the Kinemacolor Company of
America, which more than a year ago
made two reels of pictures suitable and
intended for showing only in medical
schools and colleges and before specially
selected audiences.

The educational value of this film to
the lay mind was undeniable. It showed
graphically the ravages which disease,
unchecked, may make.

Now the Kinemacolor Company of
America has gone a step further and
has taken motion pictures of great tech-
nical value to the medical profession,
pictures which will reproduce the art
of a great surgeon as minutely and as
faithfully as a phonograph does the
voice of a singer, or a portrait one's
features. Owing to the intimate nature
of the film it has not been publicized.

The pictures were taken recently at
the Metropolitan Hospital on Black-
well's Island. They show Dr. Sprague
Carlton, the famous surgeon and lec-
turer, performing various operations.
Dr. Carlton will use the films to illus-
trate his lectures throughout the coun-
try before medical societies.

"Close camera work" was used very
freely. That is to say, the pictures
were photographed with the lens of the
camera but two or three feet from the
surgeon's knife. In this way every
movement of the hand may be seen,
and the technique of the operation close-
ly observed. The pictures were taken
of carefully selected subjects. In many
cases the "specimens," as doctors call
patients at clinics, were in the last stages
of disease.

Several days ago Dr. Carlton deliv-
ered his first lecture, illustrated by the
Kinemacolor pictures, at Syracuse, N. Y.
That was only the forerunner of
others.

But Dr. Carlton cannot lecture for-
ever. Here comes the value of the mo-
tion pictures. His technique will not be
lost to the world when he is. The
method of the great surgeon will be
preserved on the celluloid, and the med-
ical profession and sufferers will be
the richer thereby.

A national holiday for all the school
children of Italy has been declared
by the king in order that school chil-
dren may have an opportunity to wit-
ness "The Last Days of Pompeii."
Special equipment has been provided
by the Italian government for its
many schools which are not now
equipped even with stereopticon. This
is probably the highest tribute ever
paid a motion picture.

FLORENCE Lawrence, who is being
featured in Universal-Victor plays,
has departed from her usual roles and
promises a surprise in "The Third
Generation," written by Walter Mac-
Namara. She plays the part of a
modern New York Jewish girl. There
is the eternal clash of creed and race.

Maibelle Heikes Justice, whose
name is well known in the literary
world and who has furnished many
admirable stories for the Selig Poly-
scope Company, has prepared a novel-
ty play of the North country that
promises to be most interesting, pic-
turesque and dramatic. It deals with
the lives and rugged romance of the
woods-people. She has spent a good
part of the Summer in the Canadian
woods, and for a month past at Camp
Point, in Minnesota, living in the
open.

"Venomous Tongues" is the title of
the first Celio release, in two parts,
to be marketed by George Kleine in
this country. That famous beauty,
Francesca Bertini, is again seen under
the Kleine banner and in a subject
that should prove a fitting vehicle
for her reappearance in America. Ad-
vance reports claim that the new Celio
brand will prove a big surprise to
the trade. Featuring Miss Bertini and
the well-known actor, Mr. Ghione, in
multiple-reel subjects only, picture
fans will find delight in the work
of two players who have been called
the "most Anglicized players in
Europe."

With the completion of the new
mammoth stage, which is in the
course of construction, the Universal
studios at Hollywood, Cal., will have
the largest stage in the world. Seven
carloads of lumber have already been
utilized in the construction of this
stage. It is sixty feet wide and four
hundred feet long, containing 24,000
square feet of floor space and adjust-
able light diffusers. This stage, when
completed, will accommodate 3,000
persons at once.

"For the Love of a Toreador" is
the Kleine-Cines release for Novem-
ber 18th. It is the first of a series
of distinctly Spanish plays to make
which the Cines Company sent Di-
rector Guazzoni to Seville, Spain,
some time ago. "For the Love of a
Toreador'' will make a sensation
throughout America, it is predicted,
because of the great bull-fight scene
and the fact that the local color is
refreshing and new.

The picture was staged at the time

one of Seville's fete days was in prog-
ress, the chief feature of the occasion
being the bull-fight in the afternoon.
There are fully 35,000 persons in the
scenes taken about the bull-ring, and
the contests between the matadors and
bulls are extremely thrilling and ex-
citing.

Harry C. Myers, one of the Lubin
directors, is the maker of a film in
which he and Earl Metcalfe have a
fight on the brink of a roof.

Edwin Barbour, of the Lubin Sce-
nario Department, has just recovered
from a serious spell of sickness. On
his return to the office he found his
desk covered with American beauties
from the Lubin admirers.

Earl Metcalfe, of the Lubin Stock
Company, was the winner of a motor-
cycle race, which was held in Phila-
delphia on Saturday, October 18th.
The course was two miles around
and sixteen miles to cover the win.
Earl carried away with him the silver
trophy, making the second prize he
has captured since he became a motor-
cyclist. A picture of the race was
taken, and L. S. McCloskey, the
scenario editor, is writing a photoplay
of it.

After months of wire-pulling and
quarrels with the Mexican authorities,
the Itala Film Company has effected
the return of the shipment of "A Leap
of Despair," which in error was re-
consigned to Mexico. In consequence
of this mistake, the Itala shipments
have been interrupted. All delays will
now be adjusted. "A Leap of Despair"
is a four-reel subject which has had
success on the Continent. It will be
shipped after or before "The Queen's
Jewel," another four-reel subject.

The Ambrosio version of "The Last
Days of Pompeii" is now being pre-
sented at the Bijou Theatre in New
York City, with twenty-two more
companies covering all of the United
States and Canada.

Mr. George Kleine has fifteen com-
panies touring the United States and
Canada with his photo-drama, "Quo
Vadis," and twenty-two with the Am-
brosio version of "The Last Days of
Pompeii."

Owing to the increasing demand
for one-reel Kay-Bees, the New York
Motion Picture Corporation has de-
cided, beginning the week of Novem-
ber 10th, to release two Kay-Bees a
week, Tuesday and Friday.

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$500,000 THEATRE FOR CLEVE-
LAND

Pretentious New Motion Picture
House Uses Warner's Features

Cleveland's newest and most beautiful
playhouse, the Miles Theatre, which cost
$500,000 to build, has contracted with H.
Charnas, manager of the Cleveland office
of Warner's Features, Inc., for the ex-
clusive program of Warner's Features.

The theatre seats 2,100 personsv and
there are three floors. There are two
divisions of the upper floor — a balcony
and gallery. Off the main foyer there
are attractive parlors for the women
patrons and smoking rooms for the
men. Adequate service rooms are ac-
cessible from each of the floors, and
especially complete and modern is the
equipment of the house, both in front
and back of the curtain.

The decorations of the auditorium
are ivory gray, old rose and gold, and
there is a novel and attractive treat-
ment of the proscenium and boxes. The
ground-work is a gray lattice, with the
background in old rose, the shade deep-
ening from the arch to the last tier
of boxes.

All stairways are in gold leaf; and
the upholstering of the roomy seats is
in old rose. The builders have set a
new example in giving unusually wide
spaces between the rows of seats and
corresponding wide aisles.

When C. H. Miles elected to open his
"theatre beautiful" with the program of
Warner's Features, he was merely carry-
ing out his policy of providing the
finest attractions obtainable for the
photoplay-lovers of Cleveland and vi-
cinity.

"THE BOY AND THE LAW"

The first presentation of "The Boy
and the Law" at the New York The-
atre Monday evening proves well the
claims of its producers, the Youth
Photoplay Company, that it is a "dif-
ferent" kind of a picture.

It is a picture of excellent action
and human interest, with a very solemn
appeal. The story of the development
of a lawless boy, who, through the
offices of Judge Brown's scheme of
treatment, is made into a useful, law-
abiding citizen, is graphically told. The
acting, particularly that of the boys on
"Boytown Farm," is unusually good.
The picture leaves an impression of
naturalness and reality, and a forceful
lesson of uplift.

The story of "The Boy and the Law,"
together with the narrative of its incep-
tion, has been interestingly told in these
columns by W. W. Young, general man-
ager of the company. Perhaps the
strongest argument for the success of
the picture is that its five parts held
the constant and deep interest of a
very varied audience facing a long
vaudeville program. W. A. J.

SPECIAL MUSIC FOR KLEINE
"POMPEII"

A decided innovation in presenting
pictures is George Kleine's idea in writ-
ingmusicespecially for his big subjects.
The well-known Chicago music com-
poser, Palmer Clark, has prepared a
fifty-page score, written especially
for "The Last Days of Pompeii," por-
traying the sentiment and emotions
of that time.

The music has been bound in neat
volumes and is sent in advance to the
theatre musicians where "Pompeii"
will be shown. This is probably the
first case on record where a composer
has been hired to write his score
from the motion picture. Mr. Kleine
expects to adopt this as a regular cus-
tom for all future big subjects.

the depths of social degradation into
which she has been unwittingly
drawn. That the Busch Gardens are
so superbly beautiful that they could
be used as environment for such a
situation, is sufficiently descriptive of
their character.

Bessie Eyton plays the wonderfully
vivid and beautiful part of the mod-
ern Magdalen. Wheeler Oakman ap-
pears in the leading role.

FAMOUS BUSCH GARDENS AS
A BACKGROUND

Through special permission, a com-
pany of Selig players in California
was allowed access for working pur-
poses in the world-famous sunken
garden of the late Adolphus Busch,
located near Pasadena. This park,
which ranks with any botanical gar-
den of the world, was recently closed
to the general public on account of
the death of the owner, who recently
passed away in Europe, but the rev-
erent character of the picture, which
Colin Campbell is producing, made it
possible for him to get access to the
garden without offence to the mem-
ory of the late owner.

The story dramatized entitled, "The
Master of the Garden," was written
by Lanier Bartlett as a two-part
drama of an allegorical type in which
the purity of a young girl who has
been wronged brings her back from

ERRATA

In last week's News we were made,
on page 43, to use the word "movie."
As we detest this vulgarism, we are
sorry to have afflicted our readers
with it, especially after our repeated
announcement that "motion pictures"
is the correct term. In the little refer-
ence to Stan Twist's love feast, we
are made, in the title, to say "Movie
Scribblers Move." For the word
"move" there should have been printed
"meet." It was a printer's error. But
as to the term "Movie Scribblers,"
we assume no responsibility. This
belongs to Mr. Twist and Mr. Twist
must cash his own paper.

Motion pictures whenever possible,
everybody, please.

EASTERN FEATURE HERE

The Eastern Feature Film Company,
now located at 835 Broadway, is now
releasing new features every week in
New York and New England.

Miss M. B. Havey and Rosemary
Theby, formerly of the Reliance, have
joined the Lubin forces. Miss Theby
should add much charm to the Lubin
films. Miss Havey occupies a seat
in the editorial department.

JOSEPH DE GRASSE AND ENID MARKEY IN A FORTHCOMING AMMEX FEATURE

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

43

WHERE TO BUY

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

A

American Film Co 10

American Cinematograph Co 52

Amusement Supply Co 53

Ammex Film Co 47

Associated M. P. Press 57

Associated M. P. Schools 51

Austin, W. C 51

B

Benedict, Phil P 57

Bennett, C. H 52

Bosworth, Inc. 7

C

Calehuff Supply Co 52

Chicago Song Slide Exchange 53

Cosmos Specialty Co 55

D

Decorators' Supply Co 5

E

E. B 53

Eastman Kodak Co 10

Eagle Features 6

Eclair Film Co 2

Essanay Film Mfg. Co 52 & 48

F

Famous Players' Film Co 50

Ford, K, N 50

Fulton, E. E 51

G

General Film Co 60

Gentel, Albert 10

Genter, J. H 46

General Special Feature Film Co... 50

Greater N. Y. Slide Co 51

Gunby Bros 55

H

Harding Engraving Co 10

Hart Booking Bureau 51

Heifer, Paul 57

Hotel Martinique 53

Howell Sales Co 53

I

Illinois Theatre Supply Co 51

Italian American Film Co 58

K

Katin M. P. Supply Co 51

Kinematograph Weekly 57

L

Lakeside Film Exchange 51

Le Courrier Cinematographique 51

Lubin Manufacturing Co 49

M

Manhattan Slide Co 52

Manufacturers Catalogue Pub. Co.. 47

Mestrum, Henry 53

Midgar Features 3

Mirror Screen Co 49

N

N. Y. Motion Picture Corporation.. 59

New York Film Co 50

Newman Manufacturing Co 51

Niagara Slide Co » 53

Novelty Slide Co 50

P

Pan-American Mfg. Co 50

Photoplay Co 51

Picture Theatre Equipment Co.... 37

Power, Nicholas 48

Precision Machine Co 2

S

Schneider, Eberhard 51

Special Event Film Mfg Co 55

Sterling Camera Co 4S

Syndicate Publishing Co ■ 8

T

Theatre Specialty Mfg. Co 52

U

United States Factories 43

Universal Film Mfg. Co 4

V

Vernon Film Co 57

W

World Special Films Corporation.. 55

World's Best Film Co 50

Wurlitzer Company 53

KLEINE "POMPEII" CREATES
RIOT

The great De Luxe Theatre on
Wilson Avenue, Chicago, billed

George Kleine's "Last Days of Pom-
peii" for one night recently. Despite
the fact that the evening was cold
and rainy, a mob swarmed into the
De Luxe, almost wrecking the box-
office, and requiring special police to
keep order. Three shows were
originally planned, but the crowds de-
manded a fourth performance, which
was given after midnight.

One significant fact was the appear-
ance of hundreds of automobile par-
ties, whose cars lined the streets for
blocks on either side. About 10
o'clock it was found necessary to
carry water to the fainting women
who had become wedged in the lobby
and could not be extricated. Undoubt-
edly George Kleine's "Last Days of
Pompeii" crammed the big De Luxe
as it has never been jammed before.

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TURNING WORDS INTO DIMES

Sane and Sensible Advertising by the Exhibitors as a Stimulant to Box Office Legerdemain

By E. J. HUDSON

"AH DEAR, I've been in the house
vly all day, without a bit of out-
door exercise,'' complained Mrs.
Oneof A. Million.

"Where do you want to go?" asked
Mr. Oneof A. Million, pausing in his
perusal of the evening paper to gaze
at his wife.

"Let's walk downtown and go to a
motion picture show, and then walk
back."

"All right, but which theatre do you
want to go to?"

"Read the advertisements, and see
which looks the best."

Turning to one of the inside pages,
the husband scrutinized several col-
umns of closely written advertising.
"Here's one, the Hippodrome," he
said at length. "How does this
sound?"

" 'Hippodrome To-night' "

'"A Marvelous Sensation inThree
Tremendous Reels, "The Mountain
Girl at Bay." Another Big Sur-
prise Comedy, "Helping the
Rich." Don't Fail to See "Don-
ald, the Desperate," To-night
Only. See the Hair-raising,
Death-defying Race Between the
Locomotive and the Automobile!
See the Terrible Blood-curdling
Third Degree! See the Breath-
suspending Struggle on the
Brink of the Precipice, and a
Hundred Other Big Thrills — One
of the Most Elaborate and Stu-
pendous Productions of the Year.
To-night Only. Prices Ten, Fif-
teen and Twenty.' "

"Aren't there any others?" asked
Mrs. Oneof A. Million.

"Yes, here's the Lyric's ad," con-
tinued her husband. It says:

" 'We Have Eliminated Eye
Strain from Our Pictures.

" 'We Have Made an Exhaus-
tive Study of Projection, and as a
Result Our Pictures Are Clear,
Steady and Easily Watched, with-
out any of the Usual Strain
upon the Eyes.

" 'The Chairs in the Lyric Are
Big, Roomy and Comfortable.
You Won't Tire of Sitting in
Them.

" 'We Aim to Please You.
Our Ushers are Courteous and
Attentive and Look after Your
Every Want While in the Lyric.

" 'Our Theatre is Never En-
tirely Dark — Hence No Stum-

bling over Seats or Other Peo-
ple's Feet When You Enter.

" 'The Lyric Is Easily Accessi-
ble to All Principal Points in the
Business Section.

" 'We Try to Please Our Pa-
trons. Your Presence Will Give
Us an Opportunity to Prove It.

"'To-day's Program: A Laugh-
able Comedy, "Helping the Rich,"
"The Mountain Girl at Bay," a
Three-reel Drama of the Early
Pioneer Days. "Donald, the
Desperate," a Two-reel Drama
of Unusual Interest.

" 'Our Prices Are Ten, Fifteen
and Twenty Cents.' "

"Oh, let's go to the Lyric," re-
quested Mrs. Oneof A. Million when
her husband concluded reading the
advertisement. "I always get a head-
ache from watching pictures at the
Hippodrome, and besides, the backs
of their chairs are too straight."

The foregoing incident, while pure-
ly fictitious, illustrates the attitude of
millions of thinking men and women
upon the question of "which theatre
to go to." Advertisements, or, in the
language of advertising experts, "ad
copy," is a big and vital factor in the
welfare and success of every motion
picture theatre in the United States.
It can mould opinion, bring esteem
and respect, and it can turn many
nickles and dimes from the box office,
or cause them to flow in greater num-
bers into the bank accounts of the
exhibitors. It all depends upon the
exhibitor and his manager.

Men and women in cities of practi-
cally every size, from the little town
of three to five thousand population,
to the cities reaching into one hun-
dred to two hundred thousand, look
to the local daily newspapers as their
buying guides. Their confidence in
their own particular daily paper is un-
limited. This may seem far fetched,
but it has been proven in thousands
of instances. What they read in it
they nearly always believe without
question or doubt. It is the exhibit-
or's best market in which to list and
display his wares.

A window trimmer, employed by
the owners of a big department store,
does not work simply with the idea
of filling the window space with vari-
ous articles. He strives for unique
effects, arrangement of goods that
will attract particular attention to
them, and for artistic decorations, giv-
ing to passers-by an idea of dignity
and refinement, and last, but far from
least, quality.

So it should be with the exhibitor.
Joining together of words requires
thought, time and study. Like arti-
cles selected for display in any win-
dow, they must be arranged in the
best conceivable manner, so that no
offense will be given to the refined,
and so that after the first superficial
glance by the reader, there will be
sufficient verbiage of a good substan-
tial nature to hold his attention and,
eventually, sell him.

One Big Argument Continually Fea-
tured Essential

The advertising history of any
manufacturer of a nationally adver-
tised product will show that his suc-
cess has been built chiefly upon the
selection of one great big vital sell-
ing point in his ad copy. That is
hammered incessantly into the minds
and visions of the readers of maga-
zines and newspapers, and weaving
other points of interest around it, so
that the combination leaves a lasting
memory. Then when the actual prod-
uct itself is seen in the store, the idea
of quality is so spontaneous with the
appearance of the product that a sale,
in nine cases out of ten, seems in-
evitable.

Men who have made a lifelong
study of advertising strive to achieve
that very result, and millions upon
millions of dollars are being spent an-
nually to accomplish it. That fact in
itself convinces one of the need of
one salient point concerning any
product featured day after day. and
week after week, in all advertising
copy.

To insert daily, or tri-weekly ad-
vertisements in a local newspaper,
with nothing but the name of the
theatre as a heading, the words, "To-
day's Program," and then a list of the
pictures under it with the admission
prices as a close, borders close upon
the extravagant; and dimes and
nickels are almost too wary to per-
mit of business extravagances.

A definite purpose should be kept
in mind when advertising copy con-
cerning a motion picture theatre is
being written. Perhaps there is some
especial feature in the theatre which
belongs to no other house in the city;
perhaps it is particularly well located
in respect to stores, or car lines;
maybe it has an unusually large num-
ber of exits, or any one of a thou-
sand other distinctive features. It is
safe to assume that there is not more
than two out of every ten motion.

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45

picture theatres in the United States
and Canada that do not possess dis-
tinctive features, which, if properly
emphasized in ad copy, would bring
increased business.

Competitors' Patrons Are Your
"Prospects"

Every man, woman and child in
any city can be considered a prospec-
tive patron of some motion picture
theatre. Why not yours? If your
theatre is handy to street car lines,
tell them, in your advertising copy,
that rainy weather does not need to
hinder them from enjoying an even-
ing at the theatre. Tell the women
that no long walk is necessary from
your theatre to a car line after a mat-
inee, when they turn homeward with
an armload of packages. If the city
is sufficiently large to boost of traffic
policemen in the business district,
mention the added safety to children
in crossing streets on their way to
the theatre. Many mothers, given a
well-worded and dignified suggestion
of that kind, probably would disre-
gard their fears for the safety of their
children who cry to be permitted to
attend matinees.

If your projection is exceptionally
good, feature that fact in your adver-
tising copy. Go to some local eye
specialist who is well known, or an
optician in any jewelry store, and
convince him that clear, steady pic-
tures are exceptionally good exercise
for the eyes, and that they increase a
person's powers of observation and
rapid discernment. Then get him to
make a statement to that effect, and
use it in your ad copy, with his sig-
nature below it. Showing a slide
each night for two or three weeks
featuring the optician's place of busi-
ness might prove an incentive.

There is one invariable rule in ad-
vertising. Never make your ad copy
say anything but what is absolutely
true. Otherwise, your money is
wasted and you jeopardize your busi-
ness. If you haven't good projec-
tion, make it good before you adver-
tise it, and feature some other selling
argument.

People are more quickly attracted
by a familiar catch line or phrase in
advertising copy than they are by
constantly changed expressions. Se-
lect one, two or three really distinct-
ive features of your theatre and em-
phasize them in every piece of copy
you write. Place them in the same
relative positions, changing the word-
ing but seldom. Rut make those fea-
tures relate directly to your theatre.
Establish the connection between
good projection, spacious exits, a
choice location, comfortable chairs,
good ventilation or the courtesy and
attention of your ushers, and your
theatre.

After all, the people must have im-
pressed upon them the fact that the
chairs are easy and comfortable in
the Lyric Theatre, not simply that the
chairs are easy and comfortable.

Giving the Theatre a Little
Prominence

In theatre ad copy in which men-
tion is made of nothing but "to-day's
program" and the price of admission,
there is no direct incentive given for
patronage. It is necessary to genuine
success in advertising to give some
definite reason why your theatre
should be patronized above all others
in the city. The ever changing pic-
ture titles mean nothing to the aver-
age reader. It is difficult for them to
judge a good picture by the title.
They have been fooled too often. In
some instances it has not been the
fault of the exhibitors. But those
days are fast disappearing.

"The Pride of the Regiment" has
no advertising value. It may mean
any one of fifty things. But to say
in your ad copy, "Our Screen Is Tilt-
ed Slightly Forward So That the
Picture Upon It Is Always Square
and Permanently Centered, Eliminat-
ing Jumps and Blurring," arouses a
train of thought in the mind of the
reader. He probably won't know why
the screen is tilted forward, nor care
to find out, but the fact that the pic-
ture is "permanently centered, elim-
inating jumps and blurring," starts
him thinking something like this:

"Gee, that's a good stunt. Kittie
said it made her head ache the way
those pictures jumped the other night.
Next time we'll go to this theatre.
Then she won't blame me if she don't
enjoy herself."

While it is unquestionably neces-
sary to advertise your daily program,
the exhibitor who gives that prefer-
ence over his theatre is spending his
money wantonly, and what little ben-
efit does accrue goes to the manufac-
turer. Perhaps, some day, some com-
petitor may pay a higher price and
get that program of releases which
has been so well advertised, and what
little benefit there is to be had, he will
get. The exhibitor who can't afford
to meet the increased rental loses his
service, and is obliged to use different
service.

Then what is left him to trade
upon?
Nothing!

He has spent his good money ad-
vertising brands of film, and people
know nothing of the really attractive
features of his house. Then, when he
changes program, it is ofttimes simi-
lar to opening a new theatre. All the
shouting and praising he has done
has to be counteracted, and after
weeks of advertising "the world's
greatest galaxy of stars" under one

program, he can't very well convince
readers that those on an opposing
program are just as good.

A Nickel Can Be Made to Earn
a Dime

That is but one point out of a hun-
dred in favor of advertising the thea-
tre in preference to the daily program.
By impressing prospective patrons
with some feature of interest about
your house, you set them thinking,
and no amount of program changing
can hurt the good your advertising
has done, because you need not
change the general style and appeal
of your copy with the change in
brand names.

Every nickel invested in advertising
should bring its equivalent to the box-
office in additional patronage. It is
far from an impossible task. Have
the copy written with the purpose of
making it pay. It is a splendid experi-
ment for an exhibitor theoretically to
change places with a prospective pa-
tron who, perhaps, has never attend-
ed his theatre, but gives his dimes to
some competitor, and imagine just
what form of advertising appeal
would attract him.

Turning words into dollars is an
important part of the daily life of
every exhibitor and theatre manager.
The advertising manager of any local
newspaper is always willing to lend
his assistance in writing ad copy with
a direct appeal.

THE DUKE'S HEIRESS

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INTERESTING FILM REVIEWS

(Continued from page 37)

Pathe Weekly No. 62. (Oct. 27.)
The news is all local. There is only
one foreign item. San Francisco is
mentioned three times. First in a swim-
ming affair with Mrs. Wright and her
daughter. Second, a game of English
football and, thirdly, showing Fred
Thompson advertising the coming fair.
Brooklyn is also well represented with
photographs of the Irish-American ath-
letic games. Governor Fielder, in Jersey
City, unveiling a monument is next
The swim between the French and Eng-
lish in Paris was interesting. Present
Democratic candidates are given a boost,
but nary a Republican in sight. Miners
rescuing their mates in the coal mines
and "Bud" Fisher's clever sketches con-
clude the picture.

Across Swiftcurrent Pass on Horse-
back. Edison. (Oct. 27.) Swiftcur-
rent Pass, in the Northwestern part of
Montana, is but little known to the
remaining inhabitants of this globe. It
is one of the wildest and most inspir-
ing places in the world. The Edison
Company has filmed a party of campers
starting with packing at sunup to ford-
ing the pass in the evening. Flapjack
cooking and a wrestling match complete
the four hundred feet.

Sports in Merrie England. Kalem.
(Oct. 27.) There , is perhaps a subtle
touch of irony in this. The finale is a
suffrage parade. Hunting the otter and
the Goodwood races were very well
pictured.

A Hornets' Nest. Edison. (Oct.
27.) If the old saying, "Laugh and
grow fat," is to be literally taken, this
picture might be sold to thin people
the world over. A sort of a "Dingbat
and the Family Upstairs" tale, in which
noisome neighbors are removed by hor-
nets. Barry O'Moore, as Dick Morris,
is very good.

Pendulum of Fate. Selig. (Oct. 27.)
Two Reels. This drama holds the at-
tention of the audience. A story of a

hidden marriage, and the hardships of
the wife and her children to recover
their own at the death of the husband
and father. The mother is a little too
young for the part.

KINEMACOLOR MACHINES

In connection with the new film
service proposition offered to exhib-
itors by the Kinemacolor Company of
America, it was stated last week that
the company is offering for sale the
Kinemacolor machine. At their offices
it was learned that several machines
have been sold in the ten days since
the advertisement first appeared an-
nouncing the new service scheme.

Up to this time these machines
have always been leased, remaining
the property of the Kinemacolor
Company. This has made it impossi-
ble for the exhibitor in the smaller
towns to secure the special Kinema-
color productions, such as "The Dur-
bar," "Balkan War," "Panama Canal,"
"Weber & Fields Series," etc.

Under the new system, any theatre
having a Kinemacolor machine in-
stalled will be in the market to rent
special features from the company
immediately they are released.

Leonora von Ottinger is a recent
addition to the Universal Company.
She is to appear in second leads and
heavies in the Lawrence-Victor re-
leases.

Miss von Ottinger is a finished act-
ress, having appeared in, besides many
other notable roles, the role of Baron-
ess Revandel in Zangwill's "The Melt-
ing Pot."

"The Sea Wolf," by Bosworth, Inc.,
has been sold to the following States
and cities : San Francisco, Cal. ; Wash-
ington, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho,
Montana, Colorado, New Mexico and
Arizona. William L. Roubert predicts
getting the remaining States in a short
time.

A Common Sense Argument

Mirroroide advertisements have been read the world over. We do not depend
absolutely on advertisements to accomplish the results we have attained. We may
quote to you from page 1060 of the Moving Picture World, issued last week, in which
Mr. R. W. Buzzell, of the Plaza Theater, Northampton, Mass., writes: "I have a
good union operator and a Mirroroide screen, and will back my picture against any
other exhibitor." This is partly an abstract. Read it for yourself. This was contained
in the Moving Picture World, Sept. 6th issue.

The common sense of the argument is this: that we will cheerfully back Mirroroide
up against any screen or projection surface in the world today. Backed up with any
amount of cash that any other of our competitors care to designate, as to the merits
of a true projection surface and the resulting accomplishments. These tests are to
include angle views, close up views, and the practical perspective of the said projection.
We have read a number of advertisements from our competitors. Can they do as they
claim? We claim they cannot. Then again, Mirroroide is put on the market at a
price within the reach of every exhibitor, because we are equipped to turn out, if
necessary, two hundred screens weekly, which ensures no delays. We have the proper
factory facilities, cash capital, and the proper machinery to do as we claim. If you
doubt, our large free samples are convincing.

If you desire recommendations from any portion of the entire universe write us,
and we will gladly inform you who has one of our Mirroroide screens in use. There
are 4700 Mirroroide screens in use today, which warrants the assertion that Mirroroide
is the best by test, and has proven to be superior to any other screen now on the
maket, barring none. Get our large free samples. Postage prepaid. Test any way you
desire against any other curtain or screen in your town. This is a common-sense
argument, and what your eyes see you can't help but believe.

J. H. GENTER CO., Inc.

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RALPH DELMORE

Few actors connected with the
American stage in the past decade
have achieved more distinction in
character roles in the modern drama
than Ralph Delmore. He is a quiet,
studious gentleman, who has made a
lifelong study of stage types, and fre-
quently illustrated them through his
own histrionism most palpably", but,
like many character actors, he has
portrayed roles the exact opposite of
himself — the blustering malcontent,
the ward heeler, the grafter, and all
the potential sinners that figure in
the drama of modern business life —
and has done them so ably and so
well that the public had begun to think
that he was a true terror. Few men
have made a keener, closer study of
the drift of modern drama than Mr.
Delmore, who recently became asso-
ciated with the Selig Polyscope Com-
pany in Chicago as a producer; nor is
he inexperienced in this line of work,
for he was associated eight months
with the Lubin establishment in Phila-
delphia, working in a particular line
of modern plays, that had a large call
for types. He has the greatest faith

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in motography as a means of dramatic
expression, and declares that the art
is now upon the threshold rather
than attained anything like full flower
in its achievements, wonderful as they
are.

CLIFFORD BRUCE ILL

Owing to the severe illness of Clif-
ford Bruce, of the Selig Company,
Director Oscar Eagle has been' forced
to discontinue work on a number of
important scenes on "The Royal Box."
On account of the same reason work
has been delayed on the great detect-
ive play, "The Circular Staircase."

A VIVID STORY

(Continued from page 17)
to five reels. There is a tendency to-
ward monotony during the stay on En-
deavor Island, the interest being revived
on the death of Larsen.

The settings are splendid, and the
cast strong. Violet Barry, the only
woman, is blessed with a clear field and
makes the most of it.

The production was shown at the
Winter Garden on October 22nd before
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mainly of persons interested in dramatics
in various capacities, to the number of
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DATA FROM MANUFACTURERS' LIST OF RELEASES

Feel

INDEPENDENT

AMBROSIO

Oct. 4— The Wild Guardian (2 Parts),

Oct. 11 — Chopin's Nocturne (2 Parts)

Oct. 18— The Two Mothers (2 parts Dr.) 2000

AMERICAN

Oct. 9 — Taming a Cowboy 1000

Oct. 11 — Calamity Anne's Sacrifice (Com.) .. .1000

Oct. 13 — Courage of Sorts (Com.) 626

Oct. 13 — Making Pig Iron 375

Oct. 16— The End of Black Bart (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 18— The Making of a Woman (Dr.) 1000 iJ"V -

Oct. 20— Hidden Treasure Ranch (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 23 — The Step Brothers (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 25 — In the Mountains of Virginia (Dr.). 1000
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Oct. 30— In Three Hours (Dr.) 1000 Nov- 22

Nov. 1 — Follies of a Day and Night (Com.). 1000

Nov. 3 — The Girl and the Greaser (Dr.) 1000 Oct. 23

Nov. 6 — What Her Diary Told (Dr.) 1000 Oct. 28

Nov. 8 — The Haunted House (Com. Dr.).. 1000 Oct. 30
BISON

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Oct. 25 — The Cowboy Magnate

Oct. 28— The Black Masks (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 1 — From Dawn Till Dark (2 reel Dr.).

Nov. 4 — Captain Kidd (3 reel Dr.)

Nov. 8— The Prairie Trail (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 11 — Madonna of the Slums (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 15— "Laska" (2 reel Dr.) .

Nov. 18 — The Raid of the Human Tigers (3

reel Dr.)

Nov. 22— Winona's Vengeance (2 reel Dr.)..
BRONCHO

Sept. 24— The Silent Hero (2 reels) 2000

Oct. 1 — The Greenhorn 2000

Oct. 8 — Forgotten Melody (2 reels)

Oct. 15 — The Reaping (2 reels)

Oct. 22— The Black Sheep (2 reels)

Oct. 29 — From Out the Storm (2 reels)

Nov. 5 — The Veteran (2 reels)

Oct. 10

Oct. 17

Oct. 24

Oct. 31

Oct. 18
Oct. 23
Oct. 25
Oct. 30
Nov. 1
Nov. "

Nov. 13
Nov. 15
Nov. 20

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Nov. 11
Nov. 13
Nov. 18
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Nov. 25

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Oct. 11
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Nov. 1

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Oct. 21
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CRYSTAL

Oct. 21 — Willie's Great Scheme (Com.)

Oct. 21 — The Turkish Rug (Com.)

Oct. 26 — Robert's Lesson (Dr.)

Oct. 28— His Rich Uncle

Oct. 28— The Game that Failed (Com.)

Nov. 2— A Hidden Love (Dr.)

Nov. 4— Girls Will Be Boys (Com.)

Nov. 4 — Ashamed to Take the Money (Com.)

Nov. 9— When Duty Calls (Dr.)

Nov. 11— Oh! You Pearl (Com.)...

Nov. 11— Baldy Belmont Wins a Prize (Com.)

Nov. 16 — Out of the Grave (Dr.)....

Nov. 18 — Her Secretaries (Com.) .

Nov. 18 — Percy's New Mamma (Com.)

Nov. 23— The Cabaret Singer (Dr.)

DE-KA-GE (Features)

}une 23 — Death or Divorce
une 30 — The Stain

DOMINO

Oct. 16 — Romance of Erin (2 reels)

Oct. 23 — Heart of Kathleen (3 reels)

Oct. 30 — Widow Mallney's Faith (3 parts —

Dr.)

Nov. 6 — The Judgment (2 part Dr.)

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Oct. 22 — Big Hearted Jim (2 reel Dr.)

Oct. 26 — The Terrible Outlaw (Com.)

Oct. 29— Cynthy (2 reel Com. Dr.)

Nov. 2 — Success With De-feet...

Nov. 2 — Organisms Which Inhabit Stagnant

Waters

Nov. 5 — The Revelation Calliode (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 9 — Oh, What a Dream (Com.)

Nov. 9 — Amber Stone (Edu.)

Nov. 12 — Lade Babbie (3 reel Dr.)

Nov. 16 — Unforeseen Metamorphoses and Does

Max Snore (Split)

Nov. 19 — Partners (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 23 — Oh! You Rubber

Nov. 23- — Soldiers Drilling in Turkestan

ECLECTIC

Sept. 8 — The Voice of the Wild

Sep*. W — WWe» Paris Loves

Oct. 2 — Vendetta

Oct. 16 — Message of the Dead

Oct. 30 — The Doom of the Ocean

Oct. 18—

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Oct. 23-
Oct. 27
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Nov. 3

Nov. 6-
Nov. 10
Nov. 13

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Oct. 3
Oct. 10
Oct. 17-
Oct. 24—
Oct. 31-
Nov. 7

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— The Firefly '. 3600

— Life for a Life 2700

— Gallows of Gods 3000

FRONTIER

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— Miss Fairweather Out West (Com.) .

Jim's Atonement (Dr.)

When Spirits Walk (Com.)

His Conscience (Dr.)

Slim Gets the Reward (Com.) ....
The Girl and the Bandit (1 reel Dr.)
Caught at His Own Game (Com.).:

—The Bond that Binds (Dr.)

— Slim Becomes a Detective (Com.) . .

-The Double Cross (Dr.)

GAUMONT
Tiny Tim Kidnaps a Baby (Com.)..

The Accusing Eyes (Dr.)

Mexican Pearl Smugglers (Dr.)

The Interrupted Message 1000

— Weekly No. 86 1000

Monty and Molly Seek a Divorce

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The Bank Messenger (Dr.)

The Heart of a Doll (Com.)

Monty and the Milkmaid (Com.)...
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Mary Saves the Sculptor (Com.) . . .
GEM

— None But the Brave Deserve the — ?
— Sanitary Dairy Plant, Washington,

D. C

-The Bachelor Girls' Club (Com.) . .

-The Surf Maidens (Com.)

-His Double Surprise

-A Trip Through Tunis and Algiers. .
GREAT NORTHERN

-The Baltic Sea (Sc.)

-A Husband's Strategy 1000

-Who Is Who 982

-A Dilemma 1000

GREAT NORTHERN SPECIAL

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-Secret of the Old Cabinet 3000

-In the Bonds of Passion 3000

UNIVERSAL
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IMP

Leaves from Hy. Mayer's Sketch

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-The Big Sister (2 reel Dr.)

-The Anarchist (Dr.)

-Jane of Moth Eaton Farm (Dr.)....
-His Hour of Triumph (2 reel Dr.).
-The Temptation of James (2 reel

Dr.)

-The Old Parlor (1 reel Dr.)

-On Pine Mountain (Dr.)

-Levi and McGinnis Running for

Office (2 reel Com.)

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-The Child Stealers of Paris (Dr.)..
IT ALA (Features)

-Unmasked

-The Gypsy Kiss 2200

-Queen's Jewels 3000

JOKER

Love and Limburger (Com.)

-Mike and Jake Among the Canni-
bals (Com.)

-Almost an Actress (Com.)

■Mike and Jake at the Beach (Com.)

•The Stingers Stung (Com.)

KAY-BEE

Loaded Dice (1 reel) 1000

The Bully (1 reel)

Venetian Romance (1 reel)

A Woman's Wit (1 reel)

Borrowed Gold (1 reel)

-For Mother's Sake (1 reel)

Oct. 20-
Oct. 23—'

Oct. 27—

Oct. 30-

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Nov. 3-
Nov. 6-
Nov. 10-
Nov. 10-

KEYSTONE

A Quiet Little Wedding

The Janitor — Making An Automobile

Tire

The Speed Kings: Earl Cooper,

Teddy Tetzlaff

Speed Kings Tetzlaff and Earl Cooper

(Sports)

-Fatty, at San Diego (Com.)

-Louis' Sickness at Sea (Com.)

-Small Time Act (Com.)

-The Milk We Drink (Edu.)

KOMIC Fact

Oct. 23 — Caught in His Own Net (Com.)

Oct. 23— Deceiving Dad (Com.)

Oct. 30— Father and the Flies (Com.)

Oct. 30— The New Curate (Com.)

Nov. 6 — Poor John (Coin.)

Nov. 6 — Caused by a Clock (Com.)

Nov. 13 — An Affair of Honor (Com.)

Nov. 13 — Biddy on Her Mettle (Com.)

LEWIS PENNANTS

Sept. 6 — Decreed to Die 3000

Oct. 18— My Boy

LUX
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Oct. 24— Terrible Bobby (Com.) 285

Oct. 31 — Mabel Feigns Indisposition (Com.) 575

Oct. 31 — Percy's Heroism (Com.) 410

MAJESTIC

Oct. 19— Through the Sluice Gates

Oct. 21 — Always Together

Oct. 25 — Revenge

Oct. 26 — The Scenario Writer

Oct. 28— The Oath of O'Tsuru San (2 part

Dr.)

Nov. 1 — (No Release This Date)

NESTOR

Oct. 24 — Tightwad Buys a Laundry (Com.)

Oct. 29— A Man of the People (Dr.)

Oct. 31— Curses! Said the Villain (Com.)

Nov. 5 — Western Hearts (1 reel Dr.)

Nov. 7— His Wife's Burglar (Com.)..

Nov. 12— In the End (Dr.)

Nov. 14 — Love Luck and a Paint Brush

(Com.)

Nov. 19 — The Golden Princess Mine (Dr.)..
Nov. 21 — An Elephant On His Hands (Com.)
PILOT

Aug. 7 — The Green-Eyed Monster (Com.

Dr.) 10*0

Aug. 28 — Getting the Evidence (Dr.) 100«

POWERS

Oct. 31— The Bee Industry (Edu.)...

Nov. 3 — The Lesson the Children Taught

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Nov. 7 — The Heart of a Cracksman

Nov. 10 — From Mine to Mint (Educational)..
Nov. 14 — Cracksman's Reformation (Dr.)....
Nov. 17 — The Cotton Industry in Arkansas..

Nov. 17 — The Doctor's Orders

Nov. 21 — A Stolen Identity (2 reel Dr.)

RAMO

Oct. 15— The Current (Dr.) 3000

Nov. 5 — Wives 3000

RELIANCE

Nov. 5 — The Dress of Lelita

Nov. 8 — Two Men and a Muler (Series 3) . .

Nov. 10 — The Power of the Sea

Nov. 12— The Bracelet (Dr.)

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Oct. 18— The Girl Across the Way (Dr.)

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Oct. 23— The Winning Punch (Com.)

Oct. 23— A Fallen Hero (Com.)

Oct. 25— The Madonna of the Storm (Dr.).., 1
Oct. 27— An Evening With the Wilder

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Oct. 30— A Barber Cure (Com.)

Oct. 30 — Boarders and Bombs (Com.)

Nov. 1— The Clock Stopped (Dr.)

Nov. 3 — Diversion (Dr.)

Nov. 6— On the Hands of the Black Hands

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Nov. 6 — Where's the Baby (Com.)

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Nov. 11— The Penalty (2 part Dr.)

EDISON

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Oct. 22 — Jaffa, the Seaport of Jerusalem (Sc.) 400

Oct. 22— His First Performance (Com.) 600

Oct. 24 — Silas Marner (2 Parts) . 2000

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Marry Mary" (Dr.) 1000

Oct. 27 — Across Swift Current Pass on Horse-
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Oct. 27 — A Hornet's Nest (Com.) 600

Oct, 28— A Daughter of the Wilderness (Dr.). 1000

Oct. 29— The Horrible Example (Com.) 1000

Oct. 31— Janet of the Dunes (Dr.) 2000

Nov. 1 — A Woodland Paradise (Com.) 1000

Nov. 3— Wild Wales (Sc.) 350

Nov. 3 — Porgy's Bouquet (Com.) 650

Nov. 4 — Tommy's Stratagem (Com.) 1000

Nov. 5 — Archie and the Bell-boy (Com.) 1000

Nov. 7— A Face from the Past (Dr.) Parts I

and II 2000

Nov. 8— Elise (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 10— Camping with the Blackfeet (Des.) . 500

Nov. 10— Seth's Woodpile (Com.) 500

Nov. 11— The Doctor's Duty (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 12 — His Nephew's Scheme (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 14 — The Phantom Signal (Dr. — Parts I

& II) 2000

Nov. 15— Getting a Patient (Com.) 1000

Nov. 17 — Nora's Boarders (Com.) 1000

Nov. 18 — A Cause for Thankfulness (Dr.).. 1000
Nov. 19 — The Girl in the House-boat (Com.). 1000

Nov. 21 — A Good Sport (2 parts — Com.) 2000

Nov. 22 — A Proposal Deferred, being the fifth
story of "Who Will Marry Mary"

(Dr.) 1000

Nov. 24 — From Durban to Zululand (Sc.) 500

Nov. 24 — Enoch and Ezra's First Smoke

(Com.) 500

E8SANAY

Oct. 15 — Their Waterloo (Com.)

Oct. 16 — A Borrowed Identity (Com.)

Oct. 17 — Broncho Billy Gets Square (Dr.)

(Parts I & II)

Oct. 17— The Troublesome Telephone (Com.)
Oct. 17— The Boston Floating Hospital (Top.)
Oct. 18 — The Railroad Detective's Dilemma

(Dr.) 1000

Oct. 18 — "Alkali" Ike and the Wild Man

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Oct. 21 — The Way Perilous (Dr.)

Oct. 22— Day by Day (Com.)

Oct. 23— The Kid Sheriff (Com. Dr.)

Oct. 24 — The Love Lute of Romany (Dr.)

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Oct. 25 — Broncho Billy's Elopement (Dr.)

Oct. 28— Thy Will Be Done (Dr.)

Oct. 29 — Cupid and Three (Com.)

Oct. 30— Greed for Gold (Dr.)

Nov. 1 — The Doctor's Duty (Dr.)

Nov. 4 — 'Quicksands of Sin (Dr.)

Nov. 5 — Their Wives' Indiscretion (Com.).
Nov. 6 — The Rustler's Stepdaughter (W. Dr.)

Nov. 7 — The Death Weight

Nov. 8— Broncho Billy's Secret (W. Dr.) . .

Nov. 11 — The Man Outside (Dr.)

Nov. 12 — The Last Laugh (Com.) x

Nov. 13 — The New Schoolmarm of Green

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Nov. 15 — "Alkali" Ike's Auto (W. Com.)

Nov. 18— The Lost Chord (Dr.)

Nov. 19— The Usual Way (Com.)

Nov. 20 — The Cowboy Samaritan (W. Dr.) ....

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Oct. 20— The Dumb Messenger (Dr.)

Oct. 22— A Daughter of the Underworld (Dr.)

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Oct. 24 — Jimmie's Finish (Com.)

Oct. 24— Betty Buttin and the Bad Man

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Oct. 25 — A Railroader's Warning (Dr.)

Oct. 27— High-Born Child and Beggar (Dr.) .
Oct. 27 — Sports in Merrie England (Sports)
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Oct. 31— The Speed Limit (Com.)

Nov. 1— The President's Special (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 3 — The Fatal Shot (2 parts — Dr.) 2000

Nov. 5 — The Man Who Vanished (2 part

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Nov. 8 — The Silent Warning (Dr.) 1000

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Oct. 10 — Going Home to Mother 600

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Oct. 14 — A Deal in Oil 1000

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Oct. 18 — A Sleepy Romance 600

Oct. 20 — Father's Choice 400

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Oct. 25 — Mother Love 1000

Oct. 27— The Man of Him 1000

Oct. 28 — Making Good 400

Oct. 28— Giving Bill a Rest 600

Oct. 30 — The Rattlesnake (2 reels) 2000

Oct. 31 — A Momentous Decision 1000

Nov. 1 — When the Prison Doors Opened. . .1000

Nov. 3 — The Double Chase (Com.) 1000

Nov. 4 — Magic Melody (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 6 — The Price of Victory (2 reel Dr.).. 2000

Nov. 7 — Cocoanut Industry (Edu.) 400

Nov. 7 — Getting The Best of Dad (Com.) 600

Nov. 8 — Hiawanda's Cross (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 10 — The Pride of Battery B (Dr.) 1000

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Oct. 25 — Gypsy Love (Dr.)

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Oct. 29— When Childhood Wins

Oct. 30 — In Love and War (Multiple Reel).

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Oct. 31 — Love's Deception (Dr.)

Nov. 1 — Too Many Tenants (Com.)

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Nov. 4 — The Vaudeville Star's Vacation

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Nov. 6 — Pathe's Weekly No. 65 (News).. '

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Oct. 28 — When May Weds December

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Oct. 29 — A Muddle in Horse Thieves

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New York, N. Y. — Moving Picture
Theater (600 seats), Lobby & Photo-
graph Gallery: 2 sty. 25x108. $40,000.
Archt, Nathan Langer, 81 East 125th
St. Owner's name withheld. Plans
nearing completion.

New York, N. Y. — Moving Picture
Theater: 2 sty. 65x94. $20,000. Owner,
Manhattan Avenue Theater Corp., Leon
Sobel, Pres. 200 Manhattan Ave. Will
soon be ready for bids.

New York, N, Y. — Moving Picture
Building: 1 sty. 89x100. Owner, S. B.
Eskeson, 149 Broadway. Plans com-
pleted; architect will probably take bids.

Brooklyn, N. Y. — Moving Picture
Theater: 1 sty. 51x112. $26,000. Owner,
Concord Photo Play Co., 414 Sackett
St., is taking sub-bids.

Brooklyn, N. Y. — Moving Picture
Theater: 1 sty. 48x100. $10,000. Owner,
Philip Rosenson, 257 Driggs Ave., is
taking sub-bids.

Brooklyn, N. Y. — Moving Picture
Theater (capacity 370): 1 sty. 26x100.
$9,000. Owner, P. Piscia, 277 Driggs
St. Plans in progress.

Brooklyn, N. Y. — Moving Picture
Theater; l.sty. 47x100. $8,000. Owner,
Chas. N. Ohlan, 788 New Lots Rd., is
taking sub-bids.

Brooklyn, N. Y. — Moving Picture
Theater: 1 sty. 20x100. $5,500. Owners,
John McKeon & Son, 413 Smith St., are
taking bids.

Schenectady, N. Y. — Moving Picture
Theater. 1 sty. 24x80. $5,000. Private
plans. Owner & Builder, S. P. H.
Clute, 1481 State St., is ready to start
work.

Newark, N. J. — Moving Picture

Theater & Roof Garden: 1 sty. 50x109.
$10,000. Archt., Frank Grad, American
National Bank Bldg., Springfield Ave.
Owner, Atlantic Amusement Co., care
Architect. Plans in progress.

Philadelphia, Pa. — Moving Picture
Theater: 1 sty. 80x116. $20,000.
Archt., Herman Miller, 1420 Chestnut
St. Owner's name withheld.

Philadelphia, Pa. — Moving Picture
Theater: 1 sty. 54x130; entrance 25x60.
$18,000. Owners, Margolin & Block,
206 South Fifth St., are receiving bids.

Wilmerding, Pa. — Nickelodeon: 1 sty.
40x75. $7,000. Owner, Geo. W. Snyder,
Wilmerding. Postponed.

Austin, Minn. — Moving Picture Thea-
ter Store & Flat Bldg. (Theater seating
550 and 3 flats): 2 sty. & bas. 75x96.
$20,000. Austin. Owner, L. D. Baird,
Austin, will soon take figures.

Parsons, Kan. — Picture Theater &
Business Bldg.: 2 sty. & bas. 62x100.
$40,000. Owner, Harry Strausberger,
Parsons. Bids in.

Los Angeles, Cal. — Moving Picture
Theater & Store: 1 sty. 169xl83x36x
121. About $35,000. Owner, H. L.
McAllister & J. M. Dobbins. Taking
bids.

Los Angeles, Cal. — Picture Theater:
1 sty. 52x100. $15,000. Owners, A. W.
& C. S. Lord. Plans completed.

■Washington, D. C. — Moving Picture
Theater: 1 sty. 138x64. $20,000.
Archt., B. Stanley Simmons, 1340 New
York Ave. Owner, Mr. Swanson, care
architect. Archt. received figures until
Sept. 20th.

Washington, D. C. — Moving Picture
Theater: 1 sty. $5,000. Archt., B. F.
Myers, Bond Building. Owner's name
withheld. Plans just started.

Cleveland, O. — Motion Picture Thea-
ter (seating 285) : 1 sty. & bas. 32x78.
$7,500. Archt., Oliver N. Chamberlin,
1105 Schofield Bldg. Owner's name
withheld. Preliminary plans in progress.

Columbus, O — Picture Theater: 2
sty. & bas. $15,000. Owner, J. W.
Dusenbury, care Southern Theater, is
building foundation by day labor.

East Youngstcwn, O. — Motion Pic-
ture Theater & Store Bldg.: 3 sty. &
bas. 25x139. $28,000. East Youngs-
town. Owner, H. J. Hodgkins, care
Archt., Geo. W. Vaughan, 1 Diamond
Blk. Architect has revised plans. Held
up until next spring.

Lakewood, O. — Moving Picture Thea-
ter & Store (store & theater seating
500): 2 sty. & bas. 44x140. $16,000.
Lakewood. Owner, William L. Wilson,
Druggist, 11600 Detroit Ave., Cleveland.
Residence, 1382 West 114th St.. Cleve-
land.

Defiance, O. — Motion Picture Show
(seating 300) : 2 sty. & bas. 22x126.
$5,000. Defiance. Owner, Mrs. R. E.
Heatley, Defiance. In abeyance.

Fort Wayne, Ind. — Motion Picture
Bldg. (seating 350): 1 sty. & bas.
35x100. Owner, Oscar Wolbrock, 2516
Hoagland Ave.

St. Paul, Minn. — Moving Picture
Theater (rem. store): $2,000. Archt.,
A. L. Garlough, Rosen Bldg. Owner,
Hammond Amusement Co., care Archt.,
is receiving bids.

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EXHIBITORS' TIMES

Established 1913

Volume VIII

November IS, 1913

Number 19

WHAT IS AN ADVERTISEMENT?

HPHIS query is even broader than "Why is an ad-
vertisement?" which was discussed last week.

They had sold other products for other people by
the self-same methods they applied to their own.

PROBABLY the only person who can tell us just
what an advertisement is is the recent graduate of
a correspondence school. He knows all about it.
Later, with experience, he finds he knows very little.
And then he begins to learn.

A

DVERTISING is very much like women. The
less you know the more you think you know.

A DVERTISING sense is largely instinctive. It
doesn't admit of many set rules. Good advertis-
ing men, just like salesmen, are born, not made. The
very best advertising men are often manufacturers
who don't know they are advertising men, or who at
least don't claim to be. They give an idea to a copy
man who thereupon evolves a campaign, and claims
the success as his own. As a matter of fact, he de-
serves little credit.

T

HE idea is the thing. Phrases don't count.

T>ACK of every successful campaign there's a big
idea. And that idea is peculiar to that campaign.
It can rarely be used with success for another kind
of product.

A FEW years ago three high-salaried advertising
men in New England — one representing a great
publishing house, and two representing leading adver-
tising agencies — met in earnest conclave.

li\ X7HAT fools we are!" said they. "Here we are
^ * — making millions for other men by telling
them how to advertise! Why not do it ourselves?"

CO they selected a product, made up an appropriation
^ and launched a campaign. At the end of a year
they pocketed a big loss, swallowed their surprise, and
closed their offices. It was costly, but they learned
one valuable point — that the same advertising rules
don't apply to every product.

DUT they were not original enough, clever enough
. to put the right selling idea back of their own
article.

^:

"LJOW does one arrive at this right selling idea?
AX * # *

O IMPLY by knowing your product and knowing
^ its field.

* * *

T^NOWING the field means knowing the purchaser
and the best channels of reaching him.

T WONDER how many advertisers really know the
exhibitor — I mean the American exhibitor of to-
day, not the one of yesterday ; I mean the North,
East, South, West exhibitor, not just the New York
or Chicago exhibitor; I mean the new kind of ex-
hibitor who is a representative, often a leading, citi-
zen, a property holder, a man of good business sense,
intelligence and often imagination.

sic :Jc

COMEHOW the idea has been established that there
^ is only one kind of exhibitor and only one way to
talk to him. There seems to be a dread fear of
"shooting over his head."

* * *

AS a matter of fact this "shooting over the head"
idea is the most arrant, costly sophistry ever up-
held in the advertising business.

* * *

T DON'T believe there is any danger of going over
A the exhibitor's head with advertising copy ; but
even so, isn't it true that when you put something good
over a man's head he is quite apt to reach up to it.

* * *

A NYWAY I should say that the best advertising
maxim is to study carefully what the other fellow
is doing — and then do entirely different.

William Allen Johnston.

STEREOSCOPIC PICTURES ON THE SCREEN

Why They Cannot Be Successful

By THOMAS BEDDING

HP HE patent records of the motion picture supply
amusing reading to those who are aware of the
actual possibilities of invention in the field. We use
the word "invention" as a figure of speech. It is a
term of convenience. An invention implies that the
mind of the inventor has evolved something new.

But real inventions are scarce. Those things that
are dignified by the name of inventions are more or
less adaptations of old ideas or variations of estab-
lished principles — the principles of the motion picture
are as old as the earth, if not the universe, light being
the fundamental basis of all the principles availed of.

The records to which we refer in the previous para-
graph are largely of a repetitional and redundant
nature. It is the same thing over and over again, with
such mechanical regularity that we are driven to con-
clude that most of the patentees are wholly ignorant
of the subject; or that they or their patent agents or
attorneys do not search the records with sufficient dili-
gence to see what has been done before, ere they
draw up their patent specifications and submit them
to the patent offices.

One of the commonest patents taken out in con-
nection with the subject is that for making stereo-
scopic motion pictures. A stereoscopic motion picture
if you could make it would have all the depth, round-
ness and distance of nature itself. But you cannot
make a stereoscopic motion picture. That is, you can-
not make it and see it properly. Or, at any rate, you
see it so indistinctly that it is practically equivalent to
not seeing it at all.

A little acquaintance with the theory of binocular
vision will demonstrate the difficulty if not the impos-
sibility of making these motion pictures.

Tn the first place, you require two cameras working
side by side, or one camera embodying the same idea.
When you project your positives on the screen, you
must have them slightly out of register, just nearly
superposed or overlapping. When you look at the pic-
ture so made and so projected with the unaided eyes,
you are conscious of nothing but a blur. In order to
see it in relief, you require a pair of special oculars.

In other words, you have to put a stereoscope to
your eyes. This instrument will enable the left eye to
see the left picture on the screen and the right eye to
see the right picture, and thus seeing them, the brain
will combine the two pictures and so you will get the
effect of relief. The ocular, however, cuts off so
much light that you can hardly see the picture.

It all comes to this : that you cannot sec stereoscopic
motion pictures without a stereoscope, and people in
a motion picture theatre if even they had a stereoscope
cannot see the pictures distinctly enough, so — cui
bono?

It must not be overlooked that ordinary motion pic-
tures are in themselves partly stereoscopic by reason
of the fact that in a picture showing an original sub-
ject on different plans objects in the foreground create
a greater effect upon the mind through the eye than
objects at a distance and so the mind gets the impres-
sion that the picture has relief.

When you next look at a motion picture of a scenic,
where a train is speeding through the country, you
will notice the trees, etc., in the foreground of the pic-
ture look solid, i. e., are stereoscopic.

This is because, as we have just explained, persist-
ence of vision takes greater cognizance of objects in
the foreground than of those in the middle and dis-
tant planes. It is all a question of sensuous impression.

At a later date, we will go more fully into the optics
of this matter. Our object in writing the present
article is to discount any further patent efforts in this
direction. Motion pictures and stereoscopic relief on
the screen are physically impossible — at present.

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MARC KLAW

The "K." of K. & E.

4 C

ARE you going to make pictures?" I asked Mr.
Klaw when we met in his office in the New
Amsterdam Theatre Building a few months ago. Mr.
Klaw smiled a deprecatory smile. He also said some-
thing indicative of none too great a faith in what is
printed in the newspapers. Yet, I knew before Mr.
Klaw himself that he would make motion picture be-
cause I have been studying Marc Klaw's mind for
several years. I watched him on his trips to and
from Europe and I made it
my business to know whom
he has called on when he
has gone to London, Paris
and other European centers.
Mr. Klaw on these journeys
showed the photographic
bend of his mind.

^: i£

Mr. Klaw is a practical
photographer, so is his son
Joseph. Mr. Klaw has a
knowledge of the motion pic-
ture business not commonly
suspected.

Moreover, Mr. Klaw is
thoroughly in touch with the
scientific principles of the
motion picture. He and his,
that is, he and his technical
associates, are thoroughly
competent and qualified to
make motion pictures.

IN the nature of things, it
is impossible for the the-
atre to absorb the picture.
This may seem a startling
statement to make, but let us
reason things out. When in
the years 1839 and 1840 the
foundations of modern pho-
tography were well and truly . marc klaw
made, miniature painters,

painters and sculptors were alarmed. They feared that
photography would put them out of business. It did
and it did not. It absorbed those who were not power-
ful enough in virtue of their own abilities to hold out.

The same thing is going on with regard to animated
photography or motion pictures. It is absorbing
dramatists, theatrical producers, painters, actors and
actresses and the like. Instead of the stage annexing
or absorbing the motion picture, it is the other way.

If I read Mr. Klaw right, he is of that way of
thinking. He has a cleanly analytical business mind.
He respects the man who knows. On the face of it,
the action of Klaw & Erlanger in taking over the Bio-
graph evinced a firm grasp of the motion picture sit-

uation. There need not be any fear that the Biograph
Company, under the new dispensation of things, will
not release pictures. They have probably the finest
studio in the world and ten directors at work. They
have all the resources of money, brains and a market.

!K 5fc Sf!

PERSONALLY, I regard the entry of Klaw & Er-
langer into the picture field as a welcome one.
Three or four years ago when I ventured to forecast

the possibility of such a
thing I was laughed at.
Again : With photo drama
houses being erected in the
center of New York and big
theatres passing under film
control, it surely seems to
be up to Klaw & Erlanger
to convert some of their the-
atres into specially adapted
motion picture houses.

According to information,
the Biograph Company, as
it is at present working, is
accumulating negatives. It
is supposed that at the begin-
ning of next year this com-
pany will be in a position to
release, if necessary, consid-
erably more than two pic-
tures a week. Biograph
quality has for years passed
into proverb. Every new
entrant into the field since
1908 has taken the Biograph
pictures as a standard.
There is no reason to sup-
pose that under Klaw & Er-
langer control the Biograph
quality will suffer the least
diminution.

My object in giving spe-
cial prominence to the per-
sonality of Mr. Marc Klaw
in this connection is for the purpose of testifying that
lie and his are photographers. Photography is the
root base of the motion picture. If you get good pho-
tographers at the head of affairs, there is a greater
chance of getting good pictures than if they don't
understand this branch of the subject. Hitherto there
have not been photographers enough in the business.

A Tare Klaw and his son and their entourage have the
photographic, productional and artistic ends at their
finger tips. That's where ends should be : at the tips
of things. But this is a joak.

It is the exhibitor who will benefit by the incursion
of Klaw & Erlanger into the picture making field, and
after the exhibitor the public. T. B.

By 2#

/^NE of the regrets of a life fairly full of regrets is
that I never met the late Edward H. Harriman.
This reflection was sprung upon me the other day
when I was looking at the picture of his son. This
young fellow is a Yale boy interested in rowing. He
has scores of millions of dollars in his absolute right.
He is one of the two most powerful young men in the
United States, if not the world. The other is Vincent
Astor, who also is powerful in right of the possession
of money- — the only human power that counts after all,
and after all is said and done. Money, the Blessed
Trinity, L. S. D., Libra Ecudi, Denari, I.s.d., Dol-
lars and Cents. (Dimes and dollars, dollars and dimes,
an empty pocket is the worst of crimes.)

* * *

T LEARNED the couplet which concludes the first
paragraph when I was very young, and have never
lost sight of its moral. Edward Harriman was a
power in virtue of the money he owned. I was sorry
that he died at the early age of sixty-one. I wish he
had lived to carry out his scheme of controlling the
whole of the railroad system of the United States.
His power so exercised was bound ultimately to have
reacted for the common good, because he would have
become so powerful that the state would have broken
his power and taken the fruits of it. In other words,
Mr. Harriman's imperial work would have led to the
nationalization of the railroad. You can reason and
argue this out to a dead certainty.

* * *

VINCENT ASTOR and Averill Harriman seem to
have inherited the minds as well as the money
of their fathers. It is such minds that we want on
the side of the motion picture. I would like to see
their names and some of their money in some of the
motion picture concerns which are shortly to be sprung
upon the public. Those names would inspire con-
fidence, and the business ability at the disposal of Mr.
Astor and Mr. Harriman would make for commercial
success. The promoter is abroad. Undeterred by the
fate of the Associated Motion Picture Patents Co.,
the National, the Film Import, the Film Company of
America, and many other stock-selling propositions
pure and simple which wasted money and ruined men,
are to appear in the motion picture field once more.
It is such a delightfully accessible "Tom Tiddler's"

ground where you can pick up gold and silver by sim-
ply stretching out your hand, is this picture field. Ah !

Hp HE American public has not yet firmly caught on,
or has been induced to catch on, to the motion
picture as a gambling instrument. But when it does,
and I think it is doing so, it will gamble and gamble
and gamble. For the gambling instinct is probably
more strongly developed in this part of the world than
in any other. We take chances. I know something
about these gambling propositions. In my ignorance I
was identified with some of them — but now, nixy nix!
The Film Company of America was the last. Exactly
twenty-two months ago this concern gave me a
$22,000 a year position and other pickings. All on
paper. The idea at the back of the scheme was this :
Buy up a number of plants, invent a number of ex-
changes, incorporate and scatter a corps of about sixty
stock sellers throughout the country. These stock
sellers were to tackle the butcher, the baker, the candle-
stick-maker. The scheme collapsed, of course. I
heard incidentally afterwards that stock sellers were
long busy amongst the Kansas farmers. And that
money actually passed. It passed entirely by me, I am
sorry to say. It is a habit that money has — it
passes by.

Q OME of these stock selling propositions have been
^ without assets, although to be fair, most of them
had something to sell. That is to say, they had busi-
ness premises and a demand for films. Unfortunately,
however, they were not equal to the occasion on the
executive and business sides. They wanted to make
money and get out quickly. They were not in the
business for the good of the business. They were
just pfomoters and gamblers. It is this element which
is manifesting itself in the stock jobbing schemes now
being hatched. You have a mixture of the meretri- -
cious and the insincere. The good is mixed with the
bad. Some names of account in the film world are
mixed with others that are of no account. The hawk
and the pigeon are cavorting one with the other.
Same old game.

* * *

Hp HIS paper so far has taken, and will continue to
take, a stand for that which is the best for the
art and industry. It stands for good— good pictures,

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good men, good methods. It stands for conservative
principles in business. Clearly, therefore, it is against
the fly-by-night schemes which are being hatched for
the fool. For it is the fool that these people are after.
Legitimate means of entering the motion picture busi-
ness are more numerous to-day than they ever were.
Good pictures are in better demand than ever. It is
not necessary for anybody to enter these picturesquely
financed schemes in order to make money. All you
have to do is to put down your money in sufficient
quantity, apply artistic and business principles, and
then you will make money.

^ * *

J N course of time when these stock-selling schemes
have passed away, as they are bound to pass away,
we shall, I hope, see some reputable names such as
those of Astor and Harriman on prospectuses. Then
the public will be enabled to have confidence in them.

You see the train of thought I was led to when con-
templating the picture of Young Averill Harriman the
other day ? The picture field is so vast, its limits* are
so remote, that no man is too big for that field. Were
he thirty years younger, it certainly would be worth
the attention of Mr. Rockefeller. George Eastman,
down at Rochester, is making 750,000,000 feet of film
a year and he is a big man, bigger than any man in
the motion picture making and distributing end. This
end of the business is weak in big men. The pho-
tographic field of this and other countries has settled
down to a condition of business reputability — but it
had to endure the polite attentions of the stock-selling
person, just as the motion picture field is doing now.
When the stock-selling person has got out of the mo-
tion picture field, then this business of ours will
stand an imminent chance of being put on a solid
basis, or rather a more solid basis than it at present
occupies.

VITAGRAPH LEASES BROADWAY THEATRE

AMOVE which, on the face of it, ap-
pears to have considerable impor-
tance has been made by the Vitagraph
Company of America. That concern
has leased the Criterion Theatre, one
of the leading playhouses of New
York and right in the heart of the
theatrical district, and will make it
the home of pretentious photoplays,
with the admission price running as
high as one dollar.

Both the Biograph and the Vita-
graph companies have been reported
to have been dickering with Charles
Frohman for the theatre for some
time. The rental which the Vitagraph
Company will pay is said to be $50,000
a year.

The plan is to present feature films
of sufficient merit to warrant the price
charged, and to use the house as a
sort of an advertising venture for the
films of the producing company.

The probable importance of this
move should not be underestimated
It parallels, as far as the New York
theatrical district is concerned, the
expected move of the Klaw and Er-
langer-Biograph combination. This
company has announced several times
that the pictures which it is produc-
ing will be shown all over the coun-
try in theatres which have heretofore
been devoted to attractions of the
speaking stage.

Many pictures have been produced
and laid away on the shelf in antici-
pation of the opening of the campaign.
Now along comes the Vitagraph Com-
pany and secures the entree into the
heart of New York.

The Vitagraph Company some time
ago formed an affiliation with the
Lieblers. Many big productions are
planned. "Mr. Barnes of New York,"
in six acts, is even now being pro-

duced at the Flatbush studio. It
seems extremely probable that these
pictures will be shown at the Cri-
terion.

Just how soon the Criterion will
pass into the hands of the Vitagraph
Company depends entirely upon the
success of David Belasco's new play,
a vice drama, written by Roland B.
Molineaux, who once stood within
the shadow of the death-dealing elec-
tric chair.

This is "The Man Inside," which
will come to the Criterion, succeed-
ing John Mason in "Indian Summer,"
which is to be moved to the Fulton
Theatre.

Mr. Belasco expects great things
of his first crime play, and does not
expect to relinquish his rights to the
Criterion before Spring, but the pic-
tures will move in whenever he moves
out.

FIGHT INDIAN BATTLE AGAIN

"Buffalo Bill" and General Miles Take Part for Essanay

APART of the historical battle of
Wounded Knee, which was
fought December 28, 1890, was repro-
duced recently for motion pictures,
near the agency at Pine Ridge, S. D.,
at the instigation of Col. W. F. Cody
for the Essanay Film Manufacturing
Company.

The battle was staged and pictured
on the same ground where it was
originally fought, several temporary
houses and Indian tepees having been
constructed to add to the originality
of the battle. These were burned,
with the train of wagons, in strict ac-

cordance with history, and the coun-
try contiguous to the agency was a
seething mass of activity.

People from a radius of fifty miles
had congregated to witness what is
recorded in history as one of the fierc-
est and the last Indian war in the
United States. The assistance of some
of the same Indians who participated
in the battle was secured and they
played the same part to-day that they
took in the battle twenty-three years
ago.

Two troops from Fort Robinson
took part. The battle was reproduced

with the same accuracy in every de-
tail, and General Nelson A. Miles,
Brigadier General Marion P. Maus,
General Frank P. Baldwin, Major
General Charles A. King and Major
Jesse M. Lee, who had not met each
other for twenty-three years, served
in the same capacity as when the prin-
cipal battle was fought. The govern-
ment was interested in the reproduc-
tion of the battle to the extent that
copies of the Essanay films made will
be filed among the archives of the war
department as a permanent historical
record.

CHANGING TRADE CONDITIONS

By GEORGE D. PROCTOR

THIS motion picture industry is the swiftest moving in-
dustry in the world. It is practically the only remaining
field where fortunes are made over night. For instance, right
after Harry Thaw made his dash to liberty, some motion
pictures were taken of him in his cell in Canada. The total
expense, including railroad fares and all incidentals, was
$486. The first week's rental of about fifty prints brought
in $20,000. Now gasp.

Changes come quicker in the motion picture business than
in any other legitimate occupation. What is apparently a
happy family of producing firms now may be a split into units,
each operating independently of the rest soon. "The answer"
of to-day is the discard of to-morrow.

WHO are the men who have become rich in the motion
picture business? They are the ones who, a few years
ago, were more accurate prognosticators than their fellows.
They are the ones who best foresaw the coming changes and
were prepared when the new conditions arrived or helped to
create the same new conditions. The man who, at the pres-
ent time, has an accurate forecast in his mind of what the
conditions will be in the motion picture business two years
from now possesses an asset of great value.

Many factors must be reckoned with when trying to peep
into the future.

Feature films, subjects of three or more acts, seem to have
arrived. At least most manufacturers are producing them
and are devoting their advertising to the longer subjects,
leaving the single reel subjects to be carried along by the im-
petus of the program through which they are distributed.
The "big pictures," so called, the six to nine-act subjects are
coming in. "Quo Vadis" was first and is estimated to have
made a quarter of a million dollars for George Kleine. News-
paper interviews with Mr. Kleine furnish those figures. Now
many more are coming. Will they all succeed is the question.
Many think they will and there certainly is a scramble to get
hold of long films. In New York George Kleine is building
a theatre a stone's throw west of Broadway in Forty-second
street to house the big films he will import. Meanwhile two
versions of "The Last Days of Pompeii" are being shown at
the Bijou and the Park, two Broadway theatres. The Vita-
graph Company is said to have rented the Criterion Theatre
to show motion pictures with the admission prices ranging up
to one dollar.

Granted that the six to nine-part pictures will "get by,"
what of the many four to six-part pictures? They seem surer
of success, for often they are more meritorious, less "padded."
But they are playing with the admission ranging from five
to twenty-five cents. So, in fact, are some bigger pictures.
Then comes the question, "Will a man pay a dollar to see
ANY picture when he can see a spectacular six-part film for
twenty-five cents?" Right now the answer seems to be that
there is plenty of room for all, and merit will ultimately
win out.

THIS leads naturally to the prediction made by many
that the day of buying films by footage must end. Sev-
eral of the thinking minds of the industry feel this way.
They contend that the time must come when films are pur-
chased for their artistic worth and merit, not for the number
of feet they run. This seems highly reasonable. Some pro-
ducers will welcome this day. Others will not.

Circuits are another moot question. More and more motion
picture theatres are combining into circuits and the results
are very agreeable financially. One forecast, which is not
without reason, is that a year hence will see films handled
the way vaudeville acts are now handled. That is, that there
will be "big time" circuits; "big small time" circuits, "small
time" circuits and "small time time" circuits. By this plan a

circuit or booking agency will buy a film and route it weeks
ahead. The five and ten cent theatres will still exist. After
all this is not entirely visionary. "In union there is strength."
The circuits now in operation are showing the way. More
and more exhibitors must see the advantages to be gained
by joining hands. Then there is always the Alexander of
business, the man who sighs for fresh fields to conquer. If
he finds one picture house profitable he will go after another
until he has what amounts to a circuit. For further infor-
mation look over some Southern and Western states and New
England.

The ideal arrangement and one which several firms have in
view is for one company to control both the theatre and pro-
duction end. This is the line along which the K and E-Bio-
graph Amalgamation is working. Consider the exceeding
beauty and simplicity of the plan.

The producing firm meets its expenses at least by selling
its films to the affiliated theatres. Then whatever it sells in
territory which does not conflict across the pond is added
gravy. The theatrical circuit gets the pictures cheaper than
it otherwise could through its affiliation. As soon as the pur-
chase price is gotten back which should not take long with
a chain of say, thirty theatres, charging good admission, all
further receipts are clean profit and the pretentious pictures
will be good for several months at least. Thus the right
hand washes the left. Ideas are not patentable. If K and E
succeed, as they seem likely to, others will follow. The only
question is getting hold of the theatres and the pictures, and
both can always be purchased. The Vitagraph Company for
one has leased the Criterion Theatre in New York, accord-
ing to reports.

What about the state rights buyer? Right now several big
buyers have affiliations, some open, some supposedly secret,
with circuits of theatres. They feed the films they buy to the
interested theatres first, then to the others. Some see in this
the day when circuits will buy their own pictures.

The state rights buyer is an important factor, especially now
that the "open market" from the exhibitors' point of view is
here, although there has been no change for several months
in the alignment of the firms from the selling end. State
rights buyers aren't very numerous. There are only about
twenty-five heavy purchasers. They mostly buy for blocks of
states. They have become tired of being forced to scramble
for films every week, and have been rapidly tying themselves
up by contract with the firms who can supply them with a
definite number of releases in a given time.

WHEN they have contracted for all the films they need
their buying activities will take a tumble. They will be
satiated. Then the man with only a single feature to sell will
have a hard time. He will have to sell it by virtue of a
low price, not by merit. The phrase "the passing of the state
rights buyer" is not an idle one. It may not be correct, but
it is not far enough wrong to be foolish.

Who will write the scenarios for the motion pictures of the
future? Will it be the fifteen-dollar boys or will it be men
and women who are now turning out speaking plays, books
and magazine articles. The authors who rely upon richness
of verbiage and delicacy of phrasing will never be successful
scenario writers for the fundamental part of the scenario is
action not words, but the day of feeling that "a script is a
script" is going fast. All the successes of the stage for the
past ten years which are suitable for production in motion
picture form are being filmed. The field is rich but not limit-
less. It will be exhausted, but before it is exhausted, the pub-
lic will be educated up to demanding that a good story Ke
shown on the screen. Then farewell to cheap scenarios, for
prices must be paid which will attract the best authors of
the day.

OH, IT'S AN INTERESTING LIFE!

Punctuated by GEORGE D. PROCTOR

\0

TENTER the national advertising
^ campaign, so-called. With mixed
emotions and considerable interest, I
learn that the Mutual Film Corpora-
tion has turned over $100,000 to be
spent carte blanche, that the Universal
Film Manufacturing Company has
raised the ante with a $250,000 appro-
priation, and that the General Film
Company is girding up its loins and
may enter the merry fray. The gen-
tlemen handling the Mutual campaign
can't see the trade papers with the
naked eye, while the Universal appro-
priation is to be over and above the
trade-paper advertising.

How inexpensive national advertis-
ing campaigns are becoming! I al-
ways thought that a million-dollar ap-
propriation was necessary and that
the campaign should run for a year,
anyway. For a national campaign is
not advertising. It is publicity. The
line of demarcation is sharply drawn.
Advertising should be productive of
direct results. Publicity is missionary
work. A few pages in big publica-
tions can eat up $10,000 a week easily.
At that rate $100,000 would last for
ten weeks and $250,000 for twenty-
five weeks.

This idea is new in this business. So
I have been studying it from several
angles. If a man goes duck hunting he
doesn't pile all his ammunition out be-
hind the barn and then explode it and
say, "I guess they all heard that." He
goes where the ducks are and then
takes aim. Right now the business is
partially up to the exchange man
as far as program pictures are con-
cerned. But when the exhibitor
kicks, he gets what he wants. So
it is really the exhibitor who has
the ultimate say in the buying end.
He is the duck in the story. When
the man with the gun hits him he
gets tangible results.

As missionary work a real national
advertising campaign, one which
would run for a year, would benefit
the business. It would educate the
public. It would bring into the mo-
tion picture theatres those who feel
that pictures are for hoi polloi, those
who think that "chase pictures" are
still being shown. For such persons
exist and they are the ones who will
be mighty valuable customers, once

they are converted. But it seems fool-
ish to me to believe that an inade-
quate campaign of this order is going
to bring tangible results.

One thing is certain. From the ex-
hibitor's point of view the proposed
campaigns are very fine. They are
bound to help him. Now is the time for
the man who has been lingering on
the brink to embark as an exhibitor.
The man with a motion picture the-
atre when these campaigns get under
way will be the beneficiary.

THEY CALL HIM "LIGHTNING" HOPPER

But will he be so grateful that he
will change to an opposition program
because its advertising has helped the
business in general and him in partic-
ular, and will he thus bring business
to the national advertiser? Emphati-
cally he will not.

What is the answer, anyway, when
two big firms decide upon a national
advertising campaign and a third is
debating the question? Can it be that
business needs stimulation? Is it mis-
sionary work? Is it a case of sheep
following the leader? Is the idea to
sell films or what? Figure it out for
yourself.

E. Mason Hopper, comedy director
with Essanay for three years, is in
New York looking tilings over
through a haze of cigar smoke pre-
paratory to settling down. He has
been quite the busy little boy these
past few days, what with writ'ng
scenarios and making pictures*.

Hopper is a versatile person. He
has done everything on the stage from
the lecture tour to "single" acts and
comedies in vaudeville. Once he was
"Lightning Hopper," the cartoonist.
The name stuck when he took to mak-
ing pictures, as he always speeds
things up. By the way, two of the
three comedies on the exclusive serv-
ice of the General Film Company this
past week were his. And three years
as director with one company is quite
a record.

C. A. (Doc) Willat, late superin-
tendent of the factories of the New
York Motion Picture Corporation,
probably the country's best technical
expert, is going after his announced
policy of producing feature pictures
himself in earnest. He is building a
studio and factory over in Fort Lee,
N. J. He places the cost of the build-
ings, exclusive of the cost of the land,
at $60,000. I know Doc, and I know
that his $60,000 is cash money.

Speaking of publicity men, let's take
time to press a laurel wreath on the
reluctant brow of Elmer J. McGovern
of the New York Motion Picture Cor-
poration. Elmer has only been with
Kessel & Baumann a few weeks, but
he is showing himself able to deliver
the goods. Good publicity men are
scarce in this business. That's why
waste baskets are so large.

How the unwary publications fall
for "yarns." An article on scenario
writing in a contemporary advises the
writer against night scenes, as "the
only way to make an exterior pictur
at night would be by means of a
continuous flash-light. Then it would
look like a daylight picture." Then
another publication, although fore-
warned, trots out that old fake about
the motion picture press agents be-
ing about to form a league.

The Ohio censors have ordered
from the Commercial Motion Pic-
tures Company 60,000 feet of trailers,
each four feet long, reading "Passed
by the Ohio Board of Censors."

Taking of testimony for the defense
'n the Federal suit against the Mo-
tion Picture Patents Company under
the Sherman anti-trust law will be
resumed Monday. President Marvin,

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

of the Patents Company, is expected
to be the first witness.

An important innovation is made by
the Edison Company in engaging Ac-
ton Davies, dramatic critic of the
New York Sun, to review all sce-
narios before they are turned over
to the directors for production. The
Edison Company is recognized as one
of the most liberal and fairest in the
matter of the scenario. Mr. Davies
is a recognized authority on things
theatrical. His province will not con-
flict with that of the director. Edison's
move will be watched with interest by
other producers.

The Screen Club will formally open
its new quarters at 165 West Forty-
seventh Street, New York City, on
Saturday, November 22.

W. H. Scofield, who went abroad
some months ago for the purpose of
securing the agency for the United
States and Canada of the New Gloria
Company, arrived on the Lusitania,
Friday, accompanied by his wife. He
had also with him the first copies
of the Gloria's first six-reel produc-
tion, "The Ghost Club," with Mario
Bonnard, universally known as "Sa-
tan," having made his great success
in the Ambrosio production of a fea-
ture by the same name.

Sans Effusiveness

John Bohemia Clymer gave a
Hallowe'en party at his rooms. Bob-
bing for cherries was reported to be
the principal sport.

Frank McGlynn, the Edison actor,
left Monday with Jack Gleason, the
sport promoter, who has the motion
picture rights to the world's tour of
the Giants and White Sox. They will
join the teams at Los Angeles and
continue round the world with them.
McGlynn will direct the job of taking
the pictures.

Charles L. Fuller, who formerly
headed his own distributing company,
handling the Helen Gardner pictures,
is now with the World Special Films
Corporation.

Howard Crampton is now a full-
fledged member of the Imp Stock
Company.

William J. Welsh left the Imp Stock
Company a few days ago and will
start with the Biograph.

C. A. Kelsey is very busy as the
manager of the Victor studio at 643
West Forty-third Street, New York
City, where the Florence Lawrence
pictures are being produced for the
Universal by Harry Salter.

Several of the Famous Players act-
ors and actresses are glad to be alive
after what they went through while
taking some water scenes off the coast
of Massachusetts. A company was
sent up, consisting of Harris Gordon,

M. J. Faust, Hal Clarendon, David
Wall, Alexander Gaden, Laura Saw-
yer, Hattie Forsythe and others, to
board a boat at Woods Hole and put
out to Martha's Vineyard. So rough
was the sea that a trip which usually
takes an hour occupied two hours and
a half. The players spent the time
with cork belts girded round them-
selves. And, take it from them, they
were very, very ill.

Thomas Greene, the Cleveland film
man, sailed for Europe on the Im-
perator. He will buy features while
abroad.

A Pathe company has left for St.
Augustine, Fla., with Lillian Wiggins
and Dorothy Kingdon as leading
women. Wright goes as director.

Three Edison players are on the
sick list. They are Richard Tucker,
Edward Boulden and Julian Reed.

Received a postal from Silent Bill
Haddock, down in Cuba with Au-
gustus Thomas, Richard Harding Da-
vis and the company of the All-Star
Feature Corporation producing "Sol-
diers of Fortune." " Also one from
Jack Byrne, scenario expert of the
Tampa Film Company in Tampa, Fla.

Stanley Twist, of the World Spe-
cial Films Corporation and the Pom-
peii Film Company, is getting several
companies of the Pasquali version of
"The Last Days of Pompeii" ready
for the road. This film is owned by
the Pompeii Film Company.

: A daughter was born recently to J.
Stuart Blackton, of the Vitagraph
Company of America.

Billy Quirk, who has been a suc-
cessful screen comedian with Pathe
and the Universal for a long, long
time, starts out in his vaudeville act
soon.

James Kirkwood, the Biograph di-
rector, took a camera-man to the Har-
vard-Cornell football game in the big
stadium at Cambridge and photo-
graphed the crowd during the excit-
ing moments of the game. The pic-
tures will be used as "flashes" in the
coming K. and E. production of
"Strongheart."

Arthur Johnson, Lubin's popular
leading man, is reported as ill.

Edward O'Connor, the Irish come-
dian of the Edison Stock Company,
is a father for the third time. This
time it is a boy. The latest addition
makes two boys to one girl.

" Edwin Barbour, the veteran dra-
matist, now of the Lubin scenario
staff, is spending a short vacation in

Bermuda. He is recovering from his
recent illness and expects to write
some scenarios for features during his
absence.

R. D. Armstrong, for the past two
years scenario editor with the Ameri-
can Film Manufacturing Company,
has joined the Ammex Company at
San Diego, Cal.

Winifred Greenwood, leading
woman with the American Film Man-
ufacturing Company, has been ill for
a week or so. Charlotte Burton has
been playing leads during her absence.

T. Vincent Smyth, the scenic artist
at the Imp studio, painted a back drop
recently, showing a conservatory
which can hardly be distinguished
from the real thing. The perspective
is remarkable.

Witt K. Cochrane, head of the Chi-
cago advertising agency which bears
his name and which will handle the
$250,000 the Universal will spend on
its national advertising campaign,
spent several days in town laying out
the campaign with his brother, R. H.
Cochrane, secretary and treasurer of
the Universal.

E. T. Peters, who owns an exchange
in Dallas, Tex., is spending a few
days in New York on business bent.

C. J. Williams and Richard Ridge-
ly, Edison directors, are taking their
companies to Florida for the Winter.
Williams will produce comedies and
Ridgely dramas. Among the players
who will go along are Mabel Tru-
ndle, Herbert Prior, Elsie McLeod
and William Wadsworth.

Ethel Davis. Edwin August's lead-
ing woman at the Universal Pacific
Coast studio, is nursing injuries re-
ceived by a fall into a thirteen-foot
pit when a platform collapsed while
taking a Roman costume picture. At
one time her life was seriously threat-
ened, but she is recovering now.

Bert Diener, late of the Mutual
Films Corporation, Buffalo, has been
engaged by the World Special Films
Corporation as general manager of
their Buffalo branch, with H. G. Se-
gal as assistant manager.

Jule Burnstein, of the World Spe-
cial Films Corporation, has arranged
with William Fox to play their
"Sapho" in his houses.

J. G. Conner has been engaged as
manager for the St. Louis branch of
the World Special Films Corporation,
located at 804 Pine street.

FOR THOSE WHO WORRY O'ER PLOTS AND

PLAYS

WILLIAM LORD WRIGHT

Likes Detailed Scripts

CA L D E R
J O H N -
( STONE, editor-

in-chief of the
Universal Film
Company manu-
script depart-
ment, was a news-
paper man and a
writer of stirring
fiction before he
assumed his
present responsible position. Mr.
Johnstone has brought the Uni-
versal script department to an envi-
able standard, and, together with his
assistants, C. B. Hoadley and Captain
L. T. Peacocke, has accomplished
much for the struggling writers. Mr.
Johnstone's advice to writers is to
leave "correspondence schools" alone.
He writes us as follows: "The Uni-
versal Film Manufacturing Company
is the first firm to take the initiative
in giving the photoplay author credit
for his work on all poster advertise-
ments as well as upon the film itself.
This suggestion was originally made
by Captain Peacocke, it being his
opinion that once an author has es-
tablished a reputation for doing good
work, like an actor, he has a certain
drawing power with the public. This,
when his name appears in front of the
theatre as the author of any good play,
should have a tendency to help in-
crease the patronage. It has long since
proven so in connection with the legi-
timate stage, and there is no reason
why it should not prove equally valu-
able to the motion picture art. It will
also stimulate the ambition of the
amateur author.

"The question has been asked as to
whether the present form of script
will ultimately be changed in order
to give the writer a wider scope for
detailed characterization, action, sug-
gestion as to atmosphere, etc. The
Universal desires all such suggestions,
and the more detailed the script, pro-
viding it is not verbose nor incon-
sistent, the more chance the script
has of being accepted. As an instance,
a script was recently purchased from
a Mr. Lewis A. Blodgett, of Schoharie.
N. Y., mainly because he took the
trouble to enclose photographs show-
ing desired scenery in his locality
where the picture could be taken. He
also took the trouble to go into mi-
nute details not only as to the de-

velopment of the story, but also as to
local conditions, thereby aiding the
director when the picture was made.

"It is difficult to give an honest
opinion as to whether the average
script is better to-day than a year age,
for the simple reason that so many
thousands of new amateur writers are
entering the field day by day. Con-
siderably less than one per cent of
scripts received are worth anything.
The so-called schools for the instruc-
tion of photoplaywriters unquestion-
ably do more harm than good. They
stimulate an ambition not merely to
write, but more particularly to earn
some 'easy money' on the part of
hundreds of individuals who never
could write were they to live a thou-
sand years. The gift of writing can
be developed, but the initial impulse
must be one of individual originality,
else the writer can never get out of
the rut of common clay.

"The average script received comes
from persons who are so-called 'pic-
ture fans,' and who derive their ideas
from what they see on the screen,
rather than from what comes from
any original thought. It is a strange
fact, on the other hand, that^ the
trained magazine-writer does not
seem to make the best scenario-
writer. An entirely new school has
been developed, and the best scripts
submitted and produced are those
coming from authors who have devel-
oped their talents solely along this
particular line. Undoubtedly, the best
scripts are those written by trained
scenario-writers directly connected
with the motion picture concerns.
There is no question regarding the
vast improvement in the Universal
program, and the majority of scripts
produced by the Universal have been
written by staff authors. In the East-
ern department only $200 worth of
scripts have been bought during the
past five months. Hundreds of pass-
ably good stories have been submitted
during this time, but of all these pass-
ably good stories, few were really
worth purchasing. Most of them con-
tained the same old plots, situations
and ideas that have been used again
and again. Originality must, there-
fore, be the watchword of any author
seeking success in the photoplay
field.

"Regarding the present tendency of
increasing the product of the multiple
reel, there seems to be little doubt

but that its development is showing a
tendency of being overdone. A one-
reel story stretched out to a two-
reel length never makes a good pic-
ture. The photoplay is different from
a drama if for no other reason than
for its lack of dialogue to carry the
plot. A play, therefore, that has been
a remarkable success in three or four
acts will not necessarily make a suc-
cessful photoplay in three or four
reels. There is a big question as to
whether the movement for the pro-
duction of famous plays will be as
successful as many seem to think.
Some have already fallen by the way-
side.

"As a parting advice to the amateur
writer, one maxim may well be fol-
lowed: leave so-called schools for the
instruction of photoplay writing alone,
they do not teach originality. If the
author feels that he has original ideas,
develop them along original lines. The
technique or form of writing scenarios
will be furnished by any company
purchasing scripts of the outside mar-
ket. The author should never attempt
a two-reel story until he has succeeded
in selling a one-reel story."

A Few Comments

We believe that a gradual change
is taking place in the form of scripts.
As stated previously in this depart-
ment, the wiser editors are permitting
more latitude in detail, and welcome
consistent and helpful suggestion or
detailed action when written in the
script. As Mr. Johnstone points out,
form is not everything; it's the orig-
inal idea that counts. The technique
can be attended to by the purchasing
company. Nevertheless, it is a fact
that unless the author's technique is
well-nigh perfect the market price will
be cut for him. Two years ago Giles
R. Warren, then writing the scripts
which made Florence Lawrence fa-
mous, told us that he preferred scripts
written out fully, with all helpful
business and suggestions. Scripts we
have furnished Mr. Warren were writ-
ten very completely, some of them
containing several thousand words.
One reason the present form of out-
line is so strictly demanded is that,
should it be otherwise ruled, an ava-
lanche of essays and short stories
might be inflicted upon the scenario-
readers. A script written out fully
does not mean a verbose script nor
one containing- fine writing.

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

Not a Success

The other day there appeared in a
magazine a long story in which a
writer told all about himself. The
story, possibly, jvas of absorbing in-
terest to the author. It went on to
tell how many magazine stories he
had written in so many days. It was
certainly a record breaker for rapid
writing. This sort of stuff is not good
for the beginner. Do not see how
many stories or moving picture plays
you can write in a day, see how few
you can write excellently well in a
week. There is too much of the
hurry-up work in all branches of lit-
erary endeavor.

The Two-Reel Plots

The two-reel picture plays are los-
ing in popularity in the Middle West.
Exhibitors are hearkening to the mur-
murings of the theatre fans. We dif-
fer from Mr. Johnstone, of the Uni-
versal, regarding the field for famous
plays that are filmed. Past reputation
will generally make them drawing
cards. Two reels of classical subjects
are also holding their own. It is the
ordinary every-day two-reel release
that is causing the objection. There
are too many of them. Nearly every
program nowadays consists of a two-
reel melodrama and a one-reel corn-
ed)-. Reverse the program. Give the
moving picture patrons an abundance
of two-reel comedy and less long-
drawn-out melodramatic misery. It is
a fact that theatre-goers in many
cities are shunning the programs
where the two-reel tragedies are an-
nounced. Again we urge the authors
to stick to the one-reel stories. There
will be a greater market than ever for
them in the very near future.

The Latest Entrant

"The Blank System of Writing Pho-
toplays" is a new concern coming into
the "college" field to skin the credu-
lous. "We are in a position to furnish
film manufacturers with anything they
want," reads the business card of the
concern forwarded us by the editor of
a film company. He wished us to
keep an eve on the new concern. We
will.

Hopp Hadley's Reasons

Editor Hopp Hadley, of the Reli-
ance Company, will tell you next week
just what writers of photoplays should
be given credit on films and posters.
Do not miss this "chat."

A Little Discouraged

Extract from a letter written us by
a discouraged photoplaywright of
Xew York City: "I have ideas jotted
down for fifteen other photoplays.
But I must confess that I hesitate to
go on. I realize that my product may-

be devoid of merit. But I have been
informed on several occasions of late
that film companies rarely accept
plays from "outsiders," that the best
ideas therein are usually noted, and
the script returned. I have invariably-
dismissed these arguments and have
held to my belief that the companies
are square. Is there really- a market
for photoplays written by- the 'out-
sider?' Am I justified in continuing
to plug away, with the hope of even-
tual success if the merit warrants it?"

A Christmas photoplay- rejected was
the final straw with this writer and
we announced in plenty- of time not
to send holiday plots to any- company.
If you send plots to "wildcat" con-
cerns you do it at your own risk. If
y-ou submit your stories to the estab-
lished concerns you can rest assuied
of honest treatment. Because a be-
ginner has eight, or even eighteen,
scripts returned, perseverance may
win for him. We wrote twenty scripts
before making our first sale. There
is a market for good original work
be the writer on the "outside" or on
the "inside."

The Hall of Fame

Miss Maibelle Heikes Justice's short
serial in Cosmopolitan, "The Other
Man," has been dramatized by Ed-
ward Poland, of the Lambs' Club.
New York. Poland, an excellent act-
or, will take the part of Bleeker, the
butler. The story has been arranged
in one act and will become a vaude-
ville headliner.

Clarence A. Frambers. of Chicago,
sold nine scripts in one week in Sep-
tember (they were not all written in
a week) because he kept them swing-
ing in all directions. He has some
good ideas and. best of all. did not be-
come discouraged when he failed to
sell nine in a year.

E. H. Lynde Denig. who was for-
merly- "The Film Man" of the Dra-
matic Mirror, has gone with Pathe
Freres. He is to arrange, verify and
supply sub-titles to their releases.
Trade journalism suffers a distinct
loss with Denig's departure.

No One-Reel Plots

Mrs. Louella O. Parsons. Essanay
editor, writes to one of the News
readers that Essanay is now buying
only two-reel stories and is not now
in the market for single-reel plots.

Geographic Inaccuracy

Be careful with your geography.
We read a script the other day in
which the heroine sailed for Europe
via the Philippines! Fact, we assure
you. Literary workers must con-
stantly watch the little things and. in
so doing, the big things will often
care for themselves.

The Time Limit

Mr. Herman E. L. Beyer, in that
breezy- publication, Town Talk, writes:
"In writing photoplays do not forget
the time limit. In a regular play on
the stage the acts vary as to dura-
tion. This will never do in photoplay.
A reel is one thousand feet, and the
arithmetical photoplaywright fares
better than the guesser who merely
constructs scenes without regard to
the limitations. In a letter received
from Richard Willis, that well-known
writer say-s that the script presented
was 'well put together,' but being a
subject which they do only in two
reels, the script would not 'stretch to
it.' A sale spoiled by not acting the
plot with a stop watch in one hand
and the scenario in the other, and
manipulating an adding machine with
the toes of one's left foot while rock-
ing baby with the other.

"The author of 'Bought and Paid
For,' George Broadhurst, took seven
y-ears to write a play that took two
hours and twelve minutes to produce.
The average photoplaywright takes a
few hours to do his work and then
kicks because the editor criticises it.
Get down to brass tacks. Translate
the action into minutes, allow as
many feet of action as it takes sec-
onds for you to 'act it out mentally,'
and then add as many- feet of film as
it takes seconds for you to slowly
read your sub-titles. Leave some lee-
way for title, characters and censor-
ship tag. Learn to count in the exact
time of the ticking off of seconds and
y-ou can time y-our little play without
the use of the watch."

We might add that practice makes
perfect and that the experienced play-
wright can usually hit off the proper
length of action almost by intuition.
Some of these days we'll have Mr.
Thanhouser's "natural reel." Then a
good plot running twelve hundred or
fifteen hundred feet will not be padded
by- "stretching" nor ruined by the
chalk line and spirit level method.

The Proper Caper

The magazine that started off with
a "photoplay-wright association" and
virtually told the critics they were
dead wrong, has evidently- arrived at
the conclusion that the critics were
right. The "association" idea was
conspicuous by- its absence from the
current number. The proper caper
"associations" with "membership
fees" and "dues" are not beneficial
to the struggling writer.

The Civil War Story

Put the soft pedal on the Civil War
plot. It is doomed to go into the dis-
card together with the story of the
bandy-legged red man. Every possi-
ble angle by which the brave lieutenant

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

23

Griffith and the New York Motion
Picture Corporation

Mutual Director Has no Connection with Kay-Bee. Keystone,
Broncho or Domino Productions

is captured within the enemy's lines,
and is rescued by the brave gur-rl,
has been exhausted and the people
are rising in the might of protest.
Two years ago Kalem began filming
war stories and the others soon fol-
lowed suit. They were then new and
novel. They were expensive to pro-
duce but they were popular. They are
losing that popularity.

Who will be the pathfinder to blaze
the way for a new and popular type
of play? The time is ripe. Booth
Tarkington is opening a new field of
fiction by reviving an old one. He is
reviving the boy type of Mark Twain's
"Tom Sawyer," and his stories are
published in the Saturday Evening
Post and Cosmopolitan. Maybe the
boy hero, from the viewpoint of the
adult, would prove an innovation in
Filmland, what?

Deserved Promotion

The thousands of friends of Editor
C. B. (Pop) Hoadley will be de-
lighted to learn that he has become
editor-in-chief of the scenario depart-
ment of the new Biograph-Klaw &
Erlanger Film Co. Mr. Hoadley has
been connected with the Universal
Film Mfg. Company for a number of
years, and that company regrets to
lose his services. The fraternity will
wish "Pop'' good luck in his new posi-
tion.

WILD ANIMAL FILM SOLD

Midgar Exhibiting Company Pur-
chases Rights for Greater
New York

Midgar Features announces that the
rights for Greater New York on
"How Wild Animals Live," with an
option on some additional territory,
have been purchased by a syndicate.

Mr. Middleton, of Midgar Features,
states that this syndicate will prob-
ably operate under the name of the
Midgar Exhibiting Company. The
syndicate contemplates sending four
companies on the road of "How Wild
Animals Live," although no definite
action has been taken on this matter,
pending several contracts for exclu-
sive State rights in certain territories.

Mr. Burton, of the Exhibiting Com-
pany, says he is enthusiastic about
these pictures, and is firmly convinced
that they will be a huge success
wherever shown.

"How Wild Animals Live" is a six-
act feature, accompanied by a lec-
ture.

The Coliseum Theatre, 5911-17 Mar-
ket street, Philadelphia, has been sold
by Abraham Steinfeld for approxi-
mately $140,000. Building is 60x226,
and seats 1,500. This is one of the
largest theatres in West Philadelphia.

OFFICIAL denial is made by the
New York Motion Picture Corp. of
the statement printed by several pub-
lications, not including The Motion
Picture News, that D. W. (Larry)
Griffith, late chief producer for the
Biograph Company, will have entire
supervision of the brands released on
the Mutual program.

The New York Motion Picture Cor-
poration produces the Kay-Bee, Key-
stone, Broncho and Domino brands.

ACTORS, producers and scenario-
writers of the Lubin Manufacturing
Company met celebrities of a differ-
ent kind over the coffee cups recently,
when a dinner was tendered the mem-
bers of Philadelphia's champion base-
ball team by the Lubin folk.

Clay Green, of the Lubin Com-
pany, was toastmaster, and eulogized
the athletes in a catchy poem. Among
those present from the Lubin plant
were Charles Goldsmith, secretary of
the Lubin Company; Ira Lowry, the
general manager; Earle Metcalf, lead-
ing man; William Carey, Henry Nu-
gent, George Terwilliger, Lawrence
McCloskey, E. C. Hall and Shannon
Fife, of the scenario department; Joe
Smiley, Harry Myers, John Ince, Ed-

It is the largest producing firm re-
leasing through the Mutual program.
With its products Mr. Griffith will
have nothing to do.

Thomas H. Ince, the vice-president
and general manager, has entire
charge, as ever, of the Kay-Bee,
Broncho and Domino brands, and
Mack Sennet, vice-president and gen-
eral manager of the Keystone Film
Company, continues to supervise the
production of Keystone films.

gar Jones, Isidor Schwartz, Tom Hop-
kins, William Hopkins and several
more photographers and actors.

After the dinner the guests were
shown several Lubin comedy pictures
and also a one-act subject, introduc-
ing the Athletics.

The ball players also proved them-
selves speechmakers. The silver-
tongued were Danny Murphy, Ira
Thomas, Harry Davis, Chief Bender
and Eddie Collins. The other guests
were Ben Shibe and his two sons,
Tom and John, vice-president and
secretary of the club; Plank, Baker,
Barry, Mclnnis, Eddie Murphy,
Strunk, Schang, Bush, Brown, Wyck-
off, Lapp, Oldring, Walsh and Pen-
nock.

Lubinites Dine Athletics

Film Folk and Champion Baseball Players Meet on Common

Ground

CURRENT RELEASES ON THE PROGRAM OF THE GENERAL FILM CO.

1. "The Sea Eternal," Lubin; 2. "The Man Who Vanished," Kalem; 3. "Hope," Selig; 4. "The Runaway Freight,"

Kalem; 5. "The Death Weight," Essanay.
From left to right — Marin Sais, Kalem; Beverly Bayr/e, Essanay; Florence Hackett, Lubin; Bessie Eyton, Selig.

MAKING TITLES UNDERSTOOD BY ALL

Wilfred Cook Suggests

HP HE film producer who will invent a system of
titling and subtitling films which all people may-
understand will achieve a great practical advance in
the art. Wilfred Cook, in ''The Bioscope" (London),
has some suggestive reflections on the subject. He
points out that:

One of the greatest difficulties which producers
have to contend with is that they are compelled
to cater for tastes and ideas as diverse and various as
are the races in the world. Some are pleased. Many
are displeased. Films obtain the greatest popularity
amongst races of the same origin as that of the pro-
ducing company. It could scarcely be expected that
a drama, however good, revealing the intrigues of the
French and Italian Courts at the time of Catherine de
Medici would be thoroughly appreciated by, say, a
pastoral population living in Canada. It might be a
pretty film, well staged and acted, but the patrons of
a theatre in a Western rural district in all probability
would not understand it.

Generally speaking, European races may be divided
into two classes — the Latins and the Teutons. To the
former belong the French, Italians, Spanish, Portu-
guese and some Swiss, whilst the latter class consists
of English, Dutch, Germans, Austrians, Danes, Nor-
wegians, Swedes and the remaining population of
Switzerland living on the German border. There is
another division existing in Europe — namely, the
Slavs — to which belong Russians, Finns, Bulgars,
Servs, Roumelians, Montenegrins and Galicians.

HP HE dividing line between Latins and Teutons,
A both as regards manners and customs, as also ap-
pearance and ideas, is sharply drawn. On the other
hand, the Slavonic races merge gradually into the
Teutonic.

A film which has been entirely produced by any
one of the above-mentioned Latin races will find favor
amongst the others, because these races are allied to
each other and have similar tastes, ideas and thoughts.
In the same way, a film produced by any Teutonic
race is readily understood and enjoyed by the others.

In the early days of the motion picture the Latin
class of film was predominant, and everyone will re-
member the difficulties which the public experienced
in endeavoring to follow the stories which were told
at that time on the screen.

To cite one instance — namely, the custom of living
in France in blocks of flats and the little oddities in
connection with the concierge (janitor). Of course,
by this time the public has become accustomed to
the concierge, though he never looks anything else but
strange and foreign, and the best name which title-
writers have been able to devise for him is "house

speranto for the Purpose

porter," which after all is about as near a description
as "mammal" would be for a kangaroo.

* * *

OUT since the advent of Teutonic films, and espe-
cially German films, we are enabled to see pic-
tures rivaling the Latin productions in every respect,
and yet more according to our own ideas and customs,
for our "cousins across the North Sea" are indeed
our relatives, springing, as they do, from the same
original stock.

No stronger evidence of this can be found than the
similarity between the English and German languages,
whilst Dutch is midway between the two. Below is
a short list of words to illustrate this assertion:

English

Dutch

German

Glass

Glas

Glas

Man

Man

Mann

House

Huis

Haus

Fish

Visch

Fisch

Sea

Zee

See

The natural result is that the English-speaking pub-
lic is more "sympathetic" to German films. They do
not feel outside their own sphere whilst watching
them, and consequently enjoy them the more. Fur-
thermore, pictures which are not entirely in sympathy
with the spectators must be explained, either, as in
Japan by a "lecturer," who stands by the screen and
shouts out the various phases and developments of the
plots, or, as in England, by a multitude of sub-titles.

The better the film, or at any rate, the more nearly
that it approximates the ideas of the people who are
looking at it, the feAver sub-titles will be required.
* * *

UP to the present practically only scenics and comics
have enjoyed the unique distinction of carrying
only a main title, but now we are shortly to see a film,
produced by the Deutsche Bioscope Company of Ber-
lin, called "Landstrasse" ("On the High Board"),
who unfolds its own story as clearly as a book, though
the plot is by no means weak or simple, and this with
only the following titles to explain it : "The Story
Commences," "Time Passes," "The Story Ends."

The attention, therefore, is not distracted by the
flashing on to the screen every few moments of a line
or so of reading matter; the spectator feels himself
carried away by the story; he unravels the plot for
himself.

It is probable that films which circulate between al-
lied races will before long be shown without explana-
tory sub-titles, but it is difficult to believe that this
can be done with pictures produced by one race and
circulated amongst another, though perhaps it will
come to pass in the days of universal peace and
language.

Could the Esperantists help? T. B.

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

II. SOURCES OF INSPIRATION

TAKING up the theme which we opened up last
week, that of fresh sources of inspiration for mo-
tion pictures, we think it of sufficient importance to
devote a second article to it. Turning over the pages
of our artistic contemporaries devoted to the motion
picture in Germany, we perceive that the ideas we are
here expressing are felt there, namely, that good, still
pictures may be made the motives or inspirations of
motion pictures.

There is, for example, a reproduction in one of these
papers of the famous painting "Napoleon" on board
the Belleroppon. This picture is by Orchardson. It
depicts the little corporal in the hands of his captors
on board ship. Evidently our German friends have
taken this single theme to build a picture and probably
in the film you will see a reproduction of the still
painting. But here a difficulty presents itself. The
copyright in Orchardson's picture has not expired and
that being the case, if you make a motion picture of a
copyright still painting, you are liable to be sued for
damages.

There is no doubt in our minds that alert American
producers will soon be making motion pictures around

ELSIE ALBERT

Who plays the part of the Princess Zuleika in "Aladdin and His
Wonderful Lamp." Three parts.

Photo copyrighted by Mme. D'ora, Vienna.

MADAME ORLOFF
Distinguished Viennese actress who joined the forces of Great
Northern to play lead in "Atlantis."

these inspirational ideas. We think they are wise in
their doing so. It should put a new complexion on the
business. We should then be assured of pictures
wholly or in part — pictures.

This copyright difficulty is one which all interested
in the art and industry should keep in mind. It has,
as we have pointed out before, great importance in
view of its possibilities. If you show a motion picture
in your theatre, part of which includes action from a
copyright play or part of a copyright picture or part
of a copyright novel, you are liable to be proceeded
against. Plays and novels have been pirated wholly or
in part by film makers. In the natural order of things,
it is the turn of the picture, but we shall, in the in-
terests of the art and industry, try to avert anything
of the sort, and so we publish these warnings.

The Motion Picture News is the only publication of
its kind, at any rate on the American Continent, which
is constantly calling attention to the film makers and
exhibitors who are continually running risks in
respect of copyright matters.

THE FEATURE FILM OF TO-MORROW

By EDWIN L. BARKER
Of I. H. C. Service Bureau

Hp HE industrial and the educational are to be the
feature films of the future. Is that a surprising
statement? It's true, just the same, even though many
manufacturers and exhibitors smile and shake their
heads. It is the way of all things. They start as
amusement and develop into things more practical
and worth while.

The phonograph began as an entertaining toy. It
has become a necessity in everyday business and edu-
cation. The automobile was a luxury — a pleasure car.
Now it is playing an important part in the world's
business.

Interesting as they may be, one cannot grow over-
enthusiastic over little photoplays. The industrial
and educational pictures are sure to rise from the split
reel to a feature position. Not all educational pictures
are industrial, but all industrials are educational.

After all is said and done, in this age of big busi-
ness, the tariff, and the high cost of living, there are
no subjects closer to the people than the why and the
how of the things we eat and wear and use. We all
want to know — that is a human instinct as strong as
life itself. Children want to know and so do grown-
ups. The older we grow the more we want to know,
and then after we know we are not satisfied. The
motion picture can be made a great satisfier of curi-
osity.

We sometimes say to ourselves that we are pretty
well educated. But many of us are woefully ignorant.
All our lives we have been wearing clothes and shoes,
yet how many of us know anything about clothes arid
shoes? Do we know how the wool is grown and the
leather tanned, and how clothes and shoes are manu-
factured? Not one person in a thousand has any
idea of the processes through which clothes and shoes
must pass before they reach us ready to wear. We
live in rooms filled with furniture, yet we know noth-
ing about furniture ; nothing about its history or how
it is made. We eat bread three times a day, but what
do we know of the story of bread ?

At every turn of our day's work we are face to face
with the unknown. It is true that we might read
about how the things we eat and wear are manufac-
tured, but we do not. We are too busy, or too lazy,
or do not think about it.

The motion picture is an easy way to knowledge.
The motion picture saves the time of reading, and it
brings us face to face with the actual working facts.
We see, and to see is to know. Many of the industrial
pictures may be neatly tucked into a story ; in fact,
I think this is just where the big feature industrial
picture will find itself. It is the industrial story that
will figure in future releases.

A little more than a year ago I wrote "Back to the
Old Farm" for the Essanay Company. This contained
a human-interest love story, nad at the same time it

contrasted the old, hard-working days on the farm
with the easier methods of the present, and, inci-
dentally, it showed many of the big, modern machines
at work in the fields. This was an industrial story
picture, and its success proves that the public appre-
ciated it.

Here is a fact that may be of interest to the ex-
hibitor. A few months ago a friend of mine saw at
a downtown theatre an interesting industrial picture.
He was so impressed with its educational value that
he asked the manager of a picture house in his neigh-
borhood to secure it. At the same time he suggested
to the manager the idea of mailing out post cards to
announce the date the film was to be run. The man-
ager did this, and it resulted in more than a hundred
extra admissions. This gave the manager encour-
agement, so from that time on he has made a specialty
of industrial and educational films. He has raised
the tone of his theatre, has substituted real piano music
for rattlety-bang noise, and to-day he enjoys the larg-
est patronage of any theatre in the neighborhood. He
boasts of his automobile trade, and automobile trade
is something to boast of. Instead of losing those who
applauded the love stories and the stories out of the
fuzzy west, he has held them, every one. In fact, their
number has increased, and what is still better, other
people drop in who never dropped in before.

This is always the way — it is the way to success.
We want to go where the crowds go. Last week a
man from a small country town in Wisconsin told me
that his picture theatre lost money up until the time
he put on some pictures of educational value. Since
then his patronage has increased, and every Wednes-
day and Saturday night the theatre is crowded.

Two years ago the International Harvester Com-
pany of America sent out a film, "The Evolution of
Harvesting." This film is still doing service. I kept
close tab on its success, and a number of theatres that
took it for one night kept it for three nights.

We have found that the interest in industrial pic-
tures is very large, and we do not believe that is
especially true in our case simply because our pictures
show farm scenes. There is a fascination about the
farm for most people, but we believe the public to be
just as much interested in furniture, or sugar, or salt,
or lead pencils as in anything else, if only the subject
is presented in the right way.

It is up to the film manufacturers and the exhibitors
to raise the motion picture to a high point. You will
remember that a few years ago there was no vaude-
ville. Then they called it "variety." Women and chil-
dren seldom attended the performances. But the man-
agers got together and started in to improve things.
To-day variety is a thing of the past and vaudeville has

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JpHH

Mvisic and the
Picture

Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address: Music Department, The Motion Picture News

WHY have we so many defective
theatres, such ill-mannered ush-
ers and such poor music to accompany
the pictures?

Because too many persons go into
the motion picture show business with
no experience whatever, and the be-
lief that anything is good enough.

The comments heard and the in-
quiries received show that the ex-
hibitor is taking much interest in the
different departments of The Motion
Picture News and is eager to receive
helpful information.

Finds Few Organs or Orchestras

In Pittsburgh, Columbus, Spring-
field and Dayton I have found that
most of the theatres, especially the
best known houses, have not adopted
a full orchestra or pipe-organ, but give
very good and appropriate music with
a pianist and drummer

In Cincinnati I called at the Family
Theatre, where I was surprised to
find a pipe-organ. I say surprised be-
cause I cannot see the need of such
an expensive musical instrument
when the house, with its 1,200 seats,
has to keep patrons standing in the
lobby. I did not like the pipe-organ,
as I do not believe that the melodious
tones and celestial notes of such an
instrument fit a drama of the charac-
ter of "The Switchman's Mistake."

From the size of the audience at
the supper hour I would judge that
the pipe-organ does not increase the
receipts, as last January and February
and at the same hour, the audiences
were as good if not better than to-
day. I will admit that it was a cold,
damp day, which might have kept
some patrons at home.

Here follows a letter from Mr. L.
Shaw, Jr., which emphasizes many of
the points I discussed in these pages:

Mr. Manager: Do you realize what
an important factor music is to your
business? Do you realize that music,
inefficient and non-appropriate, can
ruin the interpretation of your pic-
tures? Are you trying to save a dollar

on cheap talent? If so, you are an
enlisted member of the "Penny Wise,
Pound Foolish Club."

What jars the human system more
than, for example, a piano smasher —
who was designed to move pianos in-
stead of playing them — a man or
woman who pounds ragtime inces-
santly and unmercifully during the en-
tire performance, whether it be a
death-bed scene or a strong dramatic
photoplay, that calls for nothing but
classic and descriptive music.

Some so-called "artists" have as
much conception of playing for mo-
tion pictures as I have in flying from
here to Europe (or Hoboken).

One must be an artist to play to
motion pictures. And an "artist" calls
for good remuneration.

The writer has had a long experi-
ence in this branch as a pianist, and
is in a good position to talk on such
a subject intelligently.

"Playing to the pictures" is the key-
note to a good motion picture musi-
cian, and in order to accomplish this
feat one must have a large repertoire
of international and descriptive music,
and it is not usually the man or
woman who values their services at
a low figure who accomplishes the
feat. Like everything else in life,
good goods must be bought at a good
price, and purchasing of cheap talent
is false economy.

Ability to Improvise a Good Asset

Where there is nothing else to play
for but motion pictures, it is my opin-
ion, and I believe that of many others,
that a so-called "ear" musician (pro-
viding he or she has a pleasing touch
and a good repertoire) is a very supe-
rior type of artist for that kind of
work.

I have heard pianists, for example,
who are really good pianists, either
for overture, orchestra or as an in-
structor, good sight-readers with good
execution and harmonic ideas, but they
fall flat when describing a picture.
They lack that continuous flow of nat-

ural improvising that the born but
uncultured pianist exhibits. '

I have been in many of the leading
"motion picture vaudeville" houses
throughout the country and observed
this condition in the better-class
houses, strange to say.

I have a very good friend who fol-
lows the business as his vocation. He
literally "reads" anything. A first-
class vaudeville pianist, but is lost
as soon as the pictures begin to flicker
on the screen.

Now, Mr. Manager, once more take
a fool's advice and give this part of
your business as much consideration
as you do your operator or the pic-
tures themselves.

L. SHAW, JR.

I do not fully agree on the1 last part
of Mr. Shaw's letter. It is a mistake
to think that the operator is better
treated than the musicians, or that the
manager is a better judge of pictures.

The manager who cannot appreciate
good music, who cannot tell the
difference between a piano smasher
and an artist able to play the picture,
does not know what a good picture is,
nor can he judge a good projection.

The truth is that the operator is
the worse treated in a small, suffocat-
ing booth in which he can scarcely
turn around.

J. M. B.

William Fox, the vaudeville mag-
nate, has arranged to present in each
of his houses, of the better class, two
of the Hepworth features handled in
America by Albert Blinkhorn. These
are "David Copperfield" in seven reels
and "Kissing Cup," a four-part rac-
ing melodrama with automobile and
aeroplane complications.

Albert Blinkhorn, American agent
for some of the biggest of the English
feature film manufacturers, has made
arrangements by which he will soon
be able to offer two single reels every
week to the trade. One reel is to
be a drama and the other a split com-
edy and scenic.

Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address: Exhibitors' Department, The Motion Picture News

New York, N. Y ', Oct. 27, 1913.
Editor Motion Picture News,

Exhibitors' Department.
Dear Sir:

I notice in your issue of the
first a statement under the head-
ing of, "Appearance and Man-
ners," that you visited a new
theatre where the attendants were
neither efficient nor courteous and
seemed thoroughly out of place
in a picture theatre. The reason
you give for this is that they were
a class that would work for a low
salary.

I thank you on behalf of the
motion picture exhibitors of
Greater New York for taking this
matter up, as it is really one of
the drawbacks that we have been
trying to remedy, as a low-sala-
ried man cannot be beneficial to
the employer or to the public in
genera!, and the discourteous
treatment received by patrons of
those theatres has been a suffi-
cient drawback to make the ex-
hibitors who know their business
wish that some trade journal had
taken this matter up before.

I sincerely hope you will keep
up this good work, and go after
these proprietors, and I think it
will do some good were you to
mention the names of the places
you visit and find this class of
attendants.

Again thanking you for the in-
terest taken in the exhibitor and
wishing your paper all the suc-
cess it deserves.

Respectfully yours,
SAMUEL H. TRIGGER,

President of Motion Picture
Exhibitors' Association of
Greater New York, Incor-
porated.

TN the management of a theatre there
A are many small details which do not
seem to be of much importance to the
exhibitor, yet are noticed by the patrons
and cause an unfavorable impression.

Is it not cheap and in very poor taste
to throw on a screen, beautifully sur-^
rounded by draperies and decorations, an

ugly stencil slide showing the style of
writing often found on shipping boxes?

Slides and Banners

These stencil slides have been invented
to please the managers who do not want
to spend any money on the appearance
of their theatre. No, they are not stingy,
because while they object to paying
thirty-five or fifty cents per day for an
announcement glass slide, they spend
two or three dollars on an ugly banner
to deface the appearance of the lobby.

The ugly banner cheapens the appear-
ance of the theatre, while a neat glass
slide can give the impression of refine-
ment which means so much to the suc-
cess of a photoplay house.

While the metal or paper stencil slides
are in poor taste, the hand-written slides
are still worse, as few managers or op-
erators are good penmen and spellers.

The glass slide has a drawback — the
breakage — and this amounts to a rather
high item when the slides are in the
hands of careless operators.

The glass slides break because the
operator allows them to remain exposed
too long to the heat of the lamp-house.
Another cause of breakage is from ex-
posing the slides to a draught. Many
slides crack when the operator places
them in the carrier before giving them
the chance to assume the temperature of
the room, or when they are still damp
from a cleaning. Many operators keep
the slides on the table of the machine
to keep them at a certain temperature,
and while this practice can save many
slides from cracking, the operators do
not save much, as they drop too many
slides on the floor.

Revolving Disk Saves Slides

A manager should have a stereopticon
with a revolving disk and he would save
many slides.

The discarding of the glass slides
came at a bad time, or, to be correct,
when the slide makers, after realizing
the large field open to them, had started
to improve the subjects and the colors.

We know that while, the slide makers
were producing some very fine slides for

lectures, they were somewhat crude in
their first announcement and song slides.

For the last few years slides have
improved in both designs and colors,
and we have to-day some very artistic
announcement slides, beautiful slides
which not only please but rest the eye
from the flickers of the film. Some of
these announcement slides are a real
relief to the eyes of the patron which
have been strained by watching a long
feature.

The beautiful announcement glass col-
ored slides add to the refinement of the
show and are a certain mark of cour-
teous attention to the patrons.

I encourage the announcement glass
slide in preference to the stencil or
poorly hand-written slide, because I am
for the good appearance of a theatre,
as I believe that the good pictures of
to-day need a good frame to maintain
the better patronage.

While visiting the theatres of Indian-
apolis I have been pleased to see that
most of them stick to the glass slide.
Indianapolis has a large number of re-
fined photoplay houses which would be
ornaments to New York and Chicago.
They are not only fine buildings, but
are managed in such a manner as to se-
cure the best patronage.

I have seen in these theatres some
beautiful announcement slides from the
Niagara Slide Company, of Lockport,
N. Y.

Columbus Theatres Decreasing

They come and they go. Each time I
visit Columbus, O., I find some new mo-
tion picture theatres, while I fail to find
some of the old ones. Columbus is not
an exception, as in most of the towns
we find constant changes. Yet the num-
ber of theatres is fast decreasing, as
Columbus is not building enough new
houses to replace the ones going out of
business.

There is a reason. It is very simple.
We have too many persons afflicted with
a small capital and no experience, who
go into the motion picture show busi-
ness with the belief , that it is a gold
mine. A few weeks are enough to show

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

" Making a Mayor"

A Striking Title and a Film Which Educates Politically

them their mistake, and then, to save
their investment, they try to ruin their
competitors by showing long programs
and by offering many inducements, with
the result that they put themselves out
of business.

Max Stearn is the pioneer exhibitor
of Columbus, and a very successful one.
Mr. Stearn had to face many competi-
tors, but while he has seen them fall by
the wayside he has paid no attention
to them. He did not try to put them
out of business by following their ex-
ample.

Mr. Stearn remained cool. He stuck
to his common-sense policy. He did not
increase his program nor deface the
facade of his theatre with an abuse of
ugly posters, nor add a full orchestra,
pipe-organ or souvenirs. Mr. Stearn
continued to maintain the most refined
photoplay house in Columbus. He shows
the best selected pictures. He has them
well projected and accompanied by ap-
propriate music.

The success of Mr. Stearn is due to
his strict policy on appearance and man-
ners. His attendants are clean-cut fel-
lows of good appearance, excellent man-
ners and very courteous. The posters
are all placed in well-polished brass
frames.

While the "Exhibit," the theatre "of
Mr. Stearn, is the oldest one (seven
years old), it is still the refined photo-
play house of Columbus.

Max Stearn made a great success of
his enterprise, and as he claims he owes
much to the support of the people of
Columbus, he is building a most beauti-
ful theatre to seat twelve hundred per-
sons and to show straight pictures only.
Mr. Stearn an Example

As I have talked much on appearance
and manners, I take pleasure in giving
Mr. Stearn as an example of an ex-
hibitor who can stick to his policy and
not allow himself to be tempted by this
demon of petty jealousy, which has
done so much to ruin many exhibitors.
In closing I must say that Mr. Max
Stearn is highly respected by his com-
petitors, as they all recognize the owner
of the Exhibit theatre, the perfect gen-
tleman showman. J. M. B.

IN RE HELEN GARDNER

The Helen Gardner Picture Players
have made a contract to produce
twelve three-thousand-foot dramas,
which will be released on the War-
ner's Features program. The first
will be "A Daughter of Pan," and
will be followed by a subject dealing
with modern Russian life.

The Helen Gardner pictures are
made for the Helgar Corporation,
which firm will turn the dozen three-
act films over to Warner's Features.
However, during the coming year it
is planned to make four or six eight-
act pictures in addition to those made
for Warner's Features.

WITH woman suffrage a theme of
eternal discussion, together with
the particularly keen political warfare
waged in New York State and city,
a film depicting faithfully and accu-
rately the career of a vote is one of
poignant interest to the holder of the
suffrage franchise, as well as to pos-
sible holders, male and female. The
fact of a film having been taken
under special privilege always adds
to its value, and the privilege granted
to the Fair Feature Sales Company
to take motion pictures in the hitherto
forbidden regions where the votes
are assembled that make mayors adds
ten-fold to its value as an educational
archive.

"Making a Mayor; How the Metrop-
olis Elects Its Executive; New York's
Liveliest Day and Busiest Night" is
the title trinity of this subject, which
is being sold on the open-market
basis. It shows, among other things,
the various important personages of
the campaign, Sulzer, Whitman, Mc-
Call and others, in the course of their
daily duties, or engaged in coercing
voters into the straight and narrow
way of political preference.

There are glimpses of the activi-
ties of women campaigners for the
Fusion cause, among them Mrs.
Charles Dana Gibson, wife of the
artist. Also a fraction of a hundred
feet showing how the women will
vote when they get a chance. The
latter scenes were taken at Columbus

Circle, New York City, on election
day. They report the mock election
which women there carried on.

Each step incidental to the evolu-
tion of a vote, from its germinal im-
pulse to vote for this or that party as
influenced by stump speech, eloquence
or by traditional custom, to the sum-
ming up in Police Headquarters of
the returns, is shown. For the women
who constitute such a large portion
of the motion picture audiences these
scenes will be interesting.

Election night has become a polite
synonym for "riot." To illustrate these
scenes of revelry, scenes have been
taken of the excited interiors of two
of the most important cafes and
"places de danse." Here widely-
known actresses and men of affairs are
seen in the mazes of the turkey-trot,
poetically described by Roy L. Mc-
Cardell as "the poultry of motion."

KLEINE OFFICIAL ORDERS
NEW CONDENSER

A large consignment of a new va-
riety of condensers has arrived at the
Chicago offices of the Kleine Optical
Company and are now being offered
for sale. Manager Frank Hough
claims that this particular condenser
is an actual lense made of optical
glass and cannot discolor, as is the
case with the common glass usually
molded into lenses.

IN describing the Regent theatre, of
New York; the Bijou Dream, of
Boston; the Bijou, of Springfield, Mass.,
and other theatres I have often said
that these houses are very prosperous
and command the best patronage by re-
fusing to display posters.

I have found another house, the Pitt,
where posters are unknown, but replaced
by the most refined advertising frame,
as shown in the accompanying illustra-
tion.

that appeals to the better element and
that is sure to bring good results.

Such a frame can be seen from across
the street, and is so attractive as to in-
duce many persons to cross the street.
I cannot say so good a word for the
six-sheet posters. They are so ugly at
a distance that persons on the opposite
sidewalk merely glance at them and say,
"Another of those cheap places."

Posters, banners and signs are not the
only medium to advertise the show.
Good clean films speak louder than
posters.

"Rainy" Films a Poor Ad

Dirty or "rainy" films are a mighty
poor advertisement, as the patrons carry
out the news that the theatre is showing
old films. In many cases the films are
not old, but they are full of dirt from
the constant handling by careless opera-
tors. If the machine is not cleaned
the film will gather all the dirt and
old oil.

The general cause is in the rewinding,
as too often this work is done by boys,
who let the film drag on a dirty table
and even on the floor.

The streaks shown on the curtain are

not always scratches, as few films are
scratched. The film, on passing through
the machine, gathers more or less old oil
and the dirt falling on the greasy sur-
face is not dusted away as the film
passes over the sprockets, but sticks and
forms, with the old oil, a sort of soft
dirt which spreads the whole length of
the film and causes the streaks seen
on the screen, vulgarly called "rain-
storms."

The film should be cleaned. If the
reader could be fortunate to assist to
the demonstration I had the other day
in Columbus, O., he would be surprised
to see the amount of dirt a film can
gather within a few weeks.

I have been shown many film cleaners,
film renovators, all with good and bad
points.

The accompanying illustration shows
the machine invented by Mr. R. D.
Hanish, of Columbus, O.

This machine has passed the experi-
mental stage as one machine has been
in constant operation for the last fif-
teen months at a Columbus film ex-
change now controlled by the Mutual
Film Corporation.

This machine is the large model

A. A. is a wide brass frame.

B. B. are brass cross-bars, dividing
the frame into four sections.

C. C. Ihe four sections can be cov-
ered with velvet or any other material
or plain cardboard, white or colored.
These four sections are used to adver-
tise the pictures, singer or other fea-
tures.

D shows the plan for a photo of an
actual scene of the film to be shown.

E shows a space for a short synopsis
or title of the film to be shown.

F F shows the photographs of the
singer.

The exhibitor is not restricted to one
large photo per section. He can place
a number of smaller ones or photo-
graphs of actors.

On the other hand, I would not ad-
vise any one to use too many photo-
graphs or descriptions. The artistic ap-
pearance of an advertising display should
be maintained. It is an advertisement

THE HANISH FILM CLEANING MACHINE

32

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

made for the benefit of the film manu-
facturers and firm renters. Mr. Han-
ish has perfected a smaller model for
the exhibitor.

On the large machine, three reels
can be cleaned at the same time. The
film passes between several sets of
drums and rollers with no undue
strain on the film. No acid or prepa-
rations are used but the drums are
covered with heavy white muslin on
which the dirt from the film sticks.
When the film is released from the
machine, it is perfectly clean and soft.

Small Machine for Exhibitor

The smaller machine, the one for
the exhibitor, is to be connected with
the rewinder and is not intended to
clean old dirty films, but to keep the
film in good condition by removing
at each rewinding the fresh oil and
dirt.

With a good renovating machine,
the renter can increase the life of his
films as in most cases the exhibitor
does not object to the age of the film
but he does not want rainy pictures.
When films are relieved of a coat of
sticky dirt, they run more smoothly
through the machine, consequently
are less liable to break.

The feature renters and the state
right buyers should welcome such a
machine, as they would double the
life of the copies in their possession.

Clean films are the advertisement.

The other day I visited a theatre
and when a Vitagraph film was flashed
on the screen,- a lady next to me said,
"This is an old film." I could not
blame her as the film was very dirty,
yet I was surprised as I knew the
house shows only films from three to
five days old.

I consulted the release page and
found that the film was four days old.
As the film was not dirty all the way
through, I came to the conclusion
that the rewinder had met an acci-
dent, had dropped part of the film on
the floor and had perhaps walked over
a section of it by mere accident. The
film was not dirty from age as some
six hundred feet were clear.

J. M. B.

EDUCATION BOARD ENDORSES
KLEINE "POMPEII"

The Board of Education of the
City of New York has endorsed
George Kleine's production of the
Ambrosio version of "The Last Days
of Pompeii," now playing at the Bijou
Theatre, for teachers and pupils of
all the grades of the public school
system, as being of superior quality
and a valuable aid in the pursuit of
their studies, particularly of that pe-
riod in Roman history in which the
action of the story occurs.

Neff on Ohio Censor Situation

THE following communication has
been received from M. A. Neff, of
Cincinnati, president of the Motion
Picture Exhibitors' League of Amer-
ica:

"A suit has been started in the United
States Federal Court in Cleveland,
Ohio, to test the constitutionality of
the motion picture censor law in the
State of Ohio. The State Censor
Board being under the State Indus-
trial Commission, which has charge
of the administration of the act, will
not attempt to enforce the penal sec-
tion until after the fourth day of De-
cember. This action was decided up-
on by Attorney-General T. S. Hogan
and Wallace Yaple, chairman of the
Industrial Commission. A resolution
will be spread upon the minutes of
the commission directing there be
no prosecution until after December
4, or until the suit is decided.

"This action was taken by Attorney-
General T. S. Hogan to obviate the
necessity for a temporary restraining
order, or an injunction, which was
asked for by those who attacked the
law. Possibly if the enemies of the
Censor bill would have known what
a great favor they were doing the
Censor Board, they would have hesi-
tated, as the Censor Board has been
working night and day to have a suffi-
cient number of films censored so
none of the exhibitors in the State
would be inconvenienced. The thirty
days will give them ample and suffi-
cient time to censor every film in
the State, and be right up to the min-
ute with their work.

It is stated by those attacking the
State Censor law that they desire to
have municipal police censorship in-
stead of a state or national censor-
ship, but under any and all condi-
tions they are opposed to any legally
constituted censor board. The ex-
hibitors of Ohio are very greatly sur-
prised. There are all kinds of reasons
given.

"After all the reasons are given,
pro and con, the fact still remains
that if the present censor law is de-
clared unconstitutional when the Ohio
State Legislature meets in January
they will possibly pass a law that
will stand the test of the State and
national constitution. Now that the
agitation is started in Ohio there will
be one of two things, either a State
censor board, or every municipality
in the State of Ohio will have a local
censor board, whether composed of
police officers, preachers, lawyers,
doctors or other persons.

"Cincinnati, through the Board of
Public Safety, has established a cen-
sor board for vaudeville and dramatic
plays, composed of one or two preach-
ers, a priest, a city official and one
woman. If Ohio did not have a State
censor law, the same power that ap-
points a censor board for the dramatic
vaudeville plays would appoint a po-
lice censor board for censoring.

"This reasoning ought to convey the
deplorable condition in which it would
place the exhibitors of Cincinnati. If
we are to have a censor board, let
it be as broad, liberal and intelligent
as it is possible to secure."

League in Bay State

Massachusetts Soon to Have Organization, Says
President Neff

ACCORDING to statements of M.
A. Neff, of Cincinnati, president of
the Motion Picture Exhibitors' League
of America, it is likely that Massachu-
setts will soon have a State branch of
the national organization. Mr. Neff
has conferred with George F. Wash-
burn, of the Unique Theatre, 700
Washington street, and several other
exhibitors. Mr. Washburn is now in
charge of the organization in Massa-
chusetts.

"While the number may not be
large," said Mr. Neff, "I expect that
Massachusetts exhibitors will soon be
organized into a vigorous and harmo-
nious branch of the Motion Picture
Exhibitors' League of America. The
difficulty of organizing the State lies
in the fact that the western part of

the State gets its film service from
New York, while the theatres in the
eastern part and handled from Boston.

"Boston has, I am told, only thirty-
two motion picture theatres. Many
of these show eight or ten pictures for
one admission, while some show six
acts of vaudeville and eight pictures
for ten cents. My policy has always
been three reels for five cents and
four for ten cents, no more than four
under any conditions."

The film booking agent of the Mar-
cus Loew Theatrical Circuit has con-
tracted with J. Weinberg, of Wein-
berg's Features, New York City, for
thirty-four consecutive days on "The
Missing Woman," the Film Releases
of America subject.

GETTING INTO PERSONAL TOUCH WITH

THE PATRONS

How to Make Friends of Customers by the Co-operation of all Concerned

The The employees look to the

Exhibitor exhibitor for their stand-
ard in all things pertaining
to their work.

Begin by being courteous. That, in
turn, will make them courteous to pa-
trons. Don't be a word miser. A
jovial, breezy ''good morning" to each
person on your payroll means much
to them.

If an error is made, don't practice
elocution when you tell the one at
fault about it. To err is human. The
transgressor may feel badly enough
about it. Make your criticism con-
structive and helpful.

Encourage promptness by being
prompt yourself. Don't delay finan-
cing your employees with their week's
wages when Saturday night arrives.
They feel more like showing up in
the morning then. Give each of them
an occasional few hours of rest.
Flashes of humanity are always well
received.

If your manager tells you of a prac-
tical way to save money, don't sus-
pect him of stealing someone's else
ideas. If his plans are good, don't
hesitate to adopt them. If he isn't
coming up to the mark, sit down and
have it out with him quietly.

See that your ushers, musicians,
doorman and box-office girl go to
work with a smile on their faces. A
smile is a good magnet for Silver.

Treat your employees the way you
would have the exchange manager
treat you, and the results will surprise
you. They will transplant that spirit
of cordiality to the patrons.

The ^he manager is the go-

Manager between for the owner and
the employees. You must
supply the fuel of ideas and energy
to the machine under your control.
Don't nag. Keep your eyes on the
persons who buy tickets. If one looks
dissatisfied, find out why.

Don't take a baby's cry as a signal
to show the mother that you're the
manager. Step down the aisle and
ask her if there is anything you can
do to help her.

Women who attend matinees doubt-
less spend the morning sweeping and
dusting. That's why they hate dirt.
So see that the scrub crew doesn't
skimp its work with mop, broom and
cloth. A dusty chair arm may cost
the theatre dear in criticisms.

Don't forget that some persons
would rather find fault than praise.

By E. J. HUDSON

But they never become angry because
they have no opportunity to do the
former.

The manager should be the em-
ployer's alter ego. Stay there by
being the best fellow on earth, keep-
ing those under you in good humor,
giving advice to them when needed,
offering helpful criticism, and remem-
bering always that their salaries,
yours and the owner's income depend
upon the persons who buy the tickets.
Guide the work and actions of those
under you to always give the greatest
satisfaction to the patrons.

The The ticket seller is the

Ticket thermometer for the the-
Seller atre. Your smile through
the ticket window spells
cheerfulness and amusement within
the theatre for the folks with the
dimes.

Because you know better, don't
turn up your nose at persons who ask
foolish questions. A short answer is
money turned away. A well-voiced,
civil and enlightening reply to the
most foolish of questions is just so
much more money in the pocket of
the man who pays your salary.

If you're a girl, don't support the
paint department of a drug store
Paint, or overpowdering, is objection-
able to many women patrons.

If you're a man, practice economy.
The best economy on earth is a clean
collar, neatly arranged necktie, a
freshly shaven face, and clean cuffs,
when viewed from the outside. Women
patrons are critical. Keep the win-
dow glass in the ticket office clean.
Some persons have weak eyes, and
might think no one was there.

Don't fuss when you have to ex-
tract ten cents from a "twenty," with
a long waiting line. Think of the
wealthy class of patrons the house is
pulling, and be glad that some one is
lucky enough to have that much.

Keep a little woolen cloth handy to
wipe the finger marks from off the
glass over which you slide the tickets.
Some persons are sticklers for sani-
tation, and might think that you were
taking Bertillion measurements.

A pleasant smile of welcome is the
cheapest and yet' the rarest thing on
earth. Some will come to your theatre
to get rid of a grouch. Your smile
will start them right before they get
inside the door.

Above all, don't forget you are
being paid for working. The best way

to get a raise is to help the owner.
Just remember that every patron you
win to the house is a friend. A first-
timer, made to feel at home, coming
once a week for a year, is $5.20 more
in the box-office.

The The doorman is the own-

Doorman er's host. Don't think that
because a person's dime
is already in the box-office, that the
whole matter ends right there. It's
just the beginning.

Don't take tickets handed you as
though you were being bored. Look
as though you were honestly glad to
see the people. A "thank you" in ex-
change for every ticket is the best
kind of a trading stamp.

If you've a crowd waiting to get in,
don't stand inside the door where it's
warm. The people that spend their
money to see the show are entitled to
that room, if there is any.

Keep your uniform pressed. Don't
let women with babies wait outside.
Find room for them somewhere. You
are just as much responsible for the
greeting and making welcome of pa-
trons as anyone else.

The The usher is the guardian

Usher angel for every patron who
enters the theatre.
Don't seat patrons to suit yourself.
Some prefer the rear of the house. A
couple, unmarried, usually like to sit
in one of the side rows. Help them
find seats there, and not near any exit
lights.

Spend fifty cents for a bull's-eye
light. You can flash it down the aisle.

"Yes, sir," and "No, sir," take no
more breath than "Yep" and "Nope."

Try walking lightly down the aisles
for a change. The carpet will wear
longer, and those slightly deaf will ap-
plaud louder when the orchestra fin-
ishes a selection.

The No person ever died to

Musicians the tune of a tango.

Neither has anyone ever
committed a murder under the spell
of "When that Midnight Choo Choo
Leaves for Alabam'."

A loosened string on the violin, an
untightened drum head, or a flat key
on a piano will make everyone laugh
Five minutes devoted to inspection
before the day's show opens is a good
investment.

Some persons appreciate good mu-
sic. It's a profitable stunt to try and
merit their appreciation. Don't gaze

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at the ceiling when you reach a "rest."

"Time" is essential to the right
kind of music, but be sure that you
get the right kind of music at the
right time.

The A strong light, a steady

Operator picture, and no breaks
never received criticism
from any audience.

There are plenty of good books on
projection. They are published to be
read.

Every trouble has a remedy. Find

it.

Slides are not made to give you an
excuse to loaf between reels. Don't
insert slides upside down.

Your lungs are just plain lungs.
Ten or twelve hours in a hot booth

doesn't do them any good. Get an
electric fan. You can work better,
and won't tire as easily. Show this
to the owner.

Getting back to the slide. It covers
a multitude of sins and mishaps in the
booth, but don't overwork it. People
don't go to theatres to learn that
"Ufty's Bread Is Best."

I saw one operator change reels in
eleven seconds. His employer has
him under contract at $30 a week. He
started at $12. But he told the owner
what he thought could be done to im-
prove business, and he thought about
business outside the booth as well
as in.

No machine ever worked without
cleaning and oiling. The machine is
your stock in trade.

To You're all there for a purpose.
All To work for the owner, please
the patrons, put on the show,
and make it pay. Do it!

CUSTOMS MEN MAY CENSOR
FOREIGN PICTURES

Motion pictures soon may be shown
in a specially constructed theatre in
the New York Custom House, and
grim-faced censors will pass on them.
The government wants to guard pub-
lic morals.

Such a scheme is under considera-
tion at the Treasury Department be-
cause of the requirements of the new
tariff law for a censorship of im-
ported films. When the foreign pic-
tures are too bad they will go back. ,

THE FEATURE FILM OF TO-MORROW

(Continued from page 27)

taken its place, and the vaudeville theatre is the home
of women and children.

This is just what must come about in the motion
picture theatre. One of the best ways to improve mo-
tion pictures lies through the industrial and educational
film. It is not necessary to make an industrial pic-
ture dry and uninteresting. "Back to the Old Farm"
contains all the interest that is found in the average
film, and yet running through it is an educational
theme of value. When moving picture people cease
to put entertainment in one bag and education in an-
other, but mix the two together, shake well and serve,
then the theatres will have enough entertainment and
enough education to not only hold those who prefer
entertainment, but to secure the endorsement of those
who are looking for education.

When this is done, such organizations as the Na-
tional Legal Regulation League will cease to exist.
It is certainly worth a great deal more to the motion
picture business to have the teachers, judges, and
leaders in our city life endorsing and working for the
picture theatre than to have them working against it.

The field for the industrial story picture is un-
limited, and I believe that the day is not far off when
some live producer will seize this field and make the
most of it.

EXPOSING SPIRITUALISTS

It was suggested in these pages a few weeks ago
that the motion picture might be made to assist in
exposing the tricks of the so-called spiritualists. The
suggestion was made in the hope that possibly our im-
plied challenge might have been taken up by our
stereoscopic friends. This has not happened. We are
glad to perceive that across the Atlantic a motion pic-
ture has been shown exposing the tricks by means of

which spiritualists can deceive their victims — or rather
have deceived them.

Some close up views were taken in the course of a
dramatic subject and the whole bag of tricks laid bare.

HERBERT MELVILLE

Director Lubin Stock Co., Los Angeles, Cal.

CURRENT FEATURE RELEASES ON THE PROGRAM OF THE GENERAL FILM CO., INC.

1. The Quality of Mercy.— Selig. 2. The Death Song.— Pathe.

3. The Brand of Evil. — Essanay. 4. The Plot of India's Hillman.— Kalem.

5. The Sea Eternal. — Lubin. 6. The End of the Circle. — Essanay.

INTERESTING FILM REVIEWS

Educational — Industrial — Scenic — General

THE DANGLING NOOSE." Selig.
Oct. 31.) — Until the last moment
the audience is led to believe Bill an aw-
ful scoundrel, but he is not a villain,
he's a hero. Watkins, his prospective
father-in-law, needs some money to
secure an option on some property.
Not having it, his servant steals it
and is arrested and just saved from
a hanging. Bill wants to get that
option, but until the last few feet his
purpose is misunderstood. He wanted
it to give to Watkins as a present.

"The Toll of the Marshes." Essa-
nay. Two Reels. (Oct. 31.) — Francis
X. Bushman and Helen Dunbar both
interpret their parts very well. The
story tells of the old "gold brick''
game of selling worthless land. In
this case a young man and his mother
buy some of this land and cannot
make a living. The swindler loses his
child in the marsh and their finding
her regains for them their lost foot-
ing with interest. It is well staged.

"Peggy's Burglar." Vitagraph. (Oct.
31.) — A comedy in a girls' boarding
school, with Edith Storey, Norma Tal-
madge and Harry Lambert. Edith
Storey, while stealing olives arouses
the matron, who calls the police.
When they get on the scene there is
a real burglar, who is captured by
Edith in her attempt to dodge the po-
lice. Some amusement with a laundry
siide is introduced.

"Fatty's Affair of Honor." Vita-
graph. (Oct. 31.)— A split-reel with
"Peggy's Burglar." Hughey Mack, of
course, plays Fatty and makes much
of a poor part. He loves a girl, who
is attracted to a "Count," and a duel
is arranged. When the guns are fired
they are both hit with "cowardly"
eggs.

"In Love and War." Pathe Freres
(Oct. 30.) — One of the French pic-
tures. The sub-titles are not clearly
photographed. An officer in the army
loves a peasant girl too well before
he is called away to the war in North
Africa. In the scene in the lodge one
can feel the passion of the lovers. On
his return from the war he has for-
gotten the girl and is about to marry
her mistress, not knowing her prox-
imity, when the truth becomes known
and the brides are changed.

"A Momentous Decision." Lubin
(Oct. 31.) — When a man has to decide

whether he will save his employer's
wife or his employer's fortune he has
to do some very swift thinking. That
is the position Jimmy found himself
in, and he decided on the former and
saved the girl, who was about to elope
with a business associate of Mr. Phil-
lips. It took some tough thinking,
though.

"A Japanese Wedding." Melies.
(Oct. 30.) — On the reel with "Jap-
anese Shoe-Maker." The ceremony
is most interesting and novel because
of its non-resemblance to the Chris-
tian form. The principal part seems
to be the tea drinking and exchanging
of presents. The complete ceremony
is gone through before the camera,
and is a little monotonous.

"The Fruits of Vengeance." Vita-
graph General Film Co., Exclusive
Service. (Oct. 31.) — Shakespeare once
wrote, " 'Tis a monster begot upon it-
self, born on itself," in writing of
jealousy. This is the foundation of
this drama. Julia Gordon plays the
lead and is supported by Helen Cos-
tello and Courtenay Foote. Harry Mo-
rey, as the bewhiskered "heavy," is

very good. The scenes are mostly
laid in a circus tent. Owen, a tight-
rope walker, calls on Mrs. Lynch, a
former bareback rider. Lynch gets
into a frenzy in his jealousy and tries
to strike her, thus forcing her to take
to the circus again. By a diabolical
scheme Lynch tries to kill Owen, but
seeing that his child will also be killed,
he tries to prevent the catastrophe at
the last moment, and is killed himself
the others being saved.

"She Should Worry." Lubin Gen-
eral Film Exclusive Service. (Oct.
31.) — A fair comedy of the seashore,
with some good bathing costumes in-
troduced. A flirt goes after every
girl with nice-looking lower extremi-
ties and he is cured of this by "the
bunch." False legs and "the water
cure" play a big part in the educa-
tion of the "pest."

"Paying the Bill." Lubin General
Film Co., Exclusive Service. (Oct.
31.) — Joe, one of those "wild West-
erners" of fiction, is in debt. He de-
cides he will have to kill the collector
who keeps worrying him with letters.
So he goes East and meets a stranger.

KLEINE-ECLIPSE AIRSHIP BLOWS UP IN MID-AIR

Surely "Eclipse" has "eclipsed" itself in matter of pictures where the absolute dare-deviltry
of the actor provides a thrill for the picture fan. This illustration shows the smashup of a
Bleriot machine, which, with Joe Hamman and his wife, is plainly seen to blow up in a great
burst of smoke and flame and drop to the earth in full view of the camera. This scene is from
a thrilling Kleine-Eclipse entitled: "Airship versus Aeroplane," for which the release date has
not yet been set.

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37

They have a great time together until
Joe finds out he is the collector. And
then the fun starts. Joe pays, how-
ever.

"The Curse." Domino. Two Reels.
— A smack of Hawthorne's "Scarlet
Letter" may be seen in this film. Faith
loves the stranger who has visited the
Salem Colony, and gives up her for-
mer lover. Whereupon the latter ac-
cuses her of witchcraft and by circum-
stantial evidence this accusation seems
to be verified. She is about to be
burned when the new Governor saves
her by producing the edict of the King
condemning burning for witchcraft.

"Zuza, the Band Leader." Keystone.
Two Reels. — -The best comedy that
the Keystone Company has put out
in a long time. Ford Sterling, the
unequaled comedian (of his class)
plays the lead and is supported by
Mabel Normand. Both have excep-
tional opportunities for distinguishing
themselves and take advantage of
them. The band leader, composer of
"The Chicken's Dream," is much be-
loved by all the ladies, to such an
extent that it becomes monotonous.
Mabel's lover causes all the excite-
ment by trying to kill the leader.
There are the usual chases, with ac-
tion every moment.

"The War Correspondent." Broncho.
Two Reels. — A good drama, full of
action and with good settings. Deal-
ing with a war correspondent in the
Civil War and how he beats all his
rivals with the story of the battle of
Gettysburg and secures a scoop,
though penned in jail with the others.
A pretty love story is also introduced.
This should not be confused with the
Itala four-part subject, "The War Cor-
respondent," nor should it be under-
estimated because of the difference in
length.

"Janet of the Dunes." Edison.
Two Reels (Oct. 31.)— One of the
prettiest stories that has been pro-
duced, and should be pleasing audi-
ences for years to come. Mabel Tru-
ndle as Mary Fleming and Janet is
given an excellent opportunity and
makes the most of it. Herbert Prior
is also very good as Devant. He falls
in love with a country girl, but soon
tires of her after marriage, and finally
deserts her. She goes back to her
home with her little daughter Janet,
but dies the next day, leaving the
child in the care of Captain Billy,
her former courtier. Billy cares for
the baby as though it were his own.
She is fond of studying, and gets in-
to one of the summer homes to read
until one day she is surprised there
by the owner, Devant. He discovers
she is his daughter and welcomes

her and her lover, Dick, an artist.
The settings and photography in many
places absolutely defy description.

"Old Doc Yak and the Artist's
Dream." Selig. (Oct. 30.) — A series
of pictures drawn by Sidney Smith,
of the Chicago Tribune, representing
his creation of the "man-goat." The
artist, while hunting inspiration, falls
asleep and dreams of his pet picture,
which goes through various pranks.

"Japanese Shoe-Maker." Melies
(Oct. 30.) — The Japanese do not wear
leather shoes, nor do they wear the
proverbial sandal of the Far East.
They wear a wooden shoe, without
uppers, the sole not resting on the
ground, however. Two wooden sup-
ports about an inch in height serve
as soles. A pair of these may be
made in ten minutes and they are
most comfortable. An interesting film.

"The Rattlesnake." Lubin. Two
Reels. (Oct. 30.) — A part of this story
might have originated in the brain of
Edgar Allen Poe. That part is really
gruesome, and causes a delicious
shiver up and down the spine. This
refers to the part where the large
rattlesnake is first handled by Romaine
Fielding. His work is better than he
has done in some time. The story is
one of love and vengeance in Mexico.
Happy Tony loves a girl, but she jilts
him because of his fondness for this
snake that has saved his life. She
marries an American surveyor, and
Tony, no longer "happy," plans re-
venge, but the sight of the little child
of his former fiancee changes his
mind. Mortiz Cytron as Jose is very
clever indeed. ■

The Rajah's Diamond Rose.

Eclipse-Kleine. Two Reels. (Oct.
28.) — Blackmail is the actuating mo-
tif of this picture, which deals with a
bogus count, who, by showing his
paste "diamond" rose to young men
of good family, causes them to steal
it. Through a clever arrangement he
so works it that the amateur thieves
are not only caught but photo-
graphed. In this manner he collects
much "blood money." A pretty ro-
mance runs through the story.

Making Good. Lubin. (Oct. 28.)—
A comedy. The boaster is given the
"open door" by the girls and the timid
fellow lionized.

Giving Bill a Rest. Lubin. (Oct.
28.) — On the same reel with "Making
Good." A henpecked husband is
made to cater to his wife's every wish
until he resorts to flirtation and wins
part freedom. With appropriate music
this should go well.

The Spinners of Speech. Pathe.
(Oct. 28.) — The telephone has ever
been a subject of mystery to the unin-
itiated, and even to those in everyday
touch with it. In making the various
systems clear the Pathe Company
have accomplished much good.

The picture first deals with work on
the Pacific Coast and in the Rockies,
showing the planting of poles over
the mountain, the stretching of the
single wires, which later become con-
duits, and thus reach the central of-
fices. The myriads of wires at the
back of switchboards, with insulating
methods, is clearly shown. Finally a
miner talking to the mine owner in
New York from Denver, Col., is
shown, and how the connections are
made. In speaking this distance the
two men use $1,000,000 worth of
equipment.

Those seeing this picture will ap-
preciate the telephone service more.

Father's Hat-Band. Vitagraph.
(Oct. 29.)— A roaring good comedy,
with Norma Talmadge, Leo Delaney
and Flora Finch. Doris loves a clerk
in her father's office. Not being able
to write to each other through the
mails they evolve a good plan. When
father goes home a letter is placed in
his hatband and the answer is re-
turned the same way. All goes well
until the father exchanges hats in a
barber shop, and a henpecked husband
gets accused of trying to elope. It all
works out well enough, and puts the
audience in a good humor.

Cupid and Three. Essanay. (Oct.
29.) — A fair comedy, with Billy Mason
in the stellar role. Jack and Ben both
love the same girl, Celia. She prefers
the latter. Jack by dressing as a girl
and going out with Ben excites the
jealousy of Celia so much that he
nearly gets her promise to marry him,
when the truth is made public.

The Horrible Example. Edison.
(Oct. 29.) — A satire on the old-fash-
ioned prohibitionist. It is not, how-
ever, at all offensive, rather it is pro-
ductive of much mirth. A traveling
salesman loves the daughter of a
rabid prohibitionist, but Mr. Dryun
objects, because Harold sells corks,
and corks are used by the liquor in-
terests. Harold wins out, however,
by becoming the "Horrible Example,"
and fills the squeakers' bottle of cough
medicine with something stronger,
making his prospective fatherin-law
most benevolent, in which mood he is
joined by sundry others.

The Trail of the Lost Chord. Amer-
ican. (Nov. 17.) — After the beautiful
poem by Adelaide A. Proctor, the ac-
tion, however, does not follow the
story in the poem, but is merely sym-

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bolical of it. The original verse is
purely the thoughts of the mind, the
action, therefore, being abstract and
impossible of interpretation. Josef,
having married a girl, is happy until
the start of their honeymoon, when
she is killed. He becomes a monk.
The idea brought forward, as well as
it can be understood, is that the lost
"chord" represents lost girl.

Wine. Keystone. — -The first part of
this picture is very good. The proc-
ess the grapes pass through from the
time they leave the field until they
become wine is shown clearly. A
4,000-acre farm is chosen for the pic-
tures, and interesting figures are given
to show the amount of wine pro-
duced.

A Modern Steel Plant. American.
— A panorama of a large steel mill is
first pictured, followed by various in-
teriors, and ending up with the proc-
ess of melting iron and pouring it
from the conveyors and then lifting
it with large magnets.

The Shadow of Nazareth. Warner's
Features. Three Parts. — The biblical
story of the treachery of Judas Is-
cariot, with the addition of a little
imagination in order to make a good
story. The story is treated with due
reverence and is capably handled.
Judas Iscariot is persuaded to betray
his Master, Jesus Christ, by his sister
Judith, who later becomes insane and
kills herself. Judas, after having be-
stowed the traitor's kiss, also com-
mits suicide.

The mob scenes, especially when
the crowd surge around the Lord on
trial before Pontius Pilate, are very
well directed. Constance Crawley and
Arthur Maude, the English stars, are
featured.

In the Toils of an Adventuress.

Savoia-Warner's Features. — An un-
scrupulous man, in order to gain some
valuable documents, hires an adven-
turess to obtain them for him in any
manner. The girl succeeds in getting
into the old man's confidence and,
having drugged him, steals the pa-
pers. The man's son is the inventor
of a wonderful machine which photo-
graphs things at a distance and out
of normal sight. He sees the das-
tardly act and recovers the papers
after a fight, for which he is rewarded
by his father.

The Doom of the Ocean. Eclectic.
Three Parts. — A melodrama, some-
what on the style of "Shore Acres."
The films have been colored, the
shades being a little incongruous in
places. The story deals with the at-
tempt of a villain to prevent a girl
collecting a fortune due her under
her uncle's will by delaying her be-

yond the final time set. A lighthouse
plays a prominent part.

The Barrier of Blood. Ammex-
Exclusive. Two Reels. — An exciting
story full of heart interest. A young
half-breed loves a girl, but cannot
marry her because of his doubtful
blood. On learning that he is a half-
breed he makes the girl so hate him
that she leaves his life forever. Good
photography prevails.

James Lee's Wife. Rex. — After
the poem by Robert Browning, the
sub-titles being in verse. Lois Weber
plays with her husband, Phillips
Smalley. The finale is an artistic
masterpiece of photography.

A Daughter of the Wilderness.

Edison. (Oct. 28.) — A powerful story

of the Canadian woods, with just
sufficient melodrama to please. Au-
gustus Phillips and Mary Fuller play
the leads. The story deals with ai
obedient daughter who loves a stran-
ger, but who is forced to accept the
attentions o'f a woodsman through
fear of her father. All turns out well
through the help of a fearless priest,
who has been called to marry the fa-
ther's choice to Annette, but who re-
places the groom with Annette's
choice, Gerald.

Thy Will Be Done. Essanay. (Oct.
28.) — A pathetic children's story,
which will also fascinate the "grown-
ups." A little girl, having lost her
mother, writes to her in heaven, and
although she naturally does not get
her own relation back, she wins a
happy home with the postmaster.

KING BAGGOTT AND LEAH BAIBD

In the new Imp comedy travelogue, "Mr. and Mrs. Innocence Abroad. ' Taken on the

Eiffel Tower, Paris.

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N. EDWARD MALLDOKF

New sales manager of the World's Best
Film Co.

Motion Picture Dancing Lessons.

Kalem. Three Parts. (Oct. 29.)—
There is a possibility that young peo-
ple loving dancing will agree to sit
through the whole three reels of this
picture. The various forms of the
turkey-trot, the tango and Vienese
hesitation waltz are all shown with at-
tention to the small details. The pic-
ture serves as a screen dancing acad-
emy, with Joan Sawyer and Wallace
McCutcheon, well-known dancers and
instructors, as tutors. Close views,
showing the feet only, are instructive.

His Wife's Child. Victor. Two
Reels. — With Florence Lawrence,
supported by Earle Foxe and P. D.
Standing, a picture is nearly assured
of perfect action. A girl, married un-
happily, runs away with another man
who is a drunkard. He finally kills
her, and their child (Florence Law-
rence), after a series of adventures,
meets her mother's husband and they
become friends, though he knows the
truth. A detail that would have
added to the picture would have been
the reintroduction of Flo's playmate,
who went away with the stranger to
become rich, after she had become
"rich."

The White Squaw. Bison. Two
Reels. — A good Western. A girl is
saved in an Indian massacre by a
squaw and is brought up as a mem-
ber of the tribe. She loves Clifford,
a cavalry officer, and he reciprocates.
Her identity is made known finally
by the faithful squaw who had
watched her. Several good fights are
staged.

The Bride of Mystery. Bison.
Three Reels. Grace Cunard has in

this picture proven herself to be, not
only a capable actress, but a good play
writer. The story deals with two mur-
ders and a number of robberies, in
all of which the only clue is a mono-
grammed cigarette. The detective can-
not find out who it is. Finally it is
discovered the "Countess X," an act-
ress, is the mesmeric subject of a
brute, who makes her do these acts
while under his hypnotic influence.
The fight at the end in the flooded
cellar was well staged and directed.

Pathe's Weekly No. 64. (Nov. 3.)
— -In this issue, as in No. 62, there is
but one item from another country.
The Portola festival in San Fran-
cisco, with the crowning of the queen,
is very pretty. A large mountain fire
in California follows this, showing the
methods used by the volunteer fire
departments. The rededication of
Congress Hall in Philadelphia has a
historic interest. Dawson, N. M., is
the scene of a large explosion which
entombs 223 miners 4,000 feet from
human aid. The marriage of Prince
Arthur of Connaught and the Duch-
ess o/ Fife, and the attempt of the
suffragettes to approach the carriage,
is the only foreign item. Strike of
the mail chauffeurs in New York and
the wreck of the "Glenesslin'' on the
Oregon Coast complete the film.

THIRD "FANTOMAS" MYSTERY

"Fantomas, the Mysterious Finger-
Print," a Gaumont four-part produc-
tion, is the third of a series of myste-
rious detective tales.

This picture starts out with the
death of a young lady of noble blood
in the house of Dollon, who is ac-
cused of the crime. He is thrown in
jail, but later disappears when the
prison doctor has pronounced him a
suicide. Fandor, the detective, is fol-
lowing the trail as a newspaper man.
"Softy," a supposed lunatic, is also
on the trail. . From one thing to an-
other the plot leads, through a series
of fascinating excitement, finally clos-
ing with the attempted arrest of La-
fayette, the banker, alias Fantomas
the Rogue. He, however, escapes, and
the police are baffled. A wonderfully
interesting story that will hold the au-
dience spellbound.

The M & F Feature Film Service,
of Chicago, has been sold to Messrs.
Spencer and Herschberpf, of the Gen-
eral Special Feature Film Company
David Mundstock, the former owner,
is now on a vacation, which will in-
clude a trip to the Pacific Coast. He
may return to Chicago later to enter
another line of the film business. The
M & F Feature Film Service was an
established and prosperous concern
which has handled many features in
Illinois and Wisconsin.

UNIVERSAL CHANGES

With an eye to strengthening the
Pacific Coast companies, the Univer-
sal Film Manufacturing Company has
made several changes and realign-
ments of its playing and directing
forces at the Hollywood, Cal., studios.

Edna Maison, who has been playing
leads in the Powers company, has
been advanced to the lead in the Rex,
playing opposite Bob Leonard and
under the direction of Otis Turner.

Allan Dwan has returned to the
Universal fold, bringing with him
Pauline Bush, M. J. MacQuarrie and
other members of his company. He
will assemble an extra company for
large productions. James Neil will
be attached to this company as lead-
ing man. The latter's position as di-
rector with the Joker branch will be
filled by Allan Curtis.

Donald McDonald, who has been
leading man with Nestor under A. E.
Christie, will direct with Powers. In
his company will be found Howard
Hickman, Laura Oakley, Marie Wal-
camp, and Dick Rosson. Mr. Mac-
donald will be succeeded as leading
man of the Nestor company by John
A. Sterling, who has been playing com-
edy roles for the past two years with
the Essanay company.

Superstition causes great annoy-
ance and confusion at Gaumont's
offices at the World's Tower Build-
ing, New York City. Some months
ago the floors were numbered from
one to twenty-nine. Number thirteen
were in great fear and panic — so peti-
tioned a change of number. Now
every floor above twelve has been
changed. Thirteen is no longer thir-
teen, but fourteen.

FRANKIE MANN

In "A Waif of the Desert," a Lubin drama.

/

CARL LAEMMLE

President Universal Film Manufacturing Company

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

4i

PICTURING VICE IN MOTION
PICTURES

[The views expressed in the subjoined
editorial from the New York Times
closely conform to those expressed in
The Motion Picture News on the sub-
ject of the representation of vice in
motion pictures. — Ed. Motion Picture
News.]

It is a decision of very grave import,
if it has been made finally, to put before
the promiscuous audiences of the motion
picture theatres of the United States and
of foreign countries plays "depicting viv-
idly the inner workings of the vice inter-
ests in New York City." The pictures
are to be based upon the recently pub-
lished Rockefeller vice report, which is
meant to be circulated discreetly among
persons who may be influential in check-
ing or doing away with the evils it dis-
closes. It was never meant for indis-
criminate circulation, least of all in pic-
torial form before audiences composed
of both sexes and all ages, but chiefly
the young.

This is strong meat for children. The
business of producing motion pictures
has effected a revolution in the world's
amusement. It has enormous educative
possibilities, not as well developed now
as they were before the crude farces and
melodramas, many of them maudlin in
their sentimentality, almost usurped the
places of films depicting foreign scenes
and strange plants and animals and their
habits. With the sinister announcement
of the syndicating of vicious scenes it is
reported that one of the leading theatres
of this city will soon be given over to
motion pictures and to elaborate adver-
tisements of films and dramatic produc-
tions.

Their audiences are not picked au^
diences. Scenes produced with a view
to enlightenment upon disagreeable sub-
jects may be advisable in carefully se-
lected circumstances and before persons
who know what they have been sum-
moned to see. Producing them promis-
cuously will almost inevitably have a dis-
torting and banal effect, and, more than
conceivably, will pour oil upon the flames
of vice. The promoters of this enter-
prise are incurring, it seems to us, a
fearful responsibility. No phase of the
life it proposes to depict "shall appear
in the leastwise attractive," the an-
nouncement runs. Pitch is not attractive,
but it will stick and burn.

OLD SHIP FOR PICTURES

The New York Motion Picture Cor-
poration recently stole a march on
its competitors on the Pacific Coast
by outbidding them and purchasing
the three-masted sailing vessel, the
Fremont, for $12,000.

The Fremont was built in Philadel-
phia in 1850, and has visited almost
every corner of the earth. In 1861
she was pressed into service \on the
Union side and served in almost every
capacity. After the war the vessel
rounded the Horn to San Francisco,
where she has been ever since.

Some months ago, when the spec-
tacular possibilities of sea pictures
were realized, the firms producing mo-
tion pictures on the Pacific Coast
turned to maritime subjects. Every
ship and hull on the coast increased
in value at once. The Fremont is
155 feet long, with a twenty-six-foot
beam. In addition to being used in
pictures, she will become the flag-ship
of the admiral, Thomas H. Ince, of
the New York Motion Picture Cor-
poration's fleet, which now numbers
five vessels.

KINETO FILMS GO FAST

J. Wild, sales manager of the Amer-
ican Kineto Company, announces the
following States as being closed for
their present releases:

"The Girl of the Sunny South" sold
for Greater New York, New Jersey,
Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Del-
aware, District of Columbia, Virginia,
Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Cal-
ifornia, Arizona and Nevada.

"The Waters of Death" sold for
Greater New York, New Jersey, East-
ern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Dela-
ware, District of Columbia, Virginia,
Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
New England States, Ohio, Northern
Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas, Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Louisiana, California, Ari-
zona and Nevada.

"In a Serpent's Coils" sold for
Greater New York, New Jersey, East-
ern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Dela-
ware, District of Columbia, Western
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New
England States, Indiana, Kentucky,
Ohio, Northern Illinois, Wisconsin,
Southern Illinois, Missouri. Kansas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Louisi-
ana, California, Arizona and Nevada.

FILMS TO ADVERTISE SHOWS

Marcus Loew, the vaudeville mag-
nate, who owns and controls many
theatres in the East, and who has
just entered the field as a producer
of big musical shows as a partner of
Lew Fields with "The Pleasure Seek-
ers," which is now playing at the
Winter Garden, is also preparing to
use motion picture films for adver-
tising purposes in a way in which
they have never been used before.

If "The Pleasure Seekers" proves
to be a success, or if it is good enough
to be sent on tour, motion pictures
of the piece in its various stages will
be shown in all of the Loew theatres.

Films have already been made of
the rehearsals of the musical comedy
and of scenes at railroad stations
while the piece was on its short pre-
liminary tour, and these are being
displayed in the twenty or more the-
atres controlled by Loew in Greater
New York, together with announce-
ments that the original itself can be
seen at the Winter Garden.

If the show is sent "on the road"
the films will go in advance and take
the place of much of the billboard
advertising.

BACK WITH ALASKAN FILMS

Albert E. Cawood is back in New
York after traveling twenty-two thou-
sand miles through the Arctic regions
making motion pictures for the Gen-
eral Film Producing Company, of
New York.

Mr. Cawood left July 5th and went
direct to Seattle and Juneau, Alaska,
and then followed the most perilous
trails through the heart of Alaska,
over snow-clad mountains and frozen
trails, until he finally reached Nome.
After leaving Nome he proceeded to
the Seal Islands, only to hear the
city of Nome had been destroyed by
fire and flood the day after he had left
there. He returned there immediate-
ly, and after securing what pictures
he could, followed the coast line down
to Sitka and then back to New York.

Before leaving on his perilous trip
he was escorted part of the way to
Skagway by Governor Stone, of Alas-
ka, and a party of prominent citizens,
and after reaching Nome the services
of the United States revenue cutter
were offered to him, which assisted
him greatly.

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MATELDI IS CINES ACTOR—
NOT MATADOR

Much comment has been passed
concerning the past history of Gof-
fredo Mateldi, who plays the "lead"
in the Kleine-Cines release, "For
Love of a Toreador," scheduled for
release Tuesday, November 18. News-
paper men and others have asked how
Mateldi, who plays the lead in sev-
eral other Kleine-Cines pictures,
could maneuver a bull into a twenty-
foot camera line and keep him there
at the big bull-ring in Seville.

Information from the Cines studios
since then shows that Director Guaz-
zoni, of the Cines Company, engaged
Mateldi several days prior to the bull-
fight, and after Mateldi had been en-
gaged as a matador at that contest.
Mateldi, therefore, is an ex-toreador
by trade. Guazzoni used the toreador
in the picture and cleverly insinuated
the thread of his story into the scenes
made at the bull-ring.

EXHIBITORS' FILM PRODUC-
TION COMPANY FOR
DAYTON

A new film company which is to
have its headquarters and studios in
Dayton is being formed by prominent
business men and motion picture the-
atre owners in the Middle West.

The plan contemplates a service of
twenty-one reels a week, a two-reel
feature and a single-reel play each
day. Exhibitors who are associated
with the company will have exclusive
rights to the service in their respective
localities. High-class pictures are to
be made.

The services of some of the most
famous actors in the country will be
secured in making the plays. The
company will be known as the Ex-
hibitors' Film Production Company.

DETROIT EXHIBITORS DINE
AND ELECT OFFICERS

The members of the Motion Pic-
ture Exhibitors' League of Detroit
held their first banquet recently at
the Hotel Ponchartrain. The toast-
master was National Vice-President
Peter J. Jeupe. The speakers were
M. A. Neff, of Cincinnati, president
of the Motion Picture Exhibitors'
League of America; Mr. Brocklet and
Mr. Seaman, of the General Film
Company; Mr. Mailbridge, of the
Universal; Mr. Dubuck, of the Mu-
tual, and Mr. Lynch and Mr. Levy.

The following officers were elected:
President, W. B. Gandy; first vice-
president, J. R. Smith; second vice-
president, F. J. Zanone; secretary, G.
O. Dupuis; treasurer, M. Osborn, and
sergeant-at-arms, H. B. Hoffman.

Application was made for a charter
for the Lima local. This organiza-
tion will hold its second meeting
very soon.

IMP EUROPEAN COMPANY
BACK

The Imp European Company, which
has been producing pictures in Eng-
land and on the Continent for sev-
eral months, has returned. The mem-
bers include Herbert Brenon, director;
Leah Baird, leading woman; William
Shay, leading man; George Edward
Hall, scenario expert; Julius Stern,
business manager, and M. Barlieter,
a famous French oarsman.

They were met at the dock by Carl
Laemmle, president of the Universal
Film Manufacturing Company; Mark
Dintenfass, manager of several Uni-
versal studios; Walter MacNamara.
the director, and several other Uni-
versalites.

The company started out with King
Baggot as leading man. When he
was with them "Ivanhoe," "Absinthe,"
"The Child Stealers of Paris" and
"Mr. and Mrs. Innocence Abroad"
were produced. Mr. Baggot was re-
called to head and direct his own
company here, and was replaced by
Mr. Shay. "Time Is Money," "Love
and a Lottery Ticket," "Love or a
Throne" and "Across the Atlantic"
were produced with Mr. Shay as lead-
ing man. The pictures were made
in England, France and Germany.
"Ivanhoe" has already been released
and has proved very successful.

When the company reached shore
William Robert Daly presented Mr.
Stern with a pair of diamond-studded
cuff links, the gift of the employees
at the Imp studio.

Mr. Brenon and his company will
produce pictures again at the Imp
studio, where. Mr. Stern has already
resumed his position as manager. Mr.
MacNamara will take his company
to the Coytesville studios, where Mr.
Dintenfass will be manager. Other
companies will also work at Coytes-
ville.

KLEINE'S "POMPEII" A SENSA-
TION IN PICTURE HOUSES

Since the announcement that George
Kleine will rent or share "The Last
Days of Pompeii" for picture houses,
hundreds of theatre men have been
quick to seize the advantage of a
Kleine-made production, with the re-
sult that the famous picture is cram-
ming houses all over the country. As
the terms are attractive, and the sub-
ject magnificent and spectacular,
bookings are being made rapidly.

Mayor Lew Shank, of Indianapolis,
has arranged for a lecture tour, and
moving pictures are now being made
by the Essanay Film Manufacturing
Company to carry out the poinfs of
his arguments. The great topic of
the day. "The Cost of High Living"
and "The Cost of Living High" will
be covered thoroughly by the Mayor.

TRADE NOTES

Among the feature exchanges who
have purchased State rights on "A
Life for a Life," three-reel subject of
the Film Releases of America, are:

Golden Gate Film Exchange;
Northwestern Film Exchange; Fa-
mous Players Film Company, of Bos-
ton; Weiland Film Company, of
Pittsburgh; Electric Theatre Supply
Company, of Philadelphia; Electric
Theatre Supply Company, of Balti-
more; M. & F. Feature Film Com-
pany, of Chicago; Exclusive Features,
of New York.

Three companies are now on the
road with the Pasquali production of
the "Last Days of Pompeii," and
lovers of Bulwer Lytton's novel will
be given an opportunity to see it vis-
ualized amid the surroundings of the
high-class theatres. Each consists of
an advance man, manager, a treasurer
and two operators, and carries two
Power's projection machines, special
screen with masked effects, double as-
bestos booths, lighting effects and spe-
cial music for the picture.

Some of the advance bookings over
the Klaw & Erlanger circuit are Eng-
lish Opera House, indefinite; Atlanta
Theatre. Atlanta, Ga., indefinite; Bur-
chel's Theatre, Des Moines, la., week
of November 12; Boyd's Theatre,
Omaha, Neb., November 16; Scott's
Theatre, Minneapolis, Minn., week of
December 1.

The American and Canadian release
date for "Kissing Cup," the four-part
racing melodrama, handled in America
and Canada by Albert Blinkhorn, will
be November 10. All advertising aids
for the film will be ready for delivery
with the prints.

The Eclectic Film Company, of 110
West Fortieth street, New York City,
is the authority for the statement that
buyers of "Les Miserables" should
order their posters from Eclectic to
secure the authorized paper. After the
Eclectic contracted for their litho-
graphs, it is said that a rival litho
concern made parallel posters. To
protect the lithographer and its cus-
tomers, the Eclectic issues warning.

Among the exchanges who have en-
tered their standing order for these
Westerns are:

Weiland Film Company, of Pitts-
burgh; Golden Gate Film Exchange,
of San Francisco and Los Angeles;
Electric Theatre Supply Company, of
Philadelphia; Northwestern Film
Company, of Portland and Seattle;
Golden Gate Film Company, of Den-
ver and Salt Lake City; Electric The-
atre Supply Company, of Baltimore.

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43

To Open Dayton Convention Publicity

Bureau

MA. NEFF, president of the Mo-
• tion Picture Exhibitors' League of
America, arrived in Dayton Monday,
November 3rd. State vice-president, Mr.
O. D. Weaver, of the Lyceum Theatre,
was waiting with his automobile. They
immediately drove out to the National
Cash Register Company, where quite a
lengthy consultation was held with the
officers of the National Cash Register
Company. After going into details of
the coming National Convention, which
will open in Dayton on Tuesday, July
7, 1914, it was decided to open a public-
ity and exposition office in a very few
days.

An effort will be made to bring ex-
hibitors from every part of the world
and through the channels of commerce
that are now already established with
foreign countries the Dayton convention
no doubt will be a real international ex-
position, with exhibits from all parts of
the world.

One film of Dayton will be made, and
also one film that was taken before and
during the flood will be used, giving
different views of the important points ;

of the big hall which seats 6,000 people,
where the convention and exposition of
arts will be held; of Dayton before and
during the flood, showing the rapid
progress in restoring Dayton to its for-
mer beauty and prestige. The National
Cash Register Company will give its
efficient and enthusiastic support to the
convention.

After the conference was over Mr.
Neff and Mr. Weaver drove to the Odd
Fellows' Building, where a Dutch lunch
was served to the Dayton Local and sev-
eral visiting members. Harmony and
good-fellowship prevailed, and every-
body was enthusiastic over the coming
convention.

After the lunch a committee drove
Mr. Neff up to the convention hall,
where it was inspected and plans gone
over carefully which will be considered
in the future for the entertainment and
pleasure of the guests, and especially the
exhibits. The convention and the ex-
hibits will be held under one roof.

The convention will be under the di-
rect supervision of the National Execu-
tive Committee.

Stage War in Cuba for Pictures

All-Star Company Back from Filming "Soldiers of Fortune"

rPHE company which has been down
*■ in Cuba producing a motion picture
version of Richard Harding Davis' fa-
mous book and play, "Soldiers of For-
tune," for the All-Star Feature Corpo-
ration, returned Wednesday.

The roster included Richard Harding
Davis ; Augustus Thomas, the play-
wright, who is head producer for All-
Star; Director William F. Haddock;
Dustin Farnum, leading man ; Winni-
fred Kingston who played Madame Al-
varez; John Pratt, George Cooke, Jr.,
and Irving Willat and others.

"Soldiers of Fortune" is a war play,
with its scenes laid in a tropical republic,
and for that reason Cuba was invaded
by the Davis-Thomas forces. Several
hundred rifles, thousands of rounds of
ammunition and enough uniforms to fit
out the army of any South or Central
American revolutionist also went along,
but were not used, as Mr. Davis suc-
ceeded in obtaining the right to use the
regular soldiers of the Cuban Army, to-
gether with a large force of American
bluejackets and an American machine
gun.

How Davis Wrote the Story

"There was quite a story in our trip,"
said Mr. Davis at the Hotel Webster on

his return. "When I was a young man
just out of college, long before I had
begun to write anything, I went to San-
tiago, Cuba, to work for an iron com-
pany because I knew the president of
the company. I stayed there a couple
of years, and all the time the company
was in hot water with revolutionists and
Spaniards, and occasionally Americans
mixed up in the continual scrapping
which was going on.

"At last I came back home, and ten
years later wrote my first novel, 'Sol-
diers of Fortune.' Five years later Gus
Thomas dramatized it, and now, nearly
fifteen years after that, we get together
again and do it for the camera. It is
to be put on the screen in a Broadway
theatre about the first of the year.

"We left New York on October 11,
and went at once to Santiago and put
the play on. I tell you it was quite a
surprise to see real live people walking
in and out of real houses and going
through the scenes just as I imagined
them when I wrote the story.

"You see, you don't get the same sort
of feeling at all when you see a story
of your own on the stage, where the
scenery is all painted and flimsy; but
down in Cuba we had the real thing
every time, and the big fight scene took

place in the plaza of the town, just as I
had pictured it, and we had the soldiers
defending the gate and the heroine es-
caping on the locomotive, and every-
thing else that the book called for. In
all we took 233 separate scenes, all out-
lined by Mr. Thomas and directed by
him.

Used 2,000 Cuban Regulars

"The Cuban Government was splendid
to us, and lent us the army to do any-
thing we wished with. We had 2,000
Cuban regulars fighting before the cam-
era and 25 bluejackets from the Ameri-
can boat Osceola, and in addition the
people of the city took a great interest
in the work and used to turn out and
watch the picture taking and applaud
just as though they were seeing a show
in a theatre.

"There were no stage doors for the
Cuban johnnies to hang around, but they
followed us from place to place, and
before long we had them working in
every scene. Sometimes they were coal
passers and at other times they were
society men, but they did whatever we
wanted them to do, and it was consid-
ered quite an honor to be in the picture
or to lend your house for a scene.

"The only trouble we had was in get-
ting permission to land the rapid-fire
gun. It was a case of landing a firearm
on foreign soil, and we had to get per-
mission from the President, the Minister
of Foreign Affairs, the Governor of the
Province of Santiago, the Alcalde of the
city, and the American Consul, but final-
ly we got it through.

Actress Mistaken for Queen

"They would not consent to allow the
Cuban flag to be used, however, nor
the real flag of any other country, so we
had to get up a special flag. We de-
signed one in green and white with
green and pink stars, and they were
willing to stand for that.

"The woman who played the role of
the wife of the President was called
upon to do a lot of escaping. Once,
when she got away from the villain
dressed in a ball gown, I found her sit-
ting in a grove of palm trees fighting off
mosquitoes that were almost eating her
bare neck and arms off.

" 'If I had known I was going to es-
cape like this,' she told me, 'I'd have
stuck to the palace and got shot, whether
it would have spoiled your old play or
not.'

"Another actress was dressed up to
represent a very rich Spanish woman,
and I doubt if any such creature as she
looked like ever lived except in a comic
opera. One day when it came time to
take a scene with her in it she was miss-
ing, and I went out to look for her. I
saw an American workman on the road
and I said to him, 'Did you see an
American woman pass this way?'

" 'No,' replied the man, 'but I just saw
the Queen of Spain go by.'"

OPENING FOR INDUSTRIALS IN INDIA

UNDER the heading "Cinematograph
Advertising in India," Consul
Henry D. Baker has the following to
say on special commercial service in the
Daily Consular and Trade Reports :

"While visiting the Central Library
Department of the government of the
native state of Baroda, in Western In-
dia, I was apprised of an interesting-
scheme carried on by this depart-
ment for giving cinematograph shows
throughout Baroda for industrial and
agricultural education of the people.

"I asked the manager of this depart-
ment if it would be agreeable to receive
from the United States industrial films,
which, while advertising various Ameri-
can agricultural appliances, machinery
and other articles, would likewise, per-
haps, be of much educational benefit to
people in Baroda who had never had op-
portunity of seeing such articles in ac-
tual use. He replied that industrial films
contributed by manufacturing firms of
the United States for the visual instruc-
tion branch of the Central Library of
Baroda would be heartily welcomed and
displayed throughout the state. He later
sent me a memorandum on the subject
as follows :

" 'The cinematograph used by our
visual instruction branch takes films
of the standard size, a sample of
which is inclosed. We shall be glad
to receive the films and exhibit them
through the state. The films thus
supplied will prove a very good free
advertisement because the people
here are particularly interested in
foreign industrial films.'

"A specimen of the standard film thus
mentioned is forwarded for the infor-
mation of American firms interested,
and will be loaned on application to the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com-
merce, Washington, D. C.

"The object of the visual instruction
work to be carried on by the Baroda
Central Library Department was ex-
plained as follows in the Library Mis-
cellany for November, 1912, a periodical
published by this department:

" 'The department is determined
to make fresh efforts day by day to
make itself more useful to the pub-
lic, and especially to that large por-
tion of the public who have either
no taste for reading or cannot read.
For this purpose the Central Li-
brary has recently purchased for its
traveling library branch a number
of stereoscopes and stereoscopic sets
of travel tours. These stereographs
are arranged systematically in tours
of countries and sections, and are
accompanied by simple locating
maps and authoritative explanatory
books. The realistic mode of sight-
seeing is enjoyed by the least stu-

dious as well as the most highly
educated readers, and is a very ef-
fective means of diverting from
light reading to more serious read-
ing of books of travel, biography,
and history.

" 'The library has also been giving
for some time past cinematographic
shows to the college and high-
school students in the Baroda City,
but it has quite lately extended its
operations to a few towns and vil-
lages of the Baroda district. The
Maharaja has kindly lent his private
cinematograph machine for this pur-
pose to the library, which he is soon
going to transfer completely, with
all the slides and films. The country
folk seem to have thoroughly en-
joyed these shows, and the Maha-
raja is contemplating the opening of
a visual instruction branch of the
Central Library. (Subsequently, in
January, 1913, a grant of $3,500 for
a year was sanctioned by his high-
ness.)'

"The important possibilities connected
with illustrative advertising in India by
means of cinematograph shows is begin-

FAMOUS PLAYERS SECURES
"LEAH KLESCHNA"

The Famous Players has secured
the rights to the famous stage suc-
cess, "Leah Kleschna," in which will
be presented the celebrated actress,
Carlotta Nillson. No other produc-
tion of the Famous Players, with the
possible exceptions of "Tess of the
D'Urbervilles" and "The Count oi
Monte Cristo," has won such distinc-
tion on the stage. It has been one of
Mrs. Fiske's greatest dramatic tri-
umphs.

"Leah Kleschna'' brings to the mo-
tion picture a new prestige, and nu-
merous opportunities for great cam-
era effects. Like "The Prisoner of
Zenda," "Tess" and "The Count of
Monte Cristo," the film production
bids fair to surpass the original, be-
cause of the greater limitations of the
oral stage for scenic and realistic ef-
fects.

As is commonly known, the stage-
craft and technique of the spoken
drama are amazingly inferior to the
powers of the camera. In the film
version the scenes on the burning ves-
sel and many other thrilling effects
on the sea and in the general out-
doors can be realistically portrayed,
whereas in the drama they can only
be described verbally.

Carlotta Nillson's association with
the motion picture will also confer
upon Filmdom a new dignity, com-
parable to the glories of Mrs. Fiske,

ning to be taken advantage of by a few
European firms which, by very mod-
erate expenditures of money, have ar-
ranged with many cinematograph enter-
prises in this country for the inclusion
of their industrial films on the program
of the evening's regular entertainment.
A small charge is made in such cases
for using these films, usually not exceed-
ing $15 per month, or sometimes in lieu
of such charge the firms desiring its
films exhibited publishes at its own ex-
pense the theatre programs, including,
of course, its own advertisements on
such programs.

"As an instance of such advertising
in India through the cinematograph, one
leading European firm promotes the sale
of condensed milk in this market by ex-
hibiting pictures showing the insanitary
conditions in milking cows in this coun-
try; also the frequent adulteration of
milk with - water taken from tainted
sources of supply, and then in contrast
its own sanitary method of milking
cows and condensing the milk by mod-
ern apparatus insuring purity. Another
firm promoting the sale of French wines
shows pictures of its vineyards and the
interesting method of making the wine.

Lillie Langtry, James O'Neill, James
K. Hackett, Henry E. Dixey and
other stars. The production is sched-
uled for release on December 10.

ALBUQUERQUE FILM COM-
PANY FORMED

Incorporated at $50,000, with $20,000
paid in, the Albuquerque Film Manu-
facturing Company has been formed
with Albuquerque men and G. P.
Hamilton, late of the St. Louis Mo-
tion Picture Company, as incorpo-
rators.

Mr. Hamilton is president and gen-
eral manager; W. E. Rogers is secre-
tary and treasurer. The other incor-
porators are Henry F. Connelly, vice-
president; C. O. Cushman, J. H. Mah-
boub, H. P. Wanner and W. R. Wal-
ton.

Mr. Hamilton is after a franchise
with Warner Features. Single reel
comedy productions will likely be
handled by the Universal. Local
made features will also be shown at
this house.

Several of the old St. Louis com-
pany's aggregation will be with the
new company. One of these is Buck
Connors. The new concern will be-
gin production in about four wetKS.

The brands under which the films
will be produced have not yet been
selected, but will include the name
"Albuquerque."

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45

Ruby Features Present Governor Sulzer

IT was a notorious fact during the
turmoil at Albany which attended
the proceedings by which Governor
Sulzer was impeached, that the largest
motion picture interests in the coun-
try were biding their time. It was
only a matter of time when he would
be featured in motion pictures, but
just in what way has been the sub-
ject of much speculation, until quite re-
cently.

The presentation of a four-reel fea-
ture, entitled "The Shame of the Em-
pire State" is now made by the Ruby
Feature Film Company, 145 West
Forty-fifth street, New York. It is
announced that the services of Gov-
ernor Sulzer himself have been se-
cured, which does not seem so sur-
prising when it is remembered that
the very title of the film, which is in
four reels, suggests action in accord-
ance with the events surrounding his
impeachment.

The film deals in narrative form
with political history. It shows the
methods employed by political parties
to defraud by ballot. There is un-
questionably a wealth of sensational-

ism and exciting matter in the por-
trayal of these methods.

Governor Sulzer himself is an added
attraction. The spectator is given an
insight of the unswerving devotion of
a woman to the man who was being
torn from power and glory hy the
very influence which helped place them
in his hands. Employment of gangs
of ruffians, and descriptions of their
raids upon the State treasury, form a
part of the story. To cap the climax,
both the political boss and the im-
peached governor are accorded a
treatment in this film for which only
intimate study and painstaking analy-
sis of personalities can be responsible.

The Ruby Feature Film Company
has secured an exceptional line of
lithographs to go with this feature.
In another week Governor Sulzer be-
gins a national tour of lectures in
which he will tell in more startling
detail of the rottenness and corrup-
tion of the political organization he
is fighting. He promises to give to
the country sensational revelations.
"The Shame of the Empire State" is
being sold in territorial rights.

PLAYS IN FILMS SO FATHER
MAY SEE HER

Marguerite Risser, a young actress
who is rapidly achieving prominence
in the motion picture field with Pathe
Freres, entered the profession at the
request of her father about a year
ago.

Her father, a New Yorker, com-
pelled to travel much of the time by
reason of his business, conceived the
idea that his loneliness away from
home would be relieved if he could
only see his daughter moving as in
real life upon the screen.

Two months later in Seattle his
wish was gratified. While watching
a show in a theatre there he was elec-
trified to see Miss Risser taking a
prominent part in one of the photo-
plays exhibited.

It is said that Mr. Risser stayed in
the theatre that night until the lights
were turned out that he might miss
no repetition of the film. As for his
daughter, a new zest enters her work
as she knows that she is playing to
her absent father, who, to her, is the
one critic.

attempting to book a so-called similar
feature, and Mr. Timble has been em-
powered by the Itala Company to
seize the film if it comes in his terri-
tory.

"I regret this instance very much,"
said Mr. Raver, "as I was in hopes
that pirating in the film business had
ceased. We have had no trouble with
our films for some time, but we ex-
pect to make an example of any
pirates we can get our hands on.
The Northern Special Feature Film
Company is not a buyer of Itala films
and any exhibitor renting Itala films
from it is liable to have the film
seized and to be sued for damages."

Theatre Construction
Number

ill be

DECEMBER 6th

Pilgrim's Progress (Ambrosio Version)
- 4 reels
*ln the Sultan's Power -
*Voodoo Vengeance
'Trapping and Training Wild

Animals -
The Death Ship -

2 reels

3 reels

I reel
3 reels

•Produced under the personal super-
vision of Capt. Jack Bonavita, the
world famous lion tamer.

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house in town. Open less than one year.
Cost $5000. Will sell very cheap; owner must
seek western climate. Completely equipped.
Address, C. L. HOYLAND.
ALLARDT ADVERTISING CO.
36 W. Randolph St., Chicago.

"An Hour Before Dawn"

A Female Detective Play with Laura
Sawyer and House Peters.
In Three Reels, Released Oct. 20

James O'Neill

in

"The Count of Monte Cristo"

Five Reels, Released Nov. 1

Famous Players Film Co.

Executive Office :
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Daniel Frohmah
Managing Director

Adolph Zukor
President

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RAVER GETS AFTER PIRATES

Harry R. Raver, director-general of
the Itala Company, is taking steps to
prevent the pirating of Itala films. George
W. Timble, of Algoma, Wis., purchased
the state rights on "The War Corre-
spondent" for Wisconsin and other
states. Recently another firm has been

Two (2) Moving Picture Powers Machines
and 165 Reels (Commercials)

FOR SALE

Send for List. Must Sell Quick

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46 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

SULZER SULZER SULZER SULZER SULZER

"THE SHAME of the
EMPIRE STATE"

(FOUR REELS)

You know the whole story. Exhibitors from all over the country are
wiring in for bookings. A dozen men who bought are "cleaning up" —
get yours before Sulzer hits your state on his electrifying, whirlwind lecture
tour, when you will hire a mule to kick you for overlooking this real feature,
the biggest of the season. Paper' Man, you never got anything like it.
Wire for yours.

RUBY FEATURE F"IL,IVI CO.

145 West 4StH Street New York City

Eclair to Film Jules Verne Stories

KLEINE "POMPEII" A WOMAN'S
SHOW

A circular letter sent out to the
various managers of George Kleine's
"The Last Days of Pompeii" asking
them what stood out as the greatest
characteristic of the picture in their
mind, brought the unanimous opinion
that it was a "woman's picture." "The
characters in the drama and the trend
of the story appeal strongly to the
gentle sex," say the managers. This
is undoubtedly due to the pretty love
story which runs throughout the film,
and the appealing work of Nydia, the
blind girl.

MEDAL FOR UNIVERSAL

The enterprise of the Universal Film
Manufacturing Company in exhibiting
its motion pictures at the Electrical Ex-
position and Motor Show of 1913 at
Grand Central Palace, New York City,
was given appreciative recognition by
the presentation on the part of the man-
agement of a gold medal to the officers
of the Universal.

The award was made by General Man-
ager Parker, of the Electrical Exposi-
tion, and was accepted by General Man-
ager Edward M. Saunders, of the Uni-
versal Film Exchange, of New York,
acting for the Universal Film Manufac-
, turing Company. He made a short but
appropriate speech of thanks.

AN interesting announcement is the
news issued by the Eclair Film
Company, of Paris, that it has obtained
the world rights to reproduce in mo-
tion picture form the works of the
famous novelist, the late Jules Verne.
Negotiations for this deal have been
on for some time past, and the Eclair
Company was only able to successful-
ly close the deal after paying an al-
most prohibitive price, which runs in-
to thousands of dollars.

Among the first subjects to be
launched on the market shortly will

Among the standing orders secured
by Fred E. Holliday, general sales
manager of the Ammex Film Com-
pany, for Ammex Features are:

Weiland Film Co., of Pittsburgh,
Eastern Pennsylvania and West Vir-
ginia; Golden" Gate Film Co., of Los
Angeles and San Francisco, Califor-
nia, Nevada and Arizona; Electric
Theatre Supply Co., of Philadelphia,
Eastern Pennsylvania and West Vir-
ginia; Texas Film Corporation, of
Dallas. Texas, and Southern Oklaho-
ma; Northwestern Film Co., of Port-
land and Seattle, Washington, Ore-

be "The Children of Captain Grant"
in seven reels, "The Black Indies"
in six parts, and that world-famous
masterpiece, the story of which is
known to everyone on the civilized
globe, "Twentj- Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea," which will be a su-
preme effort in motion pictures, and
we can look forward to new depart-
ures.

The Eclair is really to be compli-
mented upon its initiative and pro-
gressive spirit in obtaining the mo-
tion picture rights to these books.

gon and Idaho; Electric Theatre Sup-
ply Co., of Baltimore, Maryland, Del-
aware, District of Columbia and
Virginia; Texas Film Corporation, of
Atlanta, Georgia, North and South
Carolina, Tennessee. Mississippi,
Florida and Louisiana: Union Film
Co., of Chicago, Northern Illinois.

Remarkable, in view or the Laclede
brand of Western features being un-
known, save through the reputation
of its officers, is the advance sale of
the first release slated for distribution
November 20.

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47

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WHERE TO BUY

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

A

American Cinematograph Co 52

American Film Mfg. Co 58

American Kinematograph Corp.... 5

American M. P. Machine Co 58

Amusement Supply Co 53

Ammex Film Co 55

Associated M. P. Schools 51

Austin, W. C 51

Automatic Tidal Selling & Cash

Register Co 6

B

Benedict, Phil P 57

Bennett, C. H 52

C

Calehuff Supply Co 52

Chicago Song Slide Exchange 48

Commercial M. P. Co 8

D

Dearborn Novelty Co 57

E

Eastman Kodak Co 58

Eclair Film Co 2

Enterprise Optical Co 47

Essanay Film Mfg. Co 52

F

Fair Feature Sales Co 11

Famous Players' Film Co 45

Feature Photoplay Co 4

Ford, K. N 55-57

Fords 55

G

General Film Co - 60

General Special Feature Film Co . . 50

Center, J. H 49

Greater N. Y. Slide Co 51

Gunby Bros 55

H

Harding Engraving Co 58

Hart Booking Bureau 51

Heifer, Paul. 51

Horsley, David 47

Hotel Martinique 49

Hoyland, C. L ■ 45

I

Illinois Film Service Co 57

Illinois Theatre Supply Co 51

Italian American Film Co 48

Italia-American Film Co 48

K

Katin M. P. Supply Co 51

Keystone Film Co 53

Kinematograph Weekly 57

L

Lakeside Film Exchange 51

Le Courrier Cinematographique 51

Lubin Manufacturing Co 11

M

Manufacturers Catalogue Pub. Co. 48

Mestrum, Henry 57

Midgar Features 57

Mirror Screen Co 48

Motion Drama Co 3

Murphy, C. J 53

N

N. Y. Motion Picture Corporation 59-57

New York Film Co 9

N. Y. Film Co 9

Newman Manufacturing Co 51

Niagara Slide Co 52

P

Pan-American Film Mfg. Co 45

Pathe Passion Play 53

Photoplay Co 51

Picture Theatre Equipment Co.... 41

Power, Nicholas, Co 48

Precision Machine Co 2

R

Ruby Feature Film Co 46

S

Schneider, Eberhard 51

Special Event Film Mfg. Co... 55

Standard Film Brokers 45

Sterling Camera Co 55

T

Theatre Specialty Mfg. Co 52

U

Unique Film Co 8

W

World Special Films' Corporation. . 53

World's Best Film Co 45

Wurlitzer Company 53

A Common Sense Argument

Mirroroide advertisements have been read the world over. We do not depend
absolutely on advertisements to accomplish the results we have attained. We may
quote to you 'rom page 1060 of the Moving Picture World, issued recently, in which
Mr. R. W. Buzzell, of the Plaza Theater, Northampton, Mass., writes: "I have a
good union operator and a Mirroroide screen, and will back my picture against any
other exhibitor." This is partly an abstract. Read it for yourself. This was contained
in the Moving Picture World, Sept. 6th issue.

The common sense of the argument is this: that we will cheerfully back Mirroroide
ut) against any screen or projection surface in the world today. Backed up with any
amount of cash that any other of our competitors care to designate, as to the merits
of a true projection surface and the resulting accomplishments. These tests are to
include angle views, close up views, and the practical perspective of the said projection.
We have read a number of advertisements from our competitors. Can they do as they
claim? We claim they cannot. Then again, Mirroroide is put on the market at a
price within the reach of every exhibitor, because we are equipped to turn out, if
necessary, two hundred screens weekly, which ensures no delays. We have the proper
factory facilities, cash capital, and the proper machinery to do as we claim. If you
doubt, our large free samples are convincing.

If you desire recommendations from any portion of the entire universe write us,
and we will gladly inform you who has one of our Mirroroide screens in use. There
are 4700 Mirroroide screens in use today, which warrants the assertion that Mirroroide
is the best by test, and has proven to be superior to any other screen now on the
maket, barring none. Get our large free samples. Postage prepaid. Test any way you
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The Terminal Station of the Hudson
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block away. Good music, refined and
homelike.

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Walter Chandler, Jr., Manager

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"THE BOOMERANG"

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superb backgrounds and excellent portrayal throughout the entire two thousand feet,
makes this an exceptional offering. IRENE WARFIELD, E. H. Calvert and Thomas
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AMBROSIO Feet

Oct. 4— The Wild Guardian (2 Parts)

Oct. 11 — Chopin's Nocturne (2 Parts)

Oct. 18— The Two Mothers (2 parts Dr.) 2000

AMERICAN

Nov. 3— The Girl and the Greaser (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 6— What Her Diary Told (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 8— The Haunted House (Cora. Dr.).. 1000

Nov. 10 — Martha's Decision (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 13 — An Assisted Proposal (W. Com.).. 1000
Nov. 15 — The Drummer's Honeymoon (Com.). 1000
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Nov. 27 — The Spartan Girl of the West (W.

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Nov. 29 — At Midnight (Society Dr.) 1000

BISON

Nov. 1 — From Dawn Till Dark (2 reel Dr.).

Nov. 4 — Captain Kidd (3 reel Dr.)

Nov. 8— The Prairie Trail (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 11 — Madonna of the Slums (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 15 — "Laska" (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 18 — The Raid of the Human Tigers (3

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Nov. 22 — Winona's Vengeance (2 reel Dr.)..
Nov. 25 — The White Vaquero (2 reel Dr.) . .
Nov. 29 — The War of the Cattle Range (2 reel

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BRONCHO

Oct. 1 — The Greenhorn 2000

Oct. 8 — Forgotten Melody (2 reels)

Oct. 15 — The Reaping (2 reels)

Oct. 22— The Black Sheep (2 reels)

Oct. 29 — From Out the Storm (2 reels)

Nov. 5— The Veteran (2 reels)

Nov. 12 — The Imposter (2 parts — Dr.)

CRYSTAL

Oct. 28— The Game that Failed (Com.)

Nov. 2 — A Hidden Love (Dr.)

Nov. 4— Girls Will Be Boys (Com.)

Nov. 4 — Ashamed to Take the Money (Com.)

Nov. 9— When Duty Calls (Dr.)

Nov. 11— Oh! You Pearl (Com.)

Nov. 11— Baldy Belmont Wins a Prize (Com.)

Nov. 16 — Out of the Grave (Dr.)

Nov. 18 — Her Secretaries (Com.)

Nov. 18 — Percy's New Mamma (Com.)

Nov. 23— The Cabaret Singer (Dr.)

Nov. 25 — Hubby's New Coat (Com.)

Nov. 25 — Baldy Belmont Lands a Society Job

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Nov. 30 — The Convict's Daughter (Dr.) .

DE-KA-GE (Features)

June 88 — Death or Divorce

June 30 — The Stain

DOMINO

Oct. 23— Heart of Kathleen (3 reels)

Oct. 30 — Widow Mallney's Faith (3 parts —

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Nov. 6— The Tudgment (2 part Dr.)

Nov. 13 — The Ghost (2 parts— Dr.)

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Nov. 16 — Unforeseen Metamorphoses and Does

Max Ssore (Split)

Nov. 19 — Partners (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 23— Oh! You Rubber

Nov. 23 — Soldiers Drilling in Turkestan

Nov. 26— A Son's Devotion (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 30 — Roaring Bill (Com.)

Nov. 30 — One on Tooty (Com.)

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Oct. 30— When Spirits Walk (Com.)

Nov. 1 — His Conscience (Dr.)

Nov. 6 — Slim Gets the Reward (Com.)....
Nov. 8— The Girl and the Bandit (1 reel Dr.)
Nov. 13 — Caught at His Own Game (Com.)..

Nov. 15— The Bond that Binds (Dr.)

Nov. 20 — Slim Becomes a Detective (Com.)..

Nov. 22 — The Double Cross (Dr.)

Nov. 27 — Slim Proposes, But — (Com.)

Nov. 29— The Secret of Balanced Rock (Dr.)

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Nov. 5— Weekly No. 86 1000

Nov. 6 — Monty and Molly Seek a Divorce

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Nov. 11 — The Bank Messenger (Dr.)

Nov. 13— The Heart of a Doll (Com.)

Nov. 18 — Monty and the Milkmaid (Com.) . . .
Nov. 20 — "Dear Oscar" Finances a Theatre

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Nov. 25 — Mary Saves the Sculptor (Com.) . . .

Nov. 27 — The Little Peacemaker (Dr.)

Nov. 27 — Gymnastics (Edu.)

GEM

Sept. 22 — None But the Brave Deserve the — ?
Sept. 22 — Sanitary Dairy Plant, Washington,

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Sept. 29 — The Bachelor Girls' Club (Com.) . .

Oct. 13— The Surf Maidens (Com.)

Oct. 20 — His Double Surprise _

Oct. 20 — A Trip Through Tunis and Algiers..
GREAT NORTHERN

Oct. 11— The Baltic Sea (Sc.)

Oct. 18 — A Husband's Strategy 1000

Oct. 25— Who Is Who 982

Nov. 1 — A Dilemma 1000

Nov. 8 — A Bogus Hero (Com.)

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Oct. 14— The Rival Brothers 3000

Oct. 21 — Secret of the Old Cabinet 3000

Oct. 28 — In the Bonds of Passion 3000

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Aug. 23 — The Great Circus Catastrophe (3

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IMP

Oct. 23— The Anarchist (Dr.)

Oct. 27— Tane of Moth Eaton Farm (Dr.)

Oct. 30 — His Hour of Triumph (2 reel Dr.).
Nov. 3 — The Temptation of James (2 reel

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Nov. 6— The Old Parlor (1 reel Dr.)

Nov. 10 — On Pine Mountain (Dr.)

Nov. 13 — Levi and McGinnis Running for

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Nov. 17— Who Killed Olga Carew (2 reel Dr.)
Nov. 20 — The Child Stealers of Paris (Dr.)..
Nov. 24 — -Jane's Brother the Paranoiac (Dr.) . .
Nov. 27 — Night Shadows of New York (3 reel

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Sept. 25 — Unmasked

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Oct. 23 — Queen's Jewels 3000

JOKER

Nov. 19 — -Mike and Jake at the Beach (Com.)

Nov. 22 — The Stingers Stung (Com.)

Nov. 26 — Mike and Jake Go Fishing

Nov. 26 — The Ballybunion Railway in Ire-
land

Nov. 29 — Lazy Louie (Com.)...;

KAY-BEE

Oct. 17 — Venetian Romance (1 reel)

Oct. 24 — A Woman's Wit (1 reel)

Oct. 31— Borrowed Gold (1 reel)

Nov. 7 — For Mother's Sake (1 reel)

Nov. 11 — For Mother's Sake (Dr.)

Nov. 14 — Efficacy of Prayer (Dr.)

KEYSTONE

Oct. 20 — A Quiet Little Wedding

Oct. 23 — The Janitor — Making An Automobile

Tire

Oct. 27 — The Speed Kings: Earl Cooper,

Teddy Tetzlaff

Oct. 30 — Speed Kings Tetzlaff and Earl Cooper

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Nov. 3 — Fatty, at San Diego (Com.)

Nov. 6 — Louis' Sickness at Sea (Com.)

Nov. 10— Small Time Act (Com.)

Nov. 10— The Milk We Drink (Edu.)

KOMIC Feet

Oct. 23 — Caught in His Own Net (Com.)

Oct. 23 — Deceiving Dad (Com.)

Oct. 30 — Father and the Flies (Com.)

Oct. 30— The New Curate (Com.)

Nov. 6 — Poor John (Com.)

Nov. 6 — Caused by a Clock (Com.)

Nov. 13 — An Affair of Honor (Com.)

Nov. 13 — Biddy on Her Mettle (Com.)

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Sept. 6 — Decreed to Die 8009

Oct. 18— My Boy

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Oct. 24— Terrible Bobby (Com.) 235

Oct. 31 — Mabel Feigns Indisposition (Com.) 575

Oct. 31 — Percy's Heroism (Com.) 410

MAJESTIC

Oct. 26 — The Scenario Writer

Oct. 28— The Oath of O'Tsuru San (2 part

Dr.)

Nov. 1 — (No Release This Date)

Nov. 2 — The Marriage of Niatana (Dr.)....
Nov. 4- — The Ward of the Senior Class (Dr.)

Nov. 8 — Levinsky's Holiday (Com.)

NESTOR

Oct. 31— Curses! Said the Villain (Com.)

Nov. 5 — Western Hearts (1 reel Dr.)

Nov. 7 — His Wife's Burglar (Com.)

Nov. 12 — In the End (Dr.)

Nov. 14 — Love Luck and a Paint Brush

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Nov. 19 — The Golden Princess Mine (Dr.) . .
Nov. 21 — An Elephant On His Hands (Com.)

Nov. 26 — Hilda of the Mountains (Dr.)

Nov. 28 — When He Lost to Win (Com.)

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Aug. 28 — Getting the Evidence (Dr.) 1000

POWERS

Nov. 7 — The Heart of a Cracksman

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Nov. 14 — Cracksman's Reformation (Dr.) ....
Nov. 17 — The Cotton Industry in Arkansas. .

Nov. 17 — The Doctor's Orders

Nov. 21 — A Stolen Identity (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 24- — Jimmy's Deception (Com.)

Nov. 28 — A Seaside Samaritan (Dr.)

RAMO

Oct. 15— The Current (Dr.) S00O

Nov. 5— Wives 3000

PRINCESS

Oct. 24 — Lobster Salad and Milk (Com.)

Oct. 31 — Algy's Awful Auto (Com.)

RELIANCE

Nov. 10 — The Power of the Sea

Nov. 12— The Bracelet (Dr.)

Nov. 15 — For Love of a Man (2 reel Dr.) . .
Nov. 17 — Two Men and a Mule (Series 4 —

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Nov. 19 — A Man and a Woman (Dr.)

Nov. 22— Her Father's Daughter (Dr.)

REX

Nov. 9— The Haunted Bride (Dr.)

Nov. 13 — The Missionary Box (Dr.)

Nov. 16— The Blood Brotherhood (Dr.)

Nov. 20— Fires of Fate (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 23— His Old Fashioned Dad (Com. Dr.)
Nov. 27 — The Tale of a Lonely Coast (Dr.) . .
Nov. 30 — The Boob's Dream Girl (Com. Dr.)
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Oct. 24 — Fisherman's Luck (Com.) 1000

Oct. 25— Rogues of Paris 4000

Oct. 31— Ish Gabibble (Com.) 1000

Oct. 31 — The Movies 1000

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THANHOUSER
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Oct. 24 — The Old Folks at Home

Oct. 26 — The Silver Tongued Orator

Oct. 28 — How Filmy Won His Sweetheart...

Oct. 31 — A Twentieth Century Farmer

Nov. 2 — The Water Cure (Com.)

Nov. 4 — The Junior Partner (2 part Dr.)..

Nov. 7 — Little Brother (Dr.)

VICTOR

Nov. 14 — (Lawrence) A Child of the Streets.

Nov. 17 — Forgotten Women (Dr.)

Nov. 21 — Where the Hop Vines (Dr.)

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Oct. 25 — The Madonna of the Storm (Dr.)..
Oct. 27 — An Evening With the Wilder

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Oct. 30— A Barber Cure (Com.)

Oct. 30 — Boarders and Bombs (Com.)

Nov. 1 — The Clock Stopped (Dr.)

Nov. 3 — Diversion (Dr.)

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Nov. 8— Old Coupons (Dr.)

Nov. 10 — No Place for Father (Dr.)

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Nov. 4 — Zuma, the Gypsy (2 parts— Dr. —

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Nov. 11— The Penalty (2 part Dr.)

Nov. 18 — For the Love of a Toreador (2 part

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EDISON

Oct. 25 — A Proposal from — Nobody, being the
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Oct. 27 — Across Swift Current Pass on Horse-
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Oct. 27— A Hornet's Nest (Com.) 600

Oct. 28— A Daughter of the Wilderness (Dr.). 1000

Oct. 29— The Horrible Example (Com.) 1000

Oct. 31— Janet of the Dunes (Dr.) 2000

Nov. 1— A Woodland Paradise (Com.) 1000

Nov. 3— Wild Wales (Sc.) 350

Nov. 3 — Porgy's Bouquet (Com.) 650

Nov. 4 — Tommy's Stratagem (Com.) 1000

Nov. 5— Archie and the Bell-boy (Com.) 1000

Nov. 7— A Face from the Past (Dr.) Parts I

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Nov. 8— Elise (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 10 — Camping with the Blackfeet (Des.) . 600

Nov. 10— Seth's Woodpile (Com.) 500

Nov. 11— The Doctor's Duty (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 12— His Nephew's Scheme (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 14— The Phantom Signal (Dr.— Parts I

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Nov. 15— Getting a Patient (Com.) 1000

Nov. 17— Nora's Boarders (Com.) 1000

Nov. 18 — A Cause for Thankfulness (Dr.).. 1000
Nov. 19— The Girl in the House-boat (Com.). 1000

Nov. 21— A Good Sport (2 parts— Com.) 2000

Nov. 22 — A Proposal Deferred, being the fifth
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Nov. 24 — From Durban to Zululand (Sc.) 500

Nov. 24 — Enoch and Ezra's First Smoke

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Nov. 25 — The Vanishing Cracksman (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 26 — A Sense of Humor (Com.) 1000

Nov. 28 — The Gunmaker of Moscow (2 parts

—Dr.) 2000

Nov. 29— A Royal Romance (Dr.) 1000

ESSANAY

Oct. 15— Their Waterloo (Com.)

Oct. 16 — A Borrowed Identity (Com.)

Oct. 17— Broncho Billy Gets Square (Dr.)

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Oct. 17 — The Troublesome Telephone (Com.)
Oct. 17— The Boston Floating Hospital (Top.)
Oct. 18 — The Railroad Detective's Dilemma

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Oct. 18— "Alkali" Ike and the Wild Man

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Oct. 21— The Way Perilous (Dr.)

Oct. 22— Day by Day (Com.)

Oct. 23— The Kid Sheriff (Com. Dr.)

Oct. 24 — The Love Lute of Romany (Dr.)

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Oct. 25 — Broncho Billy's Elopement (Dr.)

Oct. 28— Thy Will Be Done (Dr.)

Oct. 29— Cupid and Three (Com.)

Oct. 30— Greed for Gold (Dr.)

Nov. 1— The Doctor's Duty (Dr.)

Nov. 4— Quicksands of Sin (Dr.)

Nov. 5 — Their Wives' Indiscretion (Com.) .
Nov. 6 — The Rustler's Stepdaughter (W. Dr.)

Nov. 7 — The Death Weight

Nov. 8— Broncho Billy's Secret (W. Dr.)..

Nov. 11 — The Man Outside (Dr.)

Nov. 12— The Last Laugh (Com.)

Nov. 13 — The New Schoolmarm of Green

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Nov. 15— "Alkali" Ike's Auto (W. Com.)

Nov. 18— The Lost Chord (Dr.)

Nov. 19— The Usual Way (Com.)

Nov. 20— The Cowboy Samaritan (W. Dr.)

KALEM Feet
Oct. 27— High-Born Child and Beggar (Dr.).
Oct. 27 — Sports in Merrie England (Sports)
Oct. 29 — Motion Picture Dancing Lessons

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Oct. 31 — The Speed Limit (Com.)

Nov. 1 — The President's Special (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 3 — The Fatal Shot (2 parts — Dr.) 2000

Nov. 5 — The Man Who Vanished (2 part

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Nov. 7 — Tightwad's Present (Com.)

Nov. 7 — The Marble Industry (Ind.)

Nov. 8 — The Silent Warning (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 10 — The Runaway Freight (2 parts —

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Nov. 12 — Our New Minister (Special — 3 parts

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Nov. 14— The Fickle Freak (Com.)

Nov. 14 — Hypnotiz.ng Mamie (Com.)

Nov. 15 — Against Desperate Odds (Dr.) 1000

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Oct. 16 — The Taking of Rattlesnake Bill 2000

Uct. 17 — The Mate of the Schooner Sadie.. 1000

Oct. 18 — The Highest Bidder 400

Oct. 18 — A Sleepy Romance 600

Oct. 20 — Father's Choice 400

Oct. 20 — All On Account of Daisy 600

Oct. 21— Her First Offense 1000

Oct. 23— The Evil Eye 2000

Oct. 24 — The Man in the Hamper 1000

Oct. 25 — Mother Love 1000

Oct. 27— The Man of Him 1000

Oct. 28 — Making Good 400

Oct. 28— Giving Bill a Rest 600

Oct. 30 — The Rattlesnake (2 reels) 2000

Oct. 31 — A Momentous Decision 1000

Nov. 1 — When the Prison Doors Opened. .. 1000

Nov. 3— The Double Chase (Com.) 1000

Nov. 4 — Magic Melody (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 6 — The Price of Victory (2 reel Dr.).. 2000

Nov. 7 — Cocoanut Industry (Edu.) 400

Nov. 7 — Getting The Best of Dad (Com.) 600

Nov. 8 — Hiawanda's Cross (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 10 — The Pride of Battery B (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 11 — A Miracle of Love (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 13— The Sea Eternal (2 reel Dr.) 2000

Nov. 14 — When the Clock Stopped (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 15— Whose Is It? (Com.) 400

Nov. 15 — Badly Wanted (Com.) 600

Nov. 15— Whose Is It (Com.)

Nov. 17 — The Two Fathers (Com.)

Nov. 18— Shadows (Dr.)

Nov. 20— Partners in Crime (Dr.)

Nov. 21— His Chorus Girl Wife (Dr.)

Nov. 22 — The Harmless One (W. Dr.)

Nov. 24 — Just Cissy's Little Way (Com.)

Nov. 25— Sick Father (Com.)

Nov. 25— The Lost Switch (Com.)

Nov. 27— A Waif of the Desert (2 reel Dr.) . .

Nov. 28 — The Scapegrace (Dr.)

Nov. 29 — Turning the Table (W. Dr.)

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Oct. 10 — Scenes ol Coclnn-China (Sc.) 1000

Oct. 23— Old and New Tahiti (Dr.)

Oct. 30 — A Japanese Wedding (Manners and

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Oct. 30 — A Japanese Shoemaker at Work

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Nov. 6 — Sydney and Its Harbor (Travel) .. 1000

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Oct. 9 — Two Mothers (Special — 2 Parts —

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Oct. 10— The Millionaire's Ward (Dr.)

Oct. 11— Talkative Tess (Com.)

Oct. 13 — Pathe's Weekly No. 58

Oct. 14 — A Yankee in Mexico (Dr.)

Oct. 14 — The Petrified Forests of Arizona

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Oct. 15— The Bullet's Mark (Dr.)

Oct. 16— In the Haunts of Fear (Dr.) (Parts

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Oct. 17— Her Hour (Dr.)

Oct. 18 — A Plant with Nerves — Mimosa

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Oct. 25 — Gypsy Love (Dr.)

Oct. 27— Pathe's Weekly

Oct. 28— The Spinners of Speech (Ind.)

Oct. 29— When Childhood Wins

Oct. 30 — In Love and War (Multiple Reel).

Oct. 30— Pathe's Weekly

Oct. 31 — Love's Deception (Dr.)

Nov. 1 — Too Many Tenants (Com.)

Nov. 3 — Pathe's Weekly No. 64 (News)..

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Nov. 5 — A Yellow Streak (Dr.)

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Nov. 8 — A Phony Alarm (Com.)

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Nov. 11 — For Mother's Sake.
Nov. 14 — Efficacy of Prayer.
Nov. 18 — The Claim Jumper.
Nov. 21 — Days of '49.
Nov. 25 — The Maelstrom.
Nov. 28 — Sign of the Snake.
Dec. 2 — The Revelation,

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Nov. 12 — The Impostor.
Nov. 19 — War Correspondent.
Nov. 26 — The Reformation.
Dec. 3 — Buried Past.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

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American Film Mfg. Co 51

American Kineto Corp 7

Amusement Supply Co 54

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Austin, W. C 59

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Bennett, C. H 57

Blache Features 15

C

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Commercial M. P. Co 59

D

Dearborn Novelty Co 53

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Eastern Feature Film Co 50

Eastman Kodak Co 51

Eclietic Film Co 9

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F

Famous Players' Film Co 61

Features Ideal 2

Feature Photoplay Co 49

Film Attractions Co 47

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General Feature Film Co 59

General Film Co 64

J. H. Center 50

Greater N. Y. Slide Co ! 59

Gunby Bros 53

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Harding Engraving Co 51

Hart Booking Bureau 56

Heifer, Paul 59

Hotel Martinique 53

Hoyland, C. L 50

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Italian- American Film Co 50

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Kinematograph Weekly 53

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Le Courrier Cinematographique. . . . 59

Lubin Manufacturing Co 12

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Mestrum, Henry 52

Midgar Features 61

Mirror Screen Co 55

Motion Drama Co 12

Murphy, C. J 56

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Newman Manufacturing Co 59

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Pan-American Film Mfg. Co 61

Photoplay Co 54

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Power, Nicholas, Co 55

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Regal Feature Film Co 8

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Schneider, Eberhard 59

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Special Event Film Mfg. Co 61

Standard Film Brokers 52

Supreme Feature Film Co 52

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Unique Films 13

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

Frontispiece, "The Fatal Plunge" 16

Personality in Advertising 17

Defense Resumes in Patents Company Suit 18

Bringing the Old West Back 19

Face to Face with the Jungle 20

Tele-Photographic Motion Pictures 22

Good Photography His Slogan : 23

Oh, It's an Interesting Life 24

Pictures as a Common Language 26

The Average American Exhibitor 27

For Those Who Worry O'er Plots and Plays 29

Latest News from Chicago 31;-

Appearance and Manners . v 32

Special Film Reviews . : 33

Music and the Picture 36

Pathe to Film Exposition 37

Motion Picture Theatre Construction Department 38

Advertising the Picture 40

Chicago Ventilation Meeting Fruitless 41

Interesting Film Reviews 42

Manufacturers' List of Releases 58-60

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MOVING PICTURE NEWS EXHIBITORS' TIMES

Established 1908 Established 1913

Volume VIII November 22, 1913 Number 20

PERSONALITY IN ADVERTISING

pROBABLY the cleverest writer of advertising
copy, in this country, is the self-styled sage of
East Aurora, Mr. Elbert Hubbard.

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~\/T R- HUBBARD is strongly commercial. He can
dig a selling idea— often THE selling idea —
out of your product with a rare facility. Then with
a still rarer knowledge of what the public likes to
read he will play it up with the most alluring twists
and turns.

* * *

T>UT— a strong but— it is doubtful if Mr. Hubbard's
copy sells goods. That is to say, the other fellow's
goods. There is no doubt but that it sells Mr.
Hubbard's goods.

* * *

TT also sells Hubbard's copy — Mr. Hubbard's ser-
vices, that is, to other advertisers.

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npHE trouble with this kind of copy is that it directs
-■- attention to the writer rather than to the product
he exploits.

* * *

A FTER reading one of Elbert Hubbard's (signed)
advertisements — they are always signed — you are
left only with an impression of the writer's clever-
ness. You are amused by his epigrams, his wit, his
daring phrases.

* * *

"X7'OU may be persuaded to buy a copy of the
"Philistine" ; or you may tell your advertiser friend
that the very best thing he can do is to get so clever
a copy writer. All of which sells Hubbard products.

& sf:

T>UT what of the product advertised? It has been
■ lost in the shuffle of the copy writer's cleverness.

* * *

THIS is a case of too much personality — too much
Hubbard.

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'T'HERE was "Sunny Jim" ! Not long ago this
■*- unique little figure was known the country over.
He said very cute things, and disported himself in so
quaint a way that he acquired a real personality.

T)EOPLE talked a great deal about "Sunny Jim."

It would have been excellent advertising for Sunny
Jim dolls — or some other form of "Sunny Jim." But
it finally required a big effort and much money to
haul "Sunny Jim" back and harness him to the break-
fast food he was designed to sell.

npOO much Sunny Jim ! Too much personality —

of some one else.

* * *

f\N the other hand, no one knows — or cares who
writes Tiffany copy; but everyone receives from
each advertisement a very clear idea of the dignity,
fine quality and distinctive art of the Tiffany product.

* * *

CO also you are given a lasting impression that
^ Packard cars are "classy"; that Fownes' gloves
are good form; that Beechnut delicacies are pure and
tasteful. And the copy does it all.

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"PERSONALITY in advertising copy is excellent.

It should be and can be a subtle, sustained sell-
ing force.

BUT LET IT BE THE PERSONALITY OF
THE PRODUCT ITSELF.

* * *

T^VERY product — every worth-while product — has
' a personality, quite as much as an individual. If
character, skill, ideals have entered into the making of
it, then all of these will be evidenced by the product
itself.

r~F< HEN let the copy uphold the personality— in
words, art and typography. Let it have the same
distinctive personality that the product has. Let it
sustain this personality. Let it suggest.

* * *

A ND through suggestion, which is after all the
strongest advertising force, it will finally convince
the buyer that he wants this product and can depend
upon its value and reliability.

William Allen Johnston.

DEFENSE RESUMES IN PATENTS COMPANY SUIT

Frank L. Dyer, President of General Film Company, on Stand for Three Days Tells How
Defendant Company Saved Motion Picture Industry by Bringing Order From Chaos

HEARINGS in the suit of the United States against the
Motion Picture Patents Company as a monopoly under
the terms of the Sherman anti-trust law were re-
sumed Monday at the Hotel Manhattan, New York City.
Taking of testimony by the prosecution was ended several
months ago and then followed a long recess while Edward P.
Grosvenor, special attorney general, and Joseph R. Darling,
special agent of the department of justice, were in the West,
busy with the harvester case.

Now the defense is having its innings and, barring days
when the attorneys for the defense are busied with other
cases, the hearings will go right along until all the evidence
is in. It is expected that the hearings will take about five
weeks more, as the defense plans to put in testimony from
the heads of all the licensed producing firms, either in person
or by deposition. Depositions from persons all over the
country interested in the motion picture business will also be
introduced by the defense, which plans to pile up a for-
midable mass of accumulative evidence.

This evidence will probably be along the general lines of
the testimony given by Frank L. Dyer, president of the
General Film Company, whose direct testimony occupied
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.

His testimony was to the effect that the Motion Picture
Patents Company did not stifle competition. That the Pat-
ents Company redeemed the motion picture art when it was
rapidly going into a state of chaos and that the men in the
Patents Company saw the great possibilities in the motion
picture industry and bent their efforts to the production of
meritorious and artistic pictures were other points made
by Mr. Dyer.

. 5j< % %

IN support of the contention that competition has not been
stifled, Mr. Dyer took cognizance at considerable length
of the competition of the Mutual and Universal programs.
These were the only firms mentioned except the licensed
manufacturers.

Monday's session was devoted to a review of motion pic-
ture trade conditions before the formation of the Patents
Company in December, 1908.

Before the formation of the Patents Company films full
of "rain" were frequent. They were used as "chasers" in
vaudeville houses. They hurt business. They injured the
eyes of the spectators. No theatres now would put up with
that kind of pictures, said Mr. Dyer.

Before the formation of the Patents Company Pathe
was the predominant factor in the film business. Under the
competitive conditions now existing it is not. It has been
pulled down from sixty per cent of the business to ten per
cent. The amount of prints sold by the various firms in the
Patents Company varies as much as three hundred per cent.

The Patents Company firms have always tried to improve
the character of motion picture exhibitions by keeping
objectionable films off the market. They have changed
motion pictures from a side show proposition to a high-class
theatrical proposition.

"The licenses granted by the Patents Company are not a
right. They are a privilege to be immune from suit."

At the Tuesday session Mr. Dyer continued his testimony,
taking up motion picture affairs with the formation of the
Patents Company.

Mr. Dyer followed with a lengthy exposition of the details
of the motion picture business, details with which those in-
terested in the business are, for the most part, familiar. The
object was, of course, to make these facts a matter of record
when the case is laid before the Federal judges for review.

As evidence that the motion picture business is flow nearing
the plane of the high-class theatrical proposition, Mr. Dyer
mentioned names of several men who are now entering the
motion picture field, among them Augustus Thomas, Richard
Harding Davis, Charles Klein and Rex Beach.

He outlined an analogy between the motion picture busi-
ness and the theatrical business. In this he likened
the methods of producing a theatrical attraction and a film
and explained the relative methods of routing a show on the
road and booking a film ahead. He also dwelt on the many
big features coming in, of which "Quo Vadis?" was the
first, which are being handled by theatrical people as the-
atrical attractions.

* * *

" A S for the cost of production," he said, "a film which

-l*- costs two dollars a negative foot to produce can be mar-
keted by a Patents Company firm with profit, I believe, while
one costing $2.50 a negative foot to produce will be a loss
financially. Between these sums lies the critical point, ac-
cording to my observations.

"The gross receipts of the motion picture theatres of the
country for a year are estimated at $350,000,000. Of this
sum the exhibitors pay the various producing firms about
ten per cent for their film service. Thus they pay a much
lower proportionate rate for their attractions than do the
proprietors of legitimate theatres who pay from forty to
seventy-five per cent of their gross recepits to foot the bill
of the current attraction. The proprietor of a motion picture
theatre is really in an enviable position as compared to his
brother showman ' who is putting a theatrical attraction
before the public."

The greater part of the session on Wednesday was devoted
to proof that the General Film Company, which distributes
the films of the licensed manufacturers, has very active and
unhampered competition. Mr. Dyer went over the entire
country, almost inch by inch, and named the General Film
offices and then the competing offices in every bit of terri-
tory. In most of the cities having branches of the General
Film Company there were exchanges distributing the Mutual
and Universal programs. Mr. Dyer stated that the General
Film Company needs more distributing offices.

At the close of his testimony Wednesday Mr. Dyer made
some very pointed and illuminating remarks.

"Competition is keen and bitter in the motion picture busi-
ness," he said. "The business and the men in it have not yet
become thoroughly civilized. There is not the feeling of
courtesy and good will that exists among competitors in other
lines. Managers of competing exchanges entertain a personal
hostility toward each other. They speak ill of each other
freely. They make frantic efforts to get customers by offer-
ing various inducements. Thus the competing programs get
customers away from us and we get customers away from
them. Some customers stick to one program. Others are
continually changing every time an inducement is held out to
them. The situation is one of fierce competition and all
the persons in it are fighting for all they can get."

BRINGING THE OLD WEST BACK

General Miles, Johnny Baker, Indian Chiefs and Other Frontier Celebrities Revive Days of
Indian Wars for Essanay — This Is the First Real Story of a
Great Historical Undertaking

By CHARLES J. VER HALEN

TO reap, and reap bountifully after
you have sown, is a pleasure in
itself that converts the toil of labor

'90 and '91 again opposed each other
on the very field they did some twenty
odd years ago. Memories stirred in

GENERAL MAUS, GENERAL MILES, AND PRODUCERS THEODORE WHARTON

AND JOHNNY BAKER

into joy. When a big idea becomes a
realization that is an accomplishment
worthy of being placed on a high pin-
nacle. When the undertaking is of
such magnitude that the eyes of a
whole industry are concentrated on its
consummation, its successful comple-
tion is indeed an achievement.

In this country of ours there is his-
tory on record that has an inherent
interest to all of us, and that will have
an added charm when it flashes be-
fore our vision just as it happened,
and with many of the prominent char-
acters who helped to make it portray-
ing over again the battles in which
they were sometimes victorious and
sometimes defeated.

With the return of the producers,
camera-men and others whom George
K. Spoor sent to Cody, Wyoming,
for Essanay, a permanent record has
been made of a bit of history which
very nearly eradicated a mighty na-
tion, the Sioux Indian.

There is nothing of fiction about
this picture. It will contain events
just as they transpired according to
the statements of those who at the
time of the original war were in its
very midst.

Chiefs, bucks, and squaws, generals,
officers and soldiers who held arms
against each other in the battles of

them of the real affray and they lived
over again a period of their life which
was at once painful in its recalling.

turned recently to Chicago burdened
with many thrilling experiences, none
more so, however, than the actual
scenes as they are registered by the
camera. For several days previous
to the taking of the first battle scene
the air seemed to be charged with
danger; both Indians and soldiers
were loath to commence operations.
It was during this battle many years
ago that so many on both sides were
lost, not only soldiers, but women and
children.

During the entire taking of the pic-
ture the squaws chanted their death
song as they did years ago when they
saw the brave warriors fall under the
rain of bullets. Many of them broke
into tears as the vividness of the bat-
tle recalled that other time when lives
were really lost and everything was
actual.

Even the chieftains, now grown
gray, and used to the sight of blood-
shed from the innumerable battles,
told of those days with a tremor in
their voice. That battle was not only
the start of a warfare that deprived
them of power, but of brothers, rela-
tives, wives and children. Those of
the other forces who remembered
that day of battle, such as General
Miles and Buffalo Bill, felt a lump

BUFFALO BILL, GENERAL MILES AND INDIAN CHIEF

Theodore Wharton, one of the pro-
ducers whom Mr. Spoor assigned to
take these pictures for the Essanay
Film Manufacturing Company, re-

growing in their throats as they lived
over again in each other's company
the days of '90.

Things as this that will affect such

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

strong men as assembled on the old
battlefield are truly historic and
worthy of the efforts of the man that
has undertaken to put them on film.
George K. Spoor has delved into a
subject that is dear to the hearts of

V R DAY

Essanay's General Manager, with his spurs on.

all Americans, and made permanent
for them that gone-by period which in
time would lose its vividness.

Such battles as Wounded Knee and
the Battle of the Messiah form part
of this production, and show Chief
Short Bull, who visited the fake Mes-
siah that arose at that time, and at his

advice started the battle. Jack Red
Cloud, son of Chief Red Cloud, also
takes part in these battles. Jack Red
Cloud, with Goodlance and Iron Crow,
were among the peace envoys that
visited General Miles. Woman Dress,
another old warrior, takes part. Aside
from these battles he was associated
with General Crook's command in '76
Dewy Beard, still considered a hero
among his tribe, appears in his ghost
shirt, which still bears the marks of
five bullet holes. Dewy Beard was the
last to surrender at the time of the
battle, and held off the soldiers for
fourteen hours from his place of van-
tage.

Brave men's names as these appear
little in history, however their hero-
ism deserves the praise of all. Its
memory should live forever. Besides
General Miles and Colonel Cody,
Colonel H. S. Sickel, who is now in
command of the Twelfth Cavalry, was
then a lieutenant in the Seventh; Gen-
eral Maus, General King and General
Lee were there to replay their parts.
Philip Wells, a half-breed Indian, still
bears scars of battle. He at that time
was official interpreter, and during
one of the battles had his nose cut off,
but the quick action of an attending
physician saved this organ to him.

Nine weeks were spent in the tak-
ing of this picture and 10,000 peo-
ple employed, besides many prairie
schooners, tents and so on. Mr
Wharton before leaving was adopted
into the Sioux nation and given the
name of Waubli Wicasa, meaning
Eagle Man.

THEODORE WHARTON, PRODUCER, AND
GENERAL MILES

FACE TO FACE WITH THE JUNGLE

Paul J. Rainey Hunt Pictures Now to Be Placed Before Inhabitants of Smaller Cities
and Towns — Remarkable Visualization of Wild Life in Africa Taken From Nature

WHAT now seems
a long time ago,
Paul J. Rainey, mil-
lionaire, sportsman
and explorer, sailed
for Africa, accom-
panied by J. C. Hem-
ment, an expert pho-
tographer, and party
containing several
scientists, to hunt the
wild game of that
country with a mo-
tion camera instead
of a gun. The idea
was new at the time
and attracted much
attention.

When Rainey re-
turned the motion
pictures he had taken
proved a sensation.
He had successfully
transferred to six
thousand feet of film
many intimate glimp-
• ses of the inhabitants
of the jungle. The
subject matter of the

THE RAINEY EXPEDITION AND SOME TROPHIES

pictures was entirely
new. It explored un-
developed territory.
It showed the great
beasts of Africa
many times in close
views.

Lions, buffalo, rhi-
noceri, leopards,
jackals, antelopes, all
these and innumer-
able other lesser
beasts and birds as
well, were shown on
the screen. Perhaps
the most talked of
single scene was the
one at the water-
hole. With his cam-
era focused on the
water-hole, the pho-
tographer waited day
after day before '~e
got results, but when
he did get them,
they were worth the
while.

Buffalo, deer, gnu,
a n t e 1 ope, elephants

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21

and birds of all kinds were seen parad-
ing down to the water-hole for that
precious drink for which many of them
risked their t lives. For the predatory
animals watch the water-hole, as it is
their surest way of making a "kill."

As the milder animals troop down
the declivities leading to the spring,
the fiercer beasts lie in wait. On this
account it was no easy matter to get

come manfully. They were the first of
their kind and also the best. Other
pictures of African animal wild life fol-
lowed them into this country, but did
not create nearly as much of a furore.

When first brought to America they
ran for about nine months on Broad-
way, New York, at the Bijou Theatre,
with prices ranging up to one dollar.
They were also exhibited in several

J. C. HEMMENT AND A HUGE RHINOCEROS

the pictures, but they were finally ob-
tained and are especially interesting.

Hunt scenes are also shown. There
are pictures showing herds of antelope
and deer in full flight, others showing
them caught off their guard. Some of
these scenes show the wary animals
back in the middle distance. Others
show them well in the foreground.
Then there are the exciting parts. These
include the hunts of many kinds. There
is the pack of big hounds on the trail
of a lion, fighting with the king of
beasts, and, finally, worrying the body
at the kill. Another scene with much
action shows the lassoing of a rhinoc-
eros, and many others show chases and
hunts of various kinds.

Panoramic views are utilized very
frequently to keep up with the action,
which necessarily is very swift and
covers considerable territory. Then there
are pictures showing the camp, the
army of negro camp-followers and bur-
den-bearers, and the pack of big dogs
carried with the outfit. Trophies of
the chase in the shape of animals killed
in the hunt may be seen in many of
the views.

These pictures were taken under ap-
parently insurmountable difficulties,
which were, for the most part, over-

other large cities on a corresponding
price scale. But there were many cities
not touched. In fact, the pictures have

not been shown in any but the few
largest cities of the country. Now they
will reach the smaller cities and towns,
for it has been decided to dispose of the
pictures on a State-rights basis. The
pictures are being handled by the Jun-
gle Film Company, with offices on the
fourth floor of the Mecca Building at
1600 Broadway.

PASQUALI "POMPEII" IN TOO
GREAT DEMAND

The phenomenal success of the Pas-
quali production, "The Last Days of
Pompeii," has opened the eyes of the
managers of houses who have been
playing legitimate attractions when they
could get them.

Most of these managers booked the
Pasquali picture the first time because
it was handed to them by Klaw &
Erlanger, who controlled their houses.
Klaw & Erlanger have been flooded
with telegrams since the picture has
played, asking for an extension of the
bookings and for return dates, show-
ing that most of these managers have
had a revelation as to the possibilities
of the pictures as business getters.

The Pasquali Company is sending out
new road companies to meet this de-
mand as fast as they can be organized,
but up to date has not been able to
keep up with its bookings.

The Santa Barbara exhibit at the
Panama Exposition will include motion
pictures of all the principal features
of Santa Barbara County. Julius
Frankenburg and J. W. Brown, of the
American Film Manufacturing Com-
pany staff, recently produced "Bean
Thrashing" as a part of the series of
views to be shown at the fair.

PAUL J. RAINEY LASSOES A RHINOCEROS

TELE-PHOTOGRAPHIC MOTION PICTURES

How the Motion Picture Can Annihilate Space

TT UMAN life cannot be sustained or rather it can-
not continue to exist at a greater distance from the
earth than six and a half miles. Fifty years ago the
aeronauts, James Glaisher and Henry Coxwell, ascended
in a balloon to that height. They just retained suf-
ficient consciousness to make records of their experi-
ences and feelings. They were almost frozen to death
by the rarefaction above them. Nobody has ascended
as high as that since. It is doubtful if they ever will.
These men were in the prime of life and physical
condition. Mr. Glaisher, whom we personally knew,
lived to 92.

We get from this some idea of the limitations of the
motion picture as a recording agency off the earth.
Now and again there are instances where aviators
ascend and use the motion picture camera for ter-
restrial records. But they are limited in their ascents
to a few thousand feet. Nevertheless, it can be seen
that for military purposes aerial motion picture work
can be made valuable.

What is a tele-photographic motion picture? It is
simply a picture of an object a long way off — or, to
put it in another way, it is a direct enlarged view of
a distant object. Let us make this clearer. Suppose
you went to the top of the Woolworth Building in
New York City and on a clear day pointed your mo-
tion picture camera right over New York Bay into
the Atlantic. And suppose the Imperator was on the
water many miles off. If you took a motion picture
.of what was in front of the camera with a lens of
the ordinary focal length, say three inches, you might
obtain in your picture, if the intervening atmosphere
was perfectly clear, a speck of the ship. But if your
lens was made of considerably longer focal length by
means of a telescopic attachment affixed to its posterior
axis, that is, behind it and between the lens and film,
you would get a much larger image. You would not
get so much ocean in your picture, but you would
get more Imperator.

In other words, it is perfectly feasible for a motion
picture camera man to follow the progress of this great
ship a hundred miles off right up into the Bay. To
put it another way, he could point his tele-photographic
camera at her and get a couple thousand feet of her
miles and miles away showing all the detail on the
ship and the expressions on the faces of the people.

We select this illustration of the Atlantic Ocean, the
Imperator and the Woolworth Building in order to
make clear our meaning. It is all comparatively easy
to do. But now let us apply this teaching to every-
day subjects that come before the motion picture
camera. After the recent World's Series Baseball
games, we saw some of the results on the screen at
some of the theatres, and we were much disappointed
with them. The figures on the diamond were quite
small. They were just mannikins rushing about the

field. It would have been perfectly feasible for the
photographer to have got farther away, using a tele-
photographic lens, and to show these figures much
larger. There would not have been so much of the
stands and the people in the picture, but there would
have been more of the game and the players — what
they did and how they did it.

We shall be writing on this subject frequently, as we
desire to interest motion picture camera men in it.
In ordinary photography, telescopic work is quite com-
mon. Photographs of objects ninety miles distant
from the camera have been taken. Photographs from
balloons have been taken showing military dispositions
and fortifications. The application of the motion pic-
ture to the work by the same optical principle is a
natural and logical one.

Kearton, the well-known motion picture photog-
rapher of animals, uses the tele-photographic principle.
The equivalent focus of his lens is eight inches. Prac-
tical camera men will realize what this means. Eight
inches is about three times the equivalent focal length
of the lenses ordinarily used on motion picture
cameras. So he gets a much larger picture of a dis-
tant object or an animal than the ordinary camera will
give.

THE SHADOW OF NAZARETH

(3-reel Warner Feature.)
Just Before the Betrayal by Judas.

GOOD PHOTOGRAPHY" HIS SLOGAN

Burr Mcintosh Is Coming Back to the Public Eye via the Screen, But, Oh, How He Will

Watch the Technical End of the Picture!

"PHOTOGRAPHY— that's at least fifty per cent

A of the film. I know something about it and
you can bet it's going to be good when I make my
debut upon the screen."

This is the slogan of Burr Mcintosh, burly Burr Mc-
intosh, actor, author, war correspondent, publisher
and photographer extraordinary, who is coming back
to the public eye through the medium of motion pic-
tures in general and the All
Star Feature Corporation in
particular.

For he is going to play Jo
Vernon, the blacksmith, in
the coming production of
Augustus Thomas' "In Miz-
zoura," and will again hide
behind a tropical growth of
chin foliage as he did just
twenty years ago when he
created the part at the play's
first production in Hooley's
Theatre, Chicago.

Burr Mcintosh is the
latest recruit from the genus
genius to the ranks of the
motion picture. He is a host
in himself. That is to say, his
heft makes him formidable.
But his heft extends above
the collar way up into his
brain and he thinks; thinks
weightily and definitely.

Wednesday last he over-
flowed Joe Farnham's chair
in the uncharted office which
Joe occupies in the interest
of All Star and talked in-
terestingly about himself and
motion pictures; himself in
the past and pictures in the
future tense.

As for Burr Mcintosh, he has been all things. Way
back in 1885 he started his stage career, which he aban-
doned in 1911 and took up for a few months again
last Winter. He was war correspondent and freelance
through the war with Spain. The lecture platform
knows him well.

He originated the Burr Mcintosh Monthly which
died when he left it, but he may possibly do a resur-
rection stunt with it. All these things he did well.

But photography is the calling which engrossed him.
So for the past year or two he has been busy on the
Pacific Coast with his own studio. After "still" photo-
graphy came motion photography. In fact he is right
now organizing the Burr Mcintosh Moving Picture

STRENGTH IN EVERY LINE

Company. "Why, the name itself is an asset," he
argues.

"Fifty per cent of the value of a screen production
lies in the photography," he reiterated Wednesday.
"Photography has been my hobby. I have studied it. I
know that when a man goes to motion pictures the
clear but mellow photography is what he wants to
see. He wants to see it more than he realizes. For his

eyes will balk at poor pho-
tography and he will leave
the theatre displeased. He
won't know why. But poor
photography will be to
blame.

"The day is coming when
all motion picture photog-
raphy will be the clear-cut,
cameo kind which is now
hailed with delight. Then it
will be the common thing.
But until that day comes,
until every picture on the
screen is a delight to the eye,
I won't be happy. I have
been watching the All Star
people. To-day I saw some
of their productions not yet
released. I know they have
the same idea. We are go-
ing to work together and
you will like the result.

"Yes, I'm glad to be back
with my old friend, Au-
gustus Thomas. I doubt if
anyone else could have lured
me East from my happy
home where I have been
growing younger every day
and got me to don grease
paint and whiskers again.
You know, Jo Vernon has a flowing beard and you
must be very careful of your make-up before that
awful lens which catches everything. We are going
to Florida to make the picture. I know I'll sweat and
stew under the grease paint and beard, but that's not
what cuts most.

"To make the joining of hair and beard perfect I've
had to let my hair grow at the side. I used to be good
looking, but now I have long locks over the temples."

So saying he pushed back a contrary lock. And all
he needs is hair to make him a modern Samson.

He needs nothing more to make him a motion pic-
ture luminary. Actor, author, war correspondent,
publisher, photographer — what better biography for
a "who's who" in motion pictures. G. D. P.

OH, IT'S AN INTERESTING LIFE!

Punctuated by GEORGE D. PROCTOR

" A DRAMA of Crime." This cute
■t± little electric sign, in letters
about two feet high, heralds a cur-
rent theatrical attraction at one of
the theatres in our local Main street,
here in N' Yawk. A theatrical at-
traction can be advertised as "a drama
of crime." Can a motion picture be
similarly advertised? Not right now,
anyway. This isn't an argument for
or against censorship or anything
else. It's just a little observation on
things as they are.

M. A. Neff, of Cincinnati, president
of the Motion Picture Exhibitors'
League of America, dropped in for a
short call Tuesday.

"Make three reels for a nickel and
four reels for a dime your slogan," he
said. "That's all I want. Put just
those two little lines in your paper
and they'll attract more attention
from Maine to California and mean
more to the exhibitors than any other
ten lines in your paper."

Well, there they are.

"Ohio was never stronger than to-
day. The Motion Picture Exhibitors'
League of America never had so
strong an organization as it has to-
day," continued Mr. Neff, hitting his
stride conversationally. "We've had
our troubles in Ohio, but I want to
tell you that the convention which
will be held at the Sinton Hotel, Cin-
cinnati, January 27, 28 and 29, will be
the greatest thing ever held in the
Middle West, and I don't bar the
national Chicago convention of 1912.
either.

"I've been up through New Eng-
land looking things over. Maine has
a beautiful organization. Massachu-
setts will have a strong one. That
state is being reorganized and the
job is being done right this time.
Connecticut, I'm sorry to say, has no
organization. I wish I could get in
touch with trie right sort of man to
organize that state.

"But don't overlook that Cincin-
nati convention. You know the Ken-
tucky people will be meeting right
across the river at the same time. I
want to see you all there." And so
saying he departed.

Something may be expected soon
from Ambrosio. M. A. Stevani. presi-

dent of the Ambrosio American Com-
pany and the Raw Film Supply Com-
pany, is back in town after an ab-
sence of six months in Europe. He
arrived on the Olympic along with
several other notables. His first ac-
tion was to drop a few sotto voce
hints that he expects to spring some-
thing very shortly. He says he will
shortly bring into this country big
productions which will beat the Am-
brosio "Last Days of Pompeii," which
George Kleine is handling. He has
several features of from three to
eight reels in length coming. By the
way, he will probably select an Amer-
ican sales manager to succeed Eddie
Barry. Just wait and see whom he
picks.

As the cards are shuffled, don't
overlook Billy Quirk, of uncertain

AND HE CALLS HIMSELF "THE BOY
COMIC"

age, but still playing bell boys. Billy
calls himself "the boy xomic." and
he's right. Let's see. Bill}- started
with Pathe. Then he was with the
Universal. Now he has been on the
verge of going out with his own act
in vaudeville, but several manufac-
turers have been flirting with him so
he has been putting the act thing off.
I have an idea that he's just about to
sign up. More later.

All one has to do to be rated a
"wise guy" in the motion picture busi-
ness right now is to wait until the
other fellow says something and then
contradict him. Try it. It's so sim-
ple.

Winsor H. Scofield, late of the Am-
brosio American Company, returned
from England on the Lusitania with
the American and Canadian agency
for the Gloria films, produced at
Turin, Italy, under his arm. These
films are produced by Mario Case-
rini, who was chief producer with
Cines and Ambrosio. The leading
man is Mario Bonnard. who played
the title role in the Ambrosio "Satan."
Lyda Borelli, an Italian actress of
repute, but new to pictures, is the
leading woman. The first production
is "The Ghost Club." a six-reeler fea-
turing Mr. Bonnard. The films will
be handled here by the Scofield Corn-
pan)'.

This is an era of inflated figures,
and the worst is yet to come. If this
be treason, make the most of it.

G. P. Hamilton, president and gen-
eral manager of the Albuquerque
Film Manufacturing Company, of Al-
buquerque, N. M., dropped in early
in the week for a short chat. He
opened with these always welcome
words: "I am a subscriber and I read
the paper every week, so I thought
I'd drop in and look you over."

Mr. Hamilton had something to
say when he got started. He is a man
with a wide practical knowledge of
the motion picture business in the
technical end, the producing end, and
the exhibiting end. He can tell East-
man stock by the smell and has all
the earmarks of an expert. His firm
will probably produce two three-
reel features a month, one to be re-
leased on the Warner's Features pro-
gram. He and Milton Fahrney will
act as directors and a bunch of the
old St. Louis Motion Picture Com-
pany will be engaged in the produc-
ing end. including Geo. W. ("Buck")
Connor. "Buck," by the way. has
just been presented with a bronze
medal by the War Department in rec-
ognition of service with the civilian
scouts thirteen years ago in the Phil-
ippines under the late Major Archi-
bald Butt. Because of his bravery he
was recommended by Major Butt for
promotion to a lieutenancy.

The producing plant of Hamilton's
concern will be in Albuquerque, as

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might be expected. Western pictures
will be produced, real ones, which do
not misrepresent the frontier days.

Here's Mr. Hamilton's dope on the
situation through New Mexico and
the adjoining states from the exhib-
itor's point of view:

"Features are the thing right now,"
he said. "They're all using features,
mostly fhe three-reelers. The exhib-
itors in the West will go to all sorts
of trouble to book a feature, and then
they play it up well in advance, espe-
cially the fellows in the remote and
inaccessible towns where it is hard to
get features because of shipping trou-
bles. Features sure have a grip on
them out there."

There you are. The exhibitor wants
features, take it from G. P. Hamil-
ton. If he wants them he will get
them, and he won't bother about the
effect they will have on the business
of the future. As long as a feature
has more merit than a single reel
production, I'm in favor of it.

John Steppling, sterling John Step-
pling, all wool and several yards
wide, is coming back to pictures after
a season in stock in San Francisco.
He has joined Albert R. Christie's
company, which is making Nestor
pictures on the Universal program.
I'm sincerely glad to see John back.
He is a finished portrayer of char-
acter parts.

For two years he was with the
Eastern Essanay company. He orig-
inated the Billy McGrath series.
Then he came East and was with the
Famous Players for a while. His
work in "Tess" as John D'Urberville
was a delight. John made his debut
under Daniel Frohman in the old
Lyceum stock company. He has
been with E. H. Sothern and was in
the original production of "The Pris-
oner of Zenda." Now he is back in
pictures. Good!

Now the small exhibitor will have
a chance at the Paul J. Rainey Afri-
can hunt pictures. These pictures
broke all records in the dollar houses.
They played on Broadway for many
months at a dollar a head and did
good business. Now they will be
sold on a state rights basis. They
are a very live proposition. They
haven't touched any of the second-
class cities. They ought to pack 'em
in when shown in the places of from
5,000 to 500,000 population. They
have the rep. and they have the merit.

Nearly Scandal

Larry Griffith is gathering his forces
around him at the Reliance studio.
James Kirkwood is coming over as
a director as soon as he finishes

"Strongheart" for the K. and E. Bio-
graph combine. Griffith showed up
at the Reliance studio every Tuesday
with a company of about fifteen of
his old Biograph players. Dame
Rumor hath it that Griffith may take
a trip to the coast in a couple of
weeks. He may take Kirkwood along
and leave him there at the New
Majestic plant near Los Angeles.

William F. Haddock, the "Silent
Bill" well loved by all the members
of the Screen Club, and Miss Rosa
Koch, of Brooklyn, will be married
November 18, it is announced. Miss
Koch, who has been playing with
Eclair for some time, will desert the
screen. In the meantime Bill has
hooked up for good and all with the
All Star Feature Corporation.

Frank J. Cheyenne Carroll was in
town for one of his longest visits —
three days.

Frank ("Spectator") Woods is the
new scenario editor for the Mutual
Film Corporation. He will handle
all scripts for the Reliance, Majestic,
Apollo and Komic brands from his
desk at 71 West Twenty-third street.
"Spec" was one of the first to make
an earnest effort for the betterment
of the photoplay while he was writing
stuff for the public. Later he was
with the Kinemacolor Company on
the Pacific Coast.

J. Parker Reade, Jr., is away on a
trip disposing of the little unsold ter-
ritory on "Victory," and also boost-
ing "The Stranglers of Paris." He
was last heard from in Kansas City,
Wednesday, with his face turned
toward the setting sun.

The Solax Company is building a
large addition to its laboratory at
Fort Lee, N. J.

The All Star Feature Corporation
has purchased the motion picture
rights to "Shore Acres" from Mrs.
James A. Heme.

Joe Farnham has laryngitis and a
new hat. The latter he won from
Arthur Leslie when a new publication
passed quietly into innocuous desue-
tude.

Jane Quirk, wife of Billy Quirk,
will be seen in vaudeville in New
York next week. She will be at the
Colonial leading the orchestra for a
big musical act.

Philip Mindil, whose pen has been
ever so active for, lo, these many
years, has founded and taken charge
of the publicity department of the
Mutual Film Corporation. When he
skips through the adolescent stage

and finds out that exhibitors don't
care if motion pictures ARE pro-
jected sixteen to a second, he will
make them all hustle, for he is an
old hand at the publicity thing.

Bill Barry, who used to make the
rounds with the syndicate under his
arm, starts in with the Nicholas Power
Company Monday as advertising and
publicity manager.

A. Levey, of Midgar Features, now
knows why New York policemen
wear nice blue uniforms and shiny
brass buttons. He was arrested in
the subway recently for smoking and
the judge in the night court said, "Teh
dollars, please." And the funny part
is that Cecil Charles Graham, general
manager of the Midgar Features, the
man who hands out more cigars than
anyone else in the film business, isn't
the least bit sympathetic.

F. M. Sanford has been engaged
by Phil Gleichman, of the World Spe-
cial Films Corporation, as manager
of the Dallas exchange with head-
quarters in the Andrews building.

When "Protea," the five-part fea-
ture, was put on the market last Mon-
day by the World Special Films Cor-
poration, it was accompanied by
eighty pages of music written espe-
cially by J. Loft.

Got an awfully nice letter from
Joe Brandt in London. Owing to a
previous English Universal brand, the
London offices of the Universal Film
Manufacturing Company, of 1600
Broadway, are under the name, the
Trans-Atlantic Film Company, Ltd.
They are at 37-39 Oxford street, Lon-
don, W.

Charles Feature Abrams reported
by post-card from Montreal.

Adrienne Kroell, leading woman
with the Selig Polyscope Company,
is recovering from a bad attack of
rheumatism. She has been taking a
vacation at Mt. Clemens, Mich.

F. J. Flaherty, formerly with the
Mutual Film Corporation, has been
engaged as assistant to George A.
Magie, who represents the Universal
in all territory west of Pittsburgh.
Both Mr. Flaherty and Mr. Magie
will make their headquarters at the
Standard Film Exchange, Chicago.

Bryant Washburn, of Essanay, re-
cently entertained a party of Chicago
newspapermen with a banquet at a
little Italian restaurant on the North
Shore.

Got a postal from J. J. Reader,
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PICTURES AS A COMMON LANGUAGE

' I 4HE motion picture speaks, or should speak, not
merely an international language, but a language
understood by all the people of the world. Last week
there was printed in these pages a thoughtful article
which was a plea for and a prediction of the time
when a method of titling should be adopted which all
people could read and understand. While it is no
doubt desirable there should be a language common
to all people, it is doubtful if we are within measurable
distance of such accomplishment. According to Holy
Writ, when the people met on the Tower of Babel and
agreed to differ, it was because they were suddenly
stricken with an inability to understand each other.
In other words, confusion of tongues arose.

N former occasions reference may have been made
on these pages to the influence which great paint-
ings have on the motion picture. It has been suggested
that great paintings should be taken as the basis of
good motion pictures. Why? Simply because great
paintings speak a language understood by all. If you
want evidence of this you have only to go into some
great art gallery such as the Metropolitan Art Museum
of New York City to perceive the truth of what is
said here. In that gallery you will see many great
works by old masters that everybody can understand.

HPHE same should apply to the motion picture.

Everybody should understand a motion picture —
preferably without the use of sub-titles. It is re-
garded as a triumph of the motion picture artist that
he can make a picture which does not require sub-
titling. But it is rarely done. We are, however, ad-
vancing toward that desirable consummation. Some
time ago there was produced in this country and shown
at the Lyceum Theatre, New York City, a five-reel
picture entitled "Tess of the D'Urbervilles. This
was an American-made film on a purely English
subject. It received great praise from the critics in
this country. Yet though it depicted a story sup-
posedly acted in a foreign land, it was made in West-
chester County, New York, if I am correctly informed.
This, if a personal triumph for the Famous Players
Co., also helps forward, it is to be assumed, the mil-
lennium of the motion picture — the time when pic-
tures will be made that are understood by all people
of all kinds. You have an example of this condition
of things in the "Last Days of Pompeii." Everybody
knows this theme and it seems that everybody under-
stands this picture. Hence its great success.

* * *

REAT plays and great books as well as great
pictures ("still" pictures are meant) acquire uni-
versal comprehension. It marks the success of a great
novel, for example, if it is translated into many lan-
guages. Similarly with plays. As for great paint-
ings, you may find reproductions of them all over
the world. We must reach the same condition of
things with regard to motion pictures. In a measure
we do at times. Not to anything like the extent pos-
sible. There is still too much internationalism about
the picture. For example, in South America only
French and Italian subjects go. And so on with other
parts of the world.

* * *

* I *HE world is unfortunately still split up into a
. number of parochial localities. Some such ideas
as these of mine may be in the minds of the Cines
Company of Rome, who are instituting a great dra-
matic international competition. This competition is
opened till April 30, 1914. It is for motion picture
dramas. Particulars of the competition are to be
obtained from the directors of the Cines Company,
Via Macerata 51, Rome, Italy.

* * *

' I AHE Cines Company offers as a first prize, $5,000;
A second, $1,000; third, $500; fourth, $200; fifth,
$100. These prizes are set aside for original scenarios.
The Cines Company makes great pictures. It is in its
power to select great themes for their scenarios. The
prizes are worth trying for by the best writers of the
world. They should bring out original ideas — ideas
which are generally understood. If the judges, who
appear to be men of repute and position, exercise their
functions with discretion, they may help forward
the time when motion pictures will be made which all
will understand without sub-titles.

THE AVERAGE AMERICAN EXHIBITOR

A Review of Some of the Trials and Tribulations Besetting the
Backbone of American Producing Companies

THE president of a large corporation
controlling one branch of the man-
ufacture of a certain well-known staple
commodity, feeling the first symptoms
of an attack of a disease familiarly
known as progressive commercialism,
sought to obtain a deeper insight into
the characters and lives of the many
men throughout the United States who
retailed his goods. They were the store-
keepers in cities and towns from the
smallest to the largest in population.

The managers of his sales and adver-
tising departments, called into the con-
ference, very wisely professed their in-
ability to shoulder the responsibility of
the task. The president, mentally re-
calling the amounts standing opposite
their rames on the payroll, scowled at
their ' prof essed incompetence. The ad-
vertising manager spoke:

Only Human, After All

"Why not call upon a student of hu-
man nature. I read recently of a man
in New York who claims to be an an-
alyst of human nature." Acting upon
this suggestion, the analyst was sum-
moned. Learning the president's wish
to become more familiar with his re-
tailers, their home life, business knowl-
edge, their troubles and mannerisms, he
departed on a three months' trip.

He returned with an expense account
out of all proportion to the distance
he had traveled, and submitted a lengthy
written report. Reduced to its essen-
tials, the report, translated from verbi-
age befitting the author of a dictionary,
read :

"They are just like anyone else."

The corporation president smiled
knowingly, showed the summarized re-
port to his sales and advertising man-
agers, and said :

"Act accordingly 1"

An exhibitor, denned as such by man-
ufacturers of programs and features,
sometimes called other things by ex-
change managers and salesmen, to his
employees either "the boss" or "the old
man," and to his patrons, "Mr. So and
So, who owns Such and Such Theatre,"
is necessarily "just like anyone else."
If he was otherwise, P. T. Barnum
or Joe Bailey would never have per-
mitted him to go unmolested to this
day.

The Exhibitor as a Business Man

Unless his reels fail to arrive on the
Limited, or he is under the care of a
physician, he follows practically the
same form of activity as does any busi-
ness man. It is in his environment, the
theatre, and among his business asso-

By E. J. HUDSON

ciates that he differs from the average
business man.

His business, or profession, is esen-
tially one of constant activity and
mental energy. Competition is much
more keen and dangerous than in any
other line. A dealer in automobiles
has a selling campaign, the surface as-
pect of which changes but little from
week to week. The groceryman has
his stock in trade, and no one ever
saw labels on ketchup bottles, or brands
of butter and sugar, change over night.

The average exhibitor, every Satur-
day, and sometimes on Monday, receives
a printed program of pictures scheduled
for his theatre the following week.
Sometimes he gets them all, and some-
times he doesn't. A "repeater" has
caused more whitened hairs than any
so-called restorative ever invented. It
is then that his ingenuity is called into
play. He must either take the chance
that no one who had seen the "re-
peater" would return on that night, or
drop it entirely from the show, and
instruct his operator to "slow down."
The "repeater" is seldom the fault of
anyone, but it serves to add one more
burden to the daily life of the average
American exhibitor.

Unlike his fellow-retailers in the auto-
mobile, grocery, drug, hardware and
clothing lines, he has, up to the present
time, received little or no so-styled
'dealer helps" from the concern whose
pictures he rents. This has not been
the fault of the manufacturers, nor
the exchangemen, but rather is due to
the rapid influx of business, which has
grown faster than is usual in any com-
mercial line, permitting attention only
to things immediately at hand.

His Problems Increased by Isolation

Away out in the wilds of Indiana,
Illinois, Montana or California, the ex-
hibitor is far from the center of ac-
tivity in his business. About the only
representatives he sees from whom he
has been able to glean ideas and sug-
gestions have been booking agents for
State-rights buyers, his own local com-
petitors, or the exchange representative.
To all appearances he is engaged in a
one-man business. As a further handi-
cap, few exhibitors first opening the-
atres have had any previous experience
in the management of a house. They
realized the opportunities, and, like
many men bent on success, gritted their
teeth and plunged in.

Apart from difficult problems arising
within his own theatre, the exhibitor
is set upon and harassed from all sides
by local censor boards, the police, the

clergy, and the charitable clubs. He
has been their first and only considera-
tion. Any stigma which may have been
attached to the film industry in the past
has rested almost wholly upon the ex-
hibitor. But with the instinct for meet-
ing serious problems which enables him
to remain an exhibitor, he has success-
fully dodged or met the issue, and in
few instances has he been other than
victorious.

Although the manufacture of film
was begun a considerable period before
exhibiting became an acknowledged
business, the exhibitor, despite his handi-
caps, lack of precedent, and the almost
insurmountable barriers standing be-
tween him and success, has to-day out-
distanced the average manufacturer,
and, from a business standpoint, is far
in the lead.

Exhibiting Has Outdistanced Manu-
facturing

Like a good business man, he has
invested his profits, studied his market,
and from the darkness surrounding his
first ventures in two-hundred- feet sub-
jects, projected in poorly-lighted, illy-
ventilated "shacks," he has emerged in-
to the light of modern business to greet
the multiple-reel productions with the-
atres that are marvels in architecture,
objects of praise in their elegant splen-
dor and refinement, and monuments of
prosperity to their builders.

It is safe to say, and true, if thought
is given to the statement from a com-
parative standpoint, that the average ex-
hibitor has made a heavier investment,
risked more, fought harder and sur-
mounted more obstacles than the man-
ufacturers who supply him with film.

A film made five years ago, taken on
a comparative basis, cost but little more
than does the average release of to-day.
The present supply is much more elab-
orate in detail, presents greater possi-
bilities, and is, of course, a much supe-
rior production. But have manufac-
turers reinvested their first profits, and
made as great an effort to preserve and
increase the scope of their endeavors
as have the exhibitors?

The manufacturers of a program
make a release. A certain sale is as-
sured by their exchanges. The ex-
changes, in turn, are virtually assured
of so much revenue in rentals. But
what about the exhibitor? He has lit-
tle or no voice in the making of the
picture. He is obliged to take it; ar-
range the paper in his lobby, and then
hope and pray that the public will be
attracted. This is not intended as a
comment on present-day releases, for

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good pictures are no longer a thing of
the future, but merely to emphasize
the apparent helplessness of the aver-
age exhibitor in the selection of those
wares which will attract the greatest
possible business for his theatre.

He takes what he gets, and does his
best with it. That is one fact, although
often the subject of protest, which has
made the exhibitor the keen-minded,
superior business-getter that he is to-
day. Perhaps if he had been given a
voice in the selection of scenarios, or
had been permitted to specify the type
of production he desired, he would have
been less competent in making circum-
stances fit conditions. It would cer-
tainly have deprived him of many valu-
able lessons in quick thinking and in-
genuity, two things which are heavy
contributors to his success.

A Man of Many Abilities

The exhibitor, to make his house yield
a legitimate profit, must be many-sided.
By necessity he is an ardent student of
human nature, and has learned to judge
in a moment whether a patron is pleased
or not. He is the actual buttress be-
tween the manufacturer and exchange-
man and the theatre-going public. He
gets many hard knocks, but few ex-
hibitors have ever been seriously crip-
pled in receiving them. Aside from the
public, he has his employees to train
and discipline — and this is far from the
least of his worries. He has to incul-
cate in them the value of courtesy ;
the necessity for constant vigilance in
watching for opportunities to make
friends of his patrons, and the need
for a general knowledge of business
methods which enters into every de-
partment of theatre management.

Then he must be a student of projec-
tion. His operator understands that
point, but when the operator is ill, or
leaves for a day, he is usually obliged
to take things in hand in the projection
booth. Then there is the detail of ad-
vertising. It is the breath of life to his
business, and he can't afford to overlook
it. But to get his money's worth in in-
creased patronage, he first must know
how to advertise. In many instances
this has been a costly lesson, with no
help from any source. Three national
advertising campaigns recently planned
have scared the wrinkles from many
faces poring over ledgers and day-books
in offices in the back of theatres.

The exhibitor's business day begins
almost with sunrise. The theatre must
be thoroughly cleaned; the reels ob-
tained from the local express office and
inspected; the posters hung, and ad-
vertisements written for the day's pro-
gram and for advance notices. Then
the more ingenious ones make their own
slides. Music must be selected to con-
form with the day's program. If an
usher, the manager or box-office girl
fail to report for work, there comes a
hasty skirmish for an understudy, and

a day of worry over the selected one.

Then he is sure that many of his
friends will attend the theatre either
in the afternoon or evening. If he is
not present to' welcome them in person
they feel slighted, as many exhibitors
will affirm. In spare moments he de-
votes his time to his family, keeping
his books, studying and seeking new
methods of management, striving to
meet and outdistance competition.

Each theatre is a business unto itself.
Its commercial course must be studied
and charted, its market awakened to
the point of investment, and its every
angle studied for a weak point which
would permit inroads from competition.
It is the ultimate goal of the manu-
facturer and exchangeman, while the
exhibitor must reach out beyond to
that varying, moodish and thoroughly
unreliable, but absolutely vital factor
in his success — the public. And upon
his success depends the success of others
in filmdom.

A broader vision of his possibilities
have entered into the exhibitor's daily
life, and he is grasping out and se-
curing tbem. He has graduated from
the initial stages of his business, and
with a wealth of experience in shattered
hopes, fallen ambitions, unprofitable
ideas, worthless investments, and un-
realized desires strewn in the path be-
hind him, he is launching forth into
a more intimate knowledge of exhibit-
ing as a profession, to be constantly
studied and improved upon.

A Benediction to the Average Amer-
ican Exhibitor

His hardships have increased rather
than diminished his determination. His
losses have been as guide-posts to a
better future. His character has been
vilified by seekers of publicity, but he
has remained an exhibitor. Employees
have deserted in a body, but he has
stayed and fought. Pictures have been
bad, but he has used his ingenuity as
a cloak. He has been shunted about
without end, but has managed to keep
on a straight track.

Perhaps if some analyst probed deep
enough he would find that the average
American exhibitor, like the retailers
who handled the corporation's product,
"is just like anyone else," deserving of
every consideration and assistance in
his daily struggle to increase the popu-
larity of motion pictures.

CHARLES V. HENKEL

The friends of C. V. (Charlie) Hen-
kel will be interested to learn that his
first feature release will shortly be
made. It is on the subject of the
"Three Musketeers." It will be in six
reels. It will probably be followed by
many pictures similarly ambitious in
theme.

Mr. Henkel has had considerable ex-
perience in the picture field. He was
one of the originators of the Powers

Company, four years ago, having come
into the motion picture field from the
phonograph industry. After the Pow-
ers Company, he initiated the Crown
Feature Company, which released
many notable productions such as
"St. George and the Dragon," "Dan-
te's Inferno" and others. The Crown
Feature Film Company for a time re-
leased the well-known Milano pic-
tures which were of great beauty and
interest.

Mr. Henkel has not been active in
the picture field since leaving the
Universal. As announced several
months ago it has always been his in-
tention to take a prominent part in
the feature business. This he is now
about to do. Mr. Henkel is a prac-
tical picture man, in that he under-
stands the entire production and pre-
paration of the picture. He is a prac-
tical photographer, a competent judge
of scenarios and also inferentially and
directly, of pictures themselves.

Then he knows his market and hav-
ing a considerable following in the
business, he should meet with suc-
cess. • T. B.

PHILADELPHIA PLANS
"RALLY"

At a special meeting held in the
Parkway Building, the Philadelphia Lo-
cal of the Exhibitors' League of Penn-
sylvania decided to hold an open "rally"
meeting at the same place on the first
Sunday afternoon in December. The
idea and object of the rally meeting will
be to induce all Philadelphia exhibitors
who are not now members to join the
league and , to wake up those who are
members into greater activity for the
betterment of conditions.

In order to encourage new member-
ship the charter has been declared open
for three months and the initiation fee
will not be required.

Mr. Jefferies, state president, conduct-
ed the meeting. In his opening remarks
he called attention to the fact that the
operators have formed a very strong
organization and suggested that the
League co-operate with them rather than
take a stand of fighting the union.

Short addresses were made by Messrs.
Stiefel, Hayman, Benn, Rappaport, Se-
gal, Berman, Rogasner and Solomon.
All these spoke in favor of a stronger
organization and increasing the mem-
bership.

The matter of program length was
brought up but nothing was decided at
this time. This matter will come up
again at the "rally" meeting in Decem-
ber. A committee was appointed to
communicate with every exhibitor in
Philadelphia and vicinity regarding the
boosting of the League and inviting the
non-members to the big meeting. The
committee is Mr. Fisher, chairman;
Messrs. Benn, Greenberg, Wheeler and
Hayman.

FOR THOSE WHO WORRY O'ER PLOTS AND

PLAYS

WILLIAM LORD WRIGHT

HOPP HAD-
LEY, adver-
tising and public-
ity manager, who
was formerly
scenario editor
for Reliance, an
acknowledged
^*fi headliner in the
H^^n 4 I world of photo-

kj play writing,

* " in a k c - a (|uick

- touchdown with
the following statement to News
readers: "Theatre programs and
billboards have for so many
years shouted aloud the name of
the author responsible for the effort-
otherwise, that it seems a fact that
all authors should be given due credit
for their work no matter where or
how it is presented to the general
public. In fact, there is no good rea-
son why the motion picture producer
should be the one and only exception
to a generally accepted rule." In
other words, refer the question to our
legal friend. Blackstone, and there is
no argument.

From the standpoint of the public,
which, after all, is the business stand-
point, the author of a photoplay
should be announced at every oppor-
tunity, if for no other reason than
its news value and the added interest
and added dignity it gives to the pho-
toplay. Undoubtedly it is a good
"business" move for more reasons
than one. We may, for instance, be
impressed by the fact that "The
Greater Evil" is advertised to appear
or is abtut to be shown in a certain
theatre. But there is little doubt that
we are more impressed by the fact
that "The Greater Evil," by Ralph L.
Earl, is the attraction, even though
we don't know the said Earl or any
of his kin. Strange as it may seem
at first blush, names are valuable even
where they are not known. Ask any
newspaper man!

Now add to these few thoughts the
fact that photoplay writers are as
scarce as hens' teeth, almost, and
that it is good business to encourage
them, or, at least, not to discourage
them by refusing them equally fair
treatment with that accorded them by
the magazine world, and you have es-
tablished a fair case. For more than
a year, to my knowledge, the Reli-
ance has been giving credit to its au-
thors on the screen, on the posters,
in advertising, and through the col-

umns of the moving picture maga-
zines. However, it is not a fixed rule
with the company and many excep-
tions have occurred. But it seems
safe to predict that all companies will
eventually announce the author's
names. Why? Because Mr. and Mrs.
Public are interested in names."

The above is an excellent argument
for author's credit. The city editor
of the newspaper orders the staff
writer to "get all the names you can,
for it makes friends for the paper."
To the film manufacturer we would
advise to use all the names you prop-
erly can, for you make the writer and
the writer's friends your friends. The
eritor of the Writer's Magazine is urg-
ing the author's credit to all articles
and verses clipped from exchanges and
newspapers. How much more im-
portant it is to credit the name of the
author of a creditable photoplay on
the screen.

Bar Out Pictured Bliss

At what length of contact does a
kiss1 cease to become an affectionate
caress? This is one of the latest of
the questions pondered by the Ohio
State Board of Moving Picture Cen-
sors, as the result of the profuse oscu-
lation that has been evident, the Cen-
sors say, in most of the films they
have censored. The Board has passed
films where a kiss is snatched hur-
riedly; where it has been of but a few
seconds' duration; and where it has
seemed to everyone, according to the
Board, but the participating parties,
an eternity. But now the time has
arrived where the long, lingering,
everlasting kisses have to be cut out.

"It sets too bad an example for our
young girls," explained one censor
recently, when a caress was ordered
sheared. And then rules other than
we announced in a previous issue
have been promulgated. Abbreviated
skirts, dueling, and gambling by
women, are some of the things
tabooed. The Buckeye State's official
O. K., which after November 4, is
flashed onto every screen before each
picture, has been designed by Secre-
tary W. C. Archer, of the State Board
of Administration. It is the map of
Ohio in yellow with the bold words:
"Passed by the Ohio State Board of
Censorship."

These photoplaywrights and direc-
tors who would have their product
shown in the green pastures and be-
side the still waters of Ohio state.

will do well to eliminate the profuse
kisses from script and film. We have
been told that we came within an
ace of landing on this board. A miss
is as good as a mile, if the art of Cine-
matography is to be held up to ridi-
cule on every opportunity in the press
of Ohio by these censors.

Our Seasonable Friends

The turkey.
The mince-pie.
The family at dinner.
The family Bible.

The old New England homestead.
The return of the prodigal on
Thanksgiving Day.

Good Books

Man is known by the company he
keeps. If he reads good books he is
in the best of company. We read an
article the other day in which an au-
thor blasted that '"e didn't read much.
The character of his work proved
that fact before he opened his mouth.
Good books incite uplifting inspira-
tion. With more solid reading on the
part of photoplaywrights there will
exit the neurotic plot, and the scenes
with the dark brown taste. We need
more optimism, more sunshine, more
moral lessons in the pictures, and less
suggestion, ballroom flirtation and
deathbed scenes. Tell us what you
read and we will tell you what you
are.

Pertinent Pointers

Editor Ben Sehulberg, of Famous Players
Film Company, will consider select multiple
reel plots. Stories must be exceptionally good.

Edison says: "No man knows one seven-
b'llionth of one per cent of anything;" but
many a photoplaywright gets mad if the Editor
tells him the story is not available.

Many a young writer has lost a good sale
bv telling the Editor if he could not give at-
tention to his manuscript immediately to send
it back to him. Scripts that look favorable are
frequently kept for more careful examination.

It is from the unexpected quarter that the
exceptionally good script may come at any
time, and every good editor knows this and
refuses to close doors to the unknown writers,
or the unsolicited storv.

If one waited until he was in the exact
mood to write, he might wait forever. A sys-
tem of good hard work for an hour or two
daily will accomplish a great deal. Creating
a story is hard work and this "inspirational"
talk is mostly rot.

A correspondent tells us that he enclosed
picture post cards with his script and sold the
story because the Editor and Director received
helpful ideas of scenic environment. We have
known picture post cards to suggest more than
one good story but we do not advise deluging
the defenseless editor with pictures of Niagara
Falls and "Wish you were here" written
thereon.

^1n not wr'te a lelter to the Editor stating
"This story is founded upon facts," or "This
is a true story taken from real life." The
amMcur does this and it prejudices the script
reader against the story. Truth is seldom
stranger than fiction d-spite popular argument
to the CMitm-y. Submit vour story and your
name and address and rest content.

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This is the season of the year to write plots
with interior scenes for Eastern companies.

Endeavor to choose titles that are not com-
monplace. Work as hard on the question of
your script titles as on the script action. Try
and arrive at a title that will cause immediate
interest.

Next Week's Feature

. Next week, Miss Maibelle Heikes
Justice will inform you just how she
writes those gripping multiple reel
features that have made her work so
much sought for. Miss Justice is equ-
ally at home in Filmland and Fiction-
ville.

Shown Without Titles

After being inflicted with windy ar-
guments that the more sub-titles to a
picture, the better for the picture, we
viewed "The Anarchist," a King Bag-
gott feature. It was produced by
Herbert Brenon. Heart interest is
established at the very beginning (this
is worthy of especial note) and the
picture was shown without titles; none
was needed.
A New Scheme

The very newest idea is from the
New York genius who has had just a
few photoplays returned to him be-
cause they are better adapted to short
stories. He is willing to sell the plots
at so much per plot, to short story
writers.

Knowing Where To Sell

Half the game of Authorship is
knowing where to sell. Yes, half. It
is just like any other business venture.
The man who speculates in live stock
studies the market, learns where the
best prices are offered, and whether
hogs, cattle, or sheep are in demand.
The writer of fiction studies his mar-
ket also. He discovers that the Cos-
mopolitan Magazine does not desire
the kind of story that might please
the Western Christian Advocate. He
knows stuff demanded by the Rail-
road Man's Magazine will be dis-
dained by The Smart Set. The ex-
perienced photoplay writer had
learned through costly experience that
Thanhouser is not buying that scripts
written for Biograph are so readily
adaptable elsewhere; that Reliance is
not in the market for the stories which
prove highly desirable for Keystone
comedy.

The experienced photoplaywright
constantly studies his markets. Like
the dealer in livestock he makes it his
business to know the sudden shifts in
the market; where the best prices are
obtainable; the easiest shipping point.
There is too much of the hit or miss
policy pursued by the beginner — and
by others. Keeping in close touch
with the trade publications; a careful
study of their advertising columns;
and intelligent work are indispensable
items for those who would succeed.
Try and determine the place wherein
your plot will fill a need. Submit your
story to the Editor of that company

which calls for the kind of manu-
script you have to sell. Do not "fire
at random" hoping that your plot will
land somewhere.

If your story is rejected, repeat the
process. Look for errors that you
may not have noticed previously. It
is a good plan to keep a completed
script by you for several weeks before
sending it out. Let it "get cold" and
then read it over again carefully.
Maybe you will conclude to give it a
final recopying.

The Hall of Fame

Marie Cctelli is writing 'em!

J. M. Barrie is not writing picture plays
despite the fact that a New York Editor re-
cently bought a script that later turned out to
be a Barrie play.

Miss Hettie Gray Baker is in Los Angeles,
Calif., this Winter. She is adapting the Jack
London novels to the motion picture screen.

Query: What has become of A. Van Buren
Powell, erstwhile Photoplaywright and Presi-
dent of the Order of Optimists?

Eustace Hale Ball and Lawrence McGill
wrote the screen dramatization of "Checkers."

Orville Harrold, American opera tenor,
claims authorship to fifty motion picture plays.

The "Sample" Script

The "sample" script, in our estima-
tion, does the beginner more harm
than good and that is a reason we do
not utilize it in our work. After all,
it is the idea and the originality, and
not the form, that is all-important.
We know of a number of writers who
have achieved unusual success with-
out studying a "form" play; and we
know of others who have followed
the "sample" script almost word for
word and, consequently, have been
delayed in progressing.

A script written by Editor McClos-
key, of Lubinville, was recently pub-
lished. It was not intended as a
model when written, and conse-
quently some studio slang was writ-
ten in. Yesterday we read a script
the author of which had carefully
utilized all the expressions in the Mc-
Closkey manuscript. McCloskey
wrote that script in a hurry, prob-
ably, and used the colloquialisms to
save time. The freelance writer is
differently situated and cannot write
in slang with impunity. Don't do it.

Just a Reminder

The biggest and best producers in
the world are those releasing clean
photoplays. Pictures that appeal to
the entire people, mean decent pic-
tures. Keep your own self-respect,
and try and win the respect of others,
by writing only the sort of stories
that you would like your mother to
see.

Much Ado About Nothing

The chatter being circulated in that
portion of the theatrical press an-
tagonistic to the motion pictures, that
"an expose of scenario departments
is coming via the damage suit route,"
is pure piffle. Reputable concerns
have nothing to fear, and contribu-
tors have nothing to fear, either. The
time is passing when the idea can be

gleesomely filched, and your script is
as safe in the hands of a Scenario
Editor as it is elsewhere. Will this
"plot stealing howl" never down?
Just a Couple

Vitagraph Company editorial de-
partment states that until further
notice all dramatic or melodramatic
plots must consist of two, three or
four reels.

Pilot Film Company is not in the
market at present for plots.
Detective Stories

A photoplaywright who has contrac-
ted the "detective script fever," wishes
to know where he can secure "high-
class ideas" of such plots. After a
brief statement that the detective
story is no easy story to produce on
the picture screen, and that we have
had too many as it is, we rise to re-
mark that every detective plot in the
last fifty years has been more or less
a steal from Edgar Allen Poe. Doyle,
Leblanc, Futrelle, and the rest of
the analytical plotters are followers
in the footsteps of Poe. Sherlock
Holmes, "The Thinking Machine," and
Arsene Lupin but develop Poe's
original reasoning. For ingenuity of
plot, we think Wilkie Collins de-
veloped an original field. His "Moon-
stone" and "Woman in White" will
repay you for the time spent in read-
ing them. We recommend a study
of Collins' methods to any would-be
writer of detective plots.

ECLAIR COMPANY AT LAKE
GEORGE

The residents of Lake George, N. Y.,
recently were somewhat startled to meet
the beautiful, quaintly gowned young
women and handsome young men,
garbed in costumes of bold sir knights
and the scarlet coated uniforms of the
English army in Colonial days.

The strangers were members of the
Eclair Film Company, of Fort Lee,
N. J., who chose the scenic surround-
ings of Lake George as a historic stage
setting for several scenarios English
and Colonial in character.

The members taking part in these
dramas are: O. A. C. Lund, Miss Bar-
bara Tennant, Miss Julia Stewart, Miss
Rosa Koch and Edward F. Roseman,
Lindsay J. Hall, James G. Davis, Gene
Hornbostl, Charles Hunt and George
Cowl.

KEEPING 'EM BUSY

Three factories are now busy making
prints of Pasquali's "Last Days of Pom-
peii," in an effort to keep abreast with
the demand from the road companie
and house managers.

Stanley H. Twist, who is in charge,
has been working every night for the
past two weeks. In fact, the whole office
force has been working overtime, and
most of the members are beginning to
show signs of wear and tear.

LATEST NEWS FROM CHICAGO

St. Louis Home of New Film

ANEW brand of film will soon be put out by the Laclede
Film Corporation with factory headquarters at St. Louis.
It is also the intention of this concern to maintain offices in
both New York City and Chicago. The brand name of the
product of this new company will be Dacotah, this is the
old Indian way of spelling Dakota. The reason of the selec-
tion of this name is to get something that is typically Western
and Indian

It is the intention of the Laclede corporation to release a
three-reel subject twice a month from the very start. These
films it is stated already have an assured market. The Ex-
clusive Supply Corporation will soon make this brand a part
of its program. If the demand already made for this brand
is in even greater part adhered to, then the company states
that they will soon commence the release of multiple-reel
subjects every week.

This company is backed by several capitalists. Joseph
Hopp, former owner of the Standard Film Exchange, of
Chicago and Louisville, has been asked to accept the presi-
dency of the company, and he states that he is inclined to do
so. A. J. Lindsay, a well-known capitalist and business man,
of St. Louis, will be treasurer. The company is now planning
the building of a large glass studio on the outskirts of St.
Louis. It is said that several other cities have bid for the
factory.

William Hopp Seriously 111

William Hopp, brother to Joseph Hopp, and manager of
the Standard Film Exchange of Chicago, branch of the
Universal Film Manufacturing Company, was taken suddenly
ill at his home recently. Physicians were hastily summoned,
and he was at once conveyed to the St Joseph hospital. Mr.
Hopp had a violent hemorrhage, and after the use of serum
the flow of blood was stopped. Owing to his weakened
condition they found it necessary to build him up before they
could put him under the knife. His case is diagnosed as an
ulcer near the stomach. An X-ray picture was made of his
body in order to locate the exact spot of his trouble, and the
attending surgeons announced that the surgical operations
would take place on Thursday, November 13.

The physicians stated that they were confident that with
the care and treatment he is receiving that they will have him
on the street again in about four weeks. His condition has
been so alarming that Joseph Hopp. who was scheduled to
be in New York last week, postponed his trip.

Union Film Company Moves

The Union Film Company which at the present time has
offices in the Dapples building, on December first will occupy
the quarters formerly used by the Mutual Film Corporation
on the mezzanine floor of the Morton building. Although
this concern has been in operation only five weeks, it has
rapidly outgrown its quarters. W. F. Wreden, manager of
this company, made a happy choice in the selection of his
new offices, as they are ideally located, splendidly furnished
and easily accessible from all parts of the city.

Magie Returns from Portland

George Magie, district manager of all territory west of
Pittsburg for the Universal Film Manufacturing Company,
returned to Chicago this week from Portland, Ore., and other
Western cities where he has been spending the past few weeks
on business for his company.

Exchangemen Discuss Chicago Censorship

Because of the many films killed by the Chicago censor
board within the past few weeks, a conference was held on
Saturday, November 8, which was attended by exchange-
men and manufacturers' representatives. The feature and
buying exchanges were represented in this meeting

At this gathering actions were agreed upon which are hoped
to be protective in their nature. It was determined to secure
counsel, whose duty it will be to correct the radical censorship,
that is now being made on film, and also to stop the opera-
tion of the fifty-cent tax that is placed on each reel for censor
permit. Another meeting is to be held some time this week.

It was decided to retain as counsel Henry J. Toner and
David K. Toner. Both of these men are prominent members
of the bar.

C. J. V.

A CONCEPTION OF MASSIVE ARENA

Scene in George Kleine's "Last Days of Pompeii'

Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address: Exhibitors' Department, The Motion Picture News

A LITTLE encouragement goes a
long way to improve the service.
The trouble with too many man-
agers, in fact, with most of the busi-
ness men, is that while they are ready
to make a good deal of fuss at the
least mistake on the part of an em-
ployee, they fail to appreciate a good
service and never think to give this
word of praise which means so much
and which is an encouragement to do
still better in the future.

Just as machines need oil to work
smoothly, so men need a little en-
couragement once in a while to stim-
ulate their ambition. Otherwise they
lose not only ambition but all inter-
est in their work if their efforts are
not recognized.

Speaking of Praise

We think rriore of animals than we
do of our fellowmen. If an em-
ployee, full of ambition to do his best
to help the owner, does some extra
work, or is intelligent enough to
meet an emergency and save much
trouble and money to the firm, his
work is not praised because the
owner has an idea that such extra
work is included in the meagre sal-
ary. On the other hand, if the own-
er's dog does a good act, he is petted
and encouraged.

The sound effects were so correct
and so well timed at the New Grand
Central Theatre of St. Louis, that
Fred. Soistmann and myself deemed
it our duty to congratulate the man-
ager. Our ambition was to shake
hands with so able a sound effect
man, but as we could not walk to the
orchestra pit without an introduction,
and as the manager did not volunteer
to accompany us, we had to walk
out without a chance to express our
appreciation to the man who can give
such life to the picture.

If we were disappointed in our ef-
forts to encourage the good work, I
can say that the management has lost
a chance to improve the work, as
there is no doubt in my mind that
the drummer would have been pleased

to receive us, and our praises on his
excellent work would have encour-
aged him to try to improve still
further.

All these little things, no matter
how insignificant they may seem, are
of the greatest importance in the suc-
cessful management of a first-class
theatre.

It is out of place in a motion pic-
ture house charging twenty cents and
twenty-five cents admission, to see
the manager chewing on a cigar butt
and to see the ushers answer the pa-
trons with their hands in their trou-
sers pockets.

In a house charging a high admis-
sion, able to keep a full orchestra
and have an expensive pipe organ,
the management should be able to
furnish a complete uniform and not a
coat only. As young ushers are
tempted to follow the fashions, their
fancy trousers, narrow at the bottom
and turned up, are not of the military

style and do not harmonize with the
uniform coat.

Hands and the Pockets

The manager of a certain theatre
told me

"It is a deplorable habit, not to say
disrespectful to the patrons of a the-
atre, for the ushers to answer them
with their hands in the pockets."

To overcome this ungentlemanly
manner on the part of the ushers
and to force them to keep their
hands out of their pockets, this man-
ager has all the uniform trousers
made without side pockets and only
a small hip pocket for the handker-
chief. The manager is much pleased
with his experiment and claims that
the attendants cannot put their hands
in their pockets and they do not spoil
the appearance of the uniform with
pockets bulging out from carrying
pipes and many other articles not re-
quired by the usher while on duty.

SCENE FROM "THE SERPENT IN EDEN"

Eclair Hand-Colored Drama in Two Acts

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The white military collar should be
furnished with the uniform; in fact, it
should be part of the uniform. Few
ushers have any knowledge of the
military style, and to show a fancy
necktie they wear a fashionable col-
lar and keep the uniform coat open —
a mark of great carelessness.

It would be well for most of our
attendants of motion picture theatres
and for many managers themselves,
to watch the soldiers of Uncle Sam.
as they would see that many of the
fads of our young dudes are not the
proper style for men whose duties
are to serve the public. Cuffs on trou-
sers may be a high degree of fashion
but they are not allowed in the army
— and not even on our most efficient
railroads.

I was much pleased to find at the
new Kozy Theatre on Clark street,
Chicago, some correctly uniformed
ushers. The uniforms are very neat;
nothing gaudy or flashy, and the men
wear white standing collars with the

coat buttoned, no cuffs on the trou-
sers nor hands in the pockets.

Here again I may say that, if we
have so many careless attendants, it
is due to the fact that the manager
does not encourage his men to be
neat and clean. The young Amer-
ican who has a poor conception of
the word "liberty" and who believes
that the uniform is a sign of slavery,
hates to be uniformed, and his natu-
ral dislike grows stronger if he is
made an object of curiosity by either
a gaudy or a poorly made uniform.
On the other hand, if the uniform is
neat, well made, and if the wearer is
complimented on his fine appearance,
he will take a pride in his uniform.

Indifference Is Harmful

The indifference of a manager is
sufficient to discourage the best in-
tentioned employee.

As stated at the beginning of this
article, a little judicious praise can
accomplish wonders, as men are not

different from women in that they
like to be flattered.

I feel confident that Charles Mc-
Nulty, of the Colonial Theatre, Nor-
wich, Conn., has been fully repaid
for his courtesy when he introduced
me to C. A. Dowsett, his pianist, as
the few words 1 excharged with this
musician proved to him that some
persons could enjoy his clever play-
ing ot the picture.

I remember how the attendants of
the Hippodrome, of Lancaster, Pa.,
were thankful when I complimented
the manager on the neat appearance
and good manners of his employees.

The good will of any worker must
be sustained by some occasional en-
couragement. The trouble is that
most of :ne employers have the
wrong idea that a word of praise
makes the man selfish. Yes, too much
praise may induce the employee to
believe that he is indispensable, but
a judicious encouragement can do no
harm. J. M. B.

SPECIAL FILM REVIEWS

THE Lure of New York. New
York Film Co.— A story of the
trials and tribulations of a strange girl
when alone in New York. Regina,
a Bavarian girl, comes to New York
to seek her fortune. On the way over
she meets another woman who prom-
ises to introduce her in New York
and take care of her. She is a pro-
curer and deceives the simple girl.
After a series of adventures some of
them most startling, she escapes, and
is adopted by a wealthy woman who
makes, "a lady" of her. She then
meets her mother again in a novel
way. There are some excellent city
street scenes introduced. The photo-
graphy is excellent throughout. The
escape on the elevated railroad and
the drop from one of the pillars to
the street was most dramatic. A
drama that should make a name for
itself among the lovers of melodrama.
Miss Jennie Goldstein, of the Max
Gabel theatre in New York, plays the
lead and shows herself capable of
great emotion.

The Life of St. Patrick. Four-
Reel Feature. — Mr. Benedict, who is
offering this picture for State Rights
buyers, is to be congratulated on hav-
ing secured a unique picture — unique
in theme, treatment and opportunity.

In the last regard, it is bound to be
a difficult and expensive thing for
anybody else wanting to make a life
of St. Patrick to exactly traverse the
ground gone over by Mr. Walsh.

which must necessarily be done, with
any hope of excelling this picture.
For the Irish scenes are the historic
scenes in the life of the Saint whilst
the archaeology seems to us, as lay-
men, to be attended to with flawless
accuracy. The writer is a Catholic
and from what he has been taught
about Ireland's apostle this pictorial

TEACHING THE INFANT PATRICK
CHRISTIANITY

review of his life seems to be a rea-
sonable one, according to history, tra-
dition and legend.

There are some pretty bits of scen-
ery in this film and the narrative is
kept steadily in view in every foot.
The film play is full of action from
the time when the infant Patrick is

seen at his mother's knee learning the
rudiments of Christianity up to the
hour when he dies, a venerated saint,
and is solemnly buried.

As a child he tries to convert the
pagan. As a lad he suffers amongst
the heathens iiving in Ireland in the
fourth century. Later he returns and
miraculously converts them. Modern
physicists may scoff at the feasibil-
ity of his miracles, but they are part
of Catholic belief, though not neces-
sarily of Catholic dogma.

You even see the saint being some-
what rough on one solitary snake that
interposes itself in the picture. There
were lots of snakes in the original
negative, but according to our infor-
mation, an Irish Bishop advised that
most of the snakes be cut out, other-
wise the picture might look ridicu-
lous.

This is a beautiful, convincing, well
acted story about the Apostle of Ire-
land. It is reverently and artistically
treated and would be welcome in any
motion picture theatre, or church,
school, lecture or entertainment hall,
where good pictures are welcome.

The photography is in parts splen-
did and always good, and the acting
always natural. It is an unstagy
presentation, well produced. Nothing
in it is overdone. While it should
and probably will please Catholics, it
cannot offend or displease non-Cath-
olics; on the contrary, it will interest
all. Let's hope that this film will
have a long career.

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It will be we^l, we think, to give
the reader the synopsis of the story
of Patrick's life as outlined in the
film. The incidents treated occurred
in the fourth and fifth centuries and
as may be supposed, original authori-
ties have been quoted for the purpose
of verifying the archeology of the
subject. There is not so far as we
can discover a single anachronism in

rick views Ireland from the mountain
top. Scene 4 — The death of St. Pat-
rick; his funeral and his grave.

PATRICK SOLD INTO SLAVERY

it. Objection was taken to the ap-
parent modernity of a prayer book
held by the Saint. We write "appar-
ent" deliberately: illuminated missals
and other religious books were in
existence over a thousand years ago,
long before the invention of printing:
PART I.

Scene 1 — The baptism of St. Pat-
rick. Scene 2 — St. Patrick at 5 years
of age receiving the symbol of Chris-
tianity, the cross. Scene 3 — St. Pat-
rick's mother tells him the story of
the Saviour.' Scene 4 — St. Patrick at
the age of 16 is captured by pirates,
and lands at Giant's Causeway, Ire-
land.

PART II.

Scene 1 — St. Patrick sold into sla-
very. Scene 2 — A herder of sheep
and swine. Scene 3 — The visitation
of an angel. Scene 4 — His flight
Scene 5 — St. Patrick leaves Ireland a
fugitive to return a conqueror.
PART III.

Scene 1 — St. Patrick arrives in
France; reunion with his mother.
Scene 2 — Becomes student under the
guidance of his uncle, St. Martin of
Tours. Scene 3 — The temptation.
Scene 4 — Preaching to the people and
leaving Rome on his great mission.
Scene 5 — Landing in Ireland. He de-
fines the Trinity by the aid of a sham-
rock. Scene 6 — Thrown into a dun-
geon; his miraculous release and at-
tempt to convert King Milcho. Scene
7 — King Milcho offers himself as a
sacrifice to the gods on a funeral
pyre.

PART IV.

Scene 1 — The Bael Festival. He
defies the Druid Priests and the gods
of fire by lighting the forbidden fire.
Scene 2 — The end of paganism and
idolatry in Ireland. Scene 3 — St. Pat-

The Traffic in Souls. Imp. Seven
Parts. — A few years ago such a pic-
ture as this would have been impos-
sible. During the past season there
were many "vice" plays produced in
New York and the public have be-
come educated to the belief that they
are eye-openers. The subject, still a
tender one, is dealt with so reverently
by the Imp caste that even the mem-
bers of the National Board of Cen-
sorship could not find fault. In fact,
they even praised its probable conse-«
quence.

Isaac Baring, an aged inventor, has
two pretty daughters, Jane and
Lorna. The latter is a feather-
brained little girl who is spirited away
from her work one evening, drugged
and taken to a strange house and
locked in a room. Officer 4434, is
Jane's sweetheart and commences an
active search for his prospective sis-
ter-in-law when he is told she has
gone off with this man. Jane is dis-
charged from her work because of the
disgrace of her sister. She is given
work in the office of "the man higher
up" and it is here that she learns her
sister's "prison." With Matt, her po-
liceman fiance, she has the house
raided and her sister returns to her
home.

Scenes from the raiding of other
houses are shown, and many of the
methods of the "cadets" in getting
girls are demonstrated, thus telling
vividly the things to beware of. The

aged father's new invention plays a
big part in the final capturing of the
gang. Miss Jane Gail, as the officer's
sweetheart, played with her usual
cleverness. Ethel Grandin as Lorna,
was wonderful. The part suited her
very well indeed. Matt Moore played
the officer. Howard Crampton is
the "go-between." William Cava-
naugh and Irene Wallace completed
the important roles.

Caprice. Famous Players. Four
Reels.— Four delightful reels of com-
edy-drama, the variations of pathos
and light comedy being of great fre-
quency. Mary Pickford, who needs
no introduction, plays the part of
Mercy Baxter, originally created for
Mrs. Fiske and played by her for one
of her most successful seasons. Miss
Pickford could not have obtained a
more desirable vehicle. She is ably
supported by Owen Moore, Ernest
Truax, Ogden Crane and James Gor-
don.

Jack Henderson, a society man hav-
ing wearied of the monotonous life he
has been leading, goes into the woods
for a hunting trip and meets Mercy
Baxter. They become interested in
one another. Mercy is a will-o'-the-
wisp sort of a person, never serious,
though always meaning well. Miss
Pickford portrays this well, perhaps
too well. Jack's father forbids the
marriage but they are nevertheless
wed, and build their own home.
Mercy tries to become educated but
fails, and after a time Jack becomes
ashamed of her illiteracy and finally
forces her to leave him. She goes

THE LIFE OF ST. PATRICK

'St. Patrick Converting the Pagan Irish'

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away. Her father places her in a
school under an assumed name where
she becomes the roommate of her
sister-in-law. She soon has the rough
edges rubbed off and before long is
an accomplished "lady." Jack return-
ing from Europe meets his sister's
chum and falls in love with her, not
being sure that she is his own wife.
She owns up later and they are re-
united, his father taking him back.

The action throughout is light and
breezy, never causing the attention to
lag and should meet with a high de-
gree of success. The fire scene in
the school deserves especial mention
for its good direction.

The Diver. Vitagraph. Two parts.
(Nov. 8.) — Featuring Mile. Ideal in the
part of a diver. A clever story is
woven around her ability as a swim-
mer and aquatic performer, and is a
worthy release.

The story is about the jealousy of
a woman, and the malicious plans she
uses when she sees that she cannot
obtain what she desires by fair play.
John Hawley (Earle Williams) thinks
a great deal of "Ideal," the diver, and
has asked her to be his wife. She
consents and all is happy until Rita
hears of it. By letting Hawley find
some flowers in his fiancee's .room
with a man's handkerchief, he be-
comes jealous. He watches her, in
response to an anonymous letter, and
sees his rival apparently stealing from
her house at the dead of night.

"Ideal" saves the life of a little girl
in the Niagara River later, and when
Hawley hears of this he goes to her
immediately. He receives a telegram
from Rita telling him of her duplicity
and all is well.

The scene in the river is especially
well directed and deserves praise.
Rose Tapley plays the part of Rita.

The Fatal Plunge. Eclectic. Three
Reels. (Nov. 13,) — A good release em-
bodying plenty of excitement.

Count Durant (what would a
French release be without a Count?)
is desperately hard up and surrounded
by creditors. He proposes marriage
to the daughter of a wealthy automo-
bile manufacturer and is accepted.
He then plots, with the help of his
scheming sister, to obtain the money
of his wife. Her father, feeling he
has not much longer to live, leaves
the business in the hands of his pri-
vate secretary who loves Edith. The
Count failing in this method, and
having been disinherited by his
father-in-law, insures his wife's life,
intending to kill her. This is attempt-
ed with dynamite at a fox hunt, but
is frustrated by the secretary. It is
again attempted on an automobile
trip, but again the friend discovers
the plot. A boy having been offended
by the Count hurls a stone at him

while he is driving his car and causes
him to lose control and pitch into the
river over a bank. He is of course
killed. Plenty of action!

It is rather good to see a copy of
Leslie's Weekly in the hands of one
of the characters when everything
else is so very French.

The Serpent in Eden. Eclair. Two
reels. (Dec. 17.) — One of the most
beautifully hand-colored pictures it
has been our fortune to see in a long
time. Several scenes appear to be
familiar to us, as though we had seen
them before. Perhaps, however, it is
only a similarity. The story deals
with a young artist who marries a girl
while he is in the depths of despair,
not being able to sell any of his pro-
ductions. When at last, however, suc-
cess seems to be his, and the money
is coming in every mail, he tires of
his faithful wife and becomes enam-
oured of an actress. She, later tiring
of him, leaves him, and Denise, his
heartbroken wife, returns to her
father. A reconciliation is finally
brought about between the husband
and wife. The action is not allowed
to drag for a moment.

Eighty Million Women Want ?

Unique. Four Parts. — Although Mrs.
Emmeline Pankhurst, the eminent
English militant, and Mrs. Harriet
Stanton Blatch, President of the
Women's Political Union, with nu-

MRS. PANKHURST AS SHE APPEARS IN
THE PICTURE

merous other believers in and work-
ers for suffrage, have parts in this
new production, the play itself is not
an advertisement of the votcs-for-
women movement. The plot is fresh
and interesting and the photography
is good. The cast is very clever and
deserves commendation.

The story very ably ''shows up" the

modern system of machine politics,
the remedy suggested being suffrage.
The corruption of a judge while he is
on the bench is one of the stirring
scenes, and brings vividly to our
minds the recent exposures in the
Empire State.

The story starts with a young law-
yer who, loving a girl, wishes to mar-
ry her. His first case, that of an
automobile accident, is lost because
the political boss wants to ruin the
boy for having refused to go crooked.
He yields finally, however, and be-
comes a crook. The girl, hearing of
this, joins the suffrage party. By
clever detective work she and her col-
leagues gain sufficient evidence to ob-
tain a warrant against the Boss and
he is arrested. The two are joined
together again, and she seems happier
by far over the marriage license than
she was over the party badge she had
worn. The word "had" is used ad-
visedly.

Mrs. Pankhurst as an actress was
very conscious, but did as well as
might be expected of a woman of her
age. Mrs. Blatch seemed to pose a
little.

The scenario was written by Mrs.
Cooley, needless to add a member of
the Women's Political Union.

American Born. American. — One
incident and one situation after the
other has been piled into this two-reel
American production, which will be
released on December 1st. There is
enough material in the story of this
picture to make three reels. How-
ever, as it now stands, one's interest
is always maintained, and only that
which is absolutely necessary for the
telling of the story is used. The
story carries one from the far West-
ern States of America to the inner-
most circles of London's society.
The appeal of the picture is wide, its
acting is convincing, and its story is
interesting.

The beautiful scenery that lies in
and about Santa Barbara, Cal., is put
to good service, the picturesque views
of the looming mountains and beau-
tiful backgrounds lend added value to
the picture.

The opening scenes of the picture
show the dying mother telling her
only child, an orphan, of the wealth
and power of her family and of her
royal blood. Dorothy Danvers has
always been of the opinion that her
parents are of lowly birth, until the
dying words of her mother apprise
her of her noble relatives living in
England and the large estates she has
inherited. With the assistance of the
honest old Indian servant, Dorothy,
known in America as Pepita, goes to
Europe to see for the first time her
relatives.

Tn the House of Danvers she first
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Mvisic and the
Picture

Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address: Music Department, The Motion Picture News

WHEN Mr. Talboi, of St. Louis,
built his 3,000-seat Hippodrome,
with a show of twro and a half hours
for ten cents, the general opinion was
that the Grand Central Theatre of
Mr. Sievers, on the opposite corner,
would go out of existence.

The rumor had a foundation, as it
seemed hopeless for Mr. Sievers to
try to keep open with pictures only,
at the same admission of ten cents.
In other words, the current opinion
was that a long program of several
vaudeville acts with pictures sand-
wiched between them would draw all
the patronage of the neighborhood.

Hippodrome Like a Circus

The Hippodrome was an immense
success. It was a novelty. Every-
one from the four corners of St. Louis
and from the numerous surrounding
towns and villages, w~anted to see the
new Hippodrome.

But — there is always a but — the
Hippodrome, while a great attraction,
is not the habitual rendezvous of the
real lovers of motion pictures and of
good pla3^s. The Hippodrome is like
a circus. The seats are narrow and
uncomfortable, man}- attendants in
gold laces, floods of lights from thou-
sands of lamps of different colors, a
full noisy orchestra, and peanut shells
on the floor. It is a splendid show,
like a show at P. T. Barnum's — a
show to see once but a show that
does not call for a second visit. There
is too much going on to enjoy any
special act. Everything, even the pic-
tures, has to be hurried to make time
and room for the waiting crowds. It
is an excellent circus show.

Did Mr. Sievers suffer? No. After
two years of existence, the Hippo-
drome has failed to stop the daily
flow of lovers of motion pictures at
the Grand Central Theatre, and Mr.
Sievers has suffered so little from the
competition of the Hippodrome that
he has been able to bu'ld a new big
motion picture palace called the New
Grand Central on Grand avenue, St.
Louis, which he runs in connection

with the old Grand Central of Sixth
and Market streets.

There is a reason for the great suc-
cess of Mr. Sievers, and this reason
is very simple. Mr. Sievers knows
how to put on a good picture. He is
master in the art of appropriate mu-
sic and he is an experienced manager,
who knows that appearance and man-
ners are essential to the success of a
theatre.

Mr. Sievers' Success

In passing, I must state that in a
certain sense I regret the wTonderful
success of Mr. Sievers, as prosperity
has induced him to devote much of
his time on another line of business
and abandon his theatres to local
managers. While the old policy is
still in existence, and most of the old
employees trained by Mr. Sievers are
still in the place, it is easy for an ob-
server to see that the eye of the mas-
ter is not there all the time.

The success of Mr. Sievers proves
that we have enough lovers of mo-
tion pictures to patronize our first-
class photoplay houses, and who do
not call for long programs, sensa-
tional posters nor noisy music.

The success of Mr. Sievers is due
to his excellent projection and to his
wonderful sound effects, in which he
is a master as great as Mr. Lyman
Howe. The sound effects are not
only correct but they are properly
timed.

His wave effects proved to me
that his drummer was very attentive
and was watching every motion on
the screen. When the waves would
form and roll at a distance, we would
hear nothing, but as they would in-
crease in size and near the beach, we
could hear this sort of a deep rolling
sound, then a splash when they would
break.

The following scene was a master-
piece of wrork on the part of the or-
chestra, and showed how musicians
could enhance the beauty of a pic-
ture. A Selig production.

A hish rock in the ocean. A man

is seen climbing the rock, most likely
a dreamer who wants to admire the
rolling waves from a high perch. A
rowboat appears. It is drifting away.
Its only occupant is a frightened lit-
tle girl. There is a deep suspense on
the part of the audience, a sort of
chill. It looks as if the rowboat is
going to crash into the rock and
send to the bottom of the ocean the
beautiful little girl. At the same time
the eye is riveted on the dreamer at
the top of the rock as he is prepar-
ing to dive to save the child. Is he
going to dive? Is it not very danger-
ous, not to say a sure death, to dive
from such a height at such a place?

Making the Picture Talk

This scene holds the audience in a
deep suspense. Women are ready to
scream and to cry, men are affected.
On Broadway, New York, the full or-
chestra would play a lively waltz or
march during such a pathetic scene,
or would have the audience to whistle
a popular ragtime tune. Mr. Sievers'
musicians know better. They stop
the music. The silence in the orches-
tra pit respects the agony of the audi-
ence. All that we can hear is the
waves breaking against the rock, em-
phasizing the peril of the child. The
man dives and as his body strikes the
water, wre hear the splash, followed
by another silence, until the man re-
appears on the surface and rescues
the little girl before the frail boat
crashes into the rock. Then the or-
chestra starts on a soft, plaintive
tune until the man brings the child
to the witnesses of the rescue, where
there is then joy on the screen and in
the orchestra pit.

This is the way to make the pic-
ture talk, and when the musicians can
express the true sentiments they nail
the attention of the audience.

I was so delighted with the sound
effects of Mr. Sie%-ers that when I
met Fred Soistmann, Jr.. of Camden.
N. J., the demonstrator of the Drama-
graph Sound Effect Cabinet, I invited
him to visit the New Grand Central

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Theatre. While I claim to be a fair
judge of sound effects, f was de-
lighted at the real enjoyment of Mr.
Soistmann, who is a past expert in the
art of producing sound effects for the
picture.

It would be too long to enumerate
all the effects, but I can state that
they were the best I have heard for a
long time. The drummer of Mr. Sie-
vers does not believe that he must
make a noise all the time to show
that he is on the job, and he does not
lceep his foot pressing on the pedal
•of his bass drum and cymbals from
the first to the last scene of a pic-
ture.

Mr. Sievers does not give a long

\ N important and interesting con-
tract has just been closed be-
tween the Pathe people and the direc-
tors of the Panama-Pacific Interna-
tional Exposition. It involves the ex-
ploitation of the wonderful progress
being made on the exposition grounds
where buildings are rising so rapidly
that even motion picture machines
have difficulty in synchronizing, and
it gives to the Pathe people a right
to take motion pictures throughout
the nine months of the exposition that
will prove of inestimable advantage
to that organization and of untold
interest and entertainment to thou-
sands of motion picture patrons all
over the world whose only glimpses
of the exposition by the Golden Gate,
interest in which is universal, will
be obtained through the medium of
these pictures.

Already the Pathe people have their
hands full keeping apace with the
progress of work at the exposition.
The present activity of 5,000 men on
the grounds will be increased to 10,-
000 men, it is expected, when the

F. R. A. BUYERS

Buyers of state rights on "The
Gallows of the Gods," the Film Re-
leases of America three-reel feature,
include: Famous Players Film Com-
pany, Boston, Mass.; Weiland Film
Company, Pittsburg, Pa.; Electric
Theatre Supply Company, Philadel-
phia, Pa.; Golden Gate Film Ex-
change, San Francisco, Cal. ; Exclusive
Features, Inc., New York City;
Northwestern Feature Film Com-
pany, Portland, Ore.; Electric Thea-
tre Supply Company., Baltimore,
Md.; Golden Gate Film Exchange,
Los Angeles, Cal.; Northwestern
Feature Film Company, Seattle,
Wash.

program at his New Grand Central,
but he packs his new house at twenty
cents and twenty-five cents on his
reputation of showing the best pic-
tures and of showing them properly.

If many of our friends would con-
cult Mr. Sievers, they would not fear
unfair competition, as they would
realize that lovers of motion pictures
do not call for sensational posters,
long programs, nor noisy music. The
patrons want the quality and they will
pay the admission to see a picture
projected properly and accompanied
with appropriate music.

Various Sound Effects

I had the pleasure to hear the first

highest point of construction energy
is reached.

The main group of exhibit palaces,
comprising the palaces of Education,
Liberal Arts, Manufactures, Varied
Industries, Mines, Transportation,
Agriculture and Food Products, is
rising majestically from a chaos of
lumber and steel and will be com-
pleted fully eight months in advance
of the opening of the exposition
which is to celebrate the completion
of the Panama Canal.

Military pageants are of frequent
occurrence, the last having been held
in honor of the state of Kansas, which
has just selected and accepted at the
hands of President C. C. Moore, for
the exposition, its site for a state
building. Green sward is spreading
itself quietly in the spaces reserved
fcr horticultural display, and within
the limits of the 635 acres constituting
the area of the exposition grounds
there is to be found material of be-
wildering variety and great interest
for the vigilant eye of the motion
picture camera.

SKETCH ARTIST FOR POSTERS

"Show us the lithographs" has be-
come of such significance in the sale
of state right features that the Film
Releases of America has engaged
George McEvoy, a sketch artist of
wide reputation and recognized abil-
ity, to draw all sketches for its post-
ers. McEvoy's work is powerful in
sturdy lines and delicate shadings of
intelligence enables him to catch the
conception and consummate it artis-
tically.

The first of McEvoy's work will be
seen on the lithographs for "The Se-
cret of Adrianople," the interesting
three-reel subject which follows "Out-
lawed."

Bartola Orchestra installed in the loop
district of Chicago at the new Kozy
Theatre on Clark street. It, is very
complete in effects, and as I have
stated in a previous letter, the Bar-
tola, like the Wurlitzer Unit Orches-
tra, the Dramagraph, the Deagan
Bells, must be in the hands of a com-
petent musician who can read and
understand the picture and control the
music accordingly.

The Deagan Bells are still in great
favor; they are, in fact, a great at-
traction. While Mr. J. C. Deagan is
busy on a number of new musical in-
struments, his factory is working
overtime on his electric bells.

J. M. B.

SYDNEY AYRES— AMERICAN
ACTOR

Sydney Ayres, leading man of the
' Flying A" company, bears his laurels
well. His record on the legitimate stage
has been most enviable for his years.
His first experience dates back to the
time when Little Lord Fauntleroy was
famous in America. He was one of the
original four boys to play this part.

He has been associated as leading man
with such celebrities as E. H. Sothern
and Otis Skinner. He played the part
of the original clansman in Thomas
Dickson's problem play, "The Clans-
man." For Wilton Lackaye, in Hall
Caine's "The Bondsman," he played lead,
and has been identified as a star with
almost all principal stock companies in
America.

His experience in moving pictures
dates back several years. He played
the leads in the "101 Bison" features
produced by the New York Motion Pic-
ture Company. Later he served with
success in the Selig and Edison com-
panies.

He will play the lead in "Flying A"
subjects. "The Occult," "American
Born," a two-part feature, also " The
Moth and the Flame," are subjects that
give him splendid opportunity to dis-
play his versatility.

Mr. Ayres is delighted with conditions
and possibilities at Santa Barbara. The
hospitality of the members of the va-
rious "Flying A" companies, as also that
of the populace at large, has made a
marked impression on him, while on the
other hand his short stay has already
won for him the highest regard of his
associates.

Gaumont's two new reels, released
Saturday, have proved a great suc-
cess, so much so that they are faced
with the problem of building a larger
factory at Flushing, L. L, or to stop
doing work for other film houses, as
already they have a day and night
staff constantly at work.

Pathe to Film Exposition

Motion Pictures to Tell World of Doings in San Francisco
Over the Panama Canal

ffisttuction Department

Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address: Construction Department, The Motion Picture News

ILLUSTRATION No. 1 shows the
facade of the New Grand Central
Theatre of Mr. Sievers, of St. Louis.

There is nothing of special note in
this facade. It is very plain, yet im-
posing. At night the effect is good,
with the lighted marquise extending
over the sidewalk, and the three elec-
tric light devices, one on the pinnacle
of the roof with the two others on
both corners of the roof.
Entrance Conveys Impression

If the exterior of the building does
not say much, the splendor of the
entrance is sufficient to convey the
impression that the most refined
show is given within its doors.

Illustration No. 2 shows one cor-
ner of the lobby, the corner to the
entrance door. The floor is of a dec-
orated mosaic, the walls are all of
fancy white marble with numerous
great plate mirrors encased in fine
mouldings.

Illustration No. 3 shows the floor
plan of the lobby

AA is the lobby proper.
BB is the foyer.
CC is the auditorium.
D is the operating booth.
E is a ticket office for ten-cent ad-
mission.

F is a ticket office for twenty-cent
and twenty-five cent tickets.

G is the entrance door to the audi-
torium.

H is the exit door.

Few theatres have two ticket offices
but Mr. Sievers does not consider
the wages of an extra ticket seller
when the comfort of his patrons is to
be considered.

The reserved boxes are twenty-five
cents, the lower floor and the front
part of the balcony are twenty cents,
while the rear seats of the balcony
are ten cents. While these ten-cent
seats are not very desirable, they are
sought by families of less means who
are anxious to see a good show.

The object of two ticket offices is
to try to keep the cheaper element
from crowding the finely dressed
ladies purchasing tickets. In fact.

why not have two ticket booths in a
motion picture theatre when opera
houses have more than one ticket
seller?

If money is not lavished on the
facade of the New Grand Central
Theatre, the beautiful lobby with its

F

two elegant marble ticket booths, di-
vided by an immense plate mirror in
front of which are arranged a num-
ber of potted plants, conveys the im-
pression that this theatre is the re-
fined amusement place of the neigh-
borhood.

NEW GRAND CENTRAL THEATRE

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39

Booth on Lower Floor

The architects, Messrs. Helfenstel-
ler, Hirsch & Watson, of St. Louis,
had a very happy thought when they

LOBBY, NEW GRAND CENTRAL THEATRE

decided to use the space between the
two ticket offices for the operating
booth, instead of placing it, as is gen-
erally the case, at the top of the bal-
cony. By this arrangement, Mr.
Sievers has a perfectly direct
throw and direct projection
brings out the best results on the
screen.

This is not the first operating
booth I have found on the lower
floor of a theatre, but it is, to
my knowledge, the first to insure
comfort and proper ventilation
to the operators. This booth is
high and commodious. At the
top of the wall separating the
booth from the lobby and just
over the immense mirror located
between the two ticket offices are
a couple of windows opening on
the lobby proper. These win-
dows do not mar the appearance
of the lobby, as they are screened be-
hind some fancy grille work.

The foyer is very simple in decora-
tions but of the highest taste, with
all its hard woodwork, subdued lights
and carpets. The auditorium is beau-
tiful in its simplicity and most com-
fortable. In plain words, the money
has not been lavished in ginger-
bread decorations, to catch the eye,
but in solid comfort.

The New Grand Central Theatre is
not an experiment. It is the fruit of
experience gained by hard work. Mr
Sievers is not a newcomer, he is one
of the oldest exhibitors of St. Louis
He made a success of his original
Grand Central (the old one) on Sixth
and Market streets. He is progress-
ive, does not remain in his shell, but
goes out to see what others are doing
Mr. Sievers is always willing to re-
ceive any advice, and he keeps posted
on everything new pertaining to mo-
tion pictures.

St. Louis has some beautiful photo-
play houses on which money has
been lavished for the comfort of the
patrons and the uplifting of the in-
dustry. The exhibitors of St. Louis

do not believe in giving too much for
the money, but they pride themselves
to give the quality. Not only the film
quality but the best projection, most
appropriate music, and a clean, cour-
teous service.

A Tip for New York

In the very near future, I will have
the pleasure to publish a description
of the ventilating system of the New
Grand Theatre, from the pen of the
architects. To-day I can repeat the
statement of the manager, who
claimed that during the hot days of
last July, when the thermometer was
100 degrees in the shade, the temper-
ature in the auditorium was below 80

A New Yorker, a frequent visitor
at the Broadway motion picture the-
atres, was surprised to hear that some
of the St. Louis exhibitors had the
nervte to charge an admission of
twenty cents and twenty-five cents
for a four-reel show.

Yorkers, in general, are not slow to
appreciate and support a good thing

J. M. B.

EXCLUSIVE PROGRAM GROWS

The growth of the Exclusive Sup-
ply Corporation Program has neces-
sitated the enlargement of the Exclu-
sive Program, its weekly publication,
from twelve to sixteen pages. This
weekly makes no pretensions to being
a newspaper or a trade journal, pur-
posing only to convey sales facts and
program notes to state right buyers
and exchange-men.

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WARNER'S IN CANADA

A. Warner, the busy vice-president
of Warner's Features, Inc., no sooner
returns to New York after an ex-
tended road trip than he packs his
Gladstone and is off again to an-
other part of the country. His pres-
ent trip takes him to Montreal to
open up an office there — the first
link of a chain that will extend
across the Dominion from coast
to coast.

"THE THREE MUSKE-
TEERS" FILMS

"The Three Musketeers," the
famous story of Alexander
Dumas, has been produced in
film form by the Film Attractions
Company, with offices at 145
West Forty-fifth street, New
York City, and is now being put
on the market.

It is a six-part production
which took three months in the
making. With it goes a liberal
supply of "paper" and heralds.
If some of the Broadway theatres All the characters of the Dumas story
were to follow the St. Louis style. are visualized on the screen, among
they could get the price, as New them DArtagnan, Athos and Porthos.

FLOOR PLAN OF LOBBY

SCENE FROM "THE THREE MUSKETEERS"

Six-part production of Film Attractions Company.

TT7HILE the cheap Western mo-
W tion picture houses believe they
cannot do business without a display
of big posters, the better houses have
a more refined taste and are very
modest in their advertising display.

Poster frames (wood, brass, iron)
are used more extensively than in the
East. In fact, the Western exhibitors
seem to have a more refined taste,
seem to have a little more consider-
ation for their patrons and for their
neighbors. The selfish spirit of the
East is scarcely known in the Middle
West, where the business men, store-
keepers and showmen unite to im-
prove the appearance of their street.

At Mr. Sievers' New Grand Central
Theatre, in St. Louis, I have found
some new original brass frames of
which I give the following illustra-
tion.

It is, as can be seen, a regular
poster frame, on the sides of which are
arranged a number of smaller frames
for the photographs of the leading
actors.

As the public takes such a deep in-
terest in the leading actors and seems
to judge a film more from the men
and women taking part in it than
from the trade-mark of the manufac-
turer, the exhibitor who exhibits the
portraits of the favorite actors seems
to draw a better patronage.

The man who is quick to grasp the

fads of the public is the man who is
sure to win at the end.

The manager of the General Spe-
cialty Company, of St. Louis, is a
man who, while starting at the foot
of the ladder, is making some quick
money because he grasped the fad of
the public for the photographs of the
actors. As so many publishers are
placing on the market photographs,
portraits and post-cards of the men
and women acting in motion picture
plays, the manager of the General
Specialty Company looked for some-
thing new and original. At last he
struck an idea which proves a
bonanza.

Transparent Players' Portraits

In front of the theatre, in the lobby,
on the side walls of the auditorium,
in the ceiling and in staircases, are
many light fixtures with more or less
shades. These shades are generally
sort of petal-shaped windows with
panes of glass of different colors,
fancy glass, stained glass. The man-
ager of the General Specialty Com-
pany came to the conclusion that
these light fixtures could be made
more attractive by replacing the
panes of glass by some transparent
portraits of the leading actors.

To this effect, he made shades of
his own pattern in which the por-
traits can be inserted and changed
daily, if necessary, without the least
trouble.

It is useless to say that the General
Specialty Company is swamped with
orders, as these shades with the por-
traits of the leading actors are not
only very attractive, but they hit the
fad of the public and they can be ob-
tained at a smajl cost.

In a previous issue of this paper, I
said a few words on the announce-
ment slides and expressed a wish to
see the beautiful hand-colored slides
return in favor and eclipse these
cheap-looking stencil slides.

The following cut is an illustration
of a very attractive and appropriate
slide made by the American Slide
Company, of Columbus, O.

While the design is good, the word-
ing is still better

Before saying "Good Night,"
we wish to thank you for your
patronage.

It is clever and conveys a far better
impression on the mind of the pa-
trons than loud posters, as it shows
a mark of appreciation and of defer-

ence. We all like the words, "Thank
you." "Thank you" means good man-
ners and good manners win all the
time.

In the issue of The Motion Picture
News of October 11th, I said and
proved that the policy of the paper
was to hunt the trade to find new
things of direct interest to the ex-
hibitor. Now, I have been fortunate
to discover a new novelty which will
make a good souvenir.

The novelty is a cardboard animal
about three by five inches.

When the animal is laid on a table
or any flat surface, it will, through a
rubber band device, spring up and
fall back right on its feet. It is a
clever trick that does not only amuse
the little ones, but interests the par-
ents. On the reverse side of the
painted animal is a good-sized space
on which the name of the theatre or
any other announcement can be
printed.

This new novelty is placed on the
market by Sam Alschuler, Schiller
Building, Chicago.

These jumping animals will prove
a great souvenir that will please the
children and will be highly appreci-
ated by the mothers.

For Women and Children

All the exhibitors know that the
afternoon shows are mostly patron-
ized by the women and children, and
if you give one of these jumping ani-
mals to a child, the mother will not
look at the small value of the article,
but will be thankful at your kind at-

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Chicago Ventilation Meeting Fruitless

tention in remembering her child, as
any favor extended to a little one is
always greatly appreciated by a fond
mother.

Yes, it may be that by the same
evening the child will have destroyed
the toy, but nevertheless the mother
will not forget your kind intention
and will not only return to your the-
atre but praise your show to her
neighbors. This is the kind of ad-
vertising you want.

You can offer coupons that are to
be redeemed for valuable premiums,
a sort of lottery that does you more
harm than good, because the collect-
ors of coupons always expect a bet-
ter premium. As stated above, the
mothers will not stop to consider the
value of the jumping animals, but
they will appreciate your kind inten-
tion to please the little ones.

The above suggestions will do you
more good than sensational posters,
as you are not in business for one
day.

Highly sensational and vulgar post-
ers can be the best advertising for a
cheap one-day stand road show, a
show looking to catch all the hay-
seeds the same day with no consider-
ation for the morrow.

If to-day you make a sensational
display, what will be the results?
You will increase your gate receipts
of to-day, there is no doubt of it.
But to-morrow, what will you do?

Fakes Don't Go Twice

If you cannot secure more sensa-
tional posters for a week or two, your
business will fall flat. You will be
starving and the daily losses will foot
up to a higher sum than the big re-
ceipts of to-day. If even you can se-
cure enough posters to make a second
and a third sensational display, your
patrons will pass the place and say:
"He caught us yesterday with his
fake sensational show, but he will not
get our money to-day."

Please ycjr patrons. Extend to
them all the courtesy you can. Make
them feel at home, like a member of
your own family, and they will be
daily visitors. If your daily receipts
do not amount to the gate receipts
of a big sensational day, they will be
more steady and leave you a better
bank account. Do not kill the hen
that lays the golden eggs. Do not
try to get twenty eggs to-day and
lose the three hundred and sixty-five
golden eggs that the hen has in store
for you during the year.

J. M. B.

The Logan, 4800 North Broad street,
Philadelphia, has just been opened by
the Logan Amusement Co. Building,
40x150, brick and terra cotta. Seats
500. Cost, approximately, $30,000.
Milton Rogasner, manager.

ON Friday, November 7th, the venti-
lation committee of the Interna-
tional Motion Picture Association which
consisted of the following men, Rob.
Levy, B. L. Schwartz, L. Zaller, Charles
Abrams and A. C. Krebs, gathered in
the council chamber of the Chicago
city hall where they produced experts
to offer their opinion to the city's com-
mittee on ventilation.

Theodore Weinshank, an expert on
ventilation, was the first to address the
gathering. He pointed out that if a
certain number of feet of air is re-
quired in some theatres it would be much
more than needed to supply fresh air,
while in other theatres the minimum
would not be sufficient to keep the
carbon dioxide below twelve parts to
10,000 parts of air. His suggestion was
to change the ordinance to read a suffi-

A PIONEER PICTURE MAN

An interested visitor last week at
the Selig Polyscope plant in Chicago
was Jay Rial, who for a decade has
represented the publicity interests of
the Ringling Brothers, and for five
years past has been at the head of the
Barnum shows. Prior to going into
the circus business, Mr. Rial, who
was a manager in the theatrical busi-
ness in his 'teens, made and lost sev-
eral fortunes, picking up a quarter of
a million on "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"
and was one of the earliest to take
an English Opera Company through
South America.

In 1904, Mr. Rial experienced some
vicissitudes due to taking a large
company to Australia, and, suffering
from the troubles involved by a
wicked partner, gave up his big show
and started into the back country to
bravely recoup his fortunes.

Out of the general wreckage he
had rescued an Edison projecting ma-
chine that he had used for a ten
minute diversion to close the big
show. Early in June, he arrived with
this one piece of apparatus at New-
castle, N. S. W , four hours' railway
journey from Sydney. By dint of en-
terprise he had, by writing and can-
vassing to the colonies, secured four
or five reels of pictures. The notable
ones were a big railway robbery pic-
ture of American make, and a trick
scenic picture of French descent
showing a battle under the sea.

With these reels he managed to
make an entire evening's program,
and gave the first full program of pic-
tures in the great South Sea conti-
nent.

He afterward secured a Gaumont
projecting machine, and toured Aus-
tralia, making money in the new ven-
ture.

cient amount of air not to have more
than twelve parts of carbon dioxide to
10,000 parts of air.

Mr. Weinshank's suggestion would
make the ordinance even stronger, as he
cited cases where it would require
more than 15,000 feet per hour to make
the theatre within the twelve parts of
carbon dioxide.

Dr. Young, in cases of old theatres
where it is practically impossible to put
in a new system without tearing down
the entire theatre, stated that these
houses would be given consideration and
an equitable arrangement arrived at. In
the meantime, however, all action is
suspended for several weeks until it is
seen what action is taken by the city
council. It is thought that within two
weeks it will be decided one way or
other. C. J. V.

He remarked that his assistants in
the show, the boy who made the gas
for the oxyhydrogen lamp and the
other helper who turned the crank of
the projecting machine, had since
made fortunes in that field, and re-
tired to enjoy it. Mr. Rial was more
than astonished at the vast detail and
perfected system he saw in the big
Selig plant.

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

(HE)

New Year resolutions flourish

Just about this time of year,
Not to chew so much tobacco,

Nor to drink a glass of beer.
Not to gamble, not to scatter

Smiles on girls along my way,
But there's one delight I'll cling to —

That's the motion picture play.

(SHE)

New Year resolutions always

Find me with an eager heart;
Now I'll keep my clothes in order,

Mending tears before they start.
Cut out sodas, spend less money

On my fashion fads, but stay —
I must have a cloak and bonnet

For the motion picture play.

(THEY)

New Year resolutions, surely

Everyone can find some need
For improvement in their living — ■

Change should be the rule and creed,
We'll reform and cut expenses,

Put that nest egg safe away.
Here's adieu to joy rides, dances —

Ours the motion picture play.

— L. M. Thornton.

INTERESTING FILM REVIEWS

Educational — Industrial — Scenic — General

THE Hoodoo Umbrella. Vitagraph.
(Nov. 5.) — A short comedy on the
same reel with "Ancient Temples of
Karnak." The story deals with an
unruly umbrella of the "auto opening"
variety, and some amusement is
caused by the antics of Kate Price
and Hughey Mack to get rid of it.
Bert Angeles directed the picture in
his usual excellent way. *

Archie and the Bell Boy. Edison.
(Nov. 5.) — Not up to the usual Edi-
son standard. An effeminate boy,
Archie, is frightened of everything,
and gets into many scrapes. Bobs, a
hotel bellboy, takes him in hand and
administers fighting lessons to him, so
that in a short time he is a "tough
guy," or so imagines himself. The
mother believes it to be a tonic Archie
has been supposed to have been tak-
ing, but the truth comes out and the
joyful father, on the "Q.T." enriches
the bellboy.

The Return of Peter Blimm. Lubin.
(Nov. 5.) General Film Co. Exclusive
Service. — It need hardly be stated
that this is a burlesque on "The Re-
turn of Peter Grimm,'' and a clever
one also. Two old sailors are rivals
for the hand of their landlady. One,
Peter Blimm, goes swimming. When
he does not return and his clothes are
found he is believed dead. So when
he does come back in a sheet to keep
warm, the superstitious sailors all
swear off drinking. All turns out well,
though. Very cleverly acted.

The Man Who Vanished. Kalem.
Two reels. (Nov. 5.) — Carlyle Black-
well as Hobart Schuyler is the very
life of this picture. The story is very
good and has a strong dramatic inter-
est. It deals with the cupidity of a
couple who, in order to enrich them-
selves, try to kill their nephew, who is
heir to their brothers' estate. He is
nursed back to life, and returns to
confront them with the proof of their
guilt. The attempt to murder with
explosive cartridges presents a new
idea. The finale, in which the escape
from the safe is staged, is somewhat
a la Jimmy Valentine and is fully as
interesting.

The Yellow Streak. Patheplay.
(Nov. 5.) — The photography and set-
tings are probably the most telling
point in this drama. The story is
good though not new. Harry, aside
from being lazy, is a gambler. His

wife, Marjorie, tries to get him a posi-
tion but fails. Finally she gets him
work with a young author as secre-
tary. After working here some little
time he steals money from his bene-
factor, and shoots himself accident-
ally in the fight. The novelist tries
to keep the matter quiet but the truth
of her husband's many dastardly acts
becomes known and she soon loses
faith in his memory.

The President's Pardon. Patheplay.
General Film Co. Exclusive Service.
Three parts. (Nov. 5.) — A vitally in-
teresting drama, dealing with condi-
tions and fortifications in the Canal
zone and introducing former President
Taft, Castro, the revolutionist, and
Frank Coffyn, the aeronaut. The in-
surgents steal the plans of the fort
from a young lieutenant, who is ac-
cused of having sold them. He is sen-
tenced to death for his act. His little
daughter goes with Coffyn to Taft
and secures a pardon. In the mean-
time a brother officer succeeds in ar-
resting the real offenders and all are
reconciled.

The Woman Scorned. Essanay.
(Nov. 5.) General Film Co. Exclu-
sive Service. — A very clever bur-
lesque that will amuse~ all. Josephine
Duval and Francis X. Bushman play
the stellar parts. Josephine is a little
girl, whom novel-reading has hurt.

She believes the architect is in love
with her and writes him notes. These
notes are misconstrued by him, as
they are anonymous and he proposes
to Josephine's older sister, who finally
accepts him. The little girl cannot be
pacified, believing herself scorned
Finally a life-size doll brings about a
reconciliation.

Ancient Temples of Karnak. Vita-
graph. (Nov. 5.) — One of the most
illusive studies in the world is Egyp-
tology, and a glimpse at the reason it
is so hard is shown in this picture.
The Temple of Ammon is featured
and a good panorama of it photo-
graphed with far and near views. The
latter show the myriad of hieroglyph-
ics covering the surface. Temples
and Sphinxes built thirteen hundred
and more years before the Christian
era are shown and explained. The
sub-titles are many and expressive.

A Broken Melody. Vitagraph. (Nov.
6.) — A drama of love vs. duty, in
which the former conquers. Hazel
Henderson as the musician's daughter
is admirably suited. She is one of the
most beautiful women on the screen.
Blair, a Secret Service agent, is con-
fronted by the problem of whether to
resign or arrest the father of Marga-
ret for a crime he had committed
twenty years before. He resigns and
goes to their house, where the strains

VITAGRAPH COMPANY AT HICKORY NUT GAP, N. C.

Standing from left to right: Harry Northrup, Arthur H. Ashley, Logan Paul, Jack Harvey, and
Ned Finley, the doctor; sitting: Edith Storey and James Morrison

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of music are coming from the win-
dow. Suddenly they cease and on go-
ing indoors they find the old man
dead, by his beloved harpsichord.

Pathe's Weekly, No. 65, 1913. (Nov.
6.) — This is the third number in which
but one foreign item appears. Mayor
Kline, of New York, with the Board
of Estimate inspect the new auto
busses. The children of Newark,
N. J., are seen celebrating Hallowe'en
in the good old-fashioned style. A
commendable bit of bravery on the
part of a camera man in the taking
of the pictures of a battle between
deputies and miners in Trinidad,
Colo., deserves recognition. The
Kaiser, the most photographed man
in Europe, is "taken" at Treves, Ger-
many. A scene from the recent New
York political fight is also interesting.
President Wilson, at Mobile, poses
well and seems to enjoy the fun.
"Bud" Fisher and his "Mutt and Jeff"
finishes the film.

The Price of Victory. Lubin. Two
parts. (Nov. 6.) — A dreamy reminis-
cent drama, possessing several com-
mendable scenes. Col. Carey, an old
veteran, dreams of the great war fifty
years ago, and in his dreams he sees
himself refight his battles. The terri-
ble price of his greatest victory was
the death of his fancee, who was
killed in an heroic attempt to win the
battle by taking Carey's place. The
final scene possesses much strength.

"Where's the Baby?" Biograph.
(Nov. 6.) — An antique idea with one
or two variations. A mother loses
Tier baby. She has handed it to a
man to hold and he gave it to a boy
who in turn passed it on, etc., etc.
An eloping couple finally get it and
return it. But little laughter at the
Herald Square Theatre when it was
released there.

Sydney and Its Harbor. (Melies.
Nov. 6.) — Sydney is said to have one
of the finest natural harbors in the
world. The Melies Company shows
many views of the harbor and city.
The photography is fair. The film
is so perceptibly padded that it be-
comes a little monotonous.

The Buried Past. Broncho. Two
parts. — A conventional story with
several inconsistencies. A girl, un-
happy, leaves her home and husband,
and goes to Arizona, where she ob-
tains work as a waitress. The hus-
band is imprisoned for eighteen
months, the cause not being even
hinted at. On his release, he traces
his wife and finds her married to an-
other man. The ex-husband is killed
in a fight with the new husband.
Even in Arizona bigamy is against

the law. If the girl had been legally
freed the audience should know it.

The Children's Hour. Thanhouser.
Depicting realistically Longfellow's
beautiful poem of the same name, and
featuring the "Thanhouser Twins"
and the "Thanhouser Kidlet." The
father is played by Harry Benham.
The sub-titles are lines of verse.
Credit is due the director and pho-
tographer. A few feet of trick pro-
tography is introduced with good ef-
fect.

The Golden Cross. World Special
Films Co. Three reels. (Nov. 10.) —
A story with many heart thrills, that
should hold the attention of the audi-
ence from start to finish. Founded
on the old Italian story of the same
name. Count Gaston is reduced to
the worst circumstances, having run
away with another woman and de-
serted his wife and child. He re-
turns later, his attentions to his wife
naturally being repulsed. He wants
to see his little daughter and is given
permission by the padre of the school
which the child attends, if he will re-
main incognito. He is to know her
by a gold cross. In the meantime,
the little girl, out of pity for an orphan
friend, gives her the cross. The
Count, believing the child to be his,
showers her with love and nearly
goes mad when she dies. The truth
of the child's death is broken to him
gently, and his wife, seeing his awful
suffering, becomes reconciled to him.

A Face from the Past. Edison.
Two Reels. (Nov. 7.) — In this case
one feels that the picture is not
strengthened by the announced wed-
ding as a finale. Two men are in love
with the same girl. She marries one
and goes with him to the city where
he is a successful broker. She dies
soon after. Forbes, the rival, also
goes to. the city, and after years 'of
work also becomes a big broker. He
sees a chance to crush his former ri-
val and without compunction does so.
The ruined man goes to the West
with his daughter. Forbes also goes
some time later and meets the girl
after he has had an accident. He
recognizes her from her resemblance
to her mother, his former sweetheart.
The two rivals are reconciled. Mary
Fuller plays both mother and daugh-
ter. Augustus Phillips is very good.

Tightwad's Present. Kalem. (Nov.
7.) — In the vernacular "some" tight-
wad. Having promised a present to
his spouse and not wishing to spend
much, he sees his chance when
through an error he breaks a vase and
so sends her the pieces, hoping she
will think it was broken in transit.
By mistake she gets a good one,

which the company later demands back
and the truth comes out and poor
Tightwad is caught.

Flaming Hearts. Vitagraph. (Nov.
7.) — Persons weighing less than 200
pounds are absolutely tabooed from
entering this comedy. The leading
parts are played by John Bunny, Hu-
ghey Mack and Josie Sadler. Bunny
is an author and is the rival of Mack.
The girl favors Bunny. Therefore
Mack makes up as him and wins the
girl and Bunny attempts suicide in
various ways. Mack's make-up was
not so bad. The title of the author's
masterpiece is "Flaming Hearts,"
hence the name.

A Phony Alarm. Patheplay. (Nov.
7.) — Rather a silly story of a mix-up
over the telephone. A girl hears
strange noises over the wire and gets
the police and rushes to the house
believing there is murder being com-
mitted. When she gets there she
finds an actor rehearsing his tragic
end.

The Schoolmarm's Shooting Match.

Selig. (Nov. 7.) — On the same reel
with "Views along the Rhine." A
school teacher, not one of the "marm"
variety, states that who so ever shall
beat her at shooting shall win her
hand which they are all after. She
therefore gives them blank cartridges
and she uses ball. She then elopes
with an outsider.

The Marble Industry. Kalem.
(Nov. 7.) — A similar picture to the
Edison release of October 8 called
"The Pink Granite Industry," al-
though this later picture is more com-
plete. The methods of extracting the
stone, smoothing it, weighing and
shipping it are almost the same even
to the small details. The pictures
were taken at Proctor, Vermont, from
where there is 20,000 tons a year
shipped.

Just Nobody. Lubin. (Nov. 7.)
— General Film Company Exclusive
Service. — A pathetic story of the poor-
house and its sequel. An old pair, the
man being paralyzed, are sent to the
County Home to be taken care of.
The woman obtains work in a neigh-
boring farm and is poorly treated.
She finally saves her mistress and lit-
tle girl and is then made one of the
family. Dad has an operation which
cures his paralysis and the two are re-
joined, to their great happiness.

The Switchman's Mistake. Cines-
Kleine. (Nov. 7.) General Film Co.
Exclusive Service. — The manner-
isms and action of this drama are dis-
tinctly foreign to the American

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screen. This does not mean that
they are not good, for they are. The
tale deals with vengeance and jeal-
ousy in the accepted European form.
Arthur having been discharged from
the bank plans revenge on his former
employer. The bomb which he has
planted is found by his friend who is
accused and sent to prison. Arthur
sends him a potion which produces a
sleep like death and he so escapes. In
disguise goes to his sister's house. His
brother-in-law, seeing a stranger with
his sister, becomes terribly enraged
and throws the switch in an attempt
to wreck the train he is on. His little
daughter, however, throws the switch
again in time, and the train is saved.
There are several intensely exciting
moments, the action being well timed.

A Quarter Back. Essanay. (Nov.
7.) General Film Co., Exclusive Ser-
vice.— This is not a football story. A
better title perhaps would have been
"The Scoop." The story is about a
newspaper office and is a comedy.
The cub reporter telegraphs in that he
is on the trail of an elopement and
asks for the yacht of the editor and
$100. Later, he wires he is bringing
the elopers to the office. He then en-
ters, and as the cameras snap it is
seen that he and the boss's daughter
are the elopers. He has just a quarter
left of the hundred dollars. Billy Ma-
son and Ruth Hennessy play the leads.

Elise, The Forester's Daughter.

Edison. (Nov. 8) — "Woman is a mira-
cle of divine contradiction"- — Michelet.
The whole synopsis of this story is ex-
pressed in that one line. Elise is a
forester's daughter, as the title shows.
She is loved by Jean, a neighbor, but
apparently does not care for him. A
stranger, who has been hiring the ser-
vices of her father as a guide takes
her instead, and Jean follows through
jealousy only to get shot accidentally.
The stranger's sister finds him and
carries him home in her machine.
When Elise hears of it she drops
everything and runs to him and thus
she proves her contrariness.

Old Coupons. Biograph. (Nov. 8.)
— Not a bad advertisement for United
Cigar Store coupons, though not
meant to be. "Old Coupons" is an
old man who has made his living by
collecting these tickets and selling
them, He is set upon by some ruf-
fians and robbed, but saved from in-
jury by a mechanic returning from
work. The gang then swear ven-
geance upon the workman, but their
plans are spoiled by the decisive action
of "Old Coupons." Finally when the
old man has died his property is found
to amount to quite a ium which he
has left to the man who aided him in
his distress.

Hiawanda's Cross. Lubin. (Nov. 8.)
— A story of the mysticism which has
always surrounded the symbol of
Christianity in the eyes of the Ameri-
can Indian. Hiawanda, an Indian girl,
steals a cross from the breast of a
missionary. Her Indian lover, jealous,
wounds the white man. Hiawanda
nurses him back to life and health,
when he, receiving a call from a large
parish in the East determines to go,
not knowing the extent of the love of
the Indian girl. She knowing she has
lost him, and being spurned by her
tribe, builds a boat and floats away
down the river. Where to, is the
natural question asked, but no answer
can be returned. The ending might
have been improved on.

Broncho Billy's Secret. Essanay.
(Nov. 8.) — Not so clever as some of
the Broncho Billy series, but with
plenty of clean action. Billy loves a
girl, and she has promised to marry
him. Her father is a thief, having held
up a number of stages, and Billy as the
sheriff wants him. Billy finally gets on
his track and follows him with a posse.
The crook is wounded by one of the
posse and Billy then discovers his
identity and receives his confession.

Between the Rifle Sights. Selig.
(Nov. 10.) General Film Company
Exclusive Service. — The hatred of a
wronged man, smoldering for many
years in the prison, is quenched at
the decisive moment by a woman's
face. Bob, now an old man, fresh
from prison, looking over the rifle
sights waiting until his enemy shall
appear, thinks of his past. He sees
his fiancee marry his rival through the
latter's lying. He sees himself sent
to prison for twenty years for an of-
fense the other had committed. He
sees the life in the terrible prison,
and now he waits the other's coming.
Finally, when he does drive up with
his daughter, the older man is un-
able to shoot because of her resem-
blance to the mother whom he had
loved. And so he passes on his way.
A beautiful picture, artistically pho-
tographed and cleverly acted.

The Wheels of Safety. Essanay.
(Nov. 10.) Two Reels. General Film
Company Exclusive Service. — The ti-
tle might be more expressive. A
thrilling story, in which G. M. Ander-
son has an unusual role, that of a doc-
tor. A girl and her father, a very
old man, are rescued from a fire by
some rustlers. The girl is forced to
marry one of them, a villain, who
gambles with the others for her. He
treats her very cruelly and finally she
falls ill. "Doc" Sharp (G. M. Ander-
son) is called by the father, and when
he has heard the story of her exist-
ence he takes her away with him.

Here follows the most exciting chase
imaginable. The wagon driven by
Anderson hardly stays on the ground.
It is not trick photography, but the
real thing. The doctor defends the
girl when they reach home until the
posse arrives and follows the despe-
radoes, shooting the husband in the
fight.

A Water-Soaked Hero. Lubin
(Nov. 10.) General Film Company
Exclusive Service. — A very clever
comedy that will set any audience ir>
roars. A fat man is taking a bath,
and manages to tear down the pipes
and floods the whole house. The re-
serves are called out, but it takes the
cook's friend, semi-drunk though he
is, to become the hero and arrest a
thief who had fallen through the sky-
light. Many women add to the hu-
mor.

The New Maid. Lubin. (Nov.
10.) General Film Company Exclu-
sive Service. — The plot in this film
upon which all the humor hinges is
so aged. Jane loves a fellow, to
whom her father objects. In order
to see one another he dresses up as
the maid and gets a position in her
house, and so on.

Thieves. Vitagraph. (Nov. 10). —
There are two classes of crooks or
thieves. It is the purpose of this film
to demonstrate this theory, or rather
fact. "Blinkey," who is just out of
jail, is one of the "regular guys" that
make thieving and housebreaking a
"profession." He is, however, very
useful in this case, stopping the other
class of thieves from stealing a will.
A millionaire has disinherited some
relations in favor of his ward. They,
learning of this, attempt to destroy
the new will. "Blinkey," who has
called with the intention of investi-
gating the contents of the safe, see-
ing their action, interferes with them
at the point of a gun, locks the safe
and destroys the combination so they
cannot reopen it.

The Runaway Freight. Kalem.
Two Parts. (Nov. 10).— There has
been no expense saved to make this
a good picture, and it is one of the
best of the "season." It is a rail-
road yarn and true to life. Billy and
Ruth are in love with one another.
His rival, the conductor of the freight
on which he works, tries in every way
to make him give up his job. Billy
gets hurt in a fight with two tramps,
who are instigated by the conductor,
and his mother forces him to give up
his work. Later he saves a train that
had broken loose by a wonderful
jump from one car to another, and is
quite the hero of the day, winning
the girl. .

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No Place for Father. Biograph.
(Nov. 10). — This isn't a comedy; it is
a drama, and very true to life, except
in one or two places, where it may
be a little exaggerated. A good re-
lease. A boy comes to the city to
make his way. He gets a good job
through his father and does well,
soon after marrying. Getting into
fast society, he becomes heavily in
debt. His father is shown the door
when he visits him, the son being
ashamed of his shabbiness. To make
up his indebtedness the boy steals.
The father, hearing of it, makes good
the loss to save his new-born child
the disgrace, and then forever leaves
his son's life.

The Locked Room. Lubin. (Nov.
10). — Although this is chronicled a
drama, it should be called a comedy.
A wife locks a certain room, thereby
exciting her husband's curiosity. She
is seen in the company of other men
often, and the husband commences
to get jealous. It finally reaches a
limit with him. He forces her to give
up the key to the room, and on open-
ing the door finds the room all fixed
up in honor of his coming birthday,
which he had forgotten.

Pathe's Weekly, No. 66. Pathe. Nov.
10). — An unusually good number. The
swimmer, Henry Elionski, in his swim
from the Brooklyn Bridge to Bay
Ridge handcuffed and shackled, tow-
ing a boat with seven men in it, is
the most interesting item. The dedi-
cation of some of the buildings for
the exposition in San Francisco was
given much space. Opening the new
all-water route to New Orleans from
Alabama and the christening of the
first boat was novel. A good picture
of King Alphonso of Spain, after he
had pardoned the man who attempted
his life, is shown. Working to try
and find safety devices for railroads
to use to prevent wrecks is of timely
interest. Baseball is revived with pic-
tures of the reception offered Walter
Johnson and Larry Cheney, the pitch-
ers, in Coffeyville, Kansas, Remark-
able pictures of a bull-fight in Spain
are clever and well photographed.
President Wilson in Princeton casting
his vote and the students' reception
are to the point. The new wireless
station, which is the largest in the
world, at Marshall, Cal., and a re-
view of evening gowns in Paris com-
plete the picture.

The Fire Department of Santa Bar-
bara made a test run for speed which
will be used in the "Flying A" pro-
duction "At Midnight," scheduled for
release November 29. Stop watches
were used by members of the depart-
ment and a record run, not only pleas-
ing to the department, but very effec-
tive on the screen, was secured.

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GERMANY TO EXPLOIT SELF
BY FILMS

Conference of the leading per-
sonages in the German steel and
iron trade was held in Berlin during the
week, according to published reports.
Its object was the forming of an organ-
ization to push German trade more vig-
orously in foreign markets and on en-
tirely novel lines.

The main object of the conference
was to organize the Association for
the Promotion of German Export
Trade, with the sub-title of League
for Foreign Propaganda.

The scheme of the new organization
contemplates the elaborate use of mo-
tion pictures for spreading the gospel
of "Made in Germany" in foreign parts.

Films illustrating the achievements of
German industry in the most graphic
style are to be shown in connection
with lectures in the native tongue of
each particular district. Special films
and lectures for various branches of
industry will be employed. The speak-
ers are to talk in such general terms
(so the prospectus explains) that the
real motive of the propaganda will not
be apparent.

ALMOST A TRAGEDY

Director Oscar Eagle is now put-
ting forth one of the most ambitious
war plays ever attempted in moving
pictures for the Selig Polyscope Com-
pany, and has spent a great deal of
time in studying out dramatic detail.
In the same line in another direction,
Gabriel Pollock, the scenic artist of
the plant, has expended a great deal
of energy, cleverness and enterprise
in devising effects and making scenes
that have been carried out with exact
regard for historic exactitude.

This involved the making of bat-
teries of the largest sort of sea-guns
used in marine operations during the
Civil War.

In the working of one of these big
guns from the rolling platform of a
battleship, a careless gunner hap-
pened to leave a four-foot projectile
in the gun, in the rush and hurry of
rehearsal. When the big piece was
discharged it carried the projectile
across Lake Selig, and through the
fence a block away, barely missing a
number of peeking spectators and
several teams that were passing.

Singularly enough. Mr. Pollock.

who was in the distant field directing
operations, happened to be only a
few inches out of the path of this fly-
ing projectile that wrecked the wall
of the Selig plant.

Director Eagle, who witnessed the
flight of this real shot, after an anx-
ious few seconds, ascertaining whether
anyone had been seriously maimed or
killed, remarked with a wan smile:
"General Sherman was right. War is
hell!"

AMBROSIO "SATAN" IN
DEMAND

It is reported from various sources
that the Ambrosio's masterpiece, "Sa-
tan," in four parts, seven reels, is still
in demand. The exhibitors are candid
in their expression that it is a big box-
office gainer. The Supreme Feature
Film Company, of 64 East Fourteenth
Street, New York City, which has made
such a wonderful success with it in
the City and State of New York, has
just acquired the rights to this film for
the States of North and South Dakota
and Minnesota. Live-wires in that ter-
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KLEINE FILMS BRING WORK

George Kleine, whose photo drama
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come very important factors in the
amusement world of this country, has
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atrical advance men, press agents and
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LOOKING UP THE EXCLUSIVE
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than satisfied with results up to date.
Returns had more than realized ex-
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TEACH SANITATION BY FILMS

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SPEAKING OF STREET CARS

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(Continued from page 35)
meets Richard Danvers, the elder son
of the Earl of Danvers. It is a case
of love at first sight.

Like many English noblemen, the
Earl of Danvers does not depend
solely upon his heritage, being an in-
ventor of great ability. His inven-
tion of a new X-ray machine is, in
the opening part of the story, unsuc-
cessful. This, combined with the de-
generacy of his younger son, brings
failure and ruin to the respected Earl
of Danvers and his family. Richard,
the elder son, is engaged to Dorothy,
and is forced through financial ruin
to break the engagement, and goes to
America to seek his fortune in the
mines.

Her love for Richard, and her won-
derful knowledge of the big Amer-
ican country Richard is going to,
prompts her to follow her sweetheart.
She engages passage on the same
steamer and boards the same train
unbeknown to her lover. She pre-
cedes him to the big open country,
and, changing her pretty traveling
dress for the picturesque Indian dress
of her girlhood days, she encounters
many experiences.

When Richard arrives in the mining
country he purchases an outfit to try
his luck as a prospector, and at a
psychological moment confronts Dor-
othy fighting for her life in the hands
of a Western desperado. Richard
breaks into the cabin and saves Dor-
othy, known only as Pepita in this
country.

Dorothy at no time gives any sign
of recognition to Richard, and in this
powerful dramatic situation, where
she finds Richard at death's door, she
still retains her identity. Not until
he has been summoned home by a
message from his father advising him
of the success of his experimenting
does she determine to retrace her
steps to England. After Richard has
been welcomed into the heart of his
family she tells him of her dual role,
and explains that she practiced the
deceit because of her great love for
him.

C. J. V

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release is "In the Toils of aa Adven-
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(Continued from page 25)
who represents the Vitagraph Com-
pany of America across the pond,
mailed from London.

The Eclectic Film Company will
release three features a month, thus
increasing its former output by one.
"The Life of Napoleon" will be the
next release.

The Pasquali production of "The
Last Days of Pompeii" continues to
fill the Park Theatre. The film has
been edited and retitled by Stanley
Twist and is vastly improved. A new
organ has been installed and special
music written to fit the picture.

Out in St. Louis a bill has been in-
troduced before the City Council pro-
viding for film censorship.

David Miles, formerly head pro-
ducer for Kinemacolor, and chief at
the Reliance studios for a brief time,
is now producing pictures for Bio-
graph. He has taken with him many
members of his old Kinemacolor com-
pany, including Linda Griffith, Clara
Bracy, Charles Perley, Charles Flem-
ing and Jack Brammal.

Webster Cullison will establish a
permanent Western branch of the
Eclair company at Tucson, Ariz. He
left last Sunday with ten players and
a camera man, and more will follow.

All is hustle and bustle again at
the Universal studios at Coytesville.
Mark Dintenfass is back as studio
manager, and Walter McNamara is
producing features with his company
headed by Jane Gail and Matt Moore.
Work is now going on on a two-part
picture, "The Story of David Grieg."

By the way, Paul Scardon's little
Beaming Belle bull pup continues to
win prizes "hands down" at the dog
shows. Paul has been entering her
in every show that comes along, and
she bids fair to become as well known
as her actor-owner. At the recent
Grand Central Palace show, Beaming
Belle won several prizes.

Owing to the fact that cables are
neither capitalized nor punctuated,
the following startling message was
received at the New York office of
Midgar Features from G. Blake Gar-
rison, who is at present in London:

"I know how wild animals live.
Will eat-em-alive in New York.
Capacity London."

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REAL PUGILISTS IN FILM

That Thomas H. Ince, managing
director of the New York Motion
Picture Corporation, believes in in-
jecting as much realism as possible
in the picture that he has under his
direction, was manifested when, just
before he started working on the
Domino photoplays, "The Heart of
Kathleen" and "Widow Maloney's
Faith," he took a trip up to San
Francisco and brought back to Santa
Monica two pugilists, known for their
ability in assimilating punches on the
jaw. They were used since in the
plays in conjunction with Richard
Stanton.

Stanton is a boxer of no mean abil-
ity, and in scenes where he has to use
his hands or "put up his dukes,'' Mr.
Ince has had quite a little trouble,
for the actors refused to go on, as
Stanton cannot seem to acquire the
habit of "pulling" his punches.

In "The Heart of Kathleen," Stan-
ton, as the hero, is upon the scaffold
about to be hung, when suddenly he
starts swinging right and left, and
each of the two bruisers, acting as
guards, take one on the jaw and go
down for the count.

In one of the scenes in "Widow
Maloney's Faith," Stanton mixes it
up with a roomful, and here the pugil-
ists, taking parts of Irish lads, take
some pretty wallops before they go
down.

HUTCHINSON TO OPEN FEA-
TURE EXCHANGE IN CHICAGO

George Hutchinson, who has been
manager of the H. & H. branch of the
Mutual Film Corporation in Chicago
since the formation of that company,
has launched out for himself and will
shortly open a feature exchange in
the Powers Building. Chicago. Quar-
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Mr. Hutchinson says he has several
big features. He is a brother of S. S.
Hutchinson, president of the Ameri-
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It is an all-steel table for the operator
to rewind, join, or cut films on. It
is in use in several offices, including
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where used.

ENTER ANOTHER KESSEL

Nicholas Kessel, a younger brother
of Adam and Charles Kessel. of the

New York Motion Picture Corpora-
tion, by purchasing and amalgamating
the Regal Feature Film Company and
A. B. C. Feature Film Company, has
become quite a factor in the feature
film business.

The exchange will be located at 381
Sixth avenue. New York City, and in
addition to the fifty odd two. three,
four and five-act features he now has
on hand. Mr. Kessel is in the field to
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Oct. 4 — The Wild Guardian (2 Parts)

Oct. 11 — Chopin's Nocturne (2 Parts)

Oct. 18— The Two Mothers (2 parts Dr.) 2000

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Nov. 10 — Martha's Decision (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 13 — An Assisted Proposal (W. Com.).. 1000
Nov. 15 — The Drummer's Honeymoon (Com.). 1000
Nov. 17 — The Trail of the Lost Chord (2 reel

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Nov. 20 — The Tale of the Ticker (Com. Dr.)

Nov. 20— A Modern Steel Plant (Edu.)

Nov. 22 — Calamity Anne's Dream (Com.) ... .1000

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Nov. 27 — The Spartan Girl of the West (W.

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Nov. 89— At Midnight (Society Dr.) ..1000

Dec. 1 — American Born (2 reels— Dr.) 2000

Dec. 6 — A Divorce Scandal (Dr.) 1000

BISON

Nov. 4— Captain Kidd (3 reel Dr.)

Nov. 8— The Prairie Trail (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 11 — Madonna of the Slums (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 15 — "Laska" (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 18 — The Raid of the Human Tigers (3

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Nov. 22 — Winona's Vengeance (2 reel Dr.)..
Nov. 25 — The White Vaquero (2 reel Dr.)..
Nov. 29 — The War of the Cattle Range (2 reel

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Dec. 6 — The White Squaw (2 reel Dr.)

BRONCHO

Oct. 22— The Black Sheep (2 reels)

Oct. 29 — From Out the Storm (2 reels)

Nov. 5 — The Veteran (2 reels)

Nov. 12— The Imposter (2 parts— Dr.)

Nov. 19 — The War Correspondent (2 parts —

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Nor. 2« — The Reformation (Dr.)

CRYSTAL

Nov. 4 — Ashamed to Take the Money (Com.)

Nov. 9— When Duty Calls (Dr.)

Nov. 11— Oh! You Pearl (Com.)

Nov. 11 — Baldy Belmont Wins a Prize (Com.)

Nov. 16 — Out of the Grave (Dr.)

Nov. 18 — Her Secretaries (Com.)

Nov. 18 — Percy's New Mamma (Com.)

Nov. 23 — The Cabaret Singer (Dr.)

Nov. 25 — Hubby's New Coat (Com.)..

Not. 25 — Baldy Belmont Lands a Society Job

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Not. 30 — The Convict's Daughter (Dr.)

Dec. 2 — That Awful Maid

Dec 2 — The Installment Plan Marriage....
Dec. 7 — A Woman's Revenge (Dr.)

DE-KA-GE (Features)

June 88 — Death or Divorce

June 80 — The Stain

DOMINO

Oct. 23— Heart of Kathleen (3 reels)

Oct. 30 — Widow Mallney's Faith (3 parts—

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Not. 6 — The Judgment (2 part Dr.)

Not. 13— The Ghost (2 parts— Dr.)

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Nov. 12 — Lade Babbie (3 reel Dr.)

Not. 16 — Unforeseen Metamorphoses and Does

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Nov. 19 — Partners (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 23— Oh! You Rubber

Nov. 23 — Soldiers Drilling in Turkestan

Not. 26 — A Son's Devotion (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 30— Roaring Bill (Com.)

Nov. 30 — One on Tooty (Com.)

Dec. 3 — When Pierrot Met Pierrette (2 reel

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Dec. 7 — Trouble on the Stage

Dec. 7 — Magnetism — Magnets

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Oct. 2 — Vendetta

Oct. 16 — Message of the Dead

Oct. 30 — The Doom of the Ocean 3000

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Oct. 24 — Life for a Life 2700

Oct. 31 — Gallows of Gods 3000

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Nov. 8 — The Girl and the Bandit (1 reel Dr.)
Nov. 13 — Caught at His Own Game (Com.) . .

Nov. 15 — The Bond that Binds (Dr.)

Nov. 20 — Slim Becomes a Detective (Com.) . .

Nov. 22 — The Double Cross (Dr.)

Nov. 27 — Slim Proposes, But — (Com.)

Nov. 29— The Secret of Balanced Rock (Dr.)
Dec. 4 — Slim and the Boys at Breezy Beach

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Dec. 6— The Circuit Rider of the Hills (Dr.)

GAUMONT

Nov. 11 — The Bank Messenger (Dr.)

Nov. 13— The Heart of a Doll (Com.)

Nov. 18 — Monty and the Milkmaid (Com.)...
Nov. 20 — "Dear Oscar" Finances a Theatre

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Nov. 25 — Mary Saves the Sculptor (Com.) . . .

Nov. 27 — The Little Peacemaker (Dr.)

Nov. 27 — Gymnastics (Edu.)

Dec. 2 — The Living Doll (Com.)

Dec. 4 — Oscar, the Hermit (Com.)

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Nov. 11— The Penalty (2 part Dr.)

Nov. 18 — For the Love of a Toreador (2 part

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Oct. 81— Janet of the Dunes (Dr.) 2000

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Nov. 17 — Nora's Boarders (Com.) 1000

Nov. 18— A Cause for Thankfulness (Dr.).. 1000
Nov. 19 — The Girl in the House-boat (Com.). 1000

Nov. 21 — A Good Sport (2 parts — Com.) 2000

Nov. 22 — A Proposal Deferred, being the fifth
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Nov. 24 — From Durban to Zululand (Sc.) 600

Nov. 24 — Enoch and Ezra's First Smoke

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Dec. 1 — Wanted, a Burglar (Com.) 550

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Nov. 25 — The Little Substitute

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Nov. 29 — Sophie's Hero

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THE CHAMPION

The Champ Seeks

The champion being in fine condition and al peace with the world
is taking a stroll. Ah! Yonder approacheth a pretty damsel. The
Champ is a little flustered. Says he to himself: "By George, that
is the Jane of my dreams and I am going to flirt with her. Gee!
I wish I knew how." Miss Exhibitor, the dame who was doing the
approaching, kept up the good work till she was in close proximity
to our hero. Being a coy dame and knowing a thing, she just gave
him the "once-over." Says she to herself, "Pretty nifty chap, that,
but where have I seen that map (KEYSTONE) before. It looks
awfully familiar, and what splendid shoulders and chest (DOMINO)
he has." The Champ, seeing that he has her number, steps up and

a Bout Wit In Cupid

engages her in a conversation, in the course of which he tells her
what a great guy he is. Now, Miss Exhibitor has had quite a few
chaps tell her this before, but when she called them and told
them she was from Missouri, as a unit they fell down and, well, to
make a long story short, the Champion was informed he would have
to show her, and right on the road our hero demonstrated that he
"was there." He shadow boxed, showing her how he delivered a
right cross, uppercut and swing (KAY-BEE) and jabbed, hooked
and jolted with his left (BRONCHO), and between you and me,
Gentle Reader, I think the Champion has made a killing, and as we
go to press very shortly this little story will be continued in our next.

FUTURE RELEASES

KEYSTONE
COMEDIES

Nov. 17— Our Children.
Nov. 20 — A Muddy Romance.
Nov. 24 — Fatty Joins the Force.
Nov. 27 — Cohen Saves the Flag.
Dec. 1 — The Woman Haters.
4 — Rogues Gallery — San
Francisco Celebration
(Split Reel)
8 — Ride for a Bride.

Dec.

Dec.

KAY-BEE
FEATURES

Nov. 18 — The Claim Jumper.
Nov. 21 — Days of '49.
Nov, 25 — The Maelstrom.
Nov. 28— Sign of the Snake.
Dec. 2 — The Revelation.

BRONCHOS
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Nov. 19 — War Correspondent.
Nov. 26 — The Reformation.
Dec. 3 — Buried Past.
Dec. 10 — The Woman.
Dec. 17 — The Open Door.
Dec. 24 — Her Father's Story.

DOMINO
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Nov. 20 — Witch of Salem.
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Fortune favored Bill, the man who
fished with bare hooks and caught a bag
of money. Bill is the great exception.
Exceptions are interesting — that's why
we follow the fortunes of Bill.

Bill hit upon the happy idea of in-
vesting his money in a motion picture
show. He went from city to city look-
ing over every picture house that was
advertised for sale. Proprietors of
these houses invariably assured Bill
that their operating expenses were little
— that they were using a low-grade
service which was "plenty good enough
and cost scarcely anything.1' But none
of these houses was doing a profitable
business, so Bill went home and built
a fine new theatre of his own. He
spared nothing in showy decorations,
upholstered seats and fine equipments.
But when it came to selecting film serv-
ice, Bill was once more at sea. He fell

back on his old habit of studying the
advertisements. An inexperienced man,
even though he uses the brains God
gave him, can be misled, and so was
Bill.

He put on a "sensational program,"
of which the feature was a three-reel,
or as Bill afterward called it — a "free
steal" multiple.

Bill's fishing had made him famous,
and his house was packed the first night
with curious townfolk. The show, of
course, was bad and the people openly
expressed their disgust and resolved
never to come back again. Bill had
about given up to despair when a man,
attracted by the tremendous crowd
pouring out (which he mistook for
evidence of great success), bought Bill
out for ten times his investment. Same
old Bill.

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The houses showing high-grade pic-
tures are making money, and are sel-
dom if ever advertised for sale. A low-
grade service is a false economy, and
will never fool the "fans," no matter
how fine the theatre and its equipment.
Bill's experience should be a warning—
not a temptation.

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A FEW ECLAIR COMING RELEASES :-

Wednesday, Nov. 26th "A SON'S DEVOTION" (2 reels)

A Powerful Sermon on Gambling. It Has the Punch!

Sunday, Nov. 30th "ROARING BILL" and "ONE ON TOOTY" (Split)

Laughing Comedies.

Wednesday, Dec. 3rd "WHEN PIERROT MET PIERRETTE" (2 reels)

A Society Melodrama with a Startling Climax.

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George Kleine's Astounding Success
The Ambrosio Photo Drama

The Last Days of Pompeii

(Copyright, 1913, by Photo Drama Company)

Now playing the Bijou Theatre in New York City — Second Month

T} VST A D |7 °f being misled into book-
DEj W /\I\£i ing detestable imitations.

YOU OWE lt '

that means George Kleine's always.

MONEY TALKS!

paid admissions at People's Theatre, Portland, Ore., week Nov. 10th.
Making $4,224.20 real money at 10 and 20 cents.

32,000

$1 ,902.60 in three days at American Theatre, Salt Lake City, Nov. 10, 11, 12.
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the first of a new line of "something — new" multiple reel photoplays in
preparation for future release. All other records for colored features
are surpassed by this colossal and extraordinary production: —

His Fateful Passion

(Copyrighted)

Five Parts Natural Coloring Ready Dec. 11th

This remarkable photoplay is replete with exciting events, tense situa-
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pictures the desperation to which a man is driven by the cravings of a
ruling passion, the sorrows and heartaches of those dependent on him, and
the fatal summing-up of his misdeeds. A mighty dynamite explosion,
destroying an entire mountain side, presents a tremendous and awe-in-
spiring spectacle that will send the chills along your spine.

Toils of Villainy

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Three Parts Natural Coloring Ready Nov. 27th

A circus owner, insanely jealous, imprisons one of the performers, a
tight-rope walker, in her apartment to prevent her warning her lover,
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WHERE TO BUY

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

A

American Cinematograph Co.... 46

American Kineto Corporation .... 7

Amusement Supply Co 47

Ammex Film Co 57

Associated M. P. Schools 49

Austin, W. C 59

American Theatre Curtain Co.... 53

American Film Mfg. Co 53

Associated M. P. Press 47

B

Benedict, Phil. P 57

Bartola Mfg. & Sales Co 52

Blinkhorn, A 15

Bennett, C. H 49

C

Commercial M. P. Co.- 59

Coffin, Fred 57

Calehuff Supply Co 46

Chicago Song Slide Exchange. ... 55

D

Dearborn Novelty Co 47

Deagan, J. C 49

E

Eastman Kodak Co 53

Essanay Film Mfg. Co 62

Enterprise Optical Co 51

Eclectic Film Co 9

Eagle Feature Film Co 54

Eclair Film Co 2

F

Famous Players Film Co 57

Fords 47

Feature Photoplay Co 48

G

Gaumont Film Co 3, 4, 5, 6

General Film Co 12, 64

Genter, J. H 56

Greater N. Y. Slide Co 59

Gunby Bros 47

General Specialty Co 49

General Feature Film Co 56

H

Harding Engraving Co 48

Hart Booking Bureau 46

Heifer, Paul 59

Hotel Martinique 47

Italian-American Film Corp.. 52, 56

K

Katin M. P. Supply Co 59

Kinematograph Weekly 47

Kleine, George 8

L

Le Courrier Cinematographique . . 59

Lakeside Film Exchange 56

Lubin Mfg. Co 54

M

Mestrum, Henry 47

Mutual Film Corporation 10, 11

Moving Picture Operators 57

Midgar Features 49

•N. . .

Newman Mfg. Co 59

Niagara Slide Co 46

New York M. P. Corporation . 14, 63

P

Pan-American Film Mfg. Co.... 57

Photoplay Co 47

Picture Theatre Equipment Co.. 41

Power, Nicholas, Co 55

Precision Machine Co 2

Phantoscope Mfg. Co 50

Photo Drama Co 61

R

Ramo Features 52

Regal Feature Film Co 41

Royal Film Exchange 57

Ruby Features 62

S

Schneider, Eberhard 59

Selig Polyscope Co 44

Special Event Film Mfg. Co 57

Stirling Camera Co 59

Supreme Feature Film Co 52

f

Theatre Specialty Mfg. Co 46

U

Unique Film Co 13

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World's Best Film Co 57

World Special Film Corp 56

Wentworth, Courtney ^9

Wagner, Edward H 49

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Table of Contents

PAGE

Frontispiece, Anna Little 16

Advertising an Economy 1?

Big Guns Take Stand as Patents Co.

Continues Suit 18

William Faversham the Latest Re-
cruit 20

Projection by Reflection 20

Motion Pictures of Clouds 21

The "Pay-as-You-Enter" Man 22

"Harry" 23

The Motion Picture News in Europe 24

Trend of Motion Pictures 24

American Motion Pictures in Paris. . 24

Oh, It's an Interesting Life 25

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For Those Who Worry O'er Plots

and Plays 29

Advertising the Pictures 31

What's What in Washington, D. C. . . 32

Music and the Picture 33

Motion Picture Theatre Construction

Department 35

New York Exhibitors Discuss Legis-
lation 36

Interesting Film Reviews 37

Special Film Reviews 40

"Checkers" Reaches the Screen 42

"Life of Wagner" in Motion Pictures 43

Latest News from Chicago 48

Manufacturers' List of Releases. .58-60

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MOVING PICTURE NEWS EXHIBITORS' TIMES

Established 1908 Established 1913

Volume VIII November 29, 1913 . Number 21

ADVERTISING AN ECONOMY

ADVERTISING — in some form or other — is a
commercial necessity. If yon have something to
sell yon must tell the buyer about it — in some
way. * * ' f *

p RINTED advertising is NOT a necessity.

J^UT it is an economy.

J-J ENCE printed advertising.

"V7~ OU don't HAVE to use it. You could start right
out and tell everybody about your product ; or you
could employ others to do that. But it would be very
expensive — in money and time.

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J T is more economical — much more — to use the mails ;
and quicker.

^^ND here again you have alternatives.

( )U can send out your own printed matter : letters,
booklets and the like: or you can even publish
your own medium to carry your advertising.

"V7" OU can do this : And it isn't economical — not as
economical as it is to take advantage of an estab-
lished journal which goes through the mails cheaply
and never into the waste-paper basket.

"V^ ( )U want to reach 10,000 people, let us say. Very
well, the mailing then of a letter will cost you in
postage $200.00 alone. You can have a magazine or
newspaper carry this same message for you for a few
dollars per ten thousand circulation.

* * * *

A S for your own publication you not only bear its
heavy publishing charges, and Uncle Sam very
properly calls your medium an advertising house-
organ and charges you high mailing rates. All of
which is frightfully expensive.

AGAIN, it is certainly more convincing to the buyer
to have your message given him through a dis-
interested medium, a medium he knows and believes

in, and to which he pays a yearly subscription price
for authoritative information about his business.

HP HERE is not a medium so strong that it can say to
you : "You can only reach your market through
me!" But a 9,000, established medium does offer you
economy — in cost and results. That's all.

\/rOU CAN waste money in the best medium — in
many ways.

J T may not reach the people you want.

XT* OUR copy may not be of the "pulling" kind.

'V7" OU may advertise too little or too much.

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OU may rely too greatly on one medium.

y^LONG the latter lines I would like to say this :

NE of the big million-circulation magazines in this
country once tried to induce advertisers to put
their entire appropriation in this one medium, Natural-
ly, the most facile argument used was that duplication
would thereby be avoided.

HP HE scheme didn't work — for the simple reason
that duplication should not be avoided. This is an
accepted fact — to-day.

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T T can be avoided by simply having different copy
run in each medium. But duplication — letting
several mediums tell your message — is impressive, and
the basic force of advertising is to impress your buyer.

* * *

T T doesn't cost any more. A judicious division of
large and small space will stretch your appropria-
tion through several mediums just as long as in-
judicious space in one.

* * * *

A LL this, of course, provided you select the medium
that is built for and reaches your market.

William Allen Johnston.

"BIG GUNS" AMONG LICENSED MANUFACTURERS TAKE

A. E. Smith of Vitagraph Company Gives Interesting and Intimate Details of Deals in
Licensed Fold— Dyer Ends Direct Testimony — All Dwell on
Competition Between Licensed Firms

TAKING of testimony by the defense
in the Federal suit against the Mo-
tion Picture Patents Company as a trust
under the Sherman law went right along
during the past week at the Hotel Man-
hattan where Edward N. Hacker, spe-
cial referee, is holding the hearings.

During the past few days the most
important witnesses were Frank L.
Dyer, president of the General Film
Company; Albert E. Smith, treasurer
of the Vitagraph Company of America;
John E. Hardin, of the Edison Com-
pany, and J. A. Berst, vice-president of
the firm of Pathe Freres and head of
the American branch of that concern.
Several exhibitors were also called,
among them Jonas A. Korpell, who has
a theatre at 159th street and Broadway,
New York; Nathan Machat, of Brook-
lyn; Fred Jeffries, of Jersey City, and
Frank J. Howard, of Boston. Mr.
Howard is one of the exchange men
who sold out his business to the Gen-
eral Film Company. Within the past
ten days he has opened in Scollay
Square, Boston, a combined motion pic-
ture and vaudeville theatre, the cost of
which is estimated at $1,500,000.

John E. Hardin on Stand

The tenor of the testimony of the
witnesses was much the same. They
testified that before the formation of
the Patents Company motion picture
producers were much hampered by fear
of litigation over patents, and that be-
fore the formation of the General Film
Company the exchange end of the busi-
ness was unstable and conducted in an
unsatisfactory manner. With the for-
mation of these two companies, they
said, the whole tone of the business was
improved.

In addition the witnesses, especially
Albert A. Smith, gave a wealth of in-
timate details of doings inside the Pat-
ents Company, of the struggles, fears
and hopes of the manufacturers and of
the motion picture business in general.
While much of this testimony was ob-
jected to by the prosecution on the
ground that it was irrelevant and in-
competent, it is certainly of great inter-
est to persons connected with the motion
picture art. Further, the attorneys
for the defense, feel it is of legal
value, else they would not have intro-
duced it.

On Thursday, November 13, Mr. Dyer
finished his direct testimony, and John
E. Hardin, of the Edison Company, took
the stand for a short time. Mr. Har-
din's testimony was confined entirely to

projection machines on which he is an
authority. He discussed cost and con-
struction of all the prominent makes.

Mr. Dyer took the stand again on
Friday, November 14, to be cross-ex-
amined by Edward P. Grovesnor, who
represents the attorney-general in this
case. After sparring for several ques-
tions Mr. Grovesnor introduced upon
the record a copy of a letter from J. J.
Kennedy to William Pelzer, dated Jan-
uary 23. 1912, referring to matters
spread upon the records of the General
Film Company at the meeting of the
Board of Directors held October 11,
1910.

Go Into William Fox's Case

At that time it was made a matter of
record that the General Film Company
had purchased thirty-nine exchanges,
and had licensed twenty others, making
a total of fifty-nine licensed exchanges.
The amount of business controlled by
the General Film Company, based on
the number of reels, was set at seventy-
one per cent of the business of the
country at that time.

By further questions Mr. Grovesnor
attempted to show that the Patents
Company before the formation of the
General Film Company had licensed
more than one hundred exchanges, and
that eighteen months after the forma-
tion of the General Film Company none
of these were handling licensed films.
Charles F. Kingsley, one of the attor-
neys for the defense, then took Mr.
Dyer in hand for a short re-direct ex-
amination.

Albert E. Smith, treasurer of the
Vitagraph Company of America, then
took the chair and remained there for
the rest of the day.

'Are you appearing to testify for
yourself," asked Mr. Grovesnor.

"I don't know," said Mr. Smith.

Then followed a short discussion as
to whether or not Mr. Smith was un-
der subpoena and entitled to immunity
if he testified.

The first subject taken up was the
matter of the cancellation by the Gen-
eral Film Company of the license held
by William Fox and his Greater New
York Film Rental Company. A suit is
pending over this cancellation in which
Mr. Smith was a witness. It was evi-
dent that in the other suit Fox has tes-
tified that he had called on Mr. Smith
at the Vitagraph plant in Flatbush in
November, 1911., That Fox had also
claimed that Smith had told him (Fox)
that he (Smith) had always taken Fox's

part at the meetings of the General
Film Company, and had always had the
acquiescence of J. A. Berst, but that
when Mr. Berst had failed to support
Mr. Smith's talk in behalf of Fox the
directors of the General Film had
thereupon "jobbed" Fox by cancelling
his license contrary to Smith's wish was
also evident from testimony. At the
morning session Mr. Smith denied that
what Mr. Fox said was true. He said
he did not have such a conversation
with Fox.

Trick Pictures Saved Industry

At the afternoon session Mr. Smith
said that Fox told him he wanted $100,-
000 for his exchange, needing the money
for a partner, and that he told Fox
he would do what he could.

"The object of the formation of the
General Film Company," went on Mr.
Smith, "was to start a model exchange
to serve as an example for the other ex-
changes then operating.

"I myself have been in the business
since 1896 or 1897. After the Spanish
war and the interest in pictures of sol-
diers ended, the public became apathetic
to pictures as the subjects were of no
interest until Gaston Melies began mak-
ing trick pictures. Then came the trav-
elling show, an operator with a projec-
tion machine and a little film touring
the country. At this time moving pic-
tures were shown as a side show at car-
nivals in the "black tent." Then dramas
came in, and later the release date idea
was introduced and universally adopted.
When the General Film Company was
formed it was never contemplated that
this firm would do all the business of
the country.

"The Vitagraph Company of America
at its beginning had endless troubles
because of possible Edison patents suits.
Once we felt all we lost because a man
sneaked in and snipped off a few inches
of film. We were so scared that we
quit entirely in 1901 and 1902. Then
we made some negatives and turned
them over to Edison who gave us a
royalty on the positive prints sold.

Melies' Ups and Downs

"Then came the re-issue of the Edi-
son patents which wiped out all the old
injunctions against us. and we bega i
again in earnest in 1904 and bought land
in Brooklyn where our present studio
stands. Then we became an Edison
licensee and paid a royalty of half a
cent a foot. Safe from litigation we
doubled the capacity of the studio.

STAND AS PATENTS COMPANY CONTINUES DEFENSE

J. A. Berst, Head of Pathe, on Stand — Four Exhibitors Tell of Their Troubles Before
Licensed Manufacturers Joined Hands and Express Themselves
as Pleased With Present Conditions

"In 1908 I invented the 'framing" de-
vice now in common use on rejection
machines. This does away with the
need of stopping the picture when it
"gets out of frame."

"Competition is keen among the firms
in the Patents Company. Take the
Melies Company for instance. Several
years ago it fell from selling one hun-
dred prints down to selling a single
print of one subject I know. Then J.
Stuart Blackton and myself were given
permission to go in with Gaston Melies
in a small way. We handled the scena-
rios, edited the pictures and were gen-
eral advisers. The sale of prints jumped
up to fifty or sixty. Then Mr. Melies
thought he had absorbed from us
enough knowledge of the business, and
against our advice, started producing
pictures in California with the result
that Melies' business is now about down
to zero again.

"Our plant is now about ten times the
size it was when we became Edison
licensees. We have about 150 players
in our stock companies.

"Our foreign business has increased.
We are now selling about twice as many
prints abroad as in this country. We
sell to all the world. We have agencies
in Berlin, Barcelona, Budapest, Milan,
Buenos Ayres, Rio Janeiro South
Africa, Australia, London and Paris.

"Four things go to make a success-
ful picture : a good story, the merit of
the production, the acting and the pho-
tography and mechanical worth of the
picture.

Cost of Production Increases

"Since 190S our production has in-
creased from two plays a week to six
or seven a week. We are now making
weekly 12,000 feet of finished negative
which means about 30,000 feet of nega-
tive before it is edited. Our negative
production has increased four hundred
per cent, our positive sale only one hun-
dred per cent. The cost of negative
per foot has increased four or five times.
Since the formation of the General
Film Company our profits have steadily
decreased because of the increased
cost of production. If it were not for
our sale of prints abroad we could not
do business on the present basis.

"Neither I nor the Vitagraph Com-
pany had anything to do with the for-
mation of the Patents Company."

At this point the hearings were ad-
journed till Tuesday morning.

Bright and early Tuesday morning
Mr. Smith was on the stand again for a

little more direct testimony under the
guidance of Attorney Kingsley.

"The average 'life' of a motion pic-
ture is about six months," said Mr.
Smith. "Rental exchanges are neces-
sary in the business. Active competi-
tion exists between the licensed manu-
facturers. I should say that of the film
produced in this country sixty per cent
are dramas, thirty per cent comedies, and
the remaining ten per cent scenic sub-
jects. There are between thirty and
forty unlicensed producing firms, turn-
ing out an aggregate of about one hun-
dred reels a week."

Mr. Smith was then cross-questioned
a little about the William Fox case. In
reply to one question he said that the
Patents Company and the General Film
Company had never worked in collusion
with each other.

Tuesday afternoon J. A. Gerst, vice-
president of the firm of Pathe Freres
and head of the American branch of
that concern, took the stand.

Mr. Berst's Testimony

"The Pathe Company in America
did only an import business until it be-
came an Edison licensee" said Mr.
Berst. "After getting the Edison license
it built a factory at Bound Brook, N. J.,
and in 1910 began producing pictures at
its studio at Jersey City Heights.

"The General Film Company was
needed because the exchanges prior to
its formation were injuring the business
by renting to the exhibitor badly dam-
aged films. These were often rainy,
and sometimes the sensitized part was
entirely scraped off, leaving the film
blank. In an effort to remedy condi-
tions the General Film Company was
formed."

When questioned about patents liti-
gation Mr. Berst said that Pathe paid
Edison in royalties between $17,000 and
SlS.000 in 1908.

"Neither the firm of Pathe nor myself
had anything to do with the formation
of the Patents Company," said Mr.
Berst. "The General Film Company
was formed because at that time the ex-
changes were troublesome factors in the
motion picture business. They were
not on a sound business basis, and it
was to remedy this evil that the Gen-
eral Film Company was formed."

Four licensed exhibitors were on the
stand Wednesday. The first was
Jonas A. Korpell. who has a theatre at
159th street and Broadway, New York
City. He testified that before the for-
mation of the Patents Company he re-

ceived inferior pictures, that he had to
take what the exchange man slid over
the counter to him, that he had to "tip"
the booker to get good pictures, and that
he was unable to advertise pictures in
advance. He said the combination of
the licensed manufacturers had ended
this state of affairs much to his satis-
faction.

On the cross-examination Mr. Korpell
came forward with a slap at theatres
owned by exchanges, the Fox theatres
in particular. Mr. Korpell said that
Mr. Fox has a theatre within a few
blocks of his, and made the accusation
that Fox emissaries would copy his
programs as advertised in advance and
then show the same pictures a day
ahead of him.

Howard's Sale Satisfactory

Nathan Machat. of Brooklyn, and
Fred Jeffries, of Jersey City, licensed
exhibitors, gave testimony along the
same lines as Mr. Korpell with the ex-
ception that they did not mention Mr.
Fox. They expressed themselves as
being much pleased with quality of serv-
ice now obtainable since the licensed
manufacturers combined.

Frank J. Howard, of Boston, was the
last witness Wednesday. He once con-
ducted an exchange which he sold out
to the General Film Company. He said
that he had been trying unsatisfactorily
to dispose of his exchange for about a
year prior to selling -it, and he consid-
ered the deal most satis factory- Mr.
Howard is interested in a new vaude-
ville and motion picture theatre in Bos-
ton, valued at a million and a half. He
talked along the same lines as the others
as regards what the formation of the
Patents Company and the General Film
Company did for the business.

CHICAGO EXHIBITORS WILL
ENTERTAIN

Extensive preparations are being
made by the Chicago exhibitors to en-
tertain the Executive Committee of the
International Motion Picture Associa-
tion, which meets in that city on De-
cember 18 and 19, 1913.

Representatives of twenty-nine States
have already notified the secretary of
their intention to be present and a large
attendance is assured.

After this meeting in Chicago, or-
ganizers will be sent throughout the
country perfecting the various State or-
ganizations of the International Mo-
tion Picture Association.

WILLIAM FAVERSHAM THE LATEST RECRUIT

Famous Actor to Appear in Series of Six Dramas, Including " Julius Caesar," for New York

Motion Picture Corporation

WILLIAM FAVERSHAM, who
has been one of the famous act-
ors of the speaking stage for a good
many years, is the latest acquisition to
the moHion picture art. Faversham,
who is now appearing on the Pacific
Coast in a pretentious production of
"Julius Caesar," has completed nego-
tiations with Thomas H. Ince to ap-
pear in a series of six motion picture
dramas for the New York Motion Pic-
eure Corporation, of which Ince is vice-
president and managing director.

Fifty thousand dollars is the sum it
is said Faversham will receive for his
appearance in these plays, one of which
shall be a presentation of "Julius Cae-
sar." The New York Motion Picture
Corporation, which has as subsidiary
producing companies the Kay-Bee,

Broncho, Domino and Keystone brands,
has been negotiating with the dis-
tinguished actor for the past two
weeks and the deal is regarded as com-
pleted.

Mr. Ince will erect for the motion
picture production of "Julius Caesar" a
mammoth representation of a Roman
forum and capitol on the plateau near
the producing studios of the New York
Motion Picture Corporation at Santa
Monica, Cal. These will be used for
the big scenes in the Shakespearian
drama. Mob scenes will also be staged
with more than one thousand super-
numeraries before the camera.

The contract offered Mr. Faversham
calls for his return to Santa Monica
after the close of his present starring
tour. It is understood that the deal

will be positively closed at the end of
the tour. In addition to "Julius Caesar,"
it is planned to present Mr. Faversham
and company in four big plays, includ-
ing the "Faun," "Romeo and Juliet,"
"Othello" and either "Hamlet" or
"Henry VIII."

Mr. Faversham has completed plans
for a remarkable season, opening in
Toronto in December, and after a few
weeks going into New York. He will
play in a repertoire of productions, in
which he has already starred success-
fully.

Mr. Faversham's proposed advent up-
on the screen will mark the entry in
the motion picture art of still another
actor who is regarded as among the
very best of those on the legitimate 1
stage.

HE MADE "QUO VADIS" POSSIBLE

Baron Fassini is the active head of the Cines Company, of Rome,
Italy. The Baron was an officer in the Italian Navy prior to his con-
nection with the film industry, and is generally known as one of the
controlling factors of the film destinies of all Europe. Baron Fassini is
the man who made "Quo Vadis" possible.

PROJECTION BY REFLECTION

WHEN the efforts that are being made both in
Europe and the United States to teach the cor-
rect principles of the science of motion picture mak-
ing have borne fruit, it will, we hope, not be neces-
sary to write such an article as this. It is the first
of two or three to be devoted to the main subject.
And it is necessary to glance at the history of optical
projection in general in order that that which fol-
lows in subsequent numbers of The Motion Picture
News may be made clear.

The motion picture as we have it today is an ad-
mitted development of what is known as "still" pho-
tography. If Daguerre and Fox Talbot, the pioneers,
had never made photographs on silver and paper in
the years 1839 and 1840, there would not have been
any motion pictures today. These two men, to whom
monuments have been erected on both sides of the
Atlantic, may be regarded as the real founders of the
animated photograph or motion picture.

The principle of the formation of images by re-
flection, for that is what this matter comes to, is older
than photography. Telescopes are divided into re-
fractors and reflectors. You can point the object glass
of your refractor telescope at the sky and obtain an
image of the stars either upon your retina or upon
your photographic plate. Similarly, you can point
the highly polished surface in your telescope tube
to the sky and get an image there which can be re-
flected to your retina or to the photographic plate.
So much for reflection as a fundamental basis for
getting images of objects external to a telescope.

Now as to projection by reflection. One of the old-
est methods of projection by reflection is that known
as the aphengescope. Here you don't need either a

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lens or an object glass. Your object is placed angu-
larly to your illuminant and the light reflects the ob-
ject on to the screen. In this way you can show the
face of a watch or the works in motion. This system
was at one time known as the dark lantern or
megascope.

When you see a small boy with a mirror in his hand
making a disk of the sun shine in your face, he illus-
trates, more or less unconsciously, the fundamental
principle that we are to bring to notice here. What
he does is to project an image of light rays on to a
receiving surface. It may be. the wall or your cloth-
ing. The principle is the same as adopted in telescope.

Yet, will it be believed that several persons have in
print denied that this principle could be availed of in
motion picture projection ? No less an authority than
our illustrious predecessor in the editorial chair of this
journal denied that this could be done. Also a certain
writer in motion picture publication has rendered
himself conspicuous by also denying the obvious.

It is not generally known that photographers, those
who make photographs in studios, can make pictures
of their sitters by reflection. The sitter is posed in-the
axis of a mirror and a photograph taken of the reflected
image. This gives great softness to the resulting pic-
ture. It is too much the fashion amongst uneducated
entrants into any field of endeavor to assume in their
ignorance that which their limited intelligence permits
them to comprehend is finality. Their philosophy seems
to be whatever is best and nothing else is possible.

It might surprise some of these persons who un-
fortunately are found in the motion picture field to
be told that not only can the principle of reflection
be availed of in showing motion pictures, but you
need not use celluloid films for making the pictures.
Paper can be used ; so can glass. More recently, the
possibility of motion picture hand cameras was denied.
They are in actual successful use.

It is impossible to calculate the extent to which the
art and industry has been retarded by the misleading
statements of the ignorant people who have been al-
lowed to write on the subject.

FRANCESCA BEETINI

This is a splendid likeness of that beautiful and talented Italian
actress, Miss Francesca Bertini, who plays the lead in "Venomous
Tongues," the first Kleine-Celio release for Tuesday, December 2. Miss
Bertini formerly was one of the Cines leads.

Motion Pictures of Clouds

The World Above on the Screen

AS we were writing the article on tele-photog-
raphy, which was printed in The Motion Picture
News of November the 22nd, an ardent young
motion picture photographer called upon us with a
strip of film, which illustrated in practical form our
theory that the motion picture can be used, as it were,
to annihilate space. In other words, that you can use
your motion picture camera to make films of very dis-
tant objects, which when you see them on the screen
will both delight and interest you.

The strip of film showed pictures of clouds. In the

world of nature nothing is more beautiful than a mass
of cloud forms. Clouds are just vapor or water in
what you might call the state or condition of steam.
These clouds take various forms : cirrus, cumulus,
tumuli, "mackerel back" and others. The study of
cloud forms is in itself a fascinating branch of science,
well worth the attention of observers of natural history.
Then, there are storm clouds — in fact, the forms of
clouds that are understood and classified are numerous-
Now when these beautiful masses of vapor are seen
in the sky, lit up by the rays of the sun, it is a common

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aspiration on the part of artists and others to reproduce
them in paintings, oil and water color. Photographers
like to get them in their photographs. And when to
the beauty of the clouds, you add the fact that fre-
quently they have motion and very rapid motion, you
can see that they form fit subjects for the motion pic-
ture camera.

The procedure adopted in taking cloud pictures
does not differ much from that used in making them
with the still camera. You just point your camera to
the cloud, use a very small stop or diaphragm in the
lens and give as long an exposure as you possibly can.
Of course, the nearer the clouds the better. The main

idea is to secure beautiful masses, showing motion.
When you get such a picture on the screen, it invariably
interests everybody.

Some years ago, a photographer of our acquaintance
took a whole series of still photographs, showing the
life history of a series of cluods. You can trace the
actual formation, growth, and as it were, the career
of a cloud by means of photographs. Motion pictures
of such subjects of this kind should be popular. Of
course, they may have been made or attempted. If
they have not this hint may be of value to those who
want to get away from the "usual thing" in the motion
picture news.

The "Pay-as-You-Enter" Man

(Essanay)

AT times this will make you laugh,
and then again you will feel a
lump rising in your throat. The efforts
of Henry Rosser, a commuter, to pro-
vide a turkey for his young and healthy
family for the holiday touches a hu-
morous and touching note. The zeal
with which he tries to win a turkey at a
raffle and after he has secured it to
have it all but whisked from his pos-
session by the machinations of the law.
Richard C. Travers, as Henry Rosser,
the commuter, bears the brunt of this
production.

Mr. Travers shows up strongly in this
production, playing the role of a small-
salaried clerk who is endeavoring to buy
a home and at the same time provide
the necessities for his family and pretty
wife. He acts with a natural earnestness
that is not strained ; he conducts himself
in keeping with the part. While Irene
W'arfield as the wife has not a lengthy
role, that portion which is assigned to
her is played convincingly." It would be
the tendency of too many actors to play
this part with too much ease or too
much action in an effort to get some-
thing big out of it. Miss 'Warfield's
playing, however, made it stand out as
something really worth while. She por-
trayed the patient and economical wife
with a nicety that caused the acting of
Mr. Travers in his moments to please his
family to be more appreciated. These
two persons in a two-character produc-
tion, where either one or the other or
both are on view for the entire thousand
feet of film, would be very much worth
while.

The story, briefly told, relates the ef-
fort of Henry Rosser, a clerk in a large
department store, where he has been em-
ployed for twenty years earning a sal-
ary of twenty dollars a week with which
he is raising a family and at the same
time buying a home in the suburbs,
which he reaches from the city by
train, street car and a half-mile walk.
The effects used by the producer in
showing night scenes of the suburban
home are splendid. The children wait-

ing at the gate with a lighted lantern
and the glow of the window falling on
them makes a beautiful picture.

The children look forward to the
holiday with anticipation and pleasure,
but the father does not know where the
turkey is coming from. While on his
way home on the eve of the holiday, he
accidently meets a friend, with a tur-
key, who explains to him that he won.
Henry enters the saloon, takes a chance
on the next raffle and wins. His happi-
ness, however, is short-lived as at this
moment the police enter and arrest the
proprietor for running a lottery. Henry
is taken along as a witness. Xot having
sufficient money to offer as bail, he is
thrust into a cell. Neither has he suffi-
cient money to wire his wife of his
predicament

Henry takes a long chance and has a
friend call on his employer, whom he
does not know. Much to his surprise.

Mr. Straussman, his employer, does bail
him out and also gives him fifty dollars
and tells him that he will see that his
salary is substantially raised. He reaches
home, where his wife is sitting up,
awaiting him with the hard-earned tur-
key. This turkey is not sacrificed for
the festive day, but is kept as a lucky
omen, and another one, purchased with
the money given him, is offered on the
dav of Thanks. C. T. V.

AFTER EXCLUSIVE PROGRAM

John I. Pittman, of Atlanta, Ga., and
E. T. Peter, of Dallas, Texas, are in
negotiation for the exclusive program in
part for the Southern states, including
Texas and Southern Oklahoma. Mr.
Peter's company, the Texas Film Cor-
poration, would control the states west
of the Mississippi. This arrangement
would not conflict with the contract with
the Big Four Feature Corporation of
Dallas which controls territorial rights
on Itala, Solax. Great Northern, Gau-
mont and Blache American.

SCEXE FROM •PAY-AS-YOTT-ENTEH" MAN

HARRY

5 5

Otherwise the President of the All Star

PARAPHRASING Fenimore Cooper. "It was
towards the close of a hot and broiling day in
July when two figures might have been seen tramp-
ing across the landscape" — of Maryland. The figures
were H. R. R. and the writer. We were talking motion
pictures. This was a few years ago, and we are still
talking motion pictures. Harry Raver has realized
his ambition. He is at the head of a great organiza-
tion, the All Star Feature Corporation, putting out
great pictures. That was what he wanted to do when
we were having this heart-
to-heart talk on a Sunday,
near Chesapeake Bay, which
neither of us will ever for-
get.

My ! but we had a terrible
tramp. When we got near
the bay, there was "water,
water everywhere, but not a
drop to drink." The agonies
that I endured found expres-
sion. But Harry smiled as
Harry always does.

Before that, Raver had
been in the business in the
perfunctory way in which
many prominent film men
have had to graduate. Harry
had had his vicissitudes be-
fore and has had them
since, but as I can testify, he
has always kept his goal in
view. He wanted to be a
picture man. On the occa-
sion of that trip, we both
looked over an ideal plant
out at Du Pont Park, Balti-
more, for the purpose, but
the organization controlling

the plant "went up." But still Harry stuck, through
the Film Supply Company, the Itala Company, and
other helpful rungs to success, and eighteen months ago
conceived the All Star idea.

The subject of this sketch is practical. He can make
a picture — that is to say, by training and mental govern-
ment he can supervise the work, and when that work is
finished, he can analyze it. as only an innate artist can.
He is a severe self -critic — which is about the best asset
a motion picture maker can have.

An occasional acquaintance of H. R. wouldn't suspect
this. He exudes the impression that he is an indiffer-
entist, a casualist, a dilettante, but Harry in this picture
business is sincere. Then he is young.

There was once a youthful statesman in Europe,
who was taunted with his youth. Tn his reply, the

statesman said that time would help him eradicate the
fault. It is the same with H. R. R. He has only to
stick to the part he has chosen to achieve even greater
successes.

The show business gave Harry his earlier experience
and, as the show business always does, it humanized
him and made him feel for others. He is good-hearted.

He has achieved his laudable ambition of creating an
ideal environment for himself. The association with
such a man as Augustus Thomas and the other fine

dramatic minds whose names
are household words has
had a singularly mellow ef-
fect upon Harry. Only yes-
terday, in the stormy days
of the Sales Company, he
was inclined to be quite a
rebel. Now, he is getting
conservative in his methods.
Also he has dropped into a
chosen haunt of respectabil-
ity, Riverside Drive.

Mr. Raver has really a
very wide circle of friends
and acquaintances in all
parts of the world who wish
him success.

It is illustrative of
Harry's determination of
character that he engineered
his All Star enterprise in
the face of great difficulties
and discouragements among
his associates in the busi-
ness. He has grit of the
best kind, which is sim-
ply a determination to suc-
ceed in a good object, at all
costs.

He is of the character of men we are better for hav-
ing known, a prince of good fellows. Known in the
entire industry as one of the best throughout judges of
character and thoroughly familiar with all details of
the film game, Harry has made good in his chosen
line, and the progress of the All Star productions
are a fitting evidence of his foresight and business
acumen.

H. R. R. is quite an unsuspecting occupant of this
gallery of portraits. But I have no hesitation in say-
ing that I think the sketch of him is as near the truth
of outline as it can be made by the aid of dispas-
sionate thought and analysis. To come down from
highbrowism, Harry Raver is a right good fellow —
and Joseph White Farnham is his prophet. Allah be
praised !

CAUGHT TJNAWABES

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Vol. VIII November 29, 1913 No. 21

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS IN EUROPE

* I \HE exchange motion picture publications that we
are receiving from Europe, reveal the fact that
this paper is carefully read there. Extracts from our
pages are of common occurrence. The French motion
picture publication, Le Cineman, briefly synopsizes
the article that we printed recently entitled "Motion
Pictures by Wireless." This article has also been com-
mented upon in several English publications. One of
the latter, the Film Censor, constantly reproduces
articles from these pages, with favorable comment.
Our views on the condition of the industry in this
country are given prominence and anything of a sug-
gestable nature, such as the proposed motion picture
society or institute, excites attention.

The Motion Picture News is clearly considered in
Europe as the representative American publication. It
circulates largely amongst renters and exhibitors there
for whom the information about forthcoming Ameri-
can releases as advertised in these pages, is of prac-
tical value.

TREND OF MOTION PICTURES

' I K HERE are two educational instruments operative
in the world to-day that might and should be
made to exert an influence for good almost equal to
that exerted by the common school or the press. One
of these is the phonograph, the other is the motion pic-

ture. Every observant person must be impressed with
the possibilities of both, and it is only fair to say that
the former is largely in the hands of people who are
employing its influence to worthy purposes.

The motion picture is a commercial proposition al-
most exclusively. Its patron is the public. Its promot-
ers are, generally speaking, desirous, first of all, of at-
tracting the public. The elevation of public taste has
not been regarded by them as any part of their mis-
sion. It has been necessary for municipalities to censor
their productions.

The trend among film producers is toward cleaner,
better presentations. This is encouraging. It is en-
couraging, too, to find that nothing is said in this con-
nection about "giving the public what it wants." The
public can be educated to "want" things it should not
have. It ought to be taught by self-respecting public
exhibitors to want things it ought to have. This, in-
deed, is not only essential to the morals of the public
but to the permanent welfare of the motion picture
business. The motion picture would soon cease to be
an attraction save for a very small element of society,
and that the most degraded, if the downward educa-
tional process were pursued ; only by reversing this
process and lifting the exhibitions constantly to higher
levels can they be made a stable form of public enter-
tainment. As such they can be, and, as already said,
they should be, made to exert a tremendous educational
influence for good. — Christian Science Monitor.
* * *

AMERICAN MOTION PICTURES IN PARIS

HP HE progress of the motion picture in France, ac-
cording to our information, has not kept pace
with its progress elsewhere. We are glad to perceive,
therefore, that the dreadful "inertia," of which com-
plaint has been made, has been lifted. American film
manufacturers should take note of the statement that
the pick of the world's market is still, perhaps, not yet
offered to Paris.

According to our French contemporaries this is only
too true, as we do not see American films advertised
there to the same extent as in Germany, the British
Isles, and elsewhere. And yet American products and
people are immensely popular in Paris. And interest-
ing to tell, American people, or rather that section of
the American public which travels in Europe, prefers
Paris to Anglo-Saxon London. There is something
in the Gallic temperament which harmonizes more
readily with the American temperament than does the
Anglo-Saxon.

In this state of affairs we would think it wise
of American film manufacturers to cultivate, if pos-
sible, the French market direct. By what we read,
the demand for American pictures there is only just
about to commence.

A great daily paper, Le Journal, published in Paris,
now has its Cinema page. This is described as the
most ambitious piece of the motion picture journal-
istic work that has yet been presented to the Paris
public.

OH, ITS AN INTERESTING LIFE!

Punctuated by GEORGE D. PROCTOR

AMONG the gratifying signs of the
times is the invasion of the "legit-
imate"' theatres of New York by mo-
tion pictures. Klaw & Erlanger will
put feature pictures in the New Am-
sterdam Theatre, their pet house,
every afternoon except on matinee
days, and on Sunday nights. The
first picture to be shown is "The Life
of Wagner, " produced by the Mess-
ier Film of Germany With this goes
special organ music and a lecturer.
The whole gives a vivid, lasting im-
pression of the turbulent career of
the great musician. As an educational
it. is wonderful.

Next come the Shuberts. Last Sun-
day night they gave over the Hippo-
drome to William A. Brady's pictures
of the revolution in Mexico. Pictures
will replace the Sunday night band
concert at the Hippodrome from now
on. Brady will show his Mexican war
pictures at his Playhouse whenever
possible without conflicting with "The
Family Cupboard."

"How Wild Animals Live," a six-
part film brought over by Midgar
Features, is doing good business at
Carnegie Lyceum twice daily. The
two versions of "The Last Days of
Pompeii" continue to do good busi-
ness on Broadway; Kleine's at the
Bijou, and the Pasquali production at
the Park. At the Berkeley Theatre
"The Boy and the Law" is being
shown twice daily.

The utilization of their crack thea-
tres by K. & E. and the Shuberts to
show motion pictures during the spare
moments is the entering wedge. It
will go further because they are plan-
ning to show the right kind of pic-
tures. To show program stuff would
be foolish. But big pictures, real
features, and educational subjects, in
short, the kind of films in which every
one who looks ahead rejoices, when
shown in big legitimate houses, will
do much toward making converts to
motion pictures and for the general
advancement of the business.

From a business standpoint the
proposition is beautiful in its simplic-
ity. A man has a big picture on his
hands and an empty theatre. He
combines the two and that's all there

is to it. Right now the thing is in the
experimental stage. But I don't see
how it's going to lose It utilizes
time which otherwise would go to
waste. It's good business for the
theatrical managers, of course, but it
also is good for the pictures. If the
thing works out well all the legiti-
mate theatres which can get pictures
of sufficient merit will show them in
the same way. Fine.

Charles "Feature" Abrams refuses
to be quiet. Bryan's greatest rival
off the Chatauqua platform now has
another string to his bow besides the

"FEATTTRE" IS HIS MIDDLE NAME

Great Northern Special Features. Up
on the tenth floor of our own Candler
Building he has an office which will
be the home of the Films Lloyds,
Inc., and the Photo-Drama Company.
This latter must not be confused with
the George Kleine Corporation by
the same name. The Films Lloyds.
Inc.. will do a general film brokerage
business.

The first picture of the Photo-
Drama Company will be a five-part
version of "Ten Nights in a Bar
Room." Charlie gave a private exhi-
bition of this picture Wednesday. It
looks like a sure-fire, financially, to
me. The subject is well known and
the production is good. With it
Charlie is off to a flying start. I was
soing to tell who the Abrams person
is, but what's the use. He's been sell-
ing films and hypnotizing state rights
buyers too long to need that. More
later about the film.

A tight between moving picture
producers and authors involving the
validity of book copyrights may yet
reach the United States Supreme
Court, according to the threat of the
Authors' League of America, which
may be found at 30 Broad street, New
York.

All this comes through the litiga-
tion over the film productions of Jack
London's stories. The Balboa Amuse-
ment Company drew blood recently
in California when the Federal Court
in Los Angeles refused to grant an
injunction against Balboa at the re-
quest of Jack London and Bosworth.
Inc. This injunction wrould have ap-
plied to "The Sea Wolf," of which
H. M. Horkheimer, general manager
of Balboa, has a three-part produc-
tion, while Bosworth, Inc., has a
seven-part production. Horkheimer
is said to be planning to sue Bos-
worth, Inc., for damages.

Now enters the Authors' League.
The court ruled against London and
Bosworth, but gave them right to re-
open the case. The Authors' League
says it will take up London's fight
and carry it to the United States Su-
preme Court if necessary.

This Saturday is set apart for for-
mal opening of the new quarters of
the Screen Club at 165 West Forty-
seventh street. It's foolish to pre-
dict, so I'll let the story go till next
week, but this one thing I know —
thev'll all be there.

William Frederick Haddock, "Si-
lent Bill." is now a married man. He
and Rosa Koch were wedded quietly
Wednesday night. This means a lot
to me. Only a dozen or so gathered
at the church, and I stood up with
Bill. A good friend of mine has now
acquired for himself greater happi-
ness. I needn't say more. They and
everybody else know how I feel. I
couldn't say any more, anyway, with-
out brimming over.

John E. Hardin will soon sever
his connection with the Edison Com-
pany to become sales manager for
the Ambrosio American Company for
'he United States and Canada. John
has been with the Edison Company
for nine years. His position with
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in every way, but he sees great op-
portunities in his new position.

Just to show how folks feel about
the Hardin person, a high official in
the Patents Company said, "We hate
to see him go, but he's bettering him-
self and we all wish him well." That
comes from headquarters.

W. I. Cherry, of the Southern Fea-
ture Film Program Association, is in
town for a few days on business. His
concern plans to cover the eleven
Southern states with offices in At-
lanta, Ga., Oklahoma, Arkansas and
New Orleans, La., in addition to its
present office in Dallas. It handles
the products of the Famous Players
Film Company, the All Star Feature
Corporation, and other meritorious
pictures.

Mr. Cherry states that the Southern
Feature Film Program Association
has been completely reorganized. He
has bought out the others who were
formerly interested in it, and the cap-
ital stock has been increased from
$35,000 to $100,000 cash paid in.

Augustus Thomas has just received
a tribute that is rare even among the
men of letters of the country. At the
meeting in Chicago of the American
Academy and the National Institute
of Arts and Letters, he was awarded
a gold medal as the man who had
achieved the most in the drama dur-
ing the last five years. This august
organization only meets once in ten
years and its awards are most highly
prized.

The Anderson Gaiety Company, in
which "Broncho Billy" is the moving
spirit, will take over the new Strand
Theatre, now in course of construc-
tion at Broadway and Forty-seventh
street. It will give musical comedies
for a dollar. This policy is now being
followed by the same company with
great success in San Francisco.

Nell Shipman, scenario expert, is try-
ing a new scheme that sounds good.
She will write scripts on order from
manufacturers after receiving data as
to them, length of picture, the per-
sonnel of the company, the director's
wants, and so on. She has quit free-
lancing, with the exception of some
orders on hand for James K. Hackett,
Nance O'Neil, and other celebrities.

Entre Nous, Messieurs

'Arrest this man." This startling
caption heads a communication Wat-
terson R. Rothacker, of Chicago, gen-
eral manager of the Industrial Mov-
ing Picture Company, is sending
around. Further remarks are: "If
you see this man in your vicinity ar-
rest him long enough to hear his
story. Put him through the third
degree on motion picture advertis-

ing. It will pay you and you will be
liberally rewarded." A reward of one
thousand dollars is offered if you
catch him unable to make good.

Jack Noble, the original, undiluted
Jazbo from Yom Kippur Valley, has
left Ramo. He is putting on a pic-
ture for the Fair Feature Film Com-
pany which will be an exposition of
the New York police and prison sys-
tem. The necessary permits have
been obtained.

Ed Kaufman, press agent, has left
Ryno.

Hopp Hadley is now down with
Phil Mindil in the publicity depart-
ment of the Mutual Film Corporation
at 71 West Twenty-third street.

Daniel Frohman and Harrison Grey
Fiske gave a private showing re-
cently of Mrs. Fiske in the Famous
Players production, "Tess of the
D'Urbervilles."

Harry A. Samwick, of the Exclu-
sive Features, Inc., of New York City,
took a flying trip last week to Syra-
cuse, where he recently opened an
office for the handling of state right
features.

David W. (Larry) Griffith is cer-
tainly gathering his forces around
him at the Reliance studio, at 262d
street and Riverdale avenue. A new
studio is being equipped, it is re-
ported, at Sixteenth street and Broad-
way, and the plan is to have ten direc-
tors working. William C. Cabanne.
Eugene Sanger. Edgar Lewis. Carl
Le Viness, Travers Vale and George
Reehm are now at work. Eddie Dil-
lon and James Kirkwood will soon be
on the job.

Billy Bitzer, a camera man of con-
siderable repute, has gone with Grif-
fith. Among the players the latest
are Mae Marsh, Courtenay Foote.
formerly of the Vitagraph; Robert
Harron, Donald Crisp, Fred and Rob-
ert Burns. Eagle Eye and Mazie Star.

The new Reliance studio at 262d
street and Riverdale avenue, will be
christened by a dance Saturday even-
ing. November 29.

Jack Cohen, assembler and titler at
the Imp studio, where he is the old-
est employee in point of years of serv-
ice, having been with that firm since
it started, is going over to Biograph.

A son has been born to Ben Wil-
son and Jessie McAllister, of the Edi-
son players. He will be named Ben.
Jr.

George Terwilliger's medicine prac-
tice in Fort Dodge, Iowa, a few years

ago was very useful the other day in
aiding Earl Metcalfe, who was injured
during the filming of a Lubin photo-
play. The Shakespeare of the silent
drama ordered his patient taken to
his office in the scenario department,
where, with the assistance of Law-
rence S. McCloskey and Nurse M. B.
Havey, he applied restoratives. In a
few moments Metcalfe was brought
to. Upon the young physician's or-
ders, Eminent Campbell Hall took
the patient in his motor to a nearby
hospital, where it was discovered
that, had it not been for Terwilliger's
prompt action, the young Lubin ac-
tor would have been a splendid case
for the local physician.

Burton W. Garrett, private secre-
tary to, William H. Swanson when the
latter was secretary of the Universal,
is on a trip through the Middle West
in the interest of Blache features and
Solax features.

Bert Angeles is the director re-
sponsible for the four-reel Pilot pro-
duction, "Across the Continent."

James Gordon, who is producing
"Hoodman Blind" at the Pilot stu-
dio, alleges that Bill Haddock stole
his grease paint when Bill was up
there taking some scenes for "Sol-
diers of Fortune" for the All Star. Oh.
who cares, anyway?

Winnifred Greenwood, leading wom-
an with the American Film Company,
has been granted an Indiana divorce
from Frederick Bannister, a stock
actor. The judge imposed the restric-
tion that she must not remarry within
two years.

Fred Mace and his comedy com-
pany have returned to the New Ma-
jestic studio near Los Angeles. In
the company are Marguerite Love-
ridge, Bud Duncan. Harry Edwards
and George W. Peters, camera man.

Arthur S. Abeles. of the Sedeg Fea-
ture Film Company, has just returned
from Buffalo, where he has located a
new Sedeg branch. Joseph A. Davis
will be the manager.

The Sedeg Feature Film Company
has obtained the New York state
rights for Gaumont features.

"Whaddye mean you lost your
dog?" A lady visited the Kinema-
color offices at 1600 Broadway, take
it from WTillard Holcomb, to see her
dog on the screen.

Marc MacDermott. leading man
with the Edison Company in Eng-
land, recently sustained bad bruises
when thrown from the back of an ill-
tempered horse.

(Continued on page 50)

CURRENT FEATURE RELEASES IN THE PROGRAM OF THE GENERAL FILM COMPANY (Inc
1. Escape of Jitr. Dolan — Selig 4. The Plot of India's Hillmen — Kalem

• 2. The Boomerang — Essanay 5. Zuma the Gypsy — Kleine

3. The Price of Victory — Lubin 6. The Death Song — Pathe

FOR THOSE WHO WORRY O'ER PLOTS AND PLAYS

WILLIAM LORD WRIGHT

M

bi

-ripping.

ISS Maibelle
Heikes Jus-
tice, of New York
and Chicago, joust-
ed into Filmland
only a few months
ago, immediately
broke a lance or
two against the
shields of Essanay
and Selig, and won
the tourney. Since
that time jshe has
been writing the
melodramatic multiples
that have aided in making the West-
ern Film concerns famous. Miss Jus-
tice is equally at home marketing fic-
tion or motion picture plays. Her
stories have appeared in almost all of
the popular magazines. Her short
novel "The Other Man," which ap-
peared in Cosmopolitan, has been
dramatized. Her latest novel, "The
Velvet Glove," appeared recently in
the London edition of "The Smart
Set" and will appear in the American
edition soon — so the author will have
a double publication which is not a
common occurrence.

Miss Justice' career is just another
substantiation of the argument that
the newspaper office is the best school
in the world for the literarily inclined.
Daughter of the late James Monroe
Justice, of Indiana, she admits the
advantage of having been born in the
Literary Belt, along with Ade, Nich-
oleson, Tarkington, Riley, and all the
rest, but she also gives due credit to
the schooling derived from newspa-
per work.

Miss Justice was educated in New
York City, ana before she was twenty
years of age, she was writing full-page
special articles for the New York Sun,
and later for the Herald. Then, like
George Ade, Irvin Cobb, George Ran-
dolph Chester, et al., the journalistic
training emerged into fiction work,
and also picture-play writing.

Local Color in Northwest

Miss Justice recently returned from
the Northwest where she dabbled in
local color and sent down to Chicago
some bully good scripts with far
north plots that have heretofore
been favored by Jack London and
Rex Beach. "Etienne, of the Glad
Heart," written in the Northland this
Fall will soon be released by the Se-
lig Company. Tt was written "right
on the ground." fearlessly and hon-

estly, and depicts the strong love,
deep passions, and wild hatreds of
Northern frontiersmen, and yet pos-
sesses the tender understrain of heart
interest a field in which Miss Justice
is unusually adept. "The Pay-as-You-
Enter Man," put in production by
Essanay Company the same day the
script arrived and to be released as a
Thanksgiving number, is a two-reel
adaptation by Miss Justice of her
story of the same name that appeared
in Munsey's Magazine.

This little woman is a realist in all
she does. She digs a way down un-
derneath and endeavors to get the
truth out of life. Her rapid advance-
ment in the picture-play field is due
to an absence of egotism, an unusual
talent, great industry, and to the fact
that she is appreciative. She rightly
appreciates the treatment she has re-
ceived from the Selig and Essanay
companies and waxes enthusiastic
oyer their courtesies and kindnesses.
Her name as author now appears on
all her work produced by Selig. Miss
Justice likes to see others succeed
and she contributes an article for the
benefit of our readers this week en-
titled "From An Author's Stand-
point." It follows:

"Inspiration, System and Habit"

"In the writing of either fiction or
photoplay I cannot see any great dif-
ference. The plots can be identically
the same. The difference is only in
manner of treatment which, of
course, is distinctly diametrical. In
the one, the author has his imagina-
tion and as much of the English lan-
guage he wishes to draw upon for
narrative, description, and dialogue —
juggling with the English language
I sometimes call it, for it is certainly
a feat to be acquired with practice
and experience, while in the photo-
play the dramatist must have vivid
imagination, the art to gauge that
imagination down to a nutshell, then
divide it tersely, concisely, telegraph-
ically almost, into scenes which must
indicate action only. I believe when
more scenario writers can shut their
eyes and visualize their story, their
scenes in a panorama of action, rather
than to 'think it out' descriptively,
that there will be many better photo-
plays. But back of it all there must
be inspiration.

"Authors have contended to me that
there is no such thing as inspiration,
but don't you believe it. There is.

and it has to come from within. This
is one reason why I cannot take a
plot offered by some one else and
evolve it into either story or photo-
play. That plot has been superficial
and never wholly 'in my system' and
what does not come from within, I
never can be wholly in accord with.
Other writers have told me they ex-
perience the same feeling. Naturally,
however, over and beyond inspiration,
we must grind a good deal in order
to turn out good work — and I find the
morning hours the best for writing,
usually from 9 until 1 o'clock. So let
us say we must have inspiration, sys-
tem, and habit in order to accomplish
our best.

"But as that delightful author, O.
Henry, used to say: 'The onion is the
soul of the soup,' so is the plot the
soul of our story or photoplay. But
plots are growing to mean more and
more— there aren't any. Yet, without
plot, we cannot write. So, for this
reason the field for the photoplay en-
trant is very much more difficult now
than it was a few years ago. Fiction
standard has not varied much, but
novelty is always the cry of the film
manufacturer.

"Greater rewards are in store for
the good scenario writer though pub-
licly expressed appreciation of his
work will be his greatest stimulus — ■
this is screen and poster credit. I
have no doubt whatsoever, but%that
the advent of the fiction writer has
brought much of the change about.
In the first place, he has been trained
from the beginning to have his fiction
signed in the magazines — -credit
gladly given by the publishers. Now
that he has entered the film game,
and if he is making good, that is, try-
ing to write acceptable work, he's not
over delighted to find his identity
snuffed into oblivion as he sees his
play wound off the reel. I do not
know of one author I have talked to
but what would like to see some of
his work in pictures. In fact, per-
sonally, I had to hold up the fiction
writing awhile consistently and con-
scientiously to master the photoplay.

"Have Idea of Production"

"Competition is so rife nowadays,
that nothing but real effort will stand
the test. But, questioned about
screen and poster credit, I am sure
every author who is not ashamed to
see a poor play run on the screen, be-
cause of his name and reputation,

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will say 'yes.' And-.4Br.-the same way
I feel that the regular scenario writer
who has not literary reputation, but
who has written up to the standard,
should have the same screen recogni-
tion. All are working for the same
result — success. And shekels — some
will say. But don't let the latter idea
bother you until you are sure you
can write something worth shekels.

"But of all things try and 'see' your
picture on the screen as you write.
Write with some idea of production
and don't leave a lot of tedious an-
noyances for the producer to over-
come. Have your story in mind and
first decide if it's big enough for a
multiple — or only a single. Then
make your story probable and real.
There's enough in real life to depict,
wherever your environment may be,
without going into the clouds. So
ring true. Truth will always give
heart interest. Having your story
well in hand, evolve it then, scene by
scene — work gradually upward in in-
terest and intensity until you reach
the 'high light' as I call it — but
'punch' or 'climax' or whatever you
will — it has to be there.

"For as the musician works up to'
his crescendo, or the artist for his
point of relief in his canvas, in your
photoplay you must lead your audi-
ence safely and consistently over the
climax you have led it to expect when
your story opens. Don't be ashamed
to acknowledge you know nothing
about technique when you begin. If
it is ever your good fortune to meet
and talk with editors and directors,
listen to and absorb everything they
have to say. Asked for closer details,
my plays, comedy or drama, all run
not less than thirty scenes to a reel,
seldonn more.

"The synopsis is kept as short as
possible — yet not within three hun-
dred and fifty words, and the story
fully given — with its climax cited — so
that the director knows exactly what
he is reading before he begins the
play. I don't number scripts in
scenes at the side. I number them
down through the center above each
scene. All my titles and inserts are
written wholly in capitals, indicating
that all capital letters are to be
thrown on the screen. On the title
page of my plays I enumerate my
characters following with the exte-
riors and interiors numbered accord-
ing to stage-sets. My characters- are
named as 'human beings.' I write
my scene matter fully but as econo-
mically in adjectives as possible.
Spelled in one nowadays, scenario
writing means hard word — and hus-
tle."

The Vital Punch

E. M. Wickes undertakes to ex-
plain the meaning of the photo-
play punch. He publishes a list

of solutions from authorities who
endeavor to explain the "punch with
a spike in it." The punch in a photo-
play is really unexplainable, but
Wickes, in desperation, delved into
life's dictionary and uncovered this:
"A punch is hypnotism and magnetism
combined — the something in all ob-
jects, animate or inanimate, that de-
mands attention. It makes us forget
our surroundings, steals our attention
and forces us to think, hope, fear, cry
or laugh. It may be a surprise, but
it must be a natural surprise, the log-
ical effect of a certain cause. Punch
ma}' be nerve-racking suspense with-
out the sudden twist — the suspense
resulting from acts that are ever sub-
ject to change."

Before or After?

We are receiving many inquiries as
to the placing of the cast of charac-
ters. Shall we write the cast before
or after the synopsis? seems a vital
question to many beginners. Really,
it is a small matter. One authority,
for instance, advises using the cast
following the synopsis. Our habit is
just the contrary. We think it im-
proves the appearance of the script to
follow title with cast of characters and
then the synopsis. If .you write the
properly-prepared script the cast will
be short and the synopsis will be
short. Hence all can be placed on the
first page of the script.

Questions Answered

, Are photoplays ever carefully read
and accepted if not typewritten? They
are not.

What is a melodrama? A melo-
drama is the plot in which the greaser
runs amuck with the bowie knife and
is finally slaughtered by the brave
sheriff. Red blood and thrills is an-
other definition.

Can a beginner start to write two-
reel stories before selling one-reel
stories? Sure; can start to write any-
thing. However, it is far better to
learn to walk before endeavoring to
run. It is essential that you, write the
single-reel story acceptably before
embarking on the more pretentious ef-
fort. There is, or should be, twice as
much story in the two-reel than one-
reel effort.

Is it a good policy to have "visions"
in a play? It is not. They please
motion picture theatre patrons, but
they do not please the editor. If you
wish to market your work, avoid trick
effects.

Is this theme hackneyed? "A young
man leaves the farm and his sweet-
heart behind him and goes to the

city " Say no more Pauline: that

leaving the farm plot had sideburns
when Methuselah was three years of
age.

Have you a list of old plots, and
one of those plots fresh and desirable?
We have a long list of old plots.

Those we _ deem fresh and desirable
we send away from here as soon as
possible.

The Hall of Fame

Roy L. McCardell, pioneer script-
writer, is preparing plots for the
Weber & Fields pictures.

Richard Willis has been commis-
sioned to write a series of photoplays
for Venus Features.

It is stated that King Baggott will
hereafter direct many of the pictures
in which he takes the lead.

Forms of Rejection

We sympathize with our friends
when they object to present forms of
rejection slips. The checked form of
rejection is frequently misleading, but
at that it is not as bad as the rejection
which is sent out to the impossible
writer telling him that "we regret that
the enclosed is not available to our
present needs. However, this does not
mean that your story is not meritori-
ous, etc., etc." There should be a
rejection form telling a certain class
of writers that "we are of the opinion
that it is useless for you to try to
write photoplays." Very often such
advice would do the misguided one a
kindness and aid in clearing the mai>,
ket of impossible "masterpieces."

Her Strongest Point

An Atlanta, Ga., young lady writes
that her strongest point in script-
writing is the art of visualizing. She
says when a plot comes it is worked
out in her mind with actual charac-
ters from start to finish before a word
is put on paper. "So far as I am
concerned that film has actually been
acted before my eyes with real peo-
ple, asid I move those people through
every detail of every scene over and ■
over again until the whole thing is
smooth and complete. Then I sit
down and write it and cannot put
down the words fast enough. Two
solid years of 'comebacks' hasn't
dimmed my enthusiasm in the least,
but in that time I have written but
twenty scripts and have plenty of time
yet to fail or succeed." Here is a
3'oung lady who has labored for two
years and is not discouraged. This young
lady's knack of visualization is a qual-
ification that is to be envied. Her tal-
ent should be cultivated by others — also
her persistence.

Glad to Hear from You

Have you suggestions for bettering
this department? Are there any items
anent the art of photoplay-writing
which you think we have not touched
upon th"' wiuld be interesting to all
our readers? Write to the department.
We have helped many hundreds and
will help you. For personal replies
kindly enclose a stamped and self-
addressed envelope.

Advertising

I HAVE on my desk a very neat
little blotter. Its size is about
three by six inches. It is of a glazed
buff color with some red margins and
reads as follows:

SAXE THEATRE
Frank Cook, Manager.
Music under the direction of X.

Lubovitzki
EXCLUSIVE PROGRAM FOR
Mon. and Tues. Nov. 10 and 11.

1. Overture — Selected ....Lubovitzki

2. Drama (Exclusive) Selig

"Between Rifle Sights."

3. Song — '"Dying From A Kiss"'

Broh and Burnee — The Harmony
. Boys.

4. To-day's Exclusive Feature — Essa-

nay —

"THE WHEELS OF SAFETY"
Part I.

5. Part II.

6. Song — '"Normandy"

Broh and Burnee — The Harmony
Boys.

7. Comedy (Exclusive) Lubin

"The New Maid"
"A Watersoaked Hero."
COMING: Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Nov. 12-13
"WHEN THE EARTH TREM-
BLED"

A Story of the San Francisco Earth-
quake. A Lubin Feature in Three
Parts.

This little blotter is one of the neat-
est prograr. mes I have seen for a
very long time. It is well printed,
very neat in appearance, in other
words, it is a refined card that will
escape the fate of so many advertis-
ing sheets — the waste basket.

Pictures so neatly advertised can
not be but good.

The beauty of this little blotter is
that even the most refined woman is
not ashamed to be seen in the street
with a copy in her hands.

Many exhibitors are wasting much
money in using too cheap printing
and too low a grade of paper. No
one wishes to carry home common
circulars.

Visits Eagle Frame Company

While in Chicago. I visited the fac-
tory of the Eagle Frame Company
and I was surprised to find such a

large stock of the most varied frames
for the display of posters and of pho-
tographs. Joseph Guercio, the man-
ager, is of an inventive turn and cre-
ates new models daily. To tell the
truth, Guercio is a man with some ex-
perience and he has gained his prac-
tical experience in the show business.
As an exhibitor he has found all the
draw backs of many poster frames.
One claim of Guercio is:

"Experience has taught us that
frames opening from the front on
hinges, like the Eagle frames, fasten
the poster more securely, give them
a smoother surface and improve their
appearance."

The new 1914 Catalogue D of the
Eagle Frame Company at 506 N. Car-
penter street, Chicago, 111., gives nu-
merous illustrations of their various
styles of frames and easels. These
frames and easels are finished in gloss
mahogany, flat mahogany, black, dark
green weathered oak, mission or any
finish the exhibitor may desire to
match with the wood or decorations
of his lobby. The frames are all
guaranteed well seasoned to stand
any weather conditions.

With the great variety of posters,
the manufacturers of frames have
been overtaxed to build frames strong
enough to hold the large six and eight
sheet posters.

As I have often said before, the
poster by itself is not always so ob-
jectionable, but the criticism on post-
ers is due to the manner in which
they are displayed.

In Milwaukee I have noticed a
theatre which presented a mighty
poor display, as two six sheet posters
hanging by ropes were at the mercy
of the wind. At the Alhambra Thea-
tre, one of the Saxe houses, I found
in the lobby a six sheet poster which
had a very different appearance. The
poster was mounted fiat in a large
frame made of a wide gilt moulding
and a velvet mat. This large frame
was hung against the wall and in
front of it were grouped a number of
plants in artistic vases. At a dis-
tance, the poster appeared as a large
painting and had lost all the ugliness
of a plain advertising sheet. While
this frame is rather costly, the re-
fined appearance of the lobby repays
the investment.

Ten Cent Sale a Success

Ralph Tippitt, the manager of the
Theatorium at 176 North State street,
Chicago, is an enterprising young
man, who after taking charge of a
theatre that was not considered a
very good investment, turned the
ledger by showing an increased daily
business.

Tippitt is ambitious; he does not
rest on a first success and he studied
a way to still increase the profits by
raising the admission to ten cents. A
rather risky proposition, at least in
the opinion of many persons who do
not believe the neighborhood is the
proper one for an increase in the
price of admission.

Tippitt, like all successful mana-
gers, does not stop to take the advice
of every one but he makes his plans
and sticks to his policy.

He started to secure some special
feature films of real merit for two
days of the week at ten cents, keeping
his regular five cent programme for
the balance of the week. Because
Tippitt knew how to advertise, by
adding some neatly painted show
cards and calling the attention of his
patrons to the fact he was show-
ing a different line of pictures and
was giving them full value, he made a
success.

The experiment has proven so sat-
isfactory that the ten cent days have
been increased and in the near future
the Theatorium will be a regular high
admission photoplay house.

The experiment of Mr. Tippitt
proves once more that the public
does not object to a ten cent admis-
sion. In fact, many persons go by
the price. Have two articles of the
same quality and same value, quote
one at one dollar and the other at
seventy-five cents, and the chances-
are that you will sell more of the
dollar articles than of the lower price,
under the belief that as it costs
twenty-five cents more it is of supe-
rior quality.

It is all in the way of advertising.
Tf your lobby looks neat and refined
the patrons have the impression that
the pictures are of a higher grade.
The lobby is much Tike the show win-
dow. It is not the amount of goods
and siens that a storekeeper displays
in his show windows that bring him

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

What's What in Washington, D. C.

the trade; it is the way such goods
and signs are displayed.

Speed in Showing Pictures

While the Theatorium has not an
ideal location for a ten cent admis-
sion, we must remember that the pro-
jection is excellent under the direct
supervision of Al. Purcell, one of the
best operators of Chicago. I doubt
if the projection could be improved,
but I feel confident that the pictures
would be more pleasing if Mr. Tip-
pitt was to run them at a lower
speed.

It is not only necessary to improve
the appearance of the lobby and to
change pictures to justify the in-
creased admission, but the manager
must improve his show by running
his films at a more normal speed.

J. M. B.

PATHE "DUMMY" HALTS
TRAINS

A story too good to be kept quiet has
just leaked out about Fred Wright, the
fat and jolly director for Pathe Freres.

A scenario upon which Mr. Wright
was working required the chief charac-
ter, a man of former wealth but degen-
erated into a cheap gambler, to jump
from a bridge on to a passing freight
train in order to escape from his pur-
suers.

Mr. Wright had it framed up to have
a dummy do the actual jump, which was
too hazardous for even the most nervy
player. He found the proper setting at
Haworth, N. J., on the West Shore rail-
road, and everything was in readiness
for the expected freight.

But a West Shore through train
butted in. While tearing along at a
40-mile gait the engineer, looking up,
saw hanging over his head what was ap-
parently a man in a most dangerous po-
sition. He jammed on all brakes and
brought the train to a standstill, and
Mr. Wright had a hard time making
explanations to the angry train crew,
who had also to listen to the laughter of
the passengers. Finally they pulled out
and left the field to Mr. Wright.

The freight came along as scheduled,
but, to Mr. Wright's disgust, the same
thing happened with the crew of the
freight train.

By this time the train dispatchers at
the offices of the railroad company were
burning up the wires with lurid words,
ordering their station agent at Haworth
to get on the job and get rid of "those
crazy moving-picture people."

Katherine Kerrigan, sister of Jack
Kerrigan, has joined the forces at the
Universal Pacific Coast studios. She
will be Delilah in the coming produc-
tion of "Samson and Delilah," while
brother Jack will play Samson. Miss
Kerrigan has been a popular leading
woman with road companies for some
time.

DOWN in Washington, D. C, the
outlook for the coming theatrical
season is most roseate for the motion
picture theatre. Every office is using
the full quota of films issued by the
manufacturers interested in his par-
ticular sales company. Features have
become a demand and the number of
reels for a single show of five cents
is usually four, sometimes more. The
desire on the part of exhibitors for
first-run pictures is increasing, so that
sometimes it is difficult to meet re-
quirements. There is very little shift-
ing from one exchange to another.
Everybody seems satisfied with his
service.

A few new houses have opened and
others are in the course of erection.
All managers are looking to the in-
terest and accommodation of their
patrons in light, ventilation, heat, mu-
sic, and most of all, a careful selec-
tion of films.

The Washington Film Exchange,
which handles the output of the Uni-
versal Company, finds its spacious
new quarters none too large for the
various departments which it handles.
The poster service has especially been
increased with a view of relieving the
exhibitor as much as possible of this
work. Here the lithographs are
mounted and ornamented in a very
attractive style. Closer attention is
also paid to the condition of returned
reels by a competent force.

When Manager C. W. Swain, of the
General Film Company, was ques-
tioned about the outlook for the win-
ter he was happy.

"I haven't enough reels to supply
my patrons," he said, "though I am
using our entire output, including fea-
tures. I could use many more films
if I had them. There is a great de-
mand for comedy, more than the sup-
ply. The educational film is not as
popular as has been expected, except
when it is interwoven in an interest-
ing photoplay. Only an exceptional
scenic picture is enjoyed by the aver-
age patron of the motion picture,
though these very same patrons will
demand beautiful scenery as a back-
ground for a drama.

"Most of the picture-goers want to
be entertained and amused without
having instruction thrust upon them.
At the same time they want the stories
to teach some definite lesson. An-
other thing, the photoplay patrons
want outdoor scenes. The day of stu-
dio scenes composing an entire drama
is past. Painted scenery is the prop-
erty of the legitimate stage: the mo-
tion picture must be nature. The
features are being run in the ground
by the exhibitor. I advise two a week
and when my patrons take my advice
they find their box-office receipts are

larger per week than if they had a
feature every day."

No matter how busy Manager Cun-
ningham, of the Mutual Film Ex-
change, may be, he manages to
squeeze in at least a few minutes for
a visitor. Mutual first-runs are very
popular in Washington, some of the
houses giving an entire program of
daily first-runs. The features of this
exchange have displaced many of the
foreign features that were used by
some down-town theatres. The Mu-
tual Exchange has gotten its share of
the new theatres opening this fall.

The local office of Warner's Fea-
tures has broadened its scope. Owing
to the fact that a feature has become
a part of the daily show of down-
town theatres, the establishment of
this exchange became a necessity.
Questioning the winter outlook, the
manager said: "We are using our en-
tire output in this vicinity and could
use more if there were more features
of the desired standard to be handled.
We use comparatively few of the for-
eign films now, because we can get
better and ones more to the liking of
the American public in this country.
Except when it is a classic or a his-
torical drama, the American manufac-
turer knows best how to satisfy his
own countrymen. This condition is
very pleasant and shows the wisdom
of the American makers."

Notes

"Quo Vadis" could have a run of
nearly two weeks at the Columbia
Theatre, one of Washington's high-
priced legitimate theatres, with stand-
ing room only all the time.

The production of the Famous
Players Film Company are appearing
at The Garden with crowded houses.
James O'Neill in "The Count of
Monte Cristo," received a big ovation
recently.

"Les Miserables" was given its in-
itial performance at the National The-
atre, a home of first-class plays, in
two performances on Sunday. A dis-
tinguished audience of dramatic crit-
ics, scholars, college professors, and
social and official lights were present.

W. H.

MANUFACTURERS' NOTE

There is to be a section devoted to
motion picture materials at the Second
Annual convention of the Photographic
Dealers' Association of America, to be
held at the Hotel Sherman, Chicago,
111., March 24, 25, 26 and 27, 1914.
Manufacturers of motion picture appa-
ratus are invited to take part in the
convention. Mr. Charles H. Huesgen,
of 456 Fourth avenue, New York City,
is president, and all communications
should be addressed to him.

jijfagk Mvtsic and the
to^^lkw Picture

Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address : Music Department, The Motion Picture News

SOME one wrote an essay on "Music
for the Picture," and said: "Some
persons appreciate good music. It is
a profitable stunt to try and merit
their appreciation."

What does the writer mean? Does
he claim that to please a few lovers
of grand opera, the orchestra should
play the full overture of "II Trova-
tore" during a fight between cowboys
and Indians?

This writer encourages the exhib-
itor to follow the very wrong policy
which has done so much to retard the
prosperity of motion pictures, viz., to
listen to fads and to act without good
judgment.

When I reproached a manager for
running his pictures too fast, he told
me: "Some patrons who call during
the noon hour and who have not
much time, yet who want to enjoy
the full show, request us to run the
reels as fast as we can."
This is a foolish idea.
Any manager should have more
common sense than to displease a
whole audience, injure the eyesight
of others, and give a poor reputation
to his house to merely please a few
selfish men who have only thirty min-
utes at the lunch hour to see pictures?
Such a mrnager cannot make a suc-
cess of his theatre. Reels run at a
speed of ten minutes are hard on the
eye and disgust the audience because
there is no time to read the sub-
titles.

Large Screen Undesirable

Other exhibitors want a big screen
because they have a few patrons with
weak eyesight who insist in taking
the last seats and who call for a large
picture. This is another bit of fool-
ishness. A picture loses much of its
richness when it is magnified.

The same applies to the posters.
Because some persons with a single
nickel in their pocket ask to see all
the posters before they can decide in
which theatre they will spend the
lone nickel, this abuse of posters
which is a disgrace to our streets has
arrived

The patrons of a motion picture
theatre are a good deal like shoppers.
Then never know what they want and
the hardest ones to please prove to
be the most undesirable customers.
We have too many of these time-
killers, who visit the stores, bother
the clerks, and walk out without mak-
ing a purchase. We have them in the
show business. They will stop in
front of a theatre, argue on the pos-
ters, question the singers, question
the music, make suggestions, and
walk away without spending a nickel.

While I claim courtesy is a good
policy, I do not think that it is wise
to listen to everyone, as by so doing
you please no one and you don't know
where you stand. A theatre must
have a well-defined policy and stick
to it. It is impossible to please
everyone, and this has been the great
mistake of many of our exhibitors —
to try to please all classes. Tastes
are different. Try to please one class
and try to make of this class your
regular patronage.

I freely admit that we have had a
number of persons who go to a mo-
tion picture as a mere pastime. They
cannot enjoy a good story, clever act-
ing, fine photography, appropriate
music, but they like a rag time tune.
If you want to please this class, you
are sure to disgust the real lovers of
motion pictures.

A Hard Question Discussed

I stated my experience at Mr.
Sievers' Grand Central Theatre in St.
Louis, where the refined audience ap-
preciated the excellent music and
sound effects, so well timed with the
actions depicted on the screen. This
class of patrons would have been dis-
gusted if, to please a few persons, the
orchestra had struck a good jolly old
song during the very pathetic scene
of the man diving to rescue the little
girl.

Mr. Sievers does not listen to wild
advice. He caters to a certain class
of lovers of motion pictures, and by
sticking to his policy of appropriate
music for the picture, he has made a

name and a fortune. The ones who
cannot appreciate a good picture and
who call for much noise from the
orchestra pit, do not visit the New
Grand Central Theatre and Mr. Siev-
ers does not care for their trade.

There is a question that should be
settled once for all: "What is a mo-
tion picture theatre?"

Is it a place where pictures are
shown as the main program with
enough appropriate music to bring
out the effects and enhance the beauty
of the picture?

Is it a theatre where vaudeville is
the special attraction with a few pic-
tures sandwiched between the acts,
while the stage hands prepare the
scenery for the next scene?

Is it a concert hall where pictures
are shown as a sort of intermission
to give a rest to the musicians, or to
act as a background to the orchestra?

I don't say that in course of time
we will not have pictures produced to
follow a musical composition, but the
pictures of to-day are produced with-
out any consideration to the inci-
dental music. The producer is very
attentive to see that the actors take
the proper positions to ensure the
best stage effects, but he does not
stop to think that if he was to allow
twenty-five or fifty more feet to the
scene, he could help the music. The
producer is an actor, he is not a mu-
sicion.

The real lovers of literature want
to read "Les Miserables" of Victor
Hugo, not to know what Jean Val-
jean is doing, but to read a well-writ-
ten book. When they go to a photo-
play house to see "Les Miserables."
they do not go to enjoy a treat in
literature. They go to see a succes-
sion of pictures depicting the princi-
pal feats of Jean Valjean. It is the
same with music. Lovers of music
will go season after season to hear
"Faust," to enjoy some excellent mu-
sic, to hear some great artists, and
when they go to a motion picture
theatre to see "Faust." it is not to
enjoy the music but to see the won-
derful motion pictures. While some

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

"Our Mutual Girl" Series Coming

Unique and Costly Pictures Will Show Transition from
Country Lass to Society Leader and Give Intimate
Glimpses of New York Life

special music has been prepared for
"Faust'' in motion pictures, it is no
more grand opera, only short selec-
tions— too short to please the lovers
of good music.

Why Not Music for the Picture?

If the photoplay house is a concert
•hall, you have to run the film at a
too slow speed to follow the music,
and if the theatre is a motion picture
show, you have to cut too much of
the music to follow the film.

The real lovers of music do not go
to a picture show for a musical treat.
They go to a concert. The same ap-
plies to lovers of good vaudeville,' as
they do not expect to find good acts
in a five-cent motion picture theatre.

You never see real lovers of mo-
tion pictures go to a vaudeville thea-
tre. They know that the films shown
there are not of the best, are a sort
of side line, and are not projected
with the proper care. I made this
idea last week when I showed that
the great Talbot Hippodrome of St.
Louis, with its long vaudeville show
of two and a half hours did not take
the lovers away from his neighbor,
the Grand Central theatre of Mr.
Sievers.

In a vaudeville house, the orchestra
follows the act on the stage, as it is
music prepared for the act. No one
could induce the leader of the orches-
tra to disregard this music to play
ragtime, a march or anything else to
please a few certain patrons. Why
should it be different with motion pic-
tures?

In closing I will state that it is not
a profitable stunt to play any selec-
tion requested just to please a few
persons. You must please the ma-
jority and if, like Mr. Sievers, you
have a reputation for appropriate
music for the picture, stick to your
policy. Do not disgust the ones com-
ing to your house with your sound
effects by playing celestial voices on
the pipe organ during a fight between
cowboys and Indians just to please
a few who do not know any better.

J. M. B.

McINTIRE & RICHTER
DISSOLVE

By mutual consent of James L. Mc-
Intire and Robert Richter, composing
the firm of Mclntire & Richter, who
for the past eighteen 'months have
been carrying on a motion picture ex-
change at 23 East Fourteenth street,
New York City, the partnership has
been dissolved. The dissolution took
effect on the 29th of October, 1913,
and it has since developed that Mr.
Richter has purchased all of the as-
sets of the partnership. Mr. Richter
will continue the business alone, at the
same address.

A PRETENTIOUS series of motion
pictures will be put out by the
Mutual Film Corporation, featur-
ing "Our Mutual Girl," who, by the
way, is Norma Phillips off the screen.
This will be an elaborate and costly
series of films, showing the transition
of "Our Mutual Girl" from a young
country girl into a New York society
belle.

In the course of the metamorphosis,
the girl will be shown in the theatres
and cafes of New York, in the smart
shops and in all the centers of interest.
It is promised that the real leaders "of

NON-FLAM RULES IN PARIS

From Paris comes an article dealing
with the new regulation of the Prefect
of Police to the effect that, from a date
as yet not decided on, none but non-
inflammable films are to be shown in
picture theatres in Paris. Naturally
enough, manufacturers were keenly
alive to the necessity of at once en-
deavoring to secure a modification of
this stringent and, apparently, auto-
cratic regulation ; but the only conces-
sion made by the Prefect is the post-
ponement of the date on which the
use of non-flam films is to be made
compulsory.

There is considerable reason for the
new regulation. Parisian picture the-
atres cannot be compared with Ameri-

New York life, public men, sociey wom-
en and operatic stars will appear in the
pictures and also prominent visitors
from abroad.

The series is expected to be interest-
ing, especially to motion picture patrons
outside of New York, as it will bring
them into intimate contact with the
busy life of the metropolis. Properly
to exploit vhis undertaking much adver-
tising will be done.

This series, as extensive, perhaps, as
any ever shown on the screen, is the
personal idea of Harry E. Aitken, presi-
dent of the Mutual Film Corporation.

can houses as regards the most impor-
tant consideration — that of safety in the
opinion of many persons qualified to
judge. Indeed, the theatres have often
been termed "veritable death-traps,"
and, though the more modern halls are
constructed and equipped on proper
principles the majority of Parisian halls
are said to be lacking in proper and
sufficient safeguards against a sudden
outbreak of fire.

CRYSTAL READY FOR WORK

The Crystal Film Company is now
prepared to keep pace with all printing
orders. For some time it has been be-
hindhand with its work, but now, thanks
to an enlargement of capacity, it is
enabled to meet all demands.

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^istructioii Department

T LLUSTRATION n u fn b e r one
1 shows the new theatre of Mr. J.
Bowles, the Morse, at Rogers Park,
Chicago.

The exterior shows a substantial
construction free from cheap ginger-
bread decorations. It is the theatre
of the future.

As may be seen, the traditional
ticket box of motion picture shows is

1 THE MORSE

not there. The ticket office is a cozy-
small room located on the side of the
long lobby and finished in white mar-
ble.

I have always been opposed to
ticket boxes on the sidewalk and I
feel confident that the reader will
agree with me.

Exposes Patrons to Weather

It is not very courteous to ask a
woman to stand on the sidewalk,
especially when it is cold and nasty
weather, and have her to remove her
gloves, to fish for the desired coin, or
to have a lady stand in front of such
boxes on rainy days in a pool of
water, an unmbrella in one hand. It is
not very polite to tell a woman and
children that they cannot enter the
doors of the lobby before they have
purchased their tickets, or to force
them to stand in line, in front of the
little round ticket box, exposed to
winds, rain or snow.

There is still another reason. A
woman does not like to open her
purse in front of an idle crowd look-
ing at the posters.

The round ticket box on the side-
walk has been a fad like so many
features in the motion picture show
business. The exhibitors came to the

conclusion that the round ticket box
was as essential to a motion picture
theatre as the mortar in front of a
drug store or the striped pole in
front of a barber shop. In other
words, the round ticket box has been
the emblem of motion picture thea-
tres.

I am delighted to see that the pro-
gressive exhibitors are discarding
these old traditions and recognize the
necessity of offering their patrons
more courteous treatment.

The next good feature to be found
at the Morse theatre is in the side
lights. They are not electric light
bulbs hanging on the side of the wall,
to shine in the eye of the patrons.

Indirect Lighting Used

The side lights of the Morse theatre
are electric bulbs inserted deep into a
plastic ornament of which the upper
part projects about one foot from the
wall. These side lights are based on
the principle of the indirect lighting
system. The electric bulb is invisible
but the light strikes the back and
upper projection of the plastic orna-
ment and fall back on the seats in
diffused rays.

With these side lights the house .is
well lighted without injuring the pic-
ture and without being a sore on the
eye of the patrons.

The Regent theatre, in Sheridan
Road, also managed by Mr. Bowles,
has the same arrangement of side
lights. In fact, the Regent is a copy
of the Morse or the Morse is a copy
on the Regent. Both houses are very
similar in the main features and to
talk of one is to talk of the other.
Both are of the most recent type of
construction, fire-proof, with all the
exits required by law. While they ate
very simple in interior decorations,
they produce an effect of solid com-
fort. They look refined. They please
the eye. They convey such a good
impression as to make one believe that
the pictures are better than elsewhere.

Illustration number two shows the
Butterfly of Milwaukee, Wis., a night
view.

Milwaukee has the reputation of
having some of the finest houses in the
country, at least has the largest num-
ber of fine motion picture theatres in
proportion to the population. The
Saxe Brothers are the kings of the
show business of Milwaukee.

The Butterfly is not one of the

houses of the Saxe Brothers but is
owned by some members of the Mu-
tual Film Corporation and uses the
Mutual service.

The big butterfly is an exact copy of
the one at the Royal theatre of Cincin-
nati, Ohio, but the arch, sides and cor-

THE BUTTERFLY THEATRE

nices of the Milwaukee house are of a
far superior design. They are not as
heavy in construction and are free
from ginger bread decorations. The
butterfly of the Milwaukee house pre-
sents a better effect on account of its
tasteful surroundings, while the one
of Cincinnati is more or less eclipsed
by the too massive columns and cor-
nices of the building and the abuse of
plastic ornaments.

The large windows over the doors
are made of stained glass, producing
a very pleasant effect, especially when
viewed from the opposite side of the
street.

The Butterfly theatre has 1,100
seats, a large pipe organ and the in-
direct lighting system. The comfort-
able auditorium is tastefully deco-
rated. The projection is excellent and
the house well managed, it is in fact
a model of cleanliness.

The Vaudette and the American

The old Vaudette theatre has been
remodeled with an entire new facade,
made of a very high square arch of
moorish design.

Mr. J. B. dinger is still master in
his American theatre and like others,
he has made progress. While the

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36.

lobby is small, a clever disposition of
mirrors over the doors, reflects the
light of the lobby ceiling and give the
impression that the lobby is twice its
real size.

The next issue of The Motion Pic-
ture News will be the Theatre Con-

VENTILATION of motion picture
theatres, a proposed amendment to
the Folks ordinance, so-called, govern-
ing motion picture theatres, which
would reduce the license for a three
hundred seat house from $100 to $25
and make the license for large theatres
$50, and the standee question were the
chief subjects discussed at the meeting
of the Motion Picture Exhibitors' As-
sociation of Greater New York, ,held
last Wednesday at the Hotel Imperial,
with Samuel H. Trigger, the president,
presiding. The meeting was an open
one.

Dr. Loughran, director of the Labora-
tory of Industrial Hygiene and Sanita-
tion, said that these laboratories had
devised a plan whereby the sanitary con-
dition of motion picture houses could
be examined and a certificate issued.
A committee of five, consisting of Mr.
Brandt, chairman P. Rosenson, William
Hollander, L. Germain and M. L.
Fleishman, was appointed to take up the
matter further with Dr. Loughran and
report back.

Mrs. Harry Kraft, treasurer of the
Widowed Mothers' Fund, thanked the
exhibitors for their work in aiding the
fund.

Ordinances Are Discussed

Mr. Hunt then spoke on the Folks
ordinance and declared that it is impos-
sible to comply with some of its condi-
tions. Alderman John A. Bolles, fol-
lowing Mr. Hunt, said that he had in-
troduced an amendment to the Folks
ordinance in the Board of Aldermen.
This amendment would reduce the li-
cense fees of motion picture theatres
very materially.

Rudolph Sanders, chairman of the
law and legislation committee, next
spoke on the action taken on the standee
law and stated that Mr. Nichols, chair-
man of the law and legislation com-
mittee of the Board of Aldermen, had
refused to report this ordinance out of
the committee and had informed him
that he had better take the matter up
with the other aldermen. He stated
that to this effect he had drafted a let-
ter, explaining the position of the ex-
hibitors in this respert and the favor-
able points with regard to the standee
ordinance. He requested that this letter
be signed by individual exhibitors and

struction Number in which several
theatres of New York, Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cincinnati, St.
Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit,
Cleveland and other cities will be de-
scribed by the architects themselves.

J. M. B.

that the same be sent to their respec-
tive aldermen.

Here follows the text of the letter:

"The ordinances of the City of New
York as they exist to-day permit people
to stand under certain conditions in
places of public amusement in which
machinery and scenery are used, but
do not permit people to stand in motion
picture theatres.

"The motion picture business is less,
certainly not more, hazardous than the
theatrical and vaudeville business and
the businesses conducted in many other
places of public amusement in this city.
The patrons of motion picture theatres
are certainly protected as well if not
better than the patrons of other places
of amusement.

"In theatres and vaudeville houses
the seats are reserved, and, as a rule,
but one performance is given during the
afternoon and one during the evening,
whereas in motion picture theatres
three or four performances are given
during the day and the evening. Be-
cause the seats are unreserved and be-
cause the people insist upon coming and
going at their will and sitting where
they please it is invariably true that
during each performance in a motion
picture theatre there are a number of
seats in the front and throughout the
auditorium vacant because people will
not sit so close to the screen, and the
glare of light upon the screen, or be-
cause people who come with each other
are unable to sit together, but prefer
to stand and await the end of the pic-
ture, at which time a number of persons
always leave the theatre. The number
of persons in the theatre, including those
standing, do not in many cases exceed
the total seating capacity of the theatre.

"Do you think such discrimination is
fair and just?

Letter Asks Help

"Are not the motion picture exhibitors
entitled to the same rights, privileges
and conditions as are granted to others
in the entertaining business?

"There is now pending before the
committee on law and legislation of the
Board of Aldermen an ordinance which
grants to the motion picture exhibitor
the same privileges which are enjoyed
by theatrical, vaudeville and other pub-
lic entertainers, but the committee re-

fuses to report and it is impossible to
have the ordinance acted upon.

''Will you assist us to eliminate this
unfair discrimination? Will you do
your part in compelling the committee
to report on the ordinance or have it
discharged from further consideration
thereof so that the ordinance may be
brought before the board and consid-
ered upon its merits?"

THREE RITUAL MURDER FILMS
COMING

The trial and acquittal in Russia of
Mendel Beiliss for ritual murder is
having its echo in the motion picture
business. At least three pictures are
now being produced based upon the fa-
mous case.

The Italian American Film Corpora-
tion is producing a three-reel picture
entitled "The Horrors of Russia."
George K. Rolands has completed an-
other three-part feature entitled "The
Terrors of Russia." Mr. Rolands was
born in Odessa and is well versed in
the life and persecutions of the Russian
Jew. Most of the scenes in his drama
were enacted at Carmel, N. J., a Jewish
colony of more than 500 Jews and Rus-
sian peasants.

Ruby Features is putting out a three-
reel production entitled "The Black 107"
or "The Fate of Mendel Beiliss." Sid-
ney M. Goldin, who produced "Bleed-
ing Hearts" and "Sorrows of Israel"
for the Universal Film Manufacturing
Company, is producing the picture. For
this picture he has secured an entire
cast of Russian players. "The Black
107" is the name of a powerful anti-
Semitic Russian society. Jan Smoel-
sky, formerly a Revolutionist spy, is
one of the actors in this production.
Other releases of Ruby Features are
"On the Trail of the Dock Rats," "A
Serpent of the Slums," "The Thorns
of the Gay White Way" and "The
King of the Counterfeiters."

"NOVELLI MODEST," SAYS
KLEINE

"Of all the modest men I have ever
met," writes George Kleine from the
Cines studio at Rome to his Chicago
offices, "the Venitius of 'Quo Vadis?'
takes first prize. I met Novelli the
other day in the big Cines lunchroom
and congratulated him on his magnificent
work in our big productions.

"Novelli insisted that all credit be-
longed to Director Guazzoni and the
various other members of the cast in
'Quo Vadis?' He is a quiet, retiring fel-
low, not at all given to the vanity and
flourish so characteristic of our Ameri-
can actors.

"Certainly Novelli earned the title
of 'great actor' in 'Quo Vadis?' and cer-
tainly he is about the last man to tell
you so. He is decidedly shy, with a
soldierly bearing, and the gentlemanly
calm which the men of Italy whom T
have met here carry with them."

New York Exhibitors Discuss Legislation

Folks Ordinance, Standee Question and Amendment Lower-
ing License Fees Are Principal Subjects before Meeting

INTERESTING FILM REVIEWS

Educational — Industrial — Scenic — General

THE Tide of Destiny. Selig. (Nov.
12.) General Film Company
Exclusive Service. — Featuring a
thrilling dive from a great height.
Frank, a novelist, loves Hazel, who
marries Ferguson, a millionaire,
though she loves Frank. Having been
jilted, Frank becomes a hermit and
later saves Hazel's little child from
death by a wonderful dive. But at
the time of the dive the girl was in
no immediate danger. He marries
Hazel, as Ferguson has died.

His Nephew's Scheme. Edison.
(Nov. 12.) — "Faint heart ne'er won
fair lady." The judge, who was en-
gaged for twelve years to the same
girl, but never marries her, learns
this too late. His nephew, a lawyer,
loves a widow, but they have a petty
quarrel and she goes away. She hap-
pens to the town where the judge
''holds forth" and makes him her
slave, so much so that he becomes
the defendant in a breach of promise
suit from Susie, his 12-year fiancee.
To square himself has him puzzled,
so he asks his nephew's advice. The
younger man spreads the rumor that
Susie is worth $50,000 and all the
town's swains flock to her. She mar-
ries one of them, the widow patches
things up with the nephew and the
judge is left cold, with a bill of $500
for professional advice.

Mary Jane. Vitagraph. (Nov. 12.)
General Film Co. Exclusive Service.
— -Rather an original comedy. Mr
Brown leans up against the door
jamb and gets the mark of a hand in
flour on his back. Mrs. B. accuses
him of hugging the cook and she is
discharged. Mary Jane takes her
place. She places her hand on the
same door jamb covered with flour
and Mr. B. gets the same thing again,
and Mary Jane is ordered to go. The
grocer calls, and as he leaves Mr. B.
notices he has the mark of Mrs. B's
hand on his back, caused by the same
thing. There is an awful mixup until
the whole thing is explained and Mary
Jane, who is Mr. B's pet aversion, is
rehired.

Lizard Lore. Patheplay. (Nov.
12.) — A very interesting and educa-
tional treatise on the habits of vari-
ous lizards, explaining the evolution
of the snake from the lizard. The
collared lizard is the first to be shown.
The Gila monster, found in the south-
western part of this country, makes

an interesting subject. It is the only
poisonous lizard known. The Aus-
tralian Stumptailed lizard, feeding on
grasshoppers and birds' eggs, is a
stranger to this climate. Cyclodes
and Moluccas, the Spiny lizard of
Africa, and the Ceylonese Monitor,
which is sometimes found eight feet
long, complete the picture.

Coast of California Near Carmel-
By-The-Sea. Patheplay. (Nov. 12.)
—On the same reel with Lizard Lore
and about 300 feet in length. The
pictures are tinted, the scenery being
some of the wildest in the country.
The colors and the wonderful photo-
graphy are of such beauty that one
of poetical mind would naturally com-
pose while watching the views. It is
magnificent, and all regretted its
short length.

The Last Laugh. Essanay. (Nov.
12.) — Augustus Carney and Marguer-
ite Clayton appear in the leading
roles. "He who laughs last, etc." is
the title meaning. Mr. Brown arrives
at a boarding house, where he is sus-
pected of being a Mr. Wallace Brown,
the heir to a million or so. He is
treated like a prince, his rent money
refused and the other boarders suffer
to make him happy. Finally, when
the daughter and he have planned to
elope, the mother takes her place and
he marries the wrong one. Then the
denouement, and Brown discovers he
has wed a crank, and she discovers
she has wed a comparative pauper,
and the girl has the laugh.

An Elopement at Home. Vita-
graph. (Nov. 12.) — Good, clean,
clever comedies such as this are al-
ways in demand. A girl and a boy
planning to elope are caught in an
awful predicament. The girl is caught
by the window shutting on her coat
and the boy is arrested by the irate
father, who thinks he is a burglar.
The boy, locked in a closet, escapes
to the roof, and from this point of
vantage and just able to reach the girl's
hand at the window, they are mar-
ried by the judge next door. Norma
Talmadge. Leo Delaney, Van Dyke
Brooke, William Shea and TTughie
Mack are the total cast.

Trying Out No. 707. Selig. (Nov.
12.) — A strong story dealing with the
honor system in vogue in the Ameri-
can prisons in which a man is given
a chance to make good as a trustie

A man is needed as a dynamite ex-
pert and No. 707 is the only one avail-
able. He finally pledges his oath to
make good, and does so. The money
which he earns is sent to a poor
widow who had aided him to do the
right thing. He is finally hurt and
Mrs. Love visits him. Her interest
and his good work gets him the par-
don he had wished.

Mixed Nuts. Biograph. (Nov. 13.)
— A short comedy that will amuse
greatly. The "nuts" escape. One, a
man, imagines himself to be Hamlet-
Romeo and makes violent protesta-
tions to a girl, not a "nut." The other, a
woman, is a semi-Ophelia and she
loves the girl's husband. This cre-
ates family differences until the keep-
ers arrive.

The Sea Eternal. Lubin. (Nov.
13.) Two reels. — There are two
things in this film that might be re-
medied and so strengthen the picture.
The newly born baby is too old and
Arthur Johnson, as a grandfather, is
too young. The story itself is one of
interest and above the average.
John, a fisherman, lives with his
wife, both being happy until the ar-
rival of Mason, a merchant, who
makes love to Mary. He gets her to
go to sea with him in a boat, osten-
sibly to rescue her husband, but
really keeps her out all night so that
Jim will drive her away. John gets
very angry at this and will not help
them when a storm comes up. Their
little child is left in the charge of
neighbors and John leaves, thinking
Mary dead. Years pass by and Ned,
the foster brother of John's little girl,
loves her. Crazy Mary takes a great
fancy to the bride, not knowing her
to be her own child. She goes to sea
in a leaky rowboat to bring Ned
back to the girl, and the boat sinks.
She is saved by John, who has come
to the town by chance and the fam-
ily are reunited.

The Right Man. Vitagraph. (Nov.
13.)^George Cooper as the brother
in this drama, is very good. Earle
Williams and Lillian Walker also do
well. Ned. Rose's brother, has
plunged heavily in the stock market
and has apparently lost all. He ad-
vises his sister to marry Stron.u.
whom she does not love, because of
his money. She agrees. Without be-
traying himself. Strong "bulls" tin-
market and Ned recovers his money

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38

with interest. He then breaks the en-
gagement with Strong for his sister.
Rose, in the meantime, has decided
that she cannot live without Strong,
and tells him all the truth, adding
that she now loves him.

A Slave of Satan. Patheplay. Two
reels. (Nov. 13.) — A foreign produc-
tion. Just why it is called "The Slave
of Satan" is not entirely made clear.
The leading lady is not beautiful (as
advertised) and she is so excruci-
atingly thin as to spoil the effect.
She is a banker's daughter, who tir-
ing of her life, becomes an artists'
model. She is very fickle. The artist
loves her, but knowing her to be un-
true, consents to meet a banker's
daughter with the intention of marry-
ing her. The banker's daughter and
the model turn out to be the same,
she, however, denying the fact. Later
he proves this and she is cast in the
streets by her father. The. artist
meets her again later, when she is in
the depths of despondency and mar-
ries her, she having by this time "re-
formed."

Mrs. Casey's Gorilla. Biograph.
(Nov. 13.) — On the same reel with
"Mixed Nuts" and of about the same
quality and quantity. The names and
makeup of the various characters are
sufficient to arouse humor without
action. Count Castoria is tendered
parties by both Mrs. Casey and Mrs.
Murphy. When the latter has given
a "monkey party" Mrs. Casey decides
to out-do her and gives a "Gorilla
party" with her husband in the stel-
lar role. All goes well until the "Go-
rilla" sees the Count making love to
Mrs. Casey, and then the cage is not
strong enough to withhold his violent
passion.

The New School Marm of Green
River. Essanay. (Nov. 13.) — A "West-
ern" with nothing particularly origi-
nal to recommend it. A school
teacher is saved from insult from a
gambler by the decisive action of the
pony post rider. The Government
employee and the teacher having de-
cided they love one another, arrange
a code of signals with pistol shots.
The postman is held up one day after
having fired the arranged signal and
the girl saves him from robbery and
arrests the gambler and his aide.

The Boomerang. Essanay. Two
parts. (Nov. 14.) — There is plenty of
action in this story. The government
has some very important plans stolen.
One of four men can only be the
thief. Irene, the daughter of the sec-
retary of war, loves Maxwell, who
unknown to her is a spy and the
one who has stolen che plans. The
conspirators discover the plans they
have stolen to be worthless without

the "key." A second attempt is made,
but Irene knowing this, places the
"key" safely away and substitutes
blank paper. She then follows the
thief and traces him to their den
where she is captured. She then re-
cognizes her former fiance. The po-
lice arrive shortly after and the girl
returns home with her father.

When Brothers Go to War. Lubin.
(Nov. 14.) General Film Co. Exclu-
sive Service. — A good drama, strongly
told, dealing with the recent and pres-
ent unrest in Mexico. Two bro:hers
divide the property of their mother s
estate, the elder getting only an am-
ber cross, and the younger all the
money and property. The younger
also wins his brother's fiancee. Later
when war is declared the lucky
brother joins the state troops while
Jose joins the insurrectionists. Capt.
Valdez is captured by the peasant
soldiers under Jose, but he immedi-
ately sets him free, for which action
he is condemned and shot. His last
act is to send the cross to Captain
,,Valdez.

The General's Children. Patheplay.
(Nov. 14.) General Film Co. Exclu-
sive Service. — With Asta Neilsen,' the
German actress, playing the lead. Ap-
parently she has not a good vehicle,
for she does not excel. Karl, the gen-
eral's son, having passed a worthless
check, must get out of the country.
His sister, Thekla, gives him the
money, which he gambles away. Not
having enough to leave the country,
he hides. The girl becomes engaged
lo a rich young man, who is warned
about her midnight pilgrimages. He
follows her and finds her in the arms
of another man. He tells her parents

and they follow her and find the son.
The truth is then told and the boy
Karl forgiven.

Fanny's Constancy. Vitagraph
(Nov. 14.) — Ethel Lloyd as the maid
in this picture is extremely good.
Without her the picture would lose
much of its value. Hubby returns
home too fat. "Nobody loves a fat
man" says wifey and commences to
make him train down. Everything
fails. She writes to Jack, her cousin,
and asks his help. He half destroys
the letter to light his pipe; the other
half, which hubby finds, looks as
though they were going to poison
him. The police ferret out the truth
and the laugh is on hubby. Although
half of the letter is shown, being
burned to light a pipe with, when it
is again thrown on the screen as an
insert, it is whole.

When the Clock Stopped. Lubin.

(Nov. 14.) — The writer is to be con-
gratulated on the name of this drama.
It is most appropriate and has a good
sound. George Bennett, a real estate
broker, has invested all his money in
some property which he has almost
sold to a manufacturer at a large
profit. Enter the villian. Percy, the
manufacturer's secretary, has been
rude to the stenographer, and one day
George rebukes him for it on the
street. Therefore, in revenge he pre-
vents the sale from going through by
stating that the property is no good.
Later the manufacturer goes to in-
vestigate himself, at the wish of the
stenographer, and is pleased with the
land. He calls at George's house just
as a note is delivered to his wife,
stating that George intends to kill
himself at five o'clock. They rush

1

"A MAN AND A WOMAN"

Jiene Hunt and George Siegman in Reliance Drama

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to the office, arriving there at 5:15.
The clock in the office has stopped
and George still waiting for five to
strike, is safe.

The Slate Industry. Patheplay.
(Nov. 14.) — An instructive treatise on
the making and shipping of slate.
Pictures on this subject have, how-
ever, been shown before. The drill-
ing and blasting are shown, followed
by the sawing and shaping and the
final shipping.

Butterfly Preservation. Patheplay.
(Nov. 14.) — On the same reel with
"The Slate Industry." Shows the
methods of catching and preparing
moths and butterflies for museum
purposes. It does very well as a
"filler," but will probably fail to "get
across" with an average audience.
The photography is good.

Hypnotizing Mamie. Kalem. (Nov.
14.) — On the same reel with "The
Fickle Freak." Svengali, a hypno-
tist, on whom the original Svengali
has nought, needed a "subject" and
gets Mamie. She does very well on
the stage until her mother and fiance
come in. The water in the fire pails
help bring her to. The action is
quick and clever and should bring the
house down.

The Fickle Freak. Kalem. (Nov.
14.) — A tale of the circus which will
amuse greatly. The human pincush-
ion is loved by the bearded lady, but
he loves the Circassian girl. So the
bearded lady shaves and loses her
job. A letter telling her that her un-
cle has left her some property brings
the pincushion to her arms, but a pic-
ture of the property drives him back
to her rival. John E. Brennan's im-
personation of a Circassian girl was
great. Ruth Roland played the
bearded lady.

Mystery of the Crimson Trail.

Patheplay. (Nov. 17.) General Film
Company Exclusive Service. — A roar-
ing good comedy with more than
a touch of burlesque. "Happy," a
tramp, having been ousted, plans re-
venge. A red paint pot and brush
are his only weapons, but they are
more than sufficient. He also helps
a couple get married by posing as a
witness.

A Female Fagin. Kalem. (Nov.
17.) General Film Co. Exclusive
Service. — A good drama with plenty
of good action. Helen Gilmore plays
the lead. Two sisters in a depart-
ment store steal from customers.
One works as a sales girl the other
in the cashier's booth. The former
steals things and ships them through
the pneumatic tubes to her sister who
conceals it The proceeds are given

to the woman who keeps them. They
are caught through the detective
work of Grace, the daughter of the
proprietor, and her lover, the man-
ager. The police are called in and
the woman arrested.

Sir Highwayman. Warner's Fea-
tures, Inc. Three parts. — A melodra-
matic masterpiece. With the great
numbers of "Westerns" on the mar-
ket, it is indeed a relief to see one
that depicts "God's country" as it
really was when the rustler and .44
were rife. Rex Marlow becomes an
outlaw after he has seen his father
robbed and killed by the "crime
gang" and his property, which should
have gone to his adopted sister, stolen.
He robs only those who have done
him so much wrong. Later he meets
"Scotty" the girl, when he rescues her
in an accident, and when they have
recognized one another he tells her
his story, confessing that it has been
for her sake that he had done the rob-
bing. Finally he is able to restore to
the girl the money which is hers by
right, and reaps his reward in her
thanks. The cast is good and the ac-
tion rapid and clever. An Aztec
treasure cave also plays an interest-
ing part.

The Woman. Broncho. Two reels.
— It does not seem that the name
"The Woman" is a very appropriate
one, in this case being too general.
John, a consumptive, is dying. His
wife, an actress, is supporting him
by singing, when she is told that he
will have a fighting chance if moved
to Arizona. They manage to get

there and she takes his place in the
land rush, but is injured so badly
that she carmot get any allotment. A
wonderful stage fall is pictured. She
then gets a position in a dance hall,
where she is insulted until protected
by one of the miners. He asks her
to marry him, and in order to get
some money, she consents and com-
mits bigamy. John, however, dies
and the secret is kept.

During the Carnival in San Fran-
cisco. Keystone. — The parades and
jubilee that celebrated the anniversary
of Balboa's discovery of the Pacific.
There were soldiers and sailors ga-
lore. The West Pointers and Zouaves
made the best showing. A good pic-
ture, though very short.

A Woman of the West. Bison. Two
reels. — Directed by David M. Hart-
ford. The story is rather conven-
tional and possesses little to really
recommend it. One brether steals
money from his father and kills him
in the fight when he is caught. Andy,
a Mexican, demands blood money, as
he saw the deed. Together they throw
the blame on Frank, the other brother,
who is at the time in Butte working.
He surrenders on hearing the charge.
Through the girl and a detective he
proves his innocence and the two con-
spirators are arrested. The duel with
the girl in the last reel is very good.

"Red Margaret" — Moonshiner. Bi-
son. Two reels — Just why she is
called "Red" is not apparent. Pauline
Bush interprets the part well, but

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SCENE FROM "SIR HIGHWAYMAN"

Warner's Features.

SPECIAL FILM REVIEWS

WHEN the Earth Trembled, or The
Strength of Love. Lubin.
Three reels. (Nov. 13.) General Film
Company Exclusive Service. — -The
mechanical effects in this long picture
are wonderfully realistic. The San
Francisco earthquake calamity is util-
ized as the scene of the plot, the actual
earthquake and fire are most costly
and truthful representations of the
original.

Paul Girard, while in Paris, falls in
love and marries Dora Sims, the daugh-
ter of his father's former business
partner. His father, a shipbuilder, has
broken off with Sims and offers his
place to Paul, disowning him, however,
on hearing of his marriage to Sims'
daughter. Paul and Sims go West and
start a business of their own, which
prospers. The father, hearing of this,
buys up all the stock of this company in
order to ruin his son. This part seems
a little unnatural. Paul is sent to Sa-
moa to look after the interests of the
now nearly bankrupt company. The
ship is wrecked and all are believed
lost. The father extends time to the
company on hearing of his son's death.
Then the earthquake, in which build-
ings fall, the earth seems to actually
tremble and the crowds flee. Sims is
killed by a falling building. Dora and
her two children go to Philadelphia,
where the children are adopted by Gir-
ard, Sr., who refuses to take Dora.
She obtains a position as governess
to her own children. Paul, after nu-
merous adventures, arrives home and is
welcomed by the now penitent father.

A clever plot, well directed and good
photography. Films like this will al-
ways be very acceptable. A. D. M.

The Judgment of Buddha. Melies.
Two parts. (Nov. 13.)— This picture
possesses a little originality. A sultan,
having become the object of hatred of
his prime minister, is open to his at-
tacks. When the Sultan has punished
him for a flagrant offense, the minister
steals his favorite daughter and has her
brought up by a villager, later bringing
her back to the Sultan as a dancing girl.
The potentate, realizing her great
beauty, marries her, thus committing one
of the worst sins in the Buddhist faith.
Later the truth becomes known, and the
minister is executed. The Sultan and
his daughter-wife are thrown into "du-
rance vile." The girl escapes and im-
plores the aid of the high priest, who
gives him a chance. He is to build a
temple in ten days, but failing in this'
they are turned into stone images by
the god.

From Out of the Flood. Lubin

Two parts. (Nov. 17.) General Film,
Company Exclusive Service. — This is a
very strong dramatic story. The scenes
are laid in Dayton, Ohio, during the re-
cent floods, actual scenes from which
are shown. Andrew Tyler, one of the
' idle rich," marries a chorus girl on
a dare the night the dam breaks. They
are separated during the flood, and
Andrew shows his true colors in his
rescue of a girl from the hands of
what the sub-title calls a "ghoul." This
is incorrect as a ghoul is one who robs
dead bodies only. Florette, Andrew's
wife, dies, her last request being to the
girl who has taken care of her in the
hospital. She asks her to go to An-
drew's house and pose as his wife in her
place. Nan goes and Mr. Tyler, Sr.,
takes a great fancy to her. Andrew,
believed dead, has lost his memory,
which, however, returns after an opera-
tion. He is welcomed home, and Nan
tells him the truth. At the request of
his father, she stays. Later Andrew
knows he loves her and they are mar-
ried secretly.

Across' the Continent. Pilot Fea-
ture. Four parts. — There is not a form
of crime from murder to forgery that is
missed in this picture. The action is
plentiful. The reels are overcrowded
with action and it is difficult to keep
track of the various characters. There
are some very thrilling escapes.

The evil of drink is used as the basis
for the story and in this the film
teaches a good moral lesson. Adderly,
a saloon keeper, teaches George to
drink, thus ruining his home and killing
his wife. The terrible curse of Agnes,
the wife, against the saloon keeper
comes true. His son steals his wealth
and turns him out to starve, even after
he had become blind. The son then
affixes the blame for a theft on the
shoulders of Joe Ferris, an innocent
stranger, and sends him to prison for
three years. He escapes and proceeds
to vindicate himself. A pal of the sa-
loon keeper's son, dying, confesses to
the conspiracy to land Joe in jail, and
a warrant is made out against John,
the villain. He is arrested but escapes,
and, disguised as a girl, abducts the
heroine. She is rescued by the "come-
dian," a negro, and marries Joe, whose
name is now cleared. John returns to
prison blinded.

The Harper Mystery. Florence Tur-
ner Films Co., Ltd. Three Reels. — One
of the greatest detective stories that
has ever been produced. The charac-
ter work of Miss Turner is excep-
tionally fine, and she is supported by

a good company. The photography
is excellent, and great care has appar-
ently been given over to the small
details.

A girl finds a ring in Grubb's Alley
with a handkerchief with the word
"help" on it. She is arrested and asks
Miss Kent to defend her. Going to
the place where the ring was found,
disguised as an Italian woman, she
sends a monkey up the pipe to an open
window. The monkey returns with a
note to the effect that a woman has
been drugged and is held a prisoner
there. In another disguise her com-
panion, Joe Miller, another detective,
follows a man on his leaving the
house, but is caught by the conspira-
tors and held. They then send a note
to the nurse in the house where the
woman is held prisoner telling her
that they have been followed and to
be careful.

Miss Kent intercepts the note, over-
powers the nurse, and, in the disguise
of the old prisoner, is carried to the
other house, where her mate is a pris-
oner. By clever work she arrests the
three men, frees Joe, and together
they take them to prison. It then
appears that the woman is being held
for her money by relations. Most ex-
citing throughout. Does not drag. Joe
Miller is played by Coley Goodman;
Steve Bright, the villain, by Frank
Tennant. The story was written and
produced by Larry Trimble.

The Port of Doom. Famous Play-
ers. Three Reels. — The plot is good
and the acting agreeable, but the pic-
ture is not up to the standard expected
from this company. It is a detective
story, dealing with the disappearance
of a girl and her final recovery
through the work of Kate Kirby and
her father. A wealthy ship-owner
wishes to match his daughter with his
secretary. The girl disappears and
the Kirbys are notified.

An examination into the life of the
secretary leads to the fact that he is
leading a dual life and is already mar-
ried. The girl has shipped to sea in
the meantime as the wife of the man
she loves, i. e., the mate. News is re-
ceived that the ship will sink, as she
has been doomed. Kate catches her
at a Southern port and boards her.
They, however, refuse to give up the
journey, and so Kate goes along. The
ship sinks and they are saved by the
merest chance. The water scenes were
well directed.

The cast was as follows: Peter
Lang, Hattie Forsythe, David Wall,
House Peters, Hal Clarendon. Harris

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Gordon and Laura Sawyer. The work
of David Wall was most commend-
able.

False News. Gaumont. Two Reels.
(Dec. 6.) — Mme. Bertha Dagmar, one
of the highest paid women on the
French screen, plays the lead in the
picture. The French idea of Ameri-
can cowboys is good, considering that
the picture was produced in France,
with a foreign cast.

Two reporters, Miss Walker and
Jack Morgan, receive news of the
death of a famous banker. They go
to investigate and the story is told
them in confidence. Jack wishes to
break the confidence for his own per-
sonal gain, and to do this he must
secure Miss Walker's silence. The girl
refuses to work the dastardly scheme
with him. so she is bound and gagged

MIDGAR FEATURES GET MUL-
LER RELEASES

v G. Blake Garrison, who is at present
in Hamburg, has cabled to Midgar Fea-
tures at the New York office, 135 West
Forty- fourth street, stating that he has
just closed an exclusive contract to
handle all of the H. A. Muller releases
in America.

Cecil Charles Graham, general man-
ager, said:

"This is a notable contract, as Mr.
Muller is well known in the moving pic-
ture field in Hamburg and, in fact, all
through Continental Europe. He is a
man of vast experiences personally and
his staff, from producer to stage car-
penter, is one of the best in Europe.
We have looked over some of the ad-
vance scenarios and the first one to be
released, "The Mystery of Richmond
Castle," is a picture of unusual rapid
action throughout its entire length."

GENERAL FEATURE FILM
BUYS

Contracts have been consummated by
Joseph R. Miles for the output of Ramo
and Film releases of America for North-
ern Illinois. The General Feature Film
Company, of Chicago, which bought out
the M. & F. Feature Film Company, fell
heir to these contracts.

by a gang in the pay of Jack. She
escapes and hears that the financier
is not dead, but in a faint. So she
gets the "exclusive"' after all. Morgan
is killed in a fight.

What the Gods Decree. World Spe-
cial. Four Parts. — Josette Andriot,
who has received so much mention by
her wonderful work in Protea, plays
the stellar role in this production with
just as much enthusiasm as before.
Her work is worthy of praise.

Darsac, a wealthy African trader,
goes to India and steals a valuable
necklace from the neck of one of the
gods at the demand of his wife. After
a series of adventures he arrives back
at his home in Europe and presents
his wife with the jewels. Kali, a
dancing-girl, folloms him on his yacht,

managing at last to recover the neck-
lace and escape. She is recaptured,
and Darsac recovers his stolen prop-
erty. He immediately has his grounds
guarded by lions and his house with
numerous trap-doors. The girl on en-
tering the grounds manages to elude
the lions, strangles the guard in the
treasure-room, but falls through a
trap-door into a cage. It is only
through a superhuman effort that she
escapes.

She then pursues another course.
Stealing the man's child, she puts her
into a hypnotic sleep. One thing after
another happens until the trader is
only too glad to return the stolen
necklace, and Kali, in the goodness of
her heart, forgives him.

The action is well-timed and does
not lag in any place. Many novel
plans are worked with telling effect.

The Art of Scenario tVriting

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"CHECKERS" REACHES THE SCREEN

Exciting Racing Scenes and Natural Acting of Thomas W. Ross Features of Film Version

of Famous Play and Novel

' 1 /CHECKERS," the famous racing
V>< play of Henry M. Blossom, Jr.,
a production which for many years
was one of the hits of the legitimate
stage, has now reached the screen
through the six-part production of the
All-Star Feature Corporation. Thomas
W. Ross, who is the "Checkers" of the
original production, is seen in the title
part on the screen. His technique as
a motion picture actor is excellent, and
his quiet, natural acting is very pleas-
ant. The scenario upon which the
production is based was prepared by
Lawrence McGill and Eustace Hale
Ball.

In selecting the play and novel of
"Checkers" as its second release, the
All-Star Corporation has shown greac
acumen. Racing subjects on the screen,
or in plays, or in books, are always
popular,- because the majority of people
love horses. Especially thoroughbreds,
and the element of chance appeals to
the gambling instinct of humanity.

The All-Star Feature Corporation, in
this production, holds to its policy of
making noteworthy films. This picture
has many important scenes, all of which
were produced with proper dignity.
The racing scenes, for instance, were
taken at different race-tracks. When
the run comes on the bank, a specially
constructed bank is destroyed by the
angry creditors. The cast has been se-
lected with a view to getting the best
players. Thomas W. Ross again plays
"Checkers" and opposite to him is Kath-
erine La Salle, as "Pert Barlow." Jack
Reagan, as "Push Miller," gives an im-
pression of his part that places him in
a class with Tommy Ross.

The story of "Checkers," told briefly,
is as follows :

The Story of the Picture

Edward Campbell, known as "Check-
ers," works his way up from messenger
boy to a clerkship in a bank. Upon
the death of his mother he gets into
bad company, loses his position, and
is without friends who can help him.
Coaxed into a gambling house, he loses
his last dollar, and then is given a
job as dealer. One evening there is
a fight, during which a man is killed.
Checkers is suspected, but innocent.
Fearful, he determines to get away
from the city. Meeting a race-horse
tout, Push Miller, they make their way
South to the track. Winning some
money, they follow the horses to Hot
Springs, Ark.

Arthur Kendall, a young man from
Clarksville, Ark., gets very friendly
with Checkers. Kendall goes off on a
spree, and his sweetheart, Pert Bar-

low, and her father come to bring him
home. Arthur will go only if Checkers
accompanies him. Wishing to earn an
honest living, Checkers takes the op-
portunity, and goes to work in the gen-
eral store of Arthur's father.

Pert Barlow breaks her engagement
with Arthur, and Checkers falls in love
with her. Pert Barlow's father, wish-
ing her to marry Arthur Kendall, for-
bids Checkers to see her and tells him
not to come back to Clarksville until
he lias made $5,000 by honest work.
Pert gives Checkers an old California
$50 gold piece as a love token.

Leaving Clarksville, Checkers is un-
able to secure any employment. He
tries again and again. One day, broke,
he drifts down to the track, hoping
to meet some of his old friends from
whom he can borrow money. Pert
Barlow, her father, Arthur Kendall,
and others from Clarksville are at the
track that same day.

In desperation at seeing Pert and
Arthur together, Checkers bets the $50
gold piece Pert has given him on a horse
called Remorse, at odds of 100 to 1.
Remorse wins. Seeing Checkers, the
father of Pert tears her away. Check-
ers follows them to Clarksville.

As his $5,000 has not been earned by
honest work, Checkers knows he cannot
claim Pert. But while he is in Clarks-
ville a run is started on the bank owned
by Pert's father. Checkers uses his
ready wit in holding the crowd of
clamoring depositors, and finally saves
the day by the deposit of the $5,000
which he has won.

"CHECKERS" WOOES PERT

At this, Pert's father declares that
he needs Checkers as a son-in-law, Pert
approves the choice, and all are there-
fore happy.

Others in the cast are Gertrude Ship-
man, as "Cynthy"; Alfred Sidwell, as
"Jerry Halter" ; Marie Taylor, as "Aunt
Deb"; Carl Hartberg, as "Judge Mar-
tin"; William A. Williams, as "Arthur
Kendall"; Harriet Worthington, as
"Sadie," and Charles Graham as "Bar-
low."

■CHECKERS" DEFENDS PERT'S FATHER FROM THE ANGRY DEPOSITORS

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Not a Dull Moment

The film goes through its entire six
reels without a dull moment. When
shown at the Broadway Theatre, New
York City, to an invited audience, the
racing scenes drew much applause. This

they will always do, for they are very
exciting. Many small touches, such as
a puppy dog rolling around in the stall
in the stable scenes, were well received.

"Checkers" is a production founded
on a famous novel and a famous play.

It is put out by the Ail-Star Feature
Corporation, and up to that company's
high standard. On the screen it seems
sure to occupy the same position that
it did in the realm of literature and
on the legitimate stage.

"LIFE OF WAGNER" IN MOTION PICTURES

Klaw and Erlanger Select Subject of Great Historic and Educational Value for First of
Exhibitions in Theatres Hitherto Solely " Legitimate "

LAST Friday, at the New Amster-
dam Theatre, New York City,
where "The Little Cafe" is playing,
Klaw and Erlanger introduced a new
series of special performances by show-
ing in motion pictures the career of
Richard Wagner. Similar performances
will be given regularly hereafter on
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Fri-
day afternoons, and on Sunday after-
noons and evenings — afternoons and
evenings, in other words, when the
house is not given over to its regular
stage performances.

Considerable interest is attached to
the experiment. It is Klaw and Er-
langer's first move — in the exhibition
of motion pictures. Another prominent
theatrical firm, the Shuberts, have al-
ready followed suit. Last Sunday
evening at the New York Hippodrome
they gave over the big theatre to pic-
tures of the Mexican revolution, in-
stead of to the usual Sunday concerts.

Leave Vivid Impression

Artistically the Richard Wagner pic-
tures are of a high order. They were
accompanied throughout with appro-
priate selections from the Wagner
operas, ably rendered by W. H. Humes-
ton, organist. R. S. Pigott, narrator,
explained the pictures.

It would seem as though the venture
ought to prove successful. It will in
all probability, if it is properly adver-
tised. The people in New York to
whom these pictures will appeal, and
there are many such, are by no means
well aware of the artistic motion pic-
ture. They must be told, and directed.
The human interest of Wagner's life,
over and above his achievements as a
composer, gives the production a wide
public appeal.

To the writer the pictures were par-
ticularly interesting in that they showed
how much can be done — how much
undoubtedly will be done — by the edu-
cational film.

Here, in a few hours, is given a vivid,
comprehensive, literal, lasting impres-
sion of the whole life of an historical
character. The same result could be
had by no other educational method.

The Messten Film, Berlin, deserves
much credit for this excellent produc-
tion. The settings are admirable and

authentic. The likenesses of Liszt, von
Bulow, Ludwig, of Bavaria, are per-
fect, while the unnamed actor who took
the part of the master achieved won-
ders in his change of expression from
youth to middle age. Frau Cosima
Wagner is said to have lent her sym-
pathetic support in making the scenes
and incidents authentic and accurate.

Steps in Wagner's Career

The production is divided into four
parts, the first from Wagner's childhood
until he is conductor at Konigsberg in
1836. It shows the composer as a young
man at school and his marriage to Wil-
helmina Planer — Minna. The second
part finds Wagner a conductor at Riga.
He is compelled to flee from his debtors
and gets to Paris, where he meets
Meyerbeer and Liszt. He is in dire
straits, but a letter comes from his
brother with news that his opera,
"Rienzi," is to be produced in Dresden
and he must come there.

In the third part the success .of
"Rienzi" is shown, with Wagner's ap-
pointment as director of the Dresden
opera in 1842. He was then thirty years
old. "The Flying Dutchman" and
"Tannhauser" fail and he is dismissed.

Desperate from lack of funds and
debt, Wagner joins the uprising of
1849. Again he is forced to flee, but
this time Liszt gives him money and
helps him to settle in Zurich. He reads
the libretto of the "Nibelung Ring" to
his friends. Here the film punctuates
the reading of the manuscript with
scenes from the "Ring." Inspired by the
beautiful Frau Wcsendock, Wagner be-
gins "Tristan and Isolde." He quarrels
with Minna and they separate.

The final part shows Wagner at the
summit of his success. Under the pat-
ronage of King Ludwig, of Bavaria, he
is established at Munich in 1864. Polit-
ical scheming by the King's ministers,
who are anxious to turn the liking of
the King for Wagner to their advan-
tage, makes trouble for him.

Death Follows His Triumph

When the King sends HO, 000 francs
to the composer, the ministers see that
it is sent in the smallest coin of the
realm, and on a cart so that the people

may think the King is draining his
treasury for a favorite. They induce
the King to send Wagner to Lucerne.

There Wagner composes the "Meis-
tersinger" and is visited by King Lud-
wig. Cosima, daughter of Liszt and
wife of von Bulow, is separated from
her husband. She knew Wagner in the
lean years in Zurich. Minna is dead.
Cosima and Wagner are married. Wag-
ner's triumph at Bayreuth follows and
the film ends with the bier of the com-
poser. He died on February 13, 1883.

KEYSTONE MABEL

The hour is fleet and life is sweet
When Mabel "moves" before me,

And I am "Keystoned" in my seat,
The round world "reeling" o'er me.

When late my queen of gasoline
No charm possessed to hold me,

A vista gray for minds blase
The future did unfold me.

Upon the earth there seemed a dearth
Of new delights to cheer me,

Tho' I'd been told by young and old
That one was "moving" near me.

Some providential agent smashed
All mirth-subduing strictures,

And on my startled vision flashed
A world in moving pictures !

Oh! there's a joy, for man and boy

Tremendously entrancing,
One only feels when Keystone "reels"

Upon the screen are "dancing."

The hour is fleet and life is sweet
When Mabel 'moves" before me,

And I am "Keystoned" in my seat,
The round world "reeling" o'er me.

Milwaukee, 1913. Patrick J. Nolan.

BLACHE OPENS OFFICES

Of significance to buyers in territories
where features have not been accorded
the support shown in the other terri-
tories is the action of Herbert Blache,
president of the Exclusive Supply Cor-
poration in opening offices in New York
State, St. Louis and Indianapolis for
the rental of Solax, Blache American
and other features on the Exclusive pro-
gram. This move indicates the intention
to invigorate sluggish conditions.

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CAPTAIN KATE
BACK TO THE PRIMITIVE
LOST IN THE JUNGLE
A WISE OLD ELEPHANT
WAMBA. A CHILD OF THE JUNGLE
IN THE MIDST OF THE JUNCLE
TERRORS OF THE JUNGLE
THOR, LORD OF THE JUNGLE

(Continued from page 39)
there is no cause tor the name except
that it sounds melodramatic. The
revenue men and the moonshiners' are
constantly at war, the former getting
the worst of the fight. Finally they
plan wholesale war on the law-break-
ers. The gang is captured with the
exception of Margaret, who is sup-
posedly the leader. She is allowed to
go free by the agent, whom she has
befriended. He is blinded by a shot,
and Margaret, knowing he will be dis-
graced, leads him into town, places a
pistol in his hand, and surrenders her-
self to him, saving his reputation.

The Were Wolf. Bison. Two
reels. — Absolutely the most asinine
affair ever produced. It is an insult
to place it in the form seen by the
reviewer before any audience. Im-
agine the Grecian belief of the trans-
migration of souls used this way. The
girl turns into a wolf, and after a hun-
dred years meets the descendant of
the man, and not only do they know
one another, but the wolf regains her
form of a girl, and she shoots and
kills him. If this were a fairy story
it would be laughed at.

The Frame-Up. Broncho. Two
reels. — Apropos of the present politi-
cal unrest throughout the country. A
good story in which moral politics
win despite the efforts of the boss
and his gang. In order to defeat the
candidate for Mayor, the boss obtains
an affidavit from a woman of the un-
derworld which, if made public,
though untrue, would ruin his oppo-
nent's every chance. Through many
channels the action flows. The finale
shows the unearthing of the truth. A
wonderful automobile accident is
staged and the woman, knowing she
is to die, confesses that her affidavit
lays her open to perjury, and the
young man wins.

Our New Minister. Kalem. Three
parts. (Nov. 12.) — A man is sent to
the penitentiary for the theft of an-
other. Drink was his only offense,
and while in a drunken stupor he
steals for a lawyer, who has him ar-
rested. On his return from prison he
is avoided by all except a few, among
whom the new minister and his
daughter occupy prominent places.
The deacons of the church try to ex-
pel the minister for his friendship and
so-called radicalism. One day an es-
caped prisoner arrives at Lem's house
and is given assistance. While he is
hiding the sheriff hides also, hoping
to catch the escaped man. The law-
yer comes in and the sheriff over-
hears him confessing his crime to
Lem and immediately arrests him.
The romance between the minister
and the ex-convict, Lem's daughter.

is very pretty. But the town con-
stable or sheriff, Joseph Conyer, was
by far the best of all. The Kalem
Company informs us he played that
part in the original "legitimate-' pro-
duction.

L'Article 47. Majestic. Two Reels.
— -After the celebrated play by the
same name that has been shown in
nearly every stock theatre in the
country and abroad. George loves
Cora, a profligate woman, and refuses
to give her up at the request of his
mother. Mazilier, a Frenchman, is
attentive to her also, and it is because
of this the two quarrel. In the fight

Cora is accidentally shot by George,
who is sent to the galleys for five
years. Mazilier starts a gambling
house in Paris, where George on his
release finds them. He has, on his
leaving the prison, been forced to
sign a paper swearing to report to the
authorities any change of his address.
He does not do this and Cora threat-
ens to tell the police. To keep the
matter secret from his young wife,
whom he has just married, he sees
her secretly. After some time his
wife meets him there and the whole
truth comes out. He is arrested but
a pardon arrives in time to prevent
his return to jail.

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Commencement at Indian School,
Carlyle, Pa. Reliance.— Not as good
a picture as one would be led to ex-
pect with such a title. The students
drilling, a group of parents in cos-
tume, and Congressman Carter, an
Indian, and Chief Three Bears shak-
ing hands are shown. Surely there
is more of interest than that.

For Love of a Man. Reliance. Two
reels. — Woman's love has ever been
of greater strength than man's, and
this picture is a good exponent of this
fact. Mary, a servant, loves the chauf-
feur. She, the trusted servant, allows
Tames to look at her mistress' jewels,
which he steals. Mary is blamed and
is sent to the penitentiary. After her
release she goes from one position to
another, always her past found out,
until finally she is coaxed to steal
from the judge's house. She repents
and returns the silver, only to be
caught by James, now a chauffeur
there. She tells the judge the truth
on perceiving James' perfidy and the
latter goes to jail.

The Ultimate Solution. Bison.
Two Reels. — One of the best stories
Captain Peacock has written. India,
the land of mysticism, is chosen for
the main settings. A tourist steals a
little god from one of the temples
in India. He is followed back to his
home in New Jersey by fakirs, who
attempt to obtain the idol back. The
man, getting old, hires a secretary,
who on entering the room finds the
old man stabbed. Bainbridge, the
servant, accuses her of the deed, and
she has to flee, seeing that the evi-
dence is against her. She later mar-
ries Clifford, the nephew of the mur-
dered man. Bainbridge recognizes
her and blackmails her until finally
she is able to prove her innocence
through the aid of a diary of the
dead man, and Bainbridge is arrested.
Plenty of action.

Sorrows of Lincoln. Nestor. Two
Reels. — Francis Ford makes up very
well as Lincoln. The story of the
life of the great war President is one
full of interest and dramatic incidents.
There are long skips in this film
story, which shows but little of his
real life.

The Heart of a Police Officer.

World Special. Four Reels. — After
the Italian drama by Enrico Gemelli
of the same name. A very interesting
story is drawn out. A. Cappozi plays
the lead with much cleverness. The
story tells of a hunter, who, being
pressed for money to feed his starv-
ing children, becomes a poacher. He
is arrested by a scheming game-
keeper, who loves his wife, and given
thirty days to pay a fine of $60. He

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Port of Missing Women. Selig.
(Nov. 18.) — The picture itself is very
good. Decollete Nell goes into the
haven for women who have erred and
there tells her story. She tells of
her leaving the farm and going to
the city as an artist's model, of her
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As she finishes her tale her father
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Tangled Threads. Vitagraph. (Nov.
17.) — This sent a large audience at
the Herald Square Theatre, New
York, into roars of laughter. It is
indexed by the Vitagraph Company as
a drama. More "dramas" like this
are needed. Alice wants to marry
Jimmie, but Pa says "nay." There-
fore they concoct the scheme of hav-
ing Harry, a friend of Alice's, ask
for her hand, to draw Pa's attention
away from Jimmie. This works, but
works too well, for Pa accepts Harry,
and even issues announcements. But
Harry is engaged to another and
doesn't like the outlook "for a hang."
The father is made to see things in
the right light when he is caught
proposing to Miss Grace. Harry wo-
fully states that if he will let Jimmie
marry his supposed fiancee he will
keep quiet.

The Stolen Tapestries. Kalem.

(Nov. 17.) — There is only one fault
to find with this picture, the love-
making scenes are very timid. No one
would ever believe that the girl loves
him, or vice versa. The story other-
wise is a good detective yarn. Some
tapestries are stolen and a note de-
manding $5,000 received. Detectives
are put on the trail and the valuable
tapestries are returned in shreds.
More are stolen and a demand for
$50,000 received. This is paid. The
young man then goes on the trail of
the crooks and locates them. He wins
the girl.

Nora's Boarders. Edison. (Nov.
17.) — This picture is supposedly a
very small town, one of the kiafl
where the postoffice is in the general
store, and there is a town bulletin-
board instead of a newspaper. Yet
it supports a large boarding-house, ap-
parently has a myriad of bachelors,
has street numbers, and boasts a first-
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Ventilation Fight Still On

THE ventilation ordinance which has been the center of
much talk and action on the part of Chicago exhibitors
for the past few months was finally referred to a sub-com-
mittee of aldermen on Friday, November 14, to be discussed
with Dr. Young, and be reported back on Friday, November
21. This committee consisted of Aldermen Littler, Schaeffer
and Latchford. These three men are said to be in favor of
amending the ventilation ordinance as it now exists.

At the last meeting Mr. Nielson produced tests which were
taken of his theatre at three different times during the night,
and also a test which was taken on the street in front of his
theatre. The test taken on the street showed more bacteria
than did the one taken in his theatre when it was filled almost
to capacity.

It is thought that the ordinance will be modified to 800 cubic
feet of air per hour per person, as some theatres that have
installed systems supplying the greater amount of air claim
that they are not practical, and that the theatre cannot be
heated and at the same time supply the air required by the
ordinance.

Otto Roths in Chicago

Otto Roths, president of the Minnesota Motion Picture
Association, was in Chicago on Thursday, November 13, and
visited the headquarters of the local association. This com-
bination of exhibitors see the necessity of combining their
forces. This matter was discussed with Mr. Roths at length.

On the second Thursday in December a meeting will be held
in Chicago at which eight or ten states will be represented
for the purpose of making a national organization of the
present association.

Interests Band to Fight Censorship

It is claimed that since Major M. L. C. Funkhouser has
taken a hand in the censorship of film in Chicago, his rulings
have been so drastic that they are working hardships on the
film interests in the Windy City. During the week ending
November 3, it is stated he killed seventeen subjects, some of
which were features, also cut about fifteen others to such an
extent the story of the film was injured. In the past a film
has been passed by one censor and killed by another ; there
seem to be no set rules of what constitute a good or bad
lilm, what the film should contain and what it should not
contain.

In organizing it is not the intention of the motion picture
interests to do away with censorship, but merely to get clean,
intelligent and just censorship.

Let's give a little instance of how far these censors have
gone with their power. Not long ago the Vitagraph released
a subject in which a child while roller skating is picked up on
the fender of a street car. The accident had to be cut out.
Now, this was a film that taught a strong lesson, neverthe-
less it could not be shown.

Another point at issue is the fifty cents charged for a per-
mit for each reel of film. It is the contention of the motion
picture people that this expense should be taken care of by
the license paid to operate theatres. Money is being sub-
scribed by all interested, and the matter in all probability will
be threshed out in the courts.

Hershberg Goes to New York

William H. Hershberg, president of the General Feature
Film Company, left on Monday for New York City where he
will contract for several new brands of film for his feature
exchange in Chicago.

A. M. Eisner to Manage Mutual Exchange

A. M. Eisner, for several years connected with the Chi-
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Betty Schade, for three years with
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The All Star Feature Corporation
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The Special Construction Number of the MOTION PICTURE NEWS will be the
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Mouse."

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INDEPENDENT

AMBBOSIO Feet

Nov. 15 — The Sculptor's Masterpiece (2 parts,
Dr.)

Nov. 22— Griffard's Claw (2 parts— Dr.)

Nov. 29 — Goose a la "Colbert" (2 parts —

Com. Dr.)

AMERICAN

Nov. 15 — The Drummer's Honeymoon (Com.). 1000
Nov. 17— The Trail of the Lost Chord (2 reel

Dr.) 2000

Nov. 20— The Tale of the Ticker (Com. Dr.)

Nov. 20— A Modern Steel Plant (Edu.)

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Nov. 24— The Occult (Dr.) 1000

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Dr.) 1000

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Dec. 6 — A Divorce Scandal (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 8 — Trapped in a Forest Fire (Spec. Dr.). 1000

Dec. 11 — His First Case (W. Dr.) 1000

Dec. 13 — Armed Intervention (Com. Dr.) 1000

BISON

Nov. 11 — Madonna of the Slums (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 15 — "Laska" (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 18— The Raid of the Human Tigers (3

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Nov. 22 — Winona's Vengeance (2 reel Dr.)..
Nov. 25 — The White Vaquero (2 reel Dr.)..
Nov. 29 — The War of the Cattle Range (2 reel

Dr.)

Die. 6— The White Squaw (2 reel Dr.)

Dec. 13 — The Werewolf (2-reel Dr.)

BRONCHO

Nov. 5 — The Veteran (2 reels)

Nov. 12 — The Imposter (2 parts — Dr.)

Nov. 19 — The War Correspondent (2 parts —

Dr.)

Nov. 26 — The Reformation (Dr.)

Dec. 3— The Buried Past (Dr.)

Dec. 10 — The Woman (Dr.)

CRYSTAL

Nov. 11 — Baldy Belmont Wins a Prize (Com.)

Nov. 16 — Out of the Grave (Dr.) \ .

Nov. 18 — Her Secretaries (Com.)

Nov. 18 — Percy's New Mamma (Com.)

Nov. 23 — The Cabaret Singer (Dr.)

Nov. 25 — Hubby's New Coat (Com.)

Nov. 25 — Baldy Belmont Lands a Society Job

(Com.)

Nov. 30— The Convict's Daughter (Dr.)

Dec. 2— That Awful Maid

Dec. 2 — The Installment Plan Marriage....

Dec. 7 — A Woman's Revenge (Dr.)

Dec. 9 — Pearl's Hero (Com.)

Dec. 9 — Baldy is a Wise Old Bird (Com.)..
Dec. 14 — First Love (Dr.)

DOMINO

iv. 6 — The Judgment (2 part Dr.)

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Nov. 20— The Witch of Salem (Dr.)

Nov. 27 — Belle of Yorktown (3 parts — Dr.) . .

AMMEX

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Nov. 23— Oh! You Rubber

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Nov. 26 — A Son's Devotion (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 30 — Roaring Bill (Com.)

Nov. 30 — One on Tooty (Com.)

Dec. 3 — When Pierrot Met Pierrette (2 reel

Dr.)

Dec. 7 — Trouble on the Stage

Dec. 7 — Magnetism — Magnets

Dec. 10— Over the Cliffs (3 reels)

Dec. 14 — He Likes Things Upside Down

Dec. 14- — Nutty Has a Romance

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-"Dear Oscar" Finances a Theatre

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-The Little Peacemaker (Dr.)

-Gymnastics (Edu.)

-The Living Doll (Com.)

-Oscar, the Hermit (Com.)

-False News (Special) 2000

GEM

-The Bachelor Girls' Club (Com.)..

-The Surf Maidens (Com.)

-His Double Surprise

-A Trip Through Tunis and Algiers..

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-Red Margaret, Moonshiner

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IMP

The Temptation of James (2 reel

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-On Pine Mountain (Dr.)

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-Who Killed Olga Carew (2 reel Dr.)
-The Child Stealers of Paris (Dr.)..
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Oueen's Jewels 3000

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Mike and Jake in Mexico (1-reel

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The Joy Riders

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Efficacy of Prayer (Dr.)

The Claim Jumper (Dr.)

•Days of '49 (Dr.)

The Maelstrom (Dr.)

The Sign of the Snake (Dr.)

KEYSTONE

Wine (Com.)

Our Children (Com.)

A Muddy Romance (Com.)

Fatty Joins the Force (Com.)

Cohen Saves the Flag (Com.)

Louis' Sickness at Sea (Com.)

Small Time Act (Com.)

The Milk We Drink (Edu.)

KOMIC Fm>

Nov. lo — An Affair of Honor (Com.)

Nov. 13 — Biddy on Her Mettle (Com.)

N ov. 20 — Making Himself a Hero

Nov. 20 — Murphy's New High Hat (Com.)..
Nov. 27 — A Method In His Illness (Com.) . .
Nov. 27 — The Man with a Razor (Com.) . .

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Nov. 1— Taxicab 1098

Nov. 15 — Decreed to Die

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Nov. 25— The Pale-Faced Squaw 3000

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Nov. 8 — Levinsky's Holiday (Com.)

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NESTOR

Nov. 19— The Golden Princess Mine (Dr.) . .
Nov. 21 — An Elephant On His Hands (Com.)

Nov. 26 — Hilda of the Mountains (Dr.)

Nov. 28 — When He Lost to Win (Com.)

Dec. 3— The Brothers (Dr.)

Dec. 5 — Locked Out at Twelve (Com.) .

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Aug. 7 — The Green-Eyed Monster (Com.

Dr.) 1000

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POWERS

Nov. 17 — The Doctor's Orders

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Nov. 24 — Jimmy's Deception (Com.)

Nov. 28 — A Seaside Samaritan (Dr.)

Dec. 1 — When Joe Went West (Com.)

Dec. 5 — Cross Purposes (Dr.)

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Nov. 4 — Quicksands of Sin (Dr.)

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Nov. 8 — Broncho Billy's Secret (W. Dr.)..

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Nov. 18— The Lost Chord (Dr.)

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Nov. 25 — The Little Substitute

Nov. 26 — Dollars-Pounds-Sense

Nov. 27 — The Naming of the Rawhide Queen

Nov. 28 — The Brand of Evil

Nov. 29 — Sophie's Hero

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Nov. 17 — The Stolen Tapestries (Dr.) 1000

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Nov. 26— The Plot of India's Hillmen (Dr.)

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Nov. 28 — England's King at Liverpool (Top.)

Nov. 29 — In Peril of His Life (Dr.)

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Oct. 24 — The Man in the Hamper 1000

Oct. 26 — Mother Love 1000

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Nov. 5 — A Yellow Streak (Dr.)

Nov. 6 — Pathe's Weekly No. 65 (News)..

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Nov. 8 — A Phony Alarm (Com.)

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Oct. 21 — Luella's Love Story

Oct. 22 — Sleuths Unawares

Oct. 22 — Low Caste Burmese

Oct. 23 — The Doctor's Secret

Oct. 24— On Their Wedding Eve

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Oct. 28 — In the Shadow

Oct. 29 — Father's Hatband

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Oct. 31 — Fatty's Affair of Honor

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Nov. 4 — His Silver Bachelorhood

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Nov. 10 — Thieves

Nov. 11— The Right Man

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Nov. 14 — Fanny's Conspiracy

Nov. 16 — Miss Tomboy (2 part Special)

Nov. 17 — Tangled Threads

Nov. 18— His Last Fight

Nov. 19— Why I Am Here

Nov. 20— The Sale of a Heart

Nov. 21 — The Schemers

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Nov. 24 — Mary Jane

Nov. 25— The Swan Girl

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That purpose is and always has been to give the ex-
hibitors and operators the best projector that experience,
money and brains can produce.

Each person connected with the Precision Machine
Co. is an expert in his particular line.

Each machine used in the factory is the best we can
obtain at home or abroad — it takes perfect machinery to
turn out perfect work.

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EERLESS
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"The audience feels an
almost irresistible desire to
stand up and shout. ..."

Telegraph.

"Great enthusiasm reigned,
and the audience applauded
often."

Billboard.

" 'Checkers' looks like a
winner for many seasons."

M. P. World.

" 'Checkers' proves big
feature."

Boston Journal.

"The film goes through its
entire 5 reels without a dull
moment."

M. P. News.

" 'Checkers' a triumph.
Film staging of Blossom
play perfect."

Dramatic Mirror.

Could More Be Said?

The press, with one accord, pronounce
this a truly great motion picture
production. Read what they said of

Henry M Blossom Jr.'s Great Play

A FIVE PART MOTION PICTURE PRESENTATION

WITH THE ONLY THOMAS W. ROSS

IN PREPARATION

Dustin Farnum

IN

RICHARD
HARDING DAVIS'

"SOLDIERS
FORTUNE"

Burr Mcintosh

IN

AUGUSTUS
THOMAS'

"IN
MIZZOURA"

Tully Marshall

IN

EUGENE
WALTER'S

"PAID IN
FULL"

All Star Feature Corporation

HARRY RAVER

President

220 W. 42d Street, N. Y. City

AUGUSTUS THOMAS

Director- General

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attractions

12

Has Beaten All Records

THE LURE OF
NEW YORK

3- reel

4- reel attractions
in 1914

Closing contracts now
Good territory open

Solax & Blache Features

Fort Lee, New Jersey
Coming — Ben Bolt — 3 -reels

When You Build
Your New Theatre

Or Remodel Your Old One

you will find it helpful to have at hand a copy
of our AZ list ; everything you will need among
its pages. We can outfit you from street to
curtain. All makes of picture machines and
accessories. Ticket machines and ticket chop-
pers, indirect lighting fixtures, flaming arcs,
ventilating fans, purozone and electric orona-
tors, exit signs, electric signs, brass railing,
guard rails, lobby display goods including
brass or wood posters, frames, easels, also
posters of leading players, etc. Our line is
complete. We carry the stock and give the
service. Travelling showmen and exhibitors
beyond the reach of electricity should inquire
about our economic gas outfit. It's a wonder.

E. E. FULTON

156 West Lake Street Chicago, 111.

FOUR PARTS

We are willing to furnish positive proof,
that this feature has made more money
for exhibitors and for State Right buy-
ers, than any other.

Write for particulars to

New York Film Go.

145 W. 45th Street New York City

Telephone No., Bryant 1786

Feature Buyers

when you demand the right to have
your prints made on Lumiere stock
you can back up your demands with
reasons that apply to no other raw
stock. First comes Photographic
quality, then durability. What benefit
is it to get territory if you lose your
shirt because the prints wear out in a
few weeks because the film is brittle
and photography spotted like a leopard?

INSIST ON LUMIERE

DAVID HORSLEY

1600 Broadway, Mecca Building

American Agent for Lumiere Films

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WHY

Any film service that is unreliable — uneven and low grade is an
expensive service. Sometimes it costs an exhibitor all he has before
he tumbles to the reason.

Any film service that is absolutely reliable — delivered on time —
programmes well balanced — uniformly high in quality and pleasing to
to the fans, is a cheap service.

Shown under proper conditions Motion Pictures are the quickest
and surest means to honest wealth now open to man. But showmen
must be guided by demonstrated proofs — not mere high sounding
claims. The companies which make up General Film Service have
been the acknowledged leaders of the industry since the first Motion
Picture was made.

Here are the reasons why:

They were the first to manufacture films and, while developing
with their art, they were developing the art itself.

They made it and grew up with it, guiding every inch of progress
it has made.

Their knowledge of the making of motion pictures is the know-
ledge that made motion pictures what they are.

Their equipments for manufacture are the perfected cunning of the
men who invented and improved the equipments with which pictures
are made.

Their department chiefs are the experts who have been a part of
the great art since its creation.

Their actors have been trained for years, and exploited till their
names have become household words in the homes of every civilized
community.

Their plants represent a total investment of over twenty-five
million dollars. •

Their "brands" have been advertised so long and so extensively
that they are known and called for in every city and town on earth.
^ Proprietors of motion picture shows are now enabled to procure
all of these brands — the product of the pioneer and premier manufac-
turers—the cream of the American and European film product — on
one program. One program of matchless merit and absolute reli-
ability. General Film Service insures success from the very start.

General Film Company one.)

200 Fifth Avenue, New York

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D. W. GRIFFITH

Producer of all great Biograph successes,

founding the modern

Included in the innovations which he introduced, and which are
now generally followed by the most advanced producers, are:
The large or close-up figures, distant views as represented first in
Ramona, the "switchback," sustained suspense, the "fade out,"
and restraint in expression, raising motion picture acting to the
higher plane which has won for it recognition as a genuine art.

Among the motion pictures which he produced and

famous the world^ov

Adventures of Dolly

The Redman and the Child

For Love of Gold

Behind the Scenes

After Many Years

Taming of the Shrew

The Song of the Shirt

Money Mad

The Reckoning

Edgar Allan Poe

The Curtain Pole

A Fool's Revenge

Mr. and Mrs. Jones Comedy Series

The Voice of the Violin

The Drunkard's Reformation

A Baby's Shoe

The Jilt

The Resurrection

The Cricket on the Hearth

What Drink Did

The Violin Maker of Cremona

The Lonely Villa

Was Justice Served

The Necklace

The Country Doctor

The Cardinal's Conspiracy

The Renunciation

Sweet and Twenty

The Slave

A Strange Meeting

The Mended Lute

With Her Card

The Indian Runner's Romance

The Mills of the Gods

The Sealed Room

1776, or the Hessian Renegade

Comata, the Sioux

The Broken Locket*

In Old Kentucky

Leather Stocking

Pippa Passes

Fools of Fate

The Little Teacher

The Expiation

In the Watches of the Night
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
The Light that Came
Two Women and a Man
The Open Gate
The Mountaineer's Honor
The Redman's View
A Corner in Wheat

To Save Her Soul

The Dancing Girl of Butte

On the Reef

The Honor of His Family
The Cloister's Touch
One Night and Then
His Last Burglary
The Newlyweds
The Thread of Destiny
In Old California
The Twisted Trail
Gold Is Not All
An Unchanging Sea
Love Among the Roses
The Two Brothers
Ramona

A Child of the Ghetto
On the Border States
The Face in the Window
A Call to Arms

The House with the Closed Shutters

The Sorrows of the Unfaithful

Wilful Peggy

Rose of Salem Town

Examination Day at School

The Broken Doll

Also two, three and four reel features not yet released for
The Massacre, The Battle of Elderbush

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D. W. GRIFFITH

revolutionizing motion picture drama and
technique of the art

For two years from the Summer of 1908, Mr.
Griffith personally directed all Biograph motion
pictures. Thereafter as general director he superin-
tended all Biograph productions and directed the
more important features until October 1, 1913.

which have contributed to make American productions
er are the following:

Waiter No. 5

The Song of the Wildwood Flute

The Golden Supper

Greaser's Gauntlet

The Muggsy Series

The Two Paths

His Trust

His Trust Fulfilled

Three Sisters

Fisher Folks

The Barbarian

A Decree of Destiny

Was He a Coward?

The Lonedale Operator

Madame Rex

His Mother's Scarf

The Sunbeai_i

How She Triumphed

The Smile of a Child

Enoch Arden

Fighting Blood

Bobby, the Coward

The Last Drop of Water

The Sorrowful Example

Swords and Hearts

The Revenue Man and the Girl

The Making of a Man
The Long Road
The Battle
The Miser's Heart
The Failure

A Tale of the Wilderness

The Eternal Mother

A Blot on the 'Scutcheon

Billy's Strategem

The Mender of Nets

Iola's Promise

The Female of the Species

One Is Business, the Other Crime

The Lesser Evil

The Old Actor

A Lodging for the Night

A String of Pearls

A Beast at Bay

Home Folks

Man's Genesis

The Sands of Dee

ALBERT H.

Counsellor-at-Law

A Pueblo Legend

Two Daughters of Eve

So Near Yet So Far

A Feud in the Kentucky Hills

The One She Loved

The Painted Lady

The Musketeers of Pig Alley

Brutality

The New York Hat
The God Within
Three Friends

The Telephone Lady and the Girl

Oil and Water

The Sheriff's Baby

A Little Tease

The House of Darkness

The Yaqui Cur

Death's Marathon

The Mothering Heart

The Reformers

Two Men on the Desert

T. BANZHAF

Personal Representative

exhibition in America, including Judith of Bethulia,
Gulch, and Wars of the Primal Tribes

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Thousands of People are asking when they can see

The "MUTUAL GIRL"

announced in The Saturday Evening Post

ALL over the country, from Maine to
California, millions of motion picture
lovers have been stirred up by the adver-
tising- of the

"MUTUAL MOVIES"

And now, when these
millions of people go
out for a fine evening's
entertainment at
the "Movies," they
keep their eyes open
to find the theatre
that is showing the
MUTUAL'S Trade
mark — the solar lights
and the posters

utual
Movies

Make Time
Fly

With the "Sign of the Wing-ed Clod/

And this is NOT a mere advertising
campaign. The whole aggressive
MUTUAL Plan is merely being ex-
pressed by the publicity.

Many broad plans for great
filmsare being worked out
— The "Mutual Girl"
series being only one of
them; but it is a series
of fascinating human
interest pictures that
every woman and girl
in the whole country will
want to see — and the men
will simply go mad about her.

When you take MUTUAL Service

You not only get Good Films; but you get

Big Advertising for your
Theatre ABSOLUTELY

FREE

If you are not getting Mutual Service, order it today, and put out the Mutual
Banner and the "Sign of the Wing-'d Clock", so that these Thousands of People that
are reading the Advertising of Mutual Movies will be hunting for your theatre.

Show the films that the crowds are looking for

"MUTUAL MOVIES"

At the "Sign of the Wing-ed Clock"
MUTUAL FILM CORPORATION

NEW YORK

Branches in
49 Cities

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

Vanoscope

Optical
Projector

The First Progressive
Step in Twenty Years

Vanoscope Projector

(Equipped with motor drive)

MANHATTAN BUILDING Chicago
CANDLER BUILDING New York

N THE SAYS of revolution and the
mighty flint lock gun,
Men talked long and very loudly of the
deeds whioh they had done;
But those days are now historic and their heroes

turned to clay,
While the mighty flint lock musket lieth rusting in
decay.

So the march of progress hastens and each art has

felt the thrill,
Xet the flickering moving picture seems to hover

round us still.
All the power of great invention could not with the

problem cope,
Till Van Riper's great invention GAVE THE
WORLD THE VANOSCOPE.

Sent the intermittent movement to the junk pile

with a whoop,
To the plaoe that's warm in winter chased the

ancient Latham loop,
Said good-bye, you rattling shutter, go and join the

noble dead,

In the land of glorious has-beens where the flint lock
musket fled.

This invention Vanoscopio lifts the moving picture
mart

High up in the realm of optics where it has become
an art,

And the hurrying, jerky pictures, with their nicker,

flash and strain,
Now give all the charm of nature from a film that's

free from rain.

Good-bye flint look gun and pistol, good-bye tallow
dip of yore,

Good-bye ox-cart, good-bye sickle, we will never

need you more,
Good-bye rattle-trap projector, you have outlived

every hope,

For you're now a good old has-been, WELCOME IN
THE VANOSCOPE.

4s&

mm* i

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Have You Poster Worries?

Do You Nail Your Posters?

Do You Paste Them?

Does the Wind Tea.r Your Posters?

Does Your Lobby Look Cheap ?

How Long Does It Take You to Replace
Your Posters ?

Do You Have Trouble with Your
Exchange on the Return of Your
Posters in Poor Condition ?

MORAL

Virginia:

« S HONEYBUG'S i
pMT fBST flUiRBEl

I , eci**1 Fealur c

I Or fre/vsm/jem*

Admission 10

Use EAGLE FRAMES

They Mean More "Business. Sa-Ve you Time and Sa-de you Money

They require no nailing of
posters — no pasting. The wind
cannot rip them. They look
rich. You can change posters
in a minute. And your ex-
change will congratulate you
on their excellent condition
when you return them regard-
less to their age.

These frames are finished in
gloss mahogany, flat mahog-
any, black, dark green, weath-
ered oak, mission or any finish
you may desire. The wood is
well seasoned, frame well built
and will stand any weather
conditions. Will not warp or
lose their rich appearance.

Experience has taught us that frames opening from the front on hinges, as ours, fasten
the poster more securely — give them a smoother surface, and improve their appearance.

All the Leading Exchanges Handle the Eagle Frames,
and All the Largest Theatres in the Country Use Them.

Write for our 1914 Catalog D, contain-
ing a List of Frames, Easels, General
Supplies and everything New for your
Theatre.

EAGLE FRAME CO.

JOE GUERCIO, Mgr.

506 N. Carpenter St. Chicago

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Does the public like it? 6

That is the first question that every successful theatre manager must
answer right. Otherwise he will fail, no matter what other arguments
are in its favor. Wurlitzer Music is no longer an experiment. Wur-
litzer Music has been indorsed by men like W. A. Brady, President of
the National Association of Theatrical Producing Managers; Cohan &
Harris, the well-known New York firm; B. N. Sherwood, of the Fitz-
hugh Hall Amusement Co., of Rochester, N. Y. ; W. A. Roderic, of
the Paris Theatre Co., of Denver, and many other individual owners.

The right answer pays dividends

Right now two firms have evidently found the answer. One has
already purchased five, the other is contracting for ten additional
instruments. One out of every eighteen Motion Picture Theatres in
the United States are now using Wurlitzer Music. One million four
hundred and sixty thousand people daily listen to Wurlitzer Music.

With the Wurlitzer Motion Picture Orchestra, built specially to
meet the needs of Motion Picture Theatres, every musical effect is
instantly attainable. A complete and well-balanced orchestra played
by one man. The right music with every picture.

Terms : The needs of every theatre vary — the conditions in every community are different — our terms are
such as to meet them. Prices from a few hundred to $10,000. It costs nothing to investigate.

Write for Catalogue today

Branches The R.\idolph Wvirlitzer Co. Branches

Address : 992 Fourth Street, Cincinnati. Branches in all principal cities

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Table of Contents

PAGE

Frontispiece, "The Theatre Beau-
tiful" 14

The Theatre Beautiful 15

A De Luxe Presentation 16

When Jack London Was Amazed. . . 17

Vitagraph Aids Safety Crusade 18

Latest News from Chicago 18

Lyceum Theatre, Newark, N. J 19

Empire Theatre, Detroit, Mich 20

Steigmeyer on New St. Louis Theatre 21

Columbia Theatre, Muncie, Ind 21

Columbia Theatre, Portsmouth, O. . . 22

Norwood Theatre, Norwood, O . . . . 22

PAGE

Alhambra Theatre, Shelbyville, Ind. . 23
Architect Writing Book on Picture

Theatres 24

Columbia Theatre, Toledo, 0 24

Majestic Theatre, Columbus, 0 25

Motion Picture Theatre Construction

Department 28

Two Old Favorites Filmed 35

Williamsburg Exhibitors Organize.. 37

Music and the Picture 38

Appearance and Manners 40

Interesting Film Reviews 43

Special Film Reviews 46

Manufacturers' List of Releases. .63-65

Indirect
Bowl

Diameter 24 in.
Depth 12 in.

Indirect Lighting
Fixtures, Grilles

and all other fixtures for

THEATRES

Indirect Bowl
Diameter 18 in.
Depth 10 in.

is our specialty

In a great many theatres thro
country you will find
Lighting fixtures of
Kathodion Bronze.

Your theatre can have the very best appearing Bronze lighting fixtures to be had and
at an astonishing low cost for this reason.

We cast our designs in a reinforced planter composition and electrically deposit heavy
bronze in one seamless casting on this, and the result is a handsome heavy metal fixture,
showing in the minutest detail the most intricate design. These fixtures are absolutely
unbreakable.

Kathodion Bronze can be had to match any color scheme throughout. We offer any
finish that any meal will take.

Specify Kathodion Bronze to your Architect or dealer. He knows what is best.
Send for catalogue, further information in detail, or a representative.

KATHODION BRONZE WORKS

Office, 501 Fifth Ave., New York 366-68 Gerard Avenue, NEW YORK

ughout the

Wall
Bracket
Plate (1x11 in
Ext. O'A in.
1 Light

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Army vs. Navy

The Most Fiercely Fought Football
Contest of the Year.

PRESIDENT WILSON, his cabinet, the "White House Bride,"
famous personages, drills and manoeuvres of cadets and midshipmen will
make this feature of absorbing, national interest.

IVe have the sole and exclusive right to take motion pictures of
this wonderful national event.

Every American citizen will patronize your theatres when this
feature is shown.

Prints measuring approximately 2000 feet — 1 2c per ft.

Price Includes Exclusive Territory

Beautiful appropriate one and three sheet lithos — 1 0c per sheet.

Wire Order, Deposit and Territory Desired.

Prints ready for delivery November 30th.

Commercial Motion Pictures Co., Inc.

102 WEST 101st STREET NEW YORK CITY

TELEPHONE. 6532 RIVERSIDE

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WHERE TO BUY

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Ammex Film Co 6

American Theatre Curtain & Sup-
ply Co 53

All Star Feature Corporation l

Amusement Supply Co 39

American Cinematograph Co 39

Associated Motion Picture Schools. 56

Allison & Hadaway 64

Automatic Ticket Selling & Cash

Register Co 66

American Film Mfg. Co 54

Blinkhorn, A 51

Benedict, Phil P 56

Bartola Mfg. Co 60

Berlin Aniline Works 54

Bennett, Chas. H 59

Bosworth, Inc 49

Chicago Song Slide Exchange 64

Commercial Motion Picture Co.. 12, 58

Calehuff Supply Co 58

Dearborn Novelty Co 39

Deagan, J. C 59

Eltonhead. E. Y 64

Essanay Film Mfg. Co 52

European Feature Film Co 54

Eclectic Film Co 56

Eastman Kodak Co 60

Enterprise Optical Co 68

Excelsior Drum Works 41

Eagle Frame Co 9

Echo Feature Film Co 64

Features Ideal 55

Fords 39

Fulton, E. E 2

Feature Photoplay Co 54

Flateau, Henry M 49

General Specialty Co 59

General Feature Film Co 68

Gunby Bros 39

Genter, J. H 68

General Film Co 3 61

Griffith, D. W .' 4, 5

Gentel, Albert 57

Hotel Martinique 39

Harding Photo Engraving Co 60

Hart Booking Bureau 39

Horsley, David 2

Italian- American Film Corporation. 50

Kleine Optical Co 67

Kinematograph Weekly 39

Kathodian Bronze Works 11

Keystone Film Co 57

Kinemacolor Co 49

Lubin Mfg. Co 51

Lavezzi Machine Works 49

Le Courrier Cinematographique. . . . 67

Lears, Sam 41

Lakeside Film Exchange 56

Mclntyre & Richter 41

Mutual Film Corporation 7

Mirror Screen Co 50

Motion Picture Exhibitors Ball 62

Manufacturers M. P. Catalog and

Encyclopedia 64

Mestrum, Henry 39

Moving Picture Operators Union... 56

Midgar Features 06

Motion Picture Camera Co 64

Mayland, Rowland H 64

Nimis & Nimis, Inc 64

New York Motion Picture Corp. ... 67

Newman Mfg. Co 58

Niagara Slide Co 58

New York Film Co 2

"Over Niagara Falls" 49

Precision Machine Co 2

Phantoscope Mfg. Co 39

Picture Theatre Equipment Co 68

Pan-American Film Mfg. Co 56

Photoplay Co., Inc 64

Power Co., Nicholas 68

Royal Film Exchange 56

Ramo Films, Inc 55

Supreme Feature Film Co 53

Sterling Camera Co 67

Solax and Blache Features 2

Schneider, Eberhard 67

Special Event Film Mfg. Co 56

Song Slide Service 41

Steel Furniture Co 67

Theatre Frame Co 47

Theatre Specialty Mfg. Co... 67

Trans-Oceanic Films 58

Tuttle, Howard 64

Unique Film Co 13

U. S. Factories Co 4"

Vanascope Optical Projector 8

Wurlitzer Co., Rudolph 10

World Special Film Corporation... 41

Wagner, Ed. H 41

Wentworth, Courtenay 58

World's Best Film Co 56

Territory Going Fast

For the "Uneek" Feature

"80 Million Women Want— ?"

A four-reel drama of love, intrigue and politics; strong
and original scenario.

Featuring and played by Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst and
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch.

Wire Your Bid Now

TO-MORROW MAY BE TOO LATE.

UnimiA Film f^rt mnanw "0 West 40th Street, New York City
I t 1 1| L4 Vs ■ III II V?Villl|JClliy Tel. 7377 Bryant. Watch for "Uneek" Films

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Motion Picture News

MOVING PICTURE NEWS EXHIBITORS' TIMES

Established 1908 Established 1913

Volume VIII December 6, 1913 Number 22

THE THEATRE BEAUTIFUL

WITHIN the year just closing a remarkable ad-
vance has been made in the construction of
the motion picture theatre.

* * *

T DEALS and methods were vastly different less than
two years ago. As for the first buildings — they
cannot be dignified as theatres- — they were like the
first motion pictures — made cheaply to meet what was
felt to be only a transient public fancy.

-jf * *

T?ROM these early houses with their dark interiors
and flashy stucco fronts to the modern theatre
beautiful, there's a tremendous leap — in many ways.

* * *

A RCHITECTS were not interested in the first
theatres ; to-day they are and their skill has to do
with practically every such building erected to-day.
Manufacturers of building materials, decorations, and
equipment were not inclined to enter the picture
theatre field. To-day they are competing sharply for
the business.

TV TORE distinctly, perhaps, than any other one
thing, the theatre of to-day evidences the up-
lift of cinematography. For this the manufacturers
of films deserve great credit. Better pictures have
made better theatres.

* * *

rT",HERE is this to be said, however: many of the
fine theatres of to-day arc built — and some al-
ready managed— for the future ; they are meeting the
awakened interest of a large number of the public
who a year or so ago considered the motion picture an
impossible amusement.

HPHESE theatres demand fine pictures — not just bet-
ter pictures. The environment they have, the
presentation they give, demand a picture in keeping.
They must have such pictures— must have to continue
to attract their audiences.

* * *

TTROM the beginning the editors of The Motion
Picture News have believed in and worked for
the better theatre. The department on "Motion Pic-
ture Theatre Construction" has, we believe, given valu-
able, practical information and encouraged better con-
struction.

* * *

TI7E believe the subject important enough to justify
this special number ; and we take pleasure in
presenting these well-known architects who have given
their services to its preparation :

Fuller Claflin, Elks Temple, Detroit, Mich

Fred. W. Elliott, Columbus, O.

Ben. C. De Camp, 908 Neave Building, Cincinnati,
Ohio.

Thai & Aftel, Ohio Building, Toledo, Ohio.
Nathan Myers, Woolworth Building, New York.
Ralph M. Hulett, Lennox Building, Cleveland, Ohio.
Zettel & Rapp, Johnston Building, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Wm. O. Morch, Lombard Building, Indianapolis,
Ind.

Kennerly & Stiegemeyer, Benoist Building, St.
Louis, Mo.

* * *

MPIIESE gentlemen, and others, will keep us posted
hereafter on matters new and interesting in the
construction of well planned theatres.

* * *

shall also continue with articles, from well-
known engineers, on problems of ventilation,
heating and lighting.

i6

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A DE LUXE PRESENTATION

S. R. Rothapfel Delights Large Audiences at the Regent Theatre — A Great Advance in

Methods of Exhibition

A REMARKABLE incident in the
history of the motion picture
took place Monday and Tuesday
evenings of last week at the Regent
Theatre, 116th street and Seventh
avenue, New York City. This sounds
serious; and the writer so intends it.

S. L. Rothapfel presented artistic-
ally an artistic picture. That briefly
was the "incident." But it served
very clearly, to the writer, to portend
for the first time t£e theatrical future
of the picture. In short, it was little
less than a revelation. There were
many wondering expressions from
those in the audience who had not
been awakened to the possibilities of
such a production. David Belasco,
who was present, followed the per-
formance from beginning to end with
thoughtful attention, and later said:
"It is one of the best things I have
ever seen."

The picture shown was the George
Kleine "Last Days of Pompeii." This
excellent production Mr. Rothapfel
centered in an environment so pleas-
ing, so perfect in artistic detail, that
it seemed as if the setting were a pre-
requisite to the picture, that to an edu-
cated audience the two should, and
must hereafter, go together.

The Kleine picture is remarkable as
such, not alone for its fine photog-
raphy and splendid acting, but particu-
larly because it does achieve dramatic
unity. The central theme is the love
of the Thessalonian flower-girl, the
blind Nydia. As with Bulwer-Lyt-
ton's novel, so with the picture, you
are left with a predominant impres-
sion of her gentleness and sweetness.

Mr. Rothapfel also achieves a theme
In his music. There is the same unity
throughout the admirable score with
which the picture is accompanied.
But predominating, woven delicately

here and there in the score, is the
soft, beautiful song from "Aida," sym-
bolic of the gentle blind girl and her
hopeless love for the Athenian, Glau-
cus.

The curtain rises to an inspiring
prelude from the Regent pipe-organ,
rendered by Mr. Drew, an accom-

S. L. ROTHAPFEL

plished organist. Then with a flare
from the orchestra the dark red vel-
vet curtains before the screen are
parted to admit the figure of an actor
arrayed in Grecian robes. With excel-
lent intonation he announces the open-
ing scene of the picture. Later, just
before the Vesuvius scene, he appears
again and for an interlude recites the
thrilling lines from Bulwer-Lytton's
novel which tell of the mob and its
frenzied attack upon Arbaces.

At other intervals the monotony of

the "silent stage"— there is bound to
be some monotony in the long pic-
ture, however inspiriting it is — was de-
lightfully broken by the voices of
trained singers from the windowed re-
cesses above and at each side of the
stage. Soft lights were played upon
these windows and also upon the
fountain which plays just in front of
the orchestra platform.

The frenzied scenes in the doomed
city following the volcano's eruption
were made most realistic by the ac-
companiment from "Lohengrin" and
by a chorus of shrill voices back of
the screen.

Mechanically as well as artistically
the presentation was flawless through-
out. It was, from every standpoint,
the best that has been seen in motion
pictures in this city.

The handsome and comfortable in-
terior of the Regent has much to do
with the success of the performance.
There is no finer theatre in New York
in point of construction, and Mr.
Rothapfel's skilful attention to details
has given the interior a refinement
not to be equalled in a single other
theatre here.

The audience, it should be noted,
was of the kind found in the best
playhouses. Judged by their decorum
and sincere appreciation, they might
have been at the opera.

There is a single criticism to be en-
tertained, and that has nothing to do
with the performance itself. This
concerns the price of admission. It
should be twenty-five instead of fif-
teen cents — that is certain. And per-
haps one might go farther and say
that such a production should be on
Broadway at much higher prices.

Mr. Rothapfel's answer is, "It
will."

W. A'. J.

Cincinnati Exhibitors' Banquet

ON Thursday night, November 20,
the members of Cincinnati Local
No. 2, Motion Picture Exhibitors League
of America, met for their sec-
ond annual banquet in the Sinton
Hotel.

Practically all the members of the
Cincinnati body were present and sev-
eral from outside, including W. Ray-
rier, president of the Dayton local;
Paul B. Elliott and P. A. Schmidt, In-
dianapolis; Orene Parker and George
Kethers, Covington, Ky.; M. A. Van-
derlip, Toledo; Harry Hilling, Lud-

low, Ky., and J. J. Burkhardt, New-
port, Ky.

M. A. Neff, the national president,
was the toastmaster of the evening.
The speakers were: A. C. Dinglestedt,
Amos Foster, Dr. Peter Robertson,
Thornton Snyder, P. B. Elliott, Orene
Parker, J. H. Mayer, Otto Ludeking,
John J. Huss, J. C. Klob, W. Rayner,
Lem S. Miller, Mr. Wurlitzer, Mr.
Newman and F. L. Smith.

President Neff delivered a short ad-
dress on the progress of the motion
picture and also eulogized Cincinnati.

ALBUQUERQUE STARTS

G. P. Hamilton, president and general
manager, Albuquerque Film Company,
and Buck Connors, Mr. Hamilton's as-
sistant, a noted Western character man,
late of the Frontier Company, have ar-
rived in Los Angeles, and are at pres-
ent busily engaged in preparations for
the production of features. Milton
Fahrnay has joined the camp as a pro-
ducer.

Arrangements were completed for the
field offices to be located in the Crosby
film plant. From there Mr. Hamilton
will direct all operations in connection
with production, laboratory and business
while in Los Angeles.

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17

WHEN JACK LONDON WAS AMAZED

Famous Author Writes'of His Experiences When His Book, "The Sea Wolf," Was Being

Produced for Motion Pictures

I'D rather see a moving picture actor
than to be one — to paraphrase
Gelett Burgess and his Purple Cow.

This is the first thing that bobs up
out of my experiences following the
motion picture people about San
Francisco Bay as they made the first
part of the film for the moving pic-
ture reproduction of my yarn, "The
Sea Wolf."

It was the beginning of the pictur-
ing of my stuff, and the first time I've
ever seen moving pictures made, and
I had one of the best times of my
life.

I'm amazed at the actual amount of
work involved, and I was particularly
impressed by the daring and the ad-
venturousness of the motion picture
actors. One doesn't have to go to the
North Pole or the heart of Africa to
take risks any longer. Just join a
moving picture company and take a
trip with them about San Francisco
Bay. You'll get all the thrills you can
stand, and maybe a little bit more,
now and then.

Same Boat As in Story

A very curious, and to me, a very
interesting coincidence came about.
The moving picture people hired the
ferryboat Sausalito for their stunts,
and engaged about sixty people.
Neither Hobart Bosworth, the pro-
ducer, nor I, nor Charmian, nor any-
body else among our crowd, knew
that, the Sausalito really had a very
intimate part in the drama of The Sea-
Wolf" which we were putting upon
the films.

It happened that while I was writ-
ing "The Sea Wolf," or maybe a little
bit before that, the Sausalito collided
with the San Rafael in the fog and
sank her, and a lot of people lost their
lives. I used the incident in my yarn,
only for fiction purposes I altered the
name Sausalito to Martinez.

By sheer coincidence Bosworth
hired this very boat, the Sausalito,
from the Northwestern Pacific people,
and, as I say, none of us knew that
she was one of the two steamers ac-
tually engaged in the incident that
figures so importantly in my story,
nor did we learn of it until in the in-
terval between the taking of two pic-
tures, while joshing the captain in the
pilot house, the captain stated his

By JACK LONDON

steamer was the one that sank the
San Rafael.

For our purposes, she was both the
San Rafael and the Sausalito —
both the steamer that was sunk and
the one that did the sinking.

One vivid touch of color in the day's
adventures was a woman in the town
of Sausalito, who saw what she
thought to be the regular boat com-
ing into the ferry slip. To her utter
amazement the steamer was named
Martinez instead of Sausalito. For
we had laid a cloth painted Mar-
tinez over the real name-board on
the pilot house.

To her further amazement, gazing
from her quiet, sunny little house
among the trees on the hillside, she
observed a furious crowd of men,
women and children struggling madly
on the fore lower and upper decks of
the ferryboat. What was the matter?
The steamer missed the slip entrance.
It collided with the side of the slip.
She saw all those scores of frantic
passengers fall on their faces in
massed heaps on the decks.

Maddened Mass of People

Not believing her eyes, she got her
marine glasses to bear on the amaz-

ing scene. The steamer backed out
from the slip. It came crashing in
again. Once more the struggling,
maddened mass of people rushed for
life preservers, grappled with each
other to get near the boats, and fell
pell-mell in kicking and writhing
heaps.

When I met her as I landed she
was running madly down from her
home on the hill to see what was go-
ing on. The moving picture camera
was busily buzzing, and the people
were doing another stunt, and that
was all.

The launches and other steamboats
on the bay were highly mystified by
our erratic behavior, and by the utter-
ly irregular and bewildering nature of
our whistles, and they rushed toward
us time and again to tender us their
assistance.

Of course, Charmian and I were in
the thick of the fun — though not in
the action — not in those stunts of
jumping into the cold water time and
time again, and falling down a dozen
times or more as the ferryboat bucked
the slip at the director's order, hurl-
ing everybody right and left.

No, none of that for us. As I start-
ed to sav. I'd rather see a motion pic-

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ture actor than be one. Though I'm
mighty glad I've seen him at his work.
He's a corker.

The following article was printed
in the San Francisco Examiner the
day after the scenes London de-
scribes were produced:

"In the taking of the motion pic-
tures of Jack London's most famous
novel, "The Sea Wolf," on San Fran-
cisco Bay, yesterday, Hobart Bos-
worth, the producer, hired the ferry-
boat Sausalito, and employed a
troupe of sixty-two players, thirty-
five of whom were given the special
job of doing the dives and jumps over-
board in the collision scenes.

"Considering the fact that they had
to repeat their stunts over and over
again, and to fall violently to the
decks at least half a score of times

in struggling heaps, the players cer-
tainly earned the thousands of dollars
which the first day's reproduction
cost.

"The three main characters of the
story-drama were: Larsen, the Sea-
Wolf, played by Hobart Bosworth;
Humphrey Van Weyden, played by
Herbert Rawlinson, and Maud Brew-
ster, played by Viola Barry, the
daughter of J. Stitt Wilson, former
Socialist Mayor of Berkeley.

Show Van Weyden's Adventures

"Humphrey Van Weyden, in Lon-
don's story, is a very anemic super-
intellectualized literary artist, who in
a collision between two ferryboats in
San Francisco Bay is hurled into the
icy water and swept seaward through
the Golden Gate with the tide until
he is picked up by Wolf Larsen, the
dominating, red-blooded, modern Vik-

ing, and carried away on his ship, the
Ghost, to wild adventures in the lone-
ly ocean wilds, from which he returns
a man in body as well as in soul and
mind, and winner of the love of Maud
Brewster.

"The pictures taken yesterday were
those showing the first part of Van
Weyden's adventures. The other
scenes will be taken near San Pedro
on a specially constructed ship which
will be wrecked in the end. More
than $40,000 will be spent in making
the films, which include an introduc-
tory set of pictures showing Jack Lon-
don himself writing, or riding full
tilt on his Glen Ellen ranch, or other-
wise engaged in his diurnal routine in
Sonoma county.

"According to Bosworth's state-
ments, London will reap a fortune
from the production of his stories in
moving picture form."

VITAGRAPH AIDS SAFETY CRUSADE

THE value of making accident educa-
tion attractive is attracting the no-
tice of persons all over this country
through the accident prevention cam-
paign being conducted by the many elec-
tric railways for the benefit of all who
must use the streets and roads of cities
and towns in their daily work.

One of the most interesting features
of this campaign is the portrayal in mo-
tion pictures of the dangers and result-
ant accidents from carelessness. In con-
nection with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
System's children safety crusade, the
Vitagraph Company of America is pro-
ducing a series of feature films on this
subject, one of which, "The Price of
Thoughtlessness," has been shown.

An article appearing in the Novem-
ber issue of the Electric Railway Jour-
nal tells in a very graphic manner how
this great crusade is being carried on.

It says:

"The accident prevention campaign
which is now being conducted by the
many electric railways is undoubtedly
reaching a larger portion of the public
with excellent results, but few compa-
nies have as yet succeeded in arousing
the hearty interest of the children. The
average child is very unwilling to receive
instruction unless that instruction is pre-
sented in an attractive form.

"The experience of the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit System's children's safety
crusade, to which reference was made in

the October 25th issue of this journal,
has proved that the permanent interest
of school children can be maintained by
the use of attractive lecture material,
presented through the medium of
trained speakers. The material consists
of car models, original colored cards
showing almost every kind of accident
possible on the streets, and finally a se-
ries of motion pictures (by the Vita-
graph Company of America).

"The Vitagraph Company of America
is doing a big work for humanity in aid-
ing in this general safety crusade. A
more realistic and telling medium for
the presentation of this vitally impor-
tant subject could not be found than
the motion picture screen."

LATEST NEWS FROM CHICAGO

ALDERMEN who were appointed on
the committee to confer with Dr.
Young on the advisability of amending
the ventilation ordinance as it now
stands, made a personal investigation of
some twenty theatres on Monday night,
November 10. It is said that they found
the conditions to be so good in these
theatres that they often expressed them-
selves in the superlative in speaking
words of praise. They saw no reason
why the ordinance should be as drastic
as it now stands, and it is thought that
in all probability they will recommend
it to call for 800 cubic feet of air per
hour per person.

In their conference with Dr. Young he
would not listen to any change being
made in the ordinance. It is for this
reason they took it upon themselves to
personally investigate some of the the-
atres.

Walter Scates a Daddy Now

Walter Scates, manager of the General
Film Co. branch of Boston, wires in that
a nine-pound baby girl was born on No-
vember 9. Mr. Scates for a number of
years was manager of the General Film
Co. Dearborn avenue branch in Chicago.
Air. Scates did not give us any further
particulars, such as the young lady's

views on suffrage or the Mexican situa-
tion.

The Edison film, "Why Girls Leave
Home," has become very popular in and
about Chicago. Ben Beadell, local repre-
sentative for Edison, claims this is the
most popular film at the present time.

Mr. Skelton, of the Edison Company,
spent a few days in Chicago last week.
Mr. Skelton is associated with the phono-
graph department of the Edison enter-
prises.

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS 19

THE LYCEUM THEATRE, NEWARK, N. J.

Nathan Myers, the Architect, Writes on Problems that Confront Designer of Photoplay House

ONE of the most magnificent of
the many new motion picture the-
atres is the Lyceum, of Newark, N. J.,
designed by Architect Nathan Myers,
who has offices in the Woolworth
Building, New York City, and the
Cort Theatre Building, Newark, N. J.

The frontispiece of this publication
shows the exterior of this theatre. Its
floor plan accompanies this article.

Without doubt New Jersey's most
elaborate building devoted to light
entertainment is now nearing comple-
tion in the Lyceum, located in New-
ark's second busiest quarter in Spring-
field avenue, near Belmont avenue.

Land Cleverly Utilized ,

These conditions presented them-
selves: The land, with worthless
buildings thereon, where maintenance
charges exceeded receipts, cost the
owner almost $80,000. It ran from
street to street, about eighty-five feet,
with a street frontage of fifty feet.
Anything planned above the first story
for commercial purposes spelled fail-
ure. A one-story motion picture place
or one story with a small balcony
could not stand the entire initial in-
vestment burden. Nor could a bal-
cony be placed under any circum-
stances, because fourteen feet of the
fifty would have had to be devoted to
alleys and fire-escapes, according to
the Newark laws.

It was therefore determined to build
for the provision of a 600-seat motion
picture house on the first floor and
a public dance-hall on the second
floor. To make this possible a special
permit had to be received for the
architect to omit the usual four-feet-
wide alleys to both sides of the audi-
toriums, as is required in one-story
theatres. Such permission gave the
architect the right to use every inch
of this valuable plot of ground, and
every inch has been used.

The lot was very irregular, and,
while the maximum seating capacity
was desired, no seat was worth install-
ing that was not in full view of the
screen, as well as at the proper angle.
A symmetrical auditorium was also
desired for architectural reasons. The
floor plan of the auditorium shows
how well this was accomplished.

To the left is the theatre entrance
lobby, and to the right is the ball-
room entrance lobby, which latter also
serves as an emergency exit for the
theatre. Between the two lobbies is
a large marble stairway to the ball-
room, and off of the second landing is
a doorway to the picture booth.

The value of this booth arrangement
may easily be seen. Access to the

same may be had during the show at
all times, without creating any dis-
turbance. In case of a fire the slides
covering the holes in the booth front
could be quickly dropped if they had
not already closed automatically, and
the operators could back out safely
and close the door to let the fire burn
itself out, the audience hardly the
wiser.

First American Day-and-Night Screen

At the stage end of the theatre and
ball-room, each has a ceiling height of

FLOOR PLAN LYCEUM THEATRE

twenty-two feet, which allows a mez-
zanine story to each in that corner
of the plot, not of use to either on
account of symmetry. The architect
has grasped the opportunity for using
the same as accessories to the ball-
room, should that portion be devoted
at any time to affairs needing catering.
The ground floor is used as a caterer's
receiving-room, the next as the kitch-
en, the ball-room floor-level as the
service pantry and the mezzanine
above as the waiters' and cooks' ward-
robe and toilet-rooms.

Getting back to the theatre, there
is a space for the screen, where there
will be installed the first day-and-
night screen made in this country, and
a small stage only large enough for
a monologue or a two-person turn.
One dressing-room is provided.

The ball-room also has a small bal-
cony, seating about a hundred, and is
provided with ample check-rooms.

The interior of all parts of the
building will be highly decorated in
plaster and stencil ornament in the
Art Nouveau style, dark red, gold and
cream for the theatre and old rose,
gold and cream predominating for the
ball-room.

The facade is indicative of its pur-
pose. It is highly decorative and
attractive, yet not loud and gaudy.
It is mostly in matte-glazed, poly-
chrome terra-cotta. The body color
is light cream, blue and dull gold or-
namenting it. The brickwork is of
Fiske tapestry, laid in recessed joints.
One large copper marquise spans the
entire front to cover both the theatre
and the ball-room entrances, as well
as the sidewalk stairway to the base-
ment restaurant.

This restaurant occupies all the
space under the sidewalk not used for
the retiring-rooms, as well as the
space under the lobbies, and but a
small part under the auditorium.

The boiler and coal-rooms are lo-
cated under the sidewalk of the other
end of the building. All parts of the
building are provided with a system
of forced-draught ventilation. Each
set of retiring-rooms is provided with
separate exhaust fans.

The lighting has been equally well
studied. That for the theatre will be
entirely indirect, and that for the ball-
room will be direct-indirect, for both
of which National X-Ray fixtures will
be used, for the remainder of the
building Macbeth-Evans and Holo-
phane goods will be used where they
are most suited.

Here follows a contribution from
the pen of Architect Nathan Myers.
They fully represent my views on the
growth of cinematography and empha-
size the necessity of providing better
photoplay houses for the constantly
increasing army of lovers of motion
pictures. These lines confirm also our
first impression: that Mr. Myers has
made a real study of motion pictures
and of their projection.

What Mr. Myers Says

'About twelve years ago the motion-
picture and the motor-car industries
were in their infancies. Both have
made a most remarkable advance, and
ten years hence both will have suc-
ceeded so far that this period of de-
velopment will be looked upon as but
a second stage of their respective his-
tories. Up to this time, it might be
finite truthfully said that the motor-
car has been developed for the enjoy-

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ment of the rich, the motion picture
for the enjoyment of the poor. The
former is being developed that soon
it will be within the reach of the al-
most poor, while the latter is being
produced that it commands those of
the most refined and fastidious taste.

"In the first days of motion pic-
tures the product was mostly of an
unsavory and uneducational type. It
displayed Wild West scenes, every un-
lawful exploit imaginable, and rather
taught crime than the correction of it.
These pictures were housed in places
befitting. Any ramshackle fire-trap
would do, with a plaster front of mis-
applied ornament and myriads of elec-
tric lights. Their interiors were un-
sanitary, poorly planned and often
provided with inadequate or no emer-
gency exits. The seats were usually
on a level, and the ceilings low.

"With the development of the in-
dustry came the betterment of every-
thing. The objectionable films were
replaced with a series of Western life
that taught lessons of love, truth and
morality. The life of all nations, the
industries of the world, the science of
all things, have through this new me-
dium been brought to the door of
every small village. Novels and plays
are intelligently reproduced and often
by renowned actors.

"Motion pictures cannot hence-
forth be termed, as heretofore, the
lightest of all theatrical amusements.
It is rising to greater stations.

"With this advancement, it is com-
manding the efforts of the best archi-
tects throughout the land, who are
constantly striving for betterment in
design, practicability, economy of
construction, maintenance and man-
agement and safety of the public.

"There are state and city ordi-
nances that in general prescribe a
minimum of conditions for safety of
the patrons, and do not pretend to
govern any details beyond that. They
differ greatly at times, and often
when two govern the same locality
are contradictory.

"There should be provided a suffi-
cient number of emergency exits for
all parts of the house, furnished with
panic bolts of that type that no mat-
ter what part of the door receives the
first blow, the door will open. That
type of bolt that must be pressed at
the handle is not of sufficient protec-
tion. The main entrance lobby should
not be counted as an exit, for just at
the moment of panic the entrance
lobby might be packed by a crowd de-
siring entrance to the second show
and the doors could not be swung
outward for relief.

"The machine booth should be fire-
proof with fusible link doors to all
openings, and so arranged that the
operator may close all by cutting one
cord. A vent from the top of the
booth to above the roof must be in-
stalled.

Heating and Ventilation Important

"The gradiant floor, the careful ar-
rangement of the seats, the decora-
tions, the lighting, the stage, the pro-
vision for organ space, and many
more details require the most minute
study.

"Too little attention in general is
given to the heating and ventilating
of the show place. They must be
studied for cold and warm weather
conditions.

"Only the best of screens should be
installed and they should have their
shadow box and proper setting. The
relation of the booth to the screen is
important, for very many times the
best pictures have been spoiled by
poor projection.

"The Motion Picture News has re-
peatedly given valuable suggestions
as to the various fields of the indus-
try, and these articles can be read
with much benefit to all concerned.
May such advice and good judgment
continue!" J. M. B.

THE EMPIRE THEATRE, DETROIT

Fuller Claflin, Who Designed It, Advises "Consulting Architect"

FULLER CLAFLIN, Elks' Temple,
Detroit, Mich., a well-known ar-
chitect and builder of many play-
houses all over the country, does not
discourage the services of a general
or local architect, but, as in the case
of a disease, the general practitioner
advises consultation with a specialist.
Mr. Claflin urges that a specialist
should be retained.

In an advance notice on his coming
book, "The Perfect Theatre," Fuller
Claflin says:

"Among architects there are special-
ists in every class of work from bun-
galows to office buildings, from fac-
tories to hotels, from breweries to
public libraries, from jails to churches
and from mausoleums to theatres.
Certain opinions of these specialists
have a commercial value.

"Hence the consulting architect.
"A consulting architect does not
profess to know about more things
than architects of general practice, but
he is supposed to have learned about
some things which only specialists are
likely to have had a chance to learn.

"He is a dealer in common sense.
His business consists in stripping from
some special class of building projects
the impossible, the unreasonable, the

ridiculous, the unnecessary, the wrong,
the crude, the unwise, the unsound,
the unsafe and the otherwise objec-
tionable elements, and in suggesting
the proper things.

EMPIRE THEATRE, DETROIT

"His services are usually retained
with the understanding that from time
to time he is to give advice about mat-
ters as to which he has specialized;
and his services are usually rendered
in co-operation with those of a gen-
eral architect. As a result, when the
work in hand is in its initial stage, a
satisfactory general plan and design
can ordinarily be adopted, a general
plan of operations evolved, an effect-
ive means of keeping the cost of oper-
ations within a fixed appropriation
provided, and other matters of general
policy determined upon with due re-
gard to the suggestions and recom-
mendations of the consulting archi-
tect."

The illustration shows the Empire
Theatre of Detroit, planned by Mr.
Claflin. It was the only photograph
obtainable, a good night view, but not
doing justice to the fine details of
the lobby and of the ticket office. As
a night picture, it shows that the Em-
pire is a great attraction on Wood-
ward avenue, the main shopping dis-
trict of Detroit. The auditorium of
the Empire Theatre is beautifully
decorated, very comfortable, with 550
chairs, and is under the experienced
management of M. H. Starr. J. M. B.

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21

STIEGEMEYER ON NEW ST. LOUIS THEATRE

OW. STIEGEMEYER, of St.
• Louis, Mo., a leading architect on
theatres, has designed some of the most
famous theatres of St. Louis, and pre-
sents in the accompanying illustration a
view of the new theatre that he is erect-
ing. He says :

"A new picture and vaudeville house
of 2,000 capacity is in course oi con-
struction, occupying a lot 93x157 feet on
the north side of Delmar avenue, west
of Hamilton avenue, St. Louis, Mo.

''The house was designed by Mr.
Stiegemeyer, of the firm of Kennedy &
Stiegemeyer, St. Louis, Mo., who have
made a specialty of designing amuse-
ment buildings.

"The house will have a reinforced
concrete skeleton, with concrete balcony
and roof. The stage and front of build-
ing will have brick curtain walls. The
front elevation and the returns on both
sides will be faced with white glazed
terra cotta.

"A prominent feature of this house is
the novel construction of the side walls,
which consist of large triple window-
frames between the columns supporting
the roof trusses. These sashes can be
opened in the summer time, making
the house practically an open-air propo-
sition, and giving at all times excel-
lent ventilation.

"The interior of the house will be
elaborately decorated with plastic relief
ornament, which in turn will be deco-

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PLAN OF NEW ST. LOUIS THEATRE

rated in cream, old ivory, light green
and high-lighted with gold bronze, mak-
ing a very attractive house.

"The entrance doors are sheltered by
a massive copper and colored glass mar-
quise. The lobby will have marble
wainscoting and marble pilasters sup-
porting a heavy ornamental plaster cor-
nice, together with a coffered ceiling,
studded with electric lights, which are
encased in semi-circular bowls.

"The main floor will have a seating
capacity of 900, the balcony 800, and 300
seats in the orchestra boxes, proscenium

boxes and in the loges across the front
of the balcony.

"The stairs to the balcony lead out of
the foyer on each side of the house.
From a landing on these stairs a separate
flight lead to the mezzanine floor, which
is elaborately fitted up as a lounging or
waiting room, with ladies' retiring rooms
and men's smoking rooms on either side.

"When completed this house will be
one of the most beautiful and complete
vaudeville and picture houses in the
country, and will represent an invest-
ment of $100,000." J. M. B.

THE COLUMBIA THEATRE, MUNCIE, IND.

C. R. Andrews, Owner, Writes on House Designed by Ben C. De Camp

MR. ANDREWS writes on his new
Columbia Theatre, of Muncie,
Ind., designed by Architect Ben C.
De Camp, Neavc Building, Cincinnati,
O. Unfortunately a photograph of the
theatre is not available. Here is what
Mr. Andrews has to say:

"The house is one of the best-
equipped houses in the Middle West,
being almost entirely fireproof. The
only wood used in its construction
is contained in the roof. The operat-
ing booth is constructed entirely of
concrete, with two twenty-four-inch
steel ventilators running from the
booth out through the roof. The
booth is nine by twenty-two feet. The
auditorium is fifty-four feet six inches
by sixty-eight feet, seating 504. All
leather upholstered. Auditorium floor
of concrete with eight exits. All-metal
doors and equipped with Von Dupin
self-releasing latches.

"The proscenium arch is a beautiful
plastic design, with singers' boxes lo-

cated on each side, above which are
located a series of pipes in front of
the organ chests. We have a pipe-
organ containing 1,800 pipes, one of
the best-balanced instruments installed
in this vicinity. It contains all the
stops and attachments necessary to
bring out the effects of the pictures.

"The theatre is heated and venti-
lated by a device installed in the base-
ment, which takes in the fresh air
from a stack forty-five feet high. This
ventilating device is of sufficient ca-
pacity to change the entire volume of
air in the auditorium every three min-
utes, the fresh air being forced in near
the ceiling level and the foul air ducts
at the floor level, with regulating de-
vices to keep the room at a given tem-
perature regardless of the size of the
crowd in the theatre.

"The fresh air is tempered to any
desired degree in the Winter by being
forced through hot steam coils and
cooled by ice coils in warm weather,

is one of the big features of our place
and gives an unlimited field for ad-
vertising. It is thoroughly practical,
and certainly endorsed by the patrons
and medical profession.

"The house is lighted by an indirect
lighting system, which gives a soft,
mellow appearance and blends beauti-
fully with the decorations and makes
it possible to reach your seat or rec-
ognize anyone in the audience at all
times, yet does not interfere with the
vividness of the picture.

"The lobby is of marble and mirrors
on the sides, with a tile floor. The
lobby is sixteen feet wide and fifty-
nine feet long, with a brass rail run-
ning the full length, which separates
the ingoing and outcoming crowds.
The entrance is constructed entirely
of marble, tile and terra-cotta.

"I believe that we have one of the
finest picture houses of its size in the
country, and naturally feel proud
of it."

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THE COLUMBIA THEATRE OF PORTSMOUTH

Architect De Camp Describes Advantages in House He Planned

THE illustration shows the front ele-
vation of the Columbia Theatre, of
Portsmouth, O., owned and managed by
Fred N. Tynes, the mayor of that city.
The plans were drawn by Architect Ben.
C. De Camp, 008 Neave Building, Cin-
cinnati, O., who has the following to say :
"The especial features of this house
are its fireproof construction, model
heating and ventilating and air-purify-
ing devices, together with its beautiful
decorative features. Its lighting is all
overhead, indirect system. The color
scheme is ivory, green and gold, and
when lighted is certainly most beautiful.

"The State law governs the construc-
tion of such theatres outside of cities of
the first class, and all must be fireproof
from top to bottom, with required exits
at sides and rear. There are six hun-
dred leather-upholstered seats, and each
person occupying a seat is guaranteed a
perfect sight of the screen. The seats
are arranged in circle form and banked
so as to obtain this result.

"The screen is framed back into a
deep setting of dark cloth, thus avoiding
anything of the color combination that
would detract from the picture. In fact,
the pictures show up as works of art,
draped round about with suitable dra-
peries, harmonizing with the picture
throughout.

The pictures are projected on a
Mirror screen from the booth, which is
placed in the balcony, and the effect is
really beautiful. Seats are arranged on
both sides of the booth for those who
do not have the price for a first-floor
seat, thus separating the sheep from the
goats, so to speak.

"The air is changed at uniform pe-

COLUMBIA THEATRE, PORTSMOUTH, 0.

riods, and each person is supplied with

1,500 cubic feet of air per hour. This

system is very similar to that used by

the Vento Company. The air passes

over pans of fresh running water, so as
to be cleaned and purified before it
reaches the audience. The result is that
each person is alert and free from the
sickening feeling generated from bad
ventilation and foul air, and able to
enjoy the exhibition to their satisfac-
tion.

"You will notice the absence of ticket
booth, usually set in lobby, but in this
house it is concealed, being on one side
and back of arch lines. There is a smal]
stage back of curtain screen, where once
a week some special features are given
with great success, as words spoken or
sung can be heard plainly to the back of
balcony, thus demonstrating the perfect
acoustics of the room.

"In closing this brief description it
would be well to say that Mr. Tynes
has spared no expense to make this
house a thing of beauty, and it has cer-
tainly justified the expenditure.

"Anticipating high water at some
time, we devised a drainage system,
which was put to the test last May, for
there was seven feet of water inside the
house, and this was all carried off with-
out any effort as the river began to fall.
Another house in the same city was
ruined on account of the flood, because
no provision was made for the drainage
when built." J. M. B.

THE NORWOOD THEATRE, NORWOOD, O.

THE illustrations show the new Nor-
wood Theatre, of Norwood, O., de-
signed by architects Zettel & Rapp,
Johnston Building, Cincinnati, O. The
only particulars furnished by the archi-
tests are as follows :

The auditorium measures approxi-

THE NORWOOD

AUDITORIUM, THE NORWOOD, NORWOOD, OHIO

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23

mately 63x100 feet, stage 67x18 feet,
lobby about 18 feet deep.

The theatre is heated and ventilated
by a multivane fan blowing fresh air
over the battery of warm-air furnaces.

To this meager description I wish to
call the attention to a light fixture used
in the auditorium, a new lamp which is

installed in many of the Western the-
atres. It is a sort of indirect lighting
system. The electric light bulb rests at
the bottom of the white porcelain bowl,
shown under the fixture, and cannot be
seen from the floor. While some of the
light passes through the thickness of the
white porcelain bowl and falls on the

seats in diffused rays, the upper rays of
the light strike the white enameled sur-
face of the fixture and fall back in the
auditorium also in diffused rays.

The advantage of this new lamp is
that less candle-power is required. The
fixture can be adjusted at any height and
the ceiling can be painted any color.

J. M. B.

THE ALHAMBRA THEATRE, SHELBYVILLE, IND.

Architect Morch Describes the Home of the Mirror Screen

' I ^HE illustration shows the Alhambra
■*■ Theatre, of Shelbyville, Ind., or
what is called the home of the Mirror
screen, as it is the photoplay palace of
Frank J. Rembusch.

trie lights are on, surrounding the tower,
at nights, like a blaze of glory, it makes
a wonderful advertisement for the play-
house.

"The theatre is 40x120, and the Mir-

The architect is William O. Morch, ror Screen Company occupies the office

THE ALHAMBRA. SHELBYVILLE, IND.

Lombard Building, Indianapolis, Ind.
He has been very successful in the de-
signing of several theatres ; among them
is the Oriental on Meridan street, In-
dianapolis.

Mr. Morch gives the following de-
scription of the Alhambra Theatre of
Shelbyville :

"Mr. Rembusch first engaged me to
make three sketches before I quite got
the idea of his desire. In fact, I was
almost provoked, thinking Mr. Rembusch
was super-critical, but from the results
that we obtained I am glad that he was
very critical at that time.

"The exterior of the building gives
you an idea of something very substan-
tial. The lines are all uniform and
straight and just enough diversion to
break any monotony. One of the things
that is unique about the building is the
tower on the corner. The idea of the
tower was to give the building personal-
ity, so to speak, and the effect is both
startling and pleasing. When the elec-

rooms above same. The exterior effect
is an intermingling of colors which
gives you an idea of a Persian rug. The
bricks are rough and of gold, green, red,
brown and the wood shade combined,
which give the most beautiful effect im-
aginable. At the same time there is
nothing about the building in its general
outline that grows old, as sometimes a
very flashy building will do.

"No expense was spared in either the
exterior or the interior. The walls are
decorated and hand-painted on cloth.
An illustration shows the arrangement
of the Mirror screen. The over-dra-
peries are all of velvet. The stage is
particularly attractive, as it has a large
proscenium arch and two smaller pros-
cenium arches on the side, which the
singers may use or orchestras may be
placed. It has a pipe-organ on one side
and a piano on the other of these small
openings.

"The screen sets back about ten feet
from the stage in a shadow-box which
brings out the pictures very plainly. The
seats are all leather-covered. The build-
ing is thoroughly fireproof and sanitary.
The lighting is very effective at all
times, and sort of gives the idea of ex-
quisite taste without spoiling the home-
like atmosphere."

I. M. B.

AUDITORIUM, THE ALHAMBRA

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ARCHITECT WRITING BOOK ON PICTURE THEATRES

D ALPH M. HULETT, an architect
^ with offices in the Lennox Build-
ing, Cleveland, O., has in preparation a
book entitled "The Picture Theatres of
Ohio"

This book will deal exclusively on the
subject of picture theatres, and will con-
tain photographs of some fifty or more
theatres throughout the State, and a
series of articles pertaining to the heat-
ing, ventilation and management of the-

In this theatre the architect's endeavor
is to emphasize the theatre proper as far
as possible, while using the space not
needed for a lobby for commercial pur-
poses. He has done this by utilizing the
8 feet space required for exits for his
store entrances and extended the store
into the theatre, by which means he gets
fairly large stores and yet does not de-
tract from the theatre effect.

It was designed for a lot 60x125 feet

KXTERiOR PLAN

atres, along with the State Code of
Ohio.

The accompanying illustrations are
from sketches prepared for the book,
showing a projected theatre.

and seats 465 persons. The stores are
15x62 feet in size, and this leaves an am-
ple lobby, with convenient access to op-
erating booth. In the auditorium a good
view of the stage is obtained from every

seat, and all acoustics are properly
taken care of.

The following is the "key" to letters
on the plan :

"A" — Boxes.

"B" — Dressing Rooms.

' C" — Steps to Boxes and Dressing
Rooms.

hhbbbbBBBBBBB

pnnnflflflHflBflnm

"D"-
,E„_

"F"-
'G"-
"H"-
•T'_

T-

"K"-
"L"-
"M"-
"N"-
"O"-
«P»_

"CP-

-Screen.
-Stage.

-Orchestra Pit.
-Emergency Exits.
-Standing room.
Toilets.

■Stairs to Operating Booth.

-Entrance.

-Box Office.

—Lobby.

-Exit.

-Stairs to Offices.
-Stores.

-Display Windows.

J. M. B.

THE COLUMBIA THEATRE, TOLEDO

Thai & Aftel Design Practical and Rich-Appearing House

A THEATRE which is very rich and
refined in appearance owing to its
straight lines and absence of cheap deco-
rations is the Columbia, of Toledo, O.,
It is a substantial structure, built in the
belief that motion pictures are here to
stay.

The architects, Thai & Aftel, with of-
fices in the Ohio Building, Toledo, have
submitted the following description :

"The building is 60 feet wide and 120
feet deep. The main front vestibule is
29x10 feet, full height of building, as
shown on plans.

'The space over the front exits and
toilets is utilized on one side for the
manager's office, with windows overlook-
ing into vestibule and auditorium, and
the other side, which was built "with a
stair same as the manager's office, is
utilized for the bill and repair room and
entrance to operating booth.

"The operating booth is 7.6x12 feet
and 10 feet high, equipped with two ma-
chines. The auditorium has a seating
capacity of 800. It is 16 feet high at en-
trance level and 22 feet high at lower
level, with the floor slopir.g 6 feet. The
building is equipped with a complete

stage 20x50 feet and 36 feet high, suit-
able for vaudeville. The dressing-rooms
and heating and ventilating apparatus
are located under stage.

"The theatre was originally intended
for vaudeville and motion pictures at 10
cents admission, but was converted to mo-
tion pictures only at 5 cents admission.

COLUMBIA THEATRE, TOLEDO, OHIO

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25

The illustration shows the floor plan
of the front of said theatre, as the spe-
cial arrangement of the doors calls for
mention :

A A — The building line.

B B— The lobby.

C — The ticket office.

D D— The foyer.

E — Ladies' resting room.

F — Gents' smoking-room.

G — Auditorium.

H and H' are two double doors con-
necting the lobby with the foyer or en-
trance doors.

I and I' are two double doors connect-

ing the foyer with the auditorium. As
shown, these two doors I and T open on
the side of the foyer, throwing the light
from the street on the side walls and not
on the screen, as is the case with doors
facing the stage.
As foyer D D is partitioned, the cold

air from the street does not strike the
shoulders of the spectators.

J and J' are regular exit doors, but
act more as emergency doors, as the
patrons generally exit by the aisles K K'
and doors L L'. These doors L L' are
provided with the Van Duprin self-re-
leasing exit door device, which enables
anyone to walk out by merely pressing
on the bar, yet no one can open the door
from the outside.

Thai & Aftel have designed seven of
the best theatres of Toledo, and have
just completed an elegant photo-play
house in Monroe street of that city.

J. M. B.

THE MAJESTIC THEATRE, COLUMBUS

Owned by Max Stearn, It Is the Thirty-ninth Fred W. Elliot Has Designed

A FEW weeks ago I mentioned Max
Stearn, of Columbus, O., who re-
mained in his own town and succeeded,
until to-day, when he is on the eve of
the opening of his new Majestic The-
atre, which will prove to be one of the
best equipped and managed motion pic-
ture theatres in the country.

The illustrations show the floor plan
and front elevation of the magnificent
Majestic Theatre, now being erected in
Columbus, O., by Mr. Stearn, at a cost
of $125,000.

This is the first fireproof motion pic-
ture theatre to be erected in Columbus.
Further, it is the first real theatre de-
signed to be used exclusively for motion
pictures.

In the Heart of Business Section

The building contains a balcony, six
boxes, and is equipped with a roomy
stage not provided for present use, but
for the future should occasion demand.

The building is of the most modern
fireproof construction, being built of

MAJESTIC THEATRE, COLUMBUS, 0.

terra cotta, brick, concrete and fireproof
steel; all exterior windows have metal
frames filled with wire glass, and all
doors are metal-covered. Mr. Stearn
has spared no expense in making this a
modern, up-to-date, safe structure. It is
located in the heart of the business sec-
tion of the city, directly opposite the
State Capitol, and adjoins the Neil
House, the political headquarters of
Ohio.

The building occupies a lot 75x190 feet.
The front of the structure is faced with
red-wire cut-brick trimmed with richly-
decorated cream glazed terra cotta. The
outer lobby is 25x25 feet, and extends
through two stories in height, the walls
of which are covered with Rookwood
tiles. The entrance is protected from
the weather by a cast-iron marquise ex-
tending over the sidewalk.

The theatre is designed to accommo-
date 1,200 persons, 700 chairs being pro-
vided on the main floor and 500 in the
balcony.

The picture machine room is 8x12
feet and 8 feet high, and is constructed
entirely of reinforced concrete, and all
openings into the same are covered by
steel doors. Adjoining the picture ma-
chine room is a rewind room 6x8 feet
and 8 feet high.

The stage is 25x50 feet and 50 feet
high, and is provided with eight dress-
ing rooms, and all other accessories nec-
essary in an up-to-date theatre. The in-
terior will be gorgeously ornamented in
stucco, will be illuminated by concealed
lighting and will be decorated in oil.

The picture screen will be within a
shadow-box placed in the center of the
stage, and this will be masked by velvet
draperies and curtains.

Open About Christmas

The building will be equipped with a
system of indirect steam-heating pro-
vided with electrically-propelled fans,

which will supply to each auditor not less
than 1,200 cubic feet of warm fresh air
per hour.

The structure was designed by Fred
W. Elliott, architect, of Columbus, O.,
and is the thirty-ninth theatre which Mr.
Elliott has designed.

The building is nearing completion,
and Mr. Stearn looks forward with
pleasure and pride to the opening, which
will take place on or about Christmas
Day. J. M. B.

FLOOR PLAN, MAJESTIC THEATRE

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Vol. VIII

December 6, 1913

No. 22

SUBSTITUTES FOR CELLULOID

JUST as celluloid, which is the flexible support of
the motion picture, was devised to take the place
of glass, so attempts, we see, are constantly made
to prepare a substitute for celluloid. Indeed, the
matter has engaged the attention of experimenters
for more than twenty years. The principal reason
why a substitute for celluloid is aimed at is on ac-
count of the readiness of the latter to take fire, al-
though there are others of a chemical and physical
nature.

Three or four weeks ago we printed an article on
"Stereoscopic Projection on the Screen" and pointed
out that it was difficult, if not impossible, to effect
this. You cannot make and see stereoscopic pictures
on the screen properly. Now, we do not say that you
cannot make a substitute for celluloid — you can, but
the substitute is not as good as the celluloid itself.

There are, at the present time, in many parts of the
world people working to make these substitutes. Dur-
ing the last five years, we have had in our hands not
less than twenty substances which are supposed to

take the place of celluloid, and yet, up to date, not
one of them has found its way on the market. Gela-
tine itself has been suggested as a substitute for cel-
luloid, but in practice it has not answered. It is a
difficult chemical problem to solve. The chemistry of
celluloid is not at all obscure. Any intelligent in-
ventor can get an idea of the ingredients and the
methods of manufacture.

* * *

OUR object in writing this article is to warn would-
be inventors, of which there are so many in this
field of endeavor, to acquaint themselves thoroughly
with what has been done before in the matter before
they set to work on these so-called substitutes. The
difficulties in the way are great indeed, as any chemist
familiar with the problem knowsv You can, it is true,
get a substitute for celluloid as it is used to-day, but
in practice the substitute is not an efficient one. It
cannot stand the action of development. It dete-
riorates the silver salts. The gelatine will not adhere
to it. It cracks. It is not flexible enough. These are
some of the practical difficulties that have been met
with in the substitutes that have been made on a
small scale and experimented with in the camera, in
the developing- room and the projection machine.

We do not wish to be understood as deterring or
deriding invention, but simply to warn modern en-
trants into the field that so much has been done in this
direction already that the path of originality has been
very much narrowed.

It might not be out of place here to say that paper
can be used for taking and projecting motion pic-
tures.; so can glass plates. Here you have feasible sub-
stitutes for celluloid, but in actual practice they are
difficult to use for the purpose and are never entirely
satisfactory.

GERMANY FALLS IN LINE

A MERICANS are often charged with a weakness
for novelties as well as a quick appreciation of
new inventions. In the matter of moving pictures,
however, great as is their vogue in this country, we
have nothing on the Europeans. In England, France,
Italy and elsewhere, the new form of amusement is
playing havoc with the so-called legitimate theatres,
and we learn from to-day's cable news that even the
staid Germans have yielded to the fashion of the hour.

Berlin has now over twenty companies manufactur-
ing the films, and theatre after theatre is being turned
into a motion picture house. Berlin, however, has set
a new pace by the luxurious furnishing of the "kinos"
as they are called, club chairs and boxes being so
elegantly finished that the swellest society of the
German Capital occupies them, instead of going to the
opera.

The Berlin films, by the way, are subject to police
censorship. It will be interesting to follow the effect of
the picture shows on Germany's long-established drink-
ing customs. In this country, saloons are hard hit by
the motion picture theatres. — Trenton, N. J., Evening
Times.

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27

The Battle of Shiloh, one of the bitterest and most stubbornly contested engagements of the Civil War, has been
refought for the Lubin cameras. The. original battle ground and contiguous localities upon which General Grant and
General Johnston and their heroic followers worked out one of the bloodiest chapters in the history of our country
have been utilized for the enactment of this thrilling drama of love and war. The Battle of Shiloh is said to be the
most artistic and authentic reproduction of a historic event ever made in Motion Pictures, and is illustrative of the
astonishing progress the manufacturers of films have made. The Battle of Shiloh is in four reels and will be found
on the General Film Company's Exclusive program.

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heatr?
fftshuction Department

A WELL-KNOWN architect, who
has designed and erected a great
number of theatres, says :

"While I am known to build theatres,
and have always several in course of
preparation, I do not consider myself a
master, as after each theatre is com-
pleted, I see where I can improve on the
next one."

The confession of this architect shows
that the man designing and erecting cot-
tages is not the right man to be con-
sulted on a theatre.

There is another very important point.
In every city of -the United States the
most drastic codes have been enacted on
the construction of motion picture the-
atres, and unless the architect has had
some former experience, it is hard for
a builder of cottages to become familiar
with all these building codes.

Concerning the Regent

Illustration No. 1 shows the Regent
Theatre, at Seventh avenue and 116th
street. New York, of which a complete
description was given in the issue of
July 26.

Since then the Regent has been en-
tirely renovated and placed under the
management of S. L. Rothapfel, known
as the greatest genius in the art of fitting
the music to the picture.

In illustration No. 2 is shown the ex-
act position of the operating booth, un-
der the balcony. The rear wall of said
operating booth is shown on the left side
of illustration No. 3, the magnificent
foyer.

Flowers are seen a little, everywhere.
Why not? Are they not a courteous at-
tention to the women? Flowers are
cheerful and place the stamp of refine-
ment wherever they are found, on the
dining-table, in the parlor, in the bou-
doir, even in the limousine.

I wish most of our readers would
study illustration No. 3 and take notice
of this army of clean-cut attendants,
how they wear the uniform, the true
military style. No hands in the pockets,
no dudish cuffs on the trousers, no coats
open to show either a flashy necktie or a
dirty shirt. Even the operators keep
their white duck coats buttoned to the
neck.

S. L. Rothapfel is the king manager.
He has great ideals, and his ambition is
to see the dollar motion picture theatre.
But how can we induce the public to pay
a high admission if we don't pay a strict

attention to these small details? I
should say important details, as they
mean much to the success of a theatre,
but to many managers they are small and
of no real importance. An exhibitor
told me : "All this is waste of money
and- time. We cannot pay the wages for
clean, decent ushers. We must take what
we can for the price. Then our patrons
come to see the pictures and not to ad-
mire beautiful draperies, flowers or see
if the attendants have clean shoes."

My answer to such an exhibitor is :
"You are wrong," and the future will
prove it.

The Globe in Buffalo

Illustrations No. 4 and No. 5 show
the fagade and the lobby of the Globe
Theatre, of Buffalo, N. Y., owned by the
Sherman Amusement Co., and managed
by S. S. Webster.

The Globe Theatre is of modern con-
struction, with eight hundred seats and
several boxes. The lobby is finished in
marble and tile, with the ceiling and the
side walls painted in old ivory and gold.
Three large double doors lead into the
auditorium, the decorations of which are
most beautiful. The ceiling is high and
built on graceful arcs in panels of heavy

decorative scroll-work, while frescoing
and plastic relief ornaments combine to
make the interior especially attractive.
The operating booth is absolutely fire-
proof, its construction being entirely of
concrete and steel. The operating booth
is equipped with three machines.

Two immense exhaust fans with a ca-
pacity of more than 60,000 feet a minute
will carry out the impure air, causing a
perfect circulation of fresh air at an
equal temperature under and over every
seat and in every nook and corner of
the theatre, thereby supplying a health-
ful oxygen-filled atmosphere, thus reach-
ing the highest point of modern theatre
sanitation requirements.

The eye-comfort system of indirect il-
lumination is used. This makes it pos-
sible to light the auditorium while the
pictures are being run.

I visited Milwaukee, Wis., where I
have found the Saxe Bros., the owners
of seven of the best theatres of Milwau-
kee. Their start was small. It was in
the old Theatorium, still doing business,
but under an entire new dress.

Saxe Brothers' Activities

This first success gave rise to the Or-
pheum, which in its early days was then

1. — THE REGENT THEATRE

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considered the most refined theatre of
the State. The Orpheum is no more, as
the Saxes allowed the Orpheum to be
torn down with other buildings to make
room for a new department store.

The third venture of the Saxe Bros,
was the Princess, which proved a gen-
eral revolution in the construction of
motion picture theatres. It was one of
the first theatres to do away with the
cheap-looking, ginger-bread decorations,
and to uplift motion pictures by present-
ing them in a real palace.

The Princess of Milwaukee has been
the show-house, the model of new con-
structions, and has been heralded in all
the papers, and exhibitors came from
long distances to examine this new style
of theatre. The interior has been re-
modeled to increase the seating capacity
to something like 1,100 chairs, and to
provide some side boxes for 10-cent
seats.

. In quick succession the Saxe Brothers
opened the Alhambra, the Saxe, the
Crystal, the Modjeska and the Juneau.

Are they going to stop? No, these
gentlemen are too successful to stop,
and they are now planning the erection
of a large Hippodrome. They have
bought property around the Princess
Theatre, and it is their intention to
move the Princess Theatre a few doors
below to make room for the new Hip-
podrome.

Owe Success to Confidence

The question remains to know to
what is due the success of the Saxe
Brothers? My answer is that, like Max
Stern, Mr. Sievers and other successful
exhibitors, the Saxe Brothers did not
adopt the circus policy of P. T. Barnum,
but from the very first they had confi-

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2.— INTERIOR REGENT THEATRE, SHOWING OPERATING BOOTH

dence in motion pictures, and devoted all
their efforts to uplift the industry, to
give a refined show and to encourage
the patronage. There is no doubt that
if the Saxe Brothers had followed the
policy of the ignorant exhibitors by giv-
ing an inferior show, too long a pro-
gram, a display of ugly and sensational
posters, they could have, like others,
coined some money at the start, but
where would they be to-day?

Saxe Brothers went slowly. They ap-
pealed to the better element, and through

3.— THE FOYER AND ATTENDANTS, REGENT THEATRE

their constant efforts Milwaukee has to-
day a most select class of lovers of mo-
tion pictures. The policy of the Saxe
Brothers was not to try to grab all the
nickels in sight, but to educate th'e pub-
lic, uplift motion pictures and assure
them a bright future.

The Saxe Brothers are business men.
They know how to spend money to
make money ; they know that cheap
wages do not bring the results, and from
the very start they have established a
most remarkable organization.

The success of the Saxe theatres is
due to a great organization. Frank
Cook is the general manager over the
six motion picture houses. He has under
his supervision a local manager for each
house, and the local manager is respon-
sible for his force.

Machine Shop in Basement

As I have mentioned the name of P. T.
Barnum, I must state that the Saxe
Brothers copy the great showman by
having everything under their control,
and need to depend on no one in case
of an emergency.

In the basement of the Alhambra The-
atre is to be found a well-equipped ma-
chine shop. This is not a toy, but a very
large, commodious shop, with private
office and store-rooms, lathes, drills and
other such heavy machinery, and tools
of all descriptions. Experienced hands
are busy repairing projecting machines,
lamp-houses, rheostats, arc-lamp's, elec-
tric signs and fixtures, etc.

The operators of the different Saxe
theatres have no excuse for projecting a
bad picture, as if there is anything
wrong with the projection they scud t<>
the shop, and repairs are made without

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interruption to business. A large stock
of machine-heads, magazines, lamp-
houses, rheostats and other parts are
kept in stock in case of an emergency
call.

One feature of the Alhambra Theatre
is the "care of children. At the rear of
the auditorium is a large sunny room
filled with toys of all descriptions and
in charge of matrons. The mothers who
wish to enjoy a good show, and who do
not wish to annoy their neighbors with
noisy and crying babies, leave them in
the care of the matrons. There the chil-
dren find everything to amuse them-
selves, from slides, rocking-horses,
dolls, furniture, balls and animals, to a
pit of sand with real sand, shovels and
tin buckets.

Change Stage Settings

The Saxe Brothers have their orches-
tra on the stage and partly hidden be-
hind some artistic scenery. The setting
at the Alhambra represented a typical
Japanese garden, with beautiful light ef-
fects of varied colors. When the pic-
ture is on the screen the lights are kept
very low, just enough illumination to
show the outlines of the scenery, yet
not enough to spoil the projection.

These settings are not permanent.
They are changed once in a while, as
Howard Tuttle, who has his scenic stu-
dio behind the stage, and who is kept
busy the year round making new stage
settings for the Saxe theatres, is all the
time experimenting with new effects. It
is an art with Mr. Tuttle. I was
amazed when I visited his studio and
found so many sketches of new compo-
sitions. Illustration No. 7 shows the
curtain painted by Mr. Tuttle for J. E.
Williams, of the Grand Opera House, of
Oshkosh, Wis.

It is claimed that S. L. Rothapfel was
the first one to conceive the idea of
placing his orchestra on the stage and
of giving to both his picture and his
musicians some artistic setting. Mr.
Rothapfel has the right idea, as a pic-
ture shown on a plain wall, with practi-
cally no frame to it, looks too cold and
too mechanical.

Mr. Rothapfel made the success of
the Lyric, of Minneapolis, Minn. Later
he resigned from the Lyric to go with
the Shubert Brothers at their Lyric The-
atre of Chicago.

From Chicago Mr. Rothapfel went
with the Saxe Brothers, of Milwaukee,
and there found a responsive chord. The
Saxe Brothers, then the leading show-

men of Milwaukee were only too pleased
to welcome new ideas, and Mr. Rothap-
fel started to work with all his energy,
and in the course of time he made of the
Alhambra Theatre, of Milwaukee, the
leading motion picture house for miles
around. The excellent and appropriate
music, the beautiful stage settings, the
tasteful lobby decorations of the Saxe
houses under Rothapfel's management
gained fame, and although he left Mil-
waukee to come to show to New Yorkers
what are real motion pictures de luxe,
the Saxe houses of Milwaukee are still
drawing the best patronage, as the spirit
of the master is still there.

Conservatory on Stage

Illustration No. 7 shows a good speci-
men of what Mr. Rothapfel can do to
give more life to the picture and to en-
hance its beauties.

The stage of the Regent Theatre rep-
resents a conservatory. The musicians
play on the stage and are partly hidden
by potted plants and other decorations,
including an electric fountain. Two large
windows open on either side, with ap-
propriate backgrounds, giving a per-
spective to the scene.

The photograph, although perfect in
details, does not convey the beautiful and
pleasing sight of a night performance,
when the changing lights of varied colors
procure the most wonderful effects.

A heavy velvet curtain is lowered in
front of the screen between the pictures
when the singers appear at the windows
or the orchestra plays a special selection.

It is art in every sense of the word,
and there is no wonder that a manager
paying so much attention to all the de-
tails is rewarded by a constantly in-
creasing patronage.

The last illustration shows the New
Amusu Theatre of Walter, Brown &
Davis, of Elmira, N. Y., replacing the

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old one destroyed by fire on March 13,
1913.

As far as possible wood and inflam-
mable materials have been eliminated. It
is of tile-block, brick and cement walls,
covered with fireproof roofing. The
front is finished in stucco, and makes a
handsome appearance. Everything in the
interior of the building is attractive,
being finished in a near manner of buff
and deep yellow, finely blended.

6— CURTAIN, GRAND OPERA HOUSE,
OSHKOSH, WIS.

The lighting of the Amusu is of the
most modern system, and the cooling
system for the summer months is the
most perfect.

When the representative of The Mo-
tion Picture News visited the Amusu,
Manager Walter was making the neces-
sary arrangements for the heating and
ventilating of the theatre during the
cold season. J. M. B.

THE AMUSU THEATRE, ELMIRA, N. Y.

AN illustration shows the Alhambra,
of Toledo, the new house of W. C.
Bettis.

Its interior is a regular palace, most
luxurious with fine draperies and heavy

carpets, even on the stairs. Every-
thing is in keeping and has an atmos-
phere of refinement with its flowers
and ^ell-uniformed ushers. The uni-
form is of dark red cloth, trimmed
with black braid for the coat, and white
duck trousers.

The facade of stone is a monument to
the city and in perfect harmony with
the beautiful bank office building on the
corner.

The front doors are old walnut with

heavy French plate glass panels, covered
with rich curtains on the inside. The
casings and base of the ticket office are
also walnut, with artistic stained glass
above the doors and for the windows of
the ticket booth.

An elegant marquise extends over the
sidewalk the full length of the building.
The ventilation is the very best. The
air is cleaned, heated or cooled, accord-
ing to the season, in a high cemented
basement, pushed through small openings
in the floor and pumped through the
roof, forcing a constant change of air.

Another illustration shows the dispo-
sition of the doors at the Alhambra The-
atre of Mr. Bettis :

7, — STAGE OF REGENT THEATRE

A A — Building Line.

B B— Lobby.

C — Ticket office.

D — Foyer.

E — Auditorium.

F F — Doors leading from street into
lobbies.

G G — Doors hading from lobbies into
foyer.

H H — Doors leading from foyer into
auditorium.
1 1 — Stairs to balcony and offices.
J J — Poster frames of old walnut.

This arrangement of two lobbies, one
on each side of the ticket office, offers a

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protected entrance from bad weather to
the incoming patrons and a protected
exit for the outgoing visitors. These
two lobbies act also as storm-doors.

It is very encouraging for any man
with a strong desire to see motion pic-
tures reach a higher plane and be the
great universal educator, to see that not
only the manufacturers of films are
doing their best to improve the pictures,

THE ALHAMBRA, TOLEDO, OHIO

but that the architects are taking a deep
interest in the matter, and are working'
to build theatres befitting the new pic-
tures. In plain words, the architects all
over the country are building elegant
frames for the pictures.

The improvements on theatres have
been slow in the past because the whole
attention of the film manufacturers,
renters and exhibitors was on the film
only. We have entered a new era and
now that the managers realize the ne-
cessity to cater to a better patronage, we
may expect some great things in the
future.

HOME OF THE "MIRROR SCREEN"

Demonstrating Theatre, Shelbyville, Ind.

SOLAX-BLACHE PLANT EN-
LARGED

A new. building is being built at the
already commodious plant of the
. Solax and Blache Company, the inter-
ests of which are allied, at Fort Lee,
N. J. The foundation is now being
laid for the new building, which will
be fifty by one hundred feet in size,
two stories high, and -built of stone
and concrete. It will be joined to the
present plant, which is one hundred by
one hundred and fifty feet in size, by
a steel bridge. The factory, labora-
tory and dark-rooms will be moved
into the new building, and the space
thus acquired in the old building will
be used for additional office, studio
and shipping-room.

The allied companies will give a
Solax and Blache feature service in
five centers. One is from Buffalo, cov-:
ering New York State, exclusive of
Greater New York. The second is
Indianapolis, from which Indiana and
Kentucky will be handled. From St.
Louis, Missouri and Southern Illinois
will be handled. The fourth is Kan-
sas City, covering Kansas, Arkansas,
Colorado and Northern Oklahoma,
and the fifth, in Atlanta, will cover
Tennessee, North and South Carolina,
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi
and Louisiana.

The following features are now
being booked: "The Rogues of Paris,"
four reels; "Star of India," four reels;
"A Prisoner in the Harem," four reels
and "A Fight for Millions."

The Solax and Blache companies to-
gether release two features a month.
Soon they plan also to buy outside
makes.

EXCLUSIVE FEATURES CON-
TRACT WITH ITALA

Harry A. Samwick, of the Exclusive
Features, Inc., has. arragned with Nector
J. Streyckmans, of the Itala Film Com-
pany, for the New York state rights on
all Itala subjects, beginning with "Gyp-
sy's Kiss." The Exclusive Features also
control New York state rights on all the
feature subjects of the Film Releases of
America.

J. M. Goldstein, president of the Ex-
clusive Features, has signed a lease for
large offices in the Masonic Building at
Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue,
the same to be occupied about January 1.
The present offices at 24 East Twenty-
first street have been found inadequate
to carry on the business increased since
they began releasing three features
weekly.

U. S. USES POWER'S

The U. S. Government is using more
than fifty Power's Cameragraph No. 6A
Projection Machines on battleships, at
West Point and at army posts for in-
structions in military and naval tactics,
as well as for the entertainment of the
enlisted men.

BERT ENNIS AND MISS PIRUNG
WED

Miss Clara Muriel Pirung, of Flat-
bush, and Bert G. Ennis, publicity and
advertising manager of the Eclair
Company, were married Thanksgiving
Eve at the church of St. Rose of Lima,
Washington avenue, Flatbush. Mr.
and Mrs. Ennis are now on a short
trip South.

MRS. BERT G. ENNIS

Thus culminates a romance which
began in the spring of 1910, when Miss
Pirung and several others histrioni-
cally inclined formed the Kensington
Players Club. Miss Pirung was play-
ing the leading female part, and Mr.
Ennis, then in vaudeville, produced
the play.

Miss Pirung is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John C. Pirung, of 408 East
Seventeenth street, Brooklyn. Mr.
Ennis is a son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J.
Ennis, of 415 Westminster Road,
Brooklyn, and a grandson of the late
Henry F. Hughes, a pioneer piano
manufacturer. The ceremony was
conducted by the Rev. Father Leo
Ennis, a cousin of the groom. George
Bunny, son of John Bunny, the Vita-
graph star, took motion pictures of
the bride and groom entering and
leaving the church, and of the festivi-
ties following the ceremony. The
young couple will make their home in
the Ditmas Court apartments, Flat-
bush, New York.

SUPREME FEATURE SELLING

The Supreme Feature Film Com-
any, Inc., formerly located at 64 East
Fourteenth street, and now located at
145 West Forty-fifth street, are now
selling state rights on its big six-reel
production "The Hero of a Nation,
Bar-Cochba," which took them five
months to make; and was acted by
the most prominent European talent.

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OH, IT'S AN INTERESTING LIFE!

Punctuated by GEORGE D. PROCTOR

MEMORIES of the house-warm-
ing of the new home of the
Screen Club at 165 West Forty-
seventh street, are the first thoughts
that steal over me as I warm up the
right arm over the keys. I think mem-
ories of that occasion will continue to
haunt me for some time, for it was
considerbul of an affair.

It's a wonderful organization, this
Screen Club. The house-warming of
last week was only the official en-
trance into its present, expanded
sphere. When a college student is
handed his sheepskin and told to go
out and wrestle for a living the occa-
sion is called "Commencement Day,"
although it is the end of his college
course. So when the Screen Club
graduated from its quarters in Forty-
fifth street, and they were dear to us,
all, that graduation was only the com-
mencement.

It was only about fourteen months
ago that the charter was granted the
Screen Club. Look at it now. It oc-
cupies a beautifully furnished home
in the heart of New York's motion-
picture and theatrical district. From
a small beginning it has grown quickly
but with a solid growth, till now it has
among its members a good majority
of the actors, together with many of
the manufacturers, and a liberal
sprinkling of press agents, writers, and
so on.

The spirit of the Screen Club is not
lightly to be considered, either. The
boys all s ick to each other through
thick and thin. A chance to boost is
never let pass unheeded. The noon-
day lunch sessions are the most valu-
able film forum of the day. Anyone
burdened with conceit is sure to lose
it in passing.

But about the house-warming. More
than eight hundred persons visited the
Screen Club between six at night and
the wee small hours. The house was
literally packed. It was a human sar-
dine can. And everybody was tickled
to death with what he saw. Auspi-
cious is an old word and a favorite of
Noah's, but that is what the opening
was. The house was packed for hours.
Celebrities of the screen and stage el-
bowed each other. There were good
things to eat and the white-aproned
knights were busy. The Edison Kin-
etophone Quartet sang ad libitum and

in the large dining-room of the Hotel
Longacre, which was utilized as an
overflow hall. Everybody was happy
and everybody was pleased. It was a
memorable occasion.

And early in the morning, as the
little birds perched by request on the
window-sill, three men were saying
good-bye in voices as tender as Mara-
thon runners at the end of the hun-
dredth mile. They were King Bag-
got, president; Joseph White Farn-
ham, first vice-president, and J. H. H.
Gerhardt, treasurer, to whom more
than any others, is due the credit for
the success of the housewarming.

Who was there, did you ask? Oh,
what's the use of promoting petty
jealousies. Read the who's who of
th film game. They all were there.
ALL — and then some.

John Hardin, for nine years hand-
ling Edison films, walked into the Am-
brosio offices this week and took his

NEW SALES MANAGES, AMBROSIO

seat as sales manager. Thus does
John enter on a new career and one
with broad vistas of success ahead.
He will surely start by adding to the
buyers several of his many personal
friends and others will follow. John
Hardin with Ambrosio. And he gets
his pitcher in the papers.

Taking a crack at censors in general
and the Ohio board in particular is
one of the principal indoor sports of
the day. I must admit that I feel a
thrill when someone says "Any cen-
sorship is un-American." But as long
as it is a very present thing it can not
be vociferated into the background.

Granting merely for the sake of ar-
gument that there must be censors, it
is easy to see that the more censor
boards there are, the more trouble is
in store for all in the film business, as
they seem anxious not to work to-
gether.

President Neff's own hand-raised
censors out in Ohio are having their
troubles writing letters to the news-
papers and a Federal injunction has
been slapped on them. The other
states can sit back and observe. Mean-
while the Ohio film men are in a
pretty pickle. If there must be cen-
sors why not an authorized national
body and one composed of persons
who will see the questionable films
made by mushroom producers as well
as the program stuff and who are
broad-minded and sensible. But all
this is Utopian.

Heading the list of the pleasant fes-
tivities after the Screen Club ball
comes the little gathering Sunday
night at the home of Charles Feature
Abrams, whose name has been heard
before. For film men there were
present J. W. Farnham, Joe Miles,
Charles Kessel, Fred Balshofer, and
John Mahan.

Then the faithful few journeyed
way up-town to the ball of the "Bronx
Movie Circle" an organization of mo-
tion picture operators and pianists in-
habiting the top of the city as the
map hangs on the wall. A lot of film
folk were present including Kinema-
color and Universal delegations.
Maurice Costello and Florence Law-
rence led the grand march followed by
Irving Cummings and partner and
Darwin Karr and Claire Whitney. It
was a merry affair and how late it
lasted is a matter of guesswork. The
officers of the organization are: Pres-
ident, Morris Sillish; vice-president,
Otto Spitz; secretary and treasurer,
Abraham J. Kessler; secretary, David
S. Herbertt and sergeant-at-arms,
Phil Peller. Around the hall were the
arrangement committee: Charles
Gates, chairman; Abraham Kessler,
Phil Peller, David S. Herbertt and
Morris Sillish and the floor commit-
tee: Frank Percher, floor manager;
Charles Ritchie, assistant floor man-

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ager; Arnold Tyroller, chairman;
George J. Sokoloff and Irving Perry.

Echoes coming in from Minnesota
indicate that the battle there between
Otto N. Rath and M. A. Neff is a
hot one. Rath and his followers will
meet in Morris and organize on De-
cember 12. The organization is called
the Motion Picture Association of
Minnesota and its motto is "Minne-
sota for Minnesotans." President
Neff seems somewhat peeved and has
issued a statement saying that he is
glad that Rath and his followers have
quit the league. So there you are.

Which reminds me that Neff will
hold a convention to re-organize Wis-
consin at the Atheran Hotel on De-
cember 16 and 17. George M. West-
ley is now busy getting new members
in Wisconsin.

Signor Joseph Hopp of Chicago and
points East is going to be quite the
busy boy. Since selling out his Stand-
ard Film Exchange to the Universal
he has revivified his Union Film Com-
pany, moved into larger quarters and
plans to supply a feature a day, which
is something of an undertaking, ask
any feature buyer. Joe made a flying
trip to New York last week.

He may also accept the presidency
of the newly formed Laclede com-
pany. This company is producing
three-reel Westerns, the first of which
is "The Pale-Face Squaw" already on
the market. The product is being
marketed through the Films Lloyds
which means Charlie Abrams. The
home of the concern is in St. Louis.

Incidentally Joe reports that his
brother William Hopp is recovering
after his recent operation.

Phil Klein, treasurer of the All Star
Feature Corporation, was due back
Friday from England where he has
been busy for several weeks. Sans
doute he has a bundle of contracts
with English stars and authors.

Eberhard Schneider is much put out
over the statement of A. E. Smith, of
the Vitagraph Company of America,
on the stand in the Patents Company
suit to the effect that he invented the
"framing device" now used on projec-
tion machines. Schneider, in an offi-
cial statement, says he invented it and
cites dates and patent numbers.

The suit against the Patents Com-
pany marked time over the holiday
and will resume again December 1,
according to schedule.

Mayor Kline, Mayor-elect Mitchel,
several judges, and other notables are
expected to be among the laity pres-
ent at the ball of the Motion Picture

Exhibitors Association of Greater
New York at Terrace Garden on De-
cember 15.

Ramo films are back in the ring with
a strong advertising campaign with C.
Lang Cobb, Jr., manager of sales and
publicity of that company at the head.
This company is producihg two
strong, dramatic, three-reel features
a month. It is sparing no pains to
produce the best.

Fred Beecroft please note.

Meanwhile Agnes Egan Cobb is
quite the busy lady at her desk at 225
West Forty-second street. She had
three Union Features a month to han-
dle, on the tenth, twentieth and thir-
tieth, and two Features Ideal which
are released on the fifth and twenty-
fifth, a total of five for one lone wo-
man. Not only that but she sells 'em
and gets up all the heralds, lithos,
publicity matter and so on. Figure it
out for yourself whether she's good
or not. Her first of the Features
Ideal is "The Guerrillas of Algiers" or
"The Mosque in the Desert." More
about this picture later.

Mary Pickford, Little Mary, is on
her way to Los Angeles where the
Famous Players have opened a studio.
Edwin S. Porter will be the producer
there.

George Kleine's new theater in
Forty-second street, New York City,
between Seventh and Eighth avenues,
is progressing rapidly and the contrac-
tors now say it will open about the
middle of March. This is the first
theater in America especially erected
for plural-reel features It will be
equipped with every device to make
the presentation of the pictures per-
fect. The name has not yet been de-
cided upon.

The Society of Allied Arts, of which
J. Stuart Blackton, Vice-president of
the Vitagraph Company of America,
is a member, visited the Vitagraph
studios last Saturday.

Marshall P. Wilder, who has made
kings laugh, and who must be remem-
bered for his work in many Vita-
graph comedies, is thirsting to appear
on the screen again. He confided as
much to me at the Screen Club house-
warming. He may be reached at the
Lambs Club or Atlantic City.

G. W. Landon, who for the past
several years has specialized in adver-
tising along motion picture projec-
tion lines, has joined the staff of the
Precision Machine Company, and will
handle the publicity and advertising
of the Simplex projector.

Many reports of progress emanate
from the Mutual offices. The indoor
studio at 29 Union Square West,
where Larry Griffith will work, is
about ready. Three entire floors will
be used.

Daniel Carson Goodman, author of
the "Hagar Revelly" which drew the
fire of Anthony Comstock, has been
engaged to censor all productions be-
fore they are released. Miss Kather-
ine Eggleston, a magazine and news-
paper writer, has been engaged to edit
and title films at the Reliance studio.

DON'T YAWN, BOYS

Hector Streychmans has an automobile for

sale.

John W. Gray is handling the Universal's
national advertising campaign.

Many exhibitors will give away "Alkali Ike"
dolls for Christmas presents.

Wilfrid North, director, is back with the
Vitagraph Company after the accident whereby
particles of powder were shot in his eyes.

C. B. (Pop) Hoadley has gone with the
Biograph on the scenario desk.

J. W. Anderson, brother of "Broncho Billy,"
is now playing in pictures at the Western
Essanay studio.

The Imp picture, "Traffic in Souls," is show-
ing on Broadway at the Joe Weber playhouse.

Horace Bennet has been engaged as manager
of the branch office of the World Special
F.lms Corporation at New Orleans. William
H. Irvine has been engaged for the Washing-
ton, D. C, branch. Th.s concern has added
a poster department, located at 213 West
Fortieth street.

The Manhattan Feature Film Company has
bought upper New York state on several Ramo
features. Edgar C. Briggs is manager of sales
and booking. Frank Donovan is manager and
publicity expert.

C. J. Giegerich, late of the defunct Scientific
Cinematography, is now with the Leslie syndi-
cate.

Teddy Salomon, who has been the operator
in the Universal projection room for some time,
goes to the Imp studio as editor and titler.

Jack Cohen doesn't leave the Universal after
all. In fact he moves up to the position of
editor of the Animated Weekly.

Mailing cards extolling the Simplex machines
are going the rounds.

Mary Fuller, of Edison, won the popularity
contest conducted by the Colonial Theatre,
Buffalo.

Yale Boss, Edison actor, has graduated into
long trousers.

P. G. Lynch, formerly of the Pacific Mutual
Film Corporation, has been engaged by S. S.
Hutchinson, president of the American Film
Manufacturing Company, as his assistant at
Santa Barbara, Cal. Mr. Lynch will be ii»
charge of business matters at the new Santa
Barbara studios.

Kathlyn Williams' new play, projected and
completed under her own direction, is called
"The Leopard's Foundling," and is a new note
in dramatic daring in dealing with the carni-
vora as though the treacherous big cats were
the most tractable and gentle of animals. Hiss
Williams herself plays the leading part.

Phil Gleichman, of the World Special Films
Corporation, has just returned from a trip-
down South.

Jane Fisher, of the Ramo Stock Company,
was operated on last week and is still in a
precarious condition.

Donald MacDonald, for two years a leading-
man with the Universal, is now a director. He-
also spent a year with the Selig forces.

The two-reel picture, "How the Jews Care
for Their Poor," made by the Universal, will
be shown Sunday night at the annual banquet
of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities.

The Canadian offices of Warner's Features
are now permanently settled at 360 St. Cath-
erine street, West, Montreal. F. A. Fenton is
in charge, assisted by Mr. Holland.

H. M. Russell, of the Pan-American Film
Company, has just returned from a flying trip
to Salt Lake City and Los Angeles.

Miss Pauline Widrow, the capable little
"Demi Tasse" of the Italian-American Film
Corporation, is, these days, very much pleased"
with the work she is ticking out on her
machine.

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35

TWO OLD FAVORITES FILMED

"Ten Nights in a Barroom," Owned by Photo Drama Company— "The Stranglers
of Paris," Produced by Motion Drama Company

'"TpEN Nights in a Barroom," which
has been a pet subject for temper-
ance workers for years, has at last
reached the motion picture screen. It
has been produced as a five-part motion
picture owned by the Photo Drama
Company.

the Morgans and the Lawrences and the
wedding of the Morgans, together with
a barn dance. Later Joe starts on the
drunkard's path. His dainty wife has to
come after him in Slade's bar. He
keeps on down and down, is ousted from
his house and his position as half-owner

At this point the contrast in the homes
of the seller of drinks and the consumer
is made clear. Joe is down and out. He
and his wife are in abject poverty, while
the Slades are prosperous. Joe wanders-
down to the river. There he saves the
life of the Judge's son when the latter's
horse runs away on a ricketty bridge
and throws him in the water. Joe's lit-
tle girl comes after him in the saloon.
There is a fight. Slade hits out with a
beer bottle and hits the little girl. She
is taken home and dies. Joe, in horrible
delirium tremens, sees snakes. Slade is
tried, but his friends on the jury acquit
him. Joe swears never to touch another
drop of liquor.

Then his regeneration begins. He is
taken back into the firm. Incited by
him, the villagers attack Slade's tavern,
wreck it, and spill the liquor on the
ground. Years later Joe is found, happy-
in his home and friends, a new man.

THE STRAW RIDE IN "TEN NIGHTS IN A BARROOM"

This production, made under the di-
rection of Lee Beggs, brings to the mind
the horrors of drink more vividly than
could any play or lecturer. When Joe
Morgan goes into delirium tremens a
snake of horrendous size crawls across
the table before his eyes and entwines
itself around him, then vanishes utterly
and instantly.

This is pc -haps the most impressive
scene in the picture, as it drives in the
effects of drink on the brain of the spec-
tator, but there are many otber things
worth while to be seen. There are pas-
toral scenes where one can almost smell
the new-mown hay. There are drunken
brawls where strong men and a child
are struck down and there is the trans-
formation of Joe Morgan from a pros-
perous mill owner to a sot, through
drink, and his subsequent regeneration.
This, of course, is the big lesson of the
film.

An Exceptional Cast

As for the cast, Robert Vaughn plays
Joe Morgan, Violet Horner is his wife,
Robert Lawrence plays Simon Slade, a
saloonkeeper, Marie Traldo is his wife,
and Jack Regan plays the Judge's son.

First is shown the rural courtship of

of the mill. In fact, he loses his all
through drink. A gambler comes to
town and gets the son of Judge Ham-
mond in a game.

WHEN David Belasco produced
"The Stranglers of Paris" on the
legitimate stage it was the sensation of
the day. It was a dramatization of Be-
lot's famous novel, popularly regarded
as a sensational and vivid narrative em—
bodying conditions in Paris nearly ai
decade ago.

Now this play also has reached the-
screen in six reels as the first produc-
tion of the Motion Drama Company.
It is a play especially well adapted for
motion picture production. It contains
many thrilling incidents, all of which,
are reproduced vividly, with due regard

STRONG SCENE FROM "TEN NIGHTS IN A BARROOM'

36

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to working up the dramatic values, yet
the details are not overlooked. For in-
stance, a clever little comedy bit is intro-
duced when a Frenchman doffs his hat
in a jerky manner. Little things like
that do much to make or break a film.
This production surely will "make."

Gordon's Double Duty

To James Gordon is due much of the
credit. He directed the picture and

HANDS OF PATE, "THE STRANGLERS OF
PARIS"

played the leading part, that of Jagon.
His enormous physique and his powerful
face render him exceedingly well fitted
by nature for this part, and he makes
the most of his endowments. He makes
the strange character a living reality.
Anna Hull plays Jeanette, his daughter,
with her usual savoir faire.

Dramatic scenes follow each other
with almost bewildering rapidity. Lusty
fights are frequent. Then a man leaps
from a vessel into the open sea. Scenes
in an underworld cafe are interesting.
High society, too, has its innings. Light
comedy touches are interspersed. The
lover of any especial factor in what goes
to make a successful picture will find
what he likes in this. The story, briefly,
follows.

In a little rose-covered cottage in a
village of France lived Simmonet, a re-
spectable citizen, his wife and their little
daughter, Mathilde.

Their happiness was complete but
short-lived, as his wife died after a short
illness. Simmonet, nearly insane with
grief, takes to drink, neglects his busi-
ness, and sinks to the depths of an out-
cast of society. He is aroused to a sense
of his condition, but fails to regain a
foothold — it is too late. He becomes
vindictive, hates all mankind, and makes
a vow that, by no matter what means,
he would save his child from the pangs
of poverty.

He takes his child to Paris, where she
grows to womanhood,^ ignorant of her
father's double life. Simmonet loses his

identity and assumes the name of Jagon.
He soon drifts into the underworld of
Paris, and, owing to his superior
strength and powerful personality, be-
comes the leader of the dreaded gang
known as "The Stranglers of Paris."

Attracted by Her Beauty

A wealthy, elderly gentleman, Claude
Guerin, is attracted by Mathilde's beauty,
and asks her hand in marriage. Jagon
makes a tool of Mathilde and compels
her to accept, provided he makes a will
in her favor. This he does and is stran-
gled by Jagon and found dead before the
wedding day. For this crime, Blanch-
ard, an innocent man, is convicted on
circumstantial evidence.

Later, Captain Guerin, a brother of
the murdered man, contests the will and
obtains a verdict in favor of his daugh-
ter Jeanne. The day the money is paid
to him by the court he is followed to
his home by Jagon and his accomplice,
Lorenz. That night Captain Guerin is
strangled by Jagon and the money stolen.

About this time Blanchard had been
made a ''trusty" of the prison, and suc-
ceeded on the night of the murder to
slip away for a few hours to visit his
wife, who is a maid at Captain Guerin's
home. He was seen to enter and leave
the house by several persons. He was
brought back and, owing to his record,
is held for the crime. Jagon, too self-
confident, enters the room at this mo-
ment and is recognized by Jeanne as the
man who had called on her father prior
to his death, and accuses him. He is
arrested and convicted of the crime and
sentenced with Blanchard as his accom-
plice to penal servitude for life. Fear-
ing this, Jagon had previously given Lo-
renz the money and the family papers
of Don Jose the Marquis de Ribas and
instructed him to assume this name, and
to take care of his daughter Mathilde.
This Lorenz does, and later marries her.

Jeanne Guerin, believing that Blanch-
ard, the husband of her maid, is inno-
cent of the crime of her father's death,
entreats her lover, Robert, an officer in

JAGON AND FAMILY, "THE STRANGLERS OF PARIS"

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APACHE DANCE IN "THE STRANGLERS OF PARIS"

the army, to secure the proofs of his comes infatuated with him, and prom-
innocence. He meets Mathilde, who be- ises to assist him, and when shown pho-

Williamsburg Exhibitors Organize

ANEW branch of the Motion Pic-
ture Exhibitors' Association of
Greater New York was formed in the
Williamsburg section of Brooklyn on
Thursday night, November 20.

The meeting was held at the prog-
ress Theatre, 116 Graham avenue,
with thirty-two exhibitors in attend-
ance from the direct local district. It
was called to order at 11:45 p.m. by
Samuel H. Trigger, president, who
discussed the feasibility of forming
local branches throughout Greater
New York.

Mr. Hollander, chairman of the
East New York branch, also spoke at
some length on the same subject.

Mr. J. Teltenstein, of 450 Bushwick
avenue, was unanimously elected
chairman of the Williamsburg branch,
and Miss E. Disler, of the Progress
Theatre, 116 Graham avenue, was ap-
pointed secretary.

Matters in connection with the ball
and the amendment to the Folks ordi-
nance were gone into, and other mat-
ters were discussed whereby the prices
and number of reels to be run could
be adjusted, and it was decided to
take this matter up at the next meet-
ing, which will be held at the Leonard
Theatre at Leonard and Grand streets,
Brooklyn.

Here are some of the theatres rep-
resented and proprietors who were
present :

W. E. Sanders, Kingston The-
atre, 1506 Fulton street.

Broadway Lyceum, M. Goodman,
837 Broadway, Brooklyn.

Graham Palace, L. Dryling, 71 Gra-
ham avenue, Brooklyn.

Tompkins Amusement Company, 54
Tompkins avenue, New York,

Leonard Theatre, Richard Garrett,
222 Leonard street, Brooklyn.

Metropolitan Theatre, A. Saltzman,
Metropolitan and Flushing.

Lewis Theatre, 3 and 5 Lewis ave-
nue, Brooklyn. 1. Blumenson, 178
Nostrand avenue, Brooklyn.

Tompkins theatre.

Williamsburg Theatre, 147 Manhat-
tan avenue, Brooklyn.

Owl Theatre, Feinstein Bros., 626
Broadway, Brooklyn.

H. Rosenberg, Sutter Theatre, 570
Sutter avenue, Brooklyn.

Metropolitan Theatre, Ginsburg &
Traub, 168 Manhattan avenue.

Bushwick Theatre, S. Feltenstein,
Bushwick and Flushing avenues.

Old Post Office Theatre, William
Hollander, 1923 Fulton street, Brook-
lyn.

Miss T. E. Shwank, 1923 Fulton
street, Brooklyn.

L. Salkin, Progress Theatre, 116
Graham avenue.

Sarah Disler, 116 Graham avenue.

Greenpoint Star Theatre, P. Rosen-
son, 257 Driggs avenue.

Bushwick Casino, L. Thomas, 260
Bushwick avenue.

Mr. Tiefenbrun, Nassau and Mor-
gan avenues, Brooklyn.

tographs of J agon and Blanchard, dis-
covers that Jagon is her father. In a
scene with Lorenz, who is jealous of
Robert, she declares him the real accom-
plice of her father and asserts that she
will rescue this innocent man and de-
nounce him. Lorenz, fearful of this
threat, strangles her.
Innocent Man Cleared

At this very moment Jagon appears,
he and Blanchard having escaped from
the convict ship. He springs upon Lo-
renz and almost strangles him, when
he is shot by Lorenz and falls by his
daughter's .side. Arousing himself to
follow Lorenz and kill him, he disap-
pears behind curtains. Lorenz wanders
back half-dazed, and nearing the cur-
tains is drawn back of them by the pow-
erful grip of Jagon, the strangler, and
later found dead.

Jagon, semi-conscious from loss of
blood, staggers into the arms of his
daughter, who has recovered.

COURTING BY THE OLD MILL

"Ten Nights in a Barroom"

He dies in her arms, but not until he
has cleared Blanchard of both crimes,
and sees him united to his wife, a "free
man."

Vivian Prescott writes that she has
returned to pictures via Biograph.
We are pleased to hear it. Vivian
should never be out of pictures, as
she is a clever, hard-working artiste,
whom picture fans have always ap-
preciated since her former Biograph
days. She has done good work for
the Imp, Reliance and other companies.

3»

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jjg^ Music and the^^

Picture,

Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address : Music Department, The Motion Picture News

THE beautiful presentation of the
Kleine version of "Last Days of
Pompeii" at the Regent Theatre, New
York City, under the leadership of Man-
ager S. L. Rothapfel, confirms what I
have said in these pages, viz., a full or-
chestra and a pipe-organ can furnish the
most appropriate music and enhance the
beauty of the picture, provided the leader
or the organist arrange their music to
suit the different scenes.

As the work of selecting the different
themes is beyond the comprehension of
some managers and musicians, I still
stick to my policy and advise the man-
ager who cannot afford the wages of
high-talented musicians to keep a single
piano. A good pianist able to play the
picture will bring better results than an
orchestra playing a rag-time tune during
a death-bed scene.

Music as an Added Attraction

The following lines are contributed
by an exhibitor who knows how to use
the great musical instrument of Mr.
Hope-Jones, of the Wurlitzer fame :

"Did it ever occur to you that some
people may come to your theatre in spite
of poor music?

"And, by the same token, some may
actually stay away because of poor
music ?

"If you actually lose 10 per cent, of
possible patronage by poor music, how
much more do you lose by not having
music that is really an added attraction
and will bring you additional patronage
on its own account?

"Who wants to see a funeral proces-
sion to the accompaniment of a rag-
time piano and a drum? Also, 'Way
Down on the Suwanee River,' sounds
like the mischief for a melodramatic
scene climax. Also the organ and voice
effect is needed for a wedding scene.

"Finally, the right atmosphere for
every picture is absolutely necessary for
its greatest success, and the right music
is the one essential thing to produce the
right atmosphere.

"If you can't afford a large, well-bal-
anced orchestra, get an instrument that
can be played by one man that will give
you the effects you want.

"About a year ago the spectacular
play, A Daughter of Heaven,' was
given in the Century Theatre, in New
York, with an instrument built accord-
ing to scientific principles discovered and
given to the world by an English genius.
The Wurlitzer Unit Orchestra had pre-
viously already been used in leading the-
atres and auditoriums, and the world of
critics and musicians regard it highly.
Instruments specially adapted for the
motion picture theatres have been devel-
oped on these principles, and the charm-
ing and wonderful effects are astonish-
ing. The Quo Vadis' and the 'Les
Miserables' films in the Astor Theatre,
in New York, and in other cities have
been great successes with these instru-
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Cost Is Moderate

"The special advantage of the instru-
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fects can be obtained at such a mederate
cost — effects otherwise obtainable only

through comparatively large orchestras
with a great variety of instruments and

traps.

"The good effect of good music on the
attitude of the audience towards the
whole performance has been noted by
the writer in many cities with many
classes of audiences.

"Good music, whether by a high-grade
orchestra or a fine instrument, quiets a
restless audience and gives the cheerful
atmosphere that makes them want to
come back."

Musical instrument manufacturers are
realizing that motion pictures are here
to stay, and as they become more and
more popular, they are all trying to get
a share of the business by devising new
instruments to give more life to the
picture. I have described the Drama-
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Effect Cabinet, Bartola, Leedy Chimes,
etc., and in the following issues I will
try to keep the reader posted on anything
in this line. J. M. B.

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Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address : Exhibitors' Department, The Motion Picture News

IN a previous issue of The Motion Pic-
ture News, I said that while good
manners could be taught to a certain de-
gree, the recipient of such an education
does not always make an efficient em-
ployee, as his true character will show
one day or another.

Good manners must be born with the
man, otherwise he looks, under his new
varnish, like the young farmer who puts
on a Sunday suit to come to town to
show himself. Everyone can see that
the farmer boy, used to free movements
in loose clothes, is ill at ease in the city
clothes. The same applies to the man
who has no manners, who has not been
trained from his youth to look clean,
neat, and to be polite with every one.
He will, for the sake of keeping his job,
do his best to listen to good advice and
try to correct himself, but one day or
another his rough early training will
crop out.

Promotion Often a Reward

Managers cannot be too careful in the
selection of their attendants as clean,
neat, polite and courteous men mean
much to the success of the place.

As already stated, I had the pleasure
to meet several of these clean-cut at-
tendants. They are steady workers.
From year to year you find them at the
same theatre, not always at the same job,
because we have some conscientious
managers, who can appreciate good work
and promote their employees.

A COSY CORNER

I was rather surprised to see the good
business done at the Morse Theatre, of
Chicago, because I had no idea that
Rogers Park, of Chicago, had enough
population to maintain regular motion-
picture theatres.

In my opinion, it was more or less of
a risky game, and while some managers
would fail in this district, Charles E.
Bowles is making a grand success.

The affable manner of Mr. Bowles, his
even character, no matter what may be
the troubles resting on his shoulders,
make him a real favorite. He is always
the same perfect gentleman, at his the-
atre, at his business office in the loop
district or on the street. Same pleasing
greeting, same kind smile, never too busy
to answer. If he is too busy to receive
you, he does not throw you out with a
gruff word: "I am too busy," but with
a courteous answer he gives you to un-
derstand that your visit will be appreci-
ated at another time and you depart
satisfied and ready to call again.

Mr. Bowles acts as his principal usher.
He likes to greet his patrons, show them
the best seats at his disposition, and he
endears himself so much to them that
most of the patrons return nightly, not so
much to see the pictures as to meet the
genial manager. Then, as the patrons
talk to their neighbors, the Morse is the
rendezvous for the best patronage ; many
of them come from quite a long dis-
tance.

Indifference Out of Date

It is useless to say that the cashier,
doorman and the other ushers act like-
wise, as they have a good example to
follow, and they can see for themselves
that a neat, clean appearance and good
manners make the success of a motion
picture theatre.

The influence of Charles E. Bowles is
such that he could manage his theatre
without the help of posters, as no old
or questionable pictures can be shown
in a house so well managed, where
everything is of the highest quality and
efficiency.

As I have stated, appearance is not a
vain word, but is taken up not only by
our big corporations, but even by the

small business men, who realize that
business cannot be conducted to-day on
the style of indifference.

Last Wednesday I was surprised to
see a sandwich man enter the steam-cars
at a station between Toledo and Buffalo,
dressed in snow-white. White spotless
duck and trousers, white apron and cap.
He had no trouble to dispose of his sand-
wiches, as his clean, neat appearance was
a guarantee that his eatables had been
prepared with the greatest care.

We must not lose sight of the fact
that many persons go to motion picture
shows not so much to see the pictures
as to rest themselves. I may surprise
several managers in telling them that
thousands of business men, salesmen and
others on the road, spend a nickel or a
dime to visit a motion picture show
while waiting for their train. In the old
times such road men had to kill time by
visiting the saloons. .

We have also to consider the num-
ber of women who, after running for
bargains, feel the necessity of a rest, and
the motion picture theatre is just the
place, as it rests mind as well as body.
When these facts are taken into con-
sideration, we realize that such persons
are more or less influenced by the out-
side clean and neat appearance of a
theatre.

If I devote so much attention on this
question of appearance and manners, it

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is to encourage the managers to keep
up with the times and to not overlook
the general public sentiment.

It may be that most of our managers
are not aware that societies are forming
all over the country to encouragx
courtesy.

In the past I have mentioned the rules
of courtesy of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, of the United Cigar Stores, etc.,
and now comes the following in a
Cleveland daily:

COURTESY WINS

PROMOTION FOR

MAN "TAL" LAUDS

Polite Store Clerk Profits When
Pleased Customer Writes
His Employer

Organized courtesy has begun
paying dividends.

Frank Harrison Miller, now
floor manager at Higbee Co., is
the first beneficiary.

Miller was a clerk in the silk
department a month ago when the
appreciation league was organized,
its sole object being to reward
cheerfulness, sympathy, courtesy,
attention and helpfulness.

The "Tals," as the members call
themselves, wasted little time after
William V. Backus, 945 Engineers'
Building, the founder of the cult,
had perfected his plans.

And so it happened that two
weeks ago Dr. Pauline Barton-
Peeke, a "Tal," noticed the cour-
tesy and cheerfulness of Miller as
he waited on her at the silk coun-
ter. Back at her home she wrote
the Higbee Co. a letter on Tal sta-
tionery, mentioning her courteous
treatment.

Two days later Miller was made
floor manager, with a suitable in-
crease in salary. The letter was
shown to Miller after the promo-
tion was made.

' I didn't know her at the time,"
said Miller Wednesday. "She
bought several pieces of silk, and
I was glad I could please her.
That was the last I thought about
it until the office told me about her
after they had promoted me.

"I had never thought of the
financial end of courtesy before,
but I've tried to be courteous be-
cause it gives one a better feeling
toward himself."

"The movement which has just
benefited Miller is bound to help
all employees that are deserving,"
said Asa Shiverick, vice-president
of Higbee's. "It is also going to
create a new spirit in customers —
one of helpfulness and not of
criticism."

L

This should be a warning that such
societies are forming all over the coun-
try, and motion picture men must make
the necessary reforms if they wish the

encouragement of the "Tals," as they
call themselves. Do not allow the Tals
to cast a bad note against your attend-
ants. J. M. B.

To Film Army-Navy Game

EXCLUSIVE rights to take motion
pictures of the football game be-
tween West Point and Annapolis,
played at the Polo Grounds on Satur-
day, November 29, have been granted
to the Commercial Motion Picture
Company, of which Edward M. Ros-
kam is the active head. This is the
first time that motion picture camera
operators have been allowed on the
side lines during an Army-Navy game.
Four camera men. will be stationed
around the field.

In addition to the game itself, there
is considerable interest attached to the
spectators. President Woodrow Wil-
son has a box on the Army side and

Francis Sayre and the White House
bride are expected to attend. Other
notables holding boxes include Gen-
eral Miles, General Leonard Wood,
Vice-President Marshall, Secretary of
War Garrison, William Jennings
Bryan, Attorney-General McReynolds,
Secretary of State McAdoo, Governor
Glynn, Senator Root, Senator Lodge,
Senator O'Gorman, Mayor Kline, Sen-
ator Brandagee, Senator Ollie James.
Champ Clark and Henry L. Stimson.

In addition to the state rights buy-
errs the Commercial Motion Picture
Company has a prospective customer
for this picture in every army post
and battleship.

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INTERESTING FILM REVIEWS

Educational — Industrial — Scenic — General

U LTOR the Love of a Toreador."

" (Cines. Nov. 18. Two Parts.) —
There are many splendid scenes in this
drama. The arena scenes, taken in
Seville, Spain, are especially fine. A
notable release. Francisco, a torea-
dor, loves Lolita, a pretty Spanish
girl. Carmen loves the fighter and is
jealous of the favored Lolita. Just
previous to the fight Francisco vows
he will kill the largest animal in Lo-
lita's favor and the news reaches
Carmen through a matador. On the
great day Francisco returns the vic-
tor, having fulfilled his promise, but
just as the congratulations are being
tendered him he is stabbed by the
jealous Carmen. He recovers, and
after he and Lolita are married Car-
men begs forgiveness.

"Why I Am Here." (Vitagraph.
Nov. 19.) — Probably the best comedy
of the month; written by James Ol-
iver Curwood. It is the story of a
man who gets thirty days for beating
up another. He tells his tale. He
tells of kissing a flirt, of her threat
to tell her beau, Bill Murphy, and of
his fear for the latter gentleman, be-
lieving him to be a bully. Finally,
after dodging him for weeks, he meets
Murphy, a little puny, effeminate man,
and promptly proceeds to "do him
up." Sidney Drew played the "vil-
lain." Anita Stewart, as the girl, was
perfect. Her work added much to
the picture.

"A Lemon Plantation." (Melies.
Nov. 20.) — Taken in Santa Paula, Cal.,
showing the various processes lemons
pass through before becoming public
property. There is much space given
to details. Photography is very good.

"The Express-Car Mystery." (Ka-
lem. Nov. 19. Two Parts.) — A melo-
dramatic railroad story, which has
some good features. Pasquale, a
wandering violinist, is insulted by
Dugan, a bally. On trying to retali-
ate, his violin is broken. John Grant,
an express messenger, is entrusted
with a large sum of money. This is
stolen by Dugan in a thrilling man-
ner, and John is blamed for the deed
and put through a "third degree" in
an effort to make him confess. Pas-
quale, in the interim, seeing the pros-
perity of Dugan, follows him in an
attempt to regain money from him
to pay for his broken violin. Missing
him on the passenger train, the Italian
holds up the engine of another train

and follows the crook, finally catch-
ing him and having him arrested.
John recognizes him and the truth is
told.

"Farming in the Ancient City of
Thebes." (Vitagraph. Nov. 19.)—
Split reel with "Why I Am Here."
Shows grain harvesting, treading the
grain, and bullocks pumping water.
Photography good.

"The Touch of a Child." (Selig
Nov. 19.) — A good story, which can-
not, however, be used as a suffrage
advertisement. Tredgold, an impres-
ario, asks Helen to join the opera.
Her husband refuses her permission,
but she goes anyway, breaking off
with him, thus choosing between
home and fame. She is a great suc-
cess, and receives much attention from
a Count. She repulses him and
wishes to be back home. She re-
ceives word that her baby is very ill
and needs her, and hurries back to
her home. The little child unites the
two and she forsakes the stage.

"By Impulse." (Patheplay. Nov.
19.) — Clever acting and good photog-
raphy are the best points in this film.
Harmon returns home after some ab-
sence and meets his old friend. A
picture of the friend's daughter ap-
peals to him. That evening the girl,
Lucille, discharges a servant and
goes to the employment bureau for
another. While there she answers the
'phone and receives an application.
Dressed as a servant she applies for
a position with Harmon and is ac-
cepted. They rapidly become friends.
A burglar calls and she "knocks him
out" with a poker. Harmon and Lu-
cille then get married and he learns
her identity. Henry King plays "Har-
mon" and "Lucille" is played by Miss
M. L. Pardee.

"The Detective's Stratagem." (Bio-
graph. Nov. 20.) — This is a fair de-
tective story. A cashier in a bank
needs money very badly and succumbs
to temptation. He goes to the bank
in the evening to steal, but is caught
by the watchman. As they are fight-
ing, four burglars enter and loot the
bank. A detective is called in and,
by posing as a burglar, gets in with
the robbers, and has them arrested
when they are about to rob another
bank. Just why the cashier is exon-
erated and why he was submitted to
a "third degree" is not entirely clear.

"Conscience." (Broncho. Two
Parts.) — This is an exceptionally good
story, presenting some good situa-
tions. Haggerty, a crook, is forced
to leave for the West in the disguise
of a minister. He arrives there and
is taken for one, and all goes well.
He writes his pal, Bill, to come and
join him, as there is plenty of chance
to rob safes there. Bill comes, but
in the meantime Haggerty has met a
girl and has really reformed. Bill and
he have a fight, in which Bill gets the
better and is shot by the sheriff. Hag-
gerty then writes to the girl and
takes leave for ever. The finale is
pretty and effective.

"The Soul of the South." (Kay Bee.
Two Reels.) — Rather a good story,
greatly augmented by clever acting
and good settings. The first reel
deals with ante-bellum moonshiners.
The revenue officers raid them and
some are killed. The little boy be-
comes an orphan and wanders away.
He is adopted by a Southern gentle-
man, after his rescue of her daughter.
The war breaks out and Jim is court-
martialed and sentenced for falling
asleep on duty. Betty, the girl, pro-
duces an old signature that Jefferson
Davis had given her many years be-
fore and forges it to a pardon, taking
it to the Colonel herself. Davis is
visiting the Colonel and recognizes
the girl. He verifies the pardon and
sets the boy free.

"The Filly." (Domino. Two Reels.)
— Richard Stanton's Irish impersona-
tions are most clever. He plays with
Anna Little in this picture and gives
it a good Irish atmosphere.

Satan, a racing filly, is the only one
that can beat the Squire's other horse.
The Squire's daughter, Dolly, is the
only one who can ride her. Dan and
Dolly are in love with one another
to the father's chagrin. Satan "goes
lame" just before the race, and Dan
paints her brown, putting her in the
race with Dolly as jockey. She, of
course, wins, and the purse is large
enough to allow them to be married.

"Love vs. Law." Imp. Two Reels.)
— Charles Eldridge, formerly with the
Vitagraph Company, plays a splendid
part in this comedy. King Baggot
and Ethel Grandin are also good. The
father of F.thel, a war veteran, is con-
stantly boasting of his prowess on the
field of battle, and telling what he
will do if accosted by a bandit. One

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and the famed water bicycles in No
gent-sur-Marne, France. A sort of
"Kalem Weekly."

"His Chorus Girl Wife." (Lubin.

Nov. 21.) — Whenever a disreputable
woman is needed for a part she is
always called a chorus girl. Robert
meets a chorus girl and immediately
marries her. He soon discovers she
is untrue and they are legally sepa-
rated. Robert becomes a minister in
a small town. His wife locates him
and demands "silence money." In
the argument she falls from a window
and is killed. The minister then mar-
ries one of his parishioners, his res-
ignation being refused.

"The Schemers." (Vitagraph. Nov.
21.) — John Bunny and Flora Finch
are certainly a great combination.
Bunny as an inebriated husband is
great. To get to the club he makes
a clever dummy in his bed. When
he returns his wife thinks the dummy
a burglar. So the husband puts her
out of the room and commences a
strenuous "fight" with the dummy.
He is, of course, greeted as a hero.

"Natives of Australia." (Patheplay.
Split Reel. Nov. 21.) — Same reel with
"The Pond Snail" and "In the Spanish
Pyrenees." Three good subjects.
Treats of the Aborigines in Victoria,
explaining the boomerang and vari-
ous dances. Women weaving baskets
and men making shields are also
shown.

the action perfect. A kind of expose
of the inside of the "game." Ma-
bel Trunelle, Herbert Prior, Gertrude
McCoy, William West and Bigelow
Cooper play the largest parts. An
Englishman comes to America, arriv-
ing here pretty "down and out." He
is very much of a dude, but gets a
job at five dollars a day with a mo-
tion picture manufacturer. He works
hard and becomes a leading man. His
fiancee in England sees him in a pic-
ture kissing a girl and immediately
sends for him. So he goes,- leaving
his leading lady. The caustic sub-
titles were especially good. A little
knock was given the Censorship
Board. The "Western" scene was
particularly fine. Much laughter from
the audience when they saw how sim-
ple the scenery is.

"The Pond Snail." (Patheplay.
Split Reel. Nov. 21.) — Same reel with
"Natives of Australia" and "In the
Spanish Pyrenees." A splendid pic-
ture, showing the eggs and their
growth under a powerful microscope.
Even the heart, which is one one-
thousandth of a millimeter in size, is
plainly shown beating. .

"In the Spanish Pyrenees." (Pathe-
play. Split Reel. Nov.' 21.) — Same
reel with "The Pond Snail" and "Na-
tives of Australia^" Beautiful scenery
on top of high mountains is the chief
attraction of this picture. Frozen
lakes, 7,200 feet above sea-level, are
very pretty.

comes along and father flees. Jack
thinks to take the bandit's place in
order to scare the old man. He does
this, but gets arrested. Ethel finds
the real bandit and asks his help. He
turns up in the court-room, holds
them all up and tells the truth, later
making his escape. Jack is freed and
married right then and there.

"Into the Lions' Pit." (Powers.
Two Reels.) — Diaphanous skirts are
not a new thing by a long way, take
it from this picture of ancient Rome.
Edwin August and Ethel Davis play
the leads. Marius, a warrior, returns
victorious from the wars and meets
Lygia, a Christian girl, with whom he
falls in love. His former favorite,
Dacia, together with Castas, plot
against the girl's life. Abducting her,
they cast her into a lions' den. It
is in this picture that Miss Davis was
so badly injured. She is dropped
frcm a great height to a stone floor.
Marius, hearing of the girl's plight,
rushes to the rescue and saves her.

"Influence of Sympathy." (Victor.
Two Reels.) — With Florence Law-
rence and Ernest Fox playing the
leading parts one naturally looks for-
ward to a good picture. This story is
vciy pretty, indeed. The little daugh-
ter of very loving parents dies, and
the mother is inconsolable. They
adopt a little girl from an orphan
asylum, but it is useless. She thinks
of suicide, and when she is about to
attempt it meets a little cripple girl,
whom she takes home. It is this little
girl that breaks the link from the past.

"The Leper's Coat." (Rex. Two
Reels.) — A very good story, teaching
a valuable lesson that may, however,
fly over the heads of any but a very
intelligent audience. The Smalleys,
assisted by Rupert Julian, play the
leading parts. A man having dined
with a doctor who is taking care of
a leper reaches home to find that he
has been wearing the leper's coat. In
a frenzy of fright he rushes out, not
knowing nor caring where he goes,
finally reaching a Christian Scientist's
house, where he is taken in. The
doctor arrives later and tells him that
the coat was his own and the man
believes and is no longer worried.
A few years later the man receives
word from the doctor that the coat
was really the leper's, thus making
a good ending. A story of conjugal
unhappiness runs through the tale.

"The Dublin Horse Show and Other
Events Across the Water." (Kalem.
Nov. 21. Split Reel.) — Same reel as
"The Laundress and the Lady." Be-
sides the Horse Show the following
subjects were shown: Amateur wrest-
ling in England, Robin Hood Rifles
of London, Grand Prix Motor Race
in Paris, athletic sports in France,

"A Good Sport." (Edison. Two
Reels. Nov. 21.) — A very fine picture.
The idea is clever and original and

"In the Fangs of Jealousy." (World
Special Films Corporation. Two Parts.
Made by the Paris Eclair Company.) —

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A perfect story, with clean action
throughout. The photography is good
and the acting excellent. A famous
actress, under an assumed name,
meets with an accident in front of the
home of an author. They become too
intimate for the wife to stand, and
the actress leaves. Later they meet
again in Paris and she agrees to pro-
duce the play of the author. It is a
great success. The wife, jealous, sub-
stitutes ball cartridge for the blank
ones used, and wounds the leading
lady on the stage. She confesses her
crime and all are reconciled in the
knowledge that the husband was inter-
ested from business reasons only.

"Kenton's Heir." (Patheplay. Nov.
22.) — A good cast and photography
is responsible for this "getting
across." Robert, Kenton's son and
heir, is disowned and goes away.
Twenty years pass by and the old
millionaire is dying. The doctor
knows that should he obtain a glimpse

of his son it would rally him. So
another man, who looks like Robert,
is substituted. The old man lives
through and welcomes the stranger.
Harold meets Marjorie, a relative, and
they become engaged. The real son,
Robert, is saved from committing sui-
cide on his father's grounds by Har-
old. The Jatter confesses his part
in the deception, but by consent holds
his place in the family.

"A Proposal Deferred." (Edison.
Nov. 22.) — Being the fifth ^story of
"What Happened to Mary," from the
Ladies' World. Captain Bradford and
Mary again meet, this time in a legal
proceeding. Bradford owns a mine
which Mary believes to be her prop-
erty. When the boy finds that Mary
is the contestant he withdraws his
claim and moves away. Mary, not
knowing the reason, thinks of what
might have been had he proposed.
The photography is perfect. The same
cast as heretofore.

"Pathe's Weekly, No. 69." (Pathe.
Nov. 20.) — Children being taught in
the Music School Settlement in New
York shows the inside workings of a
philanthropic idea. Views in the Pan-
ama Canal, the pictures of which have
been accepted by the Government as
official records, are timely. A new
device used to identify automobiles in
case of accident is demonstrated. The
comic section of "Bud" Fisher was
well received.

"Pathe's Weekly, No. 70." (Pathe.
Nov. 24.) — The subjects taken are lo-
cal exclusively, the photography be-
yond reproach. Maggie Teyte, the
prima donna, dons a queer costume
and calls it the ideal one for women.
Moving nail-kegs and scrap-iron with
large magnets in Texas is novel. The
Y. M. C. A. campaign to obtain $4,-
000,000 is shown in the editorial sec-
tion. The U. S. Cavalry in Texas drill-
ing for emergencies, and repairing a
telephone cable under the Hudson
conclude the most interesting features.

SPECIAL FILM REVIEWS

"Hp HE Price of Human Lives."

A (Edison. Dec. 2.)— Taken under
the auspices and for the good of the
National Association for the Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis, this pic-
ture by the Edison Company is bound
to be of great value, and will materi-
ally assist the work of this and other
philanthropical associations.

This picture, though showing how
consumption may be avoided, deals
more with the cure. It is in particu-
lar a great warning against the so-
called medicines that "cure" the dis-
ease, and is shown in the form of a
story. In this manner it is appealing
to all, the moral being sufficiently
plain to prevent quacks doing a lu-
crative business with those seeing the
film.

Sallie Crute, Augustus Phillips,
Frank McGlynn and Robert Brower
play the leading parts in a most satis-
factory manner.

Harry Bruce and Beth Cort are en'
gaged to be married and are very
happy. Beth's father, the manufac-
turer of "Concura," a consumption
"cure," offers Harry a good position,
which the latter accepts. Nellie Linn
has a bad cold, and, in answer to an
advertisement in the paper, buys a
bottle of "Concura," believing that it
will cure her. Beth also buys a bottle
of her father's product, but as she
is about to take it her father stops
her. She is interested in social service
work and in this pursuit she meets
Nellie and Eddie, her sweetheart, in
their tenement.

Having received a letter from a rela-
tive to the effect that her aunt had
died as the result of using "Concura"
instead of a proper remedy, she goes
to the offices of the company to de-
mand that they stop selling the fake.
She is surprised to find that Harry
and her father are the makers of the
deadly drug and breaks her engage-

ment. She finally gets a promise from
her father to stop making the "cure"
and they are again happy, as Harry
turns "traitor" and becomes an ardent
worker for the "Red Cross Stamp
Movement." Needless to say, they are
married.

Nellie and Eddie are cured of their
illness through the kindness of Beth,

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who sends chem to the country, where
the only cure works wonders, i. e.,
fresh air and sunshine with healthy
food.

"The Duke's Talisman." (Gaumont.
Four Reels and Prologue.) — Some-
thing similar to the "Prisoner of Zen-
da," and every bit as gripping and
fine a story. Through four reels of
perfect colored photography the ac-
tion wends its way without the time
lagging for a moment. You seem to
forget your very presence and sur-
roundings. A Duke being pursued by
revolutionists is hidden by a farmer
and his daughter. In parting he pre-
sents the girl with a ring by which
she may ask any favor. Times get
better and the Duke returns to his
kingdom, where he sets a price on
the head of the revolutionist. The
girl loves the Duke"s enemy and warns
him of his danger. A Countess, who
also loves the man. hides him from
his relentless pursuers. Later, how-
ever, seeing that he loves the farm-
er's daughter, she tells his hiding
place. He is captured. The girl goes
to the Duke with his ring. He says
the execution must go through, but
it will be mock. So the man is ap-
parently shot, but later "returns to
life" and together they go away. The
wonderful shades of colors used in
this picture are worth much to see.
It was a great pleasure for the writer
to review such a film. The costumes
are of Napoleon's time and are gor-
geous.

"Trapped in a Forest Fire." (Ameri-
can.)— This one-reel production gives
some splendid views of a forest fire,
whose scorching flames spread and
zigzag over the mountainside, destroy-
ing everything in its course. A story
has been built by the American Com-
pany in which this devastation plays
a big part.

Robert Newton, a young business
man, and his mother give a house-
party at his shooting lodge in the Adi-
rondack Mountains.

Among the invited guests are Vera
Stanton, a young romantic girl, with
whom Robert is in love, and Inez
Tremain, who in her turn loves Rob-
ert. To complicate matters. Inez is
loved by Tom Nevins. a friend of
Robert.

Nevins proposes to Inez and is re-
fused laughingly. While sitting on
the veranda later on, Inez sees Rob-
ert and Vera start for a walk and
follows them, overhearing Robert pro-
pose and being rejected because he
was too practical.

Trying then to win Robert by fair
means and tailing because of his
thoughts of Vera, she decides to re-
move Vera from his life. To this end
she sends for Dick Graham, an adven-
turer friend of hers, to come and camp
near them, thinking because of his
dashing wavs and Vera's romantic

turn of mind he can win her. Graham
is agreeable, as Vera is rich and he
is looking for money.

A few days after his arrival Inez
takes Vera to Graham's camp. Some
time later Rover, who has been hunt-
ing, happens upon the scene and, being
introduced to Graham, invites him to
call.

Graham calls one evening and makes
an appointment with Vera to meet
her in a picturesque nook in the for-
est. On the evening of the appoint-
ment, while waiting to meet Vera, he
passes the time smoking, throwing his
half-smoked cigarette in the dry
leaves. Arriving at the meeting place,
he smells smoke and looking back
sees the fire. He becomes panic-
stricken and rushes to the shooting
lodge, leaving Vera to her fate, as
she arrives a few minutes afterwards.

SCENE FROM "TRAPPED IN A FOREST FIRE'

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All is disorder at the lodge, Graham
has alarmed everyone. The cars come
on and, loaded to capacity, start for
safety, Graham and Inez in the first
car. Robert misses Vera. With her
brother James and his friend, Tom
Nevins, he goes in search of her. It
is only after braving the scorching
flames that he finds her hemmed in
on all sides by the blaze. He returns
to the lodge with her and she decides
that she prefers a" practical man.

"Zuza, the Band Leader." (Key-
stone. Two Reels.)— The best comedy
that the Keystone Company has put
out in a long time. Ford Sterling,
the unequaled comedian (of his class)
plays the lead and is supported by
Mabel Normand. Both have excep-
tional opportunities for distinguishing
themselves and take advantage of
them. The band leader, composer of
"The Chicken's Dream," is much be-
loved by all the ladies, to such an
extent that it becomes monotonous.
Mabel's lover causes all the excite-
ment by trying to kill the leader.
There are the usual chases, with ac-
tion every moment.

"For the Family Honor," or "The
Heart's Highway." (World Special
Film Corporation. Two Reels.) — The
scenes of this picture are laid among
the snow-clad mountains of Switzer-
land, and consequently the views are
wonderful. Local atmosphere is given
by scenes depicting sleigh-riding and
other sports. Two sisters and a
brother are their father's idols. The
son attends college in Paris, working
his way through by playing the piano
in a cafe. The younger sister elopes
with a man who had helped her in an
accident and goes to Paris. The man
is also instrumental in assisting the
brother, though the relationship be-
tween them is not known. When the
older sister and brother call to thank
Jean they meet their sister, who is
now his wife. They are separated
through the man's mother, who re-
fuses her blessing. Later they are
joined in a touching scene, when the
son is very ill. Blanche was played
by Rose Sylvaire, her sister by Jo-
sette Andriot, and Charles Krauss
played Jean.

"Star of India" (Blache Features —
four parts). With its opening and
closing scenes laid in India, that land
of mystery where Adventure is sup-
posed to stalk unchecked, and New
York used as the locale for the inter-
vening scenes, this four-part film
makes an excellent vehicle for several
novel and startling features.

There are magnificent palace scenes,
the Star of India, a huge diamond in
the temple protected by serpents ga-
lore, and a blind priest, a race through
the air on a slack wire, a den of

thieves, a floooded sewer which snuffs
out several lives, a fight on a moun-
tain top, elephants and several other
unusual elements.

The cast is good enough to ensure
attention. Fraunie Fraunholz plays
the male lead, Captain Kenneth, a mil-
itary attache. Opposite him is Claire
Whitney, of blond beauty and consid-
erable ability. Others seen on the
screen are James O'Neil, Theodore
Burkhardt, Willie Boyd, Andrew
Rogers, Joseph Levering, Fred Eng-
lish and Harold Baker.

When the story is told the many
opportunities for the coveted thrill
will be seen. Guarded in the Rajah's
palace is an ugly idol with the Star of
India in its forehead. This is an enor-
mous diamond. It is gifted with the
power of making all those who see it
desire insanely to possess it. A mili-
tary attache seeing the jewel, labori-
ously tunnels through the ground to
the palace, steals the diamond, but is
poisoned by one of the snakes guard-
ing it, and eventually he dies.

The diamond falls into the hands of
an American surveyor, who almost
loses his life in getting it, for the
stone is also coveted by his Hindu
servant, who later follows him across
the Atlantic with evil designs. When
the surveyor's sweetheart sees the
stone, she insanely desires it.

His rival undertakes to get it for
her on the promise that she would
marry him if he succeeded. Both he
and the Hindu engage the same gang
of crooks as assistants in their attacks
on the surveyor. The diamond changes
hands several times. Each man who
temporarily gets it dies a horrible
death. During the days of trial and

struggles the lovers unite against the
gang. The stone finally is returned to
India, where it continues to glitter as
"The Guiding Star of India."

All of the opportunities to make
the feature a thriller are made the
most of on the screen. The result is
a four-part feature which richly jus-
tifies its length and name.

DANTE FEATURES MOVE

Dante Features, formerly located at
1 and 3 Union square, have removed to
larger offices at 143 West Fortieth street,
where they are in a better position to
handle their increased bookings on their
features, including "The Betrothal" and
other big productions.

EASTERN BUYS SENSATIONAL
FILM

The Eastern Feature Company, of 835
Broadway, has secured the state rights
for Greater New York for "Lieutenant
Daring and the International Jewel
Thieves," in three parts. This is a highly
sensational production.

BLINKHORN'S FEATURES
SELLING FAST

Albert Blinkhorn's features have at-
tracted considerable attention, and sev-
eral large contracts have been drawn up.
Last week William Hirshberg, of the
General Film Company, of Chicago,
signed a contract to take over the Tur-
ner Films and Hepworth's productions.

All of Blinkhorn's features for the
Southern States were sold to W. I.
Cherry, who was in town looking for
some good productions. The feature
films are going fast and but little terri-
tory remains unsold.

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MISS

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THE HARPER MYSTEBY

By means of four entirely different disguises, Miss Turner, as a detective, turns over to the authorities a band of criminals that
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RAMO FEATURE BUYERS

The following feature exchanges have
bought and are handling Ramo features :

Manhattan Feature Film Co., 341 Fifth
avenue, N. Y. City ; European Feature
Film Co., Candler Building, N. Y. City;
Regal Feature Film Co., Sixth avenue,
N. Y. City ; William Fox Amusement
Co., N. Y. City; Eastern Feature Film
Co., 224 Tremont street, Boston, Mass.;
Electric Theatre Supply Co., Abbott
Building, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Electric
Theatre Supply Co., Baltimore, Md. ;
Weiland Film Exchange, Pittsburgh,
Pa. ; Empress Feature Film Co., Mer-
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M. & F. Feature Film Co., 167 West
Washington street, Chicago, 111. ; Texas
Feature Film Co., 1709% Main street,
Dallas, Tex.; Golden Gate Film Ex-
change, 234 Eddy street, San Francisco,
Cal. ; Golden Gate Film Exchange, 514
West Eighth street, Los Angeles, Cal;
Colgate Feature Service, Denver, Col.,
and Northwestern Feature Film Co.,
Portland, Ore.

BUYS AMMEX FEATURES

Among the purchases of state rights
on Ammex Western Features is that of
the Universal Film Exchange, of New
York City, for "The Barrier of Blood."
The Consolidated Film Company, Ltd.,
of Montreal, has purchased the state
lights on the same subject, and also on
"The Fatal Reckoning." The second of
the Ammex three-reel series will be
"The Lucky Nugget."

KIMBERLY TO REPRESENT
THANHOUSER

Paul Kimberley, of London, a recent
visitor to New York, and who left with
Phil Klein on the Mauretania on the
famous all-star night, has surprised the
London film trade by opening up an
agency for the American Thanhouser
Corporation.

ECLECTIC COLOR FEATURES

The Eclectic Film Company will re-
lease two plural reel feature films col-
ored by the new Eclectic natural color
process. They are r'Toils of Villainy,"
in three parts, ready November 27, and
"His Fatal Passion," ready December
11. The later release will set a new
mark for color work in multiple reel
features, as it is in five parts. Other
productions are coming.

BEILISS FILM GOING FAST

State rights are reported as going
fast on "The Terrors of Russia" or
"The Freedom of Mendel Beiliss,"
which is handled by the Italian Amer-
ican Film Corporation. Lithographs
have been turned out by the Acme
Lithograph Company and are now
ready for delivery, thanks to J. A.
Guasman, of that concern.

FIVE-A-WEEK
ESSANAY

Released Friday, December 5th.

Released Friday, December 5th.

The "Pay-As-You-Enter" Man

(IN TWO PARTS)
A feature comedy-drama especially adapted for the holidays.
Henry Rosser, a clerk in a department store, wants to please his fam-
ily by giving them a turkey. The novel means by which he secures
the fowl and the unexpected interference by the police, forms a novel
plot for this photographic and dramatic success. Irene Warfield,
Richard C. Travers and E. H. Calvert featured. Heralds and posters
now ready.

Released Tuesday, December 2d
"AUTUMN LOVE"

A beautiful love drama of youth versus age. A feature attraction
worthy of headline honors. The photography is magnificent.

Released Wednesday, December 3d
"KITTY'S KNIGHT"

A novel and eccentric comedy which will bring reams of laughter
from your audiences. If you desire a picture with real comedy in it,
book this one.

Released Thursday, December 4th
"A ROMANCE OF THE HILLS"

A dramatic incident of a romance in the West. Beautiful photog-
raphy prevails. Portrayal of the characters excellent.

Released Saturday, December 6th
"BRONCHO BILLY'S SQUARENESS"

An unusual and interesting Western drama featuring the world's
most popular photoplayer, G. M. ANDERSON.

Released Friday, December 12th. Released Friday, December 12th

"The Three Gamblers"

(IN TWO PARTS)
A drama of blood-curdling incidents intermingled with love,
humor, pathos, exceedingly exciting and interesting situations. A
positive FEATURE and box-office attraction. MR. G. M. ANDER-
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OUR POSTERS ARE DISTINCTIVE. They will boom your
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INDEPENDENT

AMBROSIO Feet

22— Griffard's Claw (2 parts— Dr.)

29 — Goose a la "Colbert" (2 parts —

Com. Dr.)

— A Tragic Experiment (Dr.)

AMERICAN
20 — The Tale of the Ticker (Com. Dr.)

20— A Modern Steel Plant (Edu.)

22 — Calamity Anne's Dream (Com.) 1000

24— The Occult (Dr.) 1000

27— The Spartan Girl of the West (W.

Dr.) 1000

29 — At Midnight (Society Dr.) 1000

1 — American Born (2 reels — Dr.) 2000

6 — A Divorce Scandal (Dr.) 1000

8 — Trapped in a Forest Fire (Spec. Dr.). 1000

11— His First Case (W. Dr.) 1000

13 — Armed Intervention (Com. Dr.) 1000

15 — Where the Road Forks (2 reel Dr.). 2000

18 — Personal Magnetism (Com.) 1000

20 — Fate's Round-Up (W. Dr.) 1000

BISON

11 — Madonna of the Slums (2 reel Dr.)

16 — "Laska" (2 reel Dr.)

18 — The Raid of the Human Tigers (3

reel Dr.)

22 — Winona's Vengeance (2 reel Dr.)..

25 — The White Vaquero (2 reel Dr.) . .

29 — The War of the Cattle Range (2 reel

Dr.)

6 — The White Squaw (2 reel Dr.)

13 — The Werewolf (2-reel Dr.)

BLINKHORN
10 — Kissing Cup (Hepworth- — -4 parts —
Dr.)

1 — David Copperfield (Hepworth ■ — 7

parts — Dr.)

8 — The Harper Mystery (Florence Tur-

ner Films, Ltd. — 3 parts — Dr.)..

15 — After Many Years (General Film

Agency, Ltd. — 3 parts — Dr.) ....

22 — Jean's Evidence (Florence Turner

Films, Ltd. — 2 parts — Dr.)

BRONCHO

6— The Veteran- (2 reels)

18 — The Imposter (2 parts — Dr.)

19 — The War Correspondent (2 parts —

Dr.)

26 — The Reformation (Dr.)

3 — The Buried Past (Dr.)

10 — The Woman (Dr.)

CRYSTAL

11 — Baldy Belmont Wins a Prize (Com.)

16 — Out of the Grave (Dr.)

18 — Her Secretaries (Com.)

18 — Percy's New Mamma (Com.)

23— The Cabaret Singer (Dr.)

25— Hubby's New Coat (Com.)

25 — Baldy Belmont Lands a Society Job

(Com.)

30— The Convict's Daughter (Dr.)

2 — That Awful Maid

2 — The Installment Plan Marriage....

7 — A Woman's Revenge (Dr.)

9— Pearls Hero (Com.)

9_Baldy is a Wise Old Bird (Com.)..

14 — First Love (Dr.)

DOMINO

13— The Ghost (2 parts— Dr.)

20— The Witch of Salem (Dr.)

27 — Belle of Yorktown (3 parts — Dr.)..

4 — Devotion (2 parts — Dr.)

11— The Filly (2 parts — Dr.)

AMMEX

10— Barrier of Blood 2000

24 — Fatal Reckoning 2000

8— His Pard's Sister 2000

DRAGON
(Formerly Ryno)

19— Blindness of Courage 3000

24— Her Last Ride 3000

8 — Daredevil Rodman Law (Special)..

15 — Dare Devil Rescue (Special) 3000

ECLAIR

12— Lade Babbie (3 reel Dr.)

16 — Unforseen Metamorphoses and Does

Max Snore (Split)

19— Partners (2 reel Dr.)

23 — Oh! You Rubber

23 — Soldiers Drilling in Turkestan

26 — A Son's Devotion (2 reel Dr.)

SO — Roaring Bill (Com.)

SO — One on Tooty (Com.)

8 — When Pierrot Met Pierrette (2 reel
Dr.)

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7 — Trouble on the Stage

7 — Magnetism — Magnets

10— Over the Cliffs (3 reels)

14 — He Likes Things Upside Down

14 — Nutty Has a Romance

ECLECTIC

SO — The Doom of the Ocean 3000

13 — The Fatal Plunge 3000

27 — Toils of Villainy (3 parts)

11 — His Fateful Passion (5 parts)

ERA

14— Gallows of Gods ' 3000

21— Outlawed 2300

28 — Secret of Adrianople 3600

FRONTIER

15 — The Bond that Binds (Dr.)

20 — Slim Becomes a Detective (Com.) . .

22— The Double Cross (Dr.)

27 — Slim Proposes, But — ■ (Com.)

29 — The Secret of Balanced Rock (Dr.)

1 — Slim and the Boys at Breezy Beach

(Com.)

6 — The Circuit Rider of the Hills (Dr.)
11 — When Roaring Gulch Got Suffrage

(Com.)

13— Out of His Class (Dr.)

GAUMONT

13— The Heart of a Doll (Com.)

18 — Monty and the Milkmaid (Com.)...

20 — "Dear Oscar" Finances a Theatre

(Com.)

25 — Mary Saves the Sculptor (Com.) —
27 — The Little Peacemaker (Dr.)

27 — Gymnastics (Edu.)

2 — The Living Doll (Com.)

4 — Oscar, the Hermit (Com.)

6— False News (Special) 2000

GOLD SEAL

2— Under the Black Flag (3 reel Fea-

ture)

9 — Red Margaret, Moonshiner

GREAT NORTHERN

1_A Dilemma 1000

8 — A Bogus Hero (Com.)

22— Hard Luck 1000

GREAT NORTHERN SPECIAL

21 — Secret of the Old Cabinet 3000

28 — In the Bonds of Passion 3000

21— Baptism of Fire 3000

IMP

3 — The Temptation of James (2 reel

Dr.)

6— The Old Parlor (1 reel Dr.)

10 — On Pine Mountain (Dr.)

13 — Levi and McGinnis Running for

Office (2 reel Com.)

17— Who Killed Olga Carew C2 reel Dr.)

20— The Child Stealers of Paris (Dr.)..

24 — Jane's Brother the Paranoiac (Dr.) . .
27 — Night Shadows of New York (3 reel

Dr.)

1 — Love versus Law (2 reel Dr.)

4— Plain Jane (Dr.)

8 — The Return of Tony (Dr.)

11 — Time (2-reel Dr.)

ITALA (Features)

9— The Gypsy Kiss 2200

23 — Oueen's Tewels 3000

27— Leap of Despair 3000

JOKER

29 — Lazy Louie (Com.)

3 — Mike and Jake in the Wild West

(Ccm.)

6 — A Pair of Bears (Com.)

6 — Views of Yellowstone Park (Sc.)
10 — Mike and Jake in Mexico (1-reel

Com.)

13— The Joy Riders

13 — Waterfalls of Yosemite Valley

KAY-BEE

14 — Efficacy of Prayer (Dr.)

18 — The Claim Jumper (Dr.)

21 — Days of '49 (Dr.)

25 — The Maelstrom (Dr.)

28— The Sign of the Snake (Dr.)

2 — The Revelation (Dr.)

KEYSTONE

6 — Louis' Sickness at Sea (Com.)

10— Small Time Act (Com.)

10— The Milk We Drink (Edu.)

13 — Wine (Com.)

17 — Our Children (Com.)

20 — A Muddv Romance (Com.)

24 — Fatty Joins the Force (Com.)

27_Cohen Saves the Flag (Com.)

KOMIC Feet

Nov. 13 — An Affair of Honor (Com.)

Nov. 13 — Biddy on Her Mettle (Com.)

Nov. 20 — Making Himself a Hero

Nov. 20 — Murphy's New High Hat (Com.) . .
Nov. 27— A Method In His Illness (Com.) . .
Nov. 27 — The Man with a Razor (Com.) . .
LEWIS PENNANTS

Nov. 1 — Taxicab 1098

Nov. 15 — Decreed to Die

LUX
By Prieui

Nov. 7 — The Amateur Detective (Com.) 590

Nov. 7 — Roman Rivers (Sc.) 31»

LACLEDE

Nov. 25 — The Pale-Faced Squaw 3000

MAJESTIC

Nov. 15— The Pitch that Defiles (Dr.)

Nov. 16— The Tomboy's Race (Dr.)

Nov. 18 — L'Article 47 (2 parts — Dr.)

Nov. 22 — No release

Nov. 23— The House in the Tree (Dr.)

Nov. 25 — A Warm Welcome (Com.)

Nov. 29— An Accidental Clue (Dr.)

NESTOR

Nov. 19 — The Golden Princess Mine (Dr.)..'
Nov. 21— An Elephant On His Hands (Com.)

Nov. 26 — Hilda of the Mountains (Dr.)

Nov. 28— When He Lost to Win (Com.)

Dec. 3— The Brothers (Dr.)

Dec. 5 — Locked Out at Twelve (Com.)

Dec. 10 — Retribution (1-reel W. Dr.)

Dec. 12 — Her Friend the Butler (Com.)

POWERS

Nov. 17 — The Doctor's Orders

Nov. 21 — A Stolen Identity (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 24 — Jimmy's Deception (Com.)

Nov. 28 — A Seaside Samaritan (Dr.)

Dec. 1 — When Joe Went West (Com.)

Dec. 5 — Cross Purposes (Dr.)

Dec. 8 — How Freckles Won His Bride (Com.)

Dec. 12— His Own Blood (2-reel Dr.)

RAMO

Oct. 15— The Current (Dr.) S000

Nov. 5 — Wives 3000

PRINCESS

Nov. 7 — Friday, the- Thirteenth (Com.)

Nov. 14 — Bread Upon the Waters (Dr.)

Nov. 21 — A Shotgun Cupid (Com. Dr.)

Nov. 28 — Her Right to Happiness (Dr.)

RELIANCE
Nov. 17 — Two Men and a Mule (Series 4 —

Com.)

Nov. 19 — A Man and a Woman (Dr.)

Nov. 22— Her Father's Daughter (Dr.)

Nov. 24 — The Other Woman (Dr.)

Nov. 26 — A Rough Diamond (Dr.)

Nov. 29 — The Reporter's Scoop (Dr.)

REX

Nov. 16— The Blood Brotherhood (Dr.)

Nov. 20 — Fires of Fate (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 23— His Old Fashioned Dad (Com. Dr.)
Nov. 27 — The Tale of a Lonely Coast (Dr.) . .
Nov. 30— The Boob's Dream Girl (Com. Dr.)

Dec. 4 — Thieves and the Cross

Dec. 7 — James Lee's Wife (Dr.)

Dec. 11 — By Fate's Decree (1-reel Dr.)

Dec. 14— The Mask (Dr.)

SOLAX

Oct. 31— Ish Gabibble (Com.) 100*

Oct. 31— The Movies 1000

THANHOUSER

Nov. 16 — He Couldn't Lose (Com.)

Nov. 18 — Baby's Joy Ride (Com. Dr.)

Nov. 21— The Clothes-Line Quarrel (Dr.)

Nov. 23— Their Great Big Beautiful Doll

(Com.)

Nov. 25— The Blight of Wealth (2 parts—

Dr.)

Nov. 28— Curfew Shall Not Ring To-night

(Dr.)

VICTOR

Nov. 17 — Forgotten Women (Dr.)

Nov. 21 — Where the Hop Vines (Dr.)

Nov. 24— Back to Life (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 29 — Unto the Third Generation (8 reel

Dr.)

Dec. 1 — The Barrier of Bars (Dr.)

Dec. 8 — The Dread Inheritance (2-reel Dr.).
Dec. 12 — Hydraulic Mining (Edu.)

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BIOGEAPH Feet

Nov. 13 — Mrs. Casey's Gorilla (Com.)

Nov. 13 — Mixed Nuts (Com.)

Nov. 15 — His Inspiration (Dr.)

Nov. 17 — A Cure for Suffragettes (Com.) . .

Nov. 17 — He's a Lawyer (Com.)

Nov. 20 — The Detective's Stratagem (Dr.) . .

Nov. 22 — By Man's Law (2 parts — Dr.)

Nov. 24 — All for Science (Dr.)

Nov. 26 — A Circumstantial Hero (Com.)

Nov. 26 — The Somnambulists (Com.)

Nov. 29— The Blue or the Gray (Dr.)

Dec. 1 — How the Day Was Saved (Com.)..

Dec. 1 — Bink's Vacation (Com.)

Dec. 4 — The Birthday Ring (Dr.)

Dec. 6 — In the Elemental World (Dr.)

CTNES
George Kleine

Oct. 21— The Wheels of Justice (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 2000

Oct. 21— The Wheels of Justice (Dr.) Parts I

and II

Nov. 4 — Zuma, the Gypsy (2 parts — Dr. —

Special)

Nov. 11— The Penalty (2 part Dr.)

Nov. 18 — For the Love of a Toreador (2 part

Dr.)

Dec. 9 — Tte Stolen Legacy (2 parts — Dr.) . .

EDISON

Nov. 8— Elise (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 10 — Camping with the Blackfeet (Des.). 600

Nov. 10— Sethi s Woodpile (Com.) 500

Nov. 11— The Doctor's Duty (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 12— His Nephew's Scheme (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 14 — The Phantom Signal (Dr.— Parts I

& II) 2000

Nov. 15— Getting a Patient (Com.) 1000

Nov. 17 — Nora's Boarders (Com.) 1000

Nov. 18 — A Cause for Thankfulness (Dr.).. 1000
Nov. 19 — The Girl in the House-boat (Com.). 1000

Nov. 21— A Good Sport (2 parts— Com.) 2000

Nov. 22 — A Proposal Deferred, being the fifth
story of "Who Will Marry Mary"

(Dr.) 1000

Nov. 24 — From Durban to Zululand (Sc.) 500

Nov. 24 — Enoch and Ezra's First Smoke

(Com.) 500

Nov. 25 — The Vanishing Cracksman (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 26 — A Sense of Humor (Com.) 1000

Nov. 28 — The Gunmaker of Moscow (2 parts

—Dr.) 2000

Nov. 29 — A Royal Romance (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 1 — The South African Whaling In-
dustry (Ind.) 500

Dec. 1 — Wanted, a Burglar (Com.) 550

Dec. 2— The Price of Human Lives (Dr.).. 1000

Dec. 3— The Thrifty Janitor (Com.) 1000

Dec. 5 — Alexia's Strategy (Dr.) 2000

Dec. 6— What Shall it Profit a Man? (Dr.). 1000

Dec. 8 — The Manicure Girl (Com.) 1000

Dec. 9— The Stolen Plans (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 10 — The Joining of the Oceans (Sc.) 500

Dec. 10 — Greedy George (Com.) 500

Dec. 12— Peg o' the Movies (Dr.) 2000

Dec. 13— The First Christmas (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 15 — A Pious Undertaking (Com.) 1000

Dec. 16— The Actress (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 17 — Falling in Love with Inez (Com.).. 1000
Dec. 19 — Within the Enemy's Lines (Dr.) . . . .2000

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Nov. 8— Broncho Billy's Secret (W. Dr.) . .

Nov. 11 — The Man Outside (Dr.)

Nov. 12 — The Last Laugh (Com.)

Nov. 13 — The New Schoolmarm of Green

River

Nov. 15 — "Alkali" Ike's Auto (W. Com.)

Nov. 18— The Lost Chord (Dr.)

Nov. 19— The Usual Way (Com.)

Nov. 20 — The Cowhov Samaritan (W. Dr.)

Nov. 21— The End of the Circle

Nov. 22 — Broncho Billy's First Arrest,,

Nov. 25 — The Little Substitute

Nov. 26 — Dollars-Pounds-Sense

Nov. 27 — The Naming of the Rawhide Queen

Nov. 28 — The Brand of Evil

Nov. 29 — Sophie's Hero

Dec. 2— Autumn Love (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 3— Kitty's Knight (Com.) 1000

Dec. 4— A Romance of the Hills (Dr.) 1000

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Dec. 6— Broncho Billy's Squareness (Dr.).. 1000

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7— Cocoanut Industry (Edu.) 400 ft°'-

7— Getting The Best of Dad (Com.) 600 ft°'-

8— Hiawanda's Cross (Dr.) 1000 ft°*-

10— The Pride of Battery B (Dr.) 1000 ft°'-

11— A Miracle of Love (Dr.) 1000 ft°y-

13— The Sea Eternal (2 reel Dr.) 2000 ft°'-

14— When the Clock Stopped (Dr.) . . . .1000 ft°'-

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4 — Slipping Fingers

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26 — Cupid in the Cow Camp (Com.)....

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■UNFUNNY "FUNNY" FILMS HURT.

Unfunny "funny" films are to get the
gate. Films that are' funny only be-
cause they are classified as comics are
to be sent back to their manufacturers
with a protest.

The greater part of 1,500 picture
managers in town are a unit in declar-
ing that nine out of ten of the so-called
"comics" of the movies. '^are really
"chasers."

The exhibitors believe the fault is
with the manufacturers and are saying
so. Scarcely a day goes by that doesn't
bring its quota of jeers irom exhibitors
leveled at tiie manufacturers' designed
film jokers.

One well-known movie manager, say-
ing he voiced the opinion of more than
500 exhibitor associate's, shot a note
into the Vitagraph last Tuesday beg-
ging that the alleged funny films be
suspended, as they are costing him pat-
ronage.

The same exhibitor declared every
company, save one, that he had done
business with, during the selection of
films for three houses for four years
had lost the trick of making movie au-
diences laugh.

The heads of the film companies he
claimed weren't keeping close enough
to their scenario departments. Men
who hadn't a funny bone in their bodies
were passing on submitted comic sce-
narios. Women, never temperamental-
ly humorists, were judging submitted
laughmakers. Editors and directors,
refined a thousand miles beyond the
degree of the average movie fan, were
deciding what was amusing. The laugh
bug had been emasculated.

The particular complainant begged
the Vitagraph, on behalf of himself
and his fellow managers, to go back to
the old Keystone style of semi-horsd
play. He cited the Keystone's uproar-
ious pool game film as an illustration
of the sort of stuff that made his audi-
ences rock in their chairs. He in-
stanced "Bingles at a Cabaret" as a re-
cent example of unfunny "funny" film.
He said he had handled the output of
all the syndicates during his four years^
movie management, and that to-day
none of the companies save the Key-
stone was living up to the old laugh
standards. He said further that unless
exhibitors could count on funny films
in funny film deliveries, the exhibitors
of which he was a club member, would
probably establish a funny film factory
of their own.

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Frontispiece, Miss Florence Turner. 12

Typography in Advertising 13

Patents Company Piles Up Evidence 14

Meteoric McEnnery 15

Talking Motion Pictures 16

Oh, It's An Interesting Life 17

Important Move by General Film.. 19

Stanly Twist Off to Australia 19

Co-operation 20

What the People Want 21

Motion Pictures Versus "Moving
Pictures" 22

Contents

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For Those Who Worry O'er Plots

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Advertising the Picture 28

Motion Picture Theatre Construction

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Music and the Picture 31

Appearance and Manners 32

Latest News from Chicago 33

Interesting Film Reviews 38

Special Film Reviews 41

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American Film Mfg. Co 55

Ammex Film Co 47

Amusement Supply Co 44

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Bennett, Chas. H 51

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General Specialty Co 53

Genter, J. H 11

Greater New York Slide Co 43

Gunby Bros 51

Harding Engraving Co 45

Hart Booking Bureau 51

Horsley, David 55

Hotel Martinique 52

Italian-American Film Co 48

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Newman Manufacturing Co 53

New York Film Co 47

New York Motion Picture Corp.. 60

Niagara Slide Co 53

Pan-American Film Co 47

Phantoscope Mfg. Co 52

'Photoplay Co 44

Picture Theatre Equipment Co... 11

Power, Nicholas 9

Precision Machine Co 2

Calehuff Supply Co 49

Centaur Film Co 45

Charter Oak Feature Film Co... 48
Commercial Motion Picture Co.. 7, 49

Eastern Feature Film Co 47

Eastman Kodak Co 55

Eclair Film Co 2

Eclectic Film Co 47

Essanay Film Mfg. Co 50

Ezo Manufacturing Co 55

Feature Photoplay Co 47

Films Attractions Co 57

Fiske Rubber Co 53

Flateau, Henry M 49

General Electric Utilities Co... 43, 47

General Feature Film Co 48

General Film Co 4, 5, 59

Keystone Film Co 8

Kinematograph Weekly 49

Kraus Mfg. Co 44

Lakeside Film Exchange 44

Lavezzi Machine Works 44

Lears, Sam 53

Le Courrier Cineniatographique . . 51

Lord Manufacturing Co 44

Lubin Manufacturing Co 10

Mclntyre & Richter 51

Mestrum, Henry 51

Midgar Features 47

Mirror Screen Co 48

Motion Picture Apparatus Co... 47

Motion Picture Camera Co 51

Motion Picture Exhibitors Ball.. 6

Motion Picture Operators Union 51

Mutual Film Corp 3

Ramo Films, Inc 58

Royal Film Exchange 47

Schneider, Eberhard • 52

Special Event Film Mfg. Co 48

Standard Feature Film Co 57

Steel Furniture Co 53

Sterling Camera and Film Co.. 47, 53

Supreme Feature Film Co 10

Theatre Specialty Mfg. Co 51

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Volume VIII

December 13, 1913

Number 23

TYPOGRAPHY IN ADVERTISING

BUYING space is one thing; and filling it is quite
another. ^ ^ .,.

f~\ FTENTIMES the advertiser is inclined to believe
that his effort ends with the space he orders and
its position ; it is up to the publication then to give the
hoped-for results.

AS a matter of fact the effort just begins with the
purchase of space.

* * *

I KNOW of one trade-journal advertiser — a very-
successful one — who spends more money in filling
his space than in buying it.

* % &

HE goes to such an extreme, in fact, that most
people would regard him as wildly extravagant.
But his copy is so unique, so striking, so powerful
that his single page actually dominates the entire ad-
vertising section of every journal he uses.

4! *k ^

I REFER to "Klaxon" advertising. There is no
better. * * *

TX filling space, the idea, the copy, the art work are

-■■ of great importance.

* * *

T> UT there is one effect too generally overlooked ;

that is typography. You will note I put this in
italics — for emphasis. That's typography. .

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rT",HE Germans are way ahead of us in the field.

Many of their printers are artists — as they
should be. # * *

1 UT we are creeping up on them.

vertising men knew at once every time this agent
acquired a new client. Every bit of copy put out had a

rare quality of distinction.

^ & ^

""1 17HY is it," asked another agent, "that your
» » copy is always just above mine? I pay more
money for copy and art work than you do."

^

THE other agent smiled and kept his secret.
* * *

THE answer was — typography.
❖ =fc 5fc

Hp HE creed of this typographist is delightfully sim-
■*■ pie. He merely says : "Make it easy to read."
But few know how to do this.

i|< ^ ijc

TTJS art — and it is an art — is not the addition of
matter but on the contrary the utter elimina-
tion of everything that is superfluous. He will con-
struct an inexpensive booklet out of two kinds of
type and a ten-point rule in red. But if you put it
side by side with a heavily embossed, four-color book-
let of one hundred times the cost you will pick up the
little booklet first and read it through — and again.

J

UST two kinds of type and a red rule !

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T>UT they are the right kind of type — for the kind
of booklet. They make just the right combina-
tion— for the eye. They are spaced right; they vary
at just the right moment ; they have just the right mar-
gins. And on some pages there is just one — or no
words at all — to please or rest the eye. And there are
rare tricks of type and rule effects.

* * *

IK. VOW of one young man in New York who gets
six dollars an hour as a consulting typographist.
He gets it — from a number of keen advertisers — be-
cause he knows typography and because few print-
ers do. * # *
T T E will take a printed page — the kind that makes
*■ you wrinkle your brow before you begin to
read it — and transform it. When he gets through you
read it with a smile. He makes you ivant to read it.
* * *

FOR several years he worked for an advertising
agent — with the result that you could tell this
agent's copy at a glance wherever you saw it. Ad-

I

T sounds easy, but it is an art.

* * *

M

A.KE it easy to read."

npl IAT is the secret of why — when the reader looks
■*■ through the advertising pages — he will select one
and settle down to read it with a smooth brow and a
thoughtful mind — of why he will scowl, mentally or
physically, at a page black and indigestible with a
mass of different type, each of which swears at the
other. * * *

A ND that is why the one page will pull results for
the advertiser and the other will fall flat.

14

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

PATENTS COMPANY PILES UP EVIDENCE

Stuart Blackton, Thomas Armat, Frederick A. Anthony, Thomas W. Stephens, L. W.
Atwater and Several Exchange Men and Exhibitors on the Stand

CUMULATIVE evidence, along the lines previously fol-
lowed by the defense, was introduced by the Motion
Picture Patents Company at considerable length this
week when the hearings in the Federal anti-trust suit were
resumed.

J. Stuart Blackton, secretary of the Vitagraph Company of
America; Harry Marsey, a Buffalo exhibitor; L. W. Atwater,
of the Nicholas Power Company; J. A. Schuchert, manager
of the Buffalo branch of the General Film Company; Charles
F. Haring, a Jersey City exhibitor; Matthew Hansen, a Yon-
kers exhibitor; Robert Etris, manager of the Twenty-third
street branch of the General Film Company in New York
City; Frederick A. Anthony, of the E. and H. T. Anthony
Company; Thomas W. Stephens, president of the Ansco Com-
pany; Harry Schwalde, manager of the General Film Com-
pany's Philadelphia branch; Abraham Greenberg, a Camden,
N. J., exhibitor, and Edward M. A. Super, a Bristol, Pa., ex-
hibitor, were the witnesses on Monday, Tuesday and Wed-
nerday.

J. Stuart Blackton was the first witness on Monday.
Under direct examination by Charles F. Kingsley he took
up an old suit brought in September, 1900, by the Edison
Company against the Vitagraph Company of America, and
Walter Arthur, as its general manager, over motion picture
cameras.

After the suit had been filed, Mr. Blackton said, the Vita-
graph Company made negatives, turned them over to Edison
and, in return, received a royalty on the sale of positive prints.
A memorandum was introduced concerning the sale of tropi-
cal films of the Galveston flood.

* * *

THIS agreement with Edison was terminated by Edison in
January, 1901. Litigation started later and continued
through 1905, 1906 and 1907. Mr. Blackton then talked a
while on the Armat suits, after which he was excused until
the Tuesday afternoon session.

Harry Marsey, owner of the Happy Hour Theatre at 525
Main street, Buffalo, was the next witness. He told of his
six years' experience, and said that in 1907 film service was
poor, that he couldn't keep his program clear or safely ad-
vertise films in advance of their showing. These conditions
have now been, remedied, he said,

L. W. Atwater, of the Nicholas Power Company, was the
first witness Monday afternoon. He talked first about prices
and models of projection machines. He said that the output
of the Nicholas Power Company is the largest of any com-
pany, from four to five thousand a year.

J. A. Schuchert, manager of the Buffalo branch of the
General Film, came next. He formerly owned the Buffalo
Film Exchange, which he sold to the General Film. He ex-
pressed himself as pleased with the transaction and talked
of the improvement in trade conditions since 1908.

On Tuesday Mr. Schuchert opened the session with a dis-
course on booking systems.

Next came Charles F. Haring, an exhibitor of six years'
standing, who is interested in several theatres. They are the
Palace, 49 Seventh avenue, Brooklyn; the Airdome, 425 Four-
teenth street, Brooklyn ; the National, Bleecker street and
Central avenue, Jersey City; the New Amsterdam, 100 Sum-
mit avenue, West Hoboken ; the Arena, John street and Ber-
gen avenue, Union Hill ; the Airdome, 448 Central avenue.
Jersey City, and a theatre now being built at 176th street
and St. Nicholas avenue, New York City. He said that his
competitors are furnished with pictures by the Greater New
York Film Rental Company before he shows them after ad-
vertising them. He talked on trade conditions.

Matthew Hansen, of 566 West 180th street, New York
City, came next. He is the manager of the Square Amuse-
ment Company of Yonkers, which operates the Getty Square,
New Empire and New Star Theatres in Yonkers.

^ 3c &

ROBERT ETRIS, of 1033 East Thirty-fifth street, Brook-
lyn, manager of the Twenty-third street branch of the
General Film since May, 1911, followed Hansen. He was
with the Lubin Film Service for three years, and said that
the unsettled conditions before the formation of the General
Film Company hindered business.

The next two witnesses were Frederick A. Anthony, of
Hackensack, of the E. and H. T. Anthony Company, which
bought the Latham loop patent issued in 1902 for $11,000, and
Thomas W. Stephens, president of the Ansco Company, which
absorbed the Anthony concern and a banker, a member of
the firm of A. T. W. Stephens, of 2 Wall street. Both of
these men talked on patents. They said they prosecuted the
Latham suit until they "went broke" and so could do nothing.

J. Stuart Blackton, recalled for a short time, talked of old
Edison and Armat suits. J. A. Schuchert was recalled for a
short cross-examination.

On Wednesday a witness was Harry Schwalde, manager
of the Philadelphia branch of the General Film Company
since June, 1910 or 1911. He formerly owned the Electric
Theatre Supply Company, of 44 North Tenth street, which
he sold to the General Film. He was pleased with the deal,
he said. He talked on trade conditions, taking a rap at scenic
subjects in which he saw no profit.

Another witness was Abraham Greenberg, who owns the
two largest motion picture theatres in Camden, N. J., and
Edward M. A. Super, an exhibitor from Bristol, Pa. Both
added their voices to the testimony of other exhibitors.

Thomas Armat, owner of the Armat patents applying to
projection machines told of his troubles through lawsuits.
Although he once had Biograph and Edison enjoined he
"went broke" through paying for lawsuits. An adjourn-
ment was taken until Friday afternoon.

TOO REALISTIC A SCENE

New York newspapers have been car-
rying many articles involving Miss Dor-
othy Landers, one of the leading women
in "The Pleasure Seekers," now playing
at the Winter Garden, and a villain who,
upon being repulsed, tried to shoot her,
but failed when the revolver wouldn't
go off, and received a trouncing for his
pains.

There really was no cause for alarm,
as here is how it happened: The Com-
mercial Motion Pictures Company is
now putting on features and, by permis-
sion of the Winter Garden management,
was granted permission to take a shoot-

ing scene at the stage door. The press
agent of "The Pleasure Seekers" scented
a chance for a story, and sent in a call
for the ambulance, while Jack Noble,
director, and Jack Hopkins, villain, were
rehearsing. Just as the picture was be-
ing taken the clanging of the bell noti-
fied the crowd that the ambulance and
police were on the job. The crowd was
quickly dispersed and Hopkins arrested,
but when it was proved that the gun he
carried was a toy glass pistol he was
released.

The Commercial Motion Picture Com-
pany seems to have the right idea in se-
curing appropriate stage settings.

BALKAN WAR PICTURES IN
DEMAND

The success of "The Secret of Adri-
anople," a feature subject of the Film
Releases of America, has necessitated
a cable to Europe for more copies.

This Balkan War subject has been
claimed by feature exhibitors to be
one of the best money-getters they
have handled in months. The Con-
solidated Film Company, Ltd., of Can-
ada, have acquired the territorial
rights to the production in the Do-
minion, and expect to be confronted
with a large demand.

rHE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

METEORIC McENNERY

HpWO or three months ago a young Englishman
stepped upon a steamship pier in the city of Xew
York and took a look at the skyscrapers and other
things which that town has to show the stranger. He
was practically unknown in the motion-picture trade ;
he was sadly deficient in technical knowledge, and he
had no one to advise him where to begin. But he had
in his pocket the American selling rights to "A Message
from Mars," and a big fund
of energy, resourcefulness
and "get there"' ability under
his hat, a combination that
is a winner anywhere.

It proved a winner in
New York and the rest of
the country and James Mc-
Ennery cleaned up close to
$30,000 in a few short
weeks. In less than two
months Mr. McEnnery sold
the rights to "A Message
from Mars" in practically
every state of the union, and
- cleared a profit far beyond
his own dreams, let alone
those of his associates.

Xow Mr. McEnnery, who
is the American representa-
tive of the United Kingdom
Film Company, is planning
even bigger things. He is
going back to England,
where he will form a cor-
poration with capital from
that country and the United
States for exhibiting in both
countries. In addition to se-
curing featu/es from the
British Isles and America,
Mr. McEnnery is to go into
the producing line and will
have a studio in the West.
His plans now include a big
Irish film, with scenes taken
in Ireland, and a four-reel

production, entitled "King Charles," a feature which
will be staged on the field of Worcester, the original
battleground where the unfortunate British monarch
made history.

It has been said that Mr. McEnnery made his big
start in the motion-picture field when he sold Marcus
Loew the New York City rights to "A Message from
Mars," thereby gaining unusual publicity for (he pro-
duction. Doubtless this helped, but those who know
Mr. McEnnery do not hesitate to assert that his ulti-
mate success would have been the same.

A sketch of his life reads like a page torn from a

15

HE USED TO BE A COWBOY

romance. For eight years he was a cowboy, bronco
buster and rancher in Northwestern Canada. He
fought through the Boer War, sold polo ponies and
has followed the hounds in every quarter of the world.

Mr. McEnnery's rise in the motion-picture world is
in its very nature meteoric. He knows life in many
of its most interesting forms and phases, which, after
all, is where the film is strongest — in depicting upon

the screen real dramas of
real life.

Mr. McEnnery's experi-
ence well fits him for pro-
ducing, even if he has as yet
gained no first-hand knowl-
edge of the technique of
motion pictures. He has
had phenomenal success
thus far, assimilating Ameri-
can ideas far more quickly
than most of his fellow
countrymen are able to,
and this should be a forecast
of his future rise here in the
realm of the film.

Because his rise has been
so meteoric, there may be
those who think that Mc-
Ennery is now at his peri-
helion and will gradually
grow less on the motion-pic-
ture horizon as time goes on.
These folks should meet Mc-
Ennery. Then they will
change their minds. He is
a man who is bound to strike
thirteen wherever he goes
and in whatever walk of life
he may be thrown. He has
assisted in making some his-
tory on the frontier of
Northwestern Canada and in
the Boer War, as already
hinted. Now he will make
some more in the motion-
picture field.

.McEnnery is a restless spirit. His past perform-
ances prove that. He is now busy over in England
digging up the capital for his projected $100,000 cor-
poration. Projected corporations are so common in
the motion picture business that the phrase "I'm go-
ing to start a company" does not carry much weight.

But McEnnery's case is different. He has accom-
plished things. I le has a tangible record on which to
stand.

Right now he is a meteor but the star gazers who
have followed his course say he threatens to become
a fixed star of the first magnitude. M. C.

i6

THE. MOTION PICTURE NEWS

TALKING MOTION PICTURES

BY SAMUEL WEIN

IN the present-day talking motion-picture systems
use is made of simultaneously recording and re-
producing animated objects and sounds by means
of combining the motion-picture machine and the
phonograph; the success attained thereby is of very
little practical importance, owing to the difficulty of
ensuring perfect synchronism. Another method re-
cently patented was to record the sound waves from
the needle of the phonographic "sound box" on the
same film with the motion pictures; the success at-
tained in this method was of no value at all on account
of the fact that duplicates were impossible to make
and not only that, but that the film in order to re-
produce the sounds therefrom must be slightly thicker
than it is, otherwise the sounds will not be reproduced
successfully.

To obtain the correct reproduction of the move-
ments of the persons or objects in combination with
sound waves, it is essential that the simultaneous
movements and sounds should be recorded and repro-'
duced simultaneously in exact synchronism, and that
the sound waves which constitute the sounds should
not suffer any variation in the process of recording
and reproduction, but should be recorded and repro-
duced without the introduction or accompaniment of
any other sound waves.

It is obvious, therefore, that no true record or repro-
duction of the sound waves could be made by any me-
chanical process or means in which a hard substance
necessary to make the impression comes in contact
with another hard substance, such, for instance, as the
recording or reproducing pin of the phonograph, be-
cause the friction caused between the two hard sub-
stances itself creates vibration or sound waves which
accompany, vary, or modify the sound waves which it
is desired to record and reproduce, and are recorded
and reproduced with the latter, proving detrimental to
their true reproduction.

* * *

HP HE record, therefore, must be taken or produced
without any contact between the medium caused
to vibrate by the sound waves and the record or re-
cording substance. It is further obvious that if the
impressions of the movements and sounds were re-
corded separately on separate records, the movements
and sounds would be liable to vary in point of time
and fail to synchronize with each other.

Another disadvantage of the present-day talking mo-
tion-picture machines or systems is that if the operator
either neglectfully or wilfully tears or cuts out a piece
of the film which constitutes the movements or actions
the result would be that a certain amount of action or
movement is missing. As the equivalent in sounds
would still be in the phonographic record, however,
the device would be put out of synchronism at this
point.

In order to avoid this liability and ensure correct

synchronism the late Dr. Ernst Ruhmer, of Germany,
in 1901, in his experiments with the "photographo-
phone," was the first to suggest that the "movements
and sounds must be recorded (photographically)
simultaneously on the same photographic film."

Whereas, in a method of this kind, should a certain
length of the film be either accidentally or wilfully
cut off, both the action or movements and its equiva-
lent in sound waves would be cut off, as it has already
been stated that the action and the sounds are re-
corded (photographically) side by side on the same
motion-picture film. Thus perfect synchronism at all
times between action and the sounds is ensured.

The sound waves as well as the actions or move-
ments of the objects which produce them are neces-
sarily at a considerable distance from where the rec-
ord must be taken, and they must also be reproduced
at a considerable distance from the reproducing ap-
paratus ; it is, therefore, essential to provide a means
of receiving the sound waves and transmitting them
to a recording apparatus about to be described and a
means of reproducing the photographic sounds at a
distance.

* * *

FOR the purpose of collecting or receiving the sound
waves, a sensitive telephone transmitter is em-
ployed to transmit the sound waves electrically (in the
usual manner) from the place where the sounds orig-
inate to the motion-picture camera, which has a source
of light so arranged that it will vary in degrees as to
area, quantity, intensity and corresponding effect of
light and shade, proportioned to their period and
amplitude, simultaneously with the recording photo-
graphically of the successive movements of the objects
on the same film.

When such a record is obtained it is reproduced by
causing light to pass through that portion of the film
containing the record of the successive movements.
These are so projected on a screen as to simultaneously
cause light to pass through that portion of the film
containing the photographic sound record, and thence
onto a selenium cell which is connected in series with
a battery and a loud-speaking telephone receiver.

ITALY INSTRUCTS BY FILMS

That motion pictures are being used to instruct illiterate
voters in Italy is information furnished by Alexander W.
Weddell, American consul at Catania, Italy. In a letter to
the Daily Consular and Trade Reports, he says :

"The task of educating the new voters to cast their ballots
properly is a heavy one. As a means to this end the motion
picture theatres throughout this district have exhibited films
showing graphically the procedure to be followed : in addi-
tion the representatives of one of the political parties have
exposed similar films in local assembly rooms. This means
of educating the public has been so favorably received that
similar methods for teaching the elements of domestic and
personal hygiene and similar subjects are beginning to be
discussed by physicians and others.

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17

OH, ITS AN INTERESTING LIFE!

Punctuated by GEORGE D. PROCTOR

JUST as Nature hates a vacuum, so
does the motion picture business
hate quietude. With an unseen hand
the kaleidoscope was given an awful
smack during the week, and now the
map looks much different in spots.
Looking from the outside in, these
few changes of a week's making may-
be discerned: J. A. Berst leaves
Pathe; Oscar Apfel, director, and Irv-
ing Cummings, leading man, follow
suit; Stanly Twist (with no "E" in
Stanly) goes to Australia as head of
the producing end of a big new firm;
Phil Klein, of All Star, returns from
Europe, smiling; the Exclusive Serv-
ice of the General Film is to be dis-
continued and Exclusive Feature Pho-
toplay masterpieces may be discerned
on the horizon; Louis A. Selznick re-
signs as general manager of Warners
Features, Inc.; the bomb announcing
the new producing company to work
along lines parallel to the Famous
Players and All Star threatens to
burst any time; Marcus Loew's Broad-
way Theatre is going back to the
"legit," and the New York exhibitors'
ball draws near.

J. A. Berst, vice-president of the
Pathe Freres, and head of that com-
pany in America since it opened offices
here in 1904, resigned last Saturday.
Paul Bonvillian arrived here post
haste from Paris. Meanwhile, I un-
derstand, the resignation has not been
definitely accepted and H. C. Hoag-
land has picked up the reins.

Mr. Berst's resignation is consider-
able of a surprise. The commanding
position which Pathe Freres occupy
in this country is commonly laid to
his business ability. He has always
been a prominent figure among the
throne men of the Patents Company
and the General Film. Now he picks
up his hat and coat and walks out.

That interests of his own will oc-
cupy his time in future is the official
explanation. A few weeks ago Dame
Rumor had it that Mr. Berst was to
go into the exhibiting end of the busi-
ness in a large way with plenty of
capital. Maybe there was something
to that yarn. Quien sabc, hombre?

Philip Klein, treasurer of the All
Star Feature Corporation and son of
Charles Klein, the playwright, lias re-
turned from Europe. 'We have started
negotiations," said Phil, "whereby we
line up with some of the biggest Eng-

lish authors such as Henry Arthur
Jones, Pinero, Sims and George Ber-
nard Shaw. We are primarily pro-
ducing pictures for America, and I
think that American stars for America
is a good axiom, so I did not go after
any English players."

Phil smiled cannily as he said his
trip was successful, but he couldn't
tell all he had accomplished. Then
he changed the subject to film condi-
tions abroad. Western subjects, cow-
boys and Indians are now down and
out, he said. Europe has cried
"enough."

These be troublous times for cen-
sors. The Woman's National Council
met in Chicago recently and declared
"Chicago is a prudish old maid" after
getting a first-hand impression of the
doings of the Chicago police censors.
The goats of Sergeants Funkhouser
and O'Connor are reported to be tear-
ing madly up and down State street.
When the censors are responsible for
Chicago being called prudish, it is
high time to change the subject.

Another film man is to invade the
legitimate field as a producer. Marcus
Loew is going to turn his Broadway
theatre over to theatrical productions,
starting December 22d with Mimi
Aguglia, the Italian actress, playing
"Salome," "Zaza" and "Electra" in
Italian. "Broncho Billy" Anderson's
company, producing musical comedies
at a dollar a throw, will open up in the
new Strand Theatre as soon as it is
finished. Meanwhile, down at Joe
Weber's Theatre, the Universal seven-
part "Traffic in Souls" is doing an
enormous business. The theatre has
been enlarged and several times the
police have been called to keep the
crowd around the box-office in order,
according to the New York dailies.

Mabel Normand, leading woman
with Keystone, will hereafter direct
every picture in which she appears.
Madame Blache has been the only
woman director for some time, but
she now has a rival in Mabel who will
both act and direct.

Hopp Hadlcv. who, like Homer, is
a student of human nature, says every
woman must shed so many tears a
week. So he sends the missus to a
sob show Monday nights to insure a
clear atmosphere. They haven't had
a quarrel yet. Oh, try it yourself.

L. Marcus, president of the Notable
Feature Film Company, of Salt Lake,
Utah, "just dropped in" from beyond
the "Rockies," and has some interest-
ing things about pictures in the West.

His people, he says, are 'way ahead
of the East in their demand for an ap-
preciation of high-class films. They
want features — the very best features.
They pack the houses that exhibit
such pictures, and, by the way, Salt
Lake boasts of the finest picture thea-
tre in the world — the American, H. A.
Sims, manager. Paderewski gives a
concert there on January 6 — the first
occasion on which the theatre has
been devoted to anything other than
pictures.

"The exhibitors of the far West,"
said Mr. Markus, "are opposed to sen-
sational pictures, titles and posters.
Their audiences do not want them.
Many of our best present-day features,
while not sensational, convey that im-
pression to the exhibitor through their
titles and advertising. That, in my
opinion, or rather, from the stand-
point of my customers, "is a mistake."

William T. Oldknow, of Atlanta,
Ga., president of the Consolidated
Film and Supply Company, which cov-
ers the nine Southern states with the
Universal program, made a three-day
visit to New York.

George Kleine cables from Rome
the announcement that he will add a
cash prize of one thousand dollars for
the best scenario written by an Amer-
ican. This is in addition to the prizes
offered by the Cines Company, which
range from the capital prize of five
thousand dollars down to one hundred
francs.

Irving Cummings, an established
star in the photoplay firmament, signed
with the Universal Wednesday. Irv-
ing started some time ago with Pathe
Then he was starred in Reliance. Re-
cently he returned to Pathe to play in
features under the direction of Oscar
C. Apfel. Now he goes with the Uni-
versal. Under what brand he will ap-
pear has not yet been decided.

Elmer J. McGovern, press represen-
tative of the New York Motion Pic-
ture Corporation, is doing a "John L."
every afternoon at Maclevy's gym in
Fourth avenue. Elmer is quite a boxer
and some day hopes to meet Chester

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

Beecroft, his old fistic rival, who can
go some with the mits.

Last Saturday night, Adam Kessel,
Jr., president of the New York Motion
Picture Corporation, received the sur-
prise of his life when he was invited
into Healy's, at Sixty-sixth street, by
one of his friends, to a quiet little meal
as he supposed, and found himself sur-
rounded by a host of his friends, who
carried him bodily upstairs to the
Jungle Room, where a spread was all
set in his honor. Here he was pre-
sented with a loving cup by Harry
Palmer, and a painting of the famous
Kessel yacht, Orson, by Ernest War-
ner, of the Otis Lithograph Company,
Last, but not least, he was presented
by George Cooke, of the Metro Litho-
graph Company and the All Star Fea-
ture Corporation, with a painting of
himself.

Mr. Kessel declared he spent the
most enjoyable evening of his life
there, and threatens to have the same
crowd out on the Orson every week-
end for the coming summer. Mae
Kenny was conspicuous by her pres-
ence.

Over the Grape Fruit

The stork has been busy going the rounds.

Frank A. Tichenor is the father of a nine-
pound boy. He will be Frank, Jr.

Harvey Harris Gates, assistant editor of the
Universal Weekly, and E. F. Murphy, superin-
tendent of the Universal laboratories, are re-

joicing over the advent of sons. The Gates heir
will be named Hal, while Edwin John has been
picked for the newest Murphy.

Our own J. F. Fairman is on the list. His
is a girl, who will be named Mae Hortense.

Herbert Griffin, one of the country's best pro-
jection machine men, from a mechanical as well
as a selling viewpoint, has associated* himself
with the Nicholas Power Company.

Seven years in the motion picture business is
the record of Anna Goldman, secretary to Ed-
ward Roskam, president of the Commercial Mo-
tion Pictures Company. Miss Goldman knows
the business from every angle. She's the real
head of the Commercial. Eddie wi-- tell you so.

Chester Rothwell Beecroft and his accom-
plices, who constitute the publicity and adver-
tising department of the General Film Company,
will soon move from 200 Fifth avenue to larger
quarters at 71 West Twenty-third street.

There is nothing to print this week about
Joseph White Farnham, John Jazbo Noble, or
Louis Seal Noto. Stamford, Manila, and1 Chi-
cago papers please copy.

Consuelo Bai.ey, who has been leading woman
with Charles Frohman, Harrison Grey Fiske,
William A. Brady and the Shuberts, lias signed
up to play leads with Reliance. This will be
her first appearance in pictures.

The All Star Feature Corporation is produc-
ing "Paid in Full." Silent Bill Haddock is the
director. The cast includes Tully Marshall and
Riley Hatch, of the original company; Winni-
fred Kingston, Katherine French, George Wash-
ington Irving, Carl Mitchell, late of Lubin, and
one Tomanato in a Jap part.

Ignace Paderewski will be seen in motion
pictures. He was caught face to face with
"Our Mutual Girl" by Carnegie Hall en route
to a recital.

The Lubin forces are at work on the first
photoplay of Mae B. Havey, late of Reliance,
since she joined the Lubin scenario department.
It is a two-reeler, "A Pack of Cards," and deals
with the Northwest Mounted Police.

John Bohemia Clymer bursts into the lime-
light. He has published a brochure of Cly-
merian verses, "Red Love" and "The One-
Night Stand." They are more potent than a
mustard plaster.

L. J. Rubenstein, head of the Ruby features,
is the father of a six-pound baby boy. To add
more joy, William Herschberg, of the General

Feature Film Company, of Chicago, contracted
for the entire Ruby output for--»Illinois and
Wisconsin.

Hugh D'Arcy, the Lubin press agent, sends
in a copy of the Betzwood Lenz, a humorous
publication that is really humorous. It is packed
with topical jokes and hits at the Lubinites.

Harry A. Samwick, representing the Exclu-
sive Features, Inc., has purchased "Taxicab
1098,'; the "Traducer" and "When Paris
Loves" for New York State and Greater New
York.

The Universal has been taking pictures of the
United States meat inspection at the Cudahy
company's plant in South Omaha.

Cleo Madison is to play opposite J. Warren
Kerrigan in Universal productions.

Russell Edgar Smith, late of the New York
Sunday W or Id, has joined the scenario depart-
ment of the Mutual Film Corporation.

Phillips Smalley and his wife, Lois Weber,
will film "The Merchant of Venice" for the
Universal.

Albert Blinkhorn has gotten up an exception-
ally beautiful three-sheet poster of Florence
Turner. A space is reserved for a one-sheet
poster of whatever Turner film the exhibitor
wishes to advertise. Five colors were used,
and a very attractive poster is the result.

For his D'avid Copperfield Feature, Mr. Blink-
horn has added a twenty-sheet poster, and this
picture has now a large and attractive line of
advertising matter.

Beginning December 15th, three Keystone
comedies will be released a week, and. in addi-
tion, one multiple-reel comedy a month. These
will be issued as specials. The first of these
is "Zuzu, the Band Leader," a two-reeler, with
Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling. Next will
come "Baffles, the Gentleman Burglar."

John Bunny, of Vitagraph, is now a member
of the Motion Picture Machine Operators' Pro-
tective Union. He was presented with a gold
membership card by T. C. Barrows, treasurer
of the organization. W. T. Rock, president of
the Vitagraph company, and Albert E. Smith,
its treasurer, were present and congratulated
Bunny.

Frank Donovan is now with the Manhattan
Feature Film Company, of 341 Fifth avenue, as
manager and press agent. This concern will
start to make its own feature production early
in the Spring, Frank says.

VITAGRAPH-LIEBLERS PRODUCING "THE CHRISTIAN"

THE recently formed Vitagraph-
Liebler Feature Film Company,
Inc., the merger of the Vitagraph
Company of America and the the-
atrical firm of the Lieblers for the
sake of producing plural-reel motion
picture plays from successes on the
speaking stage owned by the Lieblers,
is now at work on a seven-part version
of "The Christian," Hall Caine's novel
and drama. This is the first of the
coming series of "stage length" pro-
ductions.

The production of this picture is

being made under the personal direc-
tion of J. Stuart Blackton, vice-
president of the company, assisted
by Frederick A. Thompson, formerly
a stage director with Belasco, who
has been producing Vitagraph pic-
tures for some time, and Frederick
Stanhope, stage director for the Lieb-
ler Company. Eugene Mullin is the
camera-man.

An especially selected Vitagraph
cast will interpret the drama. Earle
William's plays John Storm. Edith
Storey plays Gloria Quayle. Charles

Kent, James Lackeye, Harry North-
rup, Albert Gallatin, Donald Hall,
James Morrison, Carlotta De Felice
and Jane Fearnley are others of the
principals. The beach scenes, placed
in the novel on the Isle of Man, have
been taken at North Scituate and
Winthrop Beach, near Boston, and
other places along the coast from
Boston to Philadelphia.

The booking of "The Christian" on
its completion will be handled by the
Vitagraph-Liebler Feature Film Com-
pany, Inc.

"BOB" FITZSIMMONS A
NATURAL STAR

"Bob" Fitzsimmons, the famous pu-
gilist, will be the star of a two-reel pho-
toplay shortly to be produced by the
Mutual Film Corporation, entitled "A
Fight for Life." The play is a drama
of pugilism and love and is from the
pen of Robert H. Davis, editor of
Munsey's Magazine, who was the vet-
eran fighter's press agent in the hey-
day of his success in the squared cir-
cle twenty years ago.

In the production the old master of
ring-craft will meet his son, "Bob" Jr.,
in the roped arena and with fatherly
solicitude knock out the proud posses-
sor of his name. The youngster, al-

though only seventeen years old, is
bigger than his parent and built in
the same rangy fashion, and it is
"Bob" Sr.'s plan to announce on the
film that he is training the boy for
the ring, in the anticipation that he
will prove an even greater fighter than
his father.

KLEINE-CINES SCENARIO CON-
TEST READY

Scenario writers who expect to com-
pete in the International Cines Sce-
nario Contest can obtain a sheet giv-
ing the conditions of the contest by
application to the Chicago offices of
George Kleine. Mr. Kleine person-
ally offers $1000.00 in addition to the

prizes offered by Cines for the best
scenario written by an American.

The American must have been a
resident of the United States or its
territories, possessions, or dependen-
cies for at least five years. Distinct-
ively American topics would be un-
wise, as the films are to be made by
the Cines Company, which may not
be able to provide the proper local
color.

The Montgomery Amusement Com-
pany is manufacturing industrial pic-
tures to boom the South. Three reels
have been finished and will be shown
first in the theatres controlled by the
company.

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19

IMPORTANT MOVE BY GENERAL FILM

Will Book Long Productions Through New Department Which Will Displace the Exclusive
Service — First Picture Will Be Five-Part Lubin Production of
Charles Klein's "Third Degree"

A COMING move by the General
Film Company which will set an
important precedent in the motion
picture art was made public Friday.
Several weeks ago this concern start-
ed its Exclusive Service department.
This department furnished exhibitors
with a twelve-reel service protecting
them from direct competition in that
films on the Exclusive Service pro-
gram could not be shown by an op-
position house until ninety days after
the release date. At the time this was
heralded as the solution to the prob-
lem confronting a man with a high-
class theatre who wished to prevent
direct competition.

Now the General Film Company
plans to go still further and inaugu-
rate a service, to be known as Special
Feature Photoplay Masterpieces,
which will set a new mark in the
marketing of feature productions.
This service will furnish, at the rate
of one a week, when practicable, fea-
tures long .enough to furnish an even-
ing's entertainment.

The won»T-"feature" and the phrase
"big featufSt' have been used often of
late and thereby have lost strength,
but in this>5ase the word "feature" is
used advisedly. An idea of .the char-
acter of the' proposed service may be
gleaned 'rora the fact that the first
picture to be released on it will be a

five-part version of Charles Klein's
success on the speaking stage, "The
Third Degree." The forces of the-
Lubin plant at Philadelphia have
been concentrated for some time on
the production of this picture.

Following features have not yet
been announced. The General Film
Company, however, will make this
service one entirely composed of sub-
jects good enough to play in direct
opposition to the speaking stage. It
is rumored that overtures have been
made for the Cines production of
"Antony and Cleopatra," a feature
which has already received the ap-
proval of Europe, as it is considered
an equal of "Quo Vadis" and 'The
Last Days of Pompeii," and for the
production of Zola's "Germinal."

Just what plays will be released on
this service can not yet be announced,
as the decision to launch the new
service was only made on Wednes-
day. It is the plan, however, to give
a service composed only of impress-
ive features. These will be booked as
theatrical attractions are now booked.

An important feature of this serv-
ice is that it will give the theatre de-
voted to motion pictures a chance to
show productions of a class which
hitherto have been shown for the
most part in theatres intended to
house legitimate attractions.

With the advent of this service,
which will be started as soon as pos-
sible, probably some time in January,
the present Exclusive Service will be
discontinued. This service will prob-
ably be dropped December 20, it is
said.

Its discontinuance means that the
regular program of the General Film
Company will be strengthened. Eight
features are now furnished weekly by
the General Film. Two more will be
added. The Kalem will drop its Mon-
day single reel picture and release a
feature every Tuesday. Edison will
drop its single-reeler and release a
feature every Friday. This will make
a total of ten features a week on the
General Film program.

The new move, the Special Feature
Photoplay Masterpieces, is a natural
evolution from the Exclusive Service.
It will be started in the belief that the
day of the pretentious production
which furnishes an evening's enter-
tainment is here. It will furnish such
productions regularly and to motion
picture theatres. It will furnish only
productions of merit. To get them
it may, if necessary, go. outside of the
licensed manufacturers, and buy pic-
tures of sufficient merit wherever
they are found. It is an important
step and will mean much to everyone
interested in motion pictures.

STANLY H. TWIST OFF TO AUSTRALIA

Will Superintend Producing End of Newly Formed Australasian Films, Ltd., Which Is a

Coalition of Several Concerns

STANLY H. TWIST, who was with
the Selig Polyscope Company for
several years, and who more recently
has been associated with E. Mandel-
baum and Phil Gleichman in the
World Special Films Corporation,
left New York on Thursday bound
for Australia via Los Angeles, San
Francisco and Honolulu. Me is go-
ing to the Antipodes to become gen-
eral manager and director of the pur-
chasing and producing departments
of the newly formed Australasian
Films, Ltd., a $3,000,000 concern.

The Australasian Films, Ltd., is a
combination of the interests of C.
Spencer, Tate West, J. D. Williams,
the Amalgamated Pictures, and John-
son and Gibson. At the present time

it owns five hundred theatres in Aus-
tralia, New Zealand, and the smaller
islands, and has the sole rights in the
Antipodes to the Pathe, Gaumont,
Kalem. Lubin, Thanhouser and Amer-
ican pictures. The company also
owns a chain of exchanges.

Now it will enter the producing end
of the business in earnest. A large
studio has been erected at Rushcut-
ter's Bay, Sydney, as a cost of $50,000.
Motion pictures will be produced and
prominent English, American and
Australian players will be secured.
Millard Johnson, who represents the
new concern in this country, secured
Mr Twist to take charge of things in
the Southern continent.

Mr. Twist, who has already left

New York, will sail from San Fran-
cisco December 16 on the Ventura,
eat his Christmas dinner on the equa-
tor, and reach Sydney January 5,
1914, according to schedule.

To do business in this country, Mr.
Twist and his associates have incor-
porated the Inter-Ocean Sales Com-
pany, a fifty-thousand-dollar concern,
which will have offices in the World's
Tower building, 110 West Fortieth
street, with Ernest Shipman at the
helm. Mr. Twist has resigned his
connections with the World Spe-
cial Films Company, and the Pom-
peii Film Company. His new con-
cern plans to open offices later in Chi-
cago, Los Angeles, London and Syd-
ney.

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20 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

CO-OPERATION

BY EDWARD M. SAUNDERS
General Manager of the Universal Exchanges of New York and New England.

CO-OPERATION means just one
thing, i.e., the unfrictional work-
ing between the exhibitor and the ex-
change. Absolute harmony prevailing
between these two great factors in the
motion picture business means the
uplift and betterment of present ser-
vice. '"Service" at the present time,
although infinitely better than it has
ever been before, can still stand im-
provement. But it cannot be bettered
without absolute co-operation on the
part of the exhibitor.

It very often happens that an ex-
hibitor feeling offended for some
reason at an exchange will seek satis-
faction. But he does not injure the
exchange alone, in most cases, he also
hurts a brother exhibitor, who will in
turn seek to injure him by "getting
back" at the innocent exchange. To
give an example: One exhibitor, a
very good customer, will stay with an
exchange for a long time, always
doing his best to help the distributor.
One morning he is late in getting his
returns in. It has never happened
before and may never happen again.
Some other exhibitor is booked for
these pictures, or perhaps his five
reels are booked for five other cus-
tomers. They are in the office wait-
ing for the pictures, but get tired,
finally, and accept something else,
which they in pique also fail to return
in time. Of course the exchange is
blamed.

Those men do not get back at the
exchange. They merely hurt some
other exhibitor, who in turn hurts
them. This is the result of a failure
to understand the meaning of co-op-
eration.

These other men who have been
forced to accept substitutes feel very
much hurt. Letters come into the
office of the manager. They are an-
gry as indeed they have some reason
to be. They are thoroughly within
their province and the exchange does
not blame them in the least. They
sympathize, but they cannot be of any
help. It is, of course, impossible to
keep duplicate copies of the pictures
on hand. The nominal rent charged
for most films will not authorize any
such expense as that. Every copy
made must see active service or the
exchange is a loser.

One can easily see why the exhibi-
tor feels angry. He has "billed" the
town or locality announcing such and
such a picture and his patrons want
to see it. They are disappointed and
he is disgusted. His substitute pic-

tures are therefore late the next day
in retaliation and so it will go around
in a circle.

Improving the Service

Another way in which the exhibitor
can assure himself of better service is
by more careful care of his posters.
Many of the careless managers nail
up their paper on the front of the
house. When the night is over in-
stead of being removed as carefully
as it was posted it is ripped off. The
manager will not have to use it again
and perhaps he is a little tired after a
strenuous night, so down it comes.
But, and it is a big "but," someone
else will have to use that paper, so
there is another cause for just com-
plaint.

Posters are not ruined and torn in
the office of the exchange. Great care

EDWARD M. SAUNDERS

is taken of them there. Sometimes it
is a wet night and the paper instead
of being carefully dried is folded and
tucked into a film case and thus it is
ruined in the morning. This means
bad "paper" for someone.

Exchanges try to get sufficient
"paper" so that there will be enough
to go around. And it sometimes hap-
pens that an exhibitor will have to
take a picture without any "paper,"
because of the carelessness of some
contemporary. When paper runs out
on a film it means its resignation

from active service, and a consign-
ment to the junk heap.

Injury to Films

Yet probably more important than
all this is the great crying need for
greater care and attention to films.
The harm that can be worked by one
unskilled operator on a film is tre-
mendous. A brand new film comes
to a theatre that has a green operator.
The first time the operator runs the
picture, when the emulsion has hard-
ened on the tension spring he rips
out irreparably all the sprocket holes.
The film costing considerable time
and money is thus destroyed and made
useless.

To avoid this careless use of film to
some extent we are at the present
time sending a man on the road, who
will visit and talk with every one of
our exhibitors and their operators,
showing them the proper methods to
avoid destroying films, and also how
they may get the best results. This
man will be one whom we have
trained for some time and who is an
expert in his line. His work should
be productive of much good.

The question has often been asked
me, "How can I avoid repeaters, be
sure of good service and get the peo-
ple to come to my show?"

A method used by a few exhibitors
with great success might be found
advantageous in your theatre. If you
have a house where you can run the
same pictures two days, changing
your program three times a week, you
could assure yourself of better serv-
ice. By a careful reading of the re-
views of films in the trade papers you
could follow what was worth while,
go to the exchange and see it, and'
then get it.

Any exhibitor who takes five pic-
tures a day and changes every day is
naturally using up almost the total
output of whatever exchange he deals
with. So he must take the good with
the bad and indifferent. But by cut-
ting down his week's supply from
thirty or thirty-five a week to fifteen
a week he will have an assortment
and choice that will assure him of a
good show and therefore good busi-
ness.

The exhibitor should remember this
fact. He is not only hurting the ex-
change by being tardy with his re-
turns or by destroying films and post-
ers, but he is hurting, perhaps seri-
ously crippling, some other exhibit-
or's business.

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WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT

BY WILLIAM NITSCHKE
Manager of Loew's Broadway Photoplay Theatre.

IN response to a number of inqui-
ries from contemporaries as to the
best way to successfully compete with
brother exhibitors I would like to
write a few words. These facts I
have learned from actual experience
in the "game" and I believe absolutely
that I am right.

"What is the reason that I don't
get the business I don't get?" is a
question that every exhibitor should
ask himself. Analyzing the feelings
of an audience is not so hard a propo-
sition as it would seem. Perhaps it
would be better to get your audience
to tell you just what they want. This
is not at all difficult. Have you tried
the plan of distributing small cards
among the people requesting them to
fill the blanks in, telling you just what
they want. See that every person gets
one. The card might be something
like this:

Name

Address

Are you a regular patron?

How often do you attend?

What make of picture do you
prefer?

What clas of picture do you most
prefer, comedy, drama, educa-
tional?

Do you like short "split reel"
comedies?

Do you like two and three reel
stories

What changes would you suggest
for the general improvement of
this theatre?

Experiment Worth Trying

Something on the above line should
be productive of results, it is certainly
worth the trying. The results, of
course, will all differ. It is up to you
then to pick the majority and then
give them what they want and when
they want it. Change your service if
it does not please them.

What will work in New York will
also be found applicable to almost
any territory, with the exception of
perhaps a very small town with but
one exhibitor. This man will have
his regular patrons, no matter what
he shows.

In any city or large town, the ex-
hibitor will have to rely greatly upon
transient trade as well as his regular
patrons. These latter wil come every
night if they get what they want.
My experience with such m audience

(or spectators as I would rather call
them) is that they do not at the pres-
ent time take a great deal of interest
in the companies or the players. They
come in merely to pass a pleasant
hour while waiting to keep an en-
gagement.

It is obvious that these people will
appreciate short exciting dramas or
clever farce comedies. They want
pictures that will entertain them for
the time being, but which will pass
from their memory. If as an exhibi-
tor you have this class of patron it is
up to you to furnish what is wanted.

WILLIAM NITSCHKE

There are many manufacturers
placing worthless "stuff" on the mar-
ket. Perhaps you personally do not
buy it, perhaps your neighbor does.
At any rate someone does, and for the
time being some will flock to that
house, lured there by good paper, but
the question is: Will it continue?
Will the people stay with that house
seeing the same thing over night after
night, when they may go to another
house near by and see what is worth
while? "You can fool some of the
people all of the time, but not most
of them, to paraphrase."

Future Patronage Considered

It is necessary for the exhibitor to
consider also his future patronage, the
people that do not go to any but the
legitimate theatres. They would want
strong dramas or excellent comedies,
but they will have to be "educated."

Have you tried that? A letter, or a
weekly folder through the mail might
bring them to your door. But they
must see good stuff or they'will never
return. If they are satisfied you will
have steady patrons.

The motion picture audience is com-
posed of all classes. The intelligent,
refined people are not in the minority
by any means. But one must cater
to the ignorant, or, to be kinder, to
the people who have not had the op-
portunity, or neglected it, to gain an
education. They form a large class of
the theatregoers. They are the ones
that like melodramas and split reel
subjects, and they want variety all
the time. They want and demand a
good program.

Feature houses in the immediate
vicinity of Times Square, New York,
should prove a paying proposition.
There are many large theatres in New
York, but not enough to take care of
the crowds and there are none that
make a specialty of features on a two-
a-day program.

ITALIAN QUEEN MOTHER
SEES KLEINE "POMPEII"

A private showing of the Kleine-Am-
brosio motion picture, "The Last Days
of Pompeii," was given recently at
Stupinigi, Italy, at the royal castle, an
hour and half ride from the Ambrosio
studio at Turin, for the Queen Mother
of Italy. It was in response to a letter
written by Marquis Guiccioli, gentle-
man-in-waiting to the Queen Mother,
a translation of which follows :

"The gentleman-in-waiting to H. M.,
the Queen Mother,
"H. M., the Queen, would like to have
an exhibition of the moving picture,
'The Last Days of Pompeii,' at the royal
castle of Stupinigi. Please let me know,
if it is possible, what evening would be
most convenient for you.
"With my best regards,

"Marquis Guiccioli,
"Gentleman-in-waiting to the Queen
Mother."

NEW PHILADELPHIA
THEATRE

A syndicate headed by John F.
Hayes, 504 Walnut street, has pur-
chased a lot and will erect a theatre
at southwest corner Fifty-fifth and
Spruce streets, Philadelphia. Build-
ing, brick and terra cotta. E. Allen
Wilson, architect.

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Vol. VIII

December 13, 1913

No. 23

What will probably happen is this : The French
Government will get over its needless alarm and the
present kind of celluloid will continue in use for an
indefinite period.

It should never be forgotten that celluloid is, after
all, only another name for liquid collodion. The latter
was formerly used by many thousands of photog-
raphers in all parts of the world. High fire insur-
ance risks were imposed on the Users of this liquid.
Much the same spirit of alarm seems to be mani-
fested with reference to inflammable celluloid. For
those of our readers who are interested in the scien-
tific aspect of the matter, we can refer them to the
researches of Green, Cross & Bevan, the authorities
on the subject of cellulose substitutes, whose papers
can be found in any scientific library. They were, we
think, the means of introducing aceto-cellulose instead
of nitro cellulose, which after all is merely a varia-
tion of the method of treating the original cellulose.
Aceto-cellulose compounds are the subject of patent
litigation at the present time. The master patent, if
we mistake not, are controlled in Germany.

This subject is rather recondite for the average
reader or motion picture maker, but it is of much
importance.

CELLULOID "SUBSTITUTES"

Hp HE article printed last week under the caption
"Substitutes for Celluloid" was in type when sev-
eral newspaper references to the subject, of an indirect
nature, were brought to our notice. These were pre-
cipitated by the circumstance that the use of inflam-
mable celluloid has been forbidden by the French
Government after December 31, 191-1. This drastic
measure has directed attention to the need, if not the
urgency, of providing a substitute for celluloid film,
which will meet with the approval of the French au-
thorities.

As usual in such cases, the trade is much excited
and many of the men most interested are talking
rather loosely about the feasibility of making a cheap
and efficient substitute. In particular, Monsieur Gau-
mont, the well-known motion picture maker, is quoted,
or probably misquoted, as saying that somebody in
this country (the United States) is making a celluloid
substitute Avhich can be sold at one cent a yard. In
the present state of our chemical knowledge of the
subject, this looks improbable. We are, however,
making inquiries.

MOTION PICTURES VERSUS "MOVING"
PICTURES

'T'HE error, into which many good people had fallen,
of referring to motion pictures as "moving pic-
tures" has led to a number of humorous interpretations
of this source of entertainment. Although the masses
are not disposed to analyze the origin of any name or
designation, there are persons who, realizing that prop-
erly projected motion pictures are virtually a quick
succession of stereopticon-views, appreciate the cor-
rectness of the term "motion pictures."

In a motion-picture house the spectators are con-
cerned only with what is displayed on the screen, and
each of the numberless pictures is shown within a
limited and stationary space, all of them combining
to simulate motion, but the pictures themselves do not
move. However, as the term "moving pictures" has
come to stay, it is applied by discriminating people
to inferior houses, Avhereas the correct and dignified
term "motion pictures" refers rather to the respect-
able and refined character of the display and its en-
vironment.— (The Photo-Era, Boston.)

UNCLE SAM BIGGEST FILM
MANUFACTURER

A N interesting statement comes from the Depart-
merit of Commerce in Washington to the effect
that the export of motion picture films from America
this year will amount to over 25,000 miles, coun'ing
both developed films and negatives.

The value of the exports for that period was $3,467,-
000. It is said that this country is the largest manu-
facturer of motion picture , films in the world,
producing nearly seventy-five per cent of the total
output.

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PEARL SINDELAR

Pathc.

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FOR THOSE WHO WORRY O'ER PLOTS AND PLAYS

WILLIAM LORD WRIGHT

Uvr OU say to read good books in
I order to broaden your mind and
acquire the art of style and condensa-
tion. Kindly advise us what to read?"

Several literary workers have written
us recently propounding the above ques-
tion.

Read the Bible. Perhaps you do not
believe in the Bible? Nevertheless, read
it, for the Bible is the Book of Books in
more than one respect. Sir Arthur Quil-
ler Couch, in his address on the English
Bible at Cambridge, rightly laid stress
on the priceless literary value of that
authorized version as the greatest book
of English prose. You probably have a
Bible accessible and a study of its beau-
tiful text will enrich your knowledge as
a writer. Its divine simplicity, its pa-
thos, its tenderness, every chapter in-
stinct with beauty, every verse ringing
like a sweet-toned bell, there is no other
work, text-book or otherwise, that will
help the photoplay author along his way
more consistently than the Scriptures.
Forty-seven men helped translate the
Bible, none of them celebrated outside
their share in the translation, for any
superlative achievement.

The Bible cannot be omitted by those
wishing a course of study in English
literature. The authorized version has
had incomparably more influence on
English literary style and on our Eng-
lish speech than any other book, or than
all other books combined.

Taine, a discriminating critic, realized
how the style of the Bible has wrought
itself into English life and interwoven
itself into the very text of English lit-
erature. Couch, himself a famous nov-
elist, detects the influence of the Bible
in Izaak Walton and Bunyan, in Milton,
and Sir Thomas Browne, in Addison
and in Gibbon. Taine writes admiringly
of Macaulay's Biblical metaphors; Rus-
kin found in the Bible the basis of his
entrancing style ; Thackeray, Stevenson,
and old Sir Walter Scott turned to the
Bible for inspiration to create and for
plot germs. The art of condensation is
found in the Bible as nowhere else. Fer-
tility of plot can be discovered in almost
every page. Sympathetic imagery and
artistic action are all there. The Bible
is in everything we see, hear, feel. It
crops out in the photoplay title ; in photo-
play leaders and, unconsciously ofttimes,
in photoplay scenes. For, be it remem-
bered, plots taken from the Scriptures
appear almost every day under other
guises.

In re Acton Davies

Acton Davies, dramatic critic of the

New York Sun, and recognized author-
ity upon all things theatrical, has been
engaged by the Edison Company to re-
view all scenarios before they are turned
over to the directors for production.
This is another innovation by Horace G.
Plimpton, manager of Edison negative
production, and it will undoubtedly mark
another step forward in the quality of
Edison photoplays. Davies declares that
the new work has opened his eyes to the
amount of art and imagination required
in the writing of a photoplay, and that
his visits to the Edison studio con-
vinced him that the production of a
photoplay requires as much artistry and
thought on the director's part as the sta-
ging of a three-act play.

He believes that successful photoplay
authors may in time contribute to the
stage itself, so that "in time the moving
picture industry, by way of recompense
to the regular theatres whose balconies
and galleries it has so often left bare
and deserted may give to the theatre a
brand-new crop of budding and blos-
soming American dramatists."

We might inform Mr. Davies that at
least a half dozen successful photoplay-
wrights have contributed to the stage
during the past year. One scribe has
sold a two-act libretto and others
have contributed high-class vaudeville
sketches. More are coming.

Foiling the Faker

The New York World has instituted
a "fakers' bureau." In an attempt to
curb the enthusiastic correspondent who
steals his "stuff" and dresses it for the
market under new garments, the World
asks the co-operation of all staff men
and special writers in clearing the col-
umns of the newspapers from fakes and
steals. One complaint means dismissal
and the "black-list," providing investiga-
tion proves the complaint well founded.
We believe the time is near when scena-
rio editors will take like action.

Some Film Stories

James Oppenheim has started a serial,
"Peg o' the Movies," in the Ladies'
World. Oppenheim has written many
photoplays.

Van Loan has resumed his Western
Motion Pictures stories in the Saturday
Evening Post.

Another "School" in Court

Following the raid by Federal officers
on "The National Authors' Institute,"
another "Correspondence school" has
been summoned to the United States bar.
Hearings have been held before United
States Commissioners in an effort to se-

cure an indictment against a Chicago
photoplay school. The Government al-
leges that the "school" falsely stated that
it had influence with the motion picture
companies which guaranteed the accept-
ance of the scripts written by its pupils.
The attorneys seek to prove that this al-
leged statement induced many to part
with their money for the course in the
belief that they would be certain of that
"fifty dollars weekly" after completion.
A denial of all charges is made. Deci-
sion has been reserved. Uncle Sam has
been getting busy recv. tly regarding
"photoplay schools," thanks to the cru-
sade that has been waged for two years
past. Other prosecutions are expected.

Editorial Statements

Universal editorial department an-
nounces that the company is always
ready to purchase acceptable scripts and
that within thirty days over $200 worth
of "outside" work has been accepted.

The Eclair editorial department has
received an avalanche of scripts since
the Eclair editorial needs were given in
this department. No scripts considered
except from authors having three or
more produced acceptances to their cred-
it ; nothing but typewritten scripts will
be read; neither will scripts that do not
contain stamps be read; checks will be
mailed the very day the signed contract
is received from the author. Successful
authors might do well to chalk up Eclair
for a first reading of any split-reel trav-
esties ; exceptional one-reel comedies, or
two- or three-reel modern dramas,
mostly indoor work requiring no cos-
tumes, which Eclair is about to launch.
Pertinent Pointers

Adaptations from standard literature are
rarely desired by script editors. Blache Fea-
tures, Fort Lee, N. J., is the one exception
at present. They will read stirring adapta-
tions from the classics for multiple reels.

When you conceive an idea let it "soak"
in your brain. Do not rush off to the type-
writer and dash off a plot which has not been
carefully though out. Let that idea of your*
germinate. Leave it alone and revolve its
possibilities carefully in your brain. Think
it out from all angles before writing your
story.

New York Motion Picture Corporation is
not buying any Civil War dramas at pres-
ent. Puritan, Irish and straight dramatic
stories will be given prompt consideration by
Richard V. Spencer, editor. The Keystone
Company, a branch concern, uses good good
comedy of the rapid-fire variety. Synopsis
are also considered. Address Editor Spencer,
1712 Allesandro street, Los Angeles, Cil.

"What am I going to do with it?" asked
a beginner when he sent for our inspection
a beautifully engrossed diploma issued by the
"faculty" of a "school." This unfortunate is
a "graduate." He will be obliged to forget
much before his work will find a market.
Burn the diploma and try and keep it secret
from script editors that you ever took the
"course." Bars are up against "school grad-
uates" in these editorial departments: Selig,
Universal, Lubin, Famous Players, Eclair and
others.

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25

An author informed us recently that a
script she had submitted to aprominent con-
cern was kept for consideration three months
and then returned as unavailable. Recently
editorial changes have been made, and she
asked if she should take another chance with
the same concern. We answered in the affirma-
tive.

Marketing scripts is a game of chance in
one sense. We sold one story twice to the
same concern. A directo rliked the yarn, but
he took another berth before he produced it.
In the meantime we got a check. The next
director didn't like the script. After six
months the editor sent it back, saying we
were entitled to the money, at that. We held
the script another six months, submitted it
again to the same concern with an account
of its unusual history. Money must have
been plentiful just then, because the script
was taken and another check mailed. This
occurs once in a lifetime, but it goes to show
that the ways of the manuscript markets
passeth understanding. A hundred things
other than the worth of the script may inter-
fere with its sale. All you know is that
your work is returned.

Length of the Play

. A gentleman in Wall Street (not
Sampson Rock, either) writes photo-
plays and he wishes to know some-
thing about the approved length. He
says most beginners have no idea
where to stop on the average plot.
Many have no idea where to stop,
but more have no idea where to begin.
Not more than half the photoplays
submitted start where they should.
Some start over toward the end and
explain back by the "vision'' and the
"dream." Others start too soon and
several hundred words are misused
before entering upon the story proper.
Tell your story straight from the
shoulder. Begin at the proper begin-
ning, when things happen, and end
when the action ends. A photoplay
story intended to run a thousand feet
should rarely cover more than three
or four sheets of 8^4x11 paper, pro-
viding it is single spaced. This in-
cludes synopsis and cast of charac-
ters. Remember you are writing ac-
tion, not dialogue or word pictures.
The briefer and clearer you can depict
that action, the better for all con-
cerned. Do not become worried by
the number of scenes you see in some
picture plays in your favorite theatre.
Because the Venus Motion Picture
Company is "hooking up" plays to
seventy-five half-second scenes to the
thousand feet is no reason why you
should endeavor to write seventy-five
scenes into your script. This quick-
action stuff is merely long scenes
chopped into very short ones. If you
can tell your story in twenty or
twenty-five scenes and get it across,
do so. What the director may do
with your script after its purchase
is his business. Give him good, clear
action to work upon and there your
responsibility ends. But few concerns
use the flash-scene method.

The Hall of Fame

W. E. Wing, prolific writer of photo-
plays, was formerly a reporter on the
Los Angeles Express.

Horace Vinton, former script editor

for Comet, American, Shamrock, etc.,
is now director of production of "The
Siege and Fall of the Alamo," Motion
Picture Company, San Antonio, Tex.

Charles Van Loan, who has been writ-
ing stories of motion picture actors for
the Saturday Evening Post, was once a
baseball editor.

Frank E. Woods, well known through-
out filmland as "The Spectator," has
joined the Mutual Film Corporation. He
will supervise all scenario work for the
Majestic and Reliance companies.

Not a Remedy

The Film Man, of the Dramatic
Mirror, prints an argument penned by
Harry O. Hoyt that "more leaders is
the remedy for the vague photoplay.''
Sub-titles may be abused and self-ex-
planatory action can often supersede
the sub-title. They take atmosphere
from the play and interrupt convinc-
ing action. It is easy to stick in a
sub-title; it is not so easy to so ma-
nipulate your action and characters
that a sub-title is unnecessary. Along
the line of least resistance will never
win in photoplay writing. The Film
Man, in commenting correctly, states:
"Authors are working along the
correct line when attempting to make
their work understandable with few
leaders. Knowing the stories them-
selves they misjudge the normal ca-
pacity for grasping a situation hur-
riedly presented on the screen. Hence,
both the explanatory action and its
alternative, words that solve the rid-
dle, are omitted at critical moments
because the need is not appreciated.
Let the author place himself in the
.position of the least enlightened of
his spectators; then if a cloudy mean-
ing cannot be cleared by action it is
time to bring in sub-titles. Nothing
is more disastrous than vagueness."

An Important School

If you wish to become a photoplay-
writer or a writer of fiction and de-
sire to attend school, let us here and
now suggest that school. We shall
suggest an institution that will pay
you while you are learning — the Insti-
tution of Journalism. A script editor
is quoted as follows: "Strange as it
may seem, the best motion picture
stories do not come from trained
story-writers, although the majority
of professional scenario authors come
from the ranks of newspaperdom and
the theatrical field." We know little
about the theatrical field, but we claim
to know something of the newspaper
field, having been in the newspaper
harness for sixteen years. This editor
possibly does not mean just what he
says. He is correct in his statement
that many successful writers of mo-
lion picture stories come from the
newspaper ranks, but the good news-
paper man is also a trained story-

writer. That is the reason the former
newspaper men succeed as literary
workers. They do not wait for in-
spiration— they work; they are fa-
miliar with the tools of their trade,
that of writing; they know a story
when they see one; they can daub on
local color and characterize. Kipling,
O. Henry, George Randolph Chester,
David Graham Phillips and the rest
of the star fiction-writers were once
journalists. Giles R. Warren, C. B.
Hoadley and many other stars of the
photoplay-writing world smelled printers'
ink many years ago. To the beginner we
advise joining the staff of some good
newspaper. Follow Mark Twain's rule
and work without remuneration for a
time until a place is made for you, or you
make a place for yourself. Instead
of paying out money to some "corre-
spondence" school, enter the school
of journalism, which is found with a
live newspaper, and not in a college
class-room, or by the postal route.
You will learn to know life and, best
of all, to write about life. Then, if
you have it in you, the rest will follow
naturally.

Looking Forward

Next week, Editor' B. P. Schulberg.
of the Famous Players Film Company,
will tell our readers how he adapts fa-
mous plays into motion-picture stories.
Worth looking forward to.

Collier's Weekly Awakens

We have heard from Collier's Weekly.
The editor of that publication has awak-
ened to the fact that most of these "Pho-
toplaywright Correspondence Schools"
are delusions and snares, and he asked
us all about it. We replied. Like Mi-
cawber, we expect something to turn up.

ARTHUR JOHNSON, OF LUBIN, AS A
COUNTRY BUMPKIN

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FIRST KEYSTONE TWO-ACT COMEDY

"Zuzu, the Band Leader" Features Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling

WITH the motion picture "Zuzu,
the Band Leader" the Keystone
Company enters the field of two-part
comedies. This is the first of the
famous Keystone laugh-makers to ap-
pear in that length. Its success means
much to the producers and will be
watched with interest by other produc-
ers. So, on this single picture, rests
considerable importance. This fact has
spurred the Keystone producers on
to do their best and the result is a
two-reel comedy picture which is
bound to set a new mark. It goes
the whole length without a dull mo-
ment and has proved, by its reception,
that motion picture patrons will wel-
come two-reel comedies even more
enthusiastically as they have wel-
comed the one-reel comedies.

Ford Sterling and Mabel Normand,
those two inimitable comedians, with
their numerous fellow players are
likely to cause many a stitch in the
side when this picture is shown. It
is by far the best that they have pro-
duced in a very long time in point of
humor. Even the staid censorship
board and the apathetic press were
mighty interested when the picture
was shown at a private exhibition.
And it might be added that all felt
. in a better humor after.

Any one who is acquainted with the
work of these two stars, and "anyone"
means everyone, can well imagine
what two thousand feet of it must be
like.

It is not necessary for Sterling to
have a story. He is the story by him-
self. But the addition of a corking

THE GIRLS FLOCK AROUND ZUZU

good comedy does not detract from
his work or its effect.

So agreeable and profitable has been
the work of the Keystone Company
aided and abetted by the two men-
tioned and Mack Sennett, that their
work has been copiously copied by
several other companies.

This picture was produced under
the personal direction of Mack Sen-
nett, the Keystone magazine director.

In Los Angeles the Keystone peo-
ple may have the city hall if they re-

quire it, so popular are they.' • Many
times have they called out the, fire de-
partment or needing assistance the
regular police department have aided
them with a few- "comedians."

This first two-reeler is to be sup-
plemented by a number of others all
of which will be released as "specials,"
the booking of which will be done
through the Mutual exchanges.

A. D. M.

ROYAL FILM EXCHANGE BUSY

The Royal Film Exchange, of 286
Market street, Newark, which dis-
tributes the Universal program in
New Jersey, has sold to the Bergen
Theatre, at Bergen and Springfield
avenues, Newark, an automatic ticket
machine of the latest design. They
have also furnished the City Theatre,
at Springfield and Twenty-first
streets, Newark, with a mirroroide
curtain, 850 opera chairs, an auto-
matic ticket machine, and two Pow-
ers 6A projection machines.

IN ALL HIS GLORY

Lorimer Johnston, one of the directors
of the American Film Manufacturing
Company at the Santa Barbara, Cal.,
studios, has just started a three-reel
feature production.

The story is laid in America, and em-
braces the periods of 1860, 1880, 1900 and
1913. The parts are all played by the
same people. The picture starts in 1900
and goes back to 1860, showing the cast
in their younger days, and then bringing
all the characters up to the present day.

SCENES FROM "THE SILENCE OF THE DEAD'

Ciaumont four-reel subject.

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A. d."v €* t t i s in<£
Pict— °

MUCH has been said under this
heading and much more is to
be said as long as many persons and
managers are working their brains to
find something new to catch the at-
tention of the theatregoers.

Motion pictures are not a necessity;
motion pictures are a luxury.

In any town of the United States,
the butchers, bakers and grocers do
not spend as much money in a show-
window and are not as courteous, be-
cause we need their goods for our
daily wants, as the jeweler, the art
store man and the fancy goods dealer.
These men are far more courteous
and spend much more money on their
show-windows, because they deal in
goods that are not a necessity but a
luxury. Consequently they must
tempt the patrons.

Ugly Posters Do Not Make For
Success

Motion pictures are not only a lux-
ury but there is much competition.
Consequently it is not the man that
spends the most money in defacing
the exterior of his theatre with ugly
posters and dirty banners that will
win. Success will come to the man
who conducts a refined show and who
knows how to make a name for him-
self and for his theatre.

I was led to write these lines after
my visit at the Regent theatre of New
York, as the great success of S. L.
Rothapfel is a real lesson.

Mr. Rothapfel does not need to have
ugly, dirty, ragged banners stretched
over the entrance of the beautiful Re-
gent theatre, nor does he need for
numerous posters to deface the side-
walk and lobby. No. He does not
need to spend money in this direction
because his patrons come directly to
his theatre without stopping to look
at the posters. They leave the train
at the subway station and shoot for
the Regent. They come on street
cars, in carriages, in automobiles or
on foot and all, without exception,
enter the lobby, purchase their tickets
and walk in, without stopping to look
at the very few posters.

There is a reason. Mr. Rothapfel
made a name and a reputation for the
Regent in less than a month. Such
a reputation that persons from Brook-
lyn and other distant points, travel

the long distance to St. Nicholas ave-
nue to enjoy a real motion picture
show. Everyone knows that Mr.
Rothapfel does not only show the
best pictures, but he is the master in
the art of projecting them and of
adapting the proper music. This is
not all. Mr. Rothapfel has made of
the Regent theatre a most comfort-
able rendezvous for the lovers of mo-
ton pictures and his attendants are
extremely courteous.

Rothapfel's Success a Lesson

The success of Mr. Rothapfel
knocks to pieces the argument of
certain exhibitors who claim that a
show must be advertised with an over-
dose of ugly and sensational posters.

My advice is: "Deliver the goods
and you will succeed."

An exhibitor from a small town of
6,000 inhabitants called on me for an
advice. He charges an admission of
ten cents and has one competitor.
He claims that he is making no
money. I investigated the case and
found that he made no money because
he did not deliver the goods.

He shows six reels for ten cents or
thirty-six reels per week and he pays
$30 for such a service. Anyone will
know that you cannot get thirty-six
decent reels for $30. They must be
very old, full of rain storms and
scratches. No one wants to pay ten
cents to see such a bunch of old junk,
but they wait to go to the next town
to visit a motion picture theatre.

This exhibitor is a great believer in
advertising schemes, he makes an
abuse of posters, has a weekly "Coun-
ty Fair Store," souvenirs, and so on.

My advice to this man is: Use the
$6 you spend weekly for cheap gro-
ceries for your county fair store to
hire a decent, clean and courteous
young man to act as the usher.
Transfer to your film service all the
money you spend foolishly on posters,
handbills, souvenirs and other such
advertising schemes and you will in-
crease your receipts.

Quality Before Quantity

With a four-hundred-seat house,
two shows per evening at a ten-cent
scale, he should have a daily patron-
age of 500 persons or $50. This would
give him for the six days of the week,

something like $300, and with such re-
ceipts, you should be able to pay no
less than $90 for your six reels. I
would even advise cutting the show
down to four reels or twenty-four
reels per week for the same price of
$90. The public does not call for long
programmes, ^hey prefer the quality
to the quantity and when they will
find that you give them, in their own
town, a show equal to what they can
see in other towns, they will patronize
your theatre.

You can bluff the public once in a
while and then to just a certain limit.

The same rules apply to other in-
dustries. Some manufacturers are
making no headway; they are wasting
their time and energy and the patience
of their creditors in futile advertising
schemes to force their goods on the
market. Evidently they make some
sales. This is their misfortune be-
cause these sales keep them alive,
keep them hoping against hope, keep
them in a constant state of agony,
until the day comes when the credi-
tors refuse to give more time and
force the manufacturer to the wall.
Why? Because the manufacturer does
not deliver the goods. He is a shrewd
advertiser. His clever advertisements
catch a few customers daily, but his
goods make him no name, no reputa-
tion.

Build For To-morrow

Other manufacturers are making
fortunes because they deliver the
goods. Their advertisements sold
them their first goods and as the
goods gave satisfaction, the first cus-
tomers made new ones. >

Do not be so foolish as to believe
that you must not consider to-mor-
row. Such a poor policy may hold
good in a locality with a continuous
transient trade, but will prove the
ruin of the manager who has to de-
pend on a purely local patronage.
You must build your trade for to-
morrow and not for to-day. If you
have to lose something on your show
to-day, be cheerful, pocket the loss
and when your patrons will realize
that your policy is to give them a
good, clean show, they will reward
you with a daily patronage and in the
future you will reap a harvest.

J. M. B.

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29

eTheatre
^tstruction Department

WHEN, in a previous issue, I dis-
cussed the too free use of gin-
ger-bread decorations, especially for
the exterior work, as being too easy-
nests for the dirt flying from the
street, some decorators had an idea
that I was opposed to plastic orna-
ments.

I am far from injuring the business
of the decorators, as if the exhibitors
want to follow the advice given them
in these articles, they will build more
artistic theatres and the decorators
themselves will find more profit, sup-
plying higher class work than a lot
of cheap stuff, made by the yard, if I
may use such an expression.

The accompanying illustration of
the Orpheum theatre of Indianapolis,
Ind., is a good example.

This facade has not the amount of
cheap ginger-bread decoration making
the average photoplay house hideous,
but if the quantity is small the quality
is far above the general run and the
exterior of a four-story building, cov-
ered with cheap plastic ornaments,
would not pay the decorating bill of
the Orpheum theatre. There is more
money for the decorators in the heavy
cornices of the Orpheum. in the capi-
tals and bases of the columns, in the
figures of the arch and in the figures
standing between the columns, than
there would be if the building was
covered with what is generally
termed "ginger-bread decorations."

If the colrmns. the cornices and
the figures gather the dirt of the street
they are not such bad dust nests as
the small plastic relief ornaments, and
if even they gather the dirt, they can
be more easily cleaned as they offer
larger surfaces and not a multitude of
small delicate ornaments to break
like glass under the brush of the
cleaner.

A theatre like the Orpheum is
costly, but cheaper in the long run
than a theatre that has to be re-
touched every few months, and is a
far better investment, as it improves
the neighborhood and is attractive.

In many cases of fire, any loss of
life is due. primarily, to the fact that
the exit doors cannot be opened at
the crucial moment. The terrified
people pile themselves in heaps about
the exits and the poor unfortunates
are trampled to death before the flames
even reach them

Concerning Exit Doors

Exit doors have been a matter of
consrant difficulties with the fire de-
partments. To leave the doors un-
fastened and unguarded, is to give a
chance to some bad boys to enter the
place without paying the admission.

Several devices have been placed on
the market and have been highly
praised. While these various devices
stood the test, they have proven, like
many other devices, inadequate in
case of an emereencv. In case of a

fire the panic-stricken folks jam
against the door and as they do not
know of the levers or do not know
how to work them, they are in the
way of the attendants, who when
they arrive cannot come close enough
to the doors to work the levers.

I have been caught in such a panic
and unable to get to the doors unless
brute force was used to get through
the crowd.

It was a panic without real cause.
The current was furnished by a trolley

THE ORPHEUM THEATEE, INDI ANAPOLIS, 1ST).

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line; they had an accident on the road
and the lights went out. As the house
was in total darkness the weak ones be-
gan to feel uneasy. As the lights did
not return at once, children began xo
cry, women to scream and a general
panic started.

The recurrence of such disasters is

VON DUPRIN EXIT DOOE

rendered absolutely impossible by the
operation of the "Von Duprin Self-
Releasing Fire Exit Latch." This de-
vice takes advantage of the inevitable
rush of the panic-stricken crowd, and
uses it as the natural means of throw-
ing open the way to escape and
safety. A child has the same ad-
vantage as a man, no real power re-
quired, a mere touch does the work.

The main features of the Von Du-
prin Device are as follows: It com-
bines into one the usual features of
all locking devices, the lock and the
top and bottom latches.

Works in Real Panic

On the inside, about waist high, a

solid bar stretches across the door.
The bar stands way from the wood
and connects directly with the me-
chanism of the latch. Any pressure
applied to any part of the bar, in-
stantly and positively releases lock
and latches simultaneously.

The operation of the Von Duprin
Device under actual condi-
tions of a panic is self-evi-
dent. The people rush blind-
ly toward the exit doors, the
leaders are forced against
the bars across the doors,
and the said bars under the
pressure of the crowd give
in, releasing the latches and
throwing the doors open.

The bar extends across
the full width of the door;
it is not a device that one
has to hunt for, nor a device
requiring any special manip-
ulation. A mere child run-
ning against the door, will
throw open same with no
other effort than to press
the bar with his little hand
or part of his frail body.

As the door cannot be opened from
the exterior without a key, there is
no danger for any one to enter the
auditorium through the exit doors,
to evade paying admission.

While in Cleveland my attention
was called to the Artstone as a build-
ing material offering some advantages
to the builder of a motion picture
theatre, wishing to erect a lasting
building.

Artstone is a manufactured stone
composed of the best weather-imper-
vious materials, put together under
strong pressure and left to harden
under natural conditions. It is a

Nicholas Power as a Seer

NICHOLAS POWER, president of
the company which bears his
name and manufactures projection
machines, has this to say on the future
of the motion picture:

"Without a doubt the motion pic-
ture business has developed more rap-
idly within a given period of time than
any other industry. To-day, in
Greater New York we have over 1200
picture houses, while in the United
States there are about 15,000.

"The one feature that assures: a
future for the motion picture is their
versatility, as there is hardly a line
of endeavor in which they have not
become a factor. One may well won-
der what becomes of the vast number
of motion picture machines which
constitute our daily output, and yet if
you consider the many fields in which
this industry has become a part, it
ceases to be a mystery. .

"Our Cameragraph No. 6A is used
by nearly all the prominent lecturers,
churches, schools, Y. M. C. A.'s and
other religious institutions, in com-
mercial houses and factories, where
they are used to exploit their wares,
as well as surgical operations, and all
branches of the arts, etc.

"These requirements are enormous,
and the vast resources of our factory
are working hard to keep up with the
demands.

"Their value as an exponent of edu-
cation is already recognized, and I
thoroughly believe that time itself is
bound to render the motion picture
more and more indispensable."

AMERICAN ENGAGES CON-
SULTING DIRECTOR

Alix F. Harmer has been engaged
by S. S. Hutchinson, president of the

stone which will stand the test of
time and weather and upon which fire
has but little effect.

Concrete Superior to Stone

As to durability, the manufacturers
of Artstone can show a building;
erected in the year 1874, in which the
Artstone trimmings, after an exposure
oi nearly forty years to all sorts oi
weather, have been found in perfect
condition.

This proof of durability should not
surprise us, as the buildings of the
ancients fully demonstrate the supe-
riority of concrete over natural stone
for lasting qualities. Concrete stone,
which was used in their buildings in
connection with natural stone, is to-
day in an excellent state of preserva-
tion.

The usl • and necessities of concrete
have been thoroughly demonstrated
in the building work, and the rapidly
increasing demand for this class of
material shows that what was for-
merly considered an experiment and
heartily condemned by those less pro-
gressive promises to be the greatest
factor in building construction for the
coming decade.

With Artstone on the market, a
material of real merit, equal in every
way to the natural stone, why pay
the high price of cut stone work?
Artstone fills a much needed want,
saving fully from 30 to 50 per cent of
the actual cost of natural cut
stone.

As Artstone will not absorb the
rain and dirt, the ornaments and the
trimmings will remain clean and not
require a new coat of paint every

season,

J. M. B.

American Film Manufacturing Com-
pany, as consulting director.

Mr. Harmer has had an extended
experience and is an authority on
stage settings and costumings. He
has already taken up his duties at the
new Santa Barbara studios, where all
facilities for the carrying out of the
minutest details are available and
where projects of greatest magnitude
can be skillfully and expeditiously
handled.

LEHIGH ORPHEUM REOPENED

The Third Street Theatre Company,
of Easton, Pa., on Saturday, November
15, re-opened the Lehigh Orpheum at
South Bethlehem, Pa. This com-
pany now operates three fine theatres
with a seating capacity of 500, 750 an'
800, respectively. In all three theatres
the rate is five cents at the matinees
and ten cents in the evenings. A pro-
gram is shown, consisting of five new
reels of General Film subjects and one
big feature a week.

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Vkxsic and the *rf^

Picture ^fif*

''1 1 1 I

Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address : Music Department, The Motion Picture News

ON last Sunday evening I visited
the "Circle Theatre" on Broad-
way, New York.

While my desire was to see some
first run pictures. I was treated to a
real concert. The Ladies' Symphony
Orchestra had an exceedingly well-
prepared and executed programme of
some of the best-known selections.
It was a treat.

I am sorry to state that the orches-
tra did not receive the encouragement
due to its efforts, in fact the audience
was very cool, too cold. Twice only
were the musicians applauded and it
was a very mild mark of appreciation.
It was more the applause of a few
friends of the musicians wishing to
enthuse the audience, but who quickly
desisted when they found no response
to their enthusiasm.

Concert With Pictures on the Side

The fault was not on the part of
the orchestra but on the management,
who after arranging a Sunday musi-
cal programme, offered five reels, each
one with shooting and killings.

The two-reel feature of Essanay:
"The Brand of Evil" has its merits,
but the music was not in accord with
the production.

"The Blight" of Pathe which ended
with a suicide, did not harmonize with
the musical selections.

There was too much Western and
Indian fun in the production "A
Sense of Humor" of Edison, to fit the
music.

I say fit the music because at the
Circle and other theatres where they
advertise a special orchestra, they do
not fit the music to the picture, but
expect the pictures to fit the music.
Tn other words, the managers give a
concert with pictures on the side.

Mr. Yerkes, of sound effect fame, is
introducing a new musical and deco-
rative novelty, for either a stage set-
ting or a lobby display.

It is an electric rainbow fountain of
very simple construction requiring no
special connections and practically no
attention. Five gallons of water, kept
in circulation by an electric pump, are
forced into a vaporized spray through
the glass bowl, and then drained into
a metal tank' below.

An automatic projector renders it

possible to produce weird changes
and blending of colors every few sec-
onds.

The base is octagonal in form and
cast in bronze or any other material.
The eight panels are surmounted with
artistic jardinieres for growing plants,
ferns or cut flowers.

Mr. Yerkes has arranged a set of
his famous electric bells and chimes
on the eight panels of the base, hid-
den by the foliage of the plants. The

ELECTRIC RAINBOW FOUNTAIN

effect is charming and while the pa-
trons admire the spray in its constant
changing of colors, they hear the
music of the chimes.

I realize that few musicians can
play the picture at the Regent be-
cause it lakes a well-trained mind and
a perfect knowledge of music, to dis-
tinguish all the points, especially in a
picture treating with a foreign sub-
ject like the "Last Days of Pompeii."
But if it is not given to all musicians
to be a master of the art like Mr.
Rothapfel, the manager, most of them
should have enough common sense to
not butcher a fine drama and not
overlook a film offering them good
opportunities to work some appropri-
ate music.

I refer to the "Veteran" of the
Broncho Company. I have seen the
him twice and at both exhibitions I
found the music out of place.

The first scenes are very pathetic
with the veteran, minus his pension
and an invalid wife on his charge.
There is love and mutual sacrifice in
this old couple.

When the old veteran is at the ban-
quet, there are some splendid oppor-
tunities for appropriate music. A
military charge, a battle scene with
much firing of guns, then some deep
sentimental notes, when the comrade,
who is the speaker and who has just
related the war exploits of years gone
by, pins on the coat of the veteran a
medal of honor. This banquet scene
closes with a general cheering for the
old veteran.

The old veteran returns home, full
splendidly acted but which lost much
of its beauty by not being interpreted
correctly by the musicians, is the
death scene.

What Music Can Do

The most pathetic scene, which is
of joy, as during the banquet he has
been able to hide under his coat some
food for his poor starving wife. When
he enters his room, the wife is dead
in her rolling-chair, but the veteran,
believing that she is asleep, starts,
with the least noise possible, to pre-
pare the table so as to surprise his
wife with a good, substantial meal.

When everything is ready, the
veteran tries to wake up his wife.
She is dead.

At the same moment, his comrades
arrive in front of the house with a
brass band and they start to serenade
1 he veteran.

The leader enters the room full of
joy, followed by the strains of the
brass band, to find himself in the
house of sorrow.

It is certainly a very pathetic scene
and a scene that would have brought
tears to many eyes if the musicians
had known to emphasize these differ-
ent contrasts of sorrow and joy, in-
stead of dulling the whole action of
the picture with an inappropriate, mo-
notonous tune

1 do not wish to criticise the merits
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Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address : Exhibitors' Department, The Motion Picture News

IN the advertising department I say
that the best way to advertise the
picture is to give a good show, to
deliver the goods and not to try to
make money on ugly and sensational
posters.

Appearance and manners also have
much to do with the success of a
motion picture theatre.

The clothes do not make the man.
A neat uniform on the back of a clean-
cut fellow can improve his appearance
and good manners, while the finest
uniform on the back of a hoodlum
will not convey the desired impres-
sion. Some men look neat in even an
old suit of clothes, while some men
will always look unkempt in the best
clothes.

While the uniform can improve the
general appearance, it is not abso-
lutely necessary.

Uniform a Badge of Authority

The uniform does not teach man-
ners. A man can be polite and cour-
teous in his plain street clothes. The
only real quality of the uniform is to
make the attendant more conspicuous
in case a patron wants something. It
is true that the uniform imparts a
sort of authority to the wearer and is
a mark of refinement to a theatre.

Uniform or no uniform, the man-
ager must see that he has the proper
kind of help, as the doorman, the
ticket seller and the ushers can make
the success or the failure of the
theatre.

The main trouble with many man-
agers is that they do not want to pay
living wages. They have an idea that
there is no work of importance in
the taking of tickets or the showing
of seats. The managers who want
cheap ushers cannot give the proper
service.

I visited a leading theatre on
Broadway, charging 10c and 15c ad-
mission. As I could find no seat on
the main floor, I went to the balcony
to find same as crowded as the lower
floor. I had to stand for a whole
picture.

Patrons continued to arrive, they
walked up and down the aisles trying
to find some seats, but as none were
vacant, they had to return to the
standing room.

This constant stream of persons
going down and up the aisles, hunting
for seats, was very annoying to the
audience and many patrons com-
plained that they could not follow the
picture.

Yes, the management had some
ushers, but what ushers? Men of no
experience, who remained standing
or leaning on the back of the last row
of chairs, who paid no attention to
the visitors and who did not try to
keep order.

If these ushers had known their
business they would have placed
themselves at the head of the aisles
and would have asked the newcomers
to wait, as there were no vacant seats.
By so doing they would have averted
this constant stream of seat-hunters
going down and up the aisles and
would have made the place more tol-
erable to the audience in general.

Work Hard for Girls

The only work these ushers at-
tempted to do was to see that no one
would occupy the two first rows of
chairs (reserved boxes) without an
extra ticket, and this very simple
work they did not seem able to per-
form correctly. They allowed any
one to go down the aisle, seat them-
selves, then one of the ushers would
go down the aisle to ask for the ex-
tra tickets, and, as in most cases the
persons had no reserved seats, they
had to walk up the aisle for the
standing room. Now, if the ushers
had asked to see the tickets before
the visitors would go down the aisle
he would have spared much trouble
to the visitors and to himself, and
he would have spared the nerves of
the audience.

Only a few days ago a manager
told me of his troubles with his at-
tendants, and informed me that he
would have girls in the future, as he

believes them to be more reliable
than men.

I do not believe in girls as ushers
and doormen, as it is asking too
much from them to not only stand
twelve hours on their feet, but to
expect them to walk down and up
the aisles so many times a day to
show seats.

I fully agree with this manager
that girls are more reliable and less
rude when you cannot employ men
other than the down and out class,
who are willing to work at low wages
until they can find something better
to do. On the other hand, if the
manager wishes to pay decent wages,
he can secure clean-cut young men,
who will prove more reliable than
girls, in my opinion.

It is a very serious question, to
which the best managers are paying
much attention. I have been sur-
prised during my last Western trip
to see the great increase in men
cashiers. The managers who employ
young men as cashiers know the
weakness of women for brass buttons.

J. M. B.

HELEN GARDNER IN "A DAUGHTER OF
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Plummer with Amusement Supply

MR. P. Plummer, who for a number
of years conducted the business
of the Chicago Projection Company
and more recently was connected with
the Enterprise Optical Company, is
now occupying the position of man-
ager of the Amusement Supply Co.,
succeeding Mr. Traub who has gone
in business for himself. Mr. Plum-
mer has been active in the motion
picture supply business for a number
of years and is well qualified for the
position he now occupies.

Eichenlaub and Hood Go East

E. J. Eichenlaub and H. H. Hood of
the America's Feature Film Company
left for New York City last Saturday
to close a deal with an Eastern syndi-
cate on the purchase of the Mexican
war picture which they issued under
the name of Barbarous Mexico. These
pictures were taken in the heart of
this turbulent country during some
of the battles which were fought there
and show a few of the actual encoun-
ters, besides much of the interesting
life in that country.

Operators' Ball December 10

The Chicago union of the Motion
Picture Machine Operators will give
its annual ball on Wednesday, Decem-
ber 10, at the Coliseum. It is ex-
pected that this year's affair will out-
class anything ever before attempted
by this body in Chicago. The ar-
rangement committee has prepared
many novel surprises and innovations
which it is expected will place this
event far above their previous efforts.
They are using every available means
to give this ball publicity and state
that they are already assured a larger
attendance than they ever before en-
joyed.

An invitation has been extended to
all the Chicago motion picture manu-
facturers and the acting companies.
It is expected that many of the local
photoplayers will be present. In an-
ticipation of this the committee is
putting out a card which reads as fol-
lows: "Meet your favorite motion
picture Actor at the Ball." Electrical
effects will be used, throwing different
colors over the throngs at intervals.

William F. Canavan, third interna-
tional vice-president of the I. A. T. S.
E. and his wife have been invited to
attend and lead the grand march. The
ball will commence at eight o'clock.

The arrangement committee con-
sists of Hal Johnstone, president;
Morey Cohen, secretary; E. D. (Jack)
Miller, Lee A. Forbes, H. H. Gold-
berg, Frank Hassett, Will Hassett,
Bobby Burns, Bob Connelly, Al
Strange and Ed Halliday.

Ventilation Injunction Hearing Con-
tinued

All the testimony of the defendant
in the case of the closing of Mr.
Whalen's theatre, the Washington,
located in Cottage Grove avenue near
Forty-third street on account of not
complying with the ventilation ordi-
nance, has been taken. Such experts
as Mr. Weinshank of Indianapolis,
Mr. McCormack of the Armour Insti-
tute and Mr. Price, connected with
the State Health and Safety Depart-
ment, testified in favor of Mr. Wha-
len. The case will be brought up
again and the city will present its tes-
timony.

In the meantime no action is being
taken by the aldermen in connection
with modifying the ordinance as they
feel that any decision on their part
would affect the case one way or the
other.

Mutual vs. Ohio Censorship

Henry S. Toner, attorney for the
motion picture interests of Chicago,
who are preparing to fight for what
they term a more just censorship,
gives the following interview on the
case which was heard in Cleveland,
Ohio, on Saturday, November 28 of
the Mutual Film Corporation against
the State of Ohio.

"Ohio has provided for a board of
censors, the function of which is to
pass upon the availability, modesty
and respectability of motion picture
films exhibited in that state. The law
provides that before a film can be
exhibited it must be passed upon by
this board of censors, and a fee of
$1.00 for each film or each copy of an
original film must be paid into the
state treasury. This board of censors
was appointed some time in the spring
of this year, since which time they
passed upon something like 15,000
films.

"Some time ago the Mutual Film
Corporation, a Virginia corporation,
filed a bill in the U. S. court to enjoin
the board of censors from performing
their statute duties. This bill set
forth that the Ohio statute was a vio-
lation of the fourteenth amendment
of the Federal Constitution, and that

THE Precision Machine Co., has
greatly increased its factory facili-
ties in its present location at No. 317
East Thirty-fourth street, New York
City, by taking over two additional
floors and thereby adding about 16,000
square feet floor space to its quarters.

it also is a violation of the constitu-
tional provision guaranteeing the
right of freedom of speech and free-
dom of the press. The bill also
alleged that the act was in violation
of the Ohio constitution. The bill
further averred that the Ohio statute
ran contrary to the Interstate Com-
merce clause of the Federal Consti-
tution.

The hearing on Saturday, Novem-
ber 29 was had before a full bench of
federal judges. Circuit Judge War-
rington of Cincinnati, arid District
Judges Day and Killets sat on it.
For the purpose of hearing the argu-
ment on motion for a temporary in-
junction, the Mutual Film Corpora-
tion was represented by their general
counsel, Mr. Seligsberg, of New York
City and by Squire Sanders and
Dempsey, one 'of the leading legal
firms of Cleveland, Ohio. Arguments
were made by Mr. Clark, Mr. Seligs-
berg and Judge Sanders on behalf of
the Mutual Film Corporation, and by
Mr. Morgan, assistant to the attorney
general of the state of Ohio on be-
half of the attorney general.

"At the conclusion of the hearing
the court entered a restraining order
as prayed for in the bill. This order
restrained the state board of censor-
ship from in any way interfering with
the distribution of the films of the
Mutual Film Corporation until final
hearing of the case.''

Mr. Toner's purpose of visiting
Cleveland to hear the arguments in
this case was for informative pur-
poses. Should the Mutual win out in
their fight it would affect the censor-
ship of the whole country and at the
present time the motion-picture in-
terests of Chicago are preparing to
secure what they term more just and
sane censorship of the motion picture.

Mr. Toner is delving deep into the
subject of censorship and has gathered
much valuable material and other
data which will materially affect the
case. What method of procedure will
be used or when the first steps will
be taken, has not been decided. How-
ever, the various interests have al-
ready contributed a considerable
amount of money. C. J. V.

The top floor is utilized for the
assembling department and the gen-
eral offices, where all is light and com-
fortable.

The steady increase in demand for
Simplex projectors has made this ad-
dition imperative.

" Simplex" Enlarges Its Factory

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KLEINE'S "POMPEII" MUSIC
POPULAR

One of the many innovations used
in advertising George Kleine's "The
Last Days of Pompeii," was an es-
pecially written 50-page book of music
composed by the famous music writer,
Palmer Clark, and furnished to or-
chestra leaders in the various thea-
tres where "Pompeii" was projected.
This innovation proved more popular
than was expected, and the Chicago
and New York offices of George
Kleine are in receipt of many requesis
from theatre musicians for copies of
the score, as well as many music
lovers who heard the music. Owing
to the limited number of lithographed
copies made, it has been impossible
to answer these requests. Arrange-
ments have been made, however, on
future big subjects to print a larger
supply, which will be sent to the gen-
eral public at actual manufacturing
and postage cost.

SAVED BY A MISS

Ormi Hawley, of the Lubin Stock
Company, recently had a truly remark-
able escape from death. She was due
to appear in a Lubin drama. In or-
der to fulfill the engagement she had
decided to catch a certain train. Owing
to the number of unforeseen circum-
stances, however, she only arrived at the
station in time to see her train leave
the station, disappearing around a bend
in the railway.

She was very much upset, as this
meant that she could not possibly reach
the appointed place in time for the
scene, but her dismay was converted
into most devout gratitude a few hours
later, when news arrived to the effect
that the train which she had missed
had been wrecked on its journey, many
of the passengers being either killed
or seriously injured.

JOIN FAMOUS PLAYERS

The Famous Players Film Company
has added three new members to its
producing staff. They are Hugh
Ford, Frederick Stanhope and Edward
S. Morange, all of whom have long
been associated in the production of
many artistic successes of the stage.
Among these have been "The Garden
of Allah," "The Blue Bird" and "The
Melting Pot."

Mr. Ford, who is an authority on
dramatic construction, will serve the
Famous Players in the field where he
has made his reputation — as a pro-
ducer. Mr. Stanhope, through his
familiarity with the customs, cos-
tumes and manners of all periods and
his knowledge of stage-craft, will de-
vote his talents to this branch of the
business, while- Mr. Morange, a recog-
nized authority on scenic art, will
concern himself with the architectural
and decorative effects of the produc-
tions.

FIELDING'S EPICUREAN
STEED

"Like master, like servant," is an
old and familiar proverb. "Like rider,
like horse," however, is not so old,
and yet, according to Romaine Field-
ing, of the Lubin Las Vegas, New
Mexico, studio, of which he is direct-
or, author, manager and leading man,
is just as true He points to his pet
horse, Dodger, and to himself as illus-
trating the new adage.

Fielding has taught Dodger a num-

ber of expensive habits. He finds
himself obliged to supply him with
chicken, ham, cheese sandwiches, and
pickles and cakes, for Dodger could
just as well live off a dairy lunch
counter as in a stable on timothy and
oats. Incidentally Dodger prefers his
sandwiches well buttered and spread
with mustard, and plenty of sugar in
his tea and coffee — all of which goes
to bear out Fielding's adage that a
horse becomes like a man who rides
him, as in his own case.

EDGAR JONES

Edgar Jones, director and leading man of the Lubin stock company, now stationed at Betz-
wood, Pa., was born in Steubenville, Ohio. After spending a few years of his youth in the
picture frame business he adopted the stage and with Edgar Selwyn joined the Kyrle Bellew Co.
in "A Gentleman of France" under the management of Liebler & Co., under the training of
Selwyn and Oscar Eagle. Jones became a proficient stage director and actor.

Desiring broad experience he joined two or three stock companies and again was a member
of the Viola Allen Co. After leaving the Liebler Co. engagements and offer was made by Lubin,
which was accepted and as Mr. Jones is doing excellent work he will doubtless remain in the
photo drama work for many years.

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"THE DEVIL WITHIN"
Ramo

t'>~|—^HE Devil Within," the latest product of the Ramo
Company, is a story in three reels that will please.
It is a combination of mild melodrama tinged with
romance, 'which is so well staged and effectively acted, that
it can hardly fail to prove popular. Photographically, the
production is of the first rank, the clarity and distinctness

"LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION"

of the scenes being unusually superior in character. It will
be released December 10.

The play, which was produced under the direction of
William Davis, centers about the misfortunes of Jack Walker,
a college man and football star, whose brother-in-law, James
Gleason, by his machinations, succeeds in discrediting him,
and in having him cut off in his father's will. By the aid of
a woman, a friend of Gleason's, Jack is charged with theft
and is compelled to leave college.

Soon afterward Jack's father dies, and in an effort to see
him, he once more falls under Gleason's baneful influence,
who charges him with attempted burglary, thus cutting him
off from ever sharing in his father's estate. Jack escapes,
and becoming hungry and desperate attempts to enter a
farmhouse. He is only saved from this crime by overhear-
ing a prayer of the farmer's daughter, Edith. In leaving he
is injured, and is taken in and cared for by the farmer's
family. Later Jack and Edith grow to love each other.

Meanwhile Gleason, whose wife has come into the fortune
rightfully Jack's, has renewed his acquaintance with the
woman who effected Jack's downfall. A thief enters her
apartment and accidentally kills her. All the evidence points
to Gleason as her murderer as the thief succeeds in making
good his escape.

Gleason flees, pursued by the police. He hides himself in
a barn, to which later comes Jack, Edith, and a party of
merrymakers on a straw ride. Discovered by Jack, Gleason
threatens him with exposure of his past unless he aids him.
In consequence Jack sends the detectives on a false scent
when they arrive.

THE conclusion of the production shows Gleason trapped
in the barn, which has caught fire from a carelessly thrown
cigarette. He is rescued by Jack, at the risk of his life, and.
dying, makes a confession which completely clears his rescuer.

A reproduction of a bona-fide college football game and
the fire scene are two of the screen portrayals in "The Devil
Within," which deserves special mention.

Jack Hopkins did excellent work as Jack Walker, the foot-
ball hero and disinherited son, and Stuart Holmes, as the
scheming brother-in-law, filled his part in a fashion which
could hardly be excelled. Others in the cast were : Olga
Troska, as Maude Barnes, the woman in league with Gleason;
Lois Howard, as Edith ; Jane Fisher, as the wife of Gleason ;
and John Travis, as John Walker, the father.

"THE GUERRILLAS OF ALGIERS"
Features Ideal

THE intention of Features Ideal, as piloted by Mrs.
\gnes Egan Gobb, is to place two films a month on the
market and make them the most unusual two that can be
found. "The Guerrillas of Algiers" or "The Mosque in
the Desert," a three-part production released December 5,
gives great promise for those that are to follow. It con-
tains corking good battle scenes, an excellent story, fine
acting and good photography.

Most of the action is laid in the sands of the Sahara
desert in Algeria during the Napoleonic wars that devas-
tated that whole region. Phillippe, a youthful soldier of
France, is apprised by his father in Algiers of the prob-
ability of their never meeting again. The older man has
been sent by his general to negotiate with an Arab chief,
in an attempt to bring about an armistice. A year follow-
ing the letter, as nothing has been heard from his parent,
■the boy sets out on the quest of the family fortune, as he
had been directed.

Arriving in Algiers, he overhears a plot which he knows
is connected with his father, whom he believes living. To-
gether with a friend he captures one of. the conspirators,
who turns out to be the chief his father had been sent to
see. The Arab escapes and the boy follows. He is chased
by the Arabs under the chief in. the desert, and goes to a
mosque for aid. The priest there recognizes him and tells

BATTLE SCENE FROM "THE GUERRILLAS OF ALGIERS"

him that the interior of the mosque contains the money
which is the property of his family, because of services
rendered by an ancestor to the Arabs. He finds his father
and marries the girl.

There are some very excellent battle scenes in the pic-
ture, all of them true to history. They depict the meth-
ods Napoleon used in forming squares when opposed by a
larger force. The photography and acting leave nothing
to be desired. A. D. M.

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Army-Navy Game Pictures a Success

THE Commercial Motion Pictures
Company. Inc., of 102 West One
Hundred and First street, New York
City, succeeded in obtaining good mo-
tion pictures of the recent Army and
Navy football game. Close views
were secured of President Wilson,
Secretary of War Garrison, Secretary
of the Navy Daniels, Governor Glynn,
of New York, and many others.

By means of telephoto lenses every
exciting play was recorded, as if the
figures were within twenty feet of the
camera and in many instances the
pictures as shown on the screen are
even more tense with interest than in
the real game. The Commercial also
secured some exceptionally fine pic-
tures of the Army maneuvers and
Navy drills.

THE Trans-Atlantic Film Company,
which will handle the productions
of the Universal in Great Britain, has
just opened offices in the Universal
House, Nos. 37-39 Oxford street, Lon-
don. Owing to the fact that a former
company had a charter in Great Brit-
ain under the name "Universal," it
was found impractical to make use of
that widely known trade-mark on the
other side, hence it was deemed ad-
visable to adopt the- present name of
the concern, which in future will
transact the British business of the
Universal Film Manufacturing Com-
pany.

In the newly opened offices of the
Trans-Atlantic Film Company, which
are among the most spacious of the
kind in London, every facility is ex-
tended to patrons for the speedy and
comfortable transaction of business

The formal opening of the offices,
which are located in the heart of one
of the most important business cen-
ters in London, occurred recently. A

FIRST VIEW OF MOTION
PICTURES

Four of the Mission Fathers from
the old Santa Barbara Mission re-
cently were the guests of President
S. S. Hutchinson, of the American
Film Manufacturing Company at
Santa Barbara, Cal. The reverend
gentlemen were taken through the
extensive grounds and plant.

They were shown a print of "The
Trail of the Lost Chord," the settings
of which were largely taken on the
sacred grounds of the mission. The
production proved to be the first mov-
ing picture ever witnessed by them.
Special permission had been granted
the company to use the grounds.

Although it was so dark after the
last play of the game that ordinary
photographers closed their cameras,
finding it impossible to take views of
the Serpentine dance, flag-rush and
other events held by the jubilant ca-
dets, the Commercial was enabled to
obtain remarkably clear pictures of
all these.

As a result of this, the Palace
Theatre in New York has booked the
pictures for the entire week, while
William Morris' New York Theatre
is also booking them.

It is planned to place the pictures
on practically every battleship or
large steamer that is equipped with
a projecting machine, as they will
prove of interest for a long time to
come.

large reception was given to represen-
tatives of the press from all parts of
Great Britain. About fifty of the
most important papers sent represen-
tatives, who were entertained by John
D. Tippett, managing director of the
new company, and the members of
his staff, including John Avery, the
London manager; Joseph Brandt,
chief publicity manager; J. M.
Downie, Lewis Rosch, J. E. Bryde-
Hughes A. Henderson and several
others.

The press-men were entertained in
the well-appointed theatre which is
part of the spacious entourage now
occupied by the Trans-Atlantic Film
Company, after which they were given
a dinner in one of the leading London
restaurants.

The "Trans-Atlantic Review" which
will contain the future announcements
of the Universal in Great Britain, is
already being published by the Trans-
Atlantic Company. This is the Brit-
ish edition of the Universal Weekly.

SOME ODD USERS OF MOTION
PICTURES

Motion picture outfits have been
leaving the offices of the Kleine Opti-
cal Company with great rapidity of
late, some of them headed for very
odd destinations.

Among recent purchasers have been
the Second Presbyterian Church of
Massillon, Ohio; New England Con-
gregational Church of Aurora, Illi-
nois; the Aurora Y. M. C. A.; the
Royal Tailors of Chicago, and the
Copper-Queen Consolidated Mining
Company of Bisbee, Arizona.

The latter is buying an outfit to
keep its employees in the Mojave
Desert contented.

BROOKLYN EXHIBITORS MEET

A meeting of the East New York
branch of the Motion Picture Exhibi-
tors Association of Greater New
York, was held Monday evening, at
the Saratoga Theatre, with William
Hollander in the chair. This meeting
was attended by about fifty-two ex-
hibitors in the surrounding territory.
Reports of committees were read and
the ball committee assisting Mr. Cole-
man made an encouraging report.

A committee was appointed to de-
vise ways and means of putting a stop
to the "country stores" in picture
theatres, also to see that children over
five years of age, accompanied by par-
ents, are paid for.

A large attendance of Brooklyn ex-
hibitors is expected at the ball to be
given by the New York Exhibitors on
December 15, in Terrace Garden.

The next meeting of the East New
York branch will be held Monday
night at the Ronley Theatre, 1980
Fulton street, Brooklyn.

WOMAN SENATOR IN "OUR
MUTUAL GIRL"

Mrs. Helen Robinson, of Colorado,
the only woman senator in the United
States, made a short visit to New
York last week. The Mutual Film
Corporation learned of her presence,
and, for the first time in her busy
career, she was induced to appear in
moving pictures together with her
friend, Mrs. Edith Jarmouth, another
Colorado suffragist, and two actresses.
Norma Phillips and Mayme Kelso.

The pictures were taken on the
beautiful Morosini estate for "Our
Mutual Girl" series.

CLEVELAND CIRCUIT VAUDE-
VILLE EXCHANGE BOOMING

Talk about a busy vaudeville agency!
Things are busy about the Cleveland-
Fidelity Booking Service offices. This
is an independent concern whose
books show eleven tabloid musical
comedy companies, five repertoire
stock dramatic companies, three con-
cert bands, two minstrel companies,
two trained animal shows, one winter
circus, and on a general average 300
vaudeville acts per week.

W. S. Cleveland, the manager of this
Bee-Hive Exchange, has taken to
booking road shows in the one, two
and three-day stand theatres. During
the past week and the present week
he has placed Andrew Mack's big All-
Star Vaudeville Alliance and Joe
Shea's "Trust Busters," which in-
clude Daisy Harcourt, Harry Bulger,
Mrs. Dr. Munyon and Company, How-
ard Brothers with their Flying Banjos,
Warren Travis, Florence Lynne and
Close Brothers. The salary list of the
last named bunch tips the beam at
$5,000 weekly.

Universal Opens Own London Offices

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ECLECTIC OPENS OFFICES IN
SOUTH

The Eclectic Film Company, of
110 West Fortieth street, New

York City, has opened offices at

Atlanta, Ga., and at 202 Andrews
Building, Dallas, Tex., where a rental
business will be conducted.

The states that will be covered
from these offices are North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala-
bama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louis-
iana, Arkansas, part of Oklahoma and
Texas. It is the plan of the company
to open additional exchanges as rap-
idly as it is found necessary to handle
the business.

The Eclectic Feature Film Ex-
change is the name under which the
business of the various rental ex-
changes will be conducted, and all of
them will handle the entire line of
features produced by the Eclectic
Company.

Many exhibitors, who hitherto have
been unable to book the Eclectic
products owing to the conditions
which have existed in certain sections
of the country, will now be enabled
to make arrangements with the newly
established rental offices to furnish
them with all features produced by the
Eclectic Company.

This list includes: "Les Miser-
ables," "Mysteries of Paris," 'A
Ruined Life," "Nero and Britanni-
cus," "Wheel of Destruction," "Thrust
of Hate," "When Paris Loves," "Ven-
detta," "Message of the Dead,"
"Doom of the Ocean." "The Fatal
Plunge," "Toils of Villainy," and
"His Fateful Passion."

Business and Pleasure

New York Exhibitors Will Hold Exe cutive Session and Ball on Same Day.

J. C. CORWIN TO EXTEND
FIELD

J. C. Corwin, the Texas capitalist,
who some months ago contracted for
a number of important brands on the
Exclusive program, is working now
in New York on his plan of extend-
ing the Big Four Film Corporation of
Dallas, Tex., of which he is president
and general manager, into other
states. He purposes adding Northern
Oklahoma. Arkansas and Louisiana
and later Kansas and Missouri.

Mr. Corwin now controls Itala.
Solax, Blache, Great Northern and
Gaumont features for Texas and
Southern Oklahoma.

CATALOGUE OF MOTION PIC-
TURE LENSES

The Allendorf Company, Cleveland,
O., sends in a catalogue of photographic
lenses. Amongst these is one specially
calculated for motion picture work. Its
aperture varies from f 2.5 to f 4.5 and
the focal lengths from 2 inches down
to 1 13/16.

COMBINING business with pleas-
ure, members of the Executive
Board of the Motion Picture Exhib-
itors' Association of New York State
will meet at the Imperial Hotel,
Broadway and Thirty-first street, at
11 a. m., on Monday, December 15,
the day of the ball of the Motion Pic-
ture Exhibitors Association of Great-
er New York. Representatives from
the following locals expect to be
present: Buffalo. Syracuse, Roches-
ter, Utica, Troy, Oswego. Pough-
keepsie, Albany, Schenectady, Elmira
and Westchester County.

Following a lunch at the hotel, the
members will prepare to spend a
pleasant evening at the ball. The vis-

itors will be shown the sights of the
city on Tuesday in charge of a com-
mittee with automobiles.

All are prepared to have a great
time at the entertainment and ball,
which promises to be the largest yet
held, and will undoubtedly tax the
capacity of Terrace Garden.

A glance through the list of box-
holders shows the following: Vita-
graph, Kalem, Kinemacolor, Famous
Players, Mutual, Universal, General
Film, World's Special, Thanhouser,
Mayor Kline, Mayor-elect Mitchel,
Supreme and Special Session Judges.
United Electric Light and power.
Eclair and several License Bureau
officials.

OHIO CONVENTION PLANS

The Ohio State Convention of the
Motion Picture Exhibitors' League of
America will be held in the Hotel
Sinton, Cincinnati, on January 27, 28
and 29, 1914, and from indications al-
ready received the attendance bids
fair to excel even the National Con-
vention. Ohio, with her 633 members,
will be present almost to a man. to-
gether with a large number from Ken-
tucky, Indiana, West Virginia and
other states.

The National Executive Board will
meet at the hotel on January 26, and
as all grievances, recommendations,
reinstatements, etc., will be taken up.
it is expected that this will be a very
busy day in the history of the League.

Governor James M. Cox, Attorney
General T. S. Hogan, Carl Laemmle,
and others, have already accepted in-
vitations to be present. The General
Film, the Mutual Film, P. A. Powers,
William H. Swan son, Harry Raver,
and many other manufacturers and
exhibitors have been invited.

The convention will be held in the
large assembly room, which seats 800,
and the exposition of arts will be given
in the large ballroom, just across the
hall, on the same floor as the assem-
bly room. As the convention will all
be under one roof and on the same
floor, every exhibit will be seen, and
every exhibitor will have to pass the
doors of the hall of Exposition of
Arts on his way to the convention
hall. Five exposition spaces have al-
ready been contracted for by manu-
facturer. This will practically be a
four days' convention.

A motion picture will be taken of
every visitor. The Mayor of Cincin-
nati will open the convention on the
27th. The night of the 28th, a big
banquet will be served. The conven-
tion will wind up with a grand ball.

WISCONSIN CONVENTION

The Wisconsin convention of the
Motion Picture Exhibitors' League of
America will be held in Oshkosh on
December 16 and 17, 1913.

The committee on arrangements
and entertainment is John R. Elk,
chairman; N. J. Hunze, Charles Por-
ter. Jess Hogan and Arthur Gray.

The Wisconsin exhibitors are en-
thusiastic, and thirty new members
have joined within the last eight days,
and it is expected that at least fifty
members will be enrolled before and
during the convention.

State officers, together with a griev-
ance, advisory and legislative com-
mittee, will be elected.

N. Y. EXHIBITORS TO MEET
MONDAY

The monthly meeting of the Mo-
tion Picture Exhibitors Association
of Greater New York will be held at
the Imperial Hotel, Broadway and
Thirty-first street, on Monday morn-
ing, December 8, at 11 o'clock. Mat-
ters of importance will come up and
several prominent speakers have
promised to be present. Officials
from the Fire Department have also
been invited.

The Law and Legislation Commit-
tee will report on the proposed
amendment to the Folks ordinance
and other matters of interest to ex-
hibitors.

OPERATORS' UNION MOVES

The Motion Picture Machine Oper-
ators' Protective Union, Local 306
(formerly the Motion Picture Depart-
ment of Local 35, I. A. T. S. E.,) has
removed from 259 West Forty-second
street to Room 1114 of the Exchange
Building, 145 West Forty-fifth street,
with change of telephone number to
Bryant 6228.

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INTERESTING FILM REVIEWS

Educational — Industrial — Scenic — General

" A LL For Science." (Biograph.

-tl-Nov.24.) — A detective drama with
some inconsistencies. A man believ-
ing he has discovered a cancer cure
secures money by theft. A detective
discovers he is the thief on a mighty
small clue. Discovering his love for
the detective's stenographer he frees
him.

"From Durban to Zululand." (Edi-
son. Nov. 24. Split reel.) — An ex-
ceptionally interesting film. The pho-
tography is good. Durban, the capi-
tal of Natal, is a most clean and en-
terprising city. The dance of the na-
tive "Ricksha Devils" was fantastic
to a degree. The dance of the chiefs
in "full dress" was peculiar inasmuch
as the full dress consisted of a smile,
loin cloth and the proverbial beads.

"Enoch and Ezra's First Smoke."

(Edison. Nov. 24. Split reel.)— On
the same reel with "From Durban to
Zululand." A harmless comedy. Two
tots smoke, thinking they are thereby
grown-up and get pretty sick. Gyp-
sies in the neighborhood create much
excitement and are accused of kidnap-
ping the boys. Yale Boss and Andy
Clark play the boys.

"The Leading Lady." (Vitagraph.
Nov. 24.) — Director Ned Finley evi-
dently believes this to be the best
thing he has done. The title is "plas-
tered" with his name. A husband is
jealous of his actress wife. He finds
on watching her that she is absolutely
true and they are reconciled. It is odd
to see Earle Williams as a "heavy."
Edith Storey plays the lead and Ned
Finley the husband.

"An Indian Maid's Strategy.'" (Ka-
lem. Nov. 24.) — A rejuvenated idea.
Remarkable scenery and clever work
by the Indian girl get it across. An
Indian maid, loving another, is es-
poused to the chief of another tribe.
Koti, her lover, kills his rival, and
manages after a series of adventures
with the soldiers to escape with the
girl. Plenty of action.

"Just Cissy's Little Way." (Lubin.
Nov. 24.) — Arthur Johnson has never
had a more agreeable vehicle. As a
green country bumpkin he excels, his
work getting the story across where
another would have failed. Cy loves
Sissy, and is very jealous of the min-
ister she brings home from boarding

school with her. He follows them to
the city on her return, and getting
into the house, threatens the minister.
He laughs at the farmer, and know-
ing Cissy really loves him, marries
the two before Cy has time to change
his mind. Lottie Briscoe plays Cissy,
and Howard Mitchell interprets the
part of the minister.

"Quality of Mercy." (Selig. Two
parts. Nov. 24.) — One of the best e-
leases of the week. Emma, a country
girl, loves Harvey, a city man of un-
scrupulous character, and consents to
follow him to the city. Harvey's
friend, knowing his character, dis-
obeys his friend's injunctions and gets
a real minister to marry them. The
man leaves her later, after telling her
that her marriage was illegitimate.
She returns to her home in disgrace,
with her little baby. Her husband is
killed in an accident. The local phy-
sician after courting her for some
time, at last gains her consent. The
minister who marries them is .the
same one who has officiated before
and he tells her the truth regarding
her first venture. There are many
strong features in the story. Thomas
Santschi. E. Wallock, Adele Lane and
Harry Lonsdale play the leading
parts.

"The Lost Switch." (Lubin. Nov.
25.) — On the same reel with "Her Sick
Father." A comedy, which will
amuse. A husband carries his wife's
switch with him to the city. Here he
discovers it, and on receipt of a tele-
gram from his wife, sends her an an-
swer. His partner also sends a tele-
gram regarding the switching of some
hogs. The office boy mixes the two
and the results are far from pleasant
until the truth becomes known.

"Mounted Officer Flynn." (Selig.
Nov. 25.) — A good dramatic story
abounding in action. Flynn, a police
officer, rescues some government
plans from the spies who have stolen
them and in reward receives the Con-
gress medal. The fight in the deserted
house with the two thieves is very
thrilling. The photography is good.

"The Subterranean City." (Cines-
Kleine. Nov. 25.) — This film has a
strong dramatic interest. A bet is
made between Arizona Bill and
another club man that the former can
discover the jewel thieves within a
week. He sets out, finds their city
under the ground, and is captured. A
dancer whom he knew sets him free,
but orders him to shoot himself. He
does this and she takes the credit for
having shot him. She is not believed

"THE STIGMA"— ESSANAY

Harvey discovers the raft with its human freight.

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and the two of them are supposedly
killed. They escape together, and she
appears on the stage at her usual time.
The conspirators are arrested and the
girl pardoned.

"The Vanishing Cracksman." (Edi-
son. Nov. 25.) — Commencing a new
series, on the same order as the "What
Happened to Mary" stories. "CleefC
of the Forty Faces" is the subject,
this first story telling of his refor-
mation from being the most success-
ful crook known. He now becomes a
detective. After warning Scotland
Yard that he would rob a certain
house, he does so in a very clever
way. Benjamin F. Wilson plays Cleek
and Gertrude McCoy plays the girl.

"Her Sick Father." (Lubin. Nov.
25. Split reel.) — On the same reel
with "The Lost Switch." Her father
is a hypochondriac, and it is Lillian's
business to administer to him sundry
patent medicines. At last tiring of
this, she concocts the scheme of hav-
ing her lover appear as a doctor. He
does this and puts the old man
through such exercise that he is only
too glad to be well.

"Little Kaintuck." (Vitagraph. Nov.
25.) — It is the appeal to the sympa-
thies that gets this picture over.
There is many a heart throb. "Kain-
tuck"' being made an orphan, takes to
the road as a legitimate tramp. He
meets Hedricks, a storekeeper in a
rural neighborhood, and stays with
him through the winter. In the spring
he again takes to the road but returns,
being unable to do without the old
man. Paul Willis plays the boy,
Daisy Smith does some good work as
his mother, and Karl Formes plays
the storekeeper.

"The Little Substitute." (Essanay.
Nov. 25.) — Francis X. Bushman, Bev-
erly Bayne and Helen Dunbar play
the leading parts. A motherless baby
is left in care of an aunt while the
father goes away to Europe on a busi-
ness trip. A little waif is left on the
doorstep by a penniless woman. On
the death of the first child the un-
known baby is substituted. On the
return of the father he is given the
baby which is not his. The mother
turns up, the aunt confesses, and to
keep the child with him he marries
the mother.

"Good Old Summer Time." (Ka-
lem Split Reel. Nov. 28.)— With Ruth
Roland, the "Kalem Girl," and John
E. Rrennan. the inimitable comedian.
A mix-up in a hotel which is finally
cleared by the clerk.

"England's King at Liverpool."

(Kalem Split Reel. Nov. 28.)— On

the same reel with the "Good Old
Summer Time." Shows King George
being greeted at Liverpool; President
Poincaire of France at a celebration,
and the English soldier at work and
play. The last part was very inter-
esting.

"Betty in the Lion's Den." (Vita-
graph. Nov. 28.) — The "lions" here,
though alive,- are not at all fierce.
They're society "lions." Betty breaks
into society, and in order to prevent
herself from marrying a "dude," she
calls Brazilian extract to her aid and
causes some "hops." Clara Kimball
Young, Josie Sadler and Darwin Karr
play the leads.

"A Disastrous Bet." (Lubin Split
Reel. Nov. 27. General Film Co. Ex-
clusive Service.) — The scenario was
written by Carl Levi of the Loew
Company's offices. He deserves com-
mendation. One man wagers his
beard and loses. His wife believes
him to be a burglar, and there's a
great rumpus until the truth is made
clear.

"Love and Trouble." (Lubin Split
Reel. Nov. 27. General Film Co. Ex-
clusive Service.) — A rural story on
the same reel with "A Disastrous
Bet." A lunatic causes much trouble
for everyone with the exception of
two lovers, whom he helps. The story
is, of course, impossible but that does
not greatly lessen its value as a com-
edy.

"A Thousand Dollars Short."

(Patheplay. Nov. 27. General Film
Co. Exclusive Service.) — A good
drama with many points that will
commend it to the average audience.
A boy being in need of money, bor-
rows a check from a friend and
changes the amount. The married
sister apeals to her husband but is
refused and is caught at the house of
the friend, pleading with him for
mercy. The unexpected presence of
his mother saves the situation and
explains her presence.

"In the Grasp of the Apaches."

(Warner's Features. Three Parts.) —
Plenty of action and good settings
make this old idea serviceable. Be-
lieving his wife to be false, a "Count"
steals her child and leaves it on the
bridge, not meaning him to be stolen.
The apaches get the boy and teach
him to steal. His only friend is Elga.
another little captive. After years
the brigands see an advertisement
for Otto and brine: the Count to their
rendezvous, but being unable to find
Otto, try to give him another child,
which he refuses. The Count and
Otto escape. Elga is made to help
the brigands recapture him and goes

to his house. There she warns him
and the villains are captured and Elga
adopted as companion to Otto.

"A Florentine Tragedy." (Warner's
Features. Three Parts.) — After the
story of the same name by Oscar
Wilde. There are parts of it which
escape the strict laws of the Censor-
ship Board by a narrow margin. The
tale is of the middle centuries and
tells of the selling of a girl to an old
man for a bag of gold. She is loved
by a prince, who calls and sees her
when her husband is away. The hus-
band catches them together and kills
the prince in the duel which follows.
The girl then sees her mistake and
throws herself in her husband's arms.
Constance Crawley, Arthur Maude
and Wilfred Lucas play the important
parts.

"The Water War." (Bison Two
Reels.) — A little variance from the
usual run of Bison pictures. Wood-
ward, the foreman of the work on the
aqueduct, is discharged and Clifford
given his job. With the help of some
Indians he plans to revenge himself
on his successor. They are frustrated
greatly through the aid of an Indian
girl, Nereda.

"The Blight of Wealth." (Than-
houser. Two Reels. Nov. 25.) — The
title of this is poor, meaning nothing.
A quarry owner marries a rich heiress.
Formerly a hard worker, he now neg-
lects his business and goes to Europe.
He loses his quarry, his wife loses
her fortune and together they come
back and start afresh. The episode
of a duel between the husband and
an attentive Count makes good ma-
terial.

"War-Ridden Juarez." (Kalem. Nov.
22.) — Not listed as a regular release,
this picture is interesting just at this
time. The scenes shown, however,
have been pictured before. "Red" Lo-
pez, an American of notorious char-
acter, poses. Federal jail and prison-
ers are shown. The small interna-
tional bridge over the Rio Grande is
also interesting.

"The Laundress and the Lady."

(Kalem. Split Reel. Nov. 21.) —
Same reel with "The Dublin Horse
Show." A clever, impossible comedy,
which will cause much laughter. Mrs.
Graves wants a laundress and her
son Robert writes Mary Flanagan,
telling her to come to work. He also
writes his fiancee, Mary, inviting her
to a matinee and enclosing a ticket.
The letters are mixed. The laundress
goes to the show and the cook makes
Mary Hall wash. All is straightened
out. Anyone who says this business
is not as good as the "legitimate"

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should see this picture. Robert takes
Mary to a motion picture theatre.
The interior is the cheapest imitation
of a theatre imaginable. The settings
are very poor.

"The End of the Circle." (Essanay.
Two Parts. Nov. 21.) — A "Western,"
with less than the usual amount of
action and possessing a good story.
Two rivals want the same girl. The
villain puts the favored one in a com-
promising light and the girl in anger
marries the other. A Mexican girl
plays a large part in this. The time
passes and the girl, thoroughly un-
happy with her drunken husband, is
forced to submit for her child's sake.
The husband is killed, the news being
brought by her former lover. She
drops dead from exposure, having
time, however, to ask forgiveness of
the man she hurt. He adopts the
child. No names are mentioned in
any of the sub-titles. Lois Ingraham,
as the child, was very camera-shy and
hurt the effect. Frederick Church,
Eleanor Blevins, True Boardman and
Evelyn Selbie completed the cast.

"A Dutch Love Story." (Pathe.
Two Parts. Nov. 19. General Film
Co. Exclusive Service.) — In this pic-
ture, though long spaces of time
elapse, the women are just as youth-
ful. Hans and Minna are married,
both for the second time, against
everyone's wishes. Jan, Hans's son,
enlists for six years and goes away,
his grandmother also leaving her son's
home. Katrina, Minna's daughter,
loves Jan, though never having met
him. Hans and Minna are very happy
together. Jan returns after his en-
listment and marries Katrina, and so
all are reconciled. Some needless trick
photography is introduced.

"A Railroad Wooing." (Kalem. Nov.
19. General Film Co. Exclusive Pro-
gram.)— Engineers and firemen in
full-dress, silk hats, etc., are an odd
combination. Helen and her girl
friend meet Bill and Joe, engineer
and fireman, respectively. They save
the girls' lives and are suspended
thirty days for neglect of duty. Dur-
ing that time they again meet the
girls and become engaged. Consider-
ing they acknowledge they are pau-
pers, where did the money for the
rings come from? On their way to
the wedding (in the aforesaid cos-
tume) the engineer and fireman of
the train they are on are hurt and
they take their places. They marry
the girls at the station and then pro-
ceed. Why the remorse on both sides
later? They act as though they are
all sorry for the marriage.

and Marguerite Clayton play together
very well. Billy is made sheriff. He
is engaged to be married to Tess when
a stranger arrives who is dressed very
well. He is also supposedly a pianist
of note. Tess takes to him and leaves
with him for the city. Billy learns
that he is a crook and "wanted." He
rides after him, catching him on the
train. The girl returns to Billy's arms.

"Primitive Man." (Kalem. Nov.
22.) — A peculiar story. Good direct-
ing and photography. A girl of the
mountains is forcibly kissed by a
young hermit. She forsakes her other
lover and marries the hermit. The
rival returns and she attempts to drive
him away. The "primitive ma " sees
this and. misunderstanding, leav. s her.
The arrival of a baby brings them to-
gether again.

"The Nihilist's Daughter." (World
Special Film Co. Two Reels.) — A
strong, gripping story, manufactured
by the Savoia Company. The scenes
are very good, and the action of time-
ly interest. A Russian nihilist is cap-
tured while bidding adieu to his
family and taken to prison, from
whence he escapes. He goes to his
home again and then reaches the
State line in safety. The police follow
him, and, while he is hiding in an
aqueduct, the water is turned on and
he escapes through blind luck. The
police tell his familv tbat he is rfpTd
and the shock kills his wife. The
child, adopted by the police captain,
later marries an officer. She sees her
father occasionally. One day the
chauffeur informs her husband that
she is carrying on an affair, and her

father is shot as an affinity. He is
but wounded and, after recuperating,
goes on his way.

"Toils of Villainy." (Eclectic.
Three parts.) — One of the natural
color pictures made by this company.
There is plenty of opportunity given
for a good display of tints and the
effects are very beautiful. The story
is French and abounds with excite-
ment. With the usual love of the
melodramatic, a clever escape is
staged, the girl walking over a tele-
graph wire from the window, when
she is locked indoors.

Marvin, a circus-owner, hates Tom,
a jockey of the circus, and discharges
him. He obtains work with a race-
track man and rides the winning
horse in the races. Marvin attempts
to shoot him at a lonely stretch of
the track, but is frustrated by Alice,
Tom's sweetheart.

"The Golden Pathway." (Vitagraph.
Nov. 29. Two reels.) — James marries
an artist's model and is cut off from
his uncle's will. A clause of the will
leaves him the entire estate if he will
divorce the girl. She goes to Reno,
but later they are reunited, deciding
that happiness together is better than
riches apart. A codicil made later
gives them the fortune in either case.

"To Err Is Human." (Gaumont.
Three reels.) — The story is clearly
and well told, and points out a wife's
du'">' to be' husband.

Meral, a composer, is fascinated by
a dancer. His wife, despite his liason,
is true to him, and finally manages to
bring him back to her and his work.

"Broncho Billy's First Arrest." (Es-
sanay. Nov. 22.) — G. M. Anderson

ELEANOR WOODRUFF AND IRVING CUMMINGS IN "THE FINGER OF FATE"

Pathe — Two Parts.

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SPECIAL FILM REVIEWS

"'"TpHE Stigma." (Essanay.) — An ex-

A ceptionally strong story winds its
way through this film. Its author is to
be congratulated. The production is
psychological in its nature, growing
stronger with each succeeding scene
and finishes with a force that is in
keeping with the rest of the subject.
The producer is to be commended on
his splendid selection of scenes, and
the actors are to be praised for their
good work. Francis X. Bushman and
Beverly Bayne in the leading roles
give the characters they visualize an
individuality and personality that can
come only from artists of their cali-
bre. Mr. Bushman, as the lover, plays
his part comprehendingly. He plays
it as one would wish to see it played,
all unconscious of the dread disease
that has assailed the girl he loves.
When he is made aware of it, he does
not hesitate to sacrifice all his home
ties to be with her during the few
hours that are still allotted to her in
this world. Miss Bayne, as the leper,
is convincing in her efforts to keep
the others from contracting the awful
disease without revealing her secret,
and the supreme sacrifice at the end
of her trials is carried out with a
vividness that strikes home.

The very first scene showing the
sailing vessel with all its canvas
stretched taut with a background of
miles and miles of water, floats before
one like a splendid painting. In its
entirety the picture shows splendid
judgment of scenic effects.

Walking along the shore with his
sweetheart Jane (Betty Brown), Clif-
ford Harvey (Francis X. Bushman)
notices a speck afloat on the seething
waters. On closer inspection with his
glasses, he notices that it is a raft
with a girl clinging to it. He secures
the services cc several fishermen
nearby and with their aid rescues the
survivor of the wreck Alice Madden,
(Beverly Bayne.) He takes her to
his home and with the assistance of
his mother, revives her. When she
regains consciousness she warns
everyone from her but gives no rea-
son for her actions. As time passes
Clifford forgets his former sweet-
heart, Jane, and notices the beauty
and ' talent of Alice. She, however,
endeavors to escape from her rescu-
ers, but is prevailed upon to stay in
the village until she grows stronger.

One day several of the fishermen
notice a trunk that has floated in and
bring it to the home of Clifford where
it is opened. The log-book reveals
the fact that the ship was loaded with
lepers destined for a secluded island.

The community then realize that

Alice is afflicted with this dread dis-
ease and they drive her from the vil-
lage. Clifford s love for her is of the
kind that comes to a man but once in
a lifetime and he joins her in her
flight. His father becomes enraged
and wishes to send both of them into
eternity. But his mother interferes
and the two make their camp on a
nearby island. Alice, knowing that
she is only risking the life of her
lover by remaining with him. seeks
eternal rest in the waters from which
she was rescued. She is joined there
by Clifford, whose future was cast
with her when he left his home ties
and friends for her. C. J. V.

"A Daughter of Pan." (Warner
Feature.) — Mr. Gaskill in devoting
himself to mythology as a source of
inspiration for his motion pictures re-
veals the possession of a mind none
too common in this field. He has evi-
dently applied himself to the task of
getting as far as possible away from
the "usual thing." The result is that
he is creating for himself a reputation
for unconventionally of theme.

"A Daughter of Pan" of course
deals with the eternal love problem —
with jealousy, misunderstanding, un-
requited love, and the quadrilaterality
of the tender passion, but in the end
everything is straightened out, or it
should be in all well-ordered love
stories.

But the manner of working out this
theme is refreshing in the extreme.

You seem, in looking at this beautifully
composed and acted and well photo-
graphed series of incidents, to be next
to a transcript of that form of life of
which we read in the classics — or of
which we had to read when .we were
obliged to study the classics. It is a
refined offering, admirably acted as a
whole, but here and there showing
evidences of inability on the part of
the actors to interpret the classic
spirit. But it is a pleasing picture
and Miss Gardner demonstrates her
power and versatility in the leading
part.

The photographic part of the work
has been extremely well done — com-
position, lighting, exposure and print-
ing being unexceptionally good. It
is a charming picture.

"Jack." (World Special Films
Corp. Four reels.) — After the well-
known book of Alphonse Daudet.
Through his many trials and tribula-
tions Jack is followed. The ship-
wreck scene is . very impressive and
shows real action. The photography
and settings are good. The story is
well known.

"The Gunmaker of Moscow." (Edi-
son. Two reels. Nov. 28.) — A pow-
erful drama, literally teeming with
action. The photography throughout
is excellent, and the parts well played
It received a very good hand at the
Savoy theatre, New York, even from
the sleepy morning crowd.

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Rosaline is left by her dying father
in the care of the Duke of Tula, to-
gether with her fortune. As the years
pass by the Count objects to the at-
tentions paid her by Ruric, a plebeian.
He wishes his nephew to win her. A
duel is fought in which the gun-maker
is victorious. Having befriended the
emperor, the charge of murder
brought by the Duke is thrown out.
Unable to win the girl's fortune in
any other way he tries to force her
marriage, but the emperor has the
Duke thrown in prison and unites
Ruric and Rosaline.

The players were: Yale Boss,
Edna Hamel, Barry O'Moore, Benja-
min F. Wilson (lead), Robert Brower,
May Abbey (lead), Harry Gripp,
Charles Ogle and Bigelow Cooper.

"Cry of the Blood." (Lubin. Nov.
28. Three reels. General Film Com-
pany Exclusive Service.) — "Calf love
is entirely out of this picture and it
is not missed in the least. The story
is one possessing great strength and
will be appreciated wherever shown.

Mrs. Jamieson, unable herself to
bear children, adopts the child of
drunken parents and deceives her
husband into believing it her own.
Years pass by and the young man's
blood shows the taint of his parents.
He becomes a thief and finally a mur-
derer. In the final courtroom scene
the wife tells the truth, and the boy's
rightful mother takes the place she
should have held. Much truth in the
tale and it is well and clearly told.
Written by George Terwilliger.

"The Sunken Treasure." (Kleine-
Cines.) Seville, Spain, again forms
the background in this multiple reel
of Spanish customs and architecture.
This fiery blooded race enter into their
work before the camera with a snap and
vigor that fills the production with in-
teresting material and a well-rounded-
out story. The scene of the divers un-
derneath the water is especially good.
An exciting race between automobile and
train forms a thrill part of the pro-
duction. Some of the same actors play
"Love of a Toreador." The fine work
they did in that picture is duplicated in
"The Sunken Treasure." This story,
however, deals more with life at sea.

Pretty Louise, the daughter of Michel,
the employer of George and Peter, two
divers, is the center of the love of both
of these heroes of the deep seas. She,
however, shows a preference for George.
Peter, jealous of his friend and rival,
plans a revenge. Michel obtains a con-
tract to find a sunken treasure in a ves-
sel lying in the ocean's bed, and the
two divers are engaged to do the work.

Peter, however, turns traitor, and in a
belief that he can gain possession of
the treasure himself and thus rid him-
self of his rival be plans with another
<Hver to cut the air pipes which supply

George with air while he is in the water.
He suceeds in doing so. While George
is recovering from the shock, Peter re-
turns to the scene of action and suc-
ceeds in finding the loot.

After making careful preparations,
Peter takes flight on a passenger train
for a distant city where he intends dis-
posing of the treasure. George, through
a friend, discovers the route he has
taken, but arrives just as the train is
pulling out. He presses into service a
nearby automobile, and an exciting chase
ensues. The auto proves to be a little
faster than the train and at a cross-
road stops in the middle of the tracks
and compels the engine to stop. While
he is entering the car from one side,
Peter leaves it from the otl. r and steals
the machine left by George aad his com-
panions. He is some distance on his
way before they discover his strategy.
Fortunately, however, another car is just
passing and after explaining their mis-
sion the owner of it permits them to
use it.

Peter, however, reaches the docks in
advance, boards a waiting vessel and en-
deavors to hide himself in one of the
storerooms. His hiding place is dis-
covered, but he keeps his pursuers at
bay with his revolver. One of the bul-
lets of the officers ignite the powder with
which the room is stored and the ex-
plosion which follows wrecks the ship
and kills Peter. In the confusion
George finds the treasure, delivers it to
Michel and returns to Louise.

"The Pale-face Squaw." (Laclede.
Three parts.) This film is especially
important as being the first produc-
tion of a new firm. As the name in-
dicates, it is a Western subject and
it ranks high among its kind. In the
production great care has evidently
been used, with the result that the
atmosphere of the Wild West and
the days when eternal vigilance was
the price of liberty are faithfully re-
produced on the screen.

The Byers and Martin families go
West with their covered camp wag-
ons. The Indians, led by Chief Red
Dog, attack the Byers family on
horseback. A fierce fight follows and
little Polly, frightened, runs and hides
in the woods. After the fight, Red
Dog finds little Polly and adopts her
Then the white men get thicker and
thicker, and he quits the country.

Years later Jim Martin and Anna
Byers are sweethearts while Polly is
still among the Indians, wooed by the
Raven. Anna's father turns to the
roulette wheel for his enjoyment.
Polly is rescued from the unwelcome
advances of the Raven by Jim Martin.
An exciting fight on horseback be-
tween Jim and the Indian chief fol-
lows. Both fall from their horses.
Then the other Indians ride up.

Byers gambles away even his
daughter's jewelry. The Raven with

Jim a captive, tortures him by forc-
ing him to witness the attack by the
Indians upon the home of his sweet-
heart. She, inside, defends the cabin.
One Indian starts to come down the
chimney but is smoked out by the
girl and falls to the floor unconscious.
The Indians break down the door and
stream in when Polly saves the day.
The father opens the locket and rec-
ognizes Polly as his daughter. At
this juncture the relief party of set-
tlers arrives and the Indians are
whipped. Then follows the reunion
of the father and daughter.

"Whimsical Threads of Destiny."

(Vitagraph. Nov. 22. Two Parts.) —
A method by which those over-bur-
dened with wealth may know to whom
to leave it. Webster, an old million-
aire, is believed dead and has left
his total wealth to a nephew and
niece, providing they marry each
other. Both are willing until the
man, Dr. Hale Webster, meets an
equestrienne, with whom he falls in
love. He gives up all claim to the
money because of his love for the
girl. The niece plans to make him
marry her so that they may get the
fortune. But the. two lovers stay true,
and the old man comes to "life,"
disowning the scheming niece and
giving his fortune to Dr. Webster.
Exciting action is staged. The acro-
bats are played by Elsie and Vera St.
Leon and their brother, Charles Kent.
Harry Northrup. Julia Swajme Gor-
don, Courtenay Foot and William R.
Dunn complete the cast.

"Wanted — A Burglar." (Edison,
Dec. 1.) — A clever, original comedy,
that should greatly amuse.

An editor of a countrj- weekly
dares any one to steal $300 from his
safe. His daughter does the trick.
The printer wins the girl by produc-
ing her as the thief.

"Venomous Tongues." ( Celio
Kleine. Dec. 2. Two parts.) — One of
the worst curses a man or woman
may have is that of a scandalous
tongue. This story, which was made
abroad, tells of the worries a husband
goes through over the false reports he
hears about his wife. He finally kills
her. Photography in places might be
improved.

"The Wreck." (Vitagraph. Dec.
2. Three parts.) — One of the best
regular releases of the year. The
photography is pleasing, and the cast-
ing good. Carlyle, a railroad presi-
dent disappointed with his son. se-
cures a position for Dick, a friend's
son, with his railroad. His wife, lov-
ing him dearly, also loves her step-
son and helps him all she can. She
has manv secret conferences with
Dick, which Carlyle misunderstands.

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Finally he kills Dick in a moment of
passion, the act being witnessed by
an engineer he had discharged. The
workman is reinstated and drives his
train past danger signals and into
another engine. The wreck scene is
wonderfully portrayed. Carlyle and
his son are both killed in the wreck.
Static streaks show in one scene. One
or two inconsistencies do not mate-
rially hurt the picture.

"The Black Countess." (Patheplay.
Three parts. Dec. 2. General Film
Co. Exclusive Service.) — Made by
the Paris Pathe Company, probably.
The title is clever, though meaning
little. Two reels would have been
better than the three given, the ac-
tion appearing padded and conse-
quently interest is lost.

The story tells of a young doctor
and his colleague to whose daughter
he is engaged. He meets the Countess
and she fascinates him. By a clever
ruse the Countess gets the doctor's
daughter to break her engagement,
but later when in kreat need of pro-
fessional services she confesses that
her love for the young man had
caused her to hunt the doctor.

Pathe's Weekly. (Pathe, Dec. 1.)—
A number of the weekly which does
not contain much news of vital inter-
est. The recent meeting in New
York City of the Salvation Army
forces under Booth, and Cardinals
Gibbons and Farley in Washington,
are perhaps the most interesting
items.

"The Blight." (Patheplay, Nov.
29.) — In the last few months a large
number of dramas have been pro-
duced dealing with psychological
subjects. This is one of them, and
rather better than the average.

A boy, the son of a criminal, be-
comes very influential in business.
He becomes engaged to his partner's
daughter, but the affair is stopped on
their wedding day because of the
taint in his blood.

"Turning the Tables." (Lubin, Nov.
29.) — One of the Lubin Mexico sto-
ries that have achieved an enviable
reputation for that company.

Bob, a ranger, while really in love
with May, becomes infatuated with a
Mexican girl, who leads him in the
mountains, where he is captured by
the bandits under her father. The
boy is rescued by May, and together

they lead their rangers to the attack
and capture the outlaws. Plenty of
action carries the story "across."

"Melita's Sacrifice." (Lubin, Dec.
1). — The story is laid in Mexico and
makes a good release.

Jess Mason, a cowboy, protects a
Mexican girl from an insulter, thereby
provoking the Mexican's hatred and
arousing the girl's love. He is cap-
tured later when with his fiancee,
but both are saved by Melita.

"The Cypher Message." (Selig.
Two reels. Dec. 1.) — One scene
where the detective gets the other's
coat by mistake and wears it is in-
consistent.

The story deals with two society
crooks who communicate by cypher
letters. They are at last caught
through one of their letters being
translated.

"Princess Elena's Prisoner." (Great
Northern.) — This multiple reel release
serves to introduce to the American
motion picture public a new Euro-
pean actress, Betty Nansen, whose
reputation has been swiftly made.
Large sums have been paid for her
services. She is to appear in six
Nordisk pictures, of which that under
review is the first. Viewing the pic-
ture, it must be conceded that Miss

Nansen has the gift of tragedy of a
high order. She is a mental actress
of the calibre of Mrs. Fiske — and, like
that lady, obtains her effects by an
apparent minimum of physical effort.

The story has to do with her in-
trigue with a young officer, who is
discovered and is ordered to be shot,
but the princess secures his escape.
Discovery confronts the princess with
the necessity of dying' with her lover.
He, however, prefers to live for his
country. She aids him to escape and
herself dies from shock, not, however,
before undergoing great mental ago-
nies at his desertion.

In this character Miss Nansen acts
with superb conviction, the part of
the film where she surveys the hand
which her lover has kissed before he
goes away being very finely rendered.

The photography of this picture is
alone worth study — it is so true and
at the same time so artistic — there is
nothing faked about it. It is a fine
picture, acted and produced well.
Miss Nansen is sure to be popular
with audiences here. We would like to
hand a compliment to the actor who
plays the part of the Prime Minister
in the picture. He signs a death war-
rant like a Spartan and then lights a
cigar with such convincing coolness
that you would think signing death
warrants is the business of his life.

T. B.

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ANOTHER THANHOUSER
STUDIO

C. J. Hite, of the Thanhouser Film
Corporation, is still planning big things
for his New Rochelle company. An-
nouncement is now made that plans
have been prepared and approved by
the building inspector for another
glass-inclosed stage in addition to the
present large plant, which has been
completely outgrown. The new stage,
it is expected, will cost about $15,000.

Main street and Echo avenue will be
the address of the new stage. It will
cover a floor space of 95x75 feet, and
the huge steel skeleton will be inclosed
with a new style wire glass of great
refractive power. This arrangement, it
is said, will diffuse the light without the
aid of the usual white cloth curtains,

FOREST FIRES ADDS REALISM

The aggressiveness of the American
Film Manufacturing Company in real-
izing the pictorial value of a real forest
fire is responsible for the success of the
production, "Trapped in a Forest Fire."
The first scenes of this picture were
taken during the recent devastating fires
that swept through and destroyed vast
areas of gorgeous forests in Southern
California.

The camera man showed great pluck
in facing the scorching flames and in-
tense heat, and despite the fact that they
were overcome several times stuck to
their posts until the directors called them
off.

Sydney Ayres plays the lead and Viv-
ian Rich does some very pretty acting.
The subject will be released Monday,
December 8.

Film Rental Service $1.00

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Several programs in one shipment to save
express. Express paid one way.

Attractive program includes all leading
makes.

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selling price is from $40.00 to $55.00.

Wire or write us how many you want, and, if not sold
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References : Buick Motor Company, Philadelphia Rapid Transit
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MEXICO

The livest subject before the public
today.

Every newspaper advertises MEXI-
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Every reader of a newspaper WANTS
to SEE the news in all its vivid reality.

HERE IS YOUR CHANCE

PURCHASE STATE BIGHTS

Make your theatre the first and only
theatre in your city to show these timely
and thrilling pictures, fresh from the
field of action.

The Messrs. SHUBERT and WIL-
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most wonderful set, 7,000 feet of motion
pictures, astounding thousands who have
seen them in the Playhouse, New York;
Zeigfeld, Chicago, and the Greenwall,
New Orleans.

More will follow. Our operators are
now with Gen. Villa recording history as
it is made. Holders of STATE
RIGHTS of our first set have prior call
on all films that follow. This makes this
the most attractive proposition ever put
before state rights buyers.

AFTER HUERTA, WHAT?

Mexico has been fighting for four
years. She will fight for years to come.
Vast armies in vital and bloody conflict
are posing for your theatre and patrons.

DON'T WAIT— WIRE NOW YOUR BID
FOR THE RIGHTS TO YOUR STATE.

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OCEAN TRAVELERS "WORK"
FOR RELIANCE

As the largest ocean liner afloat, the
"Imperator," was about to leave her
moorings on her last trip, the passengers
were unconsciously posing for a motion
picture camera. They did not even take
a second look at the stylishly gowned
Norma Phillips and her actor compan-
ions of Reliance, who were working
among them for the benefit of a film
and many of them will be very much
surprised "to see themselves as others
see them" in a motion picture theatre.

Travers Vale, the producer, realized
that he would have to work very care-
fully in order to keep the passengers
from knowing that they were being pho-
tographed so that they would not look
at the camera and spoil the dramatic
value of his work. Several scenes were
taken on the different decks of the
huge vessel, together with an excellent
view of the great boat getting under way
for her ocean voyage.

ECLAIR FILM COMPANY AN-
NOUNCES NEW SERIES

The Eclair Film Company has just
completed negotiations and concluded
contracts with some of the ablest and
most popular of American authors for
exclusive screen rights to their books
and novels. These films will be re-
leased on the Universal program.

Notable among the early releases
:n this series are the following

"The Case of Cherry Purcelle," by
Arthur Stringer, widely known as one
of the foremost of present day Ameri-
can poets and writers. This will be
followed by a series of Mr. Stringer's
detective stories, which are now a
feature of one of the leading maga-
zines.

A Mexican story by Eleanor Gates,
whose style and diction are known to
magazine readers everywhere.

An exciting French refugee story
by Harris Dickson, which will shortly
be featured in a well-known magazine.

A Western yarn of the kind for
which Eugene Manlove Rhodes is
famous.

Several of the stories by the late O.
Henry, a number of whose works
have already been produced by the
Eclair Company, will also be included
in the series.

AMERICAN THREE-REEL

A three-reel melodramtaic ro-
mance written by Marc E. Jones, and
produced by Lorimer Johnston, will
soon be announced by the American
Film Manufacturing Company, of
Santa Barbara. Cal.

Mr. Jones made a trip from New
Orleans to Santa Barbara to pay a
visit to the American studios there.
He has proven a prolific writer and
holds a record of having placed sixty
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KLEINE'S "POMPEII" BREAKS
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What probably establishes a unique
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made last week at the People's Thea-
tre, Portland, Oregon, when 32,000
people paid admission to George
Kleine's "The Last Days of Pompeii."
The receipts for the week were
$4,224.20. Manager Winstock is tell-
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Kleine's "Pompeii" also broke a
Salt Lake City record when receipts
at the American Theatre on Novem-
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$620.15; November 12, $690.96, totaling
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"Exchangemen and
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Is the title of a series of splendid
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greatly surprised to find, after reading
some of the articles in this series
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PRODUCTION OF "BEN BOLT"
DRAWS CROWDS

The Solax production of "Ben Bolt"
is a thrilling adaptation from the poem
by Thomas English Dunn and popu-
larized by its introduction in Du Mau-
rier's "Trilby." The poster array is
creating considerable gossip.

Several of the scenes were taken
in Newport and in some of the old
towns of Connecticut. In one of the
thrilling scenes the old mill in New
London is used. The leading charac-
ter is photographed bound to the
spokes of the revolving wheel of the
mill. The scene enacted brought out
the entire population of New London
to witness it and at the time it was
"a three-day wonder."

In Newport the company was be-
sieged by a corps of war correspond-
ents from the local papers. In fact,
the Newport Herald had a big bulle-
tin in front of its headquarters giving
hourly news of the Solax activities in
and about the vicinity. This, of
course, made work difficult as the
crowds that gathered in the different
places to witness the scenes at times
interfered with the direction, but it
did not interfere with the results.

TWO NEW "FLYING A" PRO-
DUCTIONS

Lorimer Johnston, director of the
first company of the American Film
Manufacturing Co., at Santa Barbara,
Cal., has a production this week that
will cause great comment called "The
Occult." The double exposures are
said to be of unusual excellence.

Mr. Johnston has just finished the
first three-reel taken by the "Flying
A." This will be called "Destinies
Fulfilled," and will be scheduled for
an early release. It was written by
Marc Edmund Jones.

KLEINE'S "POMPEII" EDUCA-
TIONAL FACTOR

George Kleine's "The Last Days of
Pompeii" is creating many holidays
for school children in the various cit-
ies where it is playing. The Western
towns seem particularly anxious that
their children shall obtain the benefit
of the historical data which has made
Kleine's "Pompeii" so noteworthy.
Despite the big success of "Quo
Vadis," that beautiful drama was
never so eagerly accepted by school
superintendents as a text for children
to study as "Pompeii."

WAIFS SEE "QUO VADIS?"

The Children's Home, of Urbana, O.,
poured its hundreds of little waifs into
a theatre to see "Quo Vadis?" last
week. They were the guests of George
Kleine.

FIVE-A-WEEK
ESSANAY

Coming Friday, December 12th

"The Three Gamblers"

(IN TWO PARTS)

A Western drama with strong dramatic situations. A thriller from
beginning to end. Mr. G. M. ANDERSON featured. Heralds and
posters now ready.

Released Tuesday, December 9th

"THE HEART OF THE LAW"

A strong drama with plenty of action. E. H. Calvert, Ruth Stone-
house and Richard C. Travers featured.

Released Wednesday, December 10th

"SMITHY'S GRANDMA PARTY"

A howling comedy that will keep your audiences in a continual
uproar. Wallace Beery and "Smiling Billy" Mason featured.

Released Thursday, December 11th

"CHILDREN OF THE FOREST"

A drama of Indian love, taken amongst the forest fires of the Great
Northwest.

Released Saturday, December 13th

"SOPHIE'S NEW FOREMAN"

This feature . comedy is a sure cure for the blues. It teems with
hilarious situations. Margaret Joslin and Augustus Carney featured.

Coming Friday, December 19th

"The Stigma"

(IN TWO PARTS)

FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN FEATURED

A drama of love and sacrifice. Although Jane was a victim of lep-
rosy, Clifford Harvey's love for her grew stronger each day. She
loved him, too — so much that she sacrificed her life to save him from
the terrible plague. He followed her to the beyond, where there are
no ills. This is a feature heart interest story of pathos.

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of the two present films "Last Days
of Pompeii.'' I have seen one only,
but I will say that I don't care to see
the second one as, no matter how per-
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inferior to me, unless if it was shown
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"FLYING A" PLAYERS HAVE
PARTY

The members of the American Film
Manufacturing Company's studio at
Santa Barbara, Cal., the home' of the
".Flying A" productions, had a kid
party not long ago. Miss Ida Lewis
entertained.

Nearly all the guests , carried toys
of some sort and represented different
characters. Among those present
were: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rick-
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Louise Lester, as a baby doll that
Calamity Anne had lost; Julius
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Brown and his sister, Mary Jane.
Jack Richardson, as a freckle-faced
boy with a stationary smile; Ed
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from the period of 1850; Harry Von
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Meter and Mr. Orahood as the heav-
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little girl in blue. All the others
present were in their best infantile
bibs and tuckers.

AMMEX FEATURE SALES

In the interest of Ammex Western
Features F. D. Halliday, general sales
manager, took a flying trip to New
England last week. Among the re-
cent sales of Ammex features in here-
tofore unsold territory is "The Fatal
Reckoning" to the Victor Film Ex-
change of Buffalo; and also to the
Universal Film Exchange of New
York City. The Consolidated Film
Company, Ltd., of Montreal has also
purchased rights on "The Fatal Reck-
oning" and "The Barrier of Blood."

AMERICAN PRODUCTIONS
VARIED

The subjects being released by the
American Film Manufacturing Com-
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Society dramas, allegorical gems,
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Edward B. Kinsila, architect and
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FINE INTERIORS CREATE
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"When a Woman Wills," the
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containing some of the most remark-
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picture film. "Still" pictures of some
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much comment that a number of
trade papers and film story magazines
have asked permission to use photo-
graphs of the interiors in forthcoming
numbers for frontispieces, covers, etc.

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The Great Northern Special Fea-
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The announcement of the release
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The film is already in demand. At-
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The Blache Feature Service has
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DATA FROM MANUFACTURERS' LIST OF RELEASES

INDEPENDENT

AMBROSIO Feet

Nov. 22 — Griffard's Claw (2 parts — Dr.)

Nov. 29 — Goose a la "Colbert" (2 parts —

Com. Dr.)

Dec. 6 — A Tragic Experiment (Dr.)

AMERICAN

Nov. 24 — The Occult (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 27 — The Spartan Girl of the West (W.

Dr.) 1000

Nov. 29 — At Midnight (Society Dr.) 1000

Dec. 1 — American Born (2 reels— Dr.) 2000

Dec. 6 — A Divorce Scandal (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 8 — Trapped in a Forest Fire (Spec. Dr.). 1000

Dec. 11— His First Case (W. Dr.) 1000

Dec. 13 — Armed Intervention (Com. Dr.).... 1000
Dec. 15— Where the Road Forks (2 reel Dr.). 2000

Dec. 18 — Personal Magnetism (Com.) 1000

Dec. 20— Fate's Round^Up (W. Dr.) 1000

Dec. 2— The Shriner's Daughter (2 reel Dr.). 2000
Dec. 27 — The Rose of San Juan (Spanish

Drama)

AMMEX

Nov. 24 — Fatal Reckoning 2000

Dec. 8 — His Pard's Sister 2000

Dec. 15— The Lucky Nugget 3000

BISON

Nov. 16 — "Laska" (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 18 — The Raid of the Human Tigers (3

reel Dr.)

Nov. 22 — Winona's Vengeance (2 reel Dr.)..
Nov. 26 — The White Vaquero (2 reel Dr.) . .
Not. 29 — The War of the Cattle Range (2 reel

Dr.)

Dec. 6 — The White Squaw (2 reel Dr.)

Dec. 13— The Werewolf (2-reel Dr.)

Dec. 20— The God of Girsah (2 reel Dr.)

BLINKHORN
Dec. 1 — David Copperfield (Hepworth — 7

parts — Dr.)

Dec. 8 — The Harper Mystery (Florence Tur-
ner Films, Ltd. — 3 parts — Dr.)..
Dec. 15 — After Many Years (General Film

Agency, Ltd. — 3 parts — Dr.) ....
Dec. 22 — Jean's Evidence (Florence Turner

Films, Ltd. — 2 parts— Dr.)

Dec. 29— Vicar of Wakefield (Hepworth 3

parts)

BRONCHO

Nov. 26— The Reformation (Dr.)....

Dec. 3 — The Buried Past (Dr.)

Dec. 10 — The Woman (Dr.)

Dec. 17— The Open Door (2 parts— Dr.)

Dec. 24 — Her Father's Story (2 parts — Dr.)

Dec. 31— The Woman (2 parts— Dr.)

CRYSTAL

Nov. 18 — Her Secretaries (Com.)

Nov. 18 — Percy's New Mamma (Com.)

Nov. 23— The Cabaret Singer (Dr.)

Nov. 25— Hubby's New Coat (Com.)

Nov. 25 — Baldy Belmont Lands a Society Job

(Com.)

Nov. 30— The Convict's Daughter (Dr.)

Dec. 2— That Awful Maid

Dec. 2 — The Installment Plan Marriage

Dec. 7 — A Woman's Revenge (Dr.)

Dec. 9 — Pearl's Hero (Com.)

Dec. 9 — Baldy is a Wise Old Bird (Com.) . .

Dec. 14 — First Love (Dr.) -

Dec. 16— The Soubrette (Com.)

Dec. 16 — The Trained Nurse (Com.)

Dec. 21— The Heart of an Artist (Drama) . .
DOMINO

Nov. 27 — Belle of Yorktown (3 parts — Dr.)..

Dec. 4 — Devotion (2 parts — Dr.)

Dec. 11— The Filly (2 parts— Dr.)

Dec. 18 — The Curse (2 parts— Dr.)

Dec. 25— True Irish Hearts (2 parts — Dr.) . .
DRAGON
(Formerly Ryno)

Sept. 19 — Blindness of Courage 3000

Sept. 24— Her Last Ride 3000

Oct. 8 — Daredevil Rodman Law (Special) . .

Nov. 15 — Dare Devil Rescue (Special) 3000

ECLAIR

Nov. 19 — Partners (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. 23— Oh! You Rubber

Nov. 23 — Soldiers Drilling in Turkestan

Nov. 26— A Son's Devotion (2 reel Dr.)

Nov. SO — Roaring Bill (Com.)

Nov. SO — One on Tooty (Com.)

Dec 3 — When Pierrot Met Pierrette (2 reel

Dr.)

Dec. 7 — Trouble on the Stage

Dec. 7 — Magnetism — Magnets

Dec. 10— Over the Cliffs (3 reels)

Dec. 14 — He Likes Things Upside Down

Feet

14 — Nutty Has a Romance

17 — The Serpent in Eden (2 reel Dr.)..

21 — Loaded

,21 — Sunset in Many Lands

ECLECTIC

13— The Fatal Plunge 3000

27 — Toils of Villainy (3 parts)

11 — His Fateful Passion (5 parts)......

F. R. A.

28 — Secret of Adrianople 3600

12 — Demonyte 3000

19 — Vengeance Bequeathed 3000

FRONTIER

22— The Double Cross (Dr.)

27 — Slim Proposes, But — (Com.)

29— The Secret of Balanced Rock (Dr.)
4 — Slim and the Boys at Breezy Beach

(Com.)

6— The Circuit Rider of the Hills (Dr.)
11 — When Roaring Gulch Got Suffrage
(Com.)

13— Out of His Class (Dr.)

18 — Slim and the Petticoats (Com.)....

20— His Better Self (Dr.)

GAUMONT

9 — Dolly Saves Her Grandmother 1000

11 — Poupette's Mean Revenge 1000

13 — Two Christmas Morns 3000

16 — A Terrible Dream 1000

18 — Oscar in Search of a Wife 1000

20— The Broken Heart 2000

23 — Dollar Bills at a Cent Apiece 1000

25 — Leonce and His Guardian 1000

27— The Angel of the House 3000

30— Simple Simon Has a Fright 1000

GOLD SEAL

2 — Under the Black Flag (3 reel Fea-
ture)

9 — Red Margaret, Moonshiner

16 — Bloodhounds of The North (2 reel
Dr.)

GREAT NORTHERN

1— A Dilemma 1000

8 — A Bogus Hero (Com.)

22— Hard Luck 1000

GREAT NORTHERN SPECIAL

28 — In the Bonds of Passion 3000

21— Baptism of Fire 3000

29— By Whose Hand 3000

IMP

13— Levi and McGinnis Running for
Office (2 reel Com.)

17— Who Killed Olga Carew (2 reel Dr.)
20 — The Child Stealers of Paris (Dr.) . .

24 — Jane's Brother the Paranoiac (Dr.) . .
27 — Night Shadows of New York (3 reel

Dr.)

1 — Love versus Law (2 reel Dr.)

4— Plain Jane (Dr.)

8 — The Return of Tony (Dr.)

11 — Time (2-reel Dr.)

15— The Story of David Greig (2 reel
Dr.)

18 — Mr. and Mrs. Innocence Abroad
(Com.)

IT ALA (Features)

Nov. 27— Leap of Despair 3000

Dec. 4 — At Death's Door 3000

Dec. 18— Victory or Death 3000

JOKER

Dec. 6 — A Pair of Bears (Com.)

Dec. 6 — Views of Yellowstone Park (Sc.)
Dec. 10 — Mike and Jake in Mexico (1-reel

Com.)

Dec. 13— The Joy Riders

Dec. 13 — Waterfalls of Yosemite Valley

Dec. 17 — Mike and Jake as Heroes (Com.)..

Dec. 20 — For Art and Love.

Dec. 20 — Impressions of Corsica

KAY-BEE

Nov. 28— The Sign of the Snake (Dr.)

Dec. 2 — The Revelation (Dr.)

Dec. 5 — The Long Portage (Dr.)

Dec. 9 — Her Legacy (Dr.)

Dec. 12— Soul of the South (Dr.)

Dec. 19— The Pitfall (Dr.)

KEYSTONE

Dec. 1 — The Woman Haters (Com.)

Dec. 4 — Rogues' Gallery

Dec. 4 — San Francisco Celebration (Topical)
Dec. 8 — A Ride for a Bride (Com.)......

Dec. 11— The Horse Thief (Com.)

Dec. 15— The Gusher (Com.)

Dec. 18 — Fatty's Flirtation (Com.)

Dec. 18 — Protecting San Francisco from Fire
Dec. 20 — His Sister's Kids (Com.)

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KOMIC Feet

20 — Making Himself a Hero

20 — Murphy's New High Hat (Com.)..
27 — A Method In His Illness (Com.)..

27- — The Man with a Razor (Com.) . .

4 — How He Won (Com.)

4 — The Actor Book Agent (Com.)....

LACLEDE

10 — Pale Face Squaw 3000

LEWIS PENNANTS

1— Taxicab 1098

15 — Decreed to Die

4 — Sign of the Secret Nine 3000

20 — Taxicab 1098 3000

LUX
By Prienx
14 — Tommy's Camera (Com.)

14 — The Auvergne Mountains, Central

France (Sc.)

21 — Mabel's Rival (Com.} 590

21— Gems of Brittany (Sc.) .... 390

28— Bill and the Missus (Com.) 460

28— How Bob Got Married (Com.) 500

MAJESTIC

22 — No release

23— The House in the Tree (Dr.)

25 — A Warm Welcome (Com.) . . ,

29 — An Accidental Clue (Dr.)

30 — The Hendricks' Divorce (Dr.) ....

2— The Padre's Sacrifice (Dr.)

6— The Helping Hand (Dr.)

NESTOR

26 — Hilda of the Mountains (Dr.)

28 — When He Lost to Win (Com.) i

3— The Brothers (Dr.)

5 — Locked Out at Twelve (Com.)....

10— Retribution (1-reel W. Dr.) : . .

12 — Her Friend the Butler (Com.)

17 — A Woman's Way (Dr.)

19 — Teaching Dad a Lesson (Com.)....

POWERS

28 — A Seaside Samaritan (Dr.)

1 — When Joe Went West (Com.)

5 — Cross Purposes (Dr.)

8 — How Freckles Won His Bride (Com.)
12— His Own Blood (2-reel Dr.)

15 — Freckles' Fight for His Bride (Com.)
19 — A Cracksman Santa Claus (Dr.)...

RAMO

26— Fangs of Hate 3000

10— The Devil Within 3000

PRINCESS

21 — A Shotgun Cupid (Com. Dr.)

28 — Her Right to Happiness (Dr.)

5 — The Little Church Around the

Corner (Com. Dr.)

RELIANCE

22— Her Father's Daughter (Dr.)

24 — The Other Woman (Dr.)

26 — A Rough Diamond (Dr.)

29 — The Reporter's Scoop (Dr.)

1 — Tony's Sacrifice (Dr.)

3 — A Woman of Sin (Dr.)

6 — For Another's Crime (2 parts — Dr.)

REX

23 — His Old Fashioned Dad (Com. Dr.)

27— The Tale of a Lonely Coast (Dr.) . .

30— The Boob's Dream Girl (Com. Dr.)

4 — Thieves and the Cross

7 — Tames Lee's Wife (Dr.)

11— By Fate's Decree (1-reel Dr.)

14— The Mask (Dr.)

18 — The Jew's Christmas (3 reel Dr.) . .
21 — A Wife's Deceit (Com. Dr.)

SOLAX

28— Ben Bolt 4000

26 — The Shadow of Moulin Rouge. 4000

THANHOUSER

23 — Their Great Big Beautiful Doll

(Com.)

25— The Blight of Wealth (2 parts—

Dr.)

28— Curfew Shall Not Ring To-night

(Dr.)

30 — The Henpecked Hodcarrier (Com.)

2 — The Problem Love Solved (Dr.)

5_What Might Have Been (Dr.)

VICTOR

24— Back to Life (2 reel Dr.)

29 — Unto the Third Generation (S reel

Dr.)

1— The Barrier of Bars (Dr.)

8 — The Dread Inheritance (2-reel Dr.) .

12 — Hydraulic Mining (Edu.)

15 — Incognito (Dr.)

19 — A Girl and Her Money (2 reel Dr.)

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Quality in the film — quality from
a technical photographic standpoint
is as important to the Exhibitor as
is interest in the story that the
film tells.

There's one film that's recognized
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quality — that is always used by
those whose effort it is to give the
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And it is identifiable. Look for
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BIO GRAPH Feet

Nov. 20 — The Detective's Stratagem (Dr.)..

Nov. 22 — By Man's Law (2 parts — Dr.)

Nov. 24— All for Science (Dr.)

Nov. 26 — A Circumstantial Hero (Com.)

Nov. 26 — The Somnambulists (Com.)

Nov. 29— The Blue or the Gray (Dr.)

Dec. 1 — How the Day Was Saved (Com.) . .

Dec. 1 — Bink's Vacation (Com.)

Dec. 4— The Birthday Ring (Dr.)

Dec. 6 — In the Elemental World (Dr.)

Dec. 8 — The Capturing of David Dunne

(Com.) .

Dec. 11 — A Foul and Fearful Plot (Com.)..

Dec. 11 — The Troublesome Mole (Com.)

Dec. 13— The House of Discord (Dr. — Parts

I and II)

CINE8
George Kleine
Oct. 21— The Wheels of Justice (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 2000

Oct. 21— The Wheels of Justice (Dr.) Parts I

and II

Nev. 4 — Zuma, the Gypsy (2 parts — Dr. —

Special)

Nov. 11— The Penalty (2 part Dr.)... •.

Nov. 18 — For the Love of a Toreador (2 part

Dr.)

Dec. 9— The Stolen Legacy (2 parts — Dr.)..
EDISON

Nov. 16— Getting a Patient (Com.) 1000

Nov. 17— Nora's Boarders (Com.) 1000

Nov. 18 — A Cause for Thankfulness (Dr.).. 1000
Nov. 19— The Girl in the House-boat (Com.). 1000

Nov. 21 — A Good Sport (2 parts— Com.) 2000

Nov. 22 — A Proposal Deferred, being the fifth
story of "Who Will Marry Mary"

(Dr.) 1000

Nov. 24 — From Durban to Zululand (Sc.) 600

Nov. 24 — Enoch and Ezra's First Smoke

(Com.) 600

Nov. 25 — The Vanishing Cracksman (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 26 — A Sense of Humor (Com.) 1000

Nov. 28 — The Gunmaker of Moscow (2 parts

—Dr.) 2000

Nov. 29 — A Royal Romance (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 1 — The South African Whaling In-
dustry (Ind.) 600

Dec 1 — Wanted, a Burglar (Com.) 660

Dec 2 — The Price of Human Lives (Dr.).. 1000

Dec. 8 — The Thrifty Janitor (Com.) 1000

Dec 6 — Alexia's Strategy (Dr.) 2000

Dec. 6— What Shall it Profit a Man? (Dr.). 1000

Dec. 8 — The Manicure Girl (Com.) 1000

Dec 9— The Stolen Plans (Dr.) 1000

Dec 10 — The Joining of the Oceans (Sc.) 600

Dec. 10 — Greedy George (Com.) 600

Dec. 12— Peg 61 the Movies (Dr.) 2000

Dec. 13— The First Christmas (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 16 — A Pious Undertaking (Com.) 1000

Dec. 16 — The Actress (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 17 — Falling in Love with Inez (Com.).. 1000

Dec. 19 — Within the Enemy's Lines (Dr.) 2000

Dec. 20— The Haunted Bedroom (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 22 — Products of the Palm, the Banana
and Cocoanut Industries, Jamaica,

W. I. (Ind.) 350

Dec. 22 — Teaching His Wife a Lesson (Com.) 676

Dec. 23— The Upward Way (Dr.) 1000

ESSANAY

Not. 18— The Lost Chord (Dr.).

Not. 19— The Usual Way (Com.)

Not. 80 — The Cowboy Samaritan (W. Dr.)

Nov. 21 — The End of the Circle

Not. 22 — Broncho Billy's First Arrest

Nov. 26 — The Little Substitute

Not. 26 — Dollars-Pounds-Sense

Not. 27 — The Naming of the Rawhide Queen

Not. 28— The Brand of Evil

Not. 19 — Sophie's Hero

Dec. 2— Autumn Love (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 8— Kitty's Knight (Com.) 1000

Dec. 4— A Romance of the Hills (Dr.) 1000

Dec 6 — The Pay as You Enter Man (Special

—2 parts— Dr.) 2000

Dec. 6 — Broncho Billy's Squareness (Dr.).. 1000

Dec. 9— The Heart of the Law (Dr.)

Dec. 10 — Smithy's Grandma Party (Com.) . .
Dec. 11— Children of the Forest (W. Dr.)..
Dec. 12 — The Three Gamblers (W. Dr. — Parts

I and II)

Dec. 13— Sophie's New Foreman (W. Com.) . .
KALEM

Nov. 19 — The Express Car Mystery (2 parts

—Dr.) 2000

Nov. 21 — The Laundress and the Lady (Com.)

Nov. 21 — The Dublin Horse Show (Topical)

Nov. 22— Primitive Man (Dr.) 1060

Nov. 24 — An Indian Maid's Strategy (Dr.) . . .

Nov. 26 — The Plot of India's Hillmen (Dr.)

Parts I and II.

Nov. 28 — The Good Old Summer Time (Com.)

Nov. 28— England's King at Liverpool (Top.)

Nov. 29— In Peril of His Life (Dr.)

Feet

Dec. 1 — The Octoroon (Special 3 parts —

Dr.) 3000

Dec. 3 — The Cave Men's Ware (2 parts —

Dr.) 2000

Dec. 5 — While Father Telephoned (Com.) . .
Dec. 6 — Andrew Carnegie's Gift to the World

(Top.)

Dec. 6— The Footprint Uue (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 8— The Strike (Dr.)

Dec. 10— The Chinese Death Thorn (Dr. —

Parts I and II)

Dec. 12 — General Bunko's Victory (Com.)....

Dec. 12 — Piano Manufacturing (Ind.)

Dec. 13— The Invisible Foe (Dr.)

LUBIN

Oct. 31 — A Momentous Decision 1000

Nov. 1 — When the Prison Doors Opened. . .1000

Nov. 3— The Double Chase (Com.) 1000

Nov. 4 — Magic Melody (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 6 — The Price of Victory (2 reel Dr.).. 2000

Nov. 7 — Cocoanut Industry (Edu.) 400

Nov. 7— Getting The Best of Dad (Com.) 600

Nov. 8 — Hiawanda's Cross (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 10 — The Pride of Battery B (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 11 — A Miracle of Love (Dr.) 1000

No>. 13— The Sea Eternal (2 reel Dr.) 2000

Nov. 14— When the Clock Stopped (Dr.) . . . .1000

Nov. 16— Whose Is It? (Com.) 400

Nov. 16— Badly Wanted (Com.) 600

Nov. 15 — Whose Is It (Com.)

Nov. 17— The Two Fathers (Com.)

Nov. 18— Shadows (DrJ

Nov. 20 — Partners in Crime (Dr.)

Nov. 21— His Chorus Girl Wife (Dr.)

Nov. 22 — The Harmless One (W. Dr.)

Nov. 24 — Just Cissy's Little Way (Com.)....

Nov. 25 — Sick Father (Com.)

Nov. 25 — The Lost Switch (Com.)

Nov. 27 — A Waif of the Desert (2 reel Dr.) . .

Nov. 28 — The Scapegrace (Dr.) .... . '

Nov. 29— Turning the Table (W. Dr.)

Dec. 1 — Melita's Sacrifice (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 2 — The Hazard of Youth (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 4 — When the Mountain and Valley Meet

(2-reel Dr.) 2000

Dec. 5 — Some Flowers (Com.) 400

Dec. 5 — An Interrupted Courtship (Com.)... 600

Dec. 6— Her Father (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 8— The Smuggler's Daughter (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 9— An Enemy's Aid (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 11 — Hydraulic Works on the Adda.... 400

Dec. 11— His Best Friend (Dr.) 1600

Dec. 12— Life, Love and Liberty (W. Dr.).. 1000

Dec. 13— The Real Impostor (Dr.) 400

Dec. 13— A Pill Box Cupid (Com.) 600

G. ME LIE 8
Oct. 30 — A Japanese Shoemaker at Work

(Typical)

Nov. 6 — Sydney and Its Harbor (Travel) . .1000
Nov. 20 — Shooting the Famous Hozu Rapids

of Japan (Sports)

Nov. 20 — A Lemon Plantation (Ind.)

Nov. 2? — Japanese "Judo" Commonly Known

as Jiu Jitsu 1000

Dec. 4 — A Woman's Mission (Dr.)

Dec. 4 — A Trip to the Famous Picnic

Grounds at Arashyama, Japan

(Sc.)

Dec. 11— At Phnom-Penh, Cambodia (Travel)
Dec. 11 — Beautiful Angkor-Vat, Cambodia

(Sc.)

PATHE FRERES

Nov. 18 — Flowers of Japan (Travel)

Nov. 19 — By Impulse (Com. Dr.)

Nov. 20 — The Green-Eyed Monster of Jealousy

Nov. 20 — Pathe's Weekly

Nov. 21 — Natives of Australia

Nov. 21— The Pond Snail

Nov. 21 — In the Spanish Pyrenees

Nov. 22 — Kenton's Heir

Nov. 24— Pathe's Weekly No. 70 (News)

Nov. 25 — The Shadow of Shame (Dr.)

Nov. 26— The Elusive Turkey (Com.)

Nov. 27 — The Faithless Friend (Dr.) Parts I

and II

Nov. 27 — Old Nurenberg, Germany (Travel) . .

Nov. 27— Pathe's Weekly No. 71 (News)

Nov. 28 — Making Eight-Ton Ropes (Ind.)

Nov. 28— The Capital of the Malay States

(Travel)

Nov. 28 — Fashion's Law in Swiss Cantons

(Col.)

Nov. 29— The Blight (Dr.)

Dec. 1 — Pathe's Weekly No. 72 (News)

Dec. 2 — A Peasant Marriage in Hungary

(Cus.)

Dec. 2 — Edible Fish of the Mediterranean..
Dec. 2 — The Geysers of New Zealand (Sc.)

Dec. 3 — A Break for Freedom (Dr.)

Dec. 4 — Baseball's Peerless Leader (2 parts

— Com.)

Dec. 4 — Pathe's Weekly No. 73 (News) . . .

Dec. 6 — A Bear Escape (Com.) t . . .

Dec. 6 — Col. Heeza Liar in Africa (Novelty)
Dec. 6 — Glimpses of Pond Life (Zoology) . .
Dec. 8 — Pathe's Weekly No. 74 (News)

Dec. 9— The Stolen Inheritance (Dr.)

Dec. 10— You've Got to Pay (Dr.)

Dec. 11— A Modern Portia (Dr. — Parts I and

II)

Dec. 11 — Pathe's Weekly No. 75 (News)

Dec. 12— Birds of the Inland Marsh (Bird

Life)

Dec. 12 — A Journey to the Environs of Naples

(Sc.)

Dec. 13 — Uncle John to the Rescue (Com.)..
SELIG

Oct. 27— The Pendulum of Fate

Oct. 28 — When May Weds December

Oct. 29 — Two Sacks of Potatoes

Oct. 29— A Muddle in Horse Thieves

Oct. 30 — Old Doc Yac and the Artist's Dream

Oct. 31 — The Dangling Noose

Nov. 4 — Slipping Fingers

Nov. 6 — The Probationer

Nov. 6 — The Conversion of Mr. Anti

Nov. 7 — The Schoolmarm's Shooting- Match. .

Nov. 10 — Phantoms (2 parts — Dr.) 2000

Nov. 11 — Movin' Pitchers (Com.) 1000

Nov. 12— Trying Out No. 707 (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 13— The Child of the Prairie (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 14 — A Cure for Carelessness (Com.).... .
Nov. 14 — The Matterhorn, Switzerland (Travel)
Nov. 17 — The Escape of Jim Dolan (8 part

Dr.) 8000

Nov. 18 — The Port of Missing Women (Dr.). 1000

Nov. 19— The Touch of a Child (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 20 — An Actor's Romance (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 21— Outwitted by Billy (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 24 — The Quality of Mercy (Dr. — Parts

I and II)

Nov. 25 — Mounted Officer Flynn (Dr.)..

Nov. 26 — Cupid in the Cow Camp (Com.).... i

Nov. 27 — A Message from Home (Dr.) ;

Nov. 28 — The Supreme Moment (Dr.)

Dec. 2 — The Rustler's Reformation

Dec. 3 — Within the Hour

Dec. 4 — Grandaddy's Boy

Dec. 5 — Northern Hearts

Dec. 8 — Master of the Garden (Dr. — Parts I "

and II)

Dec. 9 — An Equal Chance (Dr.)

Dec. 10— Hilda of Heron Cove (Dr.)

Dec. 11 — Physical Culture on the Quarter

Circle V Bar (Com.)

Dec. 12 — The Mysterious Way (Com.)

URBAN ECLIPSE
George Kleine
Aug. 12— The Mong-Fu-Tong (Part I & II)

(Dr.) 1800

Aug. 19— The Clown's Revenge (Part I ft II)

(Dr.) 8000

Oct. 14— The Last Minute (Dr.) (Part I

& II) 8000

Oct. 28— The Rajah's Diamond Rose (Part

I & II) (Dr.) 8000

Nov. 25 — The Subterranean City; or Trail-
ing the Jewel Thieves (2 part Dr.)
VITAGRAPH
Nov. 1 — The Warmakers (2 part Special) ....

Nov. 3— The King's Man

Nov. 4 — His Silver Bachelorhood

Nov. 6 — The Hoodoo Umbrella

Nov. 6 — Scenic

Nov. 6 — A Broken Melody

Nov. 7 — Flaming Hearts

Nov. 8— The Diver (2 part Special)

Nov. 10 — Thieves

Nov. 11— The Right Man

Nov. 12 — Fellow Voyagers

Nov. 12 — Scenic

Nov. 13 — Their Interest in Common

Nov. 14 — Fanny's Conspiracy '

Nov. 16 — Miss Tomboy (8 part Special)

Nov. 17— Tangled Threads

Nov. 18— His Last Fight

Nov. 19— Why I Am Here

Nov. 20— The Sale of a Heart

Nov. 21 — The Schemers

Nov. 22— Whimsical Threads of Destiny (I

part Special)

Nov. 24 — Mary Jane

Nov. 26 — The Swan Girl

Nov. 26 — An Elopement at Home

Nov. 27— The Cure

Nov. 28 — Betty in the Lion's Den

Nov. 29 — The Golden Pathway (8 part Spe-
cial)

Dec. 1— A Game of Cards (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 2 — The Wreck (3 parts — Dr.) 8000

Dec. S — A Fair of Prodigals (Com.)

Dec. 3 — The Coliseum of Rome

Dec. 4— The Swan Girl (Dr.) "000

Dec. 6 — A Lesson in Jealousy (Com.) 1000

Dec. 6 — Beauty Unadorned (2 parts — Com.). 2000

Dec. 8— 'Mid Kentucky Hills (Dr.)

Dec. 9 — Deception (Com.)

Dec. 10— That Suit at Ten (Com.)

Dec. 10 — Performing Lions (Edu.).

Dec. 11 — Sacrifice (Dr.)

Dec. 12— The Life-Saver (Com.)

Dec. 13 — Love's Sunset (Dr. — Parts T -and -IT) *

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IN 6 REELS AND 160 SCENES
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71 W. 23rd Street and 440 Fourth Avenue, New York; 121 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.; 1022 Superior Ave-
nue, Cleveland, Ohio; 7th and Walnut Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio; Equity Bldg., Detroit, Mich.; 218 Commercial
St., Boston, Mass.; 122 Pearl St.. Buffalo, N. Y. ; 737 Broadway, Albany, N. Y.; 921 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.

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BRONCHO HEAOLINERS

December 10 The Frame Up

December 17 The Open Door

December 24 Her Father's Story

December 31 Tbe Wo"ian

January 7 A Military Judas

January 14 Conscience

KEYSTONE
COMEDIES

December 8

Ride for a Bride
December 11

The Horse Thief
December 15

The Gusher
December 18
Fatty's Flirtation — Protect-
ing San Francisco From Fire
December 20

His Sister's Kids
December 22

A Bad Game
December 25

Some Nerve

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DOMINO WINNERS

December 11 Devotion

December 18 The Curse

December 25 Eileen of Erin

January 1 True Irish Hearts (3 reels)

J anuary 8 , Harp of -Tara.

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FEATURES

December 9

Her Legacy
December 12

Soul cf the South
Two Reels

December 19

The Pitfall

Two Reels

December 26

Harvest of Sin
January 2

Prince
January 9

Kentucky Romance

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NEW YORK CITY

Motion Picture

News

Exhibitors Times

Est. 1913

DECEMBER 20th, 1913

Moving Picture News

uEst. 1908

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Volume VIII

Number 24

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We have doubled our output within a year's time — and trebled our
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A STORY WITH A STRONG MORAL PUNCH, PACKED WITH SENSATIONAL SCENES

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and make a name for you, get in touch at once with

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Beautiful photographs of the leading actors and
actresses playing in licensed films. Finished in
soft gray. Size 22"x28".

Price, 40c each
Postage prepaid

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Francis X. Bushman
Gilbert M. Anderson
Marc MacDermott
Arthur Johnson
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Williams, Mary Charleston, William
Duncan.

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OAK FRAMES

For the n//xi4// size photographs, silver
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General Film Company, (Inc.)

Poster Department

(Formerly Photoplay Advertising & Specialty Co.)

71 W. 23rd Street and 440 Fourth Avenue New York

121 Fourth Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa.

1022 Superior Avenue Cleveland, Ohio

7th and Walnut Streets Cincinnati, Ohio

Equity Bldg Detroit, Mich.

218 Commercial Street Boston, Mass.

122 Pearl Street Buffalo, N. Y

737 Broadway Albany, N. Y.

921 Walnut Street Kansas City, Mo.

ARTISTS APPEARING IN OUR PHOTOPLAYS

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CHARLES KLEIN'S

The Third Degree

was the surest dramatic hit of recent years in New York and through-
out the United States.

The Third Degree

has been declared by critics to be the most intense, thrilling and
sincere play of its important class. With the co-operation of the
author, and a remarkable cast of actors and actresses selected for
their especial fitness to enact its very exacting characters,

The Third Degree

has been reproduced by the Lubin Company as a

5- Reel Feature Photoplay.

No play from the "speaking stage" ever lent itself so perfectly to
motion pictures and no finer feature film has ever been turned out.

Full line of advertising matter, heralds, lithographs and lobby
displays of the same unusual quality that characterizes all such matter
originated by the General Film Company accompanies

The Third Degree

which is exclusively controlled and now being
booked by the

General Film Company, (inc.)

SPECIAL FEATURE DEPARTMENT

71 West 23rd Street New York

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Mutual
Movies

Make Time
Fly

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This trademark is being made famous through a tremendous
national advertising campaign. Are you getting your share of
the business it is pulling?

Making Patrons for
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The tremendous sums of money now being spent to advertise
MUTUAL MOVIES will bring the biggest audiences in your
vicinity to the theatre exhibiting MUTUAL MOVIES.

Do you want these big audiences in your theatre or do you want them to
go to the theatre across the street?

If you want to swell your box office receipts, get the MUTUAL service
in your theatre quickly, and then hook up with the MUTUAL advertising by
displaying the MUTUAL SOLAR LIGHT in front of your box office and
by using all the other forms of advertising we give you, so that the advertising
we do becomes the advertising of your own theatre.

Mutual Film Corporation

Branches

in 49 Cities

New York

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ONE OF THE BEST THINGS

about Ezo Lamp Lubricant
is the absolute freedom of
movement it gives to car-
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never worries about his light.

A lamp not lubricated works in jerks and
jumps.

The light on the screen is not steady.
Ezo will nuke every part work smoothly
•and evenly. It comes in handy-sized
sticks, is clean to handle. There is no
dripping — no fire danger. Simply apply
it to all movable parts while the lamp is
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in repairs.

Wrap 25 cents in silver or stamps in one
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FLY] NG "A" FEATURE Fl LMS ^ \

THE SH RIMER'S DAUGHTER

TWO PART FEATURE

A Special Fete of the Big Shrine Concert Tour of California
with combined bands and patrols of San Diego, Los Angeles,
San Francisco and Oakland. Featuring Winifred Greenwood
and Ed Coxen. Exhibitors will find this a good subject for
a Shriner's Night. One, Three and Six Sheet Posters.

Release, Monday, December 22nd, 1913.

THE ROSE OF SAN JUAN
Release, Saturday, December 27th, 1913.

Thrilling scenes of early life in California vividly portrayed.
Sydney Ayres, supported by an able cast. One and Three
Sheet Posters.

COMING!

The Tremor

of the

Day: "IN

THE

FIRELIGHT."

A Two Part

Feature

written by

Marc

Edmond Jones.

AMERICAN FILM MFG. CO., Chicago.

A Keystone Mutual Movie

Zuzu, the Bandleader

IN TWO PARTS
CAN YOU IMAGINE IX?

A production staged by Mack Sennett with 2000 feet of
Mable Normand and Ford Sterling.

TWO K INDS OF ONE, THREE AND SIX SHEET POSTERS
Booking Can Be Secured from Any Office of the

MUTUAL FILM CORPORATION

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EDISON

This list contains the first stories in two great comic series by Mark Swan, "Wood B. Wedd"
and "Andy," featuring Wm. Wadsworth and Andy Clark respectively. The Mary series made
the greatest hit ever scored. Don't let this opportunity slip by.

***FEG O' THE MOVIES

By James Oppenheim

Peg is sent West at the head of a moving
picture company. Stephen, her lover, who
went West in disgust when she became an
actress, follows one of her films to the next
tOAvn and while returning, meets Peg, who is
making an "Indian" picture. For her sake he
consents to take part, but when he gets her on
his saddle in the rehearsal he rides out upon
the long trail, forgetting the picture.

Released Friday, December 12th

***WITHIN THE ENEMY'S LINES

From "A Captured Santa Claus" by Thomas Nelson Page

Colonel Stafford, C. S. A., gets inside the
Union lines in disguise to spend Christmas
with his family. He is recognized by Colonel
Denby, U. S. A., and will be shot if captured
in civilian clothes. His son makes his way to
the Union camp, gets a uniform from a Con-
federate prisoner and saves his father's life.
Denby accepts Stafford's surrender and an in-
vitation to have Christmas dinner with the
family.

Released Friday, December 19th

***A TUDOR PRINCESS

Mary, sister of Henry VIII, loves young Suffolk. When Louis of France, a decrepit old roue,
asks for her hand she flees with Suffolk but they are caught and Mary marries Louis to save Suf-
folk's life. Suffolk follows them to France and is -discovered in Mary's apartment by Louis. He
is condemned to die but is saved by the death of the King. He and Mary return to England
and are married.

Released Friday, December 26th

COMING EDISON SINGLE REEL RELEASES

**THE ACTRESS

She learns the depth of true love.

Released Tuesday, December 16th

-FALLING IN LOVE WITH INEZ

It was strenuous work.

Released Wednesday, December 17th

**THE HAUNTED BEDROOM

The ghost of a youth guards his sister's dowry.

Released Saturday, December 20th

*TEACHING HIS WIFE A LESSON

He lands in the Police Court.

(On the same reel.)

PRODUCTS OF THE PALM

Released Monday, December 22nd

**THE UPWARD WAY

The rise of a convict.

Released Tuesday, December 23rd

*0ne sheet, **One and three sheets. ***0ne, three,

-MARY'S NEW HAT

She gets it despite hubby.

(On the same reel.)

THE JANITOR'S QUIET LIFE

Released Wednesday, December 24th

**A PROPOSAL FROM MARY

Sixth and last story of "Who Will Marry Mary?"
Released Saturday, December 27th

**HER FACE WAS HER FORTUNE

The first of Wood B. Wedd's sentimental experiences.
Released Monday, December 29th

**THE MYSTERY OF THE DOVER EX-
PRESS

Second Mystery in "The Chronicles of Cleek."

Released Tuesday, December 30th

• ANDY GETS A JOB

Honesty wins Andy a job.

Released Wednesday, December 31st

and six sheets by the Morgan lithograph Company

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THOMAS A. EDISON, Inc.

Makers of t^e Edison Kinetoscope 275 LAKESIDE AVENUE, ORANGE, N. J.

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Table of Contents

PAGE

Frontispiece, "'Jack'' 12

The Punch in Advertising 13

N. Y. Feature Buyers Get Together 14

Patents Suit Continues 11

Lasky and De Mille Enter Picture

Field 15

A Plea for Educational Subjects. ... 16
Philadelphia Exhibitors Meet. ..... 17

Picture Theatres and Others 18

Latest News from Chicago 19

Motion Pictures Develop Quick

Thinkers , 7 20

Motion Pictures to Educate the

Farmer 21

Successful Exhibiting 23

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Balboa Studio Busy 24

Oh, It"s an Interesting Life 25

Music and the Picture 27

What the Motion-Picture Theatre

Replaces 28'

What Is a Kineplastikon ? 29

Film Crusade Against Social Evil. . . 31
For Those Who Worry O'er Plots

and Plays 33

Advertising the Picture 35

Motion-Picture Display at 'Frisco

Exhibition ' 36

Special Film Reviews 39

Interesting Film Reviews 41

Manufacturers' List of Releases .. 54-56

HOLIDAY NUMBER

Issued Dec. 20th

Dated Dec 27th

Forms Close Dec. 16th

This special Holiday number of The Motion Picture News will carry a handsome Yule-
tide cover in two colors and be replete with illustrations and feature articles of interest to all.

AN EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY

will be afforded the advertiser to make his 1914 announcement to the exhibitors, exchanges
and feature buyers of this country through the bright, newsy, authoritative pages of

" The Fastest Growing Picture Journal "

Color positions will cost merely the extra charges for color and cost of plates.

IVirc. irrile or call for position or further information.

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NEW YORK

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Mister

Exchange Man

DEMAND films on good
stock. If a picture is not
printed on a strong base it is
unfit to use in a very short
time.

Demand LUM I ERE in
your prints and get the best
wearing stock in the world.
Photographically perfect. In-
sist on LUMIERE.

DAVID HORSLEY

1600 Broadway Mecca Building

NEW YORK

Film Quality

Quality in the film — quality from
a technical photographic standpoint
is as important to the Exhibitor as
is interest in the story that the
film tells.

There's one film that's recognized
the world over as the standard of
quality — that is always used by
those whose effort it is to give the
Exhibitors the very best goods and
the very best service — Eastman film.

And it is identifiable. Look for
"Eastman" on the perforated margin.

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY,

ROCHESTER, N. Y.

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

OF THE

Colonial Motion Picture Corporation

tflThe COLONIAL MOTION PICTURE
CORPORATION has secured the rights to
produce in photo-plaj^ form the best known
literary works of the following famous
authors :

SIR GILBERT PARKER, Author of "The
Right of Way," "The Battle of the Strong,"
"Seats of the Mighty."

GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER, Author
of "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," etc.

RUPERT HUGHES, Author of "Excuse
Me," "The Old Nest," "Miss 318."

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS, Author of "The
Claws of the Tiger," "The Penalty."

EMERSON HOUGH, Author of "The Mis-
sissippi Bubble," "Heart's Desire," "54-40 or
Fight."

JAMES OPPENHEIM, Author of "Dr.
Rast," "Idle Wives."

FREDERIC ARNOLD KUMMER, Author

of "The Brute," "The Other Woman."
MRS. WILSON WOODROW, Author of

"Sally Salt," "The Silver Butterfly."
GEORGE BRONSON HOWARD, Author of

"Snobs," "The Double Cross," "Broadway to

Paris."

MABEL HERBERT URNER, Author of
"The Journal of a Neglected Wife," "Their
Married Life."

LARRY EVANS, Author of "Once to Every
Man," etc.

JOHN FLEMING WILSON, Author of "The

Man Who Came Back," etc.
COSMO HAMILTON, Author of "The

Blindness of Virtue," "The Door That Has

No Key."

fj The copyrighted- works of these famous
authors will be presented in the form of
one-or-more-reel COLONIAL Features.

^ The first of these productions will be Sir
Gilbert Parker's masterpiece, "Seats of the
Mighty."

"Every COLONIAL Picture is a Feature"

Colonial Motion Picture Corporation

18 East 41st Street New York City

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WHERE TO BUY

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

PAGE

Ailison and Hadaway 45

American Cinematograph Co 52

American Film Mfg. Co 7

Ammex Film Co 51

Amusement Supply Co 46

All Star Feature Corporation 46

Balboa Amusement Co 45

.Bennett, Chas. H 50

Birch-Field & Co 49

Blinkhorn, A 55

Bosworth, Inc 48

Calehuff Supply Co 53

Colonial Motion Picture Co 10

Commercial M. P. Co 50

Eastman Kodak Co 10

Eclair Film Co 2

Edison, Thos. A., Inc S

Electric Film Co 51

Emby Feature Film Co 51

Enterprise Optical Co 58

Essanay Film Mfg. Co 57

European Feature Film Co 51

Evans Film Mfg. Co., Inc 44

Ezo Mfg. Co 7

Feature Photoplay Co 46

General Electric Utilities Co 46-49

General Feature Film Co 51

General Film Co 4-5-60

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General Specialty Co 50

Genter, J. H 11

Gloria American Co 51

Greater X. Y. Slide Co 58

Gunby Bros 49

Harding Photo Engraving Co 46

Hart Booking Bureau 45

Horsley, David 10

Hotel Martinique 52

Italian- American Film Co 58

Keystone Film Corporation 7

Kinematograph Weekly 45

Kraus Mfg. Co 46

Lakeside Film Exchange 51

Lavezzi Machine Works 52

Le Courrier Cinematographique . . 45

Lubin Mfg. Co 55

Mestrum. Henry 46

Metropolitan Premium Co 47

Mirror Screen Co 58

Motion Picture Apparatus Co 50

Motion Picture Camera Co 53

M. P. Operators' Union 46

Mutual Film Corporation 6

Newman Mfg. Co 50

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New York Film Co 51

New York Motion Picture Co 59

Niagara Slide Co 49

Pan-American Film Mfg. Co 51

Phantosicpe .Mfg. Co 32

Photoplay Co 7.>rrf,_ 53

Picture Theatre Equipment Co 11

Precision Machine Co 2

Ramo Films 3

Royal Film Exchange 49

Ryno Film Co. 51

Schneider, Eberhard 49

'^ears, Sam 45

Special Event Film Mfg. Co 50

Steele Furniture Co 50

Sterling Camera & Film Co 49-51

Supreme Feature Film Co 47

Theatre Specialty Mfg. Co 49

U. S. Factories Co 58

World's Special Film Corporation.. 51

Williams, Brown & Earle 52

Wentworth, Courtnev 49

World's Best Film Co 51

Wurlitzer Co 52

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Large Profits and Few Sales.

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Guarantee. It Won't Crack, Peel or Turn Black. Tints Optional With You, Silver White, Silver
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Motion Picture News

MOVING PICTURE NEWS

Es^ul''=hed 1908

EXHIBITORS' TIMES

Established 1913

Volume VIII

December 20, 1913

Number 24

THE "PUNCH" IN ADVERTISING

A

FEATURE film buyer came to New York
last week on a still hunt for features that were
NOT sensational.

H

E has many interesting things to say.

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ONE was : That his exhibitor trade does not want
sensational films, because their audiences don't
want them and have told the exhibitors so very plainly.

\ NOTHER was: That he had to refuse several
good features for the simple reason that, while
they were not at all sensational, their titles were and
so were the posters — decidedly so.

*• * *

T> OTH were unfortunately misleading ; so much so
that — in this instance at least — they prevented the
sale of the films.

T

HEN we fell to analyzing the craze for sensation-
alism.

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T T proceeds — in my opinion" — said the feature
A buyer, "from the effort to make a picture with
a 'punch' in it. But a mistaken idea has been de-
veloped of just what gives a punch."

T N order to punch people it is not necessary to enact
*- the horrible, to tell the unspeakable or grossly ex-
aggerate. We, all of us, get enough punches in our
daily hours. Why not depict these real incidents, for
instance.

* * *

npHE stage has gone through much the same
experience as the picture is now going through.
Only a few years ago we had to have our actors and
actresses "made up" and they dealt in impossible melo-
drama— because it was thought the audiences wanted
these exaggerated effects.

* * *

HpIlEN along came a playwright who wrote a play
of real everyday life, in which real everyday
people acted, and lo ! a new era of plays "with the
punch was introduced."

lVyfUCH more might he written along these lines
^A involving the future of the feature film ; but this
talk has to do with advertising.

AS with posters, so with other forms of advertising,
and it is not only unnecessary to attempt the sensa-
tional, but it is bad advertising.

TT is bad advertising because it is almost certain
to be misleading and fewer and fewer of the
buying public nowadays are willing to be misled.

* * *

"pEOPLE are most interested in everyday life. Buy-
*- ers are most interested in facts!

T

HE keynote of advertising is simplicity.

* * *

'"T* HE skilled advertiser works with small words ;

they fit into the mind more easily. He picks out
one selling argument and plugs away at it. He uses
few words and makes every one count for all it is
worth. He uses clean, expressive type and plenty of
white space.

* * *

TT E makes you want to read his announcement — and
*- -1 then makes you want to buy — and then makes
it easy for you to buy.

* * *

T T isn't necessary to shout and swagger in adver-
*- tising; nor to give an advertisement a gaudy rai-
ment of ultra-sensationalism.

* * *

,\7'OU would not instruct your salesman to go into
a man's office with a leap and a yell ; neither
would you have him flippant or "smart" in his talk ;
nor would you dress him up in a bal masque costume.

* * *

/^v N the contrary, you force him to keep to solid
facts, to be brief and to the point, to be clean-
cut in appearance.

* * *

X/'OUR advertising is simply printed selling talk.

■* Therefore you will not tolerate in it anything
you would not put up with in your personal sales-
manship.

* * *

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RITE copy as yon talk — only be much more brief
is the best advertising maxim.

A

ND talk facts!

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NEW YORK FEATURE BUYERS GET TOGETHER

Twenty- One Firms Form Feature Film Protective Association to Co-operate on Bad Accounts, Fight
"Pirates" and "Dupers" and Endeavor to Get Manufacturers to Produce More High Class Features

REPRESENTATIVES of twenty-one firms lo-
cated in New York City, which purchase fea-
ture films and rent them to exhibitors, met re-
cently in the offices of the Advance Feature Film
Company at 683 Sixth avenue, and formed the Fea-
ture Film Protective Association, the first organiza-
tion of its kind in the country.

The members of the Feature Film Renters Associa-
tion are combining their forces for the purpose of
improving the moving picture business in various
respects.

"We plan to do several things," says Moe Streimer,
the president. "We are going to get after bad accounts.
But that is not our main purpose. We want more
good features, real features. To induce the manufac-
turers to make them we intend to offer more money.
Instead of buying mediocre features at ten or twelve
cents a foot, we take the stand that we want good
features and are willing to pay fifteen cents a foot
or as high as twenty cents if they are worth the money.
We will also plan ways and means of protection
against unreliable film men, 'pirates' and 'dupers' es-
pecially. The attendance at the first meeting was
most flattering. Nearly all the feature buying firms
in New York City were represented and enrolled as

members. At the next meeting it is expected that
they will all come in."

The following are the officers of the association :
President, Moe Streimer, Theatre Film Company;
vice-president, Murray Bier, Emby. Feature Film
Company; secretary, William Weisfold, Advance
Feature Film Company, and treasurer, Mr. Cohen,
of the Feature Film Company.

* * *

HE firms enrolled in the Feature Film Protective
Association are :

Theatre Film Company, Inc. ; World Special Film
Corporation ; Warners' Features, Inc. ; Advance Fea-
ture Film Company, Inc. ; Regal Feature Film Com-
pany, Eagle Feature Film Company, Sedeg Feature
Film Company, Emby Feature Film Company, Ideal
Feature Film Company, Richter Feature Films Com-
pany, North American Feature Film Company, Ex-
clusive Feature Film Company, Eastern Feature Film
Company, Unique Feature Film Company, Fidelity
Feature Film Company, Special Feature Film Com-
pany, Feature Film Company, Royal Feature, Film
Company, Vita Feature Film Company, Savoy Fea-
ture Film Company, and Weinberg's Feature Film
Company.

PATENTS SUIT CONTINUES

Defense Piles Up Evidence Showing Improvement in Trade Conditions Since 1908

MUCH testimony along routine lines was piled
up during the week by the defense in the Fed-
eral suit against the Motion Picture Patents
Company as a trust under the Sherman anti-trust law.
The majority of the witnesses were managers of Gen-
eral Film Company branch exchanges. They all testi-
fied as to the unsettled and chaotic conditions in the
motion-picture business prior to 1908 and the vastly
superior condition at the present time. Several of
the number, who had owned exchanges which the Gen-
eral Film bought out, expressed themselves as pleased
with the sales.

One interesting development, but one which has no
direct bearing on the case, is the announcement that
Edward P. Grosvenor, special assistant to Attorney-
General McReynolds, the man who has been in charge
of the prosecution, and Joseph P. Darling, special agent
of the Department of Justice, a lawyer himself and
the man who worked up the evidence, will resign from
the Government service as soon as the Patents Com-
pany cases are ended. There is no dissatisfaction.
Both men will go into private practice in New York.
The move has no special significance as men are con-
tinually leaving the Government service when an op-
portunity to better themselves presents itself.

It is expected that the hearings in New York will be
wound up in a week or two. Then hearings will be
held in the Middle West. These are expected to be
concluded by the first of February. Then both sides
will take their time in preparing briefs after which
the case will be argued before the District Court of
the United States for Eastern Pennsylvania. When
the decision will be handed down is problematical. It
may be the week after the briefs go in. It may not
come through till next fall.

Two witnesses were heard Monday morning. Al-
bert J. Gilligham, of 60 Virginia avenue, Detroit, man-
ager of the Detroit branch of the General Film Com-
pany, was the first witness. He was formerly asso-
ciated as treasurer in the National Vaudette Film Com-
pany with Emanuel Mandelbaum, Philip Gleichman
and Jacob Diener. The General Film Company
bought the National Vaudette Film Company for
$60,000.

Ike Van Runkel, manager of the American, Wabash
and City Hall branches of the General Film Company,
in Chicago, came next. He was formerly treasurer of
the American Film Service, which was sold to the Gen-
eral Film for $49,500.

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LASKY AND DE MILLE ENTER PICTURE FIELD

Company is Incorporated in New York State to Produce Famous Plays and Novels on the
Ground Where the Action Was Supposed to Have Occurred — "The Squaw
Man" Will Be Their Initial Feature

A RUMOR which has been going the rounds in
motion picture circles for the past eight months
to the effect that Jesse L. Lasky, the well-known
theatrical producer, was to enter the realm of the film
is at last an accomplished fact. A statement issued
at the Lasky offices in the Longacre Theatre late this
week confirmed these reports and announced that the
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Motion Picture Company, in-
corporated under the laws of the state of New York,
would in future be devoted
to the production of famous
plays and novels in film
form. The announcement
also said that several men
prominent in the theatrical
and motion-picture world
would be associated with
Mr. Lasky in the new com-
pany.

Jesse L. Lasky, perhaps
best known as the creator
of the famous Folies Ber-
gere and the producer of
many important vaudeville
acts, is the president and
guiding star of the new or-
ganization and will have
charge of the numerous de-
tails connected with the en-
terprise. Associated with
him will be men of distinc-
tion and note in the amuse-
ment field.

* * *

NOTABLE among these
will be Cecil De Mille,
for the past few years asso-
ciated with David Belasco,
both as a playwright and as
a stage director. Mr. De

Mille has already collaborated with Mr. Lasky in sev-
eral dramatic triumphs and will act as general stage
director in charge of all the productions of the new
company.

Mr. De Mille's activities were confined exclusively
to the drama, but since the Jesse L. Lasky Company
was first spoken of he has been an ardent student of
the screen drama and is now a full-fledged believer in
the motion photo play. As an aide and first-hand as-
sistant, Mr. De Mille will have Oscar Apfel, the
former Pathe director, who has been turning out
features for Reliance and Majestic and before that
with the Edison Company. Mr. Apfel will be asso-
ciated with Mr. De Mille in all productions under

JESSE L. LASKY

taken by the Jesse L. Lasky organization management.

The officers of the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Motion
Picture Company are as follows : Jesse L. Lasky,
president ; Cecil De Mille, general stage director ; Sam-
uel Goldfish, treasurer and business manager, and
Frank A. Tichenor, general sales manager. Mr. Gold-
fish will have complete charge of the commercial end
of the Lasky organization.

Frank A. Tichenor, who is in charge of the sales de-
partment of the new com-
pany, was for a time the
head of the Manhattan Slide
and Film Company and, in
consequence, is known to
many in the motion-picture
trade. As chairman of the
Motion Picture Exhibition
and Convention at the Grand
Central Palace he greatly en-
larged his circle of acquaint-
ances and gained many
friends.

THE policy of the Jesse
L. Lasky Company will
be the adaptation of famous
novels and plays for presen-
tation on the screen, using
as a background the precise
locality where the action of
the play or novel was sup-
posed to have occurred.
Contracts have already been
made with Edward Milton
Royle and the new com-
pany's first production will
be "The Squaw Man," the
drama in which Dustin Far-
num starred. Mr. Farnum
has been engaged to play the
leading role for the Lasky company and as many of
the original cast as can be secured will be utilized in
the coming production.

Mr. Royle, accompanied by Cecil De Mille and
Dustin Farnum. are now in the West in search of the
exact spot upon which Mr. Royle based the action of
his drama. Mr. Lasky as yet has been unable to an-
nounce the names of the cast which will support Mr.
Farnum, but it is expected he will do so in the near
future.

The mere announcement of the formation of the
new concern and the character of its coming produc-
tions has resulted in many requests for territorial
rights.

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A PLEA FOR EDUCATIONAL SUBJECTS

"rpHE application of the Motion Picture to Edu-
cational Purposes" is the title of a paper re-
cently delivered before the Photographic
Society of Philadelphia by Henry Leffmann. Mr. Leff-
mann gives a. practical exposition of some of the ways
in which motion pictures can be an almost invaluable
aid to instruction in various lines. His paper follows :

"The development of efficiency in motion picture
apparatus has been due, as in almost all other cases of
progress, to the labors of many workers, only a few
of whom have received full pecuniary reward for
their services. So far as can be at present asserted
on published evidence, the first person to show mo-
tion pictures on a screen was Mr. H. R. Heyl, of
Philadelphia, who, at a public lecture in 1870 under
the auspices of the Franklin Institute, showed pic-
tures of a waltzing couple, these being from nega-
tives taken from the original moving figures.

"Muybridge's work is well known. It was obtained
by a very complex and expensive set of cameras, but
was of great importance in showing the error of
the ordinary representations of animals in motion.
The child's toy is also well known. It is probably
very ancient, as Mr. Jenkins, of Washington, D. C,
has pointed out lines in Lucretius' poem 'On the Nature
of Things' that indicate that such apparatus was known
at that date, the first century of the common era.

"It seems to me that concerted effort should be made
by educators to secure facilities for the making and
exhibiting of films for the many forms of educational
work for which the art is so well adapted. Those that
are occasionally shown of growing plants, moving-
animals, microscopic or otherwise, are usually inter-
esting, but as a general thing, in these the scientific
value is sacrificed to the dramatic effect, and one is
not always sure that some of the results are not faked.
The educational use that should be made is, for ex-
ample, to show: movements of ameba and infusoria,
circulation of the cell-contents in plants, movements
of nuclear structures.

* * *

44 \ S the camera can be so operated that exposures
can be made at any interval, and subsequently
the positive film can be run at high speed, it is pos-
sible to exhibit to a class some of the very slow
processes of cell-action in rapid demonstration. More-
over, since a teacher may often search for a long while
to secure a vivid demonstration of some biologic ac-
tion, it is possible when such has been obtained to
secure a permanent record of it.

"Not the least of the scientific application of the
motion picture camera is the preservation of public
occurrences. It is greatly to be desired that the au-
thorities of our large cities should establish a depart-
ment for obtaining films of every important parade
or other public event, and should preserve the same
with care, so that in later years it would be possible

to show the residents of the city how their ancestors
celebrated.

"Some progress has recently been made in the appli-
cation of the method to the recording of symptoms
of disease, but although these films are praiseworthy
and have been received with much approval of
physicians, yet it appears that they have been obtained
only by the sufferance of one of the great film-making
firms, and that control over the films is retained by
the makers. The need is for a free sale of films and
of all apparatus for making and exhibiting them.

"The papers have recently contained a statement
that under the threat of immediate prosecution a com-
pany that has monopolized much of the photographic
supply business has said, 'Don't shoot, Davy, I'll come
down,' and it is likely that if the powerful educational
institutions of the country would enter on a vigorous
campaign, the interferences that still exist in the appli-
cation of motion pictures to classroom work will be
removed, and it will be possible for educators to obtain
films at reasonable rates and use them without any
restrictions other than those relating to fire hazard.

"Several cameras and exhibition machines have been
devised for the use of films of other than standard size,
but - these do not meet fully the requirements, as the
standard film is likely to be manufactured in larger
quantity and of better quality, and it will be much
better for all if but one size is in vogue.

"AS an instance of the value of cinematographic
study of animal motion, I may mention some
results obtained by Dr. Samuel C. Schmucker and my-
self. A garter snake, eighteen inches long, was marked
with white, narrow, transverse stripes, about six inches
apart, and was then allowed to move over a cross-
lined area of moderate size. The study of the pictures
taken at the rate of about fourteen per second showed
that each part of the snake's body moved over a dif-
ferent point in the field, that is, that the motion was
not like that of a railroad train, with which all parts
go over the same track, but each part of body pursues
an independent set of curves.

"Among the lines of study that might be pursued
is investigation of the details of explosions. A good
deal of photography has been done, it is true, on such
incidents, but it is almost entirely limited to a single
picture, showing only one moment of the phenomenon
and giving no idea of detail."

THREE KEYSTONES A WEEK COMING

Beginning December 15th, the Keystone Company, a s .b-
sidiary of the New York Motion Picture Corporation, will
release three comedies a week on the Mutual program. These
will come Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

In addition, one multiple-reel comedy will be issued a month.
These will be specials. The first of these is ' Zuzu, the Band
Leader," with Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling. Next will
come "Baffles, the Gentleman Burglar."

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PHILADELPHIA EXHIBITORS MEET

News and Notes of Motion Picture Activities in the Quaker City and Vicinity

THE Philadelphia Local of the Mo-
tion Picture Exhibitors' League of
Pennsylvania held an open meeting at
their headquarters in the Parkway
Building, Philadelphia, recently but
owing to the inclement weather, the
meeting was not as well attended as
had been expected.

Among the speakers were Mr. Benn,
of the Benn chain of theatres; Dr. H.
B. F. Cristion, Mr. Samuel F.
Wheeler, Mr. M. J. Walsh, the treas-
urer, and Mr. C. M. Rappaport.

Mr. Benn spoke at length explain-
ing how he managed to get a ten-cent
price when his competitor only re-
ceived five cents admission, and how
now he gets ten and twenty cents at
some of his theatres. He has cut out
vaudeville, singers, and the excessive
number of reels, and instead gives a
short program of single reels prop-
erly projected in a spotlessly clean
theatre. He uses no deodorizers but
depends entirely on fresh air.

Mr. Wheeler spoke at length on the
methods of dealing with the munici-
pal and state authorities, and spoke
of the unfairness of the local officials
in many cases. The other speakers
spoke along similar lines, but all
urged a better and stronger organiza-
tion.

The meeting was not adjourned but
carried over until the regular Friday
session, which will be conducted as
an open meeting. The local meets
every Friday at 2 p.m. in the Park-
way Building, Broad and Race streets,
Philadelphia.

Mr. Bush's speech against censor-
ship was heartily applauded.

Ben Abrams, formerly of Warner's,
says he intends to remain in Philadel-
phia, and expects to spring a surprise
soon in the line of four and five-reel
features.

Mr. Eaton has sold the Midget Bi-
jou, at Fifty-second and Chestnut
streets, Philadelphia, to Isadore Fink-
elman, and is now on the market for
a 3,000 capacity theatre.

Clarence G. Powell has been se-
cured by the owners of the New
Eureka Theatre, Fortieth and Market
streets, Philadelphia, to act as man-
ager. Mr. Powell is well known and
extremely popular in the theatrical
profession, having for the past ten
years been identified with it as owner,
lessee and manager of various suc-
cessful enterprises. He was formerly
manager of the Wildwood Ocean
Pier, at Wildwood, N. J.

The new theatre is to be one of the
handsomest in Philadelphia, devoted
to first run and exclusive feature pic-
tures only. A ten-cent admission will
be charged.

J. Delmar, for many years the popu-
lar live wire manager of the Cayuga
Theatre, Philadelphia, announces that
he has severed his connections with
that theatre, and is temporarily re-
leased from all contracts.

From all accounts, up to date the
first week's business of G. D. Briggs
Jr., the new manager of Warner's
features, has more than warranted the
increase in their bookings.

C. Campbell, of the American Fea-
tures, has been busy booking through
Pennsylvania, and will return to
Philadelphia, shortly.

Chas. Thropp, general manager of
Nixon-Erlanger houses, Philadelphia,
is the candidate of the Sixtieth and
Market Streets Business Men's Asso-
ciation for president.

Barris-Nathan Company report
the consummation of several large
picture theatre deals on theatres lo-
cated in Philadelphia. They are very
optimistic regarding the motion pic-
ture business in general, and declare
that business was never so brisk as
it is today.

David Barris expects his book on
motion picture theatre management
to be off the press shortly. Although
confined to 100 pages, it covers the
subject thoroughly and should prove
a great help to those with experience
as well as those just entering the
business. It is to be published by the
Rialto Press.

E. J. O'Keefe, of the City Square
Theatre, Atlantic City, reported that
the exhibitors of that city have or-
ganized an exhibitors' league.

OSHKOSH CONVENTION COMMITTEE

These five members of the Wisconsin branch of the Motion Picture Exhibitors League of America will have charge of the coming Wisconsin
state convention to be held in Oshkosh on December 16 and 17, 1913. From left to right they are: N. J. Ilouze, Charles Porter, John R.

Kk, chairman, Jesse Hogan and Arthur Grey.

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PICTURE THEATRES AND OTHERS

THE new art of photoplay offers the widest lati-
tude for the playwright and the producer in an
appeal universal for the people. In its primitive
stages many things flashed into photoplay that sense
and censorship have since eliminated, but it is now
finding itself as a big, fixed and important form of
art. The pessimists have long ceased to prate about
the doom of motion pictures, to denounce them in
general terms for isolated individual offences and to
sniff at them simply because they were an amusement
within the reach of the most modest purse.

This new form of amusement, however, has dealt
a telling blow at the arbitrary powers controlling the
destinies of the nation's theatres. The prohibitive
prices that once were asked for the artificial stuff that
was parading on the stage as real have been reduced
to a more reasonable basis, and it is generally con-
sidered that the character of the entertainment has
been bettered by a competition once scorned as un-
worthy of notice.

It is now pretty definitely determined that the new
form of entertainment has a very close relation with
the old one, and the former is drawing upon the latter
for its sinews of talent in histrionic and producing
forces. Many an actor, who once sneered at motion
pictures as a thing beneath contempt, has come to
regard them with a respect born of positive profit —
something that may eliminate the drudgery of one-
night stands and the old time business "bunk" with

which most of them were sadly familiar.

* * *

IT has in a similar measure interested the powers
of contemporary fiction to provide mediums of ex-
pression, so that distinguished writers are adapting

their pens to the new forms fitting the silent drama.
Pantomime is the oldest art of the world and its re-
juvenation in motion pictures indicates its potentiality
and its artistic growth upon the widest scale the world
has ever witnessed. Not only has this new factor in
the field of amusement shown steady growth in every
detail of service, but it submits as an enlightened art
to a censorship that it is hoped will give it wholesome
advantages and make it distinctive over every form
of art that deserves to triumph in the esteem of the
present and future generations.

As the service of its supply has bettered and pro-
gressed, the character of its environment has im-
proved (so that the patronizing public gets more com-
fort and more security than ever before for a cheap
tariff. Architectural forms have been adapting them-
selves to these requirements very adroitly and while
the demands of city boards in calls for safety and for
sanitary regulations occasionally appear arbitrary and
exacting, they are all for the best. They add to the
protection of the patron and aesthetically serve to keep
up with the advanced comforts of the age without
adding to the high cost of living.

A recent issue of The Motion Picture News de-
voted to motion pictures had an interesting series
of designs showing the modern habitations for this
class of amusement. These index better than any-
thing else could the demand of the day for secure,
sanitary and attractive surroundings, in association
with the showing of pictures that all through indicate
a betterment of workmanship and improvement of
ideals in an entertainment that is beyond compare,
touching as it does the relaxation hours of people all
over the world.

EXECUTIVE BOARD OF M. P. E. A. OF NEW YORK STATE, WHO WILL MEET AT THE HOTEL IMPERIAL ON MONDAY

THE MOTION

LATEST NEWS

Fulton Installs Wurlitzer Orchestrion

THE latest move of E. E. Fulton, the progressive Chicago
dealer and jobber in motion picture theatre and projection
equipment, is to install a Wurlitzer Motion Picture Orches-
trion in his private exhibition-room. This room is built and
equipped as a regular theatre, having a theatre-appearing
front; regular opera chairs, seating 142 persons; a shadow-
box around a screen, on which two pictures can be shown at
one and the same time if desired; on up-to-date fireproof
operating booth, built of pyrobar, asbestos and iron, in which
are installed three latest motor-driven machines ; a Power,
Simplex and Motiograph, various transformers, economizers
and meters. The architecture of this private theatre is mis-
sion, plastic and metal construction, nicely laid out and with
correct color effects, which gives one an idea for the applica-
tion of the materials and supplies handled by Mr. Fulton.

This theatre is used on Wednesdays by Mr. Fulton to ex-
hibit the advance releases of the films which he represents
in Chicago — Lubin and Patheplay.

W. R. Rothacker — Commuter

W. R. Rothacker, general manager of the Industrial Moving
Picture Co., left Chicago on Sunday via the Twentieth Cen-
tury for New York City. He is listed as a commuter, as it
would take a daily paper to chronicle his trips fore and. back
from New York City. Before the purchase of the Anti-Trust
and Standard exchanges, Claude Plough and Joseph Hopp
held the record for flying trips between Chicago and New
York. Chicago must possess one commuter, so the title passes
on to Rothacker.

General Feature Increases Releases

The General Feature Film Company of Chicago has made
arrangements whereby it will release seven pictures a week.
This progressive concern, which is guided by William Hersh-
berg and Mr. Spencer, recently bought out the M. & F. Fea-
ture Exchange ; since that time they have added several more
of the leading brands to their program and the latest an-
nouncement is that it will put out a feature a day.

Heinze Takes Over South Bend Theatre

George Heinze, one of Chicago's oldest and foremost ex-
hibitors, has closed a deal whereby he will take over the Audi-
torium Theatre in South Bend, Ind. This theatre was for-
merly controlled by Klaw & Erlanger and seats 1,500 people.
Mr. Heinze was the owner of several of the finest motion
picture theatres that Chicago possesses, two of them being
located in the aristocratic suburb of Oak Park.

Bushman Campaigning

Francis X. Bushman, leading man of the Essanay pictures,
is busy campaigning in the various motion picture theatres of
Chicago. With the co-operation of the publicity department,
under the personal direction of Don Meaney, a large portion
of the theatres have been visited. It is the intention of Mr.
Meaney to visit the nearby cities within a radius of three
hundred miles of Chicago.

On these campaigns Mr. Bushman gives a short talk on the
making of the picture. The exhibitors of Chicago are clamor-
ing for Mr. Bushman at their theatres, and those theatres he
has already visited claim him the biggest drawing power they
have ever played. Mr. Bushman will travel out of Chicago as
soon as he has visited all the theatres of the Windy City.
Special posters of Mr. Bushman are being supplied, announc-
ing his coming at the theatres.

Operators' Union Secures New Quarters

The Motion Picture Operators' Union of Chicago has made
arrangements whereby it will occupy the quarters which for-

PICTURE NEWS' 19

FROM CHICAGO

merly housed the White Rats. These clubrooms were at one
time the headquarters of the Press Club of Chicago, and con-
tain many conveniences for the pleasure of its members.
There are pool and billiard tables, bowling-alleys, card-rooms,
banquet-hall, executive-rooms and reading-rooms. These
quarters occupy two floors and are ideal rooms for a big body
such as the Operators' Union.

Union Film Company Elects Officers

After moving into its new quarters on the bank floor of the
Mortimer Building, the Union Film Company elected its offi-
cers. They are: William Hopp, president; William F. Wre-
den, secretary; Joseph Hopp, treasurer, and Carl Harthill,
general manager. This concern is now releasing a feature a
day and is buying the entire output of the Exclusive Supply
Company. It is said that this company is the first to book an
independent feature in the Orpheum Theatre, on State street,
one of Chicago's most prosperous theatres. William Hopp,
who has been ill for the past month, is again on the job
directing things at the Union Film Company's headquarters.

Notes

"Max Green, who has been conducting the Lincoln Theatre,
on North Clark and Division streets, for the past few years,
claims splendid business, due, he states, to the high-class man-
ner in which he runs his theatre. Mr. Green is a progressive
exhibitor and always the first to use the more modern things
which are continually coming into the business.

Amongst the visitors in Chicago this week are J. A. Berst
and Stanly Twist on the register. Stan is on his way to
Australia, but Mr. Berst does not divulge his plans.

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS AT ESSANAY STUDIO

Many distinguished and prominent people visited the Essa-
nay Chicago studio during the past week Among the most
noted, perhaps, was Mayor "Lew" Shank of Indianapolis.
His surprise at the progress of the motion picture industry
and the interesting and novel way in which the pictures are
taken was genuine. John Hymes, of Hymes and Mclntyre,
now playing in "When Dreams Come True," and several
others who request that their names be not mentioned, also
visited the plant.

FILM COMPANY OF DELAWARE STARTS

The Film Company of Delaware, a new concern, has pur-
chased the plant of the New York Motor Works Company,
at East Nutley, N. J., for $150,000, and expects to start oper-
ations soon. The new concern will manufacture motion pic-
ture theatre accessories and equipment. It is expected to
employ 1,000 hands. The recently acquired plant is located
on a plot of several hundred acres and is on a spur track of
the Erie Railroad.

NEW THEATRE FOR PADUCAH, KY.

Paducah, Ky., is to have a new motion picture theatre of
the most modern type. Rodney C. Davis, proprietor and man-
ager of the Kozy Theatre, at 417 Broadway, will erect the
new building on the site now occupied by the Kozy. Rankin
Kirkland, assistant cashier of the City National Bank of
Paducah, will be associated with Mr. Davis in the venture.

Before building the theatre, Mr. Davis is making a tour of
the Middle West and South in search of practical ideas. The
present Kozy is twenty by ninety feet and seats 240. The
new theatre will be twenty-six by 150 feet and seat 500. A
pipe organ will be installed. The Paducah papers have been
loud in their praise of the new enterprise and the men con-
nected with it.

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MOTION PICTURES DEVELOP QUICK THINKERS

SO much has been said about the
effects, both good and evil, of
motion pictures upon children,
that the following discussion of the
subject by President H. E. Aitken, of
the Mutual Film Corporation, is of
particular interest at this time.

Mr. Aitken approaches the subject
from rather a different angle than
that used by the majority of people
who have seen fit to express .their
opinion. If his theory is correct,
even to a small degree, the rising gen-
eration of picture fans stand to revo-
lutionize the arts and sciences.

"The very first training the pic-
tures give to a child," suggests Mr.
Aitken, "is also the most necessary to
its success in any walk of life in
which it may be thrown. That is "ap-
plication." Gradually and unknow-
ingly the child learns to sit in a chair
with its attention riveted upon con-
stantly changing pictures* for many
minutes at a stretch. Thus, without
realizing the fact, the child learns
what will be the very foundation of
its future knowledge and success.
Not only does it learn to apply itself
to the subject in hand, but concentra-
tion is developed to a high degree,
owing to the fact that a single glance

BY H. E. AITKEN

away from the screen is accompanied
by an immediate loss in the shape of
rapidly changing scenes which are
not supplemented by any words that
can supply a substitute thought, by
way of the ear-door to the brain.

"But, as important as the power of
concentration is acknowledged to be
in the scheme of educational develop-
ment, it seems to me that we can ex-
pect of motion pictures an even
greater boon, from the standpoint of
training the youthful mind and also
of improving the thinking power of
adults.

FEW laymen realize the amount
of material or "meat" that is con-
tained in an ordinary photoplay. For
instance, the usual four-act drama
that furnishes a full evening's enter-
tainment in our theatres is told in
pictures in a few minutes. The re-
sult is that the person watching a
motion picture drama thinks many
times faster than the one witnessing
an ordinary drama. Not only do
events follow each other in rapid suc-
cession upon the screen but the mind
must, in addition to taking cognizance
of the action presented, also supply
the thoughts that actuate the move-

ments of the different characters as
well as the effects of the dramatic sit-
uations upon their future behavior.

"Every scene presented must be
closely followed and thoroughly ap-
preciated at the same rate of speed
that it is flashed upon the curtain.
Gradually the mind of the child pic-
ture-theatre goer is trained to work
at a pace that was unknown in the
pre-cinematographic age — if you«will
pardon the coined word — and who
can say to what state of perfection
this quality of rapid thinking will be
developed in the coming generation
of picture viewers.

"There is no doubt in my mind that
the reason why many are won over
to picture-going only after several
years of effort is due to the fact that
the average brain is not yet trained to
grasp enough of the real significance
of the dramatic action presented to
make the moving picture sufficiently
interesting.

"The possibilities of the human
mind trained to an unknown point of
perfection by an agency that was not
discovered until a few short years
ago presents a new line of thought
that is well worthy of consideration
by all persons who think."

Pictures Invade China

American Materials and Supplies in Demand in Celestial Kingdom

THAT China is rapidly becoming
a fertile field . for the exploitation
of motion pictures is evidenced by an
article appearing in the Daily Con-
sular and Trade Reports, written by
George E. Anderson, United States
Consul-General at Hongkong.

A company has been formed in
Hongkong, says Mr. Anderson, with
sufficient capital to furnish the native
population in Chinese cities with mo-
tion picture entertainments having de-
scriptive matter and other features in
Chinese. There are already fairly
successful cinematograph establish-
ments in Hongkong, Shanghai, and
other Chinese open ports and even
in some of the smaller ports, but the
films used are foreign films with for-
eign descriptive matter. The new
company is establishing its first thea-
ter in Yaumati, one of the suburban
centers of Hongkong, with two ma-
chines, one American and one Ital-
ian, and 500 films, most of which are
American films with Chinese adapta-
tion. The company has three Chin-
ese and four European directors.

That there is a field for expansion
in the cinematograph business seems
to be beyond doubt; but because of
the necessity of adapting foreign
films to Chinese audiences and be-
cause of other difficulties, such as
transport and theatre arrangements
in native cities, it is practically neces-
sary to enlist Chinese capital and
more or less Chinese management in
the business.

These are difficult to obtain in con-
nection with an adequate experience
in the motion picture business.
American materials and supplies and
American machines stand well in this
part of the world, and American cine-
matograph methods are coming more
and more into vogue. Continuous
performance establishments are be-
coming popular.

Hongkong, by reason of its central
situation and transportation connec-
tions, has come to be quite an ex-
change center in film distribution.
There are several concerns in the
port at the present time doing busi-
ness solely in motion picture films,

mostly on an exchange or rental busi-
ness; and they serve cities all over
this part of the world, notably in the
Philippines, Indo-China and the Ma-
lay States, Siam, Burma, and North
China.

The names of these concerns and
that of the new cinematograph com-
pany may be obtained from the Bu-
reau of Foreign and Domestic Com-
merce, Washington, D. C.

AMMEX PLAYERS INVADE
MEXICO

Although Mexico is hardly a
healthy or a restful country at this
time, the Ammex Company will
chance stray bullets and will produce
a three-reel Mexican military drama
on the dark and bloody ground be-
yond the Rio Grande. The scenario
of this drama was written by Grace
Adele Pierce, who has been regular ly
engaged to write the Ammex sce-
narios in future.

Miss Pierce is widely known as a
scenario writer. "Judith," the Bio-
graph feature, and one of the last
pictures of D. W. Griffith at the Bio-
graph studio, is a child of her brain.

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MOTION PICTURES TO EDUCATE THE FARMER

United States Government Will Become a Manufacturer, Distributor and Exhibitor of Films

THROUGH the Department of
Agriculture, through its bureau
of rural organization service,
the United States Government has es-
tablished a school of motion pictures
illustrating agricultural methods and
become at once a manufacturer, dis-
tributor and exhibitor of films. This
is what the Rural Organization Ser-
vice majr be termed, which was re-
cently inaugurated with Dr. T. N.
Carver as director.

It is known that the government
has made use of animated views at
conventions and expositions, but
these have only been intermittent as
circumstances demanded. It is also
known that the Bureau of Animal In-
dustry and Office of Public Roads
have circulated films among the farm-
ers as a means of instruction and sug-
gestion, but not until now has a chan-
nel for a continuous output of the
motion pictures of the department
been possible. The use of the camera
exhibition is but a part of the broad
work planned by the Rural Organiza-
tion Service, but there is little doubt
that this will do much to attract the
farmers to the more serious sides of
agriculture.

One of the features of the Rural
Organization Service is to teach the
farmers by motion pictures the vari-
ous lessons of the farm, the stock
yards, the dairy, the forest and the
many other fields in which their in-
terests lie. Clyde L. Davis and Roger
E. Treat have been appointed special
agents to make the initial circulation
of the films in the rural districts. It
is their intention to visit the high-
ways and byways, to show neglected
farmers and those on neglected farms
how to improve themselves, their
lands and their crops. This is the
most up-to-Jate, practical and thor-
oughly popular course in agriculture
that the department has yet at-
tempted.

THE launching of the Rural Or-
ganization Service has caused an
additional incentive in each bureau
and division to put its best work in
animated form, wherever it is found
possible. The various bureau chiefs
have promised co-operation and their
photographic laboratories will in
future bend their efforts towards rib-
bon negatives for themselves and this
service. This movement has come as
a most excellent means of testing the
efficiency of the motion picture as an
educator.

The South is the first field in which
operations have been opened with the
most sanguine success as an outlook.
Probably nothing has ever made the

laggard, the ignorant, and the proud
man of wealth stop to think, as has
the motion picture. It may be called
the spirit of the age, which has been
caught up in all fields of human en-
deavor. It is the common meeting
ground for all classes and needs no
particular language for its interpre-
tation. It is a significant fact that the
spectator takes away from a motion
picture show many suggestions and
often makes practical use of them
without realizing that this was the
primary intent of the film.

In the past the field experts of the
government have had discouraging
experiences in making their points

periments to the agricultural public.

At the present time the Bureau of
Animal Industry has perhaps the larg-
est collection of films and through the
co-operation of Chief Melvin and his
photographer, Joseph Abel, the field
experts of the Rural Service were able
to begin their tour without delay.
Among the subjects that are now
being shown by the field experts is
"The Texas Tick," with a detailed
study of the tick itself and a series of
experiments for the eradication of the
pest as well as a graphic exhibition of
the methods for its prevention. This
will be most beneficial to the South,
as the methods used and suggested

ROAD BUILDING AS SHOWN BY OFFICE OF PUBLIC ROADS

clear by mere words or by the stere-
optican. This inherent defect will be
overcome by the animated views.
Besides, the farmers will have the
opportunity of seeing a truth or a
principle logically worked out from
start to finish without having to un-
dergo the trouble and expense of the
experiment themselves.

The "show me" element forms a
large part of the make-up of the tiller
of the soil. Consequently, there is
every reason why the government
should employ the most up-to-the-
minute manner of presenting its ex-

have been proved a success by the
Bureau of Animal Industry, which
has succeeded in making some badly
infested districts tick-free.

ANOTHER interesting film is the
"Cattle Industry of the South,"
which includes views of existing con-
ditions, accentuating improvements in
some instances and commending the
excellent care of the cattle in others.
Aside From this being an instructive
story, it is also pretty and entertain-
ing, as many of the settings are in
the picturesque and naturally charm-

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ing rural sections of the South. Still
another motion picture gives instruc-
tions to the stock-raiser. This is
called the "Importation and Exporta-
tion of Livestock." It depicts the in-
spection of cattle on leaving and en-
tering our ports to prevent the carry-
ing of diseases. Farmers will wel-
come a knowledge of this side of ani-
mal husbandry, as well as the oppor-
tunity to note the sanitary precautions
exercised during transportation to
and from the quarantine stations, the
excellent barns at these stations and
the consideration given the four-
footed passengers on the steamer.

The Office of Public Roads also
has some films to offer the Rural Ser-
vice. These show methods of road-
building with various kinds of mate-
rial, as well as the ways of repairing
old roads with the idea of the great-
est durability. This includes some
views of our bad roads with the
dilemma of being "stuck in the mud.''

Good roads have become a neces-
sity to-day with the advent of the au-
tomobile as a common means of
transportation of farm products and
pleasant travel in rural districts. It
will therefore interest the farmers to
know how to build and maintain their
public highways. Some scientific
views also form a part of the exhibi-
tion to be offered by the field experts
of the government.

The officials of the Rural Service

are most enthusiastic over the results
already attained in teaching agricul-
ture by motion pictures. Interview-
ing those connected with the work
brought forth these statements: "We
feel confident of the success of our
new departure. People of limited
education are met on a ground within
the scope of their understanding and
are entertained, while the remarks
which supplement the. pictures add to
their fuller knowledge of the subject
shown. YVe expect crowded houses
everywhere, and no doubt in some
towns we will be the first in the field.

HOW CATTLE ARE SHIPPED

The government is doing a wise thing
in establishing a motion picture school
of agriculture."

Willard Howe.

FAREWELL DINNER TO
BRANDT

A number of English newspaper-
men and members of the Trans-At-
lantic Film Company, which was re-
cently formed to handle the Universal
productions in Great Britain, gave a
farewell dinner in London to Joe
Brandt, the Trans-Atlantic's publicity
manager, on the eve of his departure
for America.

The dinner, which was held at the
Boulogne restaurant, Corrard Street,
London, W. C., was a great success
and brought forth many tributes to
Mr. Brandt. John D. Tippetts and
J. Avery, of the Trans-Atlantic Com-
pany, took turns in the chair, while
Lewis Roach, who will take Mr.
Brandt's place as publicity manager
and editor of the Trans-Atlantic Com-
pany's publications, proposed the toast
to the departing guest.

Among those present were Charles
Lane, of the Exchange Telegraph
Company and Lloyd's News; Oscar
Rosenberg and Horace J. Simpson, of
Shuroy's publications; L. Pounds,
Evening News; Mr. Watson, Kinema-
tograph Weekly; Messrs. Hoyes and
Parrott, the Bioscope; S. W. Fred-
man, the Cinema; J. H. Davies, F. W.
Taylor, Clarence Hunt, Mr. Catlin, S.
Kennard, C. B. Betting, L. A. Harrap,
A. Henderson and J. E. Pryde-
Hughes.

T. J. West Talks on Conditions Here

Famous British Showman Pleased by Developments in Picture Art

TJ. WEST, the well-known Eng-
lish film man, who is noted for
his deep knowledge and wide experi-
ence of showmanship, has just re-
turned to England after a visit to
Australia and a tour of the United
States and other countries. During
this time Mr. West made a study of
the motion picture industry in the
various countries which he passed
through, and his observations on con-
ditions in this country have unusual
interest, especially from the exhibit-
or's standpoint.

Mr. West, who stopped in the
United States on his way to Australia,
spent some time here and met many
of the leaders in the motion picture
industry. In a recent interview, ob-
tained immediately after his return
to England, he gave some of the con-
clusions he had reached relative to
the industry here.

"In New York, Chicago and other
cities," said Mr. West, "I met many
of the principal people in the motion
picture trade and had an opportunity
to gage the wonderful developments
which had taken place since I was

there before. In the picture theatres,
vaudeville is being gradually elimi-
nated, better orchestras being pro-
vided in its place, with the result that
business, from the exhibitor's point
of view, has greatly improved.

"I always did contend that Ameri-
can exhibitors began at the wrong
end by charging five or ten cents for
admission, as though their entertain-
ments were only of small worth —
which is very different from what I
did in Australia. Having proved,
however, that in Australia I could get
three shillings, two shillings and one
shilling, they evidently saw that it
was better to eliminate cheap vaude-
ville, get better orchestras and better
projection, and run their shows alto-
gether on a higher plane.

"At the Astfcr Theatre, New York,
for instance, 'Quo Vadis?' had a solid
run of twenty-two weeks at prices
ranging from twenty-five cents to one
dollar, and then it was only taken off
to make room for other plays pre-
viously booked. And I understand
from Mr. Kleine that it is still running
at another theatre."

J. H. HALLBERG MOVES INTO
LARGER QUARTERS

J. H. Hallberg, the motion picture
supply man. has taken the whole
floor at 36 East Twenty-third street,
the change being necessitated by the
growth of his business. Mr. Hall-
berg says that the Hallberg A. C. to
D. C. economizer is giving satisfac-
tion wherever used. To prove his
point he cites the following letter
which he received recently:

"Newburgh, N. Y.

"Dear Sir:

"The Kinemacolor service starts
to-day, and judging from the many
favorable comments on the. Panama
Canal pictures, they should make a
big hit. "Hallberg" A. C. to D. C.
Economizer is a wonder. It worked
perfectly from the start and we do
not have to use but one-half of the
current it produces. The black and
white, pictures we showed for two
days, were the talk of the town. The
operators said the pictures in Pc igh-
keepsie and Newburgh were the best
they had ever seen and we both use
the "Hallberg" A. C. to D. C. Econ-
omizer.

"Yours very truly, .
"F. M. TAYLOR.
"Academy of Music."

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SUCCESSFUL EXHIBITING

BY WALTER ROSENBERG

EDITOR'S NOTE.— As the manager and lessee of
many motion picture theatres, Mr. Rosenberg may be said
to speak with the authority that is the attribute of suc-
cess. Among the motion picture houses under Mr.
Rosenberg's supervision are the following : Savoy The-
atre, New York; Metropolis Theatre, New York; Savoy
Theatre, Mt. Vernon; Savoy Theatre, Asbury Park,
N. J.; Broadway Theatre, Long Branch, and Hoyfs The-
atre, South Norwalk, Conn.

AS lessee and manager of a number of theatres in New
York and elsewhere, I have met with much experi-
ence that I believe may be of material help to
brother exhibitors, who have not had a chance to have a
similar amount of experience. It is not the intention of
this article to criticise any of the methods in vogue by my
contemporaries, rather, it is designed to be a help to those
exhibitors who feel that their methods can be improved
and are willing to take the advice of one who for a num-
ber of years has been actively engaged in the business of
procuring entertainment for the public.

It seems to me that next in importance to the necessity
of having the best pictures possible, comes polite and in-
genious service. An impolite usher or employee who is
not thoughtful can do more to injure the business of his
employer than even poor pictures would do. None of us,
of course, wish to slight any of our employees. By slight-
ing I mean' that every exhibitor believes it is better to
have happy and well-satisfied employees than to have
those who have cause to be disgruntled.

Personally, I do not believe it is necessary to have a
large number of ushers. Even in our large New York
theatre, The Savoy, we have but one usher with an as-
sistant when necessary. This girl, Miss Margaret Brown-
ing, is, perhaps, the best paid and most capable woman
employee in any theatre in New York. For this reason
we are able to get the very best service possible from her.
Her attention to the patrons of the theatre has been re-
marked many times, and the people appreciate even in a
cheap-priced house the little attentions that a thoughtful
person may give them, such as escorting to seats, helping
them on and off with their overcoats, answering their
questions, however foolish, and the thorough-going cour-
tesy extended to everyone who comes into the theatre.
* * *

T T has been our experience with girl ushers that many
*■ are afraid, that if a strange man should address them
their replies are apt to be in the tone of one resenting an
insult, whereas there is a great likelihood of the ques-
tioner desiring nothing but information, with which only
the person addressed could supply them.

Good and capable projection is a most important item.
By projection I mean everything that belongs to the pro-
jector's room. If you have a motor-driven machine, or if
the machine is hand-driven, it is absolutely necessary that
a capable and licensed man shall be in charge. This man
must be paid well, twelve dollars per week not being a
salary sufficient to obtain and retain such a man. This
man must understand fully the running of films in order
not to hurt them. Me must be a thorough electrician and
should have a capable apprentice to help him in winding
and arranging the reels, so that no time is lost.

A mighty good device which we have worked to con-
siderable advantage in all of our theat res is the plan ol
having the signs thrown on the screen from time to time,
telling the patrons things that it is necessary for them to
know, such as the location of the ladies' and gentlemen's
resting rooms, the orogram for the following day, and the

various things of importance which they wish to know.
Of course this plan may be overworked or underworked.
Too many signs, posters, etc., are an injury and will really
hurt a theatre's business.

Posters in front of the house, should always be in
frames, good brass frames with glass fronts, and very few
of them. There should be just enough of them to show
the transient trade that there is a motion picture house in
the rear of those signs. To place posters all over the
front of the lobby is a very poor advertisement. It might
attract a very commonplace class of patrons, but it will
not attract the class of people that you wish to have visit
your house.

* * *

A CLOCK on the stage will be found to be appreciated
by the audience. In the semi-light prevailing in so
many theatres it is rather hard to see the time, and a good
large clock is really a drawing card, or at least so we have
found it. The timepiece used in our Savoy theatre in
New York City is a large, white sheet on which the time
is thrown by an electric clock in the orchestra. The work-
ings are most mysterious and keep the audience continu-
ally guessing how it operates. But it is accurate, can be
easily seen, and is far better than throwing the time on a
stencil on the screen as often as the operator sees fit.

There are always a number of patrons who come into a
theatre just to pass away a certain length of time before
keeping an appointment. These people want to be kept
constantly informed of the time and how long they have
to stay. For this reason they will greatly appreciate an
attention of this kind.

Another thing that comes under the head of attention to
patrons is the condition of the private rooms in a theatre.
The ladies' room in particular should be kept scrupulously
clean and dainty. There should be at least one matron in
constant attendance and every possible requisite should
be at hand so that any visitor may make use of them when
wanted.

For instance, good talcum powder, sweet, wholesome
soap, clean towels for each person, etc., should always be
found there. There should be no expense saved in this
respect, for there is much patronage that rests on just
such little attentions as these.

* * *

A PICTURE is finished and the patrons are leaving the
theatre. There is often a rush for the newly vacated
seats, and the outgoing crowds are rushed by the incom-
ing. Here is the place where a tactful usher is well-nigh
indispensable. How easy it is, if they knew the secret of
amiability, to dispose of that crowd and leave a pleasant
impression on everyone.

Take for example an elderly couple coming in. They
have visited but few theatres, and perhaps this one is a
"blow out" for them. An usher meets them and asks
"What preference have you in the way of seats?-' Prob-
ably being unversed in theatre-going, they may ask to go
to the front. The usher should escort them there even if
the theatre is busy and leave them with the remark, "If
you are too far front please let me know."

When these people leave the theatre, being already in
a good humor, a request to know how they enjoyed the
show is an attention that pleases, and thus they leave in
a better humor and probably become regular patrons.

These are of course little points of the trade which only
experience can teach. But to gain the most successful
results, the whole thing resolves itself down to the follow-
ing: Give the best service you can get for what you are
willing and able to pay in the way of films. Employ the
best of operators, ushers, door men, ticket sellers and
other employees. Avoid the semblance of anything at all
cheap or flaring. Do not have large outside posters un-
less you are sure that that is what attracts your class of
patrons. Keep them posted on your program and give
them such other information as they may wish. Have
everything neat and clean, with floors clear of paper and
other refuse. If by following this advice you still fail,
there is absolutely no hope for your house at all.

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Balboa Studio Busy

ARRANGEMENTS for the produc-
tion of "Balboa," which will be
presented in San Francisco during the
Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915,

BELLE BENNETT

Balboa Leading Woman

are now nearly completed by the Bal-
boa Amusement Producing Company,
of which H. M. Horkheimer is presi-
dent and general manager. Within a
short time the cast will be announced,
a number of well-known actors and
actresses now on the legitimate stage
having already been engaged for the
production.

A recent addition to the Balboa
forces was Belle Bennett, whose name
is already favorably known in the mo-
tion picture world. Miss Bennett,
who will be featured in future in all
the Balboa Company's productions, is
considered one of the best horse-
women appearing in motion pictures.

Henry King, who has been playing
leads for the Balboa Company, is
the principal in a three-reel feature,
"The Path of Sorrow," which is now
being produced under the direction
of Bert Bracken, former director of
the Robin Company. Madeleine Par-
dee, Gypsy Abbott and Victoria and
Eugenie Forde are also cast in im-
portant parts in this production.

Owing to the fact that the Balboa
studio at Long Beach, Cal., has grown
too small to accommodate the number
of people now associated with the
company, within the next few weeks
several new buildings will be erected.
Two new companies will then produce
a number of features, which have been
completed by the scenario depart-
ment.

H. M. Horkheimer, the president of

the company, recently returned to
California from the East, and E. D.
Horkheimer, the secretary, will now
take an extended business and pleas-
ure trip on the Atlantic coast. He
is not expected to return to the Bal-
boa offices before the first of the
year.

Among the recent additions to the
Balboa forces are Mayme and Mar-
guerite Bowles, two Louisville, Ky.,
girls, who are making their debut on
the Screen. Harriet Jensen, who was
a member of the company a few
months ago, has again joined her
former associates at Long Beach, Cal.
All three will be seen in future pro-
ductions of the Balboa Company.

Billy Beckway is in charge of the

HENRY KING

Balboa Leading Man

developing room at the Long Beach
studios, while Henry Stanley, the dean
of the Balboa forces, is regarded as
an authority on make-up among his
associates, in addition to his able work
as a character man.

A special event at the studios re-
cently was the private projection of
a number of films, just completed by
the Balboa Company, which will be
released within a few weeks. The
excellent photography and superior
work of the cast excited much favor-
able comment.

POWER PROJECTION MA-
CHINES AT EXPOSITION

The Nicholas Power Company,
manufacturers of Powers Camera-
graph No. 6A projection machines,
will have a booth at the International
Exposition of Safety and Sanitation
to be held at the Grand Central Pal-
ace from December 11 to 20. They
will demonstrate the safety appli-
ances of their projection machines in
a specially constructed theatre

BARRY O'MOORE IN EDISON
SERIES

A new Edison comic series, "The
Adventures of Octavius," in which
Barry O'Moore will be the star, is
shortly to be begun. There are to be
twelve stories written by Frederick

BARRY O'MOORE

Edison Players

Kummer, and they will appear simul-
taneously in the Pictorial Review.

Octavius is an amateur^ detective
who becomes deeply entangled in the
meshes of baffling criminal plots. His
pursuit of desperate criminals and
near-criminals in his stupendous ef-
forts to suppress crime are original
and humorous to a degree.

The first of the series provides a
distinct thrill in the appearance of
that eleven-foot boa constrictor which
plays an important part in the story.

Barry O'Moore is well known to
the motion picture public, as he has
played character parts of every de-
scription for the Edison Company,
after a stage experience of several
years. Two of his most recent per-
formances which show his ability are
Louis of France in "A Tudor Prin-
cess" and John Hayes in "The Ac-
tress."

BLINKHORN'S FEATURES GO
WELL

Among the visitors to Albert Blink-
horn's office, World's Tower Build-
ing, New York City, last week was
Mr. Lubin, of Montreal, Canada.
He has contracted to take all of
the features that Blinkhorn will
release. Contracts were also closed
for Northern Illinois and Wisconsin,
and all of the Southern States.

"David Copperfield" and "Kissing
Cup" are making big hits and almost
all the territory for these popular
features has been sold.

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2 5

OH, IT'S AN INTERESTING LIFE!

Punctuated by GEORGE D. PROCTOR

AT last an olive branch is tendered
in the disagreeable situation now
prevailing in the motion picture ex-
hibitors organizations. Samuel H.
Trigger, the standard bearer of the
anti-Neff faction and the leader of
the "bolt" last July at the National
Convention in the Grand Central Pal-
ace, New York City, now makes peace
overtures. Mr. Trigger writes in a
letter, the meat of which runs as fol-
lows :

"Two calls have been issued for
meetings of the Executive Commit-
tees of the Motion Picture Exhibitors
League of America and the Interna-
tional Association, the former at Cin-
cinnati and the latter in Chicago. I
think it would be advisable if The
Motion Picture News would use its
good offices and influence in an en-
deavor to bring the two executive
bodies together and amalgamate all
the states into one large association.

"The facts are that a split occurred
in the ranks of the exhibitors. There
has been much said and much to state
upon both sides, but we know that
there must be a dissipation of strength
when two national organizations ex-
ist. Then why continue traveling at
different angles when by traveling on
one avenue so much more may be
accomplished? The past is past and
we ought not to keep alive any an-
cient differences. I am not anxious
to put any man in the position where
people may say he is holding out
against a union of all exhibitors.

"It seems inconceivable that the
good work accomplished in the past
should be negatived by the failure to
get these two committees together at
this opportune time. Therefore I
make this appeal to The Motion Pic-
ture News in an endeavor to get the
views of the officials of both sides
and to get The Motion Picture News
to use its good offices and influence
to bring about harmony. These are
simply my views which I hope you
will publish."

those already in who were not actu-
allv concerned in the melee.

These quarrels of the past have
done much to hurt both sides. Be-
cause of them, because of the split,
the leagues and the men in them have
been called harsh names. They have
been ridiculed. The unsettled condi-
tions, the mud-slinging, the cuttle-fish
ink-squirting tactics have acted as a
deterrent to exhibitors thinking of
joining the leagues and have sickened

Now there comes a chance to end
all this. It should be seized. At this
time it makes no difference to the
man who has the future of exhibitors'
leagues at heart which side was right
last July and which side is the
stronger now. The breach has hurt
both sides. Now there comes a
chance to heal it. For the love of
Mike and in the name of suffering hu-
manity take the chance. bos'S. and get
together under one banner again.

The first woman to see herself un-
der this banner is Agnes Egan Cobb.
Mrs. C. Lang Cobb. Jr., at home, and
the manager of LJnion Features and

SHE IS A PI01TEER

Features Ideal, which concerns dis-
tribute live features a month between
them. Once upon a time I called Mrs.
Cobb "the pioneer film woman" for
that's what she is. She has been in
the business about as many years as
her apparent age. Back in the days
when the motion picture WAS in its
infancy she did a little trooping.
Then she was with B. F. Clements in
Chicago. She has toured the country
from coast to coast selling films. Now
she has a nice swivel chair at 227
West Forty-second street where one
has to be announced before he can
enter the sanctum sanctorum.

The suit of P. A. Powers vs. the Uni-
versal Film Manufacturing Company
and Carl Laemmle. its president, involv-
ing 1.540 shares of common stock and
1.250 of preferred, formerly owned by

David Horsley. has been assigned by
Judge Lehman, presiding over the Spe-
cial Term of the Supreme Court to
Judge Greenbaum for trial. Arthur
Butler Graham, counsel for Powers,
appeared Wednesday before Judge
Graham, and had the case set for trial
Monday in Special Term Part IV.

Monday was a busy night at the
Screen Club. All the committees got
busy and worked on various items of
club business until midnight. A batch
of new members were passed. But
what interests most persons is the
plans for the Screen Club's second
annual ball.

This event will be held Saturday,
January 31. 1914, in the Grand Cen-
tral Palace. The big floor will be
cleared for dancing, of course, and the
boxes will be built around the sides o:
the main floor. William Robert Daly
promises new and novel effects in the
grand march and every mother's son
is going to work hard to make this
year's affair beat last year's. This is
some contract, for the 1913 ball was
a whopper.

Lots of fun is planned for the club.
A "Reel"' will be held last Saturday
night of every month. It is hoped to
hold the first one December 27. They
will be under the general direction of
Joe Farnham as chairman of the house
committee. It is his plan to feature
some notable every night as "scenario
editor."

The pool tables will be utilized. A
"crazy pool" tournament will be held
every Saturday night according to
plans, and a regulation pool tourna-
ment will be started as soon as feasi-
ble.

On the night of December 23, a
Christmas tree will be held in the club.

Among the new ones at the club
are J. Stuart Blackton, William T.
1 Pop) Rock and Jr A. Berst, all of 'em
life members.

Sol Lesser, he of the Golden Gate
Film Exchange in San Francisco, and
several other exchanges along the Pa-
cific Coast, one of the biggest feature
buyers in the country, is opening a
New York office in Room 614 of the
Candler building, 220 West Forty-
second street. Sol may be found there
for a month or so yet. His New York
concern is the Golgate Feature Ser-
vice

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

Several hundred exhibitors remem-
ber the walk-out of last July. The
two factions parted in anger. An an-
gry man will make promises he won't
attempt to fulfill when he cools down.
Two weeks after the row I talked with
Neff and I talked with Trigger. My
estimate was then and is now that
both sides wanted to get together, but
didn't know how to go about it and
were prevented by a false idea of
pride. Now Trigger has swallowed
his pride and anger, and made a plea
for peace. Let's hope Mr. Neff meets
him half way.

Good for Trigger. Without going
into the merits of the old controversy,
it seems to me that his peace over-
tures should be accepted. Everybody
knows the old adage "in union there
is strength." It must be apparent to
all that one big organization is more
to be desired than two which are
fighting each other.

The American Moving Picture Ma-
chine Company of 101 Beekman street,
is in the hands of a receiver following
the institution of involuntary proceed-
ings in bankruptcy. A. A. Gordon
Murray is the receiver. The liabilities
are estimated at between $100,000 and
$125,000 and the assets at $70,000.

The offices of the General Film
Company at 200 Fifth avenue are
crowded these days. The managers
of all the General Film branches in
this country and Canada are in town
for the big conference which happens
once or twice a year anyway. While
here several of them have been on the
stand in the government suit against
the Patents company.

It is Pathe, not Edison, which will
from now on release a plural reel fea-
ture every Friday on the General Film
program.

George Kleine is evidently getting
busy in earnest while abroad. He ca-
bles in from Rome that he has com-
pleted negotiations for a series of
seven, eight and nine reel subjects
which are due here soon. These in-
clude well-known dramas and histori-
cal subjects.

Meanwhile work on the theatre
which he is building in Forty-second
street, New York, to house these pho-
toplays is progressing rapidly. All of
the steel work is up and it is expected
that the building will be finished about
February 15. The theatre will seat
about 1,200.

Edna Flugrath, Edison leading wo-
man, has been engaged on a long con-
tract, so the British press says, by the
London Film Company. This is the
concern for which Harold M. Shaw,
late of Edison and Imp, is head pro-
ducer. While Mr. Shaw was with Edi-

son Miss Flugrath appeared under his
direction in "The Third Thanksgiv-
ing," "The Dam Builders" and "On
Donovan's Division."

The London Film Company is some
concern, lads. Don't overlook it as
soon as it ties up with someone to
handle its stuff here. Shaw has done
Conan Doyle's "House of Temperly"
so well that the English and Doyle
himself were mightily pleased. He
has done "Beauty and the Barge" with
Cyril Maude and either has done or
will do "Svengali" with Sir Herbert
Beerbohm Tree.

M. Kashin, general manager of the
Montague Feature Film Company of
Montreal, which has temporary head-
quarters at 10 Victoria street, was in
town during the week on a feature-
buying expedition.

F. R. "Doc" Murphy, manager of
the Mutual exchange in Springfield,
Mass., has been transferred to Water-
ville, Me.

The " Around-the-World " pictures
which opened at Carnegie Lyceum,
New York, last Monday, are the
product of the Gaumont Company.

L. J. Rose, secretary of the Ammex
Film Company, has returned to Cali-
fornia after a two weeks' stay in New
York, where he was in conference
with F. D. Halliday, general sales
manager of Ammex, and Joseph R.
Miles, general manager of the Exclu-
sive Supply Corporation. In addition
to being a horseman of considerable
repute, Mr. Rose is a real pioneer.
His family went via the wagon trail
from Illinois to California when he
was a mere boy. Seven men and some
women and children never reached
California on the memorable trip.

Frank V. Beal was seen on Broad-
way this week. So was Ed Carewe.
Which means that the Tampa Films,
Inc., of Tampa, Fla., has suspended
producing activities pending re-organ-
ization. Frank Beal, formerly with
Selig, was the director, and Carewe,
late of Lubin, leading man. Jack
Byrne, scenario expert, is still cavort-
ing among the orange blossoms.

Oh, Why Not!

Christy Cabanne's first Mutual release will
be "Until Death Do Us Fart" with Mae
Marsh, the Indian actor, Eagle Eye, the Burns
brothers, Robert Harron and others.

Paul Kimberly, the charming young English-
man, now at the helm of the Thanhouser Film,
Ltd., head European office at 100 Charing Cross
Road, London, is getting out a house organ
"Thanhouser Topics." Kimberly will be re-
membered from his recent visit here which
terminated only a few weeks ago.

Edgar Lewis, Reliance director, is staging an
Italian drama written by Russell E. Smith,
of Frank Wood's scenario staff.

The Pathe American Company will produce
four and five part features soon.

The Eclair Company is sending a band of
players to New Orleans to produce "The
Kangaroo," a six part feature. "The Kangaroo"

is the name of a resort featured in the action
which is laid in ante-bellum daysi

Travers Vale, Reliance director, goes to Bi-
ograph.

The American Film Manufacturing Company
will have no release on Christmas day. In-
stead "The Shriner's Daughter," a two-reel
subject, will be released December 22.

Murray F. Beier, of the Emby Feature Film
Company, at 145 West Forty-fifth Street, thinks
pretty well of his coming releases, "The Nihi-
list" and "The Apache's Daughter." He is
now booking Sarah Bernhardt in "The
Romance of an Actress" and M. Mounet-Sully
in "CEdipus Rex." Emby Features will handle
two feature subjects a week.

H. N. Morey, of the Peoples Vaudeville
Company, in the American Theatre Building,
is booking the four-part feature "Queen
Elizabeth."

Lillian Christie, formerly with the Vita-
graph and Kalem companies, has joined the
Western Essanay ranks at Niles, Cal.

The Film Redeveloping Company, of 145
West Forty-fifth Street, with Mr. Gutterman
at the head, is about to enter the producing
field.

B. R. Thomas, of the Gotham Film Company,
of 145 West Forty-fifth Street, is opening an
office to take care of the commercial end of
the business.

Jack Edward Moore is now handling the
publicity for Albert Blinkhorn and his Turner
and Hepworth films.

Ray U. Smalwood is now directing pictures
at the Imp studio with Ethel Grandin as his
leading woman.

William Russell goes from Thanhouser to
Biograph.

Harry Eytinge, Edison comedian, gave his
annual party for the girls at the studio re-
cently. Those present were Mildred Bruce,
Bessie Bannon, Rose Engoran, Cathryn Bog-
stedt, Minnie Reuben, Susette Mosher,
Margaret O'Keefe, Gertrude Brown and Lulu
Holm.

Bernhardt Niemeyer is playing in a series
of Kinemacolor comedies being filmed at
Whitestone.

The Poli circuit has installed Kinemacolor
in the following houses: Worcester and
Springfield, Mass.; New Haven and Hartford,
Conn., and Scranton, Pa.

The American Company, Ltd., British agents
for the American Film Manufacturing Com-
pany, is now occupying new and more com-
modious premises at 183 Wardour Street,
London, W.

C. J. Giegerich, having graduated from the
Leslie syndicate, is now handling the adver-
tising for the Screen Club ball program.

The All Star players who have been down
in Georgia producing Augustus Thomas' "In
Missouri" retaurned Wednesday, including, of
course, Burr Mcintosh and Larry McGill.

The All Star Feature Corporation will pro-
duce Augustus Thomas' drama, "The Educa-
tion of Mr. Pip," with Digby Bell in the title
role.

Peter Lang, now with the Famous Players,
recently celebrated his silver wedding anni-
versary.

Al Mayo, formerly with Reliance, is now an
assistant director with Thanhouser.

Miss Eva Unsell, who has been a reader with
the DeMille Play Agency, has joined the
scenario department of the Famous Players
Film Company. Miss Unsell has turned out
many scenarios. She was once associated with
the Kansas City Post.

Charles Feature Abrams left Thursday on a
Canadian trip for his Great Northern Special
Feature and Films Lloyds interests.

Heading the accident list of the week comes
Anita Stewart, of the Vitagraph Company.
She is suffering from a nice collection of
bumps garnered in a fleeing taxicab going forty
miles an hour for a Vitagraph drama.

Ed!th Storey, of the Vitagraph Company,
has bought a six-cylinder touring car. The
press agent spells it "cillinder," but we guessed
it right the first time.

Newspapers and other publications have
been carrying editorials and contributed articles
praising the Vitagraph Company of America
for its work in connection with the safety
crusade going on all over the country. The
Vitagraph Company produced, in connei ion
with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, a
picture, "The Price of Thoughtlessness," aiding
the crusade.

More than one hundred Jews, men and
women, from the Brownsville section of Brook-
lyn, gathered at the Vitagraph studio and
played in a big "yiddisher ball" scene in a
feature drama Van "Dyke Brooke is producing.

Phil Gleichman, of the World Special Films
Corporation, is back in New York and is work-

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jtemm Mvcsic and the

Picture,

Mm

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Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address : Music Department, The Motion Picture News

DURING a visit recently to the Sa-
voy Theatre in New York I was
pleasantly surprised to see thrown on
the screen a small neat sign which
read:

"During the following picture S. M.
Berg's Symphony Orchestra will ren-
der Gounod's "Meditation.' "

Although this may look like a very
small thing, it is really a very impor-
tant feature. People like to be told
what the music is, if they are in-
formed in a pleasant way. Have you
never heard at a musicale, the remark
"What is that he is playing"?

Started by Professor Berg

This innovation, if it may be so
termed, was started by Professor
Berg himself. For many years a suc-
cessful leader and musician, he has
had the opportunity of finding out
what the people want in the way of
good music at the proper time, and
when good music is given they also
wan: to know just what the selection
is. There are a great many dramas
that are very successful if accom-
panied by good music, and there are
comedies that "get over'' it they are
aided by ragtime. If a medley of the
latter is to be played there is no need
to advertise the fact, for every one
knows the popular music, but for op-
eratic music an announcement is a
good plan.

It does not make any difference
whether your theatre has a piano or
a twenty-piece orchestra, you can
have suitable music and at the same
time, good music. Poor music will
work every bit as much havoc with
your business as will poor pictures.
If your drummer does not follow the
pictures, and insists on just banging
away at his instrument, get one that
can and will follow the screen. In
the fight scenes he can be of more
material aid to your picture than any-
thing else, if he understands his busi-
ness. The same applies to the pianist
or to the operator of the mechanical
instruments. But make it your watch-
word to follow the picture with good
music, and take care that your patrons
are "put next" to that fact.

I noticed recently an article by a
man who had made a great success in
the grocery business by "creating ap-
petites" for Sunday night suppers
Now you can all do the same thing,
no matter what there is at your com-
mand. Give your patrons an appetite
for good music, that follows the pic-
ture, and see if they do not return for
more. But be sure that you let them
know what they are getting. Tell
them that you want suggestions and
criticisms and you will get them, but
show them that it is good music thst
you are working for.

"Good Music" Your Middle Name

The Regent Theatre in New York
is a specialist in good music that fol-
lows the story on the film. Perhaps
you have not the means at hand lor
producing what they can do in com-
pleteness, nor have you perhaps even

got an orchestra, but if you only have
a piano you can tell your patrons tha-.
from now on your middle name will
be "good music" and don't stop until
you get it!

Musicians will find that the music
suggestions offered by many of the
manufacturers will be of great assist-
ance in working up an available pro-
gram that will at the same time please
and amuse. But none of this can be
done unless you rehearse beforehand.
It is not simply a question of looking
at the pictures and then deciding
what you will play, but get there be-
fore the audience and practice.

The more pretentious theatres have
recognized that good music is one of
the most potent drawing cards. The
bigger theatres are making a feature
of good music all over the country.
The little fellows will follow.

A. D. M.

JAMES MORRISON- AND CARL0TTA DE FELICE IN

VTTAGBAPH

A CHRISTMAS STORY" —

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Vol. VIII

December 20, 1913

No. 24

WHAT THE MOTION PICTURE THEATRE
REPLACES

THE motion picture show is something more than
popular. It is intimate. To an extraordinary
extent it is entering into the daily thought of
the masses. The good men and women who are fond
of writing on literature and life, who are devoting
themselves to the task of bringing the drama into
touch with the life of the people, must be amazed, and
slightly chagrined, at the intensity with which the
film-play has seized upon the popular imagination.
The crowds not only throng to the shows, they talk
about them ; on street corners, in the cars, and over
the hoods of baby carriages.

From time to time there have been plays in the
regular theatre which have become the theme of
general discussion. There have been players whom
the public has made its favorites. But the theatre
as an institution has hardly impressed itself upon the
popular mind. A show was either good or bad, and
there it ended with the average theatre-goer. The

technique of the theatre was a subject for profes-
sionals and "highbrows."

But the crowd discusses the technique of the
motion picture theatre with as much interest as literary
salons in Paris or London discuss the minutiae of the
higher drama. The crowd knows how the films are
made, and what it costs to make them, and who the
leading actors in the show are. The producers of
these shows have achieved an extraordinary triumph.
They have converted their entire audience into first-
nighters.

* * *

Hp H E interest of the masses in the motion picture
show is even more personal than that. They
are not only spectators and critics, but to a
very considerable extent they are the authors. Every-
body is writing motion picture scenarios. In part it
may have been a real dearth of ideas which induced
the film producers to appeal for contributions to the
nation at large. In part it may be excellent business
to inoculate the audiences, not excluding children of
the grammar grades, with the virus of authorship.

The regular theatre draws a not inconsiderable part
of its revenue from "students" of the drama who go
to the theatre in order to learn how to write plays.
The number of those thus directly interested in the
motion picture plays must be enormous. In a very
real sense the photo-play then becomes a truly popular
art. The operatic composer will strive to give reality
— and popularity — to his music by incorporating folk-
themes into his score.

To the extent that the music of the masses enters
into the finished product the composer's art is a popular
art. The motion picture showman goes much further
than the composer can by throwing upon the screen
the very ideas supplied him by the crowd in the seats.

THE average motion picture show is better art than
the old-fashioned melodrama which the pictures
have so largely replaced. The vice of melodrama is
less in the action than in the dialogue. It must be a
very hardened theatre-goer who can resist the ele-
mentary appeal of physical contact, of animated pistol
play, of hazardous leaps across chasms and from the
windows of burning buildings, of splendid heroisms
and arrant villainies.

It is the spoken heroics of melodrama that make
for laughter. The silent film-play solves the problem at
a stroke. It eliminates all artificialities of speech, and
substitutes a great number of popular realities. The
setting of the photo-play is incomparably more real
than anything even a Belasco can give us.

It reproduces action in real deserts, on real oceans,
in real forests. The heroine walks out of a very
actual cottage, down actual steps, and takes a per-
fectly authentic car to the stores. The audience know
that these things and the trees, rocks, bridges, boats,
and guns are absolutely true to life, because it has
often seen the man with the camera at work. —
The Cinema.

-V

CHARLES KLEIN S GREAT DRAMA THE THIRD DEGREE" (LTJBIN 5 REELS)

The first release of the General Film Company's new Special Feature Photoplay Nfasterpieccs.

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"THE CASE OF CHERRY PURCELLE"

Eclair Universal.

A modern detective story, after the story by Arthur Strin-
ger in Hampton's Magazine. Its applicability to modern life
is undoubtedly its most telling point. Mr. Stringer evidently
founded the story more or less on fact, for throughout the
production its realism stands pre-eminent. The original name
"The Most Wonderful Woman in the World" was altered to
the above, the latter being more suitable.

The only fault to be found with the whole story is its brev-
ity. Had the story been given two additional reels with ac-

"THE CASE OF CHERRY PURCELLE" — UNIVERSAL

tion to match, the audience would never weary of it. It is
one of those gripping, vital stories, that will hold an audience
motionless during its projection.

Cherry Purcelle, a girl, alone in the world, possesses the
spirit of adventure strong within her. So when a chance is
offered her to join a gang of wire-tappers and confidence-
men, she eagerly accepts. Her duty is to entrap millionaires
with her beauty, so that they become victims of her accomp-
lices. Throughout there is the tightening of the net by a
detective, who is unable to get evidence that is sufficient to
send the gang "up the river."

Kerrfoot, a millionaire, who has been very good to Cherry,
is selected as a victim and she, not knowing his identity, sets
out to get him. She has slowly but surely tired of the old
life and though Kerrfoot no longer has any faith in her, she
goes to him and tells the whole story. They are married and
"Camera Eye" Sherman is enabled to round up the whole
gang with the exception of herself.

Belle Adair as Cherry Purcelle registered some very com-
petent and clever work. It is her first leading part and she
made the most of it. Alec B. Francis as "Coke" Morgan
had probably the hardest role to handle. His impersonation
of a cocaine fiend was realistic. Helen Martin and Fred
Truesdel completed the important members of the cast.

A. D. M.

H. A. LANDE LANDED A BIG ONE

The feature photoplay, "The Great Lure of Paris," is
booked at Hammerstein's Victoria for an indefinite period
through the Film Exchange. Hammerstein is advertising
the production as the "biggest" White Slave picture of
direct importation from Paris.

WHAT IS THE KINEPLASTIKON?
Pepper's Ghost on the Motion Picture Screen

T AST summer some excitement was caused in New
*— ' York by the announcement that the Shuberts had
secured control of an entirely new and wonderful
method of motion picture projection which was cer-
tain to revolutionize the picture business. The Shu-
berts, we were told, had closed with the German
inventor for a large sum of money. The idea, pre-
viously, had been offered to Marc Klaw, but that gen-
tleman sent a representative, with a knowledge of
optics and photography to investigate it, and declined
the offer.

But the Kineplastikon is still being shown and ex-
ploited in Europe. The pictures are novel and striking.
They resemble Pepper's ghost. But what is Pepper's
Ghost ? the reader will ask. This : As you sit in a
darkened auditorium you see on the stage, figures ap-
parently moving in space. Mark the word "appar-
ently." What you see are reflected images of people
— not real people. You see ghosts, in fact; not
supernatural ghosts but physico-optical ghosts.

Now, suppose that instead of looking at an ordinary
motion picture on an ordinary screen, you saw the
figures apparently moving about in space. That is
the principle of the Kineplastikon.

These pictures appear in the atmosphere only and
they may be made to look either solid or ghostly at
will. In order to make films of the kind required
for Kineplastikon, the figures must be photographed
white or lightly tinted upon an opaque black back-
ground. The films are projected from the side of
the screen, instead of either from before or behind it,
while the effect of surface reflections from the glass,
which latter would destroy the illusion, is prevented
by the interposition between it and the audience of
a fine transparent gauze sheet.

In our judgment there is nothing patentable in the
broad general idea of Kineplastikon. Professor Pep-
per, at the Polytechnic in London forty or fifty years
ago, made the first experiments in this form of pro-
jection.

The motive in printing this article is to bring the
idea of this attractive illusion to the notice of film
makers desirous of making releases of a "somewhat
different" nature. The exhibitor, who aims to give
his patrons all possible change and variety would, no
doubt, welcome' a few pictures of this kind.

WORLD TOUR TEAMS IN PICTURES

Baseball fans will have an opportunity to follow the
Giants and White Sox around the world by the means of
moving pictures, as it has just been announced that a
Pathe cameraman is to accompany the teams in their
over-seas journeys. Pathe Freres have been awarded the
exclusive privilege for this photographic pilgrimage, and
it is safe to say that the pictures will be of much interest.

Frank Chance, baseball's "peerless" leader, will also be
seen shortly in a baseball comedy produced by the same
company. Miss Gwendoline Pates is the leading lady.

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3i

FILM CRUSADE AGAINST SOCIAL EVIL

Motion Picture Produced With Co-operation of Samuel H. London, Late of Federal Secret Service, is
Result of Seven Years' Work as Investigator and Attacks the "Out-of-My-House Policy

ENTERING a new field, the mo-
tion picture is now being used as
a weapon to fight the "white slave"
traffic by preventative rather than
curative means.

Among the first of the pictures of
this kind, and probably the most au-

"I was eager to get the picture in
towns like Troy,'' explained Mr. Lon-
don, "because I wanted to get the
picture before factory girls. I have
found this class of girls the most fre-
quent sufferers from the evil which
we are fighting. I have gone over

THE PRE-ARRANGED "RESCUE"

Scene from "The Inside of the White Slave Tr

iffic.

thoritative, as it shows actual scenes
in the underworld of New York,
New Orleans and Denver, is "The In-
side of the White Slave Traffic," a
film running a little more than 4 000
feet, which has been on exhibition for
a week at the Park Theatre, New
York City, to crowded houses, and
also in Troy, New York.

The scenario from which this film
was produced was written by Samuel
H. London, who knows whereof he
writes. Mr. London headed the in-
vestigation work done at the instiga-
tion of John D. Rockefeller when the
Rockefeller Commission was probing
the "white slave" traffic. Before that
he was head of the branch of the Gov-
ernment Secret Service which has to
do with "white slavery."

For seven years he had made a
study of the subject all over this
country and in several foreign coun-
tries. The picture was produced by
the Moral Feature Film Company
with offices in Room 801, Longacrc
Ruilding, New York City, and will be
handled by the Sociological Research
Film Company, which has offices in
the New York Theatre Building, New
York.

the production pretty carefully and
aided Mr. Beal all I could when he

was producing the picture, and I feel
it is as near a photographic represen-
tation as possible of the great evil."

The picture was produced in New
York, New Orleans and Denver, un-
der the direction of Frank V. Beal, a
producer formerly with the Selig
Polyscope Company and later with
the Tampa Films Inc. Ed. Carewe,
late of Lubin, plays the male lead.
Virginia Mann plays the girl who suf-
fers through him, while Jean Thomas
is his sweetheart. Ninita Bristow
plays an emigrant girl. Elinor O.
Peterson has one of the leading parts.

The whole picture hits at the "out-
of-my-house" policy as adopted by
parents. Ed, a recruiting officer for
the Scarlet Militia, tries to scrape an
acquaintance with Virginia. He suc-
ceeds only by a ruse. He gets an ac-
complice to insult her on the street.
Then he makes a grandstand rescue
and is a hero in her eyes. The rest
follows quickly. He drugs her in a
cafe and takes her to his apartments.
Fearing prosecution, he flees with her
to New Orleans, where she leaves
him and goes to Denver. Ninita, an
immigrant girl, is also swallowed up
in the maw of the trade and its
vicious workings are laid bare faith-
fully.

The moral, as driven in, is that if
Virginia's father had not ordered her
out of the house after her first step
in the wrong direction, she never
would have become a member of the
great army of Magdalens.

Scene from

"OUT OF MY HOUSE!"

'The Inside of the White Slave Traffic.

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"WHEN A WOMAN WILLS"
Kleine-Cines

ANOTHER fine picture will leave the Kleine offices on
December 30th under the title of "When a WomanWills."
This two-part production has been cut down from three thou-
sand feet to its present size. The best and most interesting
parts have been retained, filling the picture full of splendid
action, beautiful scenes and good situations. The story is
tense to the final scene and the action
travels from one continent to the other.
A good situation is brought out in the
introduction of the Canoa Club, an in-
ternational secret institution, which is
used by the unscrupulous plotters as an
agent to carry out their scheme to secure
the fortune of the widow.

Jane Pierce, a charming widow, is be-
queathed a fortune at the death of her
husband. By the terms of this will, the
fortune reverts to her cousin, Daniel
Sage, unless she marries a man possess-
ing at least $2,000,000.

Sage, knowing the terms of the will,
decides to enlist the services of the
Canoa Club, of which he is a member,
in securing one of its members who has
not the required amount of money to
seek the hand of his cousin in marriage.
If his plan is successful he promises to
give the club half of his inheritance.
He outlines his plan to Harry Osborn, a
young and good-looking member, but
who does not possess much money.
Sage advances him money for any ex-
penses he may have and accompanies
him to Europe, where Jane has gone.

In Paris Jane meets an amiable and careless Italian, who
loses everything at a wheel of fortune. He is inclined to buy
a couple of lottery tickets with the few remaining dollars he
has. Things look very favorable to Sage and Osborn up to
the time Jane meets Petro. They are thrown into each other's
society at the gambling tables at Monte Carlo. This gambling
scene is a massive arrangement and employs hundreds of peo-
ple. They meet each other again and another big background
is furnished in the reception given at one of the leading hotels.
The furnishings used are exquisite.

At the start this love of Jane's is one-sided, her too frequent
attentions to Petro making him become indifferent. In the
meanwhile she refuses numerous invitations from the schem-
ers. While out riding Jane meets Petro. An exchange of
notes takes place. As Petro has no paper on which to write,
he uses the lottery tickets. This action is seen by the two
conspirators and they determine to secure these notes from
Jane.

Petro and Jane meet each other again in Rome. Sage again
enlists the services of his club, and two other members are
employed, as he has lost confidence in Osborn. Osborn, how-
ever, finds an opportunity, while Jane is watching a game of
soccer football, to steal her pocketbook with the notes in it.
This action is witnessed by her servant, who immediately ad-
vises her. Petro, who is passing in his automobile, is pressed
into service. A wild ride ensues. The auto in which Osborn
is riding turns turtle and the occupants are severely injured.
Petro also sustains a bruised arm. The next day an item in
the newspapers tells of the accident, and also on the same
page the winner of the grand prize in the lottery is announced.
Jane, on seeing the winning number, curiously inspects Petro's
ticket.

Sage, discouraged, calls on Jane and offers her one-third
. of the legacy providing she marries the man of his choice.
Petro comes in as Jane says to her cousin, "This gentleman
is a multi-millionaire, and in marrying him I retain the terms
of the will and forfeit nothing." C. J. V.

VITAGRAPH TWO-PART COMEDY ON TUESDAY

Beginning Tuesday, January 6th, The Vitagraph Company
of America will release regularly every Tuesday a two-part,
special feature comedy. This will take the place of the one-
reel regular release.

This comedy multiple will be of the same high standard
and type as "The Regiment of Two," "Jerry's Mother-in-Law,"
' Beauty Unadorned," and 'Women on the Warpath."

MONTE CARLO SCENE IN "WHEN A WOMAN WILLS" — KLEINE-CINES

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33

FOR THOSE WHO WORRY O'ER PLOTS AND PLAYS

WILLIAM LORD WRIGHT

BENJAMIN P.
Schulberg is
scenario editor
for the Famous
Players Film
Company. In past
years he has also
served efficiently
as editor for the
Imp, Powers, and
other concerns.
He is, perhaps,
the youngest ed-
itor in Filmland
in point of years,
but he is old in
literary experi-
ence. He has written many of the
popular photoplays, and many of the
large productions of the Famous
Players Company were from adapta-
tions made by Mr. Schulberg. He
writes :

"In making adaptations of famous
plays for the motion picture, I find
that not more than one-third of the
total number of situations, incidents
and events in the original subject can
be directly utilized. One-third must
be reconstructed and substantially al-
tered, and the last third must be
created. For this reason, the great-
est difficulty in making adaptations of
literary or dramatic works is in retain-
ing the atmosphere of the original, at
times as important and always more
subtle and elusive than the story it-
self.

"Sometimes, due to the varying na-
tures and influences of such subjects,
this rule reverses itself, and it be-
comes necessary to eliminate rather
than to augment situations. In the
case of 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles,'
Thomas Hardy's masterpiece, the
story was so comprehensive and de-
tailed that a faithful and consistent
adaptation would result in a prohibi-
tive length of film. Only the main
thread of the story, powerful in itself,
could be considered. Yet with a
writer like Thomas Hardy, who is
essentially a builder of situations,
elimination of- incidents and episodes,
is no easy task. His plot is strongly
woven together, and all incidents and
events that contribute toward it make
a firmly molded unit of thought and
action.

"A subject of this kind portraying
a woman's sin and her resultant sor-
rows, must moreover be treated deli-
cately, which exacts all the more care
and tact in preparing the film version,

because of its power for greater vis-
ual scope and plot suggestion.

"To return to the premise upon
which we started, we were forced to
eliminate a considerable portion of
the story. If we could judge each in-
cident individually, upon its own dra-
matic merits, the task would not be
so dangerous. But another element
enters: Hardy has a peculiar manner
of making a casual episode exert a
lasting influence upon the rest of the
story, so that we were not alone com-
pelled to condense, but to unite the
incidents incorporated into the scena-
rio with as much of Hardy's technique
as possible. The writer has no im-
pulse to exaggerate when he terms
'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' one of the
hardest dramatic subjects ever con-
verted to the screen.

Required Delicate Handling

" 'In the Bishop's Carriage," Miriam
Alichelson's story, opens with Nance,
already engaged in a partnership of
crime with Tom Dorgan, the pick-
pocket. In the motion picture ver-
sion, it became necessary to suggest
her introduction into this life, her
meeting with Tom Dorgan, her loy-
alty to hjm, etc. And yet we were
compelled to restrain the love be-
tween these two so as not to compli-
cate affairs, when, later, Nancy meets
Fred Obermuller, the theatrical man-
ager, whose kindness reforms her and
admiration for whom ripens into un-
requited love.

"In the beginning of the story we
created scenes suggesting Nance as
the inmate in the charity home, where
she is persecuted by the cruel ma-
tron. Falsely accused of theft, and
inhumanly punished, she decides to
escape. Pursued by the police, she
takes refuge in the room of Tom
Dorgan, where later he finds her.
Both are refugees from a common
justice and their common lot inspires
them to cast their fortunes together.
Almost the whole of the first reel is
of new material, and in no manner
suggested by the original. 'The Play
Is the Thing,' but do not be afraid to
take liberties if it will help the photo-
play in strength, coherency or unity."

Mr. Schulberg recently expressed
some interesting views, and we here-
with reprint some portions we think
of interest- to writers:

"The photoplay writers will soon
come into their own. Their labors
will soon be accorded full recognition.

credit and compensation. To them
the writer wishes to say that the idea,
the plot-germ, is more important than
all the technique that can be. invented
or developed. Film manufacturers are
demanding ideas and not technique.
Ideas, and not the manner in which
they are presented and suggested, are
necessary for the further advance-
ment of the photoplay.

"Correspondence schools cannot
teach a pupil how to create ideas.
Experts cannot develop creative
power, and it is for this reason that
correspondence schools attempt to
promote the importance -of the tech-
nique, implying, without daring to
openly declare it, that it is a more
essential factor than the idea itself.
The trouble with most photoplay-
wrights is that they follow the line
of least resistance. If you do not
think you possess originative or in-
terpretative talent, please spare your-
self heartache and labor and retire
gracefully.

"The remuneration for photoplay
scripts is steadily increasing. It will
continue to improve. But the scena-
rio writer must not expect as much
for a script as the magazines pay for
short stories. After all has been said,
the short story is a more difficult and
intricate art and requires greater
training and ability. Accept this fact
from one who has tackled both fields
with reasonable success in each."

The idea is the thing. A script con-
taining a good idea and little tech-
nique will sell. A script containing
faultless technique and no idea will
not sell. Both are devoutly to be
wished. Too much technique fre-
quently loses the plot. Too little
technique often cheapens the price.
We have always taken the stand that
if the writer possesses clarity of
thought and originality, his technique
will care for itself. Technique of
whatever description should be but a
means of putting over the story clear-
ly and logically. Miss Maibelle
Heikes Justice, one of the most suc-
cessful of photoplay writers, who
builds single and multiple reel stories
with equal facility, never read a work
on technique in her life. Her scripts
carry her own technique and they are
models for clearness.

"Refined Comedy"

Perhaps you have been reading nu-
merous statements to the effect that
the market for refined comedy is no

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more, and that only stuff of the "slap-
stick" variety is wanted by the pro-
ducers. Don't ever believe such as-
sertions. So long as the motion pic-
ture screen continues popular, just so
long will refined, convincing comedy
be essential. Without such produc-
tions the motion picture theatre ex-
hibitor will lose to the cheap vaude-
ville house next door. Cheap vaude-
ville is long on "slap-stick" buffoon-
ery and short on refined comedy.
Such companies as Edison, Essanay,
Vitagraph, Thanhouser, and others
have contributed some genuine hu-
mor to the screen, and in so doing
have contributed to the pleasure of
the audiences.

There is a certain market for pho-
toplay burlesque, of course. But
there will always be a market for
well-written action with the humor-
ous plot. Imagine Edison, for in-
stance, turning down a refined com-
edy of merit for a "Katzenjammer"
effusion. George Bernard Shaw says:
"When a comedy of mine is per-
formed, it is nothing to me that the
spectators laugh — any fool can make
an audience laugh. I want to see how
many of them, laughing or grave,
have tears in their eyes."

There is hardly a script editor in
the business to-day who will not
snatch at the refined comedy story,
providing it is really refined comedy.
Such productions appeal to the better
element, and when good, are never
tiresome. Occasional burlesque of
the "knock-down-and-drag-out" kind
affords relaxation, but too much of it
becomes wearisome.

"Belled Buzzard" Again

In the November number of The
Writer's Magazine, "The Belled Buz-
zard" again comes to the spotlight.
We furnished our conception of the
"Belled Buzzard's" history, and along
comes Irvin S. Cobb's short story,
"The Belled Buzzard," for review.
Both reached the editorial desk at
the same time. The "Belled Buzzard''
idea is a newspaper idea pure and
simple. We think we started it five
or six years ago. There is no copy-
right on the buzzard-that-was-belled
idea, for the story has been circulated
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. We
have heard that the "Belled Buzzard"
is about to be filmed. Briefly, a small
boy tied a small sleigh-bell to the leg
of a captive buzzard and released it.
The bell tinkled as the bird flew
about. It was reported in many
states. Later other buzzards were
"belled" and the idea lost its novelty.
Mr Cobb took the "Belled Buzzard"
idea and built a strong plot about it —
but that is still another story.

Credit to Authors

The Photoplay Magazine has also
taken the stand that photoplay au-
thors should receive full credit for de-

serving work. The magazine says:
"Writers with a reputation in the field
of fiction are many. And this state-
ment will also apply to the stage.
Why shouldn't the same rule apply to
writers of motion pictures? The
movement is unhesitatingly endorsed.
Robert W. Chambers, Harold Bell
Wright, and several other novelists
are now dramatizing their fiction and
will get immediate recognition. Were
they to write an acceptable photoplay
it would probably be submitted with
the understanding that the author be
given credit on the screen. Why
should not the photoplay writer, who
has a reputation and whose stories
are being daily produced, be given
the same credit? At least the older
photoplaywrights are entitled to
credit. Such writers helped to make
the photoplay game what it is, by
furnishing ideas and plots — it wasn't
the magazine writers, although there
is plenty of room for such. More
power and encouragement to new
and old photoplaywrights! Your re-
ward is coming."

Along comes a correspondent who
fears that the rule of credit may "work
both ways." He argues thus: "I cer-
tainly wouldn't like to see in one of
the trade papers anything like this:
' . . . the author showed bad taste in
forgetting the fact that the telephone
had not been invented until some
years after the time of the play.' " De-
serving criticism hurts no one. Such
criticism, if the author was named,
would tend to foster more care and
research on his part, thus aiding the
entire industry. In a case like the
one cited above, the director and ed-
itor would also share censure. And
while arguing against full credit, this
correspondent wants to know if it
would be plagiarism to use articles
clipped from trade papers either
"wholly or in part" for a Sunday pho-
toplay page. Give credit always
where credit is due either to a publi-
cation or an individual.

Are Really Agents

In asking for the addresses of film
companies that buy scripts, a corre-
spondent writes: "I find that the
agents advertising in the magazines
are really only agents for 'correspond-
ence schools,' their ideas not being to
buy manuscripts but to sell informa-
tion which is not worth the money
asked." Late markets are the Vita-
graph Western, which will consider,
for a limited time, good two and
three-reel photoplays adapted to Cali-
fornia -production, elaborate military
pictures not wanted. Address Vita-
graph Company of America, Santa
Monica, Cal. Many writers also will
be delighted to learn that Frank E.
Woods is now editor for the Mutual
Film Corporation, Twenty-third street
and Sixth avenue. New York City.

He wishes good scripts of all kinds
and variety. Scripts that will be ap-
propriate for Reliance, Majestic,
Komic, Apollo, etc. Best prices and
prompt service are assured when
Woods is at the editorial helm. He
considers only the best.
The Press Agent

We know of several would-be pho-
toplaywrights who have failed in not
becoming press agents. We are not
running this department for the per-
sonal exploitation of authors, but in
an endeavor to interest and instruct
photoplaywrights. Another thing:
Remember that the editor of a trade
journal department is handicapped,
and not helped, by his work.

If he serves his readers conscien-
tiously, he is certain to unconsciously
offend someone in power sooner or
later. If the trade journal department
editor is unfortunate enough to be a
script writer, his work frequently
stands less chance of acceptance than
that of the most obscure "free lance."
Warren's Directorship

The admirers of Giles R. Warren,
pioneer editor and author of hun-
dreds of photoplays, will be pleased
to learn that he is making an unquali-
fied hit as a director of photoplays.
His production for Warner's Fea-
tures of "The Lady of the Lake" is
creating a furore, and "The Monas-
tery" now promises to excel its pre-
decessor, if that is possible. Mr. War-
ren recently turned down a flattering
offer to become managing director
for a well-known English film con-
cern.

The Hall of Fame

President A. Van Buren Powell, of "The
Order of Optimists," has come to life. He is
satisfied with a success of the modest but re-
munerative sort and still believes optimism
pays.

R. D. Armstrong, who for two years past has
been editor of the American Film Co., has
joined the Ammex Co. at _ San Diego. Arm-
strong has written some vivid Western work.

Edwin Barbour, of the Lubin scenario staff,
has sailed for Bermuda, where he will enjoy a
deserved vacation. He expects to write some
feature stories while in the land of sunshine.

•Herman E. L. Beyer is revising some of his
earlier scripts and says he is trying hard not
to cut out the flavor. He finds revising photo-
plays is like warming up dishes. "Is there
anything better than' a potato baked in the
jacket? Well, just let it get cold, then warm
it up, and the flavor is lost. You must be a
good cook to 'warm-up' successfully."

Daniel M. Clark, scenario editor Motograph
Co., 606 Eleventh street, Washington, D. C,
writes that he is in the market for the follow-
ing: Good plays of all kinds with scenes laid
mostly out of doors, and in season; comedies,
but not silly stuff; and strong dramas, involv-
ing deep love and its opposite. For these he
says he pays according to the worth of the
manuscript.

BREAKS COAST RECORD

Just exactly 38 680 persons paid ad-
mission to the Clemmer Theatre, Se-
attle, during the week of Nov. 16-22
to see George Kleine's "The Last
Days of Pompeii." Gross receipts for
the week were $5,800.10, which abso-
lutely establishes a record on the Pa-
cific Coast for a six-day showing of
any motion picture.

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35

Adve v t isin£

Pict— °

TO attract and hold business are
the fundamental objects in ad-
vertising the picture by means of ad-
vance notices, slides, posters, news-
paper advertising, heralds and other
devices. The two objects are supple-
mentary. First the business must be
attracted. Then it must be held.

It is with the idea of attracting the
passerby that the advice is continu-
ally dinned into the ears of the ex-
hibitor to make his lobby a thing of
beauty and not deface it by dime-
novel posters. New ideas, novelties,
these are the things that attract. And
when they are not of a nature which
may repel some, they will usually
help to hold the business.

An entirely new and novel stunt
was recently tried with success at the
Palms Number One theatre in Indi-
anapolis, Ind., which is owned by the
E. G. Soubrier Amusement Company
and managed by Grant & Heath.

Auto Used in Advertising

On the day when "The Speed
Kings," a Keystone comedy, was
showing, an automobile similar to the
one used by the winner of the last
Elgin race was secured to stand in
front of the theatre. The result, ac-
cording to the manager, was highly
satisfactory, so much so that he went
right inside and wrote a letter to the
New York Motion Picture Corpora-
tion, manufactureres of Keystone
comedies, and told of his success.

The letter was bubbling over with
praise for Keystone comedies, but the
parts of it which pertain to advertis-
ing the picture are valuable They
follow herewith:

"Indianapolis. Ind.

"Gentlemen:

"Under separate cover I am send-
ing you a photo of our Palms Thea-
tre as it appeared on our semi-weekly
Keystone Day, the subject being
"The Speed Kings" which my patrons
as well as myself pronounce the
greatest comedy creation ever pro-
duced in motion pictures to date.

"We opened the beautiful Palms
Theatre September 8, with a Mutual
program. I established a Keystone
Day from the start, which occurs
every Tuesday and Friday. It has
been an absolute necessity for us to
add Saturday and Sunday, making

four Keystone Days a week. Of
course all of the back releases have
been shown in the city many times
before, however, they are always
more than welcome by our patrons,
and just as sure as the Keystone Day
one sheet frame goes out in front,
capacity business rules.

"In reference to the 'Speed Kings'
I wish to say that the Stutz car that
wins the race in the picture is a pro-
duct of this city and through the cour-
tesy of Stutz we were able to secure
his Number Five racer, which is a du-
plicate of the Number Eight car, and
the winner of the last Elgin, 111., race.
Mr. Stutz personally drove the car
down to our theatre and allowed it
to stand in front of the house
throughout the entire performance of
the 'Speed Kings,' the result was
that the crowds were so in excess of
cur capacity that we have booked it
for a return engagement.

"You may not believe this state-
ment: however, it is the truth.
"Very trulv vours,
GRANT & HEATH. Managers
"E. G Soubrier Amusement Co "

Establishing Definite Days

One thing stands out above all
others in this communication— the
good results obtained by having defi-
nite days set apart for definite pic-
tures. Then the lover of those pic-
tures knows just when and where he
can see them.

Plan Found Effective

The plan runs parallel to establish-
ing departments in a publication.
When a man opens a newspaper he
turns to the part which interests him
He turns to the sporting page, the
theatrical page or the financial page,
according to his fancy. He knows
just where to find what he wants.

So with motion pictures. The pa-
tron goes where he thinks or hopes
he will see what he wants. If he likes
comedies and knows that Thursday
is the comedy night at a theatre sev-
eral blocks away, he will go to that
theatre instead of to the one around
the corner. This is not theory. It is
fact according to Mr. Heath, who has
put the idea into actual operation.

G. D. P.

ADVERTISING AN AUTO-RACE FEATURE

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Motion Picture Display at Frisco Exposition

Exhibit in Palace of Liberal Arts Will Embody Latest Wrinkles in
Photography and Projection

IN addition to the great number of
photographs that will be used to ex-
hibit processes and results in the vari-
ous displays that will be seen at the
Panama-Pacific International Exposi-
tion, the subject of motion photography
will be exploited as it never has been
before in the Palace of Liberal Arts
when the nations assemble in San Fran-
cisco, California, in 1915 to celebrate the
completion of the Panama Canal be-
gun by the French but finished by
the United States.

The art of photography has never
been given in any exposition as impor-
tant a place as it will occupy in 1915,
because the last decade has marked tre-
mendous strides in the perfection of
this high craft, which is so rapidly en-
croaching on the domain of fine art that
some doubts have been expressed
whether it should not be given space in
the Palace of Fine Arts.

The display of cameras, lenses, latest
inventions in the realm of motion pic-
tures and the mechanical nature of this
material argue in favor of its placement
in the department of Liberal Arts where
process and product, camera and de-
veloped picture will attract the atten-
tion of the hundreds of thousands who
will come to the exposition.

Responding to the United States
Government's invitation to participate,
the producers of photographic appa-
ratus all over the world have been im-
mediate and enthusiastic in application
for space, so that the problem which
Theodore Hardee, chief of the depart-
ment of Liberal Arts of the exposition,
is facing is to provide ample and proper
accommodations for all the exhibitors.
The number of applications for space
presages, through the process of ju-
dicious elimination, an exhibit of "the

SINCE the death in Paris last sum-
mer of J. C. Williamson, the Austra-
lian theatrical magnate whose name
it bears, the firm of J. C. Williamson,
Ltd., has been in the hands of three
managing directors, Hugh J. Ward,
George Tallis and Clyde Meynell,
who have succeeded to the business.
Mr. Ward has just arrived in this
country in quest of American plays
for his many theatres in Australia
and South Africa.

Mr. Ward is making his headquar-

cream" of the world's photographic
product.

The plan of the chief of the depart-
ment of Liberal Arts in locating such
exhibits as that of motion photography,
contemplates an interesting competitive
arrangement. On one side of the beau-
tiful Palace of Liberal Arts will be
displayed the American-made articles,
together with America's achievements
in photographic printing. On the other
side of the building will be the exhibits
from England, which promise to be very
extensive, France, Germany, Japan and
all the other nations that are concerned
in motion pictures.

In the schedule of exposition exhibits,
motion photography is listed under
Group 33.

All classes of cameras will find a
place in suitable environment and all
classes of pictures will be revealed in an
advantageous manner.

A display of the latest inventions that
seek the transmission of photographs
over telegraphic wires will be of par-
ticular interest and importance, and in
this line should be unique in the history
of expositions.

Another feature of the photography
display that will add importance to the
exhibit will be the assembling of the
most recent processes in motion picture
making and projecting.

This agency will be of enormous at-
tracting power in the Palace of Liberal
Arts. So that this single department of
photography, related as it is, in Group
23, to the department of Liberal Arts,
will, singly and by itself, be an epitome
of the progress of the world in the
last decade as shown, not only in the
development of the mechanics of pho-
tography, but mainly in its product — ■
the pictures.

ters with the New York representa-
tive of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., Wal-
ter C. Jordan, of Sanger & Jordan, in
the Empire Theatre Building, and is
stopping at the Hotel Astor. He is
a native of Philadelphia and visited
his relatives there on Sunday, run-
ning over to Washington Monday
and Tuesday to see George M. Cohan
and his parents, and returning to
Philadelphia on Wednesday. He is
now back in New York, where he will
probably now remain for some time.

HE HAS GAINED FAME BY HIS
ENERGY

In Mr. G. Callaghan, the Radium
Gold Fibre Screen Company has a
young New York representative of
singular energy and agreeable per-
sonality. Although only two or three

G. CALLAGHAN

years in the motion picture business,
he has achieved great success in
popularizing the Radium screen
amongst exhibitors. He is intelligent
and progressive in his ideas. The
Radium Company is about to enter
the motion pictures supply business
and Mr. Callaghan should be a val-
uable aid in spreading success for the
new venture.

POST CARD TRADE LIVELY

The Kraus Manufacturing Com-
pany, of 14 East Seventeenth street,
New York City, have been having a
lively trade in their post cards of pho-
toplayers. In addition to this line the
concern handles advertising and sou-
venir specialties of all kinds, among
these being hand-colored pictures as
well as real photographs of prominent
Association players. Photographs of
all Mutual features can be furnished
by the Kraus Company ten days
ahead of date.

A. M. Eisner, for several years con-
nected with the Chicago and Kansas
City offices of the General Film Com-
pany, has now gone with the Mutual
Film Corporation as manager of its
two Chicago exchanges. He fills the
place left vacant when R. S. Seery
was appointed district manager of the
Northwestern territory with head-
quarters in Seattle.

H. J. Ward Here from Australia

He is One of the Managing Directors Now in Charge of J. C. William-
son, Ltd., and He Wants Features

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Edison Players Return

AFTER touring Europe for the
Edison Company for the past
seven months, Miriam Nesbitt, Marc
McDermott, Charles Brabin and Otto
Brautigan, camera-man, returned to
the United States on the Carpathia
and will now remain in this country
for some time. During the period
they were abroad, the Edison players
visited England, Ireland, Wales, Bel-
gium, France, Switzerland and Italy.

Many interesting dramas, comedies
and scenic pictures have been pro-
duced by them during this time, hav-
ing as their backgrounds many spots
of historic interest and picturesque
beauty, among them "Keepers of the
Flock," "The Foreman's Treachery,"
"The Stroke of the Phoebus Eight,'
"A Daughter of Romany." "Flood
Tide" and "The Coast Guard's Sister."

When Captain Rostrom, of the Car-
pathia, learned that the Edison play-
ers were aboard his ship he immedi-
ately made their acquaintance and
spent much time with them. When
the first dance was held after leaving
Naples the Captain introduced Miss
Nesbitt to a very polished gentleman
of most affable manner, with whom
she danced the tango and other of
the modern dances. When the vessel
reached Quarantine four detectives
came aboard and, after closely scru-
tinizing the passengers, fastened their
eyes. upon the dance partner of Miss
Nesbitt. He was taken into custody
and then it was discovered that he
was wanted in Austria for stealing

$10,000 worth of diamonds from one
of the leading jewelry houses there.

European aviation experts who de-
clared that 4 a. m. and 8 p. m. or
thereabouts were the only periods in

MIRIAM NESBITT— EDISON PLAYERS

the day when flights could be made
with safety had their opinions dis-
counted by MacDermott. As these
hours were not exactly ideal for pho-
tographic purposes, MacDermott in-
sisted upon flying at 11 a. m. JHe
made seventeen flights in all during
the course of the day, the first few
flights being made expressly for the
production "The Stolen Plans."

WHEN PLAYERS GET PEEVISH
AND UPSET

The untoward eccentricities of the
camera are often a source of much
exasperation and hard feelings on the
part of the players in front. Some-
times a particularly effective bit of
work has apparently been registered,
when suddenly the camera man as-
certains that the record is deficient
and it all has to be done over again.
This is one of the trials of the mo-
tion picture artist.

An occurrence of this sort nearly
put V. A. Potel and Lee Willard, of
the Western Essanay forces at Niles,
Cal., out of commission during the
making and the taking of an exciting
story recently. It was up in the
canyon. The director had picked out
a particularly steep and a particularly
long and bumpy hill, down which,
locked and fighting in each other's
embrace, Potel and Willard had to
roll. It was half a mile to the bot-
tom, but they got through. They
presented a pitiable spectacle at the
end, but they had done their duty and
smiled at the accomplishment of a
deed well done. And well done it
was.

The only drawback to the perform-
ance was the fact that, unknown to
them, the camera had bucked. It was
too late to make them hear the sad
news, so thoroughly were they en-
grossed in their terrific and ever-roll-
ing struggle. But when they climbed
the hill again, the dreadful tidings
were broken to them gently. It had
all to be done over again. And it
was. The struggle was not so stren-
uous but the progress downhill, over
the fearful rocks, was, if anything,
accelerated.

This time the record was perfect
and so were the wrecks of Willard
and Potel. They have not recovered
fully yet. Willard says he feels
something akin to a beefsteak after
it has been through a meat-chopper.

MUTUAL ARC LAMPS READY
FOR DISTRIBUTION

The Mutual arc lamps heralded by
the Mutual Film Corporation as "The
Sign of the Wing-ed Clock," will be
ready for distribution within a week
or ten days. They are special lamps
with two Mutual clocks arranged op-
posite each other so that the rays of
light will pass through them and at-
tract attention to their brilliantly
lighted faces.

The Solar Light Company is man-
ufacturing the lamps and will for-
ward them to the exchanges in lo.s
of ten thousand. They will be dis-
tributed immediately to the theatres
running the Mutual program, as will
also the special banners which are
being turned out in large numbers
for the use of Mutual exhibitors.

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SPECIAL FILM REVIEWS

" rpEDORA." (Trans-Oceanic Films,

" Ltd.) — There is plenty of action in
"Fedora," the new Aquila five-reel pro-
duction to which the Trans-Oceanic
Films, Ltd., 145 West Forty-fifth
Street, New York City, has just ac-
quired the American rights. In spite
of its length, which includes a pro-
logue and four parts, the film has
not a moment that drags. From an
artistic view-point the production is
also superior, particular attention hav-
ing been shown to the trifling details
that often make or mar a subject
otherwise of the best.

"Fedora'' is not based on the French
play of that name. Instead it deals
with the illegitimate daughter of an
English lord, his adopted son, the
nobleman's tragic end and the love
affair of the two, whose paths are
cast together after his death.

The theme is handled in a fashion
that is admirable. The acting is ex-
cellent and the direction of a charac-
ter that shows a mastery of technique.

Among the scenes in the production
that are worthy of note are a horse
race, a duel, a battle underground
between police and anarchists, and the
rescue of Fedora when about to take
poison upon the stage of the theatre
where she is acting. The suicide of
the English lord, father of Fedora and
foster-parent of her lover, is an ex-
ample of the artistic attention given
to the scenic effects of the production,
which has already been noted, and
contains none of the grewsome de-
tails usually attending such portray-
als. The nobleman is seen to enter
a totally dark room, there is a flash
of a revolver and all is over. The
audience is made aware of his suicide
by his adopted son's discovery of the
body through the parted curtains of
the room, although no glimpse is
given of the dead lord.

"In Peril of His Life." (Kalem, Nov.
29.) — A conventional ''Western" which
is not up to the Kalem standard. The
story is not very clear.

Bud, a cowboy, swears off drink at
the girl's request. The foreman
tempts him, but the boy, remember-
ing his pledge, refuses to drink. The
bottle is thrown from the" window
and kills- the foreman.

"The Hand of The Law." (War-
ner's Features. Three reels.) — Made
by the Colorado Motion Picture Com-
pany, and featuring "Tom" Tynan,
the new warden of the Colorado state
prison and the founder of the prison
honor system.

Joe, a convict, escapes, but after a

long chase is recaptured and brought
back. Here he endures many punish-
ments until finally Tynan's adminis-
tration places him on the honor squad.
He is finally able through a girl's as-
sistance to prove his innocence. "Joe"
Ryan, Jr., plays the convict and Jose-
phine West the girl.

"A Daughter of Pan." (Warner's
Features. Three reels.) — Made by
Helgar Corporation and featuring
Helen Gardner. Her clever work as
Dusa, the girl of the woods, is the
life of the play.

The tale itself is one full of fantas-
tic and fairy story scenes and makes
a most desirable break from the usual
run of pictures. The girl of the woods
.has had a spell cast on her by the
gods so that she appears homely.
The wise man tells her the cure and
she lifts the curse and returns to her
woodland lover, forsaking the wicked
courtier.

"The Unsigned." (Nestor. Two
reels.) — Francis Ford and Grace Cu-
nard play the leading parts. The
story is weak and in places inconsist-
ent. A boy, believing he has killed
another, runs away. His sweetheart
appeals to his father to help her, and
he, to save the honor of the girl, mar-
ries her. The son returns during a
strike and is killed.

"Bloodhounds of the North." (Uni-

versal. Two reels.) — James Neil,
William Lloyd and Pauline Bush play
the leads in this interesting picture of
the Canadian woods. It tells of the
fights between a party of crooks flee-
ing from justice and the mounted po-
lice. The mountain settings are beau-
tiful.

"The Magic Veil." (European Fea-
ture Film Corporation.) — This is a
dramatic story of love and intrigue
of a character which constitutes the
best type of melodrama. It has many
powerful scenes, which are effective-
ly staged and well acted. Through-
out the story, which deals with the
power possessed by a beautiful wom-
an to ruin those of the opposite sex,
runs the secondary theme, the love
and then the bitter, uncompromising
hatred of a Hindoo servant.

Irma Vallon, an adventuress, en-
tices the high minister of the cabinet,
Dauban, to fall in love with her in
order to bring about his downfall.
Leuvor, his enemy, who has prom-
ised her a large sum of money to ac-
complish this, does not figure in the
story after she has effected the ruin
of Dauban.

With this money, the woman leaves
Paris, where she has gained her ends,
and goes to Spain in search of other
victims. Unfortunately, however, her
charms are such that she has aroused
the love of Ali, her Hindoo servant.
Learning of this, she dismisses him

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immediately and in such fashion as
to gain his undying enmity.

In Spain she poses as a wealthy
widow and, meeting the Duke of Ger-
van, soon wins him by her wiles.
Their engagement is announced. Dau-
ban, who is still living, though dis-
graced, in Paris, hears of her attach-
ment and sends her word that he will
expose her before her marriage as a
revenge for her treatment of him.
Ali, her former servant, now selling
rugs for a living, suddenly appears,
and, recalling his love for her, she
begs him to go to Paris and obtain
the letters and picture from Dauban,
by means of which he has threatened
her exposure. Ali weakens and ac-
cepts her mission, but once away
from her treacherous eyes, his hatred
flames again and he determines to re-
venge himself upon her. He obtains
the letters and picture, and, return-
ing, places them in the hands of the
Duke, who in the meantime has
wedded the adventuress.

Seeing how he has been duped, the
nobleman takes his wife to his an-
cestors' palace, which contains the
magic veil that brings revenge to
those who have been wronged by a
woman.

"The Shriner's Daughter." (Amer-
ican.)— Like the recent release of
this company, the American again
has taken advantage of a situation
and built up a strong story' around
it, giving us a splendid production.
Their other film, "Trapped by the
Forest Fire," was built around one
of the conflagrations that occasion-
ally sweep through California for-
ests. The assembling of the Shrin-
ers in that state in their "Hands
Around the State" tour, plays a big
part in this film, not only from the
story standpoint but also from the_
scenic and setting viewpoint. The
view of hundreds of Shriners detrain-

ing at the station, the marches and
band concert on the lawn of the
Hotel Arlington, the drills, etc., ali
form an interesting part of the pro-
duction. The story is not weak, as
often happens in building a film
around an event of this kind. It is
well written, well staged and well
played.

William Lambert and George Good-
rich are partners in business and
rivals in love for the hand of Anne
Cortell. Goodrich's jealousy is in-
flamed after Lambert marries Anne,
and he becomes morose, vicious and
dissipated. A few years after the
marriage Anne dies. Goodrich, pass-
ing the house a short time after
Anne's death, sees Lambert leaving
to go to a meeting of the Shriners,
his child remaining in care of the
maid. Watching his chance, Good-
rich steals the child away and goes
to a Western country. Lambert tries
every possible means to find his
daughter, but his efforts are unre-
warded.

Goodrich, in the meantime, posing
as the father of Helen, becomes sick
and is visited by mission workers,
one of whom, pitying the child,
adopts her. Goodrich later tries to
prevail on the woman to give the
child back. Her love for the child
has grown, and rather than part with
her, she tries to buy him of¥ and pays
him a sum of money. During ten
years Goodrich keeps on imposing
his toll on the woman.

The girl, now grown into a beauti-
ful young woman, enters a hospital
as a trained nurse, where she meets
a young doctor. He falls in love with
her, but Helen refuses to marry him,
giving no reason. The foster-mother
also refuses her permission. Good-
rich, skulking, appears in the back-
ground, and, beckoning to Helen,
tries to secure more money from her.
She is frightened but gives it to him
and tries to hurry him off. He goes.

but the doctor has seen him, so upon
Helen's return, when he questions
her, she tells him the story. He tries
to overcome her objection by saying
that he loves her for herself alone,
but she still refuses.

Lambert, after all these years of
grieving for his daughter, has found
no means of consolation except
through his devotion to the Shrine.
He embarks for Santa Barbara to at-
tend the convention of the Shriners.
While attending the festivities, he is
overcome by the heat. The young
doctor, Helen's lover, who is also a
Shriner, is the first at his side, and
has him taken to the hospital, where
he is placed under the care of Helen.

While Lambert is convalescing and
being wheeled through the grounds
by the doctor and Helen, he sees
Goodrich and recognizes his former
partner and rival, even through all
the lines of age and dissipation. He
asks the girl who Goodrich is. She
tells him that he is her father. Look-
ing into her face, he sees there the
likeness between this girl and his
dead wife. He takes his daughter
into his arms and tells her the story.
Goodrich is disposed of by due proc-
ess of law, while Helen, the young
doctor and her real father make a
pretty picture as they happily piece
together the story which has made
up their lives. C. J. V.

"The Master of the Garden." (Se-
lig. Two reels. Dec. 8.) — A story
which has a strong appeal. As in the
"Master of the House," . the term
"Master" refers to Christ. The ac-
tion tells of a girl ruined by a young
lawyer. She prevents a young girl
from suffering a similar fate. The
final scene of the girl's death and of
her meeting with the Master pos-
sesses much strength. The court
scene is also accurately portrayed.
The scenes are not in the least enig-
matical.

"Having a Good Time." (Essanay.
Dec. 6. General Film Co. Exclu-
sive Service.) — An impossible comedy
which will amuse. A burlesque in the
broadest sense. A sprained ankle and
the town gossip cause lots of trouble.

RACING SCENE IN "FEDORA" — TRANS-OCEANIC FEATURES

"The Mirror of Death." (Lubin.
Dec. 6. General Film Company. Ex-
clusive Service.) — A few feet of ex-
quisite scenery add much to this pic-
ture. The story itself is bright and
interesting. The story deals with a
girl stopping some revolutionists
from killing her, with the aid of a
mirror and the sun. The shooting
scenes were poor, as were also the
backgrounds.

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INTERESTING FILM REVIEWS

Educational — Industrial — Scenic — General

"Hp HE Birthday Ring." (Biograph.

A Dec. 4.) — A clever picture, which
is not, however, true to life. A baby
ring brings together a husband and
wife after some years of loneliness.
Plenty of action throughout.

"When Mountain and Valley Meet."

(Lubin. Dec. 4. Two Reels.) — Ro-
maine Fielding has a difficult role to
play in this picture, and he is to be
congratulated on the admirable way in
which he portrayed his part. He is
supposedly in love with many girls
and is engaged to them all. His only
purpose is a sinister one. He meets
the girl from the hills and nearly
succeeds in effecting her ruin. Her
lover foils him.

"A Romance of the Hills." (Essa-
nay. Dec. 4.) — A very conventional
picture, containing little that is new
or original. Fred Church plays the
lead. A girl and a boy are engaged,
when the former meets an artist and
breaks with her first lover. They are
reconciled later.

"For Another's Crime." (Reliance.
Two Reels.) — Paul Scardon, Anna
Laughlin, Irene Hunt and Harry
Spingler play the leads. The story
is very conventional and tells of two
men so alike that one is accused of
the other's crime. There is no need
of the romance at the end, as it
rather spoils the story.

"Romance and Duty." (Majestic.
Two Reels.) — A drama which some-
what resembles "Beverly of Grau-
stark,'' in which Belle Bennett and
Ernest Joy are the principals. What
the prince refjsed to do for his father
he does for his country. A very fas-
cinating love story, with excellent at-
mosphere.

"A Woman's Mission." (Melies.
Dec. 4. Split Reel.) — The members of
the Women's Political Union would
not care about this picture. Woman's
mission is "to love and be loved," if
this picture is taken as a criterion.

"The Swan Girl." (Vitagraph. Dec.
4.) — A very dainty little love story
that should meet with approval every-
where. A millionaire and a country
girl meet; he aids her to get an edu-
cation and finally weds her. Very
prettily played by Anita Stewart and
E. K. Lincoln.

"Big Bob Waits." (Vitagraph. Dec.

3. General Film Company. Exclusive
Service.) — There is not a great deal
of real story to this picture, but it
is very pretty and will make a favor-
able impression. Big Bob, the sheriff,
realizing that to arrest a man will
send his parents mad with grief, de-
cides to wait.

"Fat and Fate." (Kalem. Dec. 3.
General Film Company. Exclusive
Service.) — A Ruth Roland and John
Brennan comedy. Ruth will not marry
John until he reduces weight. He
tries, and much fun ensues.

"Eileen of Erin." (Domino. Two
Reels. )-i-A very pretty Irish romance.
It is laid during the time of the Irish-
English wars, and some very good
fight scenes are pictured. Dennis and
Eileen, after being in danger, escape
and leave the country.

"The Cave-Men's War." (Kalem.
Dec. 3. Two Parts.) — With the excep-
tion of one or two inconsistencies,
this picture is very good and presents
a new field of work. The makeup
was realistic, except that one or two
of the warriors showed their "tan"
in spots only. The story deals with
prehistoric times when the cave-men
and shell-men were constantly at war
with one another. There is a neat

little love story woven into the main
theme.

"Kitty's Knight." (Essanay. Dec.
3.) — A corking good comedy, with
just sufficient slapstick work in it to
make the action lively. Two rivals
fight for the hand of their lady fair
at a masquerade ball. The costuming
is very appropriate.

"A Break for Freedom." (Pathe-
play. Dec. 3.) — An Indian story that
does not possess any unusual features.
A white man is promised the hand of
an Indian girl if he will catch a mur-
derer. He does this, but the girl es-
capes from him, liberates her lover,
and together they go away.

"Magic Skin." (Victor. Two Reels.)
— After the novel by Balzac of the
same name. J. Warren Kerrigan and
Jessylyn Van Trump play the leading
parts. The action follows the story
as written, and is of the semi-fairy
story variety.

"Within the Hour." (Selig. Dec. 3.)
— A very good story that will be sure
to interest all. The casting is good
and the photography practically per-
fect. The story demonstrates that
much can happen within an hour.

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"The Coliseum at Rome." (Vita-
graph. Split Reel. Dec. 3.) — Same i eel
with "A Pair of Prodigals." Many
views of these interesting ruins are
given.

"A Pair of Prodigals." (Vitagraph.
Dec. 3. Split Reel.)— Robert Thornby
and George Stanley in their Sandy
and Shorty tramp impersonations are
exciting much favorable comment.
In this comedy they go through a
number of adventures, find a million
and lose it again. Pretty girls add to
the effectiveness of the picture.

"A Trip to the Famous Picnic
Grounds at Arashyama, Japan." (Me-
lies. Dec. 4. Split Reel.)— On the
same reel as "A Woman's Mission."
The "trip" is very interesting. Some
very good pictures of the little yellow
ladies at close range are obtained.

"Story of David Greig." (Imp.
Two reels.) — A McNamara picture
dealing with capital vs. labor. David,
a newsboy, is adopted by Rossini, a
political refugee. Later he becomes
a great leader of men and is able to
control the strikes. He inherits a
large sum of money and buys half in-
terest in the factory he had worked
in. Joseph Moore and Jane Gail play
the stellar roles.

"Beauty Unadorned." (Vitagraph.
Two reels. Dec. 6.) — The best ve-
hicle Sidney Drew has had in months.
He evidently knows what he is capa-
ble of doing, as he is the author of
the piece. A rollicking, clean farce
comedy that would make a hit even
in a morgue. Two adventurers try
to arrange advantageous marriages
in Newport, but a clever father out-
wits them. False hair, teeth and limbs
play prominent parts.

"Pathe's Weekly." No. 74. (Dec.
10.) — A number of foreign items by
way of change. Opossume in a pa-
rade in Grapeland are very amusing
as well as instructive. The comic sec-
tion of Bud Fisher was received with
roars of laughter.

"A Lesson in Jealousy." (Vita-
graph. Dec. 5.) — A story of the army
that is very witty. Sidney Drew,
Clara Kimball Young and Harry
Morey constitute the cast. A woman
wants a jealous husband and when
she gets one she .regrets it.

"The Padrone's Plot." (Kalem. Dec.
5. Two reels. General Film Co. Ex-
clusive Service.) — As the name im-
plies, Italians play the leading parts.
It serves in a measure, as an expose
of the modern methods of obtaining
labor on a percentage basis. The
story is well told and makes a good

subject. The details are well taken
care of. Black hand bombs figure in
the action.

"Two Christmas Morns." (Gau-
mont. Four reels.)— A beautifully
hand-colored release that will please
all with its pretty colors and ingeni-
ous story. The character work of the
two old tramps is particularly good.
The story covers a period of approxi-
mately twenty years, beginning with
one Christmas and ending with
another. A human interest film.

"Her Father." (Lubin. Dec. 6.) —
Should a person's relations stand in
the way of an otherwise happy mar-
riage, is the theme of this picture.
The action is not, however, strong
enough throughout to carry out the
thought in entirety. Velma Whitman
and Ray Gallagher play the girl and
boy, respectively.

"The Octoroon." (Kalem. Three
parts. Dec. 1.) — After the well-
known melodrama of the same name
which has been produced in number-
less stock companies. The Kalem
Company deserves great credit for
this good work. The story is of the
old slave days in the South and deals
with the actions of a white man who
loves an octoroon. The burning of
the ferry-boat was presented in very
dramatic fashion.

"Leah Kleschna." (Famous Play-
ers. Four parts. Dec. 10.) — The
story of a woman's regeneration as
so capably told by the Famous Play-
ers Company is far too well-known to
need any retelling. With a most ca-
pable cast and good photography the
drama "gets over" in a most emphatic
manner.

"Baseball's Peerless Leader."

(Patheplay. Two parts. Dec. 4.) —
Frank Chance, though not as good an
actor as he is a ball player, does very
well indeed. A good supporting cast
and an excellent vehicle are of great
assistance in covering up what he
may lack in technique. One or two
small inconsistencies do not materi-
ally mar the action. Altogether it is
a very satisfactory production.

"Voice of Angelo." (Lubin. Two
parts. Dec. 4. General Film Com-
pany. Exclusive Service.) — A very
pretty love story, well intermixed with
a cleverly acted story. Arthur John-
son is here seen in a new part for
him, that of a singer, who having ar-
rived at the top of the ladder of fame
scorns friends and becomes dissolute.
He returns later, having lost his
voice.

"Northern Hearts." (Selig. Dec.
5.) — Similarity in uniform and a gen-
eral facial resemblance is apt to con-
fuse the audience. The drama itself
is one of considerable strength. An
officer is ordered to arrest his best
friend and he does so, even though it
costs him his sweetheart's love.

"While Father Telephoned." (Ka-
lem. Split reel. Dec. 5.) — A change
of setting once in a while by way of
variety would be most acceptable in
these clever comedies featuring Ruth
Roland and John Brennan. While
father 'phones from a booth the door
is nailed and the lovers elope. Same
reel with "Andrew Carnegie's Gift to
the World."

"Andrew Carnegie's Gift to the
World." (Kalem. Dec. 5. Split reel.)
—Same reel with "While Father Tele-
phoned." Poor photography rather
hurts the effect of these pictures of
the Hague, floods at Newcastle, hop
picking and the St. Leger races.

"The Footprint Clue." (Kalem.

Dec. 6.) — A good drama showing the
dangers of accepting circumstantial
evidence as conclusive proof. The
photography and casting is good.

"What Shall it Profit a Man." (Edi-
son. Dec. 6.) — "If he gain the world
and lose his own soul," would be the
full title of this drama did space al-
low. A man steals all from his part-
ner, mistreats his own wife, but
finally repents. A very strong play.

"In the Elemental World." (Bio-
graph. Dec. 6.) — The theme in this
production is so tenuous that it is •
never apparent. The audience actu-
ally tittered in the serious parts.

"Broncho Billy's Squareness." (Es-
sanay. Dec. 6.) — G. M. Anderson has
one strong point in his favor. He
brings realism into his interpreta-
tions. His reckless riding always
wins applause. The story is on a par
with former productions, being full of
excitement. A reformed highwayman
is the principal figure.

"Col. Heeza Liar in Africa."

(Patheplay. Split reel. Dec. 6.)—
Ingenious drawings by J. R. Bray,
aided by witty sub-titles, make this a
most acceptable offering. Very good
as a novelty. Same reel with "Glimpses
of Pond Life."

"Glimpses of Pond Life." (Pathe-
play. Split reel. Dec. 6.) — Same reel
as "Col. Heeza Liar." A good edu-
cational production which was favor-
ably received.

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS 43

J. W. Ritchey on Posters

MARY AND HER DOLL

Here is Mary Fuller, Edison lead-
ing woman, with a doll which she
dressed for the Christmas bazaar for
the Children's Hospital in Birming-

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ham, Ala. The doll represents Miss
Fuller as "Billy" in "A Light on
Troubled Waters." Of course, the
energetic Mary made the dress for the
doll.

ESSANAY ACTRESS NOT TO
RETURN TO STAGE

Marguerite Clayton, of the West-
ern Essanay Company, denies with
the utmost emphasis the story print-
ed about her in one of the Hearst
newspapers recently that she was anx-
ious to quit the pictures in order to
play a part in G. M. Anderson's new
San Francisco playhouse, the Gaiety
The story created a lot of gossip, ac-
companied as it was with a big pic-
ture of the pretty Essanay actress
and a story that had about it many
of the earmarks of the truth.

Miss Clayton asserts there's not
one word of truth in it. "The pic-
tures are my sole and only ambition."
she says.

A CORRECTION

In the construction number oi the
Motion Picture News the Columbia
Theatre at Portsmouth, O., was re-
ported to be using a Mirror Screen.
This was a mistake, as Mr. Fred N.
Tynes, owner of the Columbia The-
atre is very well pleased with the
Radium Gold Fibre Screen he has in-
stalled. E. H. Hulsey, one of the
most prominent exhibitorr, in Texas,
has installed a Radium Gold Fibre
Screen in his Houston theatre. Mr.
Hulsey uses these screens in all his
houses.

WITH valuable experience as an
exhibitor in Chicago to his
credit and an. enviable record as a
manufacturer of motion pictures, J. V.
Ritchey, formerly manager of the Re-
liance Company, and now associated
with Worthy Butts in the Greenwich
Lithographing Company, knows
whereof he speaks on the poster ques-
tion.

While Mr. Ritchey admits that some
of the "paper" used to advertise "spe-
cial" pictures is not all that it should
be, both in the nature of the subjects
presented and their sensational treat-
ment, he claims that the amount of
objectional posters is small compared
with the large majority of high-class
and even artistic posters used in con-
nection with the pictures produced by
the legitimate feature companies and
the manufacturers on the regular pro-
grams.

ONE of the most novel distributing
ideas which interest motion pic-
ture houses is in vogue in the Metro-
politan Premium Company in the
Woolworth building, New York City.

Stanley A. White, who has charge
of this distributing station in the
East, is supplying more than one hun-
dred houses throughout the States of
New York and New Jersey. His idea
is to interest motion picture proprie-

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tors with a class of premiums of a
standard value which tend to increase
the receipts of any house using them.

Since becoming active in the poster
end of the motion picture art Mr.
Ritchey has had an opportunity to
study the ideas, not only of the lead-
ing manufacturers of regular weekly
releases, but also of the leading fea-
ture producers. He finds that almost
every poster produced is a reproduc-
tion of a still- picture taken of an
actual scene at the time of the mak-
ing of the film.

The films are produced with the
thought of the National Board of Cen-
sors requirements acting as a stand-
ard for the director. The subjects
of the "still" pictures are selected
with even more care, if possible, than
is exercised in the ma':ing of the film.
In fact, the very method used for the
selection of the subjects presented up-
on the posters makes a separate cen-
sorship for them a repetition of the
film censorship already exercised.

This line of premiums has been of
great value to those using them. In
several instances, houses which have
been run down by bad management,
are now among the leading amuse-
ment houses of their locality.

This proposition is one that should
be considered by everyone in the mo-
tion picture business who owns or
leases playhouses. Many of those now
handling the premiums are having
such an overflow during the evening
performance that they have been com-
pelled to give matinee performances
each day in the week and distribute
premiums at these performances.

There are many dull nights in the
motion picture business, as all pro-
prietors know, and it is the plan to
hand out these premiums on those
evenings. The owners or managers
of show houses get these premiums
a week in advance so as to show the
patrons the kind of articles to be dis-
tributed.

Mr. White, in an interview said:
"On several occasions my proposi-
tion was not made plain, but after a
short talk with the proprietor of a
picture house, I soon had him asking
questions, and soon afterwards had
him signing a contract for the use of
the premiums. J. F. F.

The State Board of Control of the
State of Arizona has purchased
through the California Film Ex-
change of Phoenix, Arizona, two Sim-
plex projectors. These are of the
latest model and are for use in the
prison at Florence, and for the State
Insane Asylum.

Premiums Bring Business

44

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

PATENTS SUIT CONTINUES

(Continued from page 14)

T N the afternoon several more managers of General
Film branches were on the stand. They were :
Alton Tredick, Oklahoma City, Okla. ; Elmer R. Pear-
son, Omaha ; William C. Preller, Minneapolis ; Sam-
uel H. Shirley, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. ; Herbert C. Wales,
Albany, and Chester W. Sawin, Washington, D. C.

On Tuesday the first two witnesses were exhibitors
from Washington, D. C. They were William P.
Herbst, of the Circle Theatre, at 2105 Pennsylvania
avenue, and Joseph P. Morgan, of the Princess The-
atre, at 119 Eighth street, Northeast.

Then came W. F. Kinson, manager of the Pitts-
burgh General Film Company Calcium branch. He
was formerly associated with Richard A. Roland and
James B. Clark in the Pittsburgh Calcium Light and
Film Company, which was sold to the General Film'

Company. Then came Harry E. Nichols, manager of
the Columbia branch of the General Film in Pitts-
burgh.

Tuesday afternoon the first witness was Fred C.
Aiken, a special representative of the General Film
Company, whose territory includes the Minneapolis,
Omaha, St. Louis and Indianapolis offices. He was
the president of the Theatre Film Service Company,
of Chicago, which was sold to the General Film Com-
pany.

Next came several branch managers. They were
Albert W. Goff, of Cleveland, with a sub-branch at
Columbus ; Stanley W. Hatch, Cincinnati, and Ralph
LeBeau, Milwaukee.

Two witnesses on Wednesday were W. C. Brandon,
of Atlanta, Ga., and C. S. Edwards, of Kansas City.

Oh, It's an Interesting Life

(Continued from page 26)

ing on a plan for the marketing of several
exceptionally long subjects which the firm will
soon spring on the market.

William C. Dowlan, late of Lubin and Es-
sanay, is playing opposite Dorothea Farley,
leading woman of the Albuquerque Film Manu-
facturing Company.

The thirty-two Sioux Indians of the Broncho
motion picture camp at Santa Monica Canyon
are said to have taken up the tango craze.

Thomas H. Ince, managing director .for the
New York Motion Picture Corporation at Eden-
dale, has signed up the clever Japanese actress,
Miss Tsuru Aoki, whose work with the Ma-
jestic company in "The Oath of Tsura San"
stamped her as a real star. Mr. Ince has in
preparation five dramas in which she will be
featured.

E. D. Horkheimer, secretary of the Balboa
Amusement Producing Company, will soon
leave the studio at Long Beach, Cal., and take
a business and pleasure trip East. He will not
return to California till the middle of January.

George Field, the classy villain of the Amer-
ican Film Manufacturing Company, is re-
ported as badly wounded by Cupid. The name
on the arrow will be announced later.

Reaves Eason, also of the "Flying A" forces,
has a mania for losing his top coats. Then he
has to buy new ones, so the process is rather
expensive.

Our Mutual Girl is getting busy. Recently
she attended the races at Piping Rock with
millionaires, among them August Belmont and
Otto Kahn, director of the Metropolitan Opera

House and a prominent member of the firm
of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. These notables will be
seen on the screen. Mayme Kelso has been
engaged to play the society woman who is the
aunt of Our Mutual Girl. Miss Kelso did the
impersonation of Mrs. Jackson Gouraud, for-
merly Aimee Crocker, at the Folies Bergere,
New York.

Gaston Bell, leading man with Majestic and
Kinemacolor, has joined the Lubin forces. He
will play leading roles in several of the Charles
Klein plays which Lubin is now producing in
motion pictures.

Now the secret is out. The editors of the
Betzwood Lenz, the clever Lubin comic sheet,
are George Terwilliger and Bennie from Lubin-
ville.

William "Castle Walk" Bailey, of the Es-
sanay forces, is receiving many inquiries from
young ladies who want to learn the new dance.

The "making time fly" Mutual ad got the
goat of the editor of West Side Men, a Y. M.
C. A. house-organ. So he printed an editorial
philippic against the phrase. Now the Mutual's
advertising expert, Ingalls Kimball, of the
Cheltenham Advertising Service, replies in
kind via Phil Mindil, and the merry war
is on.

Herbert Brenon, Imp director, will take a
company to Florida to produce a feature star-
ring Annette Kellerman. Billy Shay plays the
male lead and C apt. Peacocke impersonates a
fish.

M. E. Hoffman, publicity man for the World
Special Films Corporation, was instrumental in
landing a story, "The Influence of the Modern
Motion Picture Drama on the Styles," in the
current issue of a fashion magazine. Not be-
ing an expert on woman's dress, he enlisted

the services of Agnes Egan Cobb, of the Eclair
Company, to supply the technical terms. This
is the first time a ladies' magazine of fashions
has been used to exploit the motion picture
drama.

Frank Bannon, formerly a New York ex-
hibitor, has taken up his duties as one of
Horace G. Plimpton's asistants at the Edison
studio. He will be on hand to welcome all
visitors to the studio and will preside over the
sessions at 10 Fifth avenue.

Signor Novelli, who plays the part of the
marshal in "The Two Sergeants," which the
World Special Films Corporation is marketing,
received his training for the stage under the
eyes of the late Alexander Salvini.

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Two strange audiences in the far
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The State School for deaf mutes at
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company, in charge of O. R. Henkel,
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several days later to the "inmates of
the Idaho State Penitentiary.

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and many officials were present.

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INDEPENDENT

AMBROSIO Feet

Nov. 22 — Griffard's Claw (2 parts — Dr.)

Nov. 29 — Goose a la "Colbert" (2 parts —

Com. Dr.)

Dec. 6 — A Tragic Experiment (Dr.)

AMERICAN

Dec. 1 — American Born (2 reels— Dr.) 2000

Dec. 6 — A Divorce Scandal (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 8 — Trapped in a Forest Fire (Spec. Dr.). 1000

Dec. 11— His First Case (W. Dr.) 1000

Dec. 13 — Armed Intervention (Com. Dr.) 1000

Dec. 15 — Where the Road Forks (2 reel Dr.). 2000

Dec. 18 — Personal Magnetism (Com.) 1000

Dec. 20— Fate's Round-Up (W. Dr.) 1000

Dec. 22— The Shriner's Daughter ($ reel Dr.). 2000
Dec. 27 — The " Rose of San Juan (Spanish

Dec. 29 — In the Firelight (2 reel Dr.) 2000

Jan. 3— The Miser's Policy (Dr.) 1000

Drama)

AMMEX

Nov. 24 — Fatal Reckoning 2000

Dec. 8— His Pard's Sister 2000

Dec. 15 — The Lucky Nugget 3000

APOLLO

Nov. 2 — His Nobs the Plumber (Com.)....
Nov. 9 — Freddy Loosebelt from Africa

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Nov. 16 — Fred's Waterloo (Com.)

Nov. 23 — The Mexican Sleep Producer (Com.)
BISON

Nov. 18 — The Raid of the Human Tigers (3
reel Dr.)

Nov. 28 — Winona's Vengeance (2 reel Dr.)..

Nov. 25 — The White Vaquero (2 reel Dr.) . .

Nor. 29 — The War of the Cattle Range (2 reel
Dr.)

Dee. 6 — The White Squaw (2 reel Dr.)

Dec. 13— The Werewolf (2-reel Dr.)

Dec. 20— The God of Girsah (2 reel Dr.)

Dec. 27— The Water War (2 reel Dr.)

BLINKHORN

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parts — Dr.)

Dec. 8 — The Harper Mystery (Florence Tur-
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Dec. 15 — After Many Years (General Film
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Dec. 22 — Jean's Evidence (Florence Turner
Films, Ltd. — 2 parts— Dr.)

Dec. 29 — Vicar of Wakefield (Hepworth 3

parts)

BRONCHO

Nov. 26 — The Reformation (Dr.)

Dec. 3— The Buried Past (Dr.)

Dec. 10 — The Woman (Dr.)

Dec. 17 — The Open Door (2 parts — Dr.)

Dec. 24— Her Father's Story (2 parts— Dr.)

Dec. 31 — The Woman (2 parts— Dr.)

CRYSTAL

Nov. SO— The Convict's Daughter (Dr.)

Dec. 2— That Awful Maid

Dec. 2 — The Installment Plan Marriage....

Dec. 7 — A Woman's Revenge (Dr.)

Dec. 9 — Pearl's Hero (Com.)

Dec. 9 — Baldy is a Wise Old Bird (Com.) . .

Dec. 14 — First Love (Dr.)

Dec. 16 — The Soubrette (Com.)

Dec. 16 — The Trained Nurse (Com.)

Dec. 21— The Heart of an Artist (Drama) . .

Pec 23 — My Brudder Sylvest

Dec. 23— The Baby Question

Dec. 28 — The Lure of the Stage (Dr.)

DOMINO

Nov. 27 — Belle of Yorktown (3 parts — Dr.) . .

Dec. 4 — Devotion (2 parts — Dr.)

Dec. 11— The Filly (2 parts — Dr.)

Dec. 18 — The Curse (2 parts— Dr.)

Dec. 25 — True Irish Hearts (2 parts — Dr.)..
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Oct. 8 — Daredevil Rodman Law (Special) . .

Nov. 15— Dare Devil Rescue (Special) 3000

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Nov. 30 — When Pierrot Met Pierrette (2 reel

Dec. 7 — Trouble on the Stage

Dr.)

Dec. T — Trouble on the Stage

Dec. 7 — Magnetism — Magnets

Dec. 10— Over the Cliffs (3 reels)

Dec. 14 — He Likes Things Upside Down

Dec. 14 — Nutty Has a Romance

Dec. 17— The Serpent in Eden (2 reel Dr.) . .

Dec. 21 — Loaded

Dec. 21 — Sunset in Many Lands

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28 — Apply to Janitor

28 — Nutty is Dead; Long Live Nutty..
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13— Out of His Class (Dr.)

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20— His Better Self (Dr.)

25 — Slim and the Bandit (Com.)

27— His Father (Dr.)

GATJMONT

9 — Dolly Saves Her Grandmother 1000

11 — Poupette's Mean Revenge 1000

13 — Two Christmas Morns 3000

16— A Terrible Dream 1000

18 — Oscar in Search of a Wife 1000

20— The Broken Heart 2000

23 — Dollar Bills at a Cent Apiece 1000

25— Leonce and His Guardian 1000

27— The Angel of the House 3000

30 — Simple Simon Has a Fright 1000

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8 — A Bogus Hero (Com.)

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29— By Whose Hand 3000

IMP

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8 — The Return of Tony (Dr.)

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15 — The Story of David Greig (2 reel

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18 — Mr. and Mrs. Innocence Abroad
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22 — The Actor's Christmas (Dr.)

25 — Love or a Throne (2 reel Dr.)

ITALA (Features)
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18— Victory or Death 3000

JOKER

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13 — Waterfalls of Yosemite Valley..;...

17 — Mike and Jake as Heroes (Com.) . .

20 — For Art and Love.

20 — Impressions of Corsica

24 — Mike and Take as Pugilists (Com.).

27 — She Should Worry

27 — St. Milo to Dinan

KAY-BEE

5 — The Long Portage (Dr.)

9 — Her Legacy (Dr.)

12— Soul of the South (Dr.)

19— The Pitfall (Dr.)

26 — Harvest of Sin (Dr.)

30— Prince (Dr.)

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Nov. 29— The Blue or the Gray (Dr.)

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Nov. 18 — For the Love of a Toreador (2 part

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Dec. 16 — The Sunken Treasure (Dr.) (Parts

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Dec. 1 — Wanted, a Burglar (Com.) 550

Dec. 2— The Price of Human Lives (Dr.).. 1000

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Dec. 6— What Shall it Profit a Man? (Dr.). 1000

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Nov. 89 — Sophie's Hero

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Dec. 13 — Sophie's New Foreman (W. Com.) . .

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Nov. 28 — The Good Old Summer Time (Com.)
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Dec. 12 — General Bunko's Victory (Com.) .

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Dec. 15— The Hunchback (Dr.) (Parts I & II)

Dec. 17 — Uncle Tom's Cabin (Dr.) (Parts I
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Nov. 17 — The Two Fathers (Com.)

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Nov. 20 — Partners in Crime (Dr.)

Nov. 21— His Chorus Girl Wife (Dr.)

Nov. 22— The Harmless One (W. Dr.)

Nov. 24 — Just Cissy's Little Way (Com.) ....

Nov. 25 — Sick Father (Com.)

Nov. 25 — The Lost Switch (Com.)

Nov. 27— A Waif of the Desert (2 reel Dr.)..

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Nov. 29— Turning the Table (W. Dr.)

Dec. 1— Melita's Sacrifice (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 2 — The Hazard of Youth (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 4 — When the Mountain and Valley Meet

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Dec. 6 — Some Flowers (Com.) 400

Dec. 5 — An Interrupted Courtship (torn.)... 600

Dec. 6— Her Father (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 8 — The Smuggler's Daughter (Dr.) 1000

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Dec. 13— A Pill Box Cupid (Com.) 600

Dec. 15— When the Well Went Dry (Com.).. 400

Dec. 15 — A Masked Mix-Up (Com.) 600

Dec. 16— When He Sees (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 18— A Son of His Father (2 reel Dr.).. 2000
Dec. 19 — Growing and Gathering Cocoa Beans 400

Dec. 19 — Banty Tim (Com.) 600

Dec. 20— A Love of '64 (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 22— Through Flaming Paths (Dr.) 1000

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Nov. 6 — Sydney and Its Harbor (Travel) . .1000

Nov. 20 — Shooting the Famous Hozu Rapids

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Nov. 20 — A Lemon Plantation (Ind.)

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Nov. 26 — The Elusive Turkey (Com.)

Nov. 27— The Faithless Friend (Dr.) Parts I

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Nov. 27 — Old Nurenberg, Germany (Travel) . .

Nov. 27— Pathe's Weekly No. 71 (News)

Nov. 28 — Making Eight-Ton Ropes (Ind.)

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Nov. 29— The Blight (Dr.)

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Dec. 2 — Edible Fish of the Mediterranean..
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Dec. 3 — A Break for Freedom (Dr.)

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Dec. 4 — Pathe's Weekly No. 73 (News) . . .

Dec. 5 — A Bear Escape (Com.)

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Dec. 6 — Glimpses of Pond Life (Zoology) . .
Dec. 8— Pathe's Weekly No. 74 (News)....

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Dec. 10 — You've Got to Pay (Dr.)

Dec. 11 — A Modern Portia (Dr. — Parts I and

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Dec. 11 — Pathe's Weekly No. 75 (News)

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Dec. 12 — A Journey to the Environs of Naples

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Dec. 13 — Uncle John to the Rescue (Com.) . .

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Dec. 15— Pathe's Weekly No. 76 (News)

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Nov. 28 — The Supreme Moment (Dr.)

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Dec. 8 — Master of the Garden (Dr.— Parts I

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Nov. 17 — Tangled Threads

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Nov. 19— Why I Am Here

Nov. 20— The Sale of a Heart

Nov. 21 — The Schemers

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Nov. 24 — Mary Jane

Nov. 25^-The Swan Girl

Nov. 26 — An Elopement at Home

Nov. 27— The Cure

Nov. 28 — Betty in the Lion's Den

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H. H. Buckwalter, that grand old
scout who feels a sense of personal
responsibility for the Panama Canal,
having followed it faithfully with a
motion picture camera even since the
time of its beginning up to date, mak-
ing a complete picture of the greatest
enterprise the world has ever known,
is again on the field of operation,
grinding away as sunshine and fair
weather permit. He writes from An-
con, Canal Zone:

"The rainy season is fierce. We can
only get shots between showers and
the thing that puts me on the bum is
the moisture. An hour after I put in
a new velvet it is wet, and the next
morning it is mildewed. Film taken
from the cans is soft, and in a couple
of hours from the time it leaves the
upper take-up box until it gets to the
pressure plate it gathers enough
moisture to be sweaty, like a glass of
beer on a summer day."

Just to prove that there are herds
of buffaloes still left and that a real
buffalo hunt has not passed away, Ed-
die Kull, the camera man, has gone
West armed with a double-barreled
instrument of new make, and expects
to return next week with a unique lot
of film to show his adepuiess as an
artist and a hunter. The fortune of
Selig in securing unique phases of
life in the fast-vanishing West will
be augmented with this addition.

Clifford Bruce, leading man of the
Selig Polyscope Company in Chicago,
now fully restored to health' is back
at work.

Harry Jackson, one of the vaude-
ville entertainers, has joined the Selig
force in Chicago as a producer, and
will devote his attention to comedies.

Peggy Blevins, who has been asso-
ciated with the Selig Company in Cal-
ifornia, has joined the stock company
in Arizona.

William Farnum, the actor, was an
interested visitor last week at the
Selig Pol> scope plant, where his
brother, Marshal Farnum, has been
installed as a producer.

Adrienne Kroell has returned to
her work as leading lady with the
Selig Polyscope Company, in Chi-
cago, completely restored to health.

MANDELBAUM GETS "POMPEII"

E. Mandelbaum, president of the
World Special Films Corporation, has
just completed an arrangement
whereby he assumes full control of
the Pompeii Film Company, acquir-
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and Canada of the Pasquali version
of "The Last Days of Pompeii."
From now on, this will be handled
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one of their features

FIVE-A-WEEK
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Coming Friday, December 19th

"The Stigma"

(IN TWO PARTS)

An absorbing and extremely interesting love drama of the sea.
Infinite love is the foundation of the story, and even though Jane is a
victim of leprosy, Clifford continues to love her to the end.

Released Tuesday, December 16th

"LIFE'S WEAVING"

A drama of a father's false love and the undying efforts of the son
to win the woman the father had so unmercifully discarded.

Released Wednesday, December 17th

"HELLO, TROUBLE!"

A comedy that smacks with the ridiculous. Purely a story of laughs
and pleasing entertainment. Charles Stine, "Bobbie" Bolder, Ruth
Hennessy and "Smiling Billy" Mason will please you.

Released Thursday, December 18th

"THE TRAIL OF THE SNAKE BAND"

A drama of the plains, interesting throughout. This story is unique
and the exciting situations that prevail make it a strong box-office
feature.

Released Saturday, December 20th

"BRONCHO BILLY'S CHRISTMAS DEED"

A feature Western dramatic attraction, especially adapted for the
HOLIDAYS. Mr. G. M. ANDERSON will please your patrons in
this superb and heart-interest story of Christmas spirit.

Coming Friday, December 26th

"The Great Game"

(IN TWO PARTS)

Scenario by Maibelle Heikes Justice

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because you SEE the pictures so much plainer, better and clearer on a Mirror Screen than on any other surface under the sun. Besides,
it tickles your patrons and makes picture fans. It's a fact. The difference between a motion picture on a MIRROR SCREEN and any
other screen of any other kind is the same comparison between seeing your own reflection in a fine French plate glass mirror and in a
mud puddle. The 'MIRROR SCREEN' is a Mirror. A magnificent mirror made from the finest polished plate glass that the world can
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FOUR ACES

KAY-BEE
FEATURES

December 12

Soul of the South
Swo Reels

December 19

The Pitfall
Two Reels

December 26

Harvest of Sin
One Reel

January 2

Prince

One Reel

January 9

Kentucky Romance
One Reel

KEYSTONE COMEDIES

December 15 The Gusher

December 18. . . Faty's Flirtation — Protecting San
Francisco from Fire

December 20 His Sister's Kids

December ?2 A Bad Game

December 25 Some Nerve

December 27 The Champion

December 29 He Would A-Hunting Go

DOMINO WINNERS

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January 1. True Irish Hearts (3 reels)

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December 17

The Open Door
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December 24

Her Father's Story
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The Woman
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January 7

A Military Judas
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Conscience

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spent in advertising will never build up a profitable fol-
lowing for an exhibitor who is not showing good pictures*
The higher the claims made for your show the more is
expected by your patrons. The one positive requirement
for success is satisfactory pictures. "Satisfactory" pictures
mean good pictures at every show — day in and day out.

The Biograph, Edison, Essanay, Kalem, Kleine (Cines-
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From the day when the first picture was marketed until now,
vast sums of money have been spent in making these brands
famous throughout the world. And back of the advertising
there is and has ever been a quality that cannot be surpassed.

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PRECISION

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PRECISION means ACCURACY. It is a
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PRECISION projection is a SUCCESS
because it is ACCURATE in all details.

PRECISION means money to you, Mr.
Exhibitor.

We justify our name through the precise quality of our work.

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PATHfi'S weekly

Always has been and is today the one
best film made. Week by week and
month by month it is shown to
more people than any feature film
ever produced. For your own good

SHOW IT

TWICE, A WEXK

SPEAKING OF riATURlLS

In a year which has seenf.he production of many
fine films, such splentSi photo plays as "The
Governor's Double," "The Frozen Trail, " "In
The Days of War, " "The Black Countess," and
"Little Jack" have easily occupied a place in
the very front rank. To this partial list of
PATHE achievements should also be added
the sending of a camera man with the World's
Tour Baseball Teams, an announcement that has
created universal interest. The exhibitor who
insists on unvarying quality always shows

pathways

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Here's a Cablegram

CHARGED WITH SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPORTANCE

Not to Read it is to Remain Ignorant of the Biggest
"News Break" of the Year!

WEST

UNION

CABLEGRAM

TO£C.M VilL PRESIDENT

Received at Cor. Jackson Boulevard and La Salle St., Chicago '^J*
A 64 CO SG 111
Napoll DEC IS, 1313
LCD STEROKINET

CHICAGO

YOU ARE NOW AT LIBERTY TO ANNOUNCE FOR MAT I OK OF PHOTODRAMA
PRODUCTIOH COMPANY OF ITALY BY MYSELF ART TWO ASSOCIATES
HATE 3 OUGHT BEAUT I* L ESTATE PERMITTING STAGING OF FIFTY
SCENES 5IMULTANE0U|a],IN VARIED NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL
SETTINGS POLICY IS TO COMBINE ARTISTIC PERFECTION OF
ITALIAN WITH VIRILITY OF AMERICAN METHOD TAKING THE BEST
OUT OF BOTH SCHOOLS BIG FEATURES ONLY HAVE
ENG.1. GEE ~Z-l T.r.j*S AMERICAN ARTISTS NTT ??E7i:"SLY IN
PICTURES INVITE WRITTEN APPLICATIONS BEST TALENT ONLY

TO SPEND PART OF YEAR ON THE CONTINENT IN PHOTODRAMA WORE
FOR US IMPORTANT FEATURES BEING MADE FOR ME BY OTHER

PLANTS ARE NEARLY READY BIG FEATURES WILL FOLLOW AT
REGULAR INTERVALS

GEORGE ELEINE

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GEORGE KLEINE

166 N. State Street Chicago 1476 Broadway, NewjYork

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CLEOPATRA

An Eight-Part Kleine-Cmes of Wondrous Beauty

From the Genius of Cines Comes that Worl4-old. Ever New Tragedy of Antony. "The
Powerful One." Whose Infatuation for the Beautiful Cleopatra Changed the Boundaries
of Modern Europe and Altered the History of Christendom!

With Material so Rich in Romance and Adventure: with the Lavish Wealth of Cos-
tume and Ensemble so Characteristic of the Period — and. above all. in the Art of the
Master Picture Maker, we believe you can better imagine than we can describe, the
kind of subject you are offered in "Antony and Cleopatra"!

We confidently believe that "Antony and Cleopatra" will take its rank among the
epoch-making pictures of the century.

"George Kleine Attractions"

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trolled exclusively in the United
States. Philippine Islands.
Alaska. Porto Rico, Hawaiian
Islands and in Canada by

GEORGE KLEINE

166 North State St., Chicago, 111.
1476 Broadway,

New York City, N. Y.

Film and photographs fully
covered hy copyright.

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Notice to Film Exchanges and Exhibitors

Get in Line Quick
We Are Now Releasing Our

Two and Three Reel Features

which are creating a sensation. The best
of everything in acting production
and photography. Notable
actors including

Belle Bennett and Jackie, Saunders

BALBOA MEANS BIG MONEY TO YOU

Write or wire us

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H. M. HORKHEIMLB, President and General Manager

Offices : 806 Security Bldg . Studios :

Los Angeles, California Long Beach, California

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Southern Exhibitors!

The chance which you have been waiting for is now within your reach.
We are pleased to announce that we have opened two exchange offices where
you will be enabled to secure the complete line of the popular

" ECLECTICS

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thereby putting you on the same footing with other exhibitors who have real-
ized the excellence and superiority of our feature films.

Our rental exchanges are conducted under the name

"Eclectic Feature Film Exchange"

and are in charge of long experienced and well known film exchange men,
who are thoroughly familiar with vour wants.

Eclectic Feature Film Exchange Eclectic Feature Film Exchange

Rhodes Building Andrews Building

Atlanta, Ga. Dallas. Texas

Address your inquiries to the nearest office.

The following States will be taken care of by the above offices: —
North and South Carolina — Georgia — Florida — Alabama — Tennessee — Mississippi
-Louisiana — Arkansas — Texas — Oklahoma.

The entire line of our
"LES MISERABLES"

releases listed below are now available.

•THE

MYSTERIES OF PARIS"
"A RUINED LIFE"
*"NERO AND BRITANNICUS"
"THE WHEEL OF DESTRUCTION'
*"THE THRUST OF HATE"
"WHEN PARIS LOVES"
* Hand Colored

*"VENDETTA"
"THE MESSAGE OF THE DEAD"
*"THE DOOM OF THE OCEAN"
"THE FATAL PLUNGE"
f"TOILS OF VILLAINY"
t"HIS FATEFUL PASSION"
f "THE LOST DIAMOND"
f Natural Coloring

We release three multiple reel features a month: 1st — 10th — 20th. You
owe it to yourself to book every one of them.

Our hand colored and Eclectic Natural Color Films are in a class by them-
selves. You can convince yourself of this fact by comparison.

Additional rental exchanges will be opened wherever we find it necessary.
If vou are unable to book our films, write to us direct.

ECLECTIC

110 West 40th St.

FILM CO

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MUTUAL Movies Service
Supplies more Than Films

When you buy the MUTUAL service
you not only get the best pictures to entertain
your crowds, but

— the MUTUAL spends thousands of dollars
—to send the crowds into YOUR theater.

Your competitor, across the street, may get as
many films as you do, for the money, BUT HE
GETS NOTHING ELSE.

When you take the MUTUAL service, you have
the great MUTUAL FILM CORPORATION
working for you, with BIG ADVERTISING in the
magazines and the daily newspapers to send thou-
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WM. L. SHERRY, Pres. & Treas.

M. V. SHERRY, Vice-Prei. & Sec.

The WILLIAM L. SHERRY

FEATURE FILM COMPANY, Inc.

TIMES BUILDING, NEW YORK

SUITE 301 PHONE BRYANT { 5756

EXCHANGE— LEA VITT BLDG. 126 WEST 46th ST., 9th FLOOR

HANDLING THE PROD-
UCT of FAMOUS PLAY-
ERS FILM COMPANY in
the STATE OF NEW YORK

THE WORLD'S GREAT-
EST ARTISTS in THEIR
FOREMOST SUCCESSES

30 FAMOUS FEATURES
A YEAR

A FEW OF OUR FAMOUS FEATURES

JAMES K. HACKETT in "THE PRISONER OF
ZENDA."

HENRY E. DIXEY in "CHELSEA 7750."

JAMES O'NEILL in "THE COUNT OF MONTE
CRISTO."

MARY PICKFORD in "CAPRICE."

MINNIE MADDERN FISKE in "TESSOFTHE
D'URBERVILLES."

MARY PICKFORD in "IN THE BISHOP'S
CARRIAGE,"

CARLOTTA NILLSON in "LEAH KLESCHNA."

CECILIA LOFTUS in "A LADY OF QUALITY."

DAVID BELASCO'S "A GOOD LITTLE DEVIL," with MARY PICKFORD. ERNEST TRUEX,
WM. NORRIS and the ORIGINAL ALL STAR CAST as produced at the
REPUBLIC THEATRE, NEW YORK CITY

AMERICAN-ECLAIR

"Laugh and the World Laughs With You!"

The Whole World is Laughing at
the New Comedy Series of the

ECLAIR FILM COMPANY

AND THEIR

Funny Comedians Delicious Travesties

Uproarious, Lightning-Fast, Howling Burlesques

To the Undecided Exhibitor: Book the Following Eclair Comedies:

"LOADED" and "SUNSET IN MANY LANDS"
"APPLY TO JANITOR" and "NUTTY IS DEAD— LONG
LIVE NUTTY" - - - -

"CUE AND MIS-CUE" and "NUTTY HAS BIG IDEAS" -

Sunday, Dec. 21st, 1913

Sunday, Dec. 28th, 1913
Sunday, Jan. 4th, 1914

.4re You Wearing the Happy Grin of the Eclair Exhibitor ?

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WHERE TO BUY

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Page

Acme Commercial Film Co 57

Allison & Hadaway 46

All Star Film Corpn 67

American Cinematograph Co 69

American Film Mfg. Co 61

Ammex Film Co 58

Balboa Amusement Co 8

Bennett. Chas. H 50

Birch-Field & Co 42

Blinkhorn, A 64

Bosworth. Inc 70

Calehuff Supply Co 42

Carey Safe Co 63

Commercial M. P. Co 52

Eagle Feature Film Co 54

Eastman Kodak Co 58

Eclair Film Co 11

Eclectic Film Co 9

Electric Fountain Co 35

Emby Feature Film Co 57

Essanay Film Mfg. Co 36-37-60

European Feature Film Corpn 57

Evans Film Mfg. Co 34

Ezo Mfg. Co 61

Feature Photoplay Co 57

Film Releases of America 59

Films Lloyds 56

Gaumont Company 43-57

General Electric Utilities Co 57-58

General Feature Film Co 57

General Film Co 14-15-72

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General Sales Co 12

General Specialty Co 65

Genter. J. H. 13

Gloria- American. Company 51

Great Northern Film Co 61

Greater N. Y. Slide Co 42

Gunby Bros 46

Harding Photo Engraving Co 5S

Hart Booking Bureau 46

Hotel Martinique 46

Horsley, David 44

Keystone Film Co 56

Kinematograph Weekly 46

Kleine, George 4-5

Kraus Mfg. Co 52

Lakeside Film Exchange 50

Lavezzi Machine Works 50

Lears, Sam 65

Le Courrier Cinematographique .... 65

Lifeograph Company 46

Lubin Mfg. Co 64

Mestrum, Henry 52

Metropolitan Premium Co 63

Mirror Screen Co 42

Motion Picture Apparatus Co 65

Motion Picture Camera Co 65

M. P. Information Bureau 57

M. "P. Operators' Union 50

Mutual Film Corpn 10

New Jersey Feature Film Co 62

Newman Mfg. Co 46

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Niagara Slide Co 65

N. Y. Film Co. " 57

N. Y. Motion Picture Corpn 71

Pan-American Film Mfg. Co 57

Pathe Freres 3

Phantascope Mfg. Co 53

Photoplay Co 50

Picture Theatre Equipment Co 30

Precision Machine Co ~

Preddey. G. W. 52

Reeves, Herbert 50

Royal Film Exchange 50

Ryno Film Co 57

Schneider, Eberhard 65

Sherry. Wm. L.. Feature Film Co.. 11

Sociological Research Film Co 34

Special Event Film Mfg. Co ... 46

Steele Furniture Co ®5

Sterling Camera & Film Co 52

Supreme Feature Film Co 62

Theatre Specialty Mfg. Co 50

Trans-Oceanic Films 54

Universal Film Mfg. Co 6-1

Warner's Features 38

Wedepict M. P. Corpn 55

Wentworth. Courtney 46

Williams, Brown & Earle 52

World's Best Film Co 57

World Special Films Corpn 57

Wurlitzer Co 52

did rr occur to you

That After You Have Bought, The Price is a Thing of tie Put, Quality a Thing oi tie fvcmrtl
WHEN YOU BUY. BUY QUALITY

MIRROROIDE SCREENS AND CURTAINS

PATENTS PENDING

Are Sold at a Price None of our Competitors dare Make Because We HaTe the Factory Facilities t»
Make in Quantities and Know How. We Would Rather Make Small Profits and Larye SaJea Thaa
Large Profits and Few Sales.

REGARDING QUALITY

Our Screens are made of Canvas. Coating is Mttaliied Glass. Sold Under A Positive I Year
Guarantee. It Won't Crack. Peel or Turn Black. Tints Optional With Yoa. Silver Waite. Silver
Flesh, Silver Amber.

SURFACE FINISH

Medium Matte A. Heavy Matte B. Filling your requirements As to Width of Your Hoax tad
Side Views.

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let T7i Send Yon Our Large Free Sample*. Hiisi as thaw Yea.

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The General Film Company's Regular Service

is now so highly perfected that it is virtually an
Exclusive Service to each and every exhibitor.

Its great variety of singles and Eleven Multiples a week
from the manufacturers who made the first motion pictures
and steadily advanced their art to its present exalted state,
provide the highest quality and most popular show of the
times.

For first class theatres and exhibitors who require
big FEATURES OF FULL play length, the General Film
Company's SPECIAL FEATURE PHOTOPLAY
MASTERPIECES are unsurpassed.

CHARLES KLEIN'S

"The Third Degree"

is the first release. It is in 5 REELS, made by the Lubin Com-
pany with a special cast. A thrilling drama, outranking
any motion picture made from a dramatic success of the
"regular" stage.

Write your nearest Exchange or to the Special Feature
Department

General Film Company, (inc.)

71 West 23rd Street New York

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TERMS: F. O. B. our
offices, one-third with
order, balance on arrival.

MR. EXHIBITOR:

Are you Heing Cheated?

Our Ticket Chopper is the Best Protection in the World.
In Fact, It's a Necessity Wherever Tickets Are Sold.

DISHONEST Ticket Sellers and Ticket Takers HAVE
NO CHANCE when our chopper is used, as all tickets
dropped into it are cancelled or cut up by. a turn of the
side wheel, so that they cannot be sold again. Tickets, how-
ever, are not mutilated so badly that the numbers cannot
be read.

The Chopper is a protection also to honest ticket men.
M removes temptation. Equipped with a foot lever instead
of wheel if desired.

In construction, the mechanism is simple, strong and
accurate. The chopping rollers are of best tool steel, die-cut,
and never fail to work properly.

This chopper will permit the door-keeper to handle fully
50 per cent, more patrons than is possible with old system
of taking by hand.

Finish. Cabinet is of finest golden quartered oak. mis-
sion or mahogany, highly polished, and trimmings are of metal,
finished in colored enamel, baked by special process, which
retains its brilliancy, or, if desired, all metal parts heavily
nickel plated. Glass is best polished French plate, quarter inch
thick. Size: 46x12x12 inches. Weight (boxed) 150 lbs.

PRICE:

Chopper $50. Foot Lever (extra) $10.
Nickel Trimmings (extra) $5.

PHOTOPLAY SECURITY TICKET BOX

BUILT expressly for those who do not require the more expensive
"Chopper." Tickets are deposited by patrons upon entering.
Of same construction as Photoplay Ticket Chopper, minus the
defacing mechanism. In place of same, Security Ticket Box has trap,
which when tripped by attendant drops all tickets into chamber below,
this being secured by locks.

Price. $35.00

General Film Company, (he.)

POSTER DEPARTMENT

71 W. 23rd St. & 440 — 4th Ave... New York Equity Building Detroit, Mich.

121 Fourth Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. 218 Commercial Street Boston, Mass.

1022 Superior Avenue, N. E. . .Cleveland, Ohio 122 Pearl Street Buffalo, N. Y.

7th & Walnut Streets Cincinnati, Ohio 737 Broadway Albany, N. Y,

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MOVING PICTURE NEWS EXHIBITORS' TIMES

Established 1908 Established 1913

Volume VIII December 27, 1913 Number 25

a liropljettc CJjratmas

MK^^j HE year just past has not only been the biggest, but — what is more important —
M ■ ii t*ie most prophetic in the history of the motion picture.

All A rather brief and very wonderful history it has been ! And a very big year !

^m^^T Naturally. But what of its prophecy?

It needs little imagination to answer this. The signs are too apparent to any
thoughtful person. But so stimulating are they that it is difficult not to observe the future
as bewildering.

To take first the amusement field of the picture, let us briefly recount:

IGHT now four leading theatres in Times Square — the centre of the country's me-
tropolis — are contracting for an exclusive bill of motion pictures. Others, including the
" r most prominent vaudeville houses, are hurrying tentatively into the field.

Some recent presentations in New York have definitely shown that from every ar-
tistic standpoint the motion picture can and will take rank with the drama and opera.

Throughout the country theatres costing from ten to fifty thousand dollars are being
erected or projected at the rate of more than ten a week.

HERE has recently been produced what is obviously a flickerless stereoscopic picture ;
OJ and there are notable improvements all ready to be launched in lenses, color photog-
raphy, light, and many other important branches of the art and science of motion
photography.

In the educational field motion pictures are already a part of the curricula of a number
of universities, colleges, and high schools.

Appropriations being rapidly made by state and city school systems are in advance
of the films and equipment they call for.

SN the industrial field: At an advertising men's dinner in New York the past summer —
men controlling the huge appropriations of national advertisers — the sole topic of dis-
cussion (and it was impromptu) was "how to use motion pictures in advertising."
Many of the biggest concerns are already showing their processes and selling their
products through the motion picture. That the field will be tremendously developed, that it
has only started, that it will be worked out along the same legitimate lines as journalistic ad-
vertising is certain.

Here are three great fields of expansion, only one of which has been at all developed !

'TfjfT is now claimed that a non-inflammable film has been produced and that it is prac-
II ticable.

What is more to the point, it is claimed that a substitute for cellulose, from which
this film is basically made, will reduce the cost to one cent a yard.

All of which has led one leader of the picture world to state that the motion picture will
soon become the daily journal, for the masses, of the world's happenings.

^■a* HE future is bewildering. No one of us can say what it will be.
OJ Simply we know that this is the Christmas of prophecy, of untold significance for

the New Years to come, of the picture's art and industry. W. A. J.

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NEW YORK EXHIBITORS BALL A GREAT SUCCESS

Terrace Garden Filled to Capacity with Merry Crowd — Business Session Earlier in the Day at

Which Delegates to Chicago Session Are Appointed

TERRACE Garden, in Fifty-eighth
street between Lexington and
Third avenues, New York City, was
filled to overflowing Monday night
when the third annual entertainment
and ball of the Motion Picture Ex-
hibitors' Association of Greater New
York, was held.

Previous balls have established this
occasion as the gala night of all the
year for metropolitan exhibitors, and
many from up-state cities in New
York as well, but Monday night's
affair eclipsed its predecessors. From
eight o'clock until an unbelievably
late hour in the morning there was
no slackening in the festivities. The
exhibitors of New York, their friends
and women folk, were gathered there
and the result was very much worth
while. A ball such as is seldom seen
was held without a jarring note. The
attendance taxed the capacity of both
floors of the great hall.

Important Business Session

The ball proper was preceded by a
business, session of the executive com-
mittee of the New York state organi-
zation. This was held; at the Hotel
Imperial. One interesting feature
was the taking of motion pictures of
the delegates. At two in the after-
noon the delegates were photographed
in the street near the hotel. At seven
o'clock three reels of pictures taken
earlier in the day were shown at Ter-
race Garden. One showed the dele-
gates grouped in front of the hotel,
one of them entering the building and
a third was of the crowds at Broad-
way and Thirty-first street.

The meeting was accompanied by a
luncheon. Among the matters dis-
cussed were the ventilation of thea-
tres, better fire prevention, a higher
grade of pictures and uniform state
laws. James G. Wallace, Jr., chief of
the Bureau of Licenses, and Samuel
Martin, chief inspector, were among
the guests. It was also voted to send
Samuel H. Trigger, president; Harold
W. Rosenthal, secretary of the or-
ganization, and William Doque, of
Utica, as delegates to the session of
the executive committee of the .Inter.-,
national Motion Picture Association
which was held in Chicago on Decem-
ber 18 and 19. Mr. Trigger and his
associates left early Wednesday. This
meeting was held in the Hotel LaSalle,
Chicago. More than 100 delegates
were expected to be present.

Coming back to the ball proper, let
it be said in all fairness that it was a
grand success. There was never a
dull moment. One feature of the

evening was the presentation of
screen notables to the crowd by Len
Spencer, announcer-extraordinary.
All the available actors and actresses
present were introduced on the plat-
form as well as several magnates and
notables.

Among those who made their bow
were King Baggot, John Bunny,
Harry Benham, Ben Wilson, Clara
Kimball Young and James Young,
Pearl White, Mignon Anderson, Irene
Hunt, Glen White, W. T. (Pop) Rock,
C. A. (Doc) Willat, Frank J. Carroll.
Edward O'Connor, Joseph W. Farn-
ham, and Fritzi Brunette. About
fifty persons were introduced alto-
gether. Representatives of film com-
panies occupied many of the boxes.

Much of the credit for the success
of the affair must be laid at the door
of the ball committee, of which A.
Coleman was chairman. The ball
committee was really composed of
several subsidiary committees, the
roster of which is as follows:

The Committees

Arrangement: A. A. Corn, chair-
man: Peter Tisch, WilliamB. Fulner,
Harold W. Rosenthal, William Allen,
E. Straus and Rudolph Saunders.

Reception: Adolph Weiss, chair-
man; Edward Valensi, William Hil-
kemeier, William Brandt, Rudolph
Saunders, G. Koenigswald, P. Rosen-
son, M. Needle, William H. Hollan-
der, T. L. Allen and A. A. Corn.

Entertainment: William Hilke-

R F. OUTCAULT. creator of "Bus-
• ter Brown-' and his dog "Tige,"
the famous cartoon characters, and
probably the highest priced artist-
advertiser and advertising business
builder in the country, is the latest
entrant into the motion picture busi-
ness.

The Outcault Film Company, a
$50,000 corporation, ■ is now being
formed to produce a series of one-
reel comedies founded on the adven-
tures of "Buster Brown" and "Tige."
These will show "Buster Brown, the
Cowboy," "Buster Brown in the In-
sane Asylum,'' and similar titles.

In producing the pictures carte
blanche will be given the director. He
may take the company wherever the
action of the film dictates. Pictures
which can be produced in New York
will be taken until several are on the

meier, chairman; J. A. Koerpel, L.
Germain, Eugene Elmore and A. A.
Corn.

Invitation: J. A. Koerpel, chair-
man; Rudolph Saunders, Eugene El-
more, Edward Valensi and William
A. Landau.

Program and Publicity: William
Brandt, chairman; A. A. Corn, Will-
iam Hilkemeier and Adolph Weiss.

Printing and Badges: A. Bauern-
freund, chairman; William Brandt,
S. P. Weissman, J. King and William
Landau.

Ticket distributing: L. Germain
chairman, and A. A. Corn.
... Brooklyn branch, ticket: L. Ger-
main, William H. Hollander. Charles
Fischer, Charles Henry, M. S. Felten-
stein, William Hilkemeier, William P.
Fulmer, M. Warshower, S. Frey, Irv-
ing C. Clement, R. Sanders, C. Koen-
igswald and M. Marias.

M. Needle was chairman of the
floor committee and Frank A. Tiche-
nor, floor manager. Assistant floor
managers were Lee A. Ochs, Edward
Valensi, Lee Lazarus, Hans Suckow,
S. Echman, F. Goldfarb, M. Hirsch-
fled, N. E. Block, Sidney Rothschild
and F. Petters.

The officers of the Motion Picture
Exhibitors Association of Greater
New York are: President. Samuel H.
Trigger; vice-president, Jack Koer-
pel; secretary, Harold W. Rosenthal;
financial secretary, A. Bauernfreund ;
treasurer, Grant W. Anson and ser-
geant-at-arms, Robert C. Whitten.

shelf, when the company will start its
travels. The pictures will be released
one a week.

The coming comedy series has a
great asset in that it is well adver-
tised by the daily press. "Buster
Brown" and "Tige" appear in the
Hearst papers in this country and in
England, and are syndicated to other
newspapers. So they appear in more
than 100 -publications.

Mr. Outcault, by his work as a car-
toonist and advertising specialist, has
an income rated at twice that of the
President of the United States. He
himself is backing the new concern,
which is busy now negotiating for
players and a director. The work of
production was started Wednesday
at the studio at 502 West Thirty-
eighth street. Marketing affiliations
have practically been consummated.

"Buster Brown" Comedy Series Coming

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LATEST NEWS FROM CHICAGO

Operators Ball Well Attended

THE ball held by the Operators' Union of Chicago on De-
cember 10 at the Coliseum Annex proved to be the most
successful affair from a financial and social viewpoint ever at-
tempted by this organization. Practically every operator in
Chicago and its neighboring towns and a few from nearby
cities were there to participate in the evening's pleasure.

Everybody who was anybody in the business in and around
Chicago attended. A number of exchange men and theatre
owners were present. It is claimed that more theatre owners
attended this year than ever before, which is another evi-

E. C. TRAVERS

dence of the harmony that exists between the operators and
the managers.

A number of the Essanay players were in evidence during
the evening. Richard Travers, leading man of the Essanay
Film Manufacturing Company, not only tangoed, but dream-
waltzed, doing all these fancy steps with Miss Irene Warfield.
Occasionally there was a glimpse of Don Meaney, the adver-
tising manager, among the floating couples. Miss Sykes,, Miss
Dale and Mr. Mainhall, of the Essanay Company, also helped
to swell the crowd.

"Jack" Miller, Hal Johnstone and Morey Cohen directed the
affair, while Al Stange looked after the comfort of the guests
as they arrived.

The affair was very well conducted and capably managed.
It marked the fifth annual ball of the Chicago Operators'
Union and will not soon be forgotten. A very neat program
wjas issued, which contained much good material, and also the
pjctures of many of the members of the union.

Richard Travers — Non-temperamental

Those who know him well call him "Doc," because at one
time he carried a sheepskin about with him that entitled him
to do first-class bone-setting. Perhaps the medical profession
lost a good member when he gave up that line of endeavor,
but it is certain the motion pictures gained a valuable asset.

Besides being an actor Travers is a regular fellow*, minus all
those temperamental foibles that usually accompany a success-
ful actor. He has played many parts, from carrying a spear
to playing Shakespeare, and he has had his trials in the one
night stands and his glories in the metropolis.

Gertrude Spoor at Dinner-Dance

Mr. and Mrs. George K. Spoor will present their daughter,
Gertrude Spoor, at a dinner-dance to be given at the Black-
stone Hotel on Saturday, January 3. Miss Spoor was recently
graduated from Miss Mason's school at Tarrytown, N. Y. It
is said that the novelty of the affair will be a motion picture
of Miss Spoor from the time she was a tiny tot up to the
present day. Miss Spoor's coming out is attracting wide at-
tention in the society world of Chicago. Since her return
from school she has been the center of many social activities
among the younger set, with whom she is a prime favorite.
Miss Spoor is strikingly beautiful, and is already noted on the
North Shore because of her musical accomplishments.

Entertained with Pictures

The electrical inspectors of Chicago were entertained after
their banquet on Wednesday evening, December 10, with mo-
tion pictures, which were put on by Mr. B. W. Beadell, local
representative of the Edison Company. The seventh reel of
"Quo Vadis" and the second reel of "Love of a Toreador"
were offered for the occasion by George Kleine; "The Ter-
rors of the Jungle" by Mr. W. N. Selig, and "A Trip to Ha-
vana" by Edison. Mr. Fred A. Clark, of the Kinetograph
sales department of Edison, projected the pictures.

George L. Cox Goes East

George L. Cox, general manager of the Advance Motion
Ficture Company, has gone East to close up a number of im-
portant contracts and other business in connection with his
firm. Mr. Cox's present trip will include Pittsburgh, Phila-
delphia, Atlantic City, Buffalo, Boston and New York City.

I. M. P. A. Give Dutch Luncheon

The third annual Dutch luncheon given under the auspices
of the Illinois branch of the International Motion Picture
Association in honor of the visiting board and directors of
the association will be given at the Hotel La Salle ballroom
on Thursday evening, December 18. It is expected that
members from New York, Indianapolis and Minneapolis will
be present.

Another Commercial Film Company

The Acme Commercial Film Company recently opened
offices in the Fairbanks building. They have found in the
few weeks they are established in their present offices that
the floor space they have will not accommodate them. About
January 1 this concern will move into new quarters, which
will give them a floor space of about six thousand feet.
They state that they have already secured contracts from
several railroads and also from a number of industrial
concerns. Members of this company are : James Cochrane,
president; W. A. Baier, of Milwaukee; T. W. Combs; M. G
Watkins, secretary and manager of sales and publicity, and
D. A. McKinney. Mr. McKinney has long been associated
with the motion picture business and is thoroughly familiar
with the field he is entering.

CANADIAN FILM EXCHANGE IN ST. JOHN

Philip Kaufman, general manager of the Canadian Film
Company, Ltd., visiting in New York this week, announces
the opening of a new exchange at St. John, Canada, at
96 Charlotte street. The company, known throughout
Western Canada as the Canadian Film Exchange, are the
exclusive distributers of Universal films in Canada.

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FIRST REVIEW OF "ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA"

BY C. J. VER HALEN

THERE are times when we all feel the inadequacy of
word description to tell of some great thing that we
have beheld. Something that the mind's eye can view
over again in all its wonderful details and cause the same
throbs of pleasure, excitement, awe and the many other emo-
tions that assail the human breast when its agent, the eye, re-
ceives the impression of something- mighty, something noble
and inspiring.

In this newly formed creation, "Antony and Cleopatra," an
emotion creeps over one, flooding the whole being, that makes

THE LOVEMAKING OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

it plain that one is witnessing something constructed to thrill
the finer senses of man, that is wide in its scope and strong in
its appeal. A realization comes that here is a production that
will live and be enjoyed by the generations yet unborn.'

Works such as these George Kleine attractions mark a great
epoch in motion picture making and motion picture exhibition.
They establish a turning point for the art and business of the
motion picture and place it on a higher level, setting it well
forward on the high road which leads toward the pinnacle of
man's greatest endeavors. Mr. Kleine's efforts so far have
given the world three big and powerful spectacles — 'Quo
Vadis," "The Last Days of Pompeii," and now "Antony and
Cleopatra."

By the presentation of these photoplay marvels he has made
possible a wider latitude for the motion picture. He has regis-
tered it in the world of amusement on that plane where it has
long belonged. These efforts serve as an opening wedge, and
without a doubt he will hereafter be guided by his far vision
and offer photoplays of similar superiority, but of different
appeal and different text.

"Antony and Cleopatra" has been built on the same large
scale that its predecessors were. It, however, is different in
its making. Its appeal is different, and its story centers
toward different action, giving more of an individual interest
to its two central characters. The acting of these two, their
doings, their whims, their wishes, create the magnet around
which the entire production whirls.

The play is big and bulky, employing several thousand peo-
ple in its making. They are used to splendid advantage, but
not to the point where they become boresome. We get flashes
of vast armies and vast assemblies, of gorgeous palaces and
beautiful women. Everything, in fact, that one might expect
to find in the court of a mighty ruler.

THE storming of the city of Alexandria is a splendid big
scene. The warriors, with their spears and ancient mis-
siles of destruction, bombard the inhabitants of the city, tear

down the massive walls that surround it and create havoc as
- they press forward in their eagerness to capture Antony. This
fighting has been with both fire and sword. The battle is so
intense that it is not noticed that the city is aflame. The
populace begin to stream through the arched gateway, which
looms high in the heavens, alone in its majesty. Back of it
the flames and smoke belch forth and seem to scorch the very
heavens, telling of a city's destruction that cannot be described
in words.

The oration of Octavius at the death-bier of Antony is a
splendid piece of acting. Antony, lying still in death, with his
royal guard about him, is gazed upon by Octavius, now the
conqueror, and brother to Antony's wife, who in this big mo-
ment forgives the sinner and salutes him as a brave man.

The action of the picture is supposed to take place between
30 and 40 B. C. It is produced by the Cines Company in the
country where this history was made. It is correct in every
detail, as we know it, and is a piece with history as it has been
handed down to us. It is Roman history and it is made by
natives of that city. The costuming is rich and the settings
are elaborate. It is all, and more, than one might expect in
the staging of such a bulky theme.

The cast is strong. Mark Antony is played by Anthony
Novelli, the actor who played the big role in "Quo Vadis."
Cleopatra is interpreted by Jeanette Trimble, whom we have
so often seen in the big Cines productions. Matilde Di Marzio
acts the part of Octavia, Mark Antony's wife. While her part
does not call for a great deal of appearance before the camera,
the time that she is on the stage is used to good advantage.
Octavius is played by Lorenzo Lupi, a strong character, who
stands out in all his scenes, especially in the Senate and at the
bier of Antony. Charmian, a slave girl, is played by Ella
Lenard convincingly. The titles in the film are very well con-
structed and appropriately placed.

THE film opens showing Mark Antony marching gloriously
into Egypt after his victory at Philippi. He lands in
Egypt and receives the messengers of Cleopatra, who arrive
with presents to explain the recent depredations on Roman
borders by Cleopatra's order.

Antony's arrival near Cleopatra's court is marked by much
display on the part of Cleopatra, who promptly sets her fem-
inine traps to capture the mighty Roman. This proves an easy
task, for Antony, tired of his years of war and hardship, falls
easily into the voluptuous ease that reigns in the Palace of the
(Continued on page 53)

FLEEING FROM THE BURNING CITY OF ALEXANDRIA

22

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DIOGENES PLEASE WRITE

Romaine Fielding, of the Lubin stu-
dio at Las Vegas, New Mexico, while
directing a scene employing 600
supers, missed his wallet which con- '
tained $247 and some valuable papers
and checks. The following morning's
mail brought the following letter:

"Dear Friend: I call you a friend,
as you were a good friend to me.
Sorry you lost your pocket-book, but
very glad I was the lucky one to rind
it. Your money came in very handy.
Enclosed you will find your checks
and papers which may help you buy
some Christmas presents, and I shall
use your $247 to buy mine. I know
you have lots of dough or you would
not carry so much with you. I never
had so much before, but I hope it will
not break you. Well, I wish you a
very happy Christmas, as I am going
to have the same.

•'THE LUCKY GUY."

ECLECTIC FEATURE AT OR-
PHEUM, CHICAGO

The biggest motion picture theatre
in Chicago, the Orpheum Theatre on
State street, owned by Jones, Linick
& Schaefer, booked and have shown
on Tuesday, December 9, the three-
reel Eclectic feature, "The Doom of
the Ocean."

It is said that it is the first time
in the history of this theatre that they
have booked an independent feature.
The film did a phenomenal business.

BALBOA STUDIO NOTES

Mollie McConnell, formerly of the
Majestic and Universal companies, is
now with the Balboa company of
players. Miss McConnell was a member
of the Frohman companies for many
years and is considered one of the
best known character actresses on
the American stage.

Ground for the new Balboa studio
at Long Beach was broken last week
with appropriate ceremonies. H. M.
Horkheimer, Edward Langley,
Charles Dudley, Henry King, Made-
line Lenard, and the other members of
the Balboa company took an active
part in the program, which consisted of
brief speeches and patriotic music.
The new studio will have a stage
50 x 100, a scene dock 50x 75, and a
property room 50 x 75. Work of con-
struction will be under the direction
of Mr. Langley. Adjoining the studio
will be a garage large enough for
five cars.

Frank Erlanger, formerly with the
Majestic company, is now with the
Balboa company. Mr. Erlanger is
well known on the legitimate stage,
having been for many years a mem-
ber of the leading stock companies
throughout the United States. Mr.
Erlanger has made a special study of
character roles.

A NEW PHOTOGRAPH OF THE FAMOUS "BRONCHO BILLY," OTHERWISE
G. M. ANDERSON, OF THE ESSANAY FILM MANUFACTURING COMPANY

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23

BELASCO SEES "THE GOOD LITTLE DEVIL" FILM

Great Master of Stagecraft Views S. L. Rothapfel's Presentation of the Famous Drama Pro-
duced for the Screen by the Famous Players Film Company

'"THHE Belasco of the Screen'' and
A "The Belasco of the Stage" met
face to face last Tuesday, and, after a
short decisive struggle divided the
honors of their respective positions.
The engagement took place at the
camp of the latter on Forty-fourth

street, and was witnessed by a large
gathering of celebrities. S. L. Roth-
apfel, who has earned his right to the
name "The Belasco of the Screen,"
deserves a great deal of commenda-
tion for the admirable manner in
which he staged the exhibition. A
short description of his method will
not be out of place.

The large stage at the Belasco The-
atre was crowded with floral decora-
tions, where were seated a large or-
chestra, composed entirely of women,
who rendered appropriate music that
harmonized with the picture. In cer-
tain scenes the orchestra was silent
and the audience was regaled with
singing by an excellent quartet. The
effect of-the whole was one of much
beauty.

If there are still any persons exist-
ing -who do not acknowledge that the
film can portray practically all that
the legitimate stage can show, he or
she has but to see this production
The original cast throughout serves
to keep this play forever fresh in the
memories of those whose pleasure it
was first to witness it on the stage.
Of course the possibilities of the film
production are much greater than in
the original and several scenes are
added without in any way altering
the tenor of the story.

The theme of the play is so well

known to everyone as scarcely to
need retelling here. The principal's
tender love and care for his only
friend, the little blind girl, will bring
the tears to the eyes of all who see it,
while the mirth-producing tricks of
the boys at the school will make one's

sides positively ache. Nothing is
overdone, and, except for one or two
small effects which might have been
strengthened, the film deserves a
place on a high pinnacle in the realm
of artistic production.

Fairies in the popular belief are

supposedly semi-visible only, and
might have been shown that way. If,
on their entrance, they had appeared
by the double exposure process, in-
stead of on wires, the picture might
have been somewhat improved. The
original production used the wire
methca because there was no other
possible, but the film might have im-
proved on this. To see the spirit jf
Charles, which at best should be
evanescent, come bounding over the
window sill, and then resume ghostly
appearances was not effective. The
settings in one or two places also
might have been improved. The use
throughout of trick photography in
greater quantity surely would have
helped.

The work of William Norris as
Mrs. MacMiche was excellent. The
expressions and character work were
absolutely natural. Arthur Hill, as
Rab the dog, was also very good. Of
course Little Mary Pickford was per-
fect. That goes without saying.
Ernest Truex as "The Good Little
Devil" looked the part and registered
some very excellent service.

The wonderful and beautiful love
of Juliet for Charles, as shown in the
legitimate production was for some
reason not sufficiently emphasized in
the film. But all in all it was the very
finest thing that has been shown on
the screen in a long time. The criti-
cisms made are not of faults; they are
simplv suggested improvements.

A. D. M.

ONCE UPON A TIME

WOMAN GIVES AND FORGIVES: MAN GETS AND FORGETS

24 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

Noble to Direct j" Our Mutual Girl" Series

JOHN W. NOBLE, a veteran mo-
tion picture director, whose life
has been as thoroughly punctuated
with thrilling episodes as have any of
the dramas he has directed, has been
secured by the Mutual Film Corpora-
tion to direct the production in mo-
tion pictures of the "Our Mutual Girl"
series. The character of this series
is now well understood. "Our Mutual
Girl," played by Norma Phillips, is
the leading figure in a series which
will show her arriving in New York
from her country and visiting all the
places of interest in the metropolis
and mingling with prominent persons
in all walks of life.

Round Mr. Noble, who will direct
the series, is gathered the halo of a
romantic career. A West Point man,
he went into the Army, very natu-
rally, and served through the Chinese
and Philippine campaigns after the
close of the Spanish war, as first lieu-
tenant. At this time he collected an
array of scars which make him look
like a tattooed man when he goes
swimming.

He laid aside the sword to labor
with the pen and has to his credit sev-
eral plays, among them an adaptation
of "Divorcons," "In Old Manila," and
an adaptation from the Hungarian of
"The Marriage of Valeni." He has
written several other successful plays
and vaudeville sketches.

Entering the realm of motion pic-
tures, one finds that Mr. Noble has
left a long trail behind him. He
started in stock with Thanhouser.
Then he became a director. He fol-
lowed this by directing pictures with
Imp, Solax and other concerns, his
latest connection having been with
Ramo.

Among his best-known productions
are "The Medal of Honor," "The Am-

THE "WONDER" CLOCK

Many exhibitors have found the
"Wonder Clock," which is manufactured
by the General Sales Company of
America, 347 Fifth avenue, New York
City, to be a most effective device for
attracting business. In many cases it
also pays the exhibitor a handsome in-
come, being used for advertising pur-
poses as well as that of informing the
audience of the time.

In reality the "Wonder Clock" is a
unique combination of a stereopticon
and a clock, which is put on a small
bracket or shelf in some convenient
part of the theatre and projects the
clock dial upon a screen. The dial may
be as large as is desired.

Over thirty-five "Wonder Clocks"
have been in operation in New York
City alone for a considerable period,
while hundreds of others have been

ulet," one of the first productions
made in exposition of the Mahatma
theory of reincarnation as introduced
by Madame Blavatsky, "Cadet Life at
West Point," "The Ticket-of-Leave
Man," "Crime," "Two Men in a Boat,"
and "The Doll Makers." These are

NOTHING OSTENTATIOUS ABOUT HIM

only a few and, in addition, he has
many short stories to his credit.

Such, in brief, is "Jack" Noble, ex-
army officer, actor, author and play-
wright. The productions which he
will make in the "Mutual Girl" series
will now be watched with a double
interest by those in the motion pic-
ture art.

installed in motion picture theatres in
other sections of the country.

"PREFERRED FEATURE AT-
TRACTIONS"

Betty Nansen, the distinguished
tragedienne, will hereafter be fea-
tured by the Great Northern Film
Company and will appear in a series
of multiple reel subjects to be known
as "Preferred Feature Attractions."
The first of these will be "Princess
Elena's Prisoner," a powerful dra-
matic subject in four parts, replete
with thrilling situations.

Miss Nansen has been referred to
as the "Bernhardt of Denmark," and
she has appeared in the principal the-
atres of all the European capitals.
Considerable urging was required to
induce her to enter the motion picture
field, but she has already become an
enthusiast.

GONDOLFI JOINS LASKY OR-
GANIZATION

Alfredo Gondolfi, for five years
camera-man with Pathe Freres, has
joined the Jesse L. Lasky Feature
Play Company as principal camera-
man and left for Wyoming this week
to aid in the production of the "Squaw
Man" which is to be the first produc-
tion of the Jesse L. Lasky organiza-
tion in which Dustin Farnum is to
enact the leading role.

Oscar Apfel, formerly with Pathe
and Edison, joined Cecil B. de Mille
at Butte, Montana, this week, from
which point they will endeavor to
locate Maverick, the town in which
Mr. Royle based the original locale
of his play "The Squaw Man."

Tany A. Wamby, the original Nat
U. Rich in the "Squaw Man," has
been discovered by Mr. Royle and
will be used in the picture.

"PROTEA" LETTER WINS PRIZE

The Cleveland Plain-Dealer runs a
contest every week in which they
offer a prize of $5 for a letter on the
best motion picture offering of the
week. The following letter which the
World Special Films Corporation is
very proud of, carried off first
honors:

"The motion picture I best liked
last week was 'Protea.' The picture
moved with a great rush from the
moment it began and there was never
a dull moment in any of the 'mile
of film' it was described as contain-
ing.

"The scene is laid in one of the
small fictitious kingdoms which
abound in modern fiction. 'Protea' is
an extraordinary woman who in-
trigues with the police of Gottenberg
to gain information about a treaty
which means much to her coun-
try.

"Protea encounters and overcomes
many perils in her quest; she seems
at times hopelessly to lose, but in the
end she triumphs.

"I liked this picture best because it
was interesting all the way through,
and that, I believe, is the 'first duty of
a motion picture.'

"FRANK O'NEILL,
"4336 Archwood Avenue."

WORLD SPECIAL SUCCESSFUL

Three months ago the World
Special Films Corporation com-
menced opening branch offices
throughout the United States to han-
dle nothing but large special film pro-
ductions.

At the time many disparaged the
idea and said the motion picture ex-
hibitor would not and could not pay
the prices demanded for long reel
subjects. Since that time they have
not only demonstrated the feasibility
of their plan, but have proven that
the exhibitor is anxious to get this
kind of service.

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25

THE GREATER LESSER

WAY back in the days when they were just be-
ginning' to do big things on the screen —
between seven and eight years ago, to be
exact — there was a youngster in a small San Francisco
"picture" house, whose principal job it was to clean
the films. Everybody called him "Sol," one reason
being that Sol happened to be his first name and the
other that it was just as easy to say as "Here, boy V
or "Kid," or any of the familiar forms of address,
which are especially reserved for the small boy. And
Sol is the name which almost everyone calls him to-
day, although many things
have happened since he
spent those weary hours fur-
bishing up the endless strips
of celluloid in that anti-
quated photo-playhouse in
the city of the Golden
Gate.

To-day Sol Lesser, to give
him his other name, is one
of the biggest figures in the
motion picture game in the
West. He controls directly a
big string of theatres on the
Coast and indirectly through
the Golden Gate Film Ex-
change, Inc., which he owns,
perhaps three or four times
as many more. Recently he
invaded New York. In his
offices in the Candler Build-
ing, 220 West Forty-second
street, in that city, he has a
well-organized, thoroughly
equipped buying, advertising
and managing force under
the name of the Golgate
Feature Service force, whose
business it is to purchase
territorial rights on the best

features made, as rapidly as they are produced.

Before he opened this office, Mr. Lesser, or Sol — it
depends on how well you know him, which you use —
was wont to send telegrams to his New York agents
reading something like this : "Ship at once via
P. D. & Q. all big features released in New York
this week." Sometimes this plan worked all right ;
sometimes it didn't. The accent is always on the
"big" in the Lesser scheme of things, and occasionally
his ideas and his agent's didn't gee in this respect. The
New York office was the result.

Through it is precluded the possibility of bad in-
vestment. In future every feature purchased will be
examined by the Lesser buyers, whose report will gov-
ern their employer's action. The establishment of this
office will also facilitate shipping the films, lithographs,
etc., and will ensure prompt deliveries to the clients
of the Golden Gate Exchange. Doubtless the

saving in expensive and trouble making delays
and the superior opportunities afforded for obtaining
desirable productions will be worth much.

Hp O go back to that film-cleaning period already re-
ferred to in the early days of the greater Lesser.
As a start he acquired a small share in a failing motion
picture house, made it pay, sold out, and from that
as a beginning opened a small exchange, which handled
principally "junk." Now he controls exclusive book-
ing rights on the greatest number of the big features

in California, Nevada, Ari-
zona, Washington, Oregon,
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming,
Utah, New Mexico and
Colorado, with offices in Los
Angeles, San Francisco,
Portland, Seattle, Butte,
Denver, and Salt Lake
City, which, by the way, is
"going some," considering
the fact that Sol Lesser is
still this side of twenty-
four.

His weekly film purchases
have for some time past
averaged $5,000. What they
will be now that he has
his Golgate Feature
Service working in New
York is problematical. It
is a matter which concerns
Lesser not a whit.

Quality is the determin-
ing factor in all the films
purchased by him. The
length of the subject is of
no consequence — the bigger
the better — and the cost is a
sol lessee secondary consideration. His

equipment enables him to
book successfully the most mammoth productions. He
has his hand steadily on the pulse of the public de-
mand and he stands ready to give the exhibitors whom
he serves through his exchange the best that the
camera turns out. He handles, among other things,
the Exclusive Program products and his success with
them has been of a character little short of phenomenal.

\ S nearly everyone who is anyone in the motion
picture business knows, Lesser is a quiet-man-
nered, slender little man, who gives scant indication of
the organizing genius which is the underlying secret
of his wonderful success.

Someone, by way of a joke, once called him "the
greater Lesser." Perhaps the humorous person could
have hit him off in no better way, if he had tried a
week. He is all this and then a trifle besides. So
we'll let it go at that. M. C.

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CONSIDER THE CENSORS

OUT in Ohio a battle is being waged which de-
serves the attention of all interested in the
motion picture business. The authority of the
first legally appointed censor board is at stake. The
Ohio legislature, at its last session, appointed a board
to censor motion pictures. This move came after much
agitation in Ohio headed by M. A. Neff, president of
the Motion Picture Exhibitors' League of America.
So Mr. Neff and most others regard the present board
as a protege of NefFs.

Now the question is whether a board so appointed
and so constituted can long exist. The Board had
hardly started getting in its work when the Mutual
Film Corporation slapped a Federal injunction on
it, tying up its work. Arguments have been made on
the injunction but the final decision has not yet ar-
rived. To the Mutual must be given the credit for
carrying the banner in the fight.

But the fight is all too apt to have just started.
Of all the problems which confront and vex manu-
facturer, exchange man and exhibitor, probably no
other has as many ramifications as has that of censor-
ship. What with the national board, state boards, city
boards and police censors, either a couple of police
officers doing duty for the city, or the officer on the
beat acting as censor, long vistas of persons vested
with authority to make trouble confront the film man.
But why censorship anyway?

MOST persons feel with William Howard Taft, ex-
president, and William Gaynor, the late mayor
of New York, that censorship is unconstitutional. All
are bound to feel a thrill at the phrase "any censorship
is un-American." Think it over. We have no censor-
ship of the press, of books or of plays except when they
run afoul of Anthony Comstock or violate the laws
of the land. Then why pick on motion pictures ? The
freedom in other lines was not obtained without a
struggle. The fight for freedom of the press took
centuries. Russia has not freedom of the press yet.
But America has.

In many ways the censors are illogical. They lay
down unwritten rules, like those of the Medes and
Persians, barring the portrayal of certain things, mostly
crimes, on the screen, or the exposition of certain in-
delicate situations and relationships. That is — these
things are barred when they appear in the ordinary
motion picture. But when the motion picture is an
adaptation of a literary or theatrical work the pro-
ducer can "get away with murder." Possibly the rea-
son is that the censors fear ridicule if they set them-
selves up to alter recognized works. But where lies the
moral difference between the screen production of a
book or play and an ordinary photo-play? Why
should one have more latitude than the other?

The censors themselves may not be of the proper
mental calibre. Chicago film men regard the police

censor situation there as intolerable. One argument is
that film adaptations of famous plays have been cut
without rhyme or reason. That returns to the ques-~
tion of adaptations vs. the common or garden variety
of motion picture.

* * *

"jV/T L'LTIPLICITY of censor boards makes for eon-
fusion. First there is the national censor board
whose action is legal in Massachusetts though the
board sits in New York City. Then comes the
Ohio Board, the first legally appointed board. Then
police boards are springing up like mushrooms. The
more boards the more trouble. The ratio is a
direct one.

The idea of a censor board for every state is not one
which will be enthusiastically received. The idea of
making over an entire production for every state in
the Union is not very pleasing to the film man. But
this is a logical development if the Ohio board is de-
cided to be qualified legally to proceed, as the national
board is not an official and legally appointed one.

The hue and cry of the ignorant is responsible, at
least partly, for this. The daily press used to delight
in giving a petty thievery story or a childish crime a
news angle by attributing it to motion pictures. Then
along came the demagogue who cried for censorship.
If the Ohio state board is legal there will be plenty
of solons who will refuse to see their own state lag
behind Ohio in the matter and more state censor boards
will follow.

Again, why should there be censorship anyway?
The manufacturers who are in the business to stay
are big enough to look ahead and realize that clean
pictures build for the future. The man who puts out a
"smutty" picture ranks with the publisher of an im-
moral book or pamphlet. The police and Mr. Com-
stock will attend to him. G. D. P.

SCENE FROM SHAKESPEARE'S "A WINTER'S TALE'

Three Part Warner Feature.

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27

CONCERNING THE VANOSCOPE

By W. F. Herzberg, Director of the International Research Company

Editor's Note — So much has been
said and written about the Vano-
scope optical projector, some affirm-
ing and some denying the possibility
of optical projection by reflection,
that The Motion Picture News
some time ago authorized the In-
ternational Research Company to
undertake a thorough investigation
of the machine and make a report
of their findings on the facts for
the benefit of our readers. The
standing and authority of the Inter-
national Research Company in the
world of science and commerce,
alike, is such that The Motion Pic-
ture News submits this report to
its readers without further com-
ment.

The Motion Picture News,

220 West Forty-second Street,
New York City.
Gentlemen :

In compliance with your request of
some months since, we have made an
exhaustive investigation of motion
picture machines manufactured and
offered for sale at the present day,
and at this time beg to submit a sum-
mary report which is but a synopsis
of the great mass of detail which has
been collected in the course of our
investigation.

Our findings in the above can be
summarized under, a few general
headings, viz.:

Mechanical Principles

The mechanical principles used in
projecting a series of pictures inter-
mittently at a speed of approximately
sixteen per second, are, in all types
of machines on the market to-day, de-
pendent upon what is known in ma-
chines as the "Geneva movement" (in
Cinematography termed the "inter-
mittent movement"). This move-
ment, variously adapted in connec-
tion with a revolving sector or series
of sectors (termed "the shutter" or
"shutters") is the basis of all exist-
ing motion picture machines.

In short, the film, on which is im-
printed the series of pictures, is drawn
across a standard aperture in the
path of the light rays from an optical
lantern; each picture stopping mo-
mentarily before this aperture by rea-
son of the film having imparted to it
a "start'' and "stop" motion by means
of the Geneva movement. During
the travel period of the film the sec-
tor or shutter cuts off the light rays
from the aperture, thus eliminating
the film movement on the screen.

To realize the ideal in this princi-
ple of projection each picture should
be projected for the longest possible

period, and 'the changing from one
picture to another should occupy the
shortest possible period of time.
When these conditions are fully met
the result would be a brilliant pic-
ture without "flicker" (a term used in
the art to denote the dark period pro-

The Vanoscope's Construction

With the great volume of data be-
fore us, which our complete research
into every phase of cinematography
produced, we proceeded to investi-
gate the Vanoscope, both as to its
mechanical construction, soundness

THE VANOSCOPE

duced by the sector cutting off the
rays of light during the interval in
which the change from one picture to
another is made). Therefore these
two functions in conjunction with an
optical lantern, condenser system and
projecting lens, variously assembled,
constitute what is termed "the ma-
chine" and is either hand or motor
driven.

of optical principles involved, its
adaptability for the purpose intended,
wherein it meets the requirements
lacking in projecting machines of the
period, and its possibilities on the
market.

We herewith summarize our con-
clusions and findings under a few
general headings.

Both the large commercial machine

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and what is termed the "Junior'' or
"Home" Vanoscope were carefully in-
spected part for part and a careful
study of the duty required of each
part and its fitness both as to per-
formance and durability.

The general design - has been well
thought out; and the parts of ample
section to ensure rigidity in operation
and perform with the least motive
effort the function for which they
are designed. The machine assembled
as a whole consumes a, surprisingly
small amount of space in comparison
with other machines of similar pur-
pose.

The mechanical and optical princi-
ples involved in- the construction and
operation of the Vanoscope are abso-
lutely foreign to any machine manu-
factured to-day, which precludes the
possibility of paying royalty to a
patent company in which the patents
covering the essential features of
present-day motion picture machines
are pooled and for the use of any
one or more of these patents the
manufacturer pays royalty to the
holding company. This feature alone
represents a saving in manufacture
figuring into thousands of dollars per
annum.

Principles and Operation

First — As the machine operates
without the usual shutter there is
absolutely no interruption or diminu-
tion of the light projected through
the film onto the screen. The elimi-
nation of the shutter precludes all
possibility of flicker and the eye-
strain resultant therefrom.

Second — The Vanoscope operates
without an intermittent movement,
therefore there is not present the jar
and noise which is usual where non-
reciprocal movements are in use. The
absence of these in a machine elimi-
nates the usual mechanical tremor
which is transmitted to the screen in
a magnified state and is evidenced by
a blurring of the picture.

Third — As the film in the Vano-
scope travels in a continuous, un-
broken motion, the wear and breakage
of the film are reduced to a mini-
mum, thereby greatly lessening the
cost of same and also the annoying
stoppage and interruptions which at
present exist by reason of the film
being subjected at all times to the
sudden strain and pull of an inter-
mittent movement. A continuous
moving film is a feature absolutely
new.

Fourth — In view of the fact that
all parts are continuously running,
greatly reducing the friction in the
machine, thereby consuming less en-
ergy to operate.

Fifth — As the projection of the arc
is not brought to a focus on the film,
it is possible to stop the film at any
point without fear of ignition. This

is a feature that is absolutely new
and could not be accomplished on
any other machine.

Sixth — In the Vanoscope the pic-
ture does not move off the screen
from top to bottom, but one picture
is dissolved into the other directly,
thus always insuring a full picture
on the screen 100 per cent of the
time. Travel ghost cannot exist, as
it does not become necessary to
move the pictures off the screen at
a speed of 16 per second or greater
in order to maintain the persistence
of vision. The Vanoscope projects
pictures at eight per second and even
slower without any visual perception
of change from one picture to an-
other. This feature insures an ini-
tial saving in the length of the films
of 50 per cent and over, which in
turn effects a saving in material, la-
bor, bulk and transportation almost
beyond estimate.

Seventh — The Vanoscope projects
pictures with distinctly stereoscopic ef-
fect. This result is evidently obtained
by the dissolving principle, by which one
picture is dissolved into its succeeding
picture, and projected through a com-
mon source of light. The pictures on
the screen have great depth and stereo-
scopic roundness and completes the illu-
sion of the existence of the object pro-
jected, which seems to be actually seen

rather than pictured. When the Vano-
scope projects one, two or three pictures
per second it is impossible to see the
change from one picture to the other be-
cause of this dissolving effect, and the
more slowly the pictures are projected
the more evident is this remarkable
stereoscopic principle demonstrated.
The Market for the Vanoscope
Leaving out entirely the use of
projecting machines for amusement
purposes, there remains a vast un-
touched field in commercial and edu-
cational use. The use of the machine
of to-day in these fields is at a stand-
still by reason of its being inadequate
to meet the requirements demanded
for these purposes. As the Vano-
scope removes all the objections
above tabulated and entails improve-
ments and economies not as yet
broached, we have no hesitancy in
saying that in gauging the period
of improvement in projecting ma-
chines of the past that the Vanoscope
is about 20 years ahead of the times
Our full report, including all data
collected and results of tests, is now in
course of preparation and will be
submitted as soon as it can be prop-
erly tabulated and reduced to writing
Respectfully submitted,
The International Research Co.

W. F. Herzberg,

Director.

A Christmas Trio

In keeping with the Christmas spirit,
the Vitagraph Company of America is
releasing three Christmas pictures this
month : "A Christmas Story," "The
Spirit of Christmas" and "The Ancient
Order of Goodfellows."

This Christmas trilogy, somewhat
on the order of the ancient Greek idea
of developing a great dramatic episode
in a series of three plays or dramas,
portrays the Christmas idea from its
three-reel, well-established and well-be-
loved aspects, namely, the dawn of
Christmas in the birth of Christ, the
spirit of Chris! mas, manifested through
the lives of little children, coupled with
the sympathetic desire of grown-ups to
join them in their love of the open-
hearted season, and the beneficent power
of the Christmas spirit over the lives
of everyday folk.

In "A Christmas Story," the first of
the three productions, the birth of
Christ in the manger is allegorically
portrayed in a scene in which a daugh-
ter comes back to her father's house
with her husband and their little child
on a co'd Christmas eve, and finding all
the family asleep, spend the night in
the stable, where they are found in the
morning, asleep on a little pile of brush
and straw.

The loving mother is clasping her
baby in her arms, and it is through the
child that she is forgiven for having

of Vitagraph Plays

married against her father's wishes and
welcomed back into the family circle for
this happiest of all Christmases.

In "The Spirit of Christmas," the
second of the three, a daughter of the
poor commits a small theft to buy pres-
ents for her little brothers and sisters.
She confesses to the rich woman from
whom she took the money. Her con-
fession is overheard by the woman's
brother, in whom there dawns a new
spirit of Christmas. The girl is for-
given, and a happy Christmas is ar-
ranged for the little tenement young-
sters when the two with all their wealthy
guests go from their home with the
girl and bring her brothers and sisters
many pretty gifts. A thread of sym-
pathy runs throughout this play which
admirably suggests the ennobling spirit
of Christmas.

In "The Ancient Order of Goodfel-
lows," the last of the trio, it is shown
how a man who spends his life among
the poor performing his daily services
as an officer of the law awakens to a
realization of all the good men of his
class and age may bring about by simp'y
being kindly to those who need their
assistance.

In all three plays there is a bright
light of good cheer and gladsome Yule-
tide spirit, which is entirely in keeping
with the idea of peace on earth, good
will towards men.

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THE NEWEST OF MOTION PICTURE PLANTS

Willat Film Manufacturing Corporation Is Building at Fort Lee, N. J., a Model Studio and Factory as

Result of a Study of Leading Plants Here and Abroad

TO the practical producers in the
motion picture business, to the per-
sons who are constantly on the look-out
for improvements and innovations in
studio and factory construction, the
large factory and studio buildings which
the Willat Film Manufacturing Com-
pany is erecting in Fort Lee, N. J . are
of great interest and importance.

To the person who is interested in

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FRONT VIEW OF STUDIO

the development and solidity of the in-
dustry and its every forward movement
the new plant is also of interest. Its
size alone guarantees that.

The factory, for instance, in which
commercial work will be done ;n addi-
tion to the work of the Willat Film
Manufacturing Corporation will have a
capacity of a million feet of film a
week. It will be the largest in the
country with the possible exception of
the new Lubin plant at Betzwood.

C. A. (Doc.) Willat, until a few-

ideas. He will do more than that. He
will adapt for his own use what he con-
siders the best features of the import-
ant plants of the world.

Trip Abroad for Ideas

Mr. Willat did not get his ideas of
what the best features are of the foreign
plants by sitting in a swivel chair. He
went abroad and looked them over for
himself. Mr. Willat visited the Hep-
worth, London Film Company, Ambro-
sio, Cines, Milano, Pathe, Eclair, Gau-
mont and other plants, in fact, practi-
cally every big concern on the other
side. Like Kipling "what he thought
he might desire, he went and took.'1 In
this country Mr. Willat has been fa-
miliar for years with all the big plants.
So his knowledge of studios and their
construction is both far-reaching and
practical.

Now, at Main street and Linwood
avenue, Fort Lee, N. J., he is erecting

feet for the production of pictures.

Taking up the factory end first, many
new departures are found. »In the first
place Mr. Willat will build his own'
cameras and his own printing machines.
The rest of the mechanical equipment,
including Bell and Howell perforators,
will be especially selected.

In the printing of the positives comes
the first new plan, and one which is di-
rectly opposite to way things are done at
other plants in this country. In the
printing Mr. Willat will put the strain
on the positive, rather than on the nega-
tive.

To explain this technical difference
is not so hard. It has been the custom
in this country to make the perforations
on the negative stock slightly further
apart than those on the positive stock.
Then when the two strips of films pass
together through the printing machines,
the sprocket engages with the negative
stock, and the positive stock simply fol-

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SIDE ELEVATION OF FACTORY

months ago the head of the factory and
laboratory end of the New York Mo-
tion Picture Corporation, is the head of
the Willat Film Manufacturing Corpo-
ration. In fact, he IS the corporation.
Mr. Willat is rated as the best technical
expert in the country. In his own fac-
tory and studio he will embody his own

two buildings, a studio and laboratory.
Each is 80 by 120 feet in size. The
studio building is apparently larger, for
running along one side is a smaller
structure, 120 by 15 feet, which houses
the dressing-rooms, scene loft and car-
penter shop. This leaves the studio
with unobstructed floor space 120 by 80

lows along. By reversing the process
and making the positive perforations
further apart than the negative perfora-
tions, the strain will come on the posi-
tive stock in all films handled at the
Willat plant.

Wash Films by Spraying

The advantage of this is two-fold. It
saves wear and tear on the negative
which must be run through the printing
machine every time a positive print is
run off, and Mr. Willat feels that this
process makes steadier prints, pictures
which show less vibration on the screen.
This plan of putting the strain on the
positive in printing Air. Willat secured
abroad where he says it is in use at
most of the large plants.

In the washing-room there is another
important change. The washing will be
done by sprays, not by the tank method.
The ceiling of the washing-room, which
will hold seventy or seventy-five racks
of films, will contain many spray noz-
zles. Through these the water will be
forced at high pressure, filling the room
with fine spray such as an atomizer

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sends. The great objection to washing
films in tanks is that the water is bound
to retain some of the hypo and thus up-
set the relationship of the chemicals.
With the spray method, new and clean
water continuously reaches the film.
This Mr. Willat believes of considerable
importance, especially in tinted or toned
films.

I will do it the celluloid is not rendered
brittle, and the quality of the film is al-
ways the same. That is to say that the
fortieth print from a negative will be
exactly the same as the first.''

The printing and perforating-room at
the plant of the Willat Film Manufac-
turing Corporation will be very large.
This is for two reasons. The first is so

SIDE ELEVATION OF STUDIO

The drying-room will be far different
from any other anywhere in that the
films will be dried in an atmosphere
controlled by an ice plant. This feature
is not found in any other factory in the
world, according to Mr. Willat. The
air will also be washed before it is ad-
mitted to the drying-room which, when
in use, will be practically a sealed room.

The air before it enters the drying-
room is washed by apparatus installed
by the Carrier Air Conditioning Com-
pany, of 30 Cortlandt street, New York
City. The washing process forces the
air through water which cleans it of all
dust particles, and also eliminates all
water from the air, thus making it clean
and dry. By this process the air is re-
duced to a temperature of 60 degrees
Fahrenheit or less. It is then warmed
to 70 or 75 degrees and turned into the
drying-room.

Hot Air Makes Films Brittle

In this method Mr. Willat sees several
advantages.

"We duplicate natural conditions," he
says. . "Films dry in the best possible
way out of doors on a moderately warm
summer day when the air is clean and
the humidity is low. By artificial means
we secure the same conditions in the
drying-room. Thus we get ideal condi-
tions.

"Many plants dry films by hot air
which they keep circulating fast enough
so that the celluloid does not take fire
This method I do not believe in. I be-
lieve it makes the films brittle and apt to
tear. Celluloid is a chemical compound
subject to changes. A few hours dry-
ing in heated air ages the film as much
as several months in the tin cans will.
Thus the hot air method robs the film
of sn much life. By drying the film

that the operators may have sufficient
air. The second is that it is easier to
control humidity and temperature in a
large room than in a small.

Another feature, and one which Mr.
Willat worked out himself, is a revolv-
ing door between the developing and
washing-room. Various methods of
entrance and exit for these two rooms
have been designed. Double doors with
an intermediary chamber are in common
use. The revolving door has been ex-
perimented with, but with no startling

feet of film turned out in a day I can
do the work."

The studio building, where the Willat
Film Manufacturing Corporation will
produce features, has a working floor
space 120 feet by 80 feet. The studio is
an all-glass structure equipped with light
diffusers. On bright or moderately bright
days artificial lighting will not be nec-
essary. On dark days and if evening
work is necessary, artificial lights will
be employed. Plenty of Cooper-Hewitts
will be installed and also arc lights.

The studio has one innovation not
found in any other stud io in this coun-
try. It has a big tank set in the work-
ing floor. This can be used for water
scenes and also for trap-door work.

Such are the factory and studio being
built by one of the master workmen of
the motion picture business after years
of study. They represent the most im-
proved and approved in their respective
lines. G. D. P.

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STEELWORK OF STUDIO

degree of success. Now Mr. Willat has
perfected a revolving door which he
feels will be successful and a time saver.

The capacity of the factory is a mil-
lion feet of film a week. This is greater
than any other motion picture factory in
the country unless the new Lubin plant
at Betzwood equals or passes it.

Big Tank in Studio Floor

"I do not expect to do a million feet
of film a week," says Mr. Willat. "If
I do half of that right nlong I shall con-
sider myself fortunate. But my plan in
building so large a factory was to be
prepared for emergencies, especially rush
orders. Now if a man wants 100,000

POWELL BENT BUT NOT
BROKE

Frank Powell, director for Pathe
Freres, had an experience last week
which he will not soon forget. He was
looking for a location with suitable
backgrounds for the finding of pirate,
treasures, and Crane Wilbur, the lead-
ing man, suggested his own birthplace,
Athens, N. Y., a quaint old town on the
Hudson. Mr. Powell shipped to Athens
sacks of pieces of round metal to simu-
late money, but they went astray on the
way up and the director was up against
it for money to bury. He finally went
over to the nearest bank and cashed
a check for $450, all in silver dollars,
and buried the sacks of real money on
the river beach.

Mr. Powell, like most people, did not
know that the Hudson for a good many
miles up has a tide of considerable rise
and fall. Busy with the details of the
play no one noticed the water steadily
creeping up the beach, and when it was
time to dig the treasure up the spot was
covered with water.

It was impossible to locate the place
and Mr. Powell and his camera man
had a long and lonely vigil of hours be-
fore the beach was bare enough for
them to dig. Their identification marks
of the spot had been swept away and
the two men wearily dug up about a
quarter of an acre of beach before they
finally found the sacks. As they hob-
bled away from the scene of their
labors Frank Powell said just two
heartfelt words: "Never again!"

The Solax plant is rapidly expanding.
A new two-story building is. being
erected and in it, when finished, will
be housed the factory and laboratory.
The added facilities will make it possible
to turn out about 200,000 feet of positive
film weekly instead of 100.000 feet as at
present.

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OH, IT'S AN INTERESTING LIFE!

Punctuated by GEORGE D. PROCTOR

JOT it down in your mental notebook,
lads, that the ball on Monday of the
Motion Picture Exhibitors' Association
of Greater New York Was the big social
event not only of the week but of the
season in film circles. It makes a fellow
feel good to look over a crowd like the
one that gathered in Terrace Garden
and then be able to get off in a corner
and whisper to himself, sotto voce, "I
know that bunch. We are a part and
parcel of the same great industry."

But there was more doing than
showed on the surface Monday night.
Secret envoys and ambassadors plenipo-
tentiary were busy running back and
forth with peace overtures between the
hosts of the evening, Sam Trigger,
Frank A. Tichenor, Harold Rosenthal
et ai, and the handful of Neff men who
were present. It now looks, so the
grapevine telegraph says, as if definite
propositions for a cessation of hostilities
may soon be expected.

Trigger, Rosenthal and Doque, of
Rochester, were appointed as represen-
tatives to attend the meeting of the
Executive Committee of the Interna-
tional Motion Picture Association, which
was held in the Hotel La Salle, Chicago,
Thursday and Friday. This meeting is
the logical time for the International
bunch to put their side of the case in
tangible form and make a definite peace
proposal. This proposal will tell whether
or not Trigger's "Let us have peace" plea
was sincere.

The suit of P. A. Powers against the
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
and Carl Laemmle, involving the owner-
ship of the Horsley stock, to which
everybody but Horsley has a negotiable
claim, has been referred to Morgan John
Gray O'Brien,' formerly presiding justice
of the Appellate Division of the Su-
preme Court. Hearings will go on be-
fore him at No. 2 Rector Street, com-
mencing December 22nd.

One actor who is rapidly and consist-
ently gaining in favor with the fans is
Darwin Karr, now with the Vitagraph
Company of America. Darwin, who was
playing leads with Solax up to a few
months ago, is well equipped by nature
to be a matinee idol. He stands more
than six feet in his holeproofs and is
blessed with an expressive face. At the
Vitagraph studio he has been given good
parts, including a prominent one in the
six-part production of Mr. Barnes of
New York. When it comes to the "reg-

ular fellers" of the game, Darwin may
be counted in, too. So there you are.
As actor and man he is one of the best.

The Gaumont Company is getting out
attractive lobby displays along entirely
novel lines. They are hand-colored lay-
outs, twenty-four by twenty-eight inches,
giving nine portraits or still pictures.
The result is very fine. The color effect
is soft and the whole thing makes a

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high-class display, good enough for a
marble lobby inset with gold. The sheets
will be prepared for future releases, but
the number will be limited, as Sir Lori-
more says they will be supplied to the
trade below cost.

Charles Pathe, head of Pathe Freres,
and Charles Jourjon, head of Eclair, are
both expected to arrive from Paris
within the week.

A halt has come in the taking of testi-
mony in New York by the defense in
the Federal suit against the Motion Pic-
ture Patents Company. Hearings will
be resumed in Chicago January 6th and
will run probably for two weeks or so.
Then the scene will shift back to New
York for the last words.

Augustus Carney, the famous 'Alkali
Ike," late of Essanay pictures, has gone
with the Universal Film Manufacturing
Company. He signed the papers over in
Europe, where he is taking a little vaca-
tion.

Society saw itself in motion pictures
recently. The polo championship films,
taken by Edison, were run off recently
at Sherry's before the real "400" ; also

the pictures of the baseball world's se-
ries, taken by the Commercial Motion
Pictures Company. Washington society
is going in for the same stunt and the
leaders in the nation's capital have been
showing each other pictures of them-
selves.

J. Stuart Blackton, secretary of the
Vitagraph Company of America, who
has been commodore of the Atlantic
Yacht Club, Brooklyn, for three years,
was re-elected for another year at the
last meeting, held at the Waldorf-
Astoria.

The Nicholas Power Company has an
exhibit at the International Exposition
of Safety and Sanitation at the Grand
Central Palace, New York, from De-
cember 11th to 20th. It is the only rep-
resentative of the motion picture indus-
try at the exposition.

Winnifred Greenwood and George
Field, two leading players at the plant
of the American Film Manufacturing
Company, at Santa Barbara, Cal., were
married quietly recently. For a wonder
the camera man was not on the job.
Both will continue in "Flying A" pro-
ductions.

George J. Cooke, Adam Kessel, Jr.,
and a party of friends sailed Wednes-
day for Bermuda by way of a little
vacation.

Bert Angeles, who put on comedies
for the Vitagraph for several years, is
getting a lot of kind words on the four-
reel feature, "Across the Continent," he
produced for Pilot.

Andreas Dippel, the Chicago impre-
sario, is getting into the motion picture
business. He recently bought the rights
to all Europe except Germany and
France and rights to all the tropical
countries for All Star productions for
twelve months to come. Then he sailed
away, ready to do business.

Enter Joe Hopp, of Chicago, among
the country's biggest feature buyers.
Joe, who has just been on a trip to New
York completing arrangements, is fur-
nishing a feature a day (some contract
that) through his Union Film Company,
at 1G6 West Washington Street, Chicago.
Among the brands he is taking are : Am-
brosio, Union Features, Features Ideal,
Great Northern, Great Northern Pre-

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ferred Attractions, Solax, Blache, Itala,
Film Releases of America. Eclectic,
American Kineto, Inter-Ocean and
Apex.

of these fellows and their talents are
highly appreciated at the Lubin plant.

With the erection of his new studio in
Italy, George Kleine is now in the mar-
ket for applications for the better grade
of American talent to appear in his big
productions. Mr. Kleine is willing to
enter into contracts with the right sort
of American artists to spend a part of
the year on the continent in photo drama
work for him. He is open to proposals
from well-known American actors and
actresses.

One of the envelopes it is a pleasure
to open every week for the press agent's
communications is the one coming from
the World Special Films Corporation,
containing Milton E. Hoffman's stuff.
The Hoffman person has the rare fac-
ulty of 'good copy." More power to
him and his secretary, Dolly Ellisberg.

Among women in the film business
who are making good in their own right
count Anna Goldman, private secretary
to Eddie Roskam, head of the Commer-
cial Motion Pictures Company. Seven
years in the business is her record and
she is real head of things, Eddie says.

David Horsley, the American agent
for Lumiere stock, is distributing among
his camera men friends, of which he has
a large number, strips of focusing film.
There are, of course, quite a number of
camera men in the country with whom
he is not personally acquainted, but he
will gladly forward a strip to any who
desire it. This film should prove ex-
tremely useful and should form a part
of every camera man's equipment.

The song, "My Movie Girl," by G.
Warren Landon and S. S. Cassard, is
being put out in attractive form by the
Nicholas Power Company.

Acton Davies, by the way, is not the
Edison scenario editor. He reads all
scripts which have been passed by the
staff and makes suggestions. Scenario
editors should send all scripts to the
Edison studio, as heretofore, not to Mr.
Davies.

Changes are going on at the Lubin
studio. Barry O'Neil, director, is no
longer with them, his place having been
taken by George Terwilliger, now a full-
fledged director. The leading man is
Earl Metcalfe, who has been working
with Harry Meyers since his return
from Florida. This first picture is a
Charles Klein play, on which work has
just been started.

Stanley Lowrie, brother of Ira
Lowrie. general manager of the Lubin
plant, is receiving the sympathies of
all over, the death of his wife. The
studio forces sent floral offerings.

Joe Smiley and Gaston Bell, of the
Lubin forces, have just been elected
to membership in the Screen Club.
This makes an even dozen Lubinites
who belong. Arthur Johnson bought
a new suit for the Screen Club house-
warming and is expected to buy a
new hat for the ball.

Abe Siegel, of the Novelty Poem-o-
graph Company, of Cleveland, is in
New York. His company has just
produced in motion picture, to be ac-
companied by the human voice, that
famous poem, "Christmas in the
Workhouse." It has already pro-
duced H. A. D'Arcy's poem, "The
Face on the Barroom Floor." This
met with great success.

Edward Schnaubert, Jr.. will take
over the Dreamland Theatre at Ja-
maica' avenue and Oxford street,
Richmond Hill. N. Y., on December
22.

The American Kineto Corporation
has still a few states open for their
two latest money-getting features.
"The Waters of Death," three reels,
and "The Girl of the Sunny South,"
four reels. The number of repeat
orders this firm have received speaks
well of the booking and attractive
qualities of both subjects, which are
backed up by really excellent adver-
tising matter.

This move is an advancement for
both Metcalfe and Terwilliger. Both

The International Motion Picture
Association has filed a certificate of
incorporation with the Secretary of
State.

The purpose for which it is formed
is stated as being "to secure uniform
customs and usages in the motion
picture business, to obtain equitable
laws, ordinances, and regulations, to
adjust differences among its mem-
bers, and to raise the standard of mo-
tion pictures and further the interest
generally of those engaged in the mo-
tion picture business."

The incorporators are Samuel H.
Trigger, J. A. Koerpel. Frank A.
Tichenor, Rudolph Saunders, Harold
W. Rosenthal, Eugene Elmore, Grant
W. Anson, and Robert C. Whitten, of
New York City, and Joseph B. Fried-
man, Buffalo," N. Y.; William J.
Sweeney, Chicago, 111.; Charles H.
Phillips, Milwaukee, Wis.; A. P. Tug-
well. Los Angeles, Cal. ; Fred J. Her-
rington, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Thomas
Furness, Duluth, Minn.

Brevity is the Soul

Louis Goldstein, the head office boy of
New \ork, has joined Sol Lesser at his Colgate
Feature Service office. Louis will be remem-
bered from his connection with Reliance,
Eclair and Warner's Feature. He threatens to
be a real magnate some day.

Jane Gail. Imp leading woman, sailed Wednes-
day for England where she will join George
Loan Tucker's company, with the London Film
Company.

Frank* Crane will go with the Universal to
direct the pictures in which Irving Cummings
will appear.

A new publication has arrived, the editors of
which do not aspire to be "oricles." Never
heard of an "oricle." Maybe it's a cross be-
tween an oriole and a barnacle.

Herbert Brenon and his Imp company, headed
by Annette Kellerman, have left for Florida.
In the company are Leah Baird, William Shay
and \\ illiam Welch.

Frank E. Woods, scenario editor for the
Mutual, says the best and most prolific script
artist is Miss Anita Loos, the eighteen-year-old
daughter of a San Diego, Cal., publisher.

The Mutual is sending a company to the
old Kmemacolor studio on Sunset Boulevard
Hollywood. Los Angeles. Christy Cabanne is
director, Joseph Altschuler in charge of the
factory and Samuel Landers head camera man.
Among the players are Miriam Cooper, Raoul
\\ alsh, Frank Bennett, Fred and Robert Burns,
Eagle Eye and Dark Cloud.

Fred Stanhope is with the new Mutual Studio
in L'nion Square.

Frank Bennett, former leading man with
Florence Lawrence, has gone with the Mutual.

Tom Mills will play opposite Norma Phillips
m the "Mutual Girl" series.

The scenario and publicity departments of
the Mutual Film Corporation are now at 29
Union Square West, Sixteenth street and
Broadway. This affects Frank E. Woods,
Daniel Carson Goodman and Russell E. Smith,
of the scenario department, and Phil Mindil
and Hopp Hadley, publicists.

George Fatullo, the novelist and magazine
writer, will write a series of scripts for the
Mutual.

Henry Walthall, Biograph star, has gone
with the Mutual.

Got a postal from J. W. Johnston, of the
Eclair company, in Tucson, Ariz.

A. L. Haining, of the Gaumont Company,
has just returned from South America after a
very exciting time. He has visited most of
the danger spots of Mexico, but looks none the
worse for his trip.

Mary_ Fuller is writing an article for The
\\ Oman's World on "Thrilling Moments in the
Life of a Picture Star." No "one is better
qualified to write upon such a subject than this
gifted Edison player, who has made the court-
ing of danger part of her daily life. .

The Feature Photoplay's "Great Lure of
Paris" is booked at Hammerstein's for an in-
definite period through the Film Exchange.
Hammerstein is advertising it as the biggest
picture of direct importation from Paris.

Owing to the enlarged radius of action of the
Sehg Stock Company, with headquarters at
Prescott, Ariz., the leading man, William Dun-
can, will, hereafter, confine his attention
strictly to producing plays. The company will
be very considerably strengthened and enlarged,
as some big productions are nominated for this
winter in the picture-land of Arizona.

The Countess de Marstini has joined the
Pathe Southern Stock Company at St. Augus-
tine, Fla.

For its release of January 1st, the Famous
Players will present Cecilia Loftus in the
famous novel and play, "A Lady of Quality,"
by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Instead of the customary trailer reading
■Mutual Program," the "Flying A" produc-
tions are being supplied with the Winged Clock
with the hands quickly rotating and the now
very popular wording "Mutual Movies Make
Time Fly." It will probably only be a very
short time when all subjects on the Mutual pro-
gram will use the improved end piece.

In honor of the members of the Kalem and
Edison Stock Companies who are wintering in
Jacksonville, Fla., the Lubin Comedy Company
tendered them a "Poodle Roast" and dance,
which was held at the Lubin studio.

Those present from the Edison studio were:
Herbert Prior, Mabel Trunnelle, C. J. Wil-
liams, William Wadsworth, Alice Washburn,
Arthur Housman, Richard Ridgley, Richard
Tucker, Bigelow Cooper, Elsie MacLeod and
several others.

Kalem was well represented with Robert Vig
nola, Tom Moore, Guy Coombs, Alice Hollister,
Marguerite Courtot, Harry Milliard, Ben Ross
and Jack Macklin.

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SCIENTIFIC PROJECTION OF THE FILM

By J. E. Robin, Sales Manager of Simplex Projection Machines

WITH the exception of projection,
every branch of the motion pic-
ture industry has developed to a high
state of perfection. This has been ac-
complished by taking each individual
problem as it arose, and by known
rules and formulas scientifically ar-
riving at a correct solution.

Difficulties encountered with the
present-day type of projectors, as
well as problems arising in connec-
tion with the projection, may be
solved in the same manner.

Carbon Carrying Capacity Limited

To project a good picture properly,
it is essential first that the designers
of the projecting apparatus have a
thorough knowledge of what is re-
quired of a machine and under what
conditions it will work at its highest
efficiency.

There is a lack of sufficient techni-
cal and practical data and authorities
for the architects, exhibitors and op-
erators.

Nothing can emphasize this greater
than the conditions which the writer
has observed by personal investiga-
tion and practical experience since
the birth of the motion picture art.

During the year of 1912 and the
early part of the present year, more
than 40,000 miles were covered by the
writer, and during this trip it was in-
deed surprising to find that the ma-
jority of theatres were using carbons
five-eighths of an inch in diameter, dis-
regarding the amount of amperage
they were using at the arc.

It is not generally known that the
carrying capacity of carbons is lim-
ited and somewhat similar to that oi
copper wire. The tips must reach a
point of incandescence in order to
emit the greatest amount of light.

To substitute this claim, the carry-
ing capacity of five-eighths of an inch
carbons is 34 amperes on direct cur-
rent, and if 60 amperes are used there
is nothing to be gained as the angle of
light emitted is no greater in degree
or more intense, and the carbons will
be heated to a length that will even
reduce the temperature of the tips.

Question of Amperage

There is another serious objection
to be considered. That is the undue
heating of the carbon holders.

It is clearly set forth that in order
to obtain the maximum results with a
minimum waste of carbon and elec-
tricity, the proper size carbons should
be used for the amperage for which
they were designed.

Another important element in ref-
erence to light is the various opinions
as to what amperage should be used

per square foot of screen surface.

There are several things to be con-
sidered regarding the amount of am-
perage to be used with reference to
the above which are:

First: The amount of light, artifi-
cial or daylight, falling upon the
screen.

Second: The kind of screen, the

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surface and also the position it is
placed in with reference to the line
of vision of the audience.

Referring back to the statement
made in regard to the rules and for-
mulas, it has been ascertained that
when using direct current in a thea-
tre illuminated while the picture is
being projected, from .2 to .35 am-
peres per square foot of screen sur-
face is necessary.

Condensing Problems

Alternating current has an illumi-
nating value of about forty per cent
direct and should not be used except
through a rotary or mercury arc rec-
tifier, as the amperage per square foot
of screen surface varies from .3 to .4.

Another important element, which
is a very interesting subject and upon
which space will not permit a thor-
ough treatise, is the condensing sys-
tem and its relation to the motion
picture lens.

The distance of the front condenser
from the aperture plate should be set
down in figures, as well as the focus
of the front condenser.

In other words, the diagonal of the
light must not be greater than the
surface of the front condensers.

All of these various problems are
related to one another and can be
figured by proportion.

When the projecting machine is
placed above the center-line of the
curtain, the machine should be so ar-
ranged that the light rays will not
strike the curtain at an angle greater
than twenty degrees or thirty-five de-
grees on a throw of 110 feet.

At Right Angles to Screen

When possible, the machine should
always be placed at right angles with
the screen, as it will greatly assist in
obtaining a perfectly flat field and a
projected picture in equal proportions,
bringing out the detail and perspec-
tive.

Space and time will not permit fur-
ther details. Suffice it to say that co-
operation on the part of operators and
exhibitors and a knowledge of the
subject will be of the greatest as-
sistance in placing projection upon a
better basis.

NOTABLES SEE KINEMACOLOR
FEATURE

At the annual dinner of the Ameri-
can Museum of Safety, which was
given in the grand ballroom at the
Waldorf-Astoria to about five hundred
guests Friday evening, December 12,
the Kinemacolor three-reel subject
"Steam" was a special feature, illus-
trating the development of this power
from the tea-kettle to the locomotive.

Among the speakers of the evening
were President Hadley, of Yale; Dr.
Finley, of New York College; Sur-
geon-General Stokes, of the United
States Navy, and Dr. Tolman, direc-
tor of the American Museum of
Safety.

Dr: Tolman, in introducing the
Kinemacolor pictures of ''Steam," laid
particular stress upon the advantages
of motion pictures both as an educa-
tional factor in the schools and as a
method of teaching the very points
for which the Museum of Safety was
designed, i.e., the development and
demonstration of all manner of safe-
guards to human health and lives.

A .A. Anderson, who is well known
for his exhaustive work in connection
with the educational movement, made
some very timely remarks about the
application of motion pictures in con-
nection with public school work, em-
phasizing their value not only as an
educational factor, but as a combina-
tion of education and entertainment.

The dinner committee, who ar-
ranged this novel program, included
Dr. Geo. F. Kunz, chairman; Hon.
Geo. B. Cortelyou, Hon. Elbert H.
Gary, James Speyer and Dr. Tolman.

LOTTO JOINS BALBOA

Arthur A. Lotto, well known in the
amusement world, has joined the Bal-
boa Amusement Producing Company
as personal representative to H. M.
Horkheimer, president of the com-
pany. Mr. Lotto was for many years
associated with the Kinemacolor Com-
pany and was responsible for a num-
ber of their great successes.

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after spending a small fortune on production, and hav-
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poster which makes the first appeal to the real client.
the public, only impresses one with its very obvious
cheapness, and does little to create a desire to see the
film? With competition getting keener every day, this
appears to be one direction in which the enterprising
producer can pull out ahead of his rivals.

Do producers look upon the poster as a necessary
evil, an extra expense tacked on to the tail of produc-
tion, and therefore get it done as cheaply as possible?
It looks very much like it.

You can't do without posters ! Then why not make
them real live attractions ; something that will make
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Vol. VIII

December 27, 1913

No. 25

HO! FOR A GOOD POSTER!

THE plea for a good poster is almost universal.
American films, on the average already of a
quality distinctly superior, show a steady im-
provement, which is almost noticeable from week to
week, yet the posters advertising them, with rare ex-
ceptions, • are of a grade little better, comparatively,
than those in vogue when the motion picture was in
its infancy.

Every exhibitor, who thinks at all, recognizes this
fact. In proportion as he does so, he resents it. Yet
thus far he has been powerless to alter or improve
the condition that confronted him. That good posters
mean good business is a fact that is self-evident, pro-
viding, of course, the production is of corresponding
excellence. But that a good production cannot have
justice done it at the box office if the posters advertis-
ing it are inferior, is also apparent. The exhibition is
the loser either way.

The first question that rises to the mind is, why,

rT",HE theatrical producer has found it out long ago.
■*■ He must have the best of posters. One has only to
mention the beautiful productions of David Belasco to

prove it.

The title of the film, though it is important to have
a good one, is not a decisive factor. Take any dozen
you like ; they don't convey much to the public mind ;
but a poster picturing the dramatic moment, the heart
of the plot, the sensational incident, that is the lure,
the bait, that decides Mr. and Mrs. Smith and family
to visit the house showing that film. With two, three,
and four picture houses within easy reach of the home,
the matter of immediate appeal becomes of vital mo-
ment to producer and exhibitor alike; their interests
t> re the same.

American producers will ultimately come to it, and
demand the best posters that money can buy. Euro-
pean film manufacturers are doing better than we are,
and it is a matter of reproach that we are behind. To
order your supply of posters two or three days before
putting your production on the market, and allowing
the printer to produce them from a square inch of
film, and deliver them, not quite dry, in time to go out
with the first order is one way of doing business, but
surely a bad one for all concerned.

OF course, the printer wants to make as much out
of his printing as possible, so he dispenses with
a sketch altogether, and produces from the above-
mentioned square inch of film, or at best he pays an
artist $10 or $15 to make a sketch — and ''Let me
have it to-morrow" goes with the order. He gets what
he is asking for. The renter is out to buy cheap and
sell dear. So his influence does not tend to lift the
standard.

One producer was bold enough to say he could not
get good posters. Of course he can't at the price he
is willing to pay. He knows he can't get leading
actors at the price of third-rate men, but he doesn't
apply the same knowledge to the matter of printing
and posters. It is all a matter of price. Would it not
be good business to pay it and get something that is
worth while?

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being erected in Wardour street, and
is expected to be ready for occupancy
about the first day of the year.

All machines and laboratory ap-
paratus is being shipped from Chi-
cago.

He created "Buster Brown," whose
doings will shortly be shown on the
screen under the auspices of the Out-
cault Film Company.

AMERICAN FILM'S RELEASE
DATES

On Monday of each week the Amer-
ican Film Manufacturing Company
will release a two-part feature, and
once each month the two-part sub-
ject will be replaced with a three-part
production.

PRODUCE DRAMA AT NIAGARA
FALLS

Daily newspapers at Niagara Falls.
New York, report the staging there of
a sensational motion picture play by
the Sterling Camera and Film Com-
pany, of New York.

The plot of the play, which is a
four-reel subject, centers around an
attempt to smuggle Chinese across
the border. In one scene a large
touring car in which the smugglers
are trying to escape the government
detectives, is hit by a freight train.

The film will end with the girl
closed in a barrel and sent over
Niagara Falls. These scenes also
show splendid views of the falls.
Violet Stuart plays the girl. August
Collette is the leading man, Arthur
Donaldson is the director and Leon
Wagner, the camera man.

NEW PILOT PRODUCTION

Director James Gordon of the Pilot
Company has just completed assem-
bling and putting in shape their latest
feature production "Hoodman Blind,"
from H enry Arthur Jones' famous
English drama, which was originally
played by the well-known star, Wilson
Barrett. The story is laid around Lon-
don, and the English atmosphere is sus-
tained throughout.

Miss Harbe plays a dual role, that of
twin sisters, and one of the most in-
teresting scenes, obtained by a double
exposure, is where she enters a room
and greets herself. Among other well-
known artists in this production are
Herbert Barrington. Mrs. Guy Stand-
ing, and Violet Stuart.

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The Day and Night Screen

Its Invention Opens New Field for Exhibitors and Will Prove a Means
of Increasing Business

ALTHOUGH the "Day and Night"
screen, so-called because it can be
used effectively in daylight as well as
in the dark, has been in the field here
for only a short time, it has thus far so
successfully demonstrated its merit, that
many of the leading motion picture
houses throughout the country have in-
stalled it. Hitherto there has been a
certain prejudice against patent screens,
due largely to the loss of clearness and
detail in the picture when viewed from
the sides of the theatre and also be-
cause it has been found necessary to
use frequent applications of paint or
some special preparation to maintain
the screen's efficiency.

All these objections are obviated by
the process under which the "Day and
Night" screen is produced. The picture,
when projected is quite as clear and
distinct, when viewed from the sides of
the theatre, as when seen from a point
directly in front of it. In addition to
this, as far as the tests have shown, the
screen is practically unaffected by time,
weather or house conditions.

One of the remarkable features of
the screen is its almost entire failure to
use up light by absorption, a character-
istic which results not only in making
daylight pictures possible, but also in a
considerable saving of electric current.
In Germany, where the screen was in-
vented, the cost of electricity is much
higher than it is here and this saving is
so great, that a lease arrangement is
made between the manufacturers of the
screens and the exhibitor, whereby the
latter pays half the amount saved in
current as rental for the screen. The
manufacturers obtain the electricity ac-
count for the three months prior to the
installation of the "Day and Night"
screen, on which they base their calcu-
lations, and the resultant saving is usu-
ally found to be between 50 and 60 per
cent of the former cost of the electric-
ity. This amount is divided, giving the
exhibitor a comfortable profit and the
screen company a substantial rent.

Although the "Day and Night" screen
was invented in Germany, it was first
introduced to the world by England,
where it is now installed in practically
all the leading motion picture houses in
the United Kingdom. Germany and
France speedily followed England's lead.

The American company, which was
formed a few months ago under the
name Day and Night Screens, Inc.
with offices at 291 Broadway, New York
City, has already had great success in
of this screen — open air picture enter-
tainment in the day time. Neither
murky atmospheric conditions, nor
bright sunshine interferes with its effec-
tiveness.

placing its product in many of the lead-
ing theatres in this country. The Gau-
mont Company employed it when
demonstrating their color photography
at the Thirty-ninth street theatre in
New York City last spring, bringing a
"Day and Night" screen from their
French studio especially for the purpose
of the exhibition. The Kinemacolor
Company used it in their demonstration
theatre at the Exposition at the Grand
Central Palace in New York City last
July and many other film companies are
using them in their private demonstra-
tion rooms.

A new field is opened up by the' use

PRIVATE WIRE FOR PATHE

A private wire has been installed
for'Pathe's Weekly in the main office
of the company at Jersey City. Since
the Weekly has been issued twice a
week the number of telegraph mes-
sages has become so large that to get
better and more prompt service the
private wire became a necessity.

INSTAL FILTERS

The American Film Manufacturing
Company has just installed a large bat-
tery of water filters in its Chicago
laboratories. The capacity of the filters
will allow the use of 10,000 gallons
of filtered water per hour. The new
equipment is calculated to improve the
already high quality of the American
pictures.

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44 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

THE VERSATILITY OF THE MOTION PICTURE

By William Barry, Advertising Manager of the Nicholas Power Company

MOTION pictures have been in more or less ex-
tensive public use since 1895, but until 3 905
their use was comparatively limited. They
were for many years a part of the equipment of prac-
tically all vaudeville theatres, but were not featured
as special attractions in the programs of these theatres,
being used primarily to dismiss the audience. For this
reason they were presented with little care and with
less effort to supply scenes of great interest.

In addition to the use of the machines in theatres of
this character, their only use up to 1905 was to add
attractiveness and vitality to travel lectures or as ad-
juncts to the shows of itinerant showmen. Between
1905 and 1908, however, the motion-picture machine
had developed into an instrument adapted not only
for entertainment purposes, but also for educational
uses, the latter being one which has steadily grown
and is still growing.

The use of motion-picture machines by educational
institutions is not due to the entertainment value of
the pictures alone, as many facts of natural science
can be presented by means of the motion picture far
more effectively than in any other way. The value
of the motion picture as a means of teaching surgery
will be readily appreciated, as in no other way can the
technique of a difficult operation, as performed by a
master surgeon, be portrayed to innumerable students
after the operation has taken place.

CONSIDERED as a commercial proposition alone,
motion pictures as a means of entertainment may
be counted on to yield handsome profits for many years,
disregarding their increasing use for educational pur-
poses. The motion picture is not a fad. Unlike fads
and crazes, the motion picture enthusiasm is not based
upon a single, unchanging source of pleasure, but
represents an endless variety of themes.

As has been well said by an American student of
sociology, the vitality of the motion picture as a
means of entertainment is assured, because it gives
to audiences, who cannot afford the pleasures of the
theatre at regular theatre prices, practically the same
emotions and interests as are presented by the ordi-
nary play.

Another aspect of the motion picture as a form of
entertainment which is worthy of' mention is the up-
lifting influence upon the people who habitually attend
the motion-picture theatre. The films which are now
being presented are, almost without exception, entirely
free from any objectionable element. The audiences
catered to are composed largely of women and children,
and it should be the aim of every exhibitor to present
shows to which no exception can be taken by any one.

THE motion picture has been made an adjunct of
the Salvation Army, the Y. M. C. A., and of
many churches for the development of social inter-
course. Perfect projection is the foundation upon

which the development of motion pictures has been
based. The effect on the human eye of a flickering
picture has been found in some cases to be such as
to cause illness, and this has been made a life study
by Nicholas Power, of the Nicholas Power Co.. with
the result that the right to adopt the slogan, "Power's
Perfect Projection" has been conceded.

Because of this, the Cameragraph manufactured by
the Nicholas Power Company of New York has at-
tained a degree of popularity so great that the best
sources of information indicate that this company is
now selling a large part of all the projection machines
used on the western hemisphere. The popularity of
the Cameragraph has resulted almost wholly from its
superiority in workmanship, design, material and pro-
jecting qualities.

KLEINE BUILDS STUDIO IN ITALY

Cable advices from George Kleine tell of the building of a
magnificent and costly studio in July which will be used to
produce important Kleine attractions Mr. Kleine cables :

''You are now at liberty to announce formation of Photo
Drama Production Company of Italy. Have bought beautiful
estate permitting staging of fifty scenes simultaneously in
natural and artificial settings. Policy is to combine artistic
perfection of Italian with virility of American methods, tak-
ing the best from both schools. Big features only. Have
engaged -well-known American artists not previously in
pictures.''

IF YOUR TAILOR
STUCK YOU

on a suit of clothes
that fell to pieces
in thirty days, I'll
bet you would
have something to
say about the cloth
he used in the next
one he made for you. If the many
exchanges and feature buyers of this
country took as much interest in the
wearing quality of their films as they
do in their clothes, they would insist
on having all their films printed on
Lumiere stock.

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NEW YORK

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Mvisic and the ^rf^
Picture J^tE

Suggestions Invited, Questions Cheerfully Answered

Address : Music Department, The Motion Picture News

SOME years ago, when motion pic-
tures were still considered as a
novelty only, Dewey's on Fourteenth
street, New York, ran a few reels a day
together with cheap small-time vaude-
ville. There was practically no attempt
made to follow the pictures by the pian-
ist and his one assistant, the drummer.
But the whole house was kept continu-
ously convulsed in mirth by the latter,
who had a clever fashion of passing
witty remarks, supposedly in a stage
whisper, but really so they might be
heard all over the house. I have never
been able to learn whether this was
done with the consent of the manage-
ment or whether the drummer did
it on his own responsibility. At any
rate it was a most successful experi-
ment.

His remarks were confined to the
comedies mostly, and were quite as hu-
morous as the pictures. But once in a
while he would make a noise as of two
persons kissing each other at a critical
time, and thus would invariably bring
down the house. While this can hardly
be recommended to-day, as a means of
amusing an audience, dramas have
reached their present state of perfection,
but with the comedies the drummer can
still be of great assistance. A word here
or there mimicking the comedians will
often help "get over" some humorous
flash which the average person would
otherwise lose.

THE present drummer at Loew's
Broadway Theatre in New York
City has the right idea. His outfit is
very complete, and he seems to have the
knack of getting in just the right sound
at just the right time. The whole or-
chestra at this theatre, it seems to me,
is as nearly in harmony with the
productions shown as it is possible
to be.

Several nights ago I was in this
theatre when "The Yellow Slave," a
three-part Melies drama, entirely en-
acted by Japanese was being shown.
Throughout this film the orchestra
played selections from "The Mikado,"
which naturally fitted in exceedingly
well with the scenes on the screen, and
at the same time pleased every one.

People everywhere were humming the
tune long after they had ceased to play
it.

Our English contemporary, The Bio-
scope, in a recent issue suggests the ad-
visability of having "request music."
This subject has been much talked of in
this country for several years, and a
few theatres have taken it up. It is as-
serted that the houses in England, which
have been playing the music requested
by the audiences, have met with signal
success.

On the other hand, it is said that the
main objection to this is the difficulty of
being able to follow the picture, if the
orchestra is playing request music. That
this objection is sound seems probable.
It may be that our English cousins find
that "request music" is a drawing card,
but it is doubtful if this would ever
work on this side of the Herring
Pond.

THERE would be a small coterie of
real music lovers, who would attend
the pictures merely in order to hear a
concert, but they would not come at all
for the pictures in comparison with the
music.

Their primary reason for attending
at all would be the orchestration, and
they would look at the screen simply
because they would be unable to keep
their eyes away from it.

But would the real picture lovers or
"fans" stay?

It is, indeed, a big question. Person-
ally I believe they would be very apt
to go, when they could hear just as good
music that was more in harmony with
the pictures.

I shall be most pleased to hear the
views of musicians on this important
topic or on any other in this department.
Letters will be given full publicity if
available. A. D. M.

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SPECIAL FILM REVIEWS

"r) EN BOLT." < Solax. Four reels. )

— The story" of this thrilling pro-
duction, while taking its name from the
song made famous by Du Maurier in
"Trilby," presents so many elements
of dramatic interest not to be found
in the original verses as to make it
entirely new. It is staged with a real-
ism which is unusual even for a film
of the grade commonly produced by
the Solax Company. Photographi-
cally it is good, and the progress of
its action never flags from beginning
to end.

Among the most striking scenes
is the wreck of the Ben Bolt, a
schooner which takes its name from
the hero of the piece. The crew, to-
gether with the band of cutthroats
who have seized the schooner, are
rescued in realistic fashion by the
lifeguards. An especially dramatic
part of the story is shown when Ben
Bolt is bound to the wheel of an old
mill by some of the pirate crew. As
a thriller, this section of the film
could hardly be excelled, although
there are many other moments hard-
ly less exciting as the piece pro-
gresses.

Ben Bolt is rescued just in the nick
of time by Rolling Stone, the come-
dian of the production, and is enabled
to outwit and confuse his enemies in
the end, as all good heroes should do.
Joseph Levering, the Solax Com-
pany's leading man, takes the part of
Ben Bolt; Fraunie Fraunholz is Roll-
ing Stone, and Miss Claire Whitney
is Alice. Others in the cast worthy
of mention are James O'Neill and
Jack Burns.

Much credit is due Howell Hansel,
under whose direction "Ben Bolt-'
was produced.

"When Ursus Threw the Bull."

(Nestor. Two reels.) — One of the
cleverest burlesque-comedies ever pro-
duced. The small town circus is ''hit
off" in great style. Al. E. Christie is
to be congratulated. As the "bull"
and his master strike, together with
all the stage hands, it is necessary to
recruit more. Local firemen and a
stuffed animal do very well until an
alarm is rung.

"The Mystery of Sydney Street."

( Warner's Features. Three reels.) —
Made by the Milano Company in
Italy. A very good story of mystery
and romance. The suspicion of a
murder falls on the shoulders of a
debtor and he is closely watched
The evidence becomes tangled by the
introduction of another apparent mur-
der The true villain is caught at

last, when he has gained the consent
of the widow to marry her.

"The Yellow Slave." (Melies.
Three parts. Dec. 11.) — General
Film Co. Exclusive Service) — One of
the first productions by any conipany
in which the characters are played
by an entirely Japanese company.
For this reason, if for no other, the
drama is one of great interest. The
Japanese style of acting is a peculiar
combination between European, prin-
cipally the French, and a style all their
own. The faces of the actors are ab-
solutely immovable. The story is of
the Russian period, and tells of a
young recruit parting with his sweet-
heart and going to the front. She.
hearing that he is dead, and greatly
needing the money, becomes a slave
girl in a tea house. The lover re-
turns later and, after much work, suc-
ceeds in freeing her. A very effective
ending shows the two committing
suicide, slowly walking together out
into the water.

"The Heart of the Law." I Essanay.
Dec. 9.) — Not worthy of the Essanay
Company. A very tame detective
story, similar to many that have gone
before. Richard Travers and Ruth
Stonehouse play the leads.

"The Stolen Plans." i Edison. Dec.
9.) — A story of the English army by
Goring Cholsey. introducing aero-
planes Marc McDermott and Mir-

iam Nesbitt do some very good work.
The atmosphere is especially good.

"The Harp of Tara." (.Domino. Two
reels.) — A pretty Irish romance,
founded on the well-known poem
Rory> a young man studying for the
ministry, loves Nora. The old priest
has a dream in which he sees the sol-
diers demanding the taxes on pain of
eviction. Rory finds the mythical
harp and thus Ireland is freed. Then
he awakes. The finish is somewhat
enigmatical. Matches were not known
in the time of the Georges.

'The Hour and the Man." Essanay
— Mr. Roach, of the Essanay scenario
staff, has written another splendid play.
It is psychological. It is strong and it
brings forth a big lesson. The theme
of the photoplay is in these few lines
which he dashed off. and from which
rose the inspiration :

"We sin. and judge others. We
transgress, and appoint authorities to
punish transgression. We obey a dis-
torted impulse, commit that which it
recommends and contemplate the act
with remorse. We ask Him to forgive
our sins, and do not heed the prayers
of other sinners. We make laws for-
bidding men to murder, and we murder
those who disobey the law. The whole
thing is just a little silly, isn't it? But
over the frail structure of man's justice
is the invisible and invincible Guidins
Hand."

The situations are very good from

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the outset, and as the story ripens they
grow stronger. Mr. Calvert in the pro-
ducing of this photoplay made his se-
lections with care. His scenic effects
are of the right kind. His situations
are introduced at the right moment. He
built a splendid film around a splendid
scenario. Francis X. Bushman as the
young lawyer plays the role con-
vincingly. William Bailey, Ruth Stone-
house and Clara Smith are well cast.

Two brothers, both young lawyers,
love the same girl. Frank Maxwell is
sincere in his affections, while his
brother William is wooing the girl
under an assumed name. She encour-
ages the latter and is married to him.
He does not change his habits, and his
drunkenness brings his family to the
poorest part of the city to live. The wife
pleads with him for the sake of the
child to cease in his ways, but he pays
no attention to her. An old neighbor
one day drops in to see the young
mother and she offers her a cup of
coffee. In pouring it out she acciden-
tally spills some on the old lady's hand,
burning her severely. She secures a
bottle of medicine which is very poison-
ous and applies it, leaving the bottle on
the table. The husband arrives home,
pours himself a cup of coffee and knocks
over the bottle. The fluid flows over
the table top, and into his cup as he
holds it, while he talks to his wife.
The poison takes immediate effect and
he dies a short time after. The wife is
accused of murder.

The judges appoint a lawyer to de-
fend her. This lawyer proves to be the

not aware that he is defending his
dead' man's brother. He, however, is
brother's wife as he married under an
assumed name. He is victorious in his
suit. While summing up he opens his
watch and the mother gets a glance at
a picture he has in it of his brother.
When she comes out of the swoon she
tells Frank that her husband was his
brother. His first intention is to cast
her off, but the tiny babe's cooing
causes him to take both of them into
his household. C. J. V.

"The Blue Rose." (Vitagraph. Two
reels. Dec. 12. General Film Com-
pany Exclusive Service.) — The chief
beauty of this picture is its claim to
some originality. It has this at least,
and is, in addition, thoroughly pleas-
ing in every respect. There is not
the faintest suggestion of anything at
all disagreeable. Van Dyke Brooke
directed the picture, as well as taking
an important part.

An old florist, having discovered a
method of producing a blue rose, is
greatly elated until it is stolen by a
rival. His daughter, obtaining work
at the competitor's, discovers the rose
to be the same, but unfortunately falls
in love with the son of her father's
rival, who confesses that he is the
thief, not knowing that she is the
daughter of the man he had robbed.
Eventually everything turns out for
the best. Van Dyke Brooke has cer-
tainly learned the secret of portray-
ing pathos. Miss Talmadge looked
her prettiest. A. D. M.

"Peg o' the Movies." (Edison. Two
reels. Dec. 12.) — From James Oppen-
heim's story in The Ladies' World
There are parts that are very conven-
tional, and others that are the reverse.
All told, it makes a very suitable of-
fering. Gertrude McCoy as Peg ex-
cels herself. She is very nearly per-
fect.

Peg, a country girl, refuses to
marry Stephen, although she loves
him, and joins the film army. Stephen
goes to the West and sees Peg on
the screen in the arms of the leading
man. They are finally brought to-
gether again, and Stephen learns that
Peg never really loved the handsome
leading man. Benjamin Wilson and
Bigelow Cooper ably assist Peg.

"Jack and the Beanstalk." (Than-
houser. 1,500 feet.) — Not a complete
two-reel, the balance being filled in
with a short comedy. This splendid
story is enacted by children, with the
exception of three characters, and is
superior in every respect. The Than-
houser "Kid" and "Kidlet" play the
leads. A larger giant would have
improved the deception for the chil-
dren.

"Michael Arnold and Doctor Lynn."

(Gem. Two reels.) — Beginning with
a freshness that is pleasing, it is al-
lowed at the finish to become con-
ventional. A doctor, loving another's
wife, throws the blame of an apparent
murder on him, and sends him to
prison. The doctor later confesses to
the man on his escape from prison.

"One of the Bravest." (Rex. Two
reels.) — Poor photography and sev-
eral inconsistencies rather spoil what
might have been an excellent picture.
Members of fire departments do not
ride around in taxi-cabs for amuse-
ment. An excellent fire scene is
staged.

"The Stolen Legacy." (Cines. T.wo
reels. Dec. 9.) — The story is quite
conventional, but clever acting, good
costumes and settings "get it over"
in good shape. The father of a child
dies and leaves a fortune in trust for
her to a friend who proves false.
Many years later they meet again, she
as a gypsy and he as a wealthy and
respected citizen.

"At Phnom Penh, Cambodia."

(Melies. Dec. 11. Split reel.)— The
photography is very poor, and depicts
the silver temples and statues. It
ends with a number of dancers and
soldiers. Not very interesting.

"Beautiful Ankor-Wat, Cambodia."

(Melies. Split reel. Dec. 11.) — Shows
a number of ruins of buildings and
statuary. Poor photography takes
away much of the interest.

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INTERESTING FILM REVIEWS

Educational — Industrial — Scenic — General

"f^iUPID Makes a Bull's-eye."—

(Selig. Dec. 8. General Film
Company Exclusive Service.) — In this
case Cupid does it in a novel way. The
father of the boy and the mother of
the girl object to their respective
children marrying each other. So the
children make them marry each
other.

"The Strike." (Kalem. Dec. 8.)—
As the name implies, the action deals
with differences of opinion between
a mine owner and his employees. The
former admits he is wrong and the
trouble is over.

"The Manicure Girl." (Edison.
Dec. 8.) — A neat little comedy writ-
ten by George Randolph Chester.
Jack is madly in love but is opposed
by the girl"s mother. The manicure
girl manages to disgust the mother
with her favorite, and Jack wins out,

"The Capturing of David Dunne."

(Biograph. Dec. 8.) — The scene is
the country and the theme a fight for
the only available unmarried man.
The barn dance scene is very good.
The girl finally wins the prize by prov-
ing herself to be a good cook.

"Alexia's Strategy." (Edison. Two
parts. Dec. 5.)— How a clever girl
finds the guilty thief and liberates
from prison her innocent lover. Mary
Fuller, Charles Ogle, Harry Beau-
mont, Bigelow Cooper and Frank
McGlynn form the cast. Having dis-
covered a theft, a Russian levies black-
mail. Alexia finally gets the for-
eigner to confess that the man in
prison is innocent.

"Life, Love and Liberty." ( Lubin.
Dec. 12.) — Taken by the Mexico com-
pany. Velma Whitman, Henry Stan-
ley and Raymond Gallagher play the
leads. Makes a very good offering.
Plenty of action. A warrant for ar-
rest is written in ink on an old sheet
of paper. This is the only careless
part.

"The Life Saver." (Vitagraph. Dec.
12.) — A good comedy of the seashore
variety. Wallie Van, Lillian Walker
and A. H. Ashley are the principals.
Ethel wins Cutey, or perhaps it is
Cutey who wins Ethel. At any rate,
it is a good story.

"Birds of the Inland Marsh."

(Patheplay split reel. Dec. 12.) — An
interesting treatise on birds. Some-

what similar to scenes from "How
Wild Animals Live." The tern, sea
swallow, black tern, ibis, grebes, etc.,
are all shown.

"Journey to the Environs of Na-
ples." (Patheplay. Dec. 12.) — Same
reel with "Birds of the Inland Marsh."
The photography is fair, the film
being tinted with color. There are
many pretty views.

"General Bunko's Victory." (Kalem.
Split reel. Dec. 12.) — An impossible
comedy done in the Kalem style that
"gets it over." It may have been that
John Brennan was Col. Bunko, but
his make-up was impossible to pene-
trate.

"Piano Manufacturing." (Kalem.
Split reel. Dec. 12. — Same reel with
"Col. Bunko's Victory." An interest-
ing exposition on how pianos are
made. Should be well received.

"A Modern Portia." (Patheplay.
Two reels. Dec. 11.) — Woman law-
yers are rarities in the pictures. This
story is from the Paris Pathe com-
pany, and tells of a woman lawyer
who becomes engaged to the doctor
of one of her clients. Later, having
drawn up the will of the woman, she
is called on to settle the estate. She

discovers that the doctor has stolen
all the money. She represents the
plaintiff, against her lover, who is sent
to prison. There are many good situ-
ations.

"A Foul and Fearful Plot." (Bio-
graph. Dec. 11. Split Reel.) — Same
reel with "The Troublesome Mole." A
humorous burlesque on the modern
"Western" picture. Should be well
received.

"Sacrifice." (Vitagraph. Dec. 11.)
— A love story in which a girl gives
up her lover to another whom he
loves more. The action takes place
first in Honolulu, later switching to
California. Anne Schaefer, Myrtle
Gonzales and George A. Holt were
the principal characters.

"The Funny Regiment." (Union Fea-
tures. Dec. 30. Three reels.)— -The
first multiple reel comedy by the Paris
Eclair. Founded on the novel by
Georges Courteline, it is most amus-
ing. Except for two scenes which
are slightly vulgar, the story is of the
best kind. A regiment recruits two
practical jokers and a dude, and the
combination starts all sorts of trou-
ble. A kind-hearted general helps
them in their difficulties.

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First Review of "Antony and Cleopatra"

(Continued from page 21)
Ptolemies. The days speed by amid the caresses of Cleopatra
and the ephemeral triumphs of royalty.

One year later, in Rome, Octavia, grieving for the absence
of her husband, Mark Antony, tells her brother Octavius that
her domestic affairs are reaching a crisis. Octavius, who bears
but little love for Antony, comforts her as best he can, sug-
gesting that she go to Egypt and reconquer Mark Antony for
herself and for Rome. Accordingly Antony, who spends his
days in idleness and luxury, is startled by the arrival of Oc-
tavia with a retinue of women. He refuses, however, to give
up his present life, and advises her to betake herself imme-
diately back to Rome. Before leaving Octavia calls upon
Cleopatra and tries in vain to persuade her to send Antony
home. This suggestion meets with nothing but scorn and
contempt, and Octavia, with a parting curse, returns again to
the Eternal City.

Octavia, having returned to Rome, narrates to some Sen-
ators how Mark Antony has abandoned her, saying, "Her
arms are the fatal coils of the serpent which encircle Antony."
The Senate is summoned to sit in judgment upon him, and, as
the result of many inflammable speeches, the declaration is
made that Antony is no longer a citizen of Rome, and that
an emissary be sent so to inform him. This messenger de-
livers the decree of the Senate in a rough manner, and Antony
replies, "Get thee back to Rome, and tell that child who calls
himself Octavius that I laugh at him and all Rome, and that
thou hath insulted me and I troubled not to kill thee!''

Upon receipt of this the Roman Senate promptly declares
war upon Egypt, and Octavius, who had fostered the hatred
of Rome, as well as of the family, assumed command of the
Roman army. A great flotilla of galleys, loaded with soldiers,
sets forth from Ostia for Alexandria.

OCTAVIUS lands his army on Egyptian soil and begins
a long overland march to Alexandria. In the Palace of
the Ptolemies Antony daily sits upon the throne of the ancient
Pharaohs and spends the nights in sensual orgies. Although
dimly aware of the approaching danger Antony is indifferent.
Nearer and ever nearer draws the Roman vanguard, while
Antony's doom speeds on the wings of fate.

With captured prisoners, the army of Octavius sweeps on
to the gates of Alexandria. Toward the wall, toward the
gates, toward the royal palace of the Ptolemies, rushes the
mighty army.

In one of the great rooms of the palace a majestic fete is in
progress. Cleopatra, cymbals in hand, dances to the delight of
Antony and the courtiers. Suddenly a disheveled, terror-
maddened Egyptian dashes frantically in with the cry, "The
Romans ! The Romans !"

Pandemonium reigns, soldiers run hither and thither. In a
moment the great room is the scene of a panic-stricken multi-
tude who flee to the defense of Alexandria.

An accurate portrayal of the memorable battle follows.
Antony fights nobly but despairingly. The troops of Octavius
tear down the great walls, amid a hail of rocks from above.
They drive back a horde of desperately fighting Egyptians
from their boats. The city becomes a great blaze of flame,
and the troops of Octavius finally cut their way through the
thickly-massed Egyptians on the steps of the royal palace and
make their entrance into the sacred precincts of the throne.

Then Antony, realizing that all is lost, rushes into an
apartment, accompanied only by a faithful henchman. Turn-
ing roughly upon his servant, Antony cries : "Come, fool, draw
thy sword and slay me, and thou shalt be the most-talked-of
man in Rome."

But the servant, drawing his sword, replies : "Nay, master,
that I cannot do ! See ! Let thy faithful servant show thee
how to die!" Saying which, he buries his sword in his heart.

In another instant Antony seizes the sword and thrusts it
into his own breast. As he dies Cleopatra, running in from
an adjoining room, throws herself upon his body and weeps.

OCTAVIUS, the victor, orders solemn obsequies in honor
of Antony, while the fertile mind of Cleopatra turns
quickly to a means of safety for herself.

"Either shall I have the power to win this man to-night or
the star of Alexander the Great shall set with me forever,"
she mutters. Accordingly, when Octavius waits upon her, she
tries the old wiles that succeeded so well with Antony.

But the stony heart of Caesar knows no relenting. He
shakes off her caresses and bids her prepare to accompany
him to Rome as a slave. He leaves her, and Cleopatra, fall-
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Octavius into Rome, with her in chains, bound to the wheels
of his chariot. She sees the great temples and buildings of
the Eternal City alive with tens of thousands of hooting, jeer-
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The Egyptian queen leaps to her feet, the vision fades, and
the terror-stricken woman goes to a soothsayer, who had pre-
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death. The witch gives her different poisons. Cleopatra
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stiffens with keen torture and drops dead at her feet.

Cleopatra shudders and calls for the asp. The fangs of the
serpent sink into the arm of a third slave, and he dies so
calmly that Cleopatra is constrained to ask, "Slave! is death
coming?"

In another room, ten minutes later, Cleopatra takes the asp
from a basket of fruit and applies it to her bosom.

"The end is at hand and death draws near. My pyramid
will be the greatness of my death ! Antony — soon shall I
join thee!" she murmurs and dies.

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Pilgrim's Progress (Ambrosio Version)
- 4 reels

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Trapping and Training Wild
Animals I reel

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RENTERS OF REAL FEATURES
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4 REELS

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A Drama in 3 Parts

''SALVATION''

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A Drama in 3 Part*

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Feature Photoplay Co.

220 West 42d Street

Candler Building New York City

NOW BOOKING

SARAH BERNHARDT
In

"The Romance of an Actress"

M. MOTJNET
In

"Oedipus Rex"

COMING RELEASES

"The Nihilist"
"The Apache's Daughter"

FINE LOBBY DISPLAY

Emby Feature Film Co.

145 West 45th Street, New York
'Phone Bryant 6918

Dangers of a Great City

3 Reels

Ryno Film Co., Inc.

220 West 42d St., N. Y. City

'Phone Bryant 7160
Cable Address "RynoFilm, N. Y."

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FILMS CORPORATION
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The Superb Release of the Year

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BookhigH made in order received.

One, Three, Sis and Nine Sheets. Heralds. Photo Display

Wisconsin exhibi tors, look lor our din-
play at Ottkosli Convention, Dec. 16-17.

General Feature Film Company, Inc.

Powers Building

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Film Quality

Quality in the film — quality from
a technical photographic standpoint
is as important to the Exhibitor as
is interest in the story that the
film tells.

There's one film that's recognized
the world over as the standard of
quality — that is always used by
those whose effort it is to give the
Exhibitors the very best goods and
the very best service — Eastman film.

And it is identifiable. Look for
"Eastman" on the perforated margin.

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY,
ROCHESTER, N. Y.

Price

$40.00

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IMMEDIATELY

Regarding Our Specialties

Pertaining to

Motion Picture Equipment

Including
ECONOMIZERS,

RHEOSTATS,

HEATERS,

TRANSFORMERS, ETC.

General Electric Utilities Co.

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Agents Wanted in all Sections of U. S.
and Canada

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Photo Engraving Company

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New York

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A New Era in
Westerns

AMMEX FILMS

are unquestionably the King of Western
subjects. The producers have begun
where the others stopped, presenting

THRILLING WESTERN
STORIES

GRAND ENSEMBLE OF
STAR ACTORS

INDIANS AND COWBOYS

COSTLY PRODUCTIONS

PERFECT PHOTOGRAPHY

NEW AND DIFFERENT
stones are presented in each release, giving
each subject an individuality and breeziness
which should be welcomed by exhibitors.
In Three Reels From Now On.

Arrange for booking with your Exchange on

THE BARRIER OF BLOOD

Two Reels

THE FATAL RECKONING

Two Reels

HER BROTHER'S PARD

Three Reels

THE LUCKY NUGGET

Three Reels

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INDIA, home of dark men of dark
deeds, always had fascination for
us. We used to read every Orien-
tal story we could lay hands on.
Now we look at every Oriental photo-
play we hear about.

The Treasure of Buddha is redolent
of the mystic atmosphere of the an-
cient East, heavy with the fragrance
of Hindoo temples where stolid eyed
idols look down upon mystic priests and
altars stained with sacrificial blood.
Love heroic and adventure unusual
run neck and neck throughout the
three reels.

As a feature film we're proud of it.

■ Territorial rights for sale here and
there.

Film Releases of America

r 220 West 42nd Street, New York City

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FIVE-A-WEEK
ESSANAY

Coming Friday, December 26th

"The Great Game"

(IN TWO PARTS)

Scenario by Maibelle Heikes Justice
A strong political drama of importance that astounds. Photography
and portrayal of character excellent. Irene Warfield. Thomas Com-
merford, E. H. Calvert and Richard C. Travers at your service.
Heralds and posters now ready.

Released Tuesday, December 23d

"A VAGABOND CUPID"

Love — the tie that binds the universe, is the foundation of this superb
dramatic offering.

Released Wednesday, December 24th
"AT THE OLD MAID'S CALL"
"GLIMPSES OF RIO DE JANEIRO"

A comedy that is a laugh from beginning to end and an important
educational and scenic travelogue.

Released Thursday, December 25th

"THAT PAIR FROM THESPIA"

An unique and interesting Western corned}' feature with Augustus
Carney and Victor Potel.

Released Saturday, December 27th

"A SNAKEVILLE COURTSHIP"

A screamingly funny Western corned}' with Margaret Joslin. Augus-
tus Carney, Victor Potel. Fred Church and Harry Todd.

Coming Friday, January 2nd

The Awakening at Snakeville"

(IN TWO PARTS)
MARGARET JOSLIX AS "SOPHIE

FEATURING
CLUTTS" AND AUGUSTUS CARNEY
IKE"

AS "ALKALI

Without fear of contradiction, we claim this picture to be a money-
getting box-office attraction of unusual merit. A comedy such that
has never before been shown. A feature that is a feature. Heralds
and posters now ready.

OUR POSTERS ARE DISTINCTIVE. They will boom your busi-
ness. Lithographs are in full four colors. You can order these from
your exchange or direct from Essanay Film Mfg. Co., 521 First Na-
tional Bank Bldg. Your lobby display will look attractive if you use
photographs of ESSANAY players, 8 x 10, $3.00 per dozen. You can
secure these from the PLAY'ERS' PHOTO CO., 177 N. STATE ST.,
CHICAGO, ILL.

Essanay Film Manufacturing Co.

521 First National Bank Bldg., Chicago
Factory and Studio, 1333 Argyle St., Chicago, 111.
Bx&n.h offices In London — Paris — Berlin — Barcelona,

CLERGY ASKED TO WRITE
SCENARIOS

With the idea of obtaining a fresh
supply of scenarios written from a dif-
ferent viewpoint of life than that of
the ordinary writer, the Lubin Manu-
facturing Company has sent out a com-
munication- to the clergy nf America
asking them to contribute subjects suit-
able for motion picture production.
Stress is laid on the importance of the
film as a means of carrying a message
to millions of people, when by any other
method it is difficult, if not impossible,
even to reach thousands.

It is the desire of the Lubin Company
that its film stories, aside from the
quality of mere dramatic entertainment,
should embody some fundamental truth,
and it is with this object that the co-
operation of the clergy and their sug-
gestions and criticisms is being sought
Probably every clergyman can recall
from his own experience some story of
genuine dramatic value, which will con-
vey in its development a lesson of
spiritual, moral, social or hygienic
worth, of such a nature that its appeal
will be practically universal. It is hoped
that many stories of this character will
be brought out by this novel departure
of the Lubin Company in its quest for
superior subjects for film production.

NEWMAN OPENS CHICAGO
OFFICES

The Newman Manufacturing Com-
pany, with main offices and factory at
Cincinnati, Ohio, and with branch fac-
tor}' and display rooms at 101 Fourth
avenue. New York City, has found it
impossible to handle satisfactorily all
of its business at these two places, and
in consequence is to establish branch
factory' and display rooms in Chicago to
meet the demands of the Western
trade.

This firm manufactures brass poster
frames, brass easels, brass railings,
brass grilles, brass signs, and special
brass work of every description for
theatres throughout the country, and
their new, large and complete catalog
will be forwarded to any theatre-owner
upon request. It will contain many new
and novel ideas

AMERICAN FILM'S ANNUAL
RODEO

Athletic Park at Santa Barbara, Cal.,
has been leased by the American Film
Manufacturing Company for their first
annual rodeo, which will be held on
January 1.

Untamed steers, cattle and horses wiM
be broken as a part of a general pro-
gram including exhibitions of riding
and other sports. Great interest is
evinced by the employees of the com-
pany, as well as the public at large, and
the event promises to assume the pro-
portions of a gala-day.

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ANY PART OF A LAMP

that will break for want of
lubrication will cost more
than a case of

7rF=n

LAMP LUBRICANT

the perfect lamp lubricant.

Don't let the operator sweat and slave
over carbons that stick, poor light and
tightened parts of the lamp.

Get a stick of Ezo. It costs a trifle.

Apply it when the lamp is heated. All
movable parts will then work smoothly and
evenly. It will add twenty per cent to the
life of any lamp.

Send 25 cents for a stick of this wonder-
ful lubricant. Wrap the quarter in one of
your Ietler heads and mail to the

EZO MANUFACTURING CO.

2M West Forty-Second Street, New York City
Fectory sod Laboratory: Archbald. Pa

FLYING 'A"' FEATURE FILMS

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IN TWO PARJS
MARC EDMUND JO>'E5

A powerful appeal to human
emotions with transition from
pathos to blissful contentment.
One, Three, and Six Sheet Four
Color Lithographs. Release, Mon-
day, Deo. 29th, 1913.

THE MTSEK'S POLICY.

Greed for riches underlying a
selfish and ignoble character. One
and Three Sheet Four Color
Lithographs. Eelease, Saturday,
Jan. 3rd, 1914.

A Full Line of Posters, Photo-
graphs, Slides, Heralds, etc, on
all "Flying A" Features.

AMERICAN FILM MFG. CO.
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COMING

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FOUR PARTS

FOUR PARTS

PRISONER

Featuring Miss Betty Nansen

the Distinguished Tragedienne
The First of an Artistic Series of Multiple Reel Photo Dramas to Be Known as

PREFERRED FEATURE ATTRACTIONS

A Powerfully Dramatic Production Dealing With an Entrancing Romance of Love and Sacrifice and
Staged Amid Surroundings of Unusual Scenic Beauty, Regal Splendor and Fascinating Attractiveness.

Two Styles Are Available in Elaborate One, Three and Six Sheet Posters and Artistic Photos
and Heralds also in Plenty. TERRITORIES NOW NEGOTIABLE

GREAT NORTHERN FILM CO.

110 West 40th Street, New York City

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The Supreme quality /Vr the only quality

The Hero of a Nation

BAR-COCHBA

irv 6 Reels

125 Scenes — each scene
a thriller.

The most spectacular
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Beautiful line of paper,
photos and heralds.

SPECIAL MUSIC

Territory Going
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Territorial rights
fully protected

THE ARENA SCENE

THE SUPREME FEATURE FILM CO.

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NEW YORK

EXHIBITORS!

NEW JERSEY, GREATER NEW YORK, NEW YORK STATE

We own the exclusive rights for the above territory and are NOW READY to book

F

THE SENSATION OF EUROPE

DORA

Aquilla's $25,000 Production in Five Parts

A PHOTO DRAMATIC MASTERPIECE

Some of the Thrilling Action

The Dancers of the Cafe Chantant.
The Exciting Horse Racing Scene.
The Climax in the Theatre La Scala.

Some of the Startling Scenes

The Raid on the Anarchists' Den.
The Thrilling Duel in the Forest.
The Sensational Battle with the Police

Full Line of Artistic Posters, Photos, Heralds, etc.

NEW JERSEY FEATURE FILM CO.

Phone, Market 1680W

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DOUBLE YOUR RECEIPTS ON DULL
DAYS WITHOUT COST

are distributing, through moving picture houses, five
* * high-class articles that have a total retail value of $5.00
and upward, which are useful to men, women and children.

These articles are placed on exhibition in a neat, attractive
glass case in the lobby for one week. Then on a special night
the articles are given away. The Theatre patron gets some-
thing for nothing. Our arrangement is such that it costs the
management nothing. We have increased the attendance as
much as fifty per cent on premium nights.

For further particulars address

METROPOLITAN PREMIUM COMPANY

WOOLWORTH BUILDING

( Department B )

NEW YORK CITY

CARY SAFE COMPANY

Complete Line of

Film Safes
Cabinet Safes
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Safes

on band at all times

at this SAFE

The Quality of
these Safes will be
remembered long
after the price is
forgotten.

Drop a postal for
information and
catalogue, which
places you under
no obligation.

At 147 West 23rd Street, New York City,
our Factory at Buffalo, N. Y., or
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To Reason why you should Purchase &
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HEPWOBTH'S, LONDON, PRESENT OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S

THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD

A TRUE AND EXACT VERSION IN THREE PARTS.

t

Miss Florence Turner

THE HARPER MYSTERY

THE TERRITORY FOR THIS FEATURE IS GOING FAST
AND EARLY BOOKINGS ARE ADVISED— DON'T 'WAIT.

THREE

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PABTS

AFTER MANY YEARS

General Film Agency
Ltd., London
3 Farts

A THRILLING STOBY OF LOVE AND ADVENTUBE WITH MOST OF THE ACTION OCCURRING AT SEA

HEPWOBTH'S

Kissing Cup

4 PARTS— A RACING MELODRAMA

A PLAY ON THE SUFFRAGETTE QUESTION

Motherhood or Politics?

2 PARTS — HEPWORTH'S

WRITE ME ABOUT HEPWORTH'S AND TURNER'S SINGLE REEL COMEDIES AND DRAMAS

A COMPLETE AND ATTRACTIVE
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A. Blinkhorn

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I HELP YOU HELP
THE EXHIBITOR

T T TT)TTV7 Presents through the
J tl I X General Film Company,
3^g ^ J-^A X ^ Charles Klein's Masterpiece

The Third Degree

IN FIVE REELS

"THE THIRD DEGREE" was the greatest theatrical success in the history of New York and throughout the
United States .

An enormous outlay of money was necessary to produce the feature play in motion picture form. Magnificent
stage settings, a capable and carefully selected cast of well-known actors and actresses, hearty co-operation of
the author and most beautiful photography all combine in making this production a real feature.

FIVE RELEASES EACH WEEK— ONE MULTIPLE EVERY THURSDAY

"BETWEEN TWO FIBES" — Drama, Special in 2 Beels Thursday, January 8th

"A QUESTION OF BIGHT" — Drama, Special in 2 Beels Thursday, January 15th

"THE INSPECTOB'S STOBY" — Drama, Special in 2 Beels Thursday, January 1st

"MANUFACTURING PEARL BUTTONS" on same reel Thursday, January 1st

"BETWEEN DANCES" i _ ... _ , _ . „„ -

"A COLLEGE CUPID" fSpllt Eeels Tuesday, December 23rd

"THE PABASITE" — Drama in 3 Beels Thursday, December 25th

"THE DEATH TEAP" — Drama Friday, December 26th

"THE DOCTOR'S ROMANCE" — Drama Saturday, December 27th

"HER BOY" — Drama Monday, December 29th

LUBIN'S ATTRACTIVE POSTERS

One and Three Sheets with Single Reels — One, Three and Six Sheets with all Multiple '- " ^ ' "

reels — in five colors. — Order from your Exchange or from A. B. C. Co., Cleveland, Ohio.

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and AUDITORIUM

CoaUinial the pictcrei of the different Moving
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for General rilm. Mental and Univeriil Service.

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A Large Stock of Slightly Used Mot-
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Prices- All Kinds Seating Al— ays in
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Opera Chairs. slightly used, each 10.75
Heavy Kei Folding Chairs, each .40
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NIAGAEA~ SLI3Z~ CO "Lick-port. >' T.

T. J. Evans, formerly and for several
years associated with P. A. Powers,
latterly as the manager of the Powers
Photoplay Studio in Los Angeles. Cal.,
is now the head of a concern recently
organized to print and develop films
for the trade and to make special mo-
tion pictures. The new company, which
is called the Evans Film Manufacturing
Company, with offices and laboratories
at 416 West 216th street New York
City, has just opened for business.

The laboratory is fully equipped with
the latest machines, including those of
the Bell & Howell Co.. A. W. Hauss-
mann and the Corcoran Company, and
is prepared to handle the product of
producing concerns that have no labora-
tories of their own.

While Mr. Evans is a young man, he
is regarded as one of the old timers in
the motion picture field, having been
identified with the development of the
film for more than ten years. His or-
ganization is composed of men who have
worked together in the laboratory end
of motion picture production for sev-
eral years past

The new plant, which is now open for
inspection, contains projection machines,
negative assemblers and a private room
for clients of the company. It is the
boast of Mr. Evans that every foot of
film is inspected before it leaves the
laboratory and that from the time it is
taken from the washing tanks, until it
is delivered to the customer it does not
once touch the bare hands of a single
employee.

Many innovations have been inaugu-
rated by the new company. The labora-
tory is finished in white enamel and
each employee wears white gloves and
is garbed in immaculate white. Every
room is supplied with filtered air. All
this has been done with the object of
securing further cleanliness, which is
one of the prime factors in the manu-
facture of film.

"MIROR VITZE" PRODUCTS

Motion picture operators everywhere
are interested in the new model "Miror
Yitae"* cinematograph which has lately
been placed on the market by Eberhard
Schneider, head of the German-Ameri-
can Cinematograph and Film Company,
219 Second avenue. New York City.
The numerous "Miror Yitae" products,
which include the ''Mirovitaphone,"*
different types of projecting machines
and a host of accessories essential to
the conduct of the motion picture busi-
ness, are all of the best grade, a fact
which is recognized by exhibitors and
operators all over the world.

All the "Miror Yitae" products are on
constant exhibition at the offices of the
comoanv. 219 Second avenue. New York
City.

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Immediate shipment
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DATA FROM MANUFACTURERS' LIST OF RELEASES

INDEPENDENT

AMBROSIO Feet
Nor. 29 — Goose a la "Colbert" (2 ' parts —

Com. Dr.)

Dec. 6 — A Tragic Experiment (Dr.)

Jan. 5— The Power of Light "(2 reels— Dr.). 2000
Jan. 10 — The Son of Thomas Gray (Dr.) 1000

AMERICAN

Dec 6 — A Divorce Scandal (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 8 — Trapped in a Forest Fire (Spec. Dr.). 1000

Dec. 11 — His First Case (W. Dr.) 1000

Dec. 13 — Armed Intervention (Cora. Dr.) 1000

Dec. 15 — Where the Road Forks (2 reel Dr.). 2000

Dec. 18 — Personal Magnetism (Com.) ...1000

Dec. 20 — Fate's Round-Up (\V. Dr.) 1000

Dec. 22— The Shriner's Daughter (2 reel Dr.). 2000
Dec. 27 — The Rose of San Juan (Spanish

Dec. 29 — In the Firelight (2 reel Dr.) 2000

Jan. 3— The Miser's Policy (Dr.) .... .1000

Drama)

AMMEX

NTov. 24 — Fatal Reckoning 2000

Dec. 8 — His Pard's Sister 2000

Dec. 15 — The Lucky Nugget 3000

APOLLO

Nov. 23 — The Mexican Sleep Producer (Com.)
Nov. 30— Her Husband and My Wife (Com.) .
Dec. 7 — Fred Goes in for Horses (Com.)..

Dec. 14 — The Portola Festival

Dec. 14 — Los Angeles Police Parade (Top.)..
BISON

Nov. 22 — Winona's Vengeance (2 reel Dr.) . .

Nov. 25 — The White Vaquero (2 reel Dr.)..

Nov. 89 — The War of the Cattle Range (2 reel
Dr.)

Dec. « — The White Squaw (2 reel Dr.)

Dec. 13 — The Werewolf (2-reel Dr.)

Dec. 20 — The God of Girsah (2 reel Dr.)

Dec 27— The Water War (2 reel Dr.)

BLINKHORN

Dec. 1 — David Copperfield (Hepworth ■ — 7
parts — Dr.)

Dec 8 — The Harper Mystery (Florence Tur-
ner Films, Ltd. — 3 parts — Dr.)..

Dec. 15 — After Many Years (General Film
Agency, Ltd. — 3 parts — Dr.) ....

Dec. 22 — Jean's Evidence (Florence Turner
Films, Ltd. — 2 parts — Dr.)

Dec. 29 — Vicar of Wakefield (Hepworth 3
parts)

Jan. 3 — The Gambler's Oath (2 reels)

BRONCHO

Nov. 26— The Reformation (Dr.)

Dec. 3 — The Buried Past (Dr.)

Dec. 10 — The Woman (Dr.)

Dec. 17— The Open Door (2 parts — Dr.)

Dec 24 — Her Father's Story (2 parts — Dr.)

Dec. 31— The Woman (2 parts— Dr.)

CRYSTAL

Dec. 2 — The Installment Plan Marriage....

Dec. 7 — A Woman's Revenge (Dr.)

Dec. 9 — Pearl's Hero (Com.)

Dec. 9 — Baldy is a Wise Old Bird (Com.)..

Dec. 14 — First Love (Dr.)

Dec. 16 — The Soubrette (Com.)

Dec. 16 — The Trained Nurse (Com.)

Dec. 21 — The Heart of an Artist (Drama) . .

Dec 23 — My Brudder Sylvest

Dec. 23 — The Baby Question

Dec. 28 — The Lure of the Stage (Dr.)

Dec. 30 — The Kitchen Mechanic (Com.)

Dec. 30— Hubbv's Night Out (Com.)

Jan. 4— The Lifted Veil (Dr.)

DOMINO

Nov. 27 — Belle of Yorktown (3 parts — Dr.) . .

Dec 4 — Devotion (2 parts — Dr.)

Dec. 11— The Filly (2 parts— Dr.)

Dec. 18 — The Curse (2 parts — Dr.)

Dec. 25 — True Irish Hearts (2 parts — Dr.)..
DRAGON
(Formerly Ryno)

Sept. 19 — Blindness of Courage 3000

Sept. 24— Her Last Ride 3000

Oct. 8 — Daredevil Rodman Law (Special)..

Nov. 15 — Dare Devil Rescue (Special) 3000

ECLAIR

Dec 7 — Trouble on the Stage

Dec 7 — Magnetism — Magnets

Dec. 10— Over the Cliffs (3 reels)

Dec 14 — He Likes Things Upside Down

Dec 14 — Nutty Has a Romance

Dec 17— The Serpent in Eden (2 reel Dr.) . .

Dec. 21 — Loaded ■.

Dec. 21 — Sunset in Many Lands

Dec. 24 — The Highwayman's Shoes (2 reel

Dr.) \

Dec. 28 — Apply to Janitor

Feet

Dec. 2S — Nutty is Dead; Long Live Nutty..

Dec. 31 — The Governor's Veto (2 reels)

Jan. 4 — Cue and Miss Cue

Jan. 4 — Nutty Has Big Ideas

ECLECTIC

Nov. 13— The Fatal Plunge 3000

Nov. 27 — Toils of Villainy (3 parts)

Dec 11 — His Fateful Passion (5 parts)

F. R. A.

Nov. 28 — Secret of Adrianople 3600

Dec. 12 — Demonyte 3000

Dec. 19 — Vengeance Bequeathed 3000

FRONTIER
Dec. 6 — The Circuit Rider of the Hills (Dr.)
Dec. 11 — When Roaring Gulch Got Suffrage

(Com.)

Dec. 13— Out of His Class (Dr.)

Dec. 18 — Slim and the Petticoats (Com.).

Dec. 20 — His Better Self (Dr.)

Dec. 25 — Slim and the Bandit (Com.)

Dec. 27 — His Father (Dr.)

Jan. 1 — Slim's Last Trick (Com.)

Jan. 3 — The Winning Stroke (Dr.)

GATJMONT

Dec. 16 — A Terrible Dream 1000

Dec. 18 — Oscar in Search of a Wife 1000

Dec. 20 — The Broken Heart 2000

Dec. 23 — Dollar Bills at a Cent Apiece 1000

Dec. 25 — Leonce and His Guardian 1000

Dec. 27 — The Angel of the House 3000

Dec. 30 — Simple Simon Has a Fright 1000

Jan. 1 — The Suffragettes' Revenge

Jan. 1 — Tiny Tim Frightens His Mother. —

GOLD SEAL
Dec. 2 — Under the Black Flag (3 reel Fea-
ture)

Dec. 9 — Red Margaret, Moonshiner

Dec. 16 — Bloodhounds of The North (2 reel

Dr.)

Dec. 23 — Bloodhounds of the North (2 reel

Dr.)

Dec. 30 — The Buccaneers (3 reel Pirate)

GREAT NORTHERN

Nov. 1 — A Dilemma 1000

Nov. 8 — A Bogus Hero (Com.)

Nov. 22 — Hard Luck 1000

GREAT NORTHERN SPECIAL

Oct. 28 — In the Bonds of Passion 3000

Nov. 21 — Baptism of Fire 3000

Nov. 29— By Whose Hand 3000

IMP

Dec. 4— Plain Jane (Dr.) '

Dec. 8 — The Return of Tony (Dr.)

Dec. 11 — Time (2-reel Dr.)

Dec. 15 — The Story of David Greig (2 reel

Dr.)

Dec. 18 — Mr. and Mrs. Innocence Abroad

(Com.)

Dec. 22 — The Actor's Christmas (Dr.)

Dec. 25 — Love or a Throne (2 reel Dr.)

Dec. 29 — King the Detective in the Jarvis Case

(2 reels)

Jan. 1 — The Trials of Alexander (Com.)....
ITALA (Features)

Nov. 27 — Leap of Despair 3000

Dec. 4 — At Death's Door 3000

Dec 18 — Victory or Death 3000

JOKER

Dec. 13 — Waterfalls of Yosemite Valley

Dec. 17 — Mike and Jake as Heroes (Com.)..

Dec. 20 — For Art and Love

Dec. 20 — Impressions of Cors:ca

Dec. 24 — Mike and Take as Pugilists (Com.) .

Dec. 27 — She Should Worry

Dec. 27 — St. Milo to Dinan

Dec. 31 — Mike and Take in Society (Com.)...

Jan. 3 — Their Little Ones

Tan. 3 — The Gorges of the Bourne, France.
KAY-BEE

Dec. 5 — The Long Portage (Dr.)

Dec. 9 — Her Legacy (Dr.)

Dec. 12— Soul of the South (Dr.)

Dec. 19— The Pitfall (Dr.)

Dec. 26 — Harvest of Sin (Dr.)

Dec. 30 — Prince (Dr.)

KEYSTONE
Dec. 4 — San Francisco Celebration (Topical)

Dec. 8 — A Ride for a Bride (Com.)

Dec. 11— The Horse Thief (Com.)

Dec. 15— The Gusher (Com.)

Dec. 18 — Fatty's Flirtation (Com.)

Dec 18 — Protecting San Francisco from Fire

Dec. 20 — His Sister's Kids (Com.)

Dec. 22 — A Bad Game (Com.)

Dec. 25 — Some Nerve (Com.)

Dec. 29 — He Would a Hunting Go (Com.)...

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KOMIC , Feet

27— A Method In His Illness (Com.)..

27 — The Man with a Razor (Com.)..

4 — How He Won (Com.)-.

4— The Actor Book Agent (Com.) ....
11— How It Worked (Com.)

11— The Wild Indian (Com.)

LACLEDE

10 — Pale Face Squaw 3000

LEWIS PENNANTS

1— Taxicab 1098

15— — Decreed to Die

4— Sign of the Secret Nine 3000

20 — Taxicab 1098 3000

LUX
By Prieur

5 — Bill on the Telephone (Com.) 510

5 — A Day in the Country (Com.) 385

12 — When Auntie Made Her Will

(Com.) 570

12 — Ostrich Farming Near Nice (Indus.) 410
19 — Detective Larkin (Dr.) 585

19 — Travels in Hungary (Sc.) 350

26— Only a Little Drop of Water (Com.) 355
26 — A Quiet Flat (Com.) 555

MAJESTIC

2 — The Padre's Sacrifice (Dr.)

6 — The Helping Hand (Dr.)

7 — Rick's Redemption (Dr.)

9 — Romance and Duty (2 parts — Dr.) .

13 — (No release this date)

14 — The Rival Pitchers (Com.)

16 — The God of. To-morrow (Dr.)

20— — A Man's Awakening (Dr.)

NESTOR -
12— Her Friend the Butler (Com.)

17— A Woman's Way (Dr.)

19 — Teaching Dad a Lesson (Com.)....

24 — The Lightning Bolt (Dr.)

26— A Tale of the West (W. Dr.)

31 — A Hopi Legend (Dr.)

2 — And the Villain Still Pursued Her

(Com.)

POWERS

12— His Own Blood (2-reel Dr.)

15 — Freckles' Fight for His Bride (Com.)

19 — A Cracksman Santa Claus (Dr.)

22 — What Happened to Freckles (Com.)

26 — The Unhappy Pair (Com.)

29— Three Children (Com. Dr.)

2— An Evil of the Slums (Dr.)

RAMO

26 — Fangs of Hate 3000

10— The Devil Within 3000

PRINCESS

5 — The Little Church Around the

Corner (Com. Dr.)

12 — His Imaginary Family (Com. Dr.).
19 — The Law of Humanity (Dr.)

RELIANCE

3 — A Woman of Sin (Dr.)

6 — For Another's Crime (2 parts — Dr.)

8 — Two Girls of the Hills (Dr.)

10— Four $100 Bills (Dr.)

13— A Man's a Man (Dr.)

15 — The Mighty Atom (Dr.)

17 — The Pseudo Prodigal (Dr.)

REX

7 — Tames Lee's Wife (Dr.)....

11— By Fate's Decree (1-reel Dr.)

14— The Mask (Dr.) t

18— The Jew's Christmas (3 reel Dr.)..

21 — A Wife's Deceit (Com. Dr.)

25 — The Dream (Dr.)

28— His Faithful Servant. (Dr.)

:1 — The Female of the Species (2 reels)

4 — A Fool and His Money (Com.)

SOLAX

28 — Ben Bolt 4000

26 — The Shadow of Moulin Rouge 4000

THANHOUSER

5— What Might Have Been (Dr.)

7 — The Milkman's Revenge (Com.) . . .

9 — A Beauty Parlor Graduate (Dr.) . . .

12 — Uncle's Namesakes (Com. Dr.) ...

14 — Lawyer, Dog and Baby (Com. Lr.).

16 — Peggy's Invitation (Dr.)

19 — Jack and the Bean Stalk (2 parts).

VICTOR

12 — Hydraulic Mining (Edu.) i..

15 — Incognito (Dr.)

19— A Girl and Her Money (2 reel Dr.)

22— Rory of the Bogs (3 reel Dr.)

26 — Miracle Mary (2 reel Pr.)

29 — The Field Foreman (Dr.)

2 — The Coryphee (2 reels)

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RICHARD HARDING DAVIS'

"Soldiers of Fortune"

with DUSTIN FARNUM

6 PARTS

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- 6 PARTS

IN PREPARATION

AUGUSTUS THOMAS'

"IN M1ZZOURA"

with BURR McINTOSH

EUGENE WALTER'S

"PAID IN FULL"

with TULLY MARSHALL
CHARLES DANA GIBSON'S

"The Education of Mr. Pip"

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NEW YORK CITY

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BIO GRAPH Feet

Dec. 4— The Birthday Ring (Dr.)

Dec. 6 — In the Elemental World (Dr.)

Dec. 8 — The Capturing of David Dunne

(Com.)

Dec. 11 — A Foul and Fearful Plot (Com.) . .

Dec. 11 — The Troublesome Mole (Com.)

Dec. 13— The House of Discord (Dr.— Parts

I and II)

Dec. 15 — Oh, Sammy I (Com.)

Dec. 15 — Riley's Decoys (Com.)

Dec. 18— Beyond All Law (Dr.)

Dec. 20 — The Conscience of Hassan Bey (Dr.)

Dec. 22 — For Her Government (Dr.)

Dec. 25— Her Wedding Bell (Dr.)

Dec. 27— The Club Cure (Com.)

Dec. 27— The Suicide Pact (Com.)

CINE8
George Kleine
Nov. 18 — For the Love of a Toreador (2 part

Dr.)

Dec. 9— The Stolen Legacy (2 parts— Dr.)..
Dec. 16 — The Sunken Treasure (Dr.) (Parts

I & ID

Dec. 2S — At Cross Purposes (Dr.) (Parts I

& II)

EDISON

Nov. 26 — A Sense of Humor (Com.) 1000

Nov. 28 — The Gunmaker of Moscow (2 parts

—Dr.) 8000

Nov. 29 — A Royal Romance (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 1 — The South African Whaling In-
dustry (Ind.) 600

Dec. 1— Wanted, a Burglar (Com.) 660

Dec. 2— The Price of Human Lives (Dr.).. 1000

Dec. 8— The Thrifty Janitor (Com.) 1000

Dec. 6 — Alexia's Strategy (Dr.) 2000

Dec. 6— What Shall it Profit a Man? (Dr.). 1000

Dec. 8 — The Manicure Girl (Com.) 1000

Dec. 9— The Stolen Plans (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 10 — The Joining of the Oceans (Sc.) 600

Dec. 10 — Greedy George (Com.) 600

Dec. 12 — Peg o' the Movies (Dr.) 2000

Dec. 13 — The First Christmas (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 15 — A Pious Undertaking (Com.) 1000

Dec. 16 — The Actress (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 17 — Falling in Love with Inez (Com.).. 1000

Dec. 19 — Within the Enemy's Lines (Dr.) 2000

Dec. 20— The Haunted Bedroom (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 22 — Products of the Palm, the Banana
and Cocoanut Industries, Jamaica,

W. I. (Ind.) 350

Dec. 22 — Teaching His Wife a Lesson (Com.) 676

Dec. 23— The Upward Way (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 24 — Mary's New Hat (Com.) 685

Dec. 24— The Janitor's Quiet Life (Com.)... 416

Dec. 26— A Tudor Princess (Dr.) 2000

Dec. 27 — A Proposal from Mary (Being the
Sixth and Last Story of ' Who

Will Marry Mary")

ESSANAY

Dec. 4— A Romance of the Hills (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 6 — The Pay as You Enter Man (Special

—2 parts— Dr.) 2000

Dec. 6 — Broncho Billy's Squareness (Dr.).. 1000
Dec. 9— The Heart of the Law (Dr.)

Dec. 10 — Smithy's Grandma Party (Com.) . .
Dec. 11 — Children of the Forest (W. Dr.)..
Dec. 12 — The Three Gamblers (W. Dr.— Parts

I and II)

Dec. 13 — Sophie's New Foreman (W. Com.) . .

Dec. 16 — Life's Weaving (Dr.)...

Dec. 17— Hello Trouble (Com.)

Dec. 18— The Trail of the Snake Band (W.

Dr.)

Dec. 19— The Stigma (Dr.) (Parts I & II)..
Dec. 20 — Broncho Billy's Christmas Deed (W.

. Dr.)

Dec. 23 — A Vagabond Cupid (Dr.)

Dec. 24— At the Old ivlaid's Call (Com.)

Dec. 24 — Glimpses of Rio de Janiero (Sc.) . . .
Dec. 25 — That Pair from Thespia (W. Com.) .
Dec. 26— The Great Game (Dr.) (Parts I &

II)

Dec. 27 — A Snakeville Courtship (W. Com.).
KALEM

Nov. 26 — The Plot of India's Hillmen (Dr.)

Parts I and II

Nov. 28 — The Good Old Summer Time (Com.)
Nov. 28 — England's King at Liverpool (Top.)
Nov. 29— In Peril of His Life (Dr.)

Dec. 1 — The Octoroon (Special 3 parts —

Dr.) 3000

Dec. 8 — The Cave Men's Ware (2 parts —

Dr.) 2000

Dee. 6— While Father Telephoned (Com.)..
Dec. 6 — Andrew Carnegie's Gift to the World

(Top.)

Dec. 6 — The Footprint Clue (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 8 — The Strike (Dr.)

Dec. 10 — The Chinese Death Thorn (Dr. —

Parts I and II)

Dec. 12 — General Bunko's Victory (Com.)....
Dec. 12 — Piano Manufacturing (Ind.)

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Dec. 13— The Invisible Foe (Dr.)

Dec. 15— The Hunchback (Dr.) (Parts I & II)
Dec. 17 — Uncle Tom's Cabin (Dr.) (Parts I

& II)

Dec. 19 — Frayed Fagin's Adventures (Com.)

Dec. 19— Ulster Day in Belfast (Top.)

Dec. 20 — The Electrician 's Hazard (Dr.)

Dec. 22 — "Gilt Edge" Stocks (Dr.)

Dec. 24 — The Big Horn Massacre (Dr.)

(Parts I & II)

Dec. 26 — Emancipated Women (Com.)

Dec. 26— Talcum Powder (Ind.)

Dec. 27— Her Indian Brother (Dr.)

LUBIN

Nov. 25— The Lost Switch (Com.)

Nov. 27— A Waif of the Desert (2 reel Dr.) . .

Nov. 28 — The Scapegrace (Dr.)

Nov. 29— Turning the Table (W. Dr.)

Dec. 1 — Melita's Sacrifice (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 2— The Hazard of Youth (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 4 — When the Mountain and Valley Meet

(2-reel Dr.) 2000

Dec. 6 — Some Flowers (Com.) 400

Dec. 6 — An Interrupted Courtship (Com.)... 600

Dec. 6— Her Father (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 8 — The Smuggler's Daughter (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 9— An Enemy's Aid (DrJ 1000

Dec. 11 — Hydraulic Works on the Adda 400

Dec. 11— His Best Friend (Dr.) 1600

Dec. 12— Life, Love and Liberty (W. Dr.).. 1000

Dec. 13— The Real Impostor (Dr.)... 400

Dec. 13— A Pill Box Cupid (Com.) 600

Dec. 15— When the Well Went Dry (Com.) . . 400

Dec. 15 — A Masked Mix-Up (Com.) 600

Dec. 16— When He Sees (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 18 — A Son of His Father (2 reel Dr.).. 2000
Dec. 19 — Growing and Gathering Cocoa Beans 400

Dec. 19 — Banty Tim (Com.) 600

Dec. 20— A Love of '64 (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 22— Through Flaming Paths (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 23 — Between Dances (Com.)

Dec. 23— A College Cupid (Com.)

Dec. 25 — The Parasite (Dr.) (Parts I & II) . .

Dec. 26— The Death Trap (Dr.)

Dec. 27 — The Doctor's Romance (Dr.)

G. MELXEB

Nov. 20 — A Lemon Plantation (Ind.)

Nov. 27 — Japanese "Judo" Commonly Known

as Jiu Jitsu 1000

Dec. 4 — A Woman's Mission (Dr.)

Dec. 4 — A Trip to the Famous Picnic

Grounds at Arashyama, Japan

(Sc.)

Dec. 11 — At Phnom-Penh, Cambodia (Travel)
Dec. 11 — Beautiful Angkor-Vat, Cambodia

(Sc.)

Dec. 18 — Cities of Japan (Sc.)

Dec. 25— The Ruins of Angkor-Thorn (Sc.)..
PATHE FRERES

Nov. 26 — The Elusive Turkey (Com.)

Nov. 27 — The Faithless Friend (Dr.) Parts I

and II

Nov. 27 — Old Nurenberg, Germany (Travel) . .

Nov. 27— Pathe's Weekly No. 71 (News)

Nov. 28 — Making Eight-Ton Ropes (Ind.)

Nov. 28— The Capital of the Malay States

(Travel)

Nov. 28 — Fashion's Law in Swiss Cantons

(Col.)

Nov. 29— The Blight (Dr.)

Dec. 1 — Pathe's Weekly No. 72 (News)

Dec. 2 — A Peasant Marriage in Hungary

(Cus.)

Dec. 2 — Edible Fish of the Mediterranean..
Dec. 2 — The Geysers of New Zealand (Sc.)

Dec. 3 — A Break for Freedom (Dr.)

Dec. 4 — Baseball's Peerless Leader (2 parts

— Com.)

Dec. 4— Pathe's Weekly No. 73 (News) . . .

Dec. 5 — A Bear Escape (Com.)

Dec. 6 — Col. Heeza Liar in Africa (Novelty)
Dec. 6 — Glimpses of Pond Life (Zoology) . .

Dec. 8 — Pathe's Weekly No. 74 (News)

Dec. 9 — The Stolen Inheritance (Dr.)

Dec. 10 — You've Got to Pay (Dr.)

Dec. 11 — A Modern Portia (Dr. — Parts I and

II)

Dec. 11 — Pathe's Weekly No. 75 (News)

Dec. 12 — Birds of the Inland Marsh (Bird

Life)

Dec. 12 — A Journey to the Environs of Naples

(Sc.)

Dec. 13 — Uncle John to the Rescue (Com.) . .

Dec. 15 — Pathe's Weekly No. 76 (News)

Dec. 16 — The Couple Next Door (Com.)

Dec. 17 — Insects that Sing (Zoology)

Dec. 17 — Nice and Its Environs, France

(Travel)

Dec. 18— The Finger of Fate (Dr.) (Parts I

& II)

Dec. 18— Pathe's Weekly No. 77

Dec. 19 — A Scandinavian Scandal (Com.) ....

Dec. 20— The Fire Bride (Dr.)

Dec. 22— Pathe's Weekly No. 78 (News)

Dec. 23 — An Indian Don Juan (Dr.)

Dec. 24 — Two Up a Tree (Com.)

Feet

Dec. 25 — Lady Madcap's Way (Com.) (Parts
I & II)

Dec. 25 — Pathe's Weekly No. 79 (News)....

Dec. 27— The Moth and the Flame (Dr.)

(Parts I & II)

Dec. 27 — Corfu, an Isle of the Ionian Sea
(Travel)

SELIG

Nov. 13— The Child of the Prairie (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 14 — A Cure for Carelessness (Com.)....
Nov. 14 — The Matterhorn, Switzerland (Travel)
Nov. 17 — The Escape of Jim Dolan (2 part'

Dr.) 2000

Nov. 18 — The Port of Missing Women (Dr.). 1000

Nov. 19— The Touch of a Child (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 20 — An Actor's Romance (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 21— Outwitted by Billy (Dr.) 1000

Nov. 24 — The Quality of Mercy (Dr. — Parts

I and II)

Nov. 25 — Mounted Officer Flynn (Dr.)

Nov. 26 — Cupid in the Cow Camp (Com.)....

Nov. 27 — A Message from Home (Dr.)

Nov. 28 — The Supreme Moment (Dr.)

Dec. 2 — The Rustler's Reformation

Dec. 3 — Within the Hour

Dec. 4 — Grandaddy's Boy

Dec. 5 — Northern Hearts

Dec. 8 — Master of the Garden (Dr. — Parts I

and II)

Dec. 9 — An Equal Chance (Dr.)

Dec. 10— Hilda of Heron Cove (Dr.)

Dec. 11 — Physical Culture on the Quarter

Circle V Bar (Com.)

Dec. 12 — The Mysterious Way (Com.)

Dec. 15— The Wolf of the City (Dr.) (Parts

I & II)

Dec. 16 — When Father Craved a Smoke

(Com.)

Dec. 16 — With Eyes So Blue and Tender

(Dr.)

Dec. 17 — Buster's Little Game (Com.)

Dec. 18— Until the Sea (Dr.)

Dec. 19— The Lure of the Road (Dr.)

Dec. 22— The Open Door (Dr.) (Parts I & II)

Dec. 23 — Mother Love vs. Gold (Dr.)

Dec. 24 — A Dip in the Briney (Com.)

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Dec. 26— His Sister (Dr.)

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Nov. 25^The Swan Girl

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Nov. 27— The Cure

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Selig. Two Reels. Released January 5th.

A strong moral story with a prologue which takes
us back to the England of two centuries ago, and
an ending which drives home a lesson not to be soon
forgotten.

Officer John Donovan

Vitagraph. Two Reels.

Released January 6th.

Big-hearted John adopts a little waif. She grows
into womanhood to comfort and aid him. His way-
ward son returns to help his father. He and his
father's ward, happy in each other's love, make
John's joy complete.

The Smuggler's Son

Kleine-Cines. Two Reels. Released January 6th.

A charming story of adventure laid among a pic-
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melodramatic thrills, backed by excellent photography
and splendid acting.

Her Husband's Friend

Kalem. Two Reels.

Released January 7th.

Dane's friendship for Lund is so great that he
faces disgrace silently rather than betray the terrible
folly of Alice, his friend's wife. How Lund finally
learns of Dane's nobility results in a scene which
grips the heart.

Wards of Society

Patheplay. Two Reels.

Released January 8t!i.

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Between Two Fires

Lubin. Two Reels. Released January 8th.

A romantic and dramatic episode of the Civil War.
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A Shot in the Night

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The enmity between the young wife and her stepson
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her husband.

The Hour and the Man

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The Witness to the Will

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The great wrongs inflicted on a helpless girl by the
cowardly theft of a will, are righted at last through
the fidelity of an old servant and the timely aid of
her lover.

The Minister's Daughter

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In deference to his parent's wishes he marries
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out in sorrow.

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Jerry's Uncle's Namesake

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A false newspaper report makes him the father of
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Table of

PAGE

Frontispiece, Scene from Sixty Years

"Showing" vs. "Getting" 13

International Delegates Meet 14

How an Exhibitor Made Good 15

New Reliance Studio a Model 16

The Motion Picture in Canada 17

Picturizing Broadway 18

Making the Motion Picture Safer. ... 19
Michigan Exhibitors Hold Convention 20
The Making of a Boy Scout 21

Contents

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Irish Pilgrimage to Lourdes Filmed. . 22
The Third Degree on the Screen. ... 23

"Selling Out" in Spain 25

Life of Oueen Victoria Filmed 27

The Motion Picture in Greece 28

"Oh, It's an Interesting Life" 29

First Betty Nansen Picture a Treat 31
What Is a Motion Picture? 32

Interesting Film Reviews 41

Manufacturers' List of Releases. .56-58

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General Film Co 6, 7, 43

Genter. J. H 11

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Greater N. Y. Slide Co 45

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Hart Booking Bureau 46

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Illinois Film Service Co 45

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Lavezzi Machine Works 45

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Lubin Manufacturing Co 53

Metropolitan Premium Co 53

Mirror Screen Co 36

M. P. Camera Co 38

Mutual Film Corp 3

N. & T. Supply Co 51

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Newman Mfg. Co 46

N. Y. Film Co 51

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Pan-American Film Mfg. Co 51

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Kenfax Film Co ' 8

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Ryno Film Co 51

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Warner's Features 44

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Established 1908 Established 1913

Volume VIII January 3, 1914 Number 26

"Showing" vs. "Getting" Advertisers

THE publisher of a trade journal was talking
with a prospective advertiser one day. when
one of the advertising solicitors came in.
"Well," announced the latter jubilantly, "I got three
more to-day,'' meaning "three more" advertisers.

* * *

BOTH publisher and prospective advertiser winced;
neither particularly cared to hear the advertiser
alluded to as "got," a victim, as it were, cajoled,
captured and tied.

When the advertiser left the publisher's office the
latter held a further conversation with his solicitor.

* * *

ttrT"V\KE the word 'getting' out of your advertising
vocabulary," he advised. "It has no place there.

"It leads one to believe that you don't quite under-
stand what advertising really means.

"Let us see : •*

much less than they were sold a generation ago.
"But that doesn't interest the advertiser.

* * *

' 1 T T 1 S position is simply this :

* "He finds that we are producing a g'ood pub-
lication. It goes regularly to a certain number of
possible purchasers of his goods.

"He discovers that through its pages he can reach
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a two-cent stamp — still more cheaply than if he pub-
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* * *

4' A 'ie furtner knows that his announcement is
dignified by its appearance in a good magazine
and that the reader who has paid good money to re-
ceive this good magazine is very apt to prove a good
customer for his goods.
"That is all he cares about.

''\X7"E are making here and marketing a certain
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turers, just like the manufacturers you say you 'got'
to-day.

"In order to succeed we must make a good magazine.
Otherwise we won't sell it.

* * *

""T^HIS then is our main problem — making and
selling a magazine. The advertising we carry
is purely an incidental, a secondary matter. It is a
later problem.

* * *

"/^ OOD magazines were made and sold before ad-
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recent years newspapers — the London Times, for in-
stance— were made and sold with scarcely a line of ad-
vertising.

* * *

4 ' T> UT advertising has become a tremendous com-
mercial factor — and therefore a great publishing
factor. Because of this we publishers of this day are
enabled to make better magazines and sell them for

' ' Q O all you need do is to 'show' him this opportunity
^ — this publication, its circulation, its gain, its

kind of circulation, its territorial distribution.
"You 'show' him ; you don't 'get' him.

* * *

' ' T F you 'get' him without 'showing' him, he won't
*■ appreciate the value of your publication and how
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you won't hold him.

* * *

' ' ' ETTING' advertisers mean persuading them to
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cerned. It is waste for the advertiser and eventual ruin
for the publication, for in the latter instance it is build-
ing on the sands. It is writing advertising ahead of
circulation, which is the cart before the horse.

* * *

" ' C HOWING' advertisers means giving them an
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INTERNATIONAL DELEGATES MEET

Propose Consolidation of Two Exhibitors' Organizations if M. A. Neff Will Retire — Demand Mileage for
Last July's National Convention — Chicago Gathering Harmonious, Enthusiastic and Well Attended

DELEGATES of the International Motion Picture Asso-
ciation met in Chicago at the LaSalle Hotel on De-
cember 18 and 19, convened harmoniously and discussed
intelligently and at length several subjects of vital importance
to the industry at large, and especially to the exhibitors of
the country- It was felt by those who attended that the
gathering was a great success from every standpoint There
were no recognizable differences in the body, and suggestions
and recommandations which were put before the body re-
ceived the consideration of the' entire body, were threshed
out, and the most satisfactory conclusion arrived at to the
satisfaction of all present.

A spirit of optimism pervaded the entire gathering which
bespoke a degree of success that has not been credited this
organization. From the discussions carried on it was gath-
ered that the action of this body was endorsed by all its
members of the different States and locals, and that it was
thoroughly agreed that its standing to-day was greater than
might really be expected.

Committee to Make Peace Overtures

Feeling that the organized efforts of the exhibition end
of the motion picture business is vitally necessary to that
branch of the business, and believing that the larger this or-
ganization is the easier it would be to conduct matters that
require the attention of the exhibitors of the country, it
was decided to appoint a committee whose purpose it is
to find ways and means to consolidate all the exhibitors of
the United States into one concrete body, working towards a
single goal and along harmonious lines to be governed by its
entire membership.
In this connection the following motion was adopted:
"That a committee be appointed to devise ways and means
of consolidating all exhibitors of the country into one national
organization, and this committee to report back to the board
of directors."

This committee which consists of Samuel Trigger, of New
York City, chairman; William Sweeney, of Chicago; Thomas
Furniss, of Duluth, Minn.; George Fischer, of Milwaukee,
and Fred Herrington, of Pittsburgh, was instructed to com-
municate with the board of directors of the Motion Picture
Exhibitors' League of America to determine whether that
body would co-operate with them in attaining this end. It
is not the purpose of this committee to present plans where
one organization would absorb the other, but to effect a con-
solidation. This committee was instructed that under no
circumstances would a consolidation be considered if Mr.
Neff continues as president.

As stated by the maker of the motion, the reason of this
move is that it is realized by both factions that two bodies
working for the same end and aiong the same lines to ac-
complish the identical purpose cannot possibly accomplish the
same results as could the combined efforts of the two fac-
tions working as one with the combined strength of all. It
was further claimed that their reason for taking this stand
was to demonstrate their broadmindedness on the question.

Claim Possible Membership of 7,100

Although this proposition of amalgamation was to be put up
to the Motion Picture Exhibitors' League of America it was
felt that M. A. Neff, president of that organization, would
not resign. Their purpose in presenting this idea of con-
solidation was to demonstrate their desire to band together.

Along this line of amalgamation this body heartily en-
dorsed the letter recently mailed by Mr. Trigger to all the
trade publications.

A motion was made that the alleged failure of M. A. Neff

to pay the mileage to the national vice-presidents be referred
to Mr. Rogers, their attorney, for action.

This motion refers to the money expended for railroad
fare by the vice-presidents on their trip to and from New
York City for the convention which was held last July.
Samuel H. Trigger stated that he turned over to Mr. Xeff
$2,000 for this purpose some time after the convention.

The International Motion Picture Association claim that
they have a possible membership of 7,100 exhibitors. They
base these figures on the claim that New York state has 2,000
exhibitors; Illinois, 1,200; Penns3'lvania, 1,500; Minnesota,
400; Wisconsin, 400; Indiana, 400; and Massachusetts, 1,200.

It was announced at this meeting that the International
Motion Picture Association had been chartered under the
state of New York with the privilege to establish state
branches.

The matter of changing their by-laws so that each local
could have representatives at national conventions was put
over until their next meeting which will be held in Cleve-
land on March 3rd. It is thought that it will be revised so
that a delegate will be allowed for every twenty-five mem-
bers or majority thereof.

Dutch Luncheon a Great Success

The Dutch luncheon which was given in the banquet hall
on the nineteenth floor of the LaSalle Hotel was a tremen-
dous success. It was the biggest thing yet attempted by the
exhibitors ef Chicago. Half past ten in the evening was the
time set to start the merriment Before an hour had passed
however, it was found necessary to squeeze in many extra
tables, and also to set tables in the corridors.

Mr. Choynsky acted as toastmaster and introduced Mr.
Phillips, the president of the association, as the first speaker.
His talk was interesting and to the point. He closed his re-
marks by inviting all exhibitors present and exhibitors of
the whole world to attend the exhibition and ball which will
be given in Milwaukee on January 24, 1914.

Samuel H. Trigger, of New York City, was the next
speaker. Mrs. Trigger's telegram which he read was a
source of amusement, as she stated that if he did not come
home she would come to Chicago. He stated that he would
try to reciprocate the hospitality shown and assured them
that the next time that gathering came to New York he
would tender them a Dutch luncheon, German supper and
Hebrew' breakfast.

He was followed by John Rock, of Vitagraph. Hal John-
stone, secretary .of the Operators' Union, spoke at length on
the advisability of combining their organization and the as-
sociation in a separate organization for the purpose of pro-
tecting themselves on any legislation that might come up
injurious to either body as their interests were identical. F.
J. Rembush, the mirror screen man of Indianapolis, spoke
next. He was followed by Fred Herrington, of Pittsburgh,
who spoke on censorship. Abe Balaban and Mr. Whelan
entertained with illustrated songs. Ike Van Runkel, of the
General Film Company, made a few remarks as did William
Hershberg, of the General Feature Film Company. Mr.
Sweeney made the closing speech, and of course, compli-
mented the ladies.

Those present from Milwaukee were : J. H. Sillman, B. K.
Fischer, S. Trinz, J. W. Tufts, J. B. Olinger, Sam R. Pylet
and Jos. Cochrane and Mr. C. H. Phillips.

Also present were Fred Herrington and Henry Poke, of
Pittsburgh; J. F. Miller, of Buffalo; Sam Trigger, of New
York; F. J. Rembush, of Indianapolis; Mr. Furniss, of Du-
luth, Minn. ; Harold W. Rosenthal, of New York, and -Mr.
Doque, of Utica.

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HOW AN EXHIBITOR MADE GOOD

The Dramatic Story of a Big Success from a Small Beginning

A CONSIDERABLE imagination seems almost essen-
tial to place credence in the claim that the exhibitor
with a theatre representing a $10,000 investment has
the same opportunities for success, on a smaller basis, as the
exhibitor operating a house which cost $1,500,000 to con-
struct.

Or is it imagination that is required?
' Those, who know, make the somewhat commonplace and
time-worn remark that it is just plain common sense and
hard work that are needed as the base work of the bridge
that will span this gap.

And to prove the absolute fidelity of their assertions an
illustration has been cited. The illustration is Samuel R.
Rothapfel. This is not to be an autobiography, nor a gilt-
edged history of the man, but of his experiences. Mr. Roth-
apfel has been termed the "Belasco of the pictures," a fore-
runner of the exhibitors of the twenty-first century, and so
many other things that he was incited to jot them down.
And then, characteristic of his temperament, he threw the
notes away.

The one, great, big, glaring fact that is most prominent
in his career is that Mr. Rothapfel spanned the gap between
a theatre — his first — that had served, before its conversion to
a place of amusement, as a store-room for the extra equip-
ment of a barroom and dance hall, and a theatre which to-
day is looked upon as the acme of perfection among the
homes of pictures. And this is the story of how he did it.

IT was an old, tumble-down and dirty looking dance hall,
that presented itself as the only possible outlet for his
desire to become an exhibitor. That was six years ago in a
little city that nestles close under the shadows of the Ridge,
a tall, gray-coated mountain, deep in the center of the Penn-
sylvania coal regions. "The dance hall," a title that remained
as its .last claim to civilization, and conferred upon it by a
few whose memory of earlier days had clung as a solace, had
long been crammed with kegs, chairs minus legs and arms,
glass smashed to bits through slipping from uncertain fingers
in the adjoining room, musty carpets and matting, and an
odor. This last was not exactly an odor. It was a plague,
communicated to every board and remnant of shoddy fur-
nishings housed in the room. It suggested a blended mixture
of liquor-soaked carpets, moss, frowsy wallpaper and mois-
ture-rotted wood.

Into this uninviting place walked a resolute man who
wanted to become an exhibitor. His entrance was not
through the barroom, for he wanted to make the inspection
unnoticed, but Jown a long, dark alley, its passage almost
obstructed by kegs and refuse of many kinds. Later the
alley became the only available lobby for the theatre.

So it came about that two weeks later, two theatre owners
in this same little mining city aroused a feeling of perfectly
respectable sympathy within themselves for the fate of one,
who was soon to become a competitor. Their houses were
admirably located, right in the heart of the business district,
with people compelled to pass and repass their doors. Surely,
that little malodorous rear-room two blocks away, where all
was dark, and where none but a few foreigners ever went,
would make a sorry showing with motion pictures.

* * * *

BUT the rebuffs, the jeers, the friendly advice, so-called, to
forget his aspirations, and constant discouragements from
every side, all fell short of their purpose with this man, who
wanted to become an exhibitor. It was the best he could get,
and he took it without question, although not without thought.

A week later the back room of the dance hall and saloon
was formally opened as a bona fide motion picture theatre.
The floors had been relaid, the walls covered with an inex-
pensive, but durable and attractive matting, comfortable sec-

ond-hand chairs had been installed, and a judicious arrange-
ment of lights in the alley, supplemented by a board walk
leading to the side door, that entered into the theatre, made
it a fairly presentable lobby.

Things didn't go with a whoop from the start. People were
slow to place themselves open to conviction, and many chairs
were vacant six nights a week. But Mr. Rothapfel had pried
deep and unearthed a business possibility. Many of the
miners were foreigners, and these silent, hard-handed men,
understanding little of America and its ways and somewhat
prone to suspicion of their neighbors' intent, were loath, to
mingle with the strangers, who thronged the remaining two
theatres. They did not mind the little alley leading to the
side door of the former dance hall, nor did they care particu-
larly about its former history.

So they came, slowly at first, and then in increased num-
bers, when they found the theatre spotlessly clean, the air
sweet and pure, the pictures of the kind that appealed most
strongly to their pleasure-loving and highly impressionable
natures, the manager courteous and always smiling. They
understood that smile, whether or not they grasped the mean-
ing of the kindly spoken "good evening," and the pleasant
"good night." They felt that they were welcome, and that
here was one who allowed no one to laugh and ridicule their
quaint manner of dress and the odd little topknots of hair
affected by their women.

The patronage grew greater as weeks passed. The man
who wanted to become an exhibitor had achieved the first
little corner of his ambition. He had established a theatre
that gave every indication of becoming a permanent institu-
tion in the community. But he didn't stop there, flushed with
his first success, for the theatre already was yielding a nice
profit weekly.

^ ♦ ♦

THIS, he explains, with the same smile that won for him
the friendship and support of the foreign miners, and
which has figured actively in his later success, is where the
halt is called by numbers so great as to be almost appalling.
Encouraged to the point of over-confidence and with the feel-
ing that a final success has been achieved, there are many who
cease the consistent effort and vigilance that has brought the
first triumphs, and hence plunge into the downward path.

No success is permanent in a business where competition
is to be encountered. Always there must be a forging ahead,
progress of a kind that commands attention, improvements,
however small, that contribute to the aggregate items of
genuine success. An exhibitor, once satisfied with his attain-
ments as such, is no longer an exhibitor. He is a failure.

Rothapfel passed this dangerous pitfall warily. He re-
served six hours each day for rest, and the remaining eight-
een were devoted religiously to the accomplishments of one
purpose — extending the waiting line each night still farther
down the block, perfecting his system of management, ex-
perimenting for better projection, a brighter, steadier and
clearer light on the screen, and in other ways by which he
could awaken a latent interest in his theatre among the patrons
of his competitors. The foreigners noted, marvelled, and then
came in increased numbers.

Every exhibitor has virtually the same difficulties in man-
aging his theatre, viewed from a general standpoint, but not
all meet them in the same fashion. One night a command-
ment was broken in this theatre that had once served as a
dance hall, and later as a store-room. That commandment
was cleanliness. Two men, employed jointly as ushers and
cleaners, fulfilled the former duty with the audience, but in a
spirit of independence, failed in the latter.

An angry but determined employer arrived early the next
morning. There were the same muddy tracks on the floor,
that had been left the previous night by rain-soaked shoes ;

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the usual adornment of peanut shells, empty candy bags, a
stray handkerchief or hair pin. There was no waiting, no
hesitation. The theatre was to open for a Saturday matinee,
and the reels were yet to be examined, the machine over-
hauled, and the posters to be hung. The same temptation,
which had lured away the two employees the evening before,
still held them in its grasp, for neither reported at the usual
time.

* * * #

INTO a small storeroom plunged the proprietor, and a
minute later he emerged armed with a pair of overalls, a
mop, pail and a plentiful supply of soap. Down on his hands
and knees he went, and fairly drove that scrubbing brush
into the floor by his energy. Then came the mopping, the
dusting of the chairs, and an hour later, spattered with dirty
water, his face dripping perspiration, he completed the task.
That night two new ushers helped him greet the patrons, but
the theatre was spotlessly clean, and the proprietor had lived
up to his standard.

Fall passed into winter, and with the passing came storms
of a violence and force little known outside the prison-gray
confines of the mining territory. The exchanges serving the
three theatres in the little town were eight miles away by
railroad. Reels were shipped out each morning on a local
that brought many workers to the mines from the close-in
suburbs of the bigger city, and then were sent back on a late
train at night.

The arrangement was satisfactory, but unreliable, although
none gave thought to the latter. Railroads are far from in-
fallible where storms compel consideration.

Rothapfel's following had increased greatly after the first
month. His two competitors bid for a higher priced service,
and an earlier run, when the barroom itself was torn down to
make way for a new front to the new theatre. The remodel-
ing, in its completed form, presented a type of theatre new to
the little mining city. Profits of the first six months were
religiously hoarded, and then paid to contractors, decorators,
electricians, chair manufacturers, and accessory concerns.

The change brought new patrons, among them business men,
their wives and children. Business opportunities had increased
a hundredfold for him, but still the proprietor was not satis-
fied. If he had accomplished all this here, in a comparatively
small period of time, why could he not accomplish still greater
things as an exhibitor. Another happening that tested the
qualities in him that make for success came without warning.

L_T. E awoke one morning in January to greet a raging snow-
storm, rushing over the valley and propelled by a sixty
mile gale. No train arrived at the usual hour, and hence no
reels for the day's show. The storm increased in violence as
the morning wore away, and Rothapfel's two competitors
cursed the elements. Then both decided to close their houses
until the next day.

The third exhibitor waited-until 11 o'clock, when word came
feebly and uncertain over the railroad telegraph wire that no
traffic would be possible for another twenty-four hours. Fif-
teen minutes later, with no word of information to anyone, a
fur-wrapped figure plunged from the depot steps into the very
face of the terrific snowstorm, and set out toward the city
where his reels rested in the files of the exchange. His two
competitors were safely at home, figuring an approximate
week's profit after deducting the probable day's receipts, but
that was not his fashion of doing things.

On he plunged, stumbling, and sometimes falling, using the
narrow strips of rail as his guide. For long distances these
would be covered by drifted snow, and often he strayed from
the tracks. Then, after what seemed hours, he reached his
goal, obtained his reels from the surprised and incredible ex-
changemen, ate a hearty dinner, and started back.

It was ten minutes before the regular time of opening the
theatre when he stumbled in, half frozen and almost fainting.
But at promptly 7 o'clock the arc lamps in front of the thea-
tre burst into light, and by 8 o'clock twenty people, all of them
living within two blocks of the theatre, were watching the
show.

His business increased with leaps and bounds after that.
Everyone talked of his feat in walking eight miles to obtain
entertainment for the few of sufficient courage to brave the
storm for two blocks, or less, while his two competitors re-
mained safely at home. He had proven that he could be re-
lied upon, that disappointments were not permitted at his
theatre, not so much in the matter of keeping open, but in the
style and quality of show he gave.

* % % ;fc

Editor's Note — Owing to the unusual length of this' article
and the requirements of our space, we have found it neces-
sary to divide it into two parts, the second of which, dealing
with the later artistic and commercial success of Mr. Roth-
apfel in the exhibitor's field, will be published in the forth-
coming issue of the Motion Picture News.

New Reliance Studio a Model in Every Respect

THE new Mutual studio just com-
pleted for the Reliance Company
on the Clara Morris estate at Yonkers,
N. Y., is one of the most practical
studios for making motion pictures
in this country.

It is of skeleton steel construction
and white ground glass with surpris-
ingly slender trusses that span the
whole width of the studio, fifty feet,
without supporting posts of any kind.
The entire roof and three sides are
of ground glass, the sides being of
portable glass, which may be removed
in the Summer. The roof of the
studio floor is thirty-one feet at its
apex, with regulating ventilators,
which operate from the floor level on
each side of the middle ridge.
The height of the sides of the stu-

dio is seventeen feet to the eaves,
with another row of regulating ven-
tilators underneath the eaves. The
base of the side walls, two feet above
the floor level, is concrete and carries
the pipe coils for steam heating. The
building is one hundred feet by fifty,
providing an uninterrupted area of
five thousand square feet, equipped
with necessary traps, etc.

The studio itself is elevated fifteen
feet above ground level to admit the
necessary lateral light. The basement
will be used for factory purposes.
Against the north wall of the studio
are located the scene dock and paint-
er's frame. It is pierced in the middle
by a large door intended for entrance
into an adjoining building, to be built
later for the reception and storage

of properties and additional dressing-
rooms on the second floor.

Extending along the entire length
of the studio floor are suspended three
parallel overhead trolleys for trans
porting the artificial light to any de-
sired point. When the day is dark
a few extra quartz lights, combined
with the daylight, will produce per-
fect pictures, giving the same degree
of light underneath the brim of a per-
son's hat as above it.

For combining artificial and lay-
light in taking pictures the studio
is a model of economy. Two months
more of the sun's rays will further
bleach the. arsenical ground-glass to
an absolutely dead white. Perman
ganese glass bleaches pinkish, which
is bad for the light rays.

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THE MOTION PICTURE IN CANADA

BY CHANDOS ST. JOHN-BRENON

IT is an extraordinary fact, that wide as are the op-
portunities offered in the Dominion of Canada for
the moving picture manufacturer and producer, the
leaders of both branches of this wonderful industry have
not yet seen to it that films of Canadian make and Cana-
dian subjects have been placed on the Canadian market
for the residents of the Dominion. The possibilities are
tremendous, yet the field is at present in almost virgin
state.

Especially does this apply to Western Canada, where
there is to-day a tremendous market for the film in all
its phases, dramatic and educational. It cannot be that the
big men among the manufacturers have entirely ignored
this field and it certainly is not because there is no demand
in Canada for pictures of Canadian tone and motif.
Canada to-day is linked up throughout its entire length
and breadth with societies and associations large and small,
which have been formed to keep alive the idea of imperial-
ism, and the members of which have, at regular and stated
intervals, voiced their disapproval of the constant ap-
pearance of that fine old emblem "Old Glory" on the
moving picture screen.

Not that they have the least dislike or disrespect for that
flag. Such is far from being the case and should not be
thus interpreted.

Nevertheless, it is but natural that exception should be
taken to the continual appearance of the American flag and
American subjects throughout the entire Dominion where
films are known, and there is obviously some ground for
this feeling. It is strange, therefore, that manufacturers
have thus far ignored the demands of the great Canadian
west and have given only such subjects as they have seen
fit to the big motion picture public in this territory.

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ABORTIVE efforts have been made from time to time
by manufacturers to turn out a Canadian picture, but
these efforts have proven such utter failures that even
small children in the audiences of Canadian theatres where
such pictures have been shown have laughed aloud at the
incongruities, the impossible scenery and the even more
impossible costuming, as well as the obvious ignorance
of things Canadian displayed by the producer.

In the heart of the great West is planted a body of men
who have won the admiration of the world, wherever the
English language is spoken, the Royal Northwest Mounted
Police. Could any moving picture producer find a more
prolific field, a more popular field for a Canadian audience?
Is any field more crowded with adventure, history, in-
stances of individual and collective courage, pluck,
romance, life and color? Yet this field, which is so es-
sentially Canadian and which teems with such splendid
material dealing with the history of the Canadian West,
has been absolutely ignored save on one or two occasions.

One of these occasions is a memorable one in Winnipeg
at least. It was when a two-reel film purporting to deal
with the Royal Northwest Mounted Police was widely
advertised. When it was thrown on the screen, it aroused
an uproar and it was taken off as quickly as it was put
on. In Winnipeg resides one of the finest figures ever
identified with the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, in
fact, the first man to join its ranks, and a man who has
helped to make western Canadian history.

This is Col. S. B. Steele, C. B. M. V. O, the officer com-
manding the military district. With his staff he had been
invited to see the great picture and he had signified his
intention of being present. Who is there who does not
known the boast of Canada's mounted police? "We have
never lost a man upon whom we have once laid our hands.
We have never taken a bribe."

Yet the film shown with such noise and pride in the
local house, depicted a member of this body accepting a
bribe from a woman! The audience hissed and the film
was relegated to the shelf, whence it should never have
been removed. Fortunately the former superintendent did
not see the film. Many angry voices were later raised in
protest and the same feelings were expressed as would
have been the case had a picture been shown in any United
States city which held up to scorn and contumely the
United States Navy or. Army.

CANADA to-day needs Canadian pictures and when it
gets them the receipts of those who make them will
go upwards with a bound. The same complaint of "too
much United States" applies to the various and numerous
"weeklies" or news pictures. To-day ninety per cent show
scenes taken in American cities which are of absolutely no
interest to a Canadian audience. When these "weeklies"
depict scenes of international interest, of course, any
audience appreciates them.

• But wherein lies the interest to a Canadian audience in
pictures of the ruins wrought by a $100,000 fire in Akron,
Ohio, or Jonesboro, Arkansas? Canadian cities have just
as big fires and if one is to judge by the statisticans, the
fire loss in Canada is far heavier per capita than in the
United States.

Why are not Canadian pictures shown? Canadian man-
agers ask for them, Canadian audiences ask for them. Are
not interntional pictures desirable? Yes! These are
wanted all the time. But news pictures from minor United
States cities should only be distributed where the interest
lies. Two years ago the Duke of Connaught, an inter-
national figure, the uncle of the King of England paid a
visit to the West, yet an infinitesimal percentage of "Weak-
lies" made any effort to show the Canadian public what
he did or how he looked.

Western Canada is still in the pioneer stage, at least
to a great degree. It is still much of a "hinterland" to
thousands of English-speaking people, and, as such, offers
a wonderful field, if only to show the wonderful strides
made in half a century of civilization and exploration.
Imagine the possibilities of the numerous railroad con-
struction camps! Imagine the tales which could be built
around them and the wonderful pictures made, and above
all, consider the hundreds of thousands of people who
would enjoy films of their own country, telling stories of
their own country, made in their own country.

* * * *

THE time is not so remote when Canada will offer al-
most as large a market for the motion picture as
the United States. Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba,
with a population of 200,000 has thirty motion picture
theatres. This is small, of course, in comparison to the
number in the larger American cities, but eight years ago
there were not three which were wholly devoted to the
picture. A few days ago a four-year lease on one of the
second-class houses in Winnipeg was sold for $40,000
and added to. this is the rent for those four years at $500
a month. Surely this is indicative of the situation in the
west of Canada. Of all the theatres which have been
erected in the past five years (some eighteen), not one
has closed its doors. And this in the face of two vaude-
ville houses and a popular stock house.

Competition for exclusiveness has reached a high pitch
and exclusiveness in programs has been eagerly sought
after. The latest innovation is from the Mutual, which
gives an exclusive program with a guarantee that none
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PICTURIZING BROADWAY

BROADWAY, New York, is the theatrical centre
and stronghold of America. There theatres flour-
ish the thickest. There fame is won or lost.
There a show is made or broken. For years it has
presented at night an unbroken chain of white lights
heralding theatrical attractions.

Now comes the motion picture, no longer in its
infancy, but coping, by right of merit, with theatrical
attractions and in their own stronghold. Times
Square is the heart of the theatrical district. But a
few weeks from now will see four big Times Square
theatres devoted exclusively to motion pictures.

The new Strand Theatre, at Forty-seventh Street and
Broadway, heads the list. This theatre, now almost
completed is a magnificent white structure towering
above Broadway. Some time ago it was announced
that G. M. Anderson, "Broncho Billy," would produce
in it musical comedies at a dollar, following the policy
of his Gayety theatre in San B'rancisco. Now that is
changed and the Strand will be a motion picture
theatre. But it will be an impressive one.

S. L. Rothapfel, now managing the Regent at 116th
Street and Seventh Avenue, will manage the Strand.
He will show all the good pictures he can get his hands
on, program pictures, feature and so on, at prices which
will surely run up to fifty cents and possibly reach a
dollar.

Mr. Rothapfel is the Belasco of exhibitors. In this
new theatre he will introduce in addition to his own
stunts which have always been so successful,
a number of brand new effects. Mr. Roth-
apfel believes in a big orchestra which he re-
hearses every morning with the pictures of the day.

The theatre which George Kleine is building in West
Forty-second Street to house big foreign features is
nearing completion. This is the first theatre in the
country built simply for the exhibition of big features.
Prices will run up to a dollar. Mr. Kleine is now over
in Europe picking up good subjects running from six
to nine reels. These he will show in his new theatre
which will have the pretentiousness of a theatre housing
speaking attractions, and more comforts.

HP HEN come the converts. The Vitagraph Com-
pany of America has been announced as having
secured the Criterion Theatre at Forty-fourth Street
and Broadway. Here will be shown the big Vitagraph-
Liebler feature productions. This step is important as
it may be the entering wedge to the Vitagraph
producing many more big pictures and acquiring a
chain of big theatres.

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company has
secured the Republic Theatre in West Forty-second
street and is showing "Traffic in Souls" there, "The
Temperamental Journey" having concluded its
engagement. "Traffic in Souls" is also showing
at Weber's at Broadway and Twenty-ninth street,
at three theatres in Brooklyn and at two in uptown New
York. "The Inside of the White Slave Traffic" is
showing at the Park Theatre, Columbus Circle. Ham-
merstein's Victoria is now featuring motion pictures.

Motion pictures are fast colonizing Broadway. They
are nudging the legitimate in its own stronghold and
are demanding room — and getting it. Surely this is
encouraging enough to please all interested in the
motion drama.

EXCLUSIVE TO OPEN NEW EXCHANGES

TO open exchanges in territories
in which the Exclusive program
is not being adequately supported and
exploited is the big plan of the Ex-
clusive Supply Corporation. Action
is expected at an early date.

This move is the natural evolution
of the policy of the Exclusive, which,
while having every reason to believe
in the pulling and profitable power of
their feature program, will let the
program work for them in imperfectly
developed territories as it has worked
for exchange-men in other terri-
tories.

None of the buyers now handling
the Exclusive program will be dis-
turbed, the Exclusive intending to
concentrate their energies upon States
where business has not been commen-
surate with the immediate and active
possibilities this feature program af-
fords.

It is certain that an efficient organi-

zation, backed up by the "goods,"
will demonstrate that many territories
hitherto overlooked and neglected by
local exchange-men, who have over-
looked their existing possibilities, are
fertile fields for development.

At several night meetings in the
offices of the Exclusive in the Candler
Building, New York City, at which
were present Herbert Blache, presi-
dent; Ingvald C. Oes, vice-president;
Harry R. Raver, secretary and treas-
urer, and Joseph R. Miles, general
manager, the move was given con-
sideration. Their report in favor of
it was unanimously affirmative.

The best exchange-men will be en-
gaged and the program launched with
a thoroughness and vim which as-
sures its success. A study of condi-
tions throughout the United States,
conducted by an expert, has revealed
statistically proved possibilities and
probabilities for the Exclusive pro-

gram, which merits the large invest-
ment required.

Should the negotiations go through
as now expected, the Exclusive's of-
fices will of necessity be augmented
and the staff doubled or trebled. There
would be no change in management.

The feature rental business on a
big scale, with an unprecedented ad-
vertising policy, will be entered upon
by a widely known theatrical man-
ager within a few weeks. The terri-
tory will be New York City and State
and New England. The Exclusive
program almost intact will be con-
tracted for for a term of years. Thou-
sands of sheets of lithographs will be
taken on each release and displayed
in circus style.

The feature situation in Texas has
given impetus to fierce competition,
there being no less than five indi-
viduals and corporations now bidding
for the Exclusive program.

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MAKING THE MOTION PICTURE SAFER

Dussaud's Discovery of a Way to Produce Light without Heat Has Opened Important
Science — The Fireproof Film No Longer a Dream of the Future

Fields tc

I theatres safer. That sources of danger exist under
present conditions is certain. In his last annual re-
port the State Fire Marshal of New York said:

"It has been estimated that throughout the country there is
on an average a daily attendance of 15,000,000 in these places.
They are exposed to dangers from fire and the resulting
panic, More than $100,000,000 is invested in the business in
the Union, and this is divided among 16.000 theatres and
many halls, churches and clubs. There should be ordinances
governing the storage and handling of Sims, which are gener-
ally made of a composition of nitrocellulose and guncotton,
one of the most inflammable combinations known."

Within the past few weeks officers of the Paris Prefecture
of Police have tested picture films made non-inflammable by
a new method. So satisfactory were the results that it is
now an offense for motion picture shows in Paris to use any-
thing else than these safety films.

When it was announced that the Parisian authorities had
decided to order the substitution of non-inflammable films
Thomas A. Edison was asked if he thought the same course
should be followed in this country. Mr. Edison does not
agree with the French officials in the matter. He said :

"There is no possible material known that takes the place
of the present celluloid film. In this country the insurance
companies have been so strict that everything pertaining to
the film and machine is encased in iron and asbestos, so that
the chance of a fire is reduced almost to immunity. Out of
13.000 motion picture theatres we scarcely ever hear of a
fire, although the theatres are running almost continuously.
The amount of film stored in the fireproof booth at any one
time is so small that it is difficult to imagine any danger to
the theatre even if the whole amount should burn up. A
properly designed machine provides immunity aside from the
fireproof booth."

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now and then
while, and this
Such are the
the light hereto
advocating the
another remed]
M. Francois Di
the glow of hi.!
ins: heat is ere

Irr. ; and

gain is made wnicn promises to revolutionize the motion pic-
ture in other ways.

This invention is man's most successful effort to simulate
the glow of the firefly, which is well-nigh totally lacking in
heat.

The firefly's light is phosphorescent, and the manner of its
making is one of nature's cfle— :;al mysteries. :u: sflerris::
have proved that only 3.5 per cent, of the energy expended
is lost in producing heat. No wonder physicists call the fire-
fly's glow ideal for the best man can get to-day out of the
efficient mercury vapor lamp is half light and half heat for
a given expenditure of electrical energy. A surprising part
of M. Dussaud's invention is the fact that he is using elec-
tricity and not phosphorescent chemicals, and the substance
of his lamp filaments is the same that is to be found in the
bulk of the best incandescent bulbs.

NOTWITHSTANDING the opinion of so great an au-
thority, the fact remains that a safety film has been
produced which has all of the mechanical and optical virtues
of ordinary celluloid minus its menace, and the world owes
this achievement to the cunning of the German chemists of
the famous color works of Friedrich Bayer & Co., of Elber-
feld. They first produced a film material from acetylcellu-
lose in aceton, and called it cellit. According to Dr. Carl
Duisberg. president of one of the greatest chemical industries
in the world, in Germany. " Cellit films in all their properties
are equal to the old inflammable ones, yet the proprietors of
motion picture theatres have not taken them up because they
feared the competition of the schools and the home, where
the cellit films would be largely used on account of their
non-inflammability.'"

The German police or fire authorities have not been slow
in recognizing the merits of cellit, and even though the first
cost of films made of it is greater than that of celluloid, still
the substitution of the safer material has been required. Now
the French are not disposed to welcome German ideas, and
the fact that the Parisian police have passed a similar or-
dinance is evidence of the need of this kind of legislation.

The French and the Germans have been exacting for a
long time regarding other precautions in the way of security
against fire in motion picture theatres, and yet they realized
that existing precautions were not in themselves enough to
guard against the perils of a panic when a film burst into
flame. It must not be supposed that actual contact with the
projecting light has necessarily been the cause of most of
the fires in these theatres. The danger has been of a more
insidious nature.

ACCORDING to M. Dussaud, his cold light apparatus will
produce the equivalent iUumination of the ordinary elec-
tric light upon a consumption of current 100 per cent. less.
Don't think this means that he gets his glow without cost in
current, but he gets it at an expenditure of current which
would give too little light to be of any value in the usual
ran of electric lamps.

The better a conductor of electricity a metal may be the
less it will heat when current speeds through it. When the
material hampers the electricity in its flow — technically this
is called resistance — then heat is created, and if this opposi-
tion be sufficient the wire or filament will turn red, then
orange, then a light yellow, and at last be nearly white in its
incandescence.

When it reaches the last stage it is usually pretty close to
the melting point, or, if not that, at least it dissipates itself
in tiny particles and in time breaks. This, in brief, is the life
history of the filaments of most incandescent lamps. This
element of resistance incidentally controls the cost of light
by reason of the current consumed.

The heating up of the delicate wire producing the illumi-
nation represents just so much loss, for heat is not light-
In the case of the carbon filament lamp we got 6 per cent,
of light with 94 per cent of heat, and the tungsten filament
of to-day has reduced this loss and increased the efficiency by
quite 50 per cent But even so, there is an enormous waste
in the generation of heat.

* * * *

KEEP this fact about the tungsten filament in mind, be-
cause M. Dussaud uses this very metal in his own lamps.
Tungsten can stand a higher heat than carbon before reaching

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the melting point. This results in greater incandescence, and
because of a peculiarity of this metal it uses less current
than carbon when glowing brightest. Of course you under-
stand that it might be made to shine even more intensely by
crowding an overload of current through the filament, but its
life would be a short one; therefore people have had to be
content with less light.

These facts seem to offer obstacles to the generation of
colder light, and yet this ingenious Frenchman has dodged
around these hindrances. Perhaps you have raised yourself
upon a crossbar, "chinned" it once, twice, three times or more.
The first lift was easy, and each succeeding one harder and
harder. With a sufficient rest between efforts, however, all
of them became quite as easy as the first one. You have had
a chance to recuperate. You are doing this very thing be-
tween breaths, and when you overwork your lungs by violent
breathing you are soon exhausted. These are simple analogies
which have had their lessons for M. Dussaud in perfecting
his cold light apparatus.

By long experimenting he found that he could overload
his tungsten filament two and a half times that of the normal
voltage provided he did this for only a brief while. He
could do this repeatedly without hurting the delicate wire if
he gave the tungsten a chance to rest before calling it into
service again. In figures, where his lamp would require,
say, one watt per candle power, he obtained in this fashion for
an instant the same measure of light at an expenditure of
only two-tenths of that energy.

* * * *

BUT you will promptly object to a blinking light of this
description. Offhand, this sort of illumination would
ruin the eyes in short order. How, then, did M. Dussaud
make his experiments of practical value?

He obtains a steady lighting effect by using a combination
of lamps. Each lamp of this group shines for a moment
and then rests while its companions take their turn. Now,
the manner in which one lamp relieves the other is so skill-
fully adjusted that the effect is that of a single lamp glowing
continuously. There is no blink.

Even so, this does not make for cold light. It is plain that
the tungsten filament is standing for the briefest while a se-
vere tax, and this overloading with current produces superior
incandescence, which is another term for higher temperature.
Certainly this is not getting any nearer to coldness in the film.
But the cunning part of the scheme lies in the fact that the
tungsten glows for so short a time that the heat waves gen-
erated actually don't pass beyond the confines of the glass
bulb. It is this very brevity of incandescence that does the
trick.

However, this accomplishment would not be possible if
M. Dussaud employed the usual form of filament. While he
uses tungsten he so shapes his filament that the dazzling area
is larger than that commonly given to the lamp of the same
size, and in this manner he multiplies the volume of the light
produced. This permits of the effective and efficient utilizing
of the flood of current he pours into his lamp for the instant.

Because of the very moderate amount of electrical energy
actually needed to maintain a light of this sort M. Dussaud
believes it is possible to get this current from very modest
sources. Indeed, he has said that the water of a spigot will
drive a dynamo of sufficient power to run a cold light installa-
tion large enough to work a motion picture outfit for home
service ; that is, to produce the needful cold light. And it is
this Frenchman's idea to promote, among other things, the
motion picture in the household.

But it is for the cinematograph generally that the discov-
ery promises the most valuable results. Because the Dussaud
light is cold it will not ignite the films, and this gives it an
added importance both as a discovery and from a commercial
viewpoint.

* * * *

TO-DAY, the motion picture is giving reproductions of
visible life lying within the range of the ordinary camera.
But M. Dussaud proposes to make visible those phases of na-
ture that come only within the range of the microscope. This
means that pictures infinitely small can be taken upon films
of exquisite thinness, and, because cold light will be used,
these tiny images can be magnified without danger by power-
ful lenses and made of a size that everybody can see. This
will widen immensely nature studies for schools and likewise
broaden the investigating capacity of the man of science.
. It seems that cold light does not disturb or alarm some
miniature forms of life as daylight would or the run of arti-
ficial illuminants.

According to M. Dussaud his cold light is rich in ultra-
violet rays which, so he says, are "obtained for the first time
without heat." According to the latest scientific pronounce-
ments the ultra-violet rays and the X-ray are substantially
identical. Therefore it seems likely that shadowgraphs may
be obtained by an entirely new process.

That is, instead of sending the light through the entire
body in order to secure a negative, the same thing can per-
haps be done, and better done at that, by internal illumina-
tion, thus reducing by half or more the mass of the body
substance through which the rays have to pass to reach the
photographic plate. These pictures may be microscopic and
they may be moving, and through the agency of the same
cold light may be cast upon the screen for study.

MICHIGAN EXHIBITORS HOLD CONVENTION

MEMBERS of the Michigan Motion Picture Ex-
hibitors' League held their semi-annual meet-
ing at the Wenonah Hotel, Bay City, Mich.,
on Dec. 9 and 10, and many important matters were
discussed or disposed of during the session.

The meeting was called to order by Peter J. Jenf.
There was a large number of delegates from all parts
of the state, and they all seemed to be present with
the definite purpose of upholding the present three
and five reel program rule now in vogue. Hearty
expressions of the utmost satisfaction were given with
the working of the present resolution that the limit for
five cents admissions be three reels, with five reels
for ten cents.

A letter was received from Billy Welsh, secretary of
the Kansas City League, congratulating the Michigan
Exhibitors on the ideal arrangement they had made

in relation to their three and five reel programs, and
asking for more complete information as to just how
the Michigan exhibitors accomplished such wonderful
results.

This information was furnished by the president, in
the hope that Kansas City, and possibly the entire
state of Missouri, would soon be able to say "We too"
have a three and five reel program.

A letter was also read from President Neff of the
National League expressing his best wishes for the
continued success of the Michigan League, and urging
them to keep up the good work. Among the tele-
grams received was one from A. J. Gillingham, man-
ager of the Detroit branch of the General Film Com-
pany, who was in New York, regretting that he could
not be present, but assuring the contention that he
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THE MAKING OF A BOY SCOUT

A Feature of Exceptional Merit and Purpose — President Wilson Poses in and Endorses Picture, Which

Has Wide Support

MANY persons are watching with
interest the ease with which a
six-reel drama, "The Making
of a Scout," is made the subject of
first-page newspaper stories. The se-
cret of this remarkable publicity for
a motion picture play, aside from the
merits of the drama itself, is to be
found in the fact that it has the un-
qualified endorsement of the most
prominent men in the country, among
them being President Wilson, Theo-
dore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot and
Judge Ben Lindsey. President Wil-
son gave his stamp of approval when
for the first time since his election
he consented to pose for the picture.

For the purpose of trying it out the
producers of the picture have given
a few private exhibitions. These have
met with marked success. Newspa-
pers have printed first-page stories
and editorials urging their readers to
see the picture; boards of education
have authorized the sale of tickets in
public schools. Department stores
have bought tickets for the purpose
of sending their juvenile employees to
the show, and have put advertising
display cards on their counters.

Theodore Roosevelt Approves

As a self-advertising proposition,
"The Making of a Scout" seems to
be without an equal. The following
extracts from facsimile letters have
been authorized for reproduction:

Theodore Roosevelt — "I am ex-
tremely glad that this picture drama
is to appear."

Julge Lindsey — "It is positively one
of the greatest feature films yet pro-
duced in this country."

Gifford Pinchot — "I want to send
you my heartiest congratulations on
it as not only a most useful but a
most attractive thing to see."

The drama in the picture is woven
about a street boy who becomes a
member of the Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica. It therefore has a direct appeal
to the four hundred thousand Boy
Scouts in the United States. These
boys stand ready to conduct an ad-
vance sale of tickets, because the
fundamental law of the scout is to
spread the gospel of his organization.

The picture, which is owned by the
Wedepict Motion Picture Corpora-
tion, 115 Broadway, New York City,
has the endorsement of the National
Council, Boy Scouts of America, and
under the terms of the contract be-
tween the producing corporation and
the National Scout officials, it is the
only Scout picture which can be
shown with such endorsement for a
period of years.

Interest in the picture throughout

the country has been aroused through
the columns of two scout magazines
which have a national circulation,
with the result that local scout offi-
cials appeal to motion picture house
owners to produce the films. Re-
quests for the picture have come to
New York from practically every
State in the Union.

The Public Interested

A remarkable feature in connection
with the picture is the ease with which
the public is interested. In one city
recently one thousand letters, each
containing four tickets to the show,
were sent to a selected list of citi-
zens. When returns were all in it
was found that one out of every three
letters brought back a check for one
dollar. In the same city the street
car company carried posters on the
dashboards of the cars free of charge.
In another city the school children
were given a half holiday in order
that they might attend a special
matinee.

In Richmond, Va., Governor Mann
wrote a public letter endorsing the
picture, in which he said: "I am sure
that every citizen and every boy and
girl in Richmond will benefit from
seeing this play, endorsed by such
great men as President Wilson, Jacob
Riis, Judge Lindsey and others."

In that city the production of the
picture was preceded by a speech by
John Garland Pollard, Attorney-Gen-
eral of the State.

In a column story about the pic-
ture, the Richmond Times-Leader
said: "Naturally the Scouts are very
much gratified to know that the Gov-
ernor is actively interested in their
work, and they are especially de-
lighted that the Governor is urging
the people to see the play. The pros-
pects are that there will be a record
crowd in attendance.

Free Tickets Provided

"Through W. G. Sales, local man-
ager of the Western Union, the an-
nouncement has been made that the
Western Union believes so much in
the possibility of 'The Making of a
Scout' that it will provide every one
of its messengers with a ticket for
the play. W. J. Parish, manager of
the Richmond Cedar Works, will do
as much for the boys employed by
his company, and there will no doubt
be a good many other employers who
will be glad to afford their boys an
opportunity to see this photoplay."

In Richmond one Boy Scout sold
260 tickets.

The appeal of the picture seems to
be a particularly wide one, and as an
educational feature it is of highest
merit. The picture was produced un-
der the direction of Edward Warren,
and is excellent in photography, set-
ting and full of dramatic interest.
An inspiriting romance threads to-
gether the novel scenes of the Boy
Scouts' life and work.

SCENE FROM

'THE FIRST NUGGET'

(Eclair)

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IRISH PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES FILMED

THE Irish Pilgrimage to Lourdes
has been described as "the act of
a nation." Beyond all question it was
the act of a nation, for practically every
man, woman and child in Ireland in-
terested himself or herself in the project
from the moment it was first mooted,
a year ago. The Most Rev. Dr. Mc-
Hugh, Bishop of Derry, whose portrait
appears in the film now being distributed
by the General Film Agency, Ltd., was
its moving spirit, and the undertaking,
colossal to such a country as Ireland,
was carried through, by dint of hard
work, much personal economy, and a
superabundance of faith, to a complete
and happy conclusion.

It should be borne in mind that a pil-
grimage from Ireland to Lourdes was
a far more difficult undertaking than a
pilgrimage from any part of the Conti-
nent. The business of transporting the
sick from Ireland to England, followed
by a long and tedious journey to Lon-
don, the second sea trip across the Eng-
lish Channel, and, finally, the weary
train journey from the very north of
France to the Pyrenees must have taxed
the endurance of the sick to the utter-
most. The safe transport of over 3,000
pilgrims under these conditions was in
itself a veritable triumph of organiza-
tion.

Some of the most affecting scenes
shown in the film are those at Victoria
Station, in London, and at Folkstone.
The pilgrims have left Dublin the night
before, and are breaking their journey
in London for a hurried breakfast,
which is snatched on the station itself.

London policemen are carrying litters,
and cheerful porters, having turned
nurses for the time being, are tenderly
rendering invaluable assistance. The
station is shrouded in the peculiar gloom
of a London morning, and yet the blend
of Celtic cheerfulness and Saxon readi-
ness for emergencies renders the atmos-
phere far from oppressive. It is a scene
that one would like to see rendered later
on by the subtle brush of some clever
painter.

At Folkstone you are equally im-
pressed. Here porters and policemen
have given place to brown-faced sailors,
careful and anxious bearers of the sick
and crippled.

We will pass over the rest of the
journey until we reach Lourdes, moun-
tain-girdled, full of charm and scented
with the sweet air of the Pyrennees.
Here we are mere units in the crowds
of pilgrims, all hurrying to the great ob-
jectives, the Basilica and the Grotto.

A night's rest, and then commences
the real business of the pilgrimage,
which lasts three days. There is a first
day's procession to the great white
Basilica, the unveiling of a stately Keltic
Cross by Cardinal Logue, and visits to
the Grotto where Bernadette first saw
the sacred apparitions. A visit has also
to be paid to the little gabled house
where she lived.

Most important of all, however, is the
procession of the Blessed Sacrament.
This solemn and awe-inspiring scene,
when a wonderful vista is given of the
Basilica and of the long, serried lines
of the pilgrims, before whom are laid

the sufferers in their litters, is an unfor-
gettable sight. Nothing like this has ever
been brought to the eyes of those who
know Lourdes only as a name, and it
should be remembered that this proces-
sion was never taken before His Emi-
nence Cardinal Logue gave express per-
mission to the General Film Agency,
Ltd., to take it.

Possibly the pictures which will
arouse the greatest public interest are
those which appear at the end of the
film and show the miraculous cures. The
names are given : Grace Maloney, the
Killaloe girl who was cured and her
bent leg straightened, so that she now
walks like any other fine-limbed Irish
colleen; Patrick Casey, who left home
absolutely helpless, and who left his
crutches at Lourdes, and also Miss B. J.
McDonogh, Cabragh, County Sligo, who
suffered from a diseased bone in the
left foot.

PAPERS SERVED IN "QUO
VADIS" SUIT

Paul de Outo was served by a
United States marshal while leaving
his office in Chicago, on December 17,
in connection with the suit filed No-
vember 28 by George Kleine in the
United States District Court, alleg-
ing infringement of copyright. De
Outo operated what was known as
the "Quo Vadis Film Company," of
Chicago, although the company did
not appear to have been incorporated
under the laws of the state of Illinois.
It is understood that he marketed
a picture called "Quo Vadis," in three
reels.

Recently George Kleine warned ex-
hibitors that a series of suits are pend-
ing in the United States District
Court against infringements of litho-
graphs, heralds, etc., and it is said
that many exhibitors have been un-
knowingly guilty of violations of the
copyright law. While Mr. Kleine is
said not to desire to punish anyone,
he feels it necessary to vigorously
prosecute these infringements in the
interests of the exhibitor as well as
his own.

FOX SECURES "HERO OF A
NATION"

. William A. Fox, the well-known the-
atrical manager, has secured the rights
for New York City and State on "The
Hero of a Nation, Bar-Cochba," the
Supreme Feature Film Company's big
six-reel production.

This feature is being shown at the
Folly Theatre, in Brooklyn, and is draw-,
ing large crowds. It is one of the most
spectacular features ever produced and
has as many as one hundred and twenty-
five thrilling scenes.

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THE "THIRD DEGREE" ON THE SCREEN

THE first of the Photoplay Master-
pieces which the General Film
Company will release by the new ser-
vice which it will soon inaugurate has
reached the screen. The first public
exhibition of the Lubin five-part pro-
duction of Charles Klein's famous
drama. "The Third Degree." was
given last Monday at the American
Theatre. Forty-second street and
Eighth avenue. Xew York City.

Taking this production as a cri-

Bernstein. Others in the cast are
George Soule Spencer as Richard
Brewster. Robert Whittier as Robert
Underwood. Robert Graham. Jr., as a
bellboy and Bartley McCulIum as the
police captain. McCulIum had a diffi-
cult part. The police captain of the
play possesses a strong, hypnotic will.
This idea of forecfulness McCulIum
tried hard to portray.

The action of the motion picture
parallels that of the play, which so

ADMUnSTEKIIXG THE THIED DEGREE

terion. the new service, which will en-
deavor to supply films long enough
to furnish an evening's entertainment
at the rate of one a week, will be en-
thusiastically received. The Lubin
production of "'The Third Degree*1 is
meritorious enough to compose a sat-
isfactory evening's entertainment in
itself.

Settings ard Players Good

This motion picture is the result of
considerable work. For a long time
the forces of the big Lubin plant were
concentrated upon it. It was pro-
duced by Barry O'Xeil. then head di-
rector.

The settings, without exception, live
fully up to the demands of the story.
Interiors of the house of Jeffries, Sr..
of the courthouse and police station
and an exceptionally good courtroom
set were noticeable.

To secure the players, actors and
actresses were carefully picked from
the Lubin forces. Gaston Bell, late
of Kinemacolor. plays Howard Jef-
fries. Jr.. while Carlotta Doti is Anne,
his wife. Robert Dunbar is well cast
and does some fine work as Howard
Jeffries, the father, with Lillie Leslie
as his wife. Bernard Siegel is a per-
fect type and a good actor as Dr.

gripped audiences for a long time, but
the picture has more material in it.

The action starts before the action
of the play did. The opening of the
picture shows young Jeffries and L'n-
derwood chums at college. Some
very good campus scenes are shown.
Young Jeffries, feeling too good, hurts
the feelings of a waitress. Annie, in a
college cafe. The next day he goes
in and apologizes. Incidentally good
scenes of a college football game are
shown. Young Jeffries gets to gam-
bling and is finally expelled, but not
before Underwood has borrowed
money from him. Howard and the
waitress, now fast friends, are mar-
ried. Meanwhile Howard's father, a
widower, marries again, the lady being
an old flame of Underwood and his
patron as an art student.

When Howard brings his wife home
his father disowns him. Underwood
has opened a studio, using the name
of Mrs. Jeffries, Sr.. to draw patron-
age. But he is caught in shady deals
with spurious masterpieces. She with-
draws her support and things go ill
for Underwood financially. Under-
wood makes a last appeal to Mrs. Jef-
fries, threatening suicide if she does
not come to his aid.

The "Third Degree" Is Inflicted

Meanwhile things have been going
from bad to worse with Howard and
his wife. He takes to drinking again.
She gets a Job as a waitress in Childs'
and takes in washing. One night
Howard is too convivial. He goes to
L'nderwood's studio to ask for the
money owed him and falls asleep on
the sofa. At this time Mrs. Jeffries
comes in. L'nderwood throws a
screen around the sleeping Howard.

After a stormy interview Under-
wood makes good. He shoots him-
self. When the police arrive Howard
is naturally held for the death.

Captain Clinton, in an impressive
scene, puts him through the "third
degree." Three men, Howard, the
captain and a stenographer, sit in a
dark room under a dome light around
the table across which LTnderwood fell
when he shot himself. Howard finally
collapses and a signed confession is
extorted from him. In police court he
is held for the murder. Both scenes
are strong. The accused man gives
way and falls limp; he is boosted up
and made to go- on with the '"confes-
sion." This happens repeatedly. Jef-
fries, Sr.. not only refuses to befriend
his son. but will not allow his lawyer,
Brewster, to take the case.

Then Annie, the wife, gets in her
good work. After repeated efforts
and overcoming heart-breaking dis-
couragements, she gains Brewster's
ear. "I am not a criminal lawyer," he
says. "My husband is not a criminal."
she replies. Finally he is persuaded
to undertake the defense.
Reconciliation Ends All

At the trial the scene is intense. Dr.
Bernstein goes on the stand and rig-
orously confounds the testimony of
the police captain. Annie, to save the
name of the other woman, says she is
the Mrs. Jeffries to whom Underwood
addressed his letter. The police cap-
tain fights in vain to hold to his
methods, but Howard is freed and he
and his wife rush happy from the
court room. Then the wife of Jef-
fries. Sr.. rises to the occasion by
confessing to her husband that it was
she who visited Underwood. Jeffries,
Sr., shows his high calibre by forgiv-
ing her, and a general reconciliation
follows.

The whole picture maintains a high
plane throughout. It has the weight
of the Klein name and the success of
the drama from which it is adapted.
The adaption is excellent. The picture
is one which, per se, is of great value.
The sets and acting are good, the cast
pleasing. In addition that good Lu-
bin photography and excellent direc-
tion prevail. There is nothing more
to say. nor is there any need to say
more.

24 ' THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS

Crowds See "The Sea Wolf"

POLICE aid was called upon to han-
dle crowds at the Imperial Theatre,
San Francisco, on the occasion of the
exhibition of Bosworth's seven-reel pro-
duction of "The Sea Wolf." Films were
running from 10 o'clock in the morning
and took in seven thousand dollars the
first six days. During the first two
weeks of the exhibition an extra show
was put on each night, and the last ex-
hibition ended at 1 o'clock in the morn-
ing. They will be on exhibition there
indefinitely.

"John Barleycorn," Bosworth's second
production of the Jack London series, is
now ready and will be released shortly.
"John Barleycorn," by Jack London,
created a tremendous sensation when it
appeared as a serial story in the Satur-
day Evening Post, and will appear in
book form simultaneously with the film
production. This is a most unique pro-
duction, being practically a life confes-
sion of the early struggles of the author
with King Alcohol.

The difficult task of portraying the
life and character of the author is clev-

PRODUCE FILMS AND VAUDE-
VILLE SKETCHES

The Gorman Film Manufacturing
Company, Inc., 1402 Broadway, New
York City, is named after Jack Gorman,
the author, who is president and general
manager. The company has a studio at
Cliffside, N. J., and will produce feature
films and sketches for vaudeville. They
are negotiating with Giles Warren, for-
merly with the Whitman Warren Com-
pany, to act as director. They will
shortly release a three-reel feature of
Western life with entirely new effects.

Their second picture will be a three-
reel feature, "A Girl of the Under-
world," taken from the play of the same
name, of which Mr. Gorman is the au-
thor. He has three companies on the
road now.

KLEINE TO RELEASE AN AM-
BROSIO

"The Marriage of Figaro" is an
Ambrosio two-reel subject which
George Kleine schedules for release
through the General Film Company
as a regular two-reel release, Tues-
day, February 3, 1914. This subject
was selected by Mr. Kleine personally
while in Europe, and is notable for
some of the most magnificent settings
available in Seville, Spain, where the
drama was staged.

Several scenes show the royal cas-
tle "Alcazar" at Seville. The principal
leads of the two-reel are the same
whose work in Kleine's "The Last
Days of Pompeii" has created so much
favorable comment the world over.

erly depicted by three actors. Matty
Roubert, the celebrated child actor, late
of the Universal Company, portrays the
character of Jack London as a child of
six, showing how he first got drunk
from his father's beer jug at that tender
age. Antrom Short, an older boy actor,
portrays the role of Jack London at the
age of 16. Elmer Clifton, who has re-
markable physical and facial resem-
blance to Jack London, has been chosen
to characterize the author at the age of
30. Mr. London himself appears in the
production.

In "John Barleycorn," London treats
on the drink question in a manner never
before shown, either in fiction or on the
screen.

Following the "John Barleycorn" pic-
tures, the Bosworth Company, which has
a contract to produce all of London's
works in motion pictures, will film "The
Valley of the Moon," "Martin Eden,"
"Smoke Bellew," "Burning Daylight,"
"The Iron Heel," and others of the best
and most widely known of this cele-
brated author's works.

RENFAX MUSICAL MOTION
PICTURES

The Renfax musical pictures are to be
released through the Renfax Film Com-
pany, Inc., 110 West Fortieth Street,
New York City, of which Mr. Dewitt
Fox is the president and Mr. A. J.
Abram is the general manager. They

"I'LL GET YOU"

Scene from Renfax Musical Motion Pictures.

have about twenty releases of musical
motion pictures, the synchronism of all
of which is perfect and the photography
very good. The rates on these pictures
are within the reach of every exhibitor,
who will find them a good drawing
card.

The Renfax Company have ten dem-
onstrating companies en route at pres-
ent. The company will be glad to fur-
nish full detail to any exhibitor desiring
same, regarding these singing and danc-
ing movies of song hits.

KEYSTONE "COPS" CAUSE EX-
CITEMENT

Broadway, Los Angeles' most con-
gested thoroughfare, was recently put
at the disposal of the Keystone Com-
pany for the making of a picture en-
titled "His Sister's Kids." In the pro-
duction the Keystone police were di-
rected to make a chase down this
thoroughfare at the busiest time of
the day. The city traffic police mis-
took a fleeing player for an escaped
lunatic and there was a genuine strug-
gle in their attempts to capture him.

A large crowd gathered, and a by-
stander was about to turn in a riot
call, when it was discovered that it
was the Keystone Company at work.
Meanwhile the Keystone police, com-
ing at full speed, had a hazardous
time of it threading their way through
the traffic. One of them was hit by a
street car, ajid two others had narrow
escapes from being run down by
autos.

FEATURES IDEAL REBOOKED

Mrs. Agnes Egan Cobby, manager of
Features Ideal, of 227 West Forty-second
Street, is in receipt of the following let-
ter, of which she is very proud, from an
exhibitor who showed the first Features
Ideal subject, "The Guerrillas of Al-
giers" :

"It affords me great pleasure to write
to you that on December 14, 1913, I ran
your three-reel Feature Ideal, 'The Guer-
rillas of Algiers.' Beg to advise you that
we did the greatest volume of business
on that day that has ever been done
there before, having 4,800 paid admis-
sions. The audiences were so immensely
pleased by same that, owing to the re-
peated calls, I have booked same for a re-
turn date. In all my experiences as an
exhibitor I have never received so many
compliments from my patrons as I did
upon running 'The Guerrillas of Algiers.'

"Sincerely trusting you will keep up
the good work and give us more of the
same kind, I remain,

"Very respectfully yours,
"Eighth Avenue Amusement Co.,
"E. H. Rauch."

TETRAZZINI POSES

Madame Luisa Tetrazzini fell a
victim to the fascination of posing
for motion pictures upon her recent
arrival in New York on the Maure-
tania.

The cameras of "Our Mutual Girl,"
accompanied by the little lady her-
self and a number of her supporting
company, were on the dock to receive
the big liner and meet some of the
notables among its passengers. Tet-
razzini took a lively interest in the
proceedings, and the result was sev-
eral hundred feet of pictures showing
the famous star being welcomed to
America and her experience with the
reporters and custom officials.

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"SELLING OUT" IN SPAIN

^5

BY ROBERT CARLTON BROWN

KING ALFONSO has to ride in motor-cars and drink
champagne, so the poor devils who work for twenty
or forty cents a day have to pay. Somebody has to
pay, and because the King is perfectly democratic he doesn't
pick out one man or one class to pay his crown-maker's bills,
he makes everybody pay.

The poor motion picture exhibitor in Spain has to come up
with fifteen per cent, of his entrance money so the King can
have pate de foies gras and nightingales' tongues. It's fine for
the King, but tough for the exhibitor.

Perhaps the heavy tax imposed on all theatre seats through-
out Spain is the reason why the field is not better covered.
A town of fifty thousand gets along with one picture show,
and it feels very gay if it can support two.

Over every box office is hung a card bearing prices of ad-
mission. Translated into American, the sign reads like this :
Box for 5 people, $1.20, including Government tax
of 18c.

Orchestra seat, 16c. Government tax, 234c. extra.

Balcony seat, 8c. Government tax, lj^c.

Balance of balcony, 6c. Government tax, lc.

General admission, 5c. Government tax, lc.

"Nigger Heaven," 2^c. Government tax, y2c.
There are hardly any new motion picture theatres in Spain.
Most exhibitors lease an old theatre, big and barnlike, and
charge the regular theatre prices of Spain, which are very
low, the best seats selling for about 20 cents and the cheap-
est for 2^c. With such a house on an exhibitor's hands he
has a puzzling question before him: How to fill it?

* * * *

THERE is practically no such thing as 'selling out" in
Spain. An exhibitor is lucky if he fills the bleachers and
sells one-tenth of his best seats at one performance a day.
There are good days, however, which bring up the balance
of the year. Like Italians, the Spaniards have a feast day
frequently, and on those days the people expend themselves
and go to the theatres. But the ones who are the chief
patrons at the picture shows prefer to pay from two to
five cents for their pleasure, and that kind of trade is ob-
viously not highly desirable.

Another peculiarity of the Spaniards is the selection of
one day in the week to do things right. Each theatre has
one, or perhaps two popular nights, when everybody goes,
and the house can stay dark for the rest of the week for
all the Spaniards care.

A family party of five or six will pick out a Friday night
to go to the picture show at the Cafe Imperial, let us say.
They tell their friends what a good show they saw and sug-
gest that their friends go next Friday night. The friends
do, and after five or six years a custom is established.
Everybody who is anybody in the Cafe Imperial class goes
there on Friday night, but you couldn't tempt them into the
place on any other night by any inducement. If you offered
the best three-reel feature obtainable you'd play to an empty
house until Friday night, when business would suddenly pick
up and you'd have your house half full. In Spain that is
called "the correinte thing." One big night a week for one
show, and that's all.

Everything moves slowly in Spain, and the usual program
begins at eight o'clock and lasts till twelve. It is wearisome
and long drawn out, but that's the way the people like it.
They'll sit through an hour of sporty French films that have
been dumped into Spain at bargain prices, and then they'll
look just as_ patiently and calmly at a big feature film from
America which cost real money.

As a matter of fact, the picture show of Spain corresponds
with the old-fashioned show of six or eight years ago in
America, except that some of the more progressive places
have Pathe's Weekly and American features. But this ex-

penditure of money seems to be unnecessary; it doesn't draw
much bigger crowds or attract much more attention than a
modest outlay in worn-out films from the Continent. The
people want time-worn "chase" pictures, where the nurse
flirts with the cop and the baby carriage starts rolling down-
hill. They think that's awfully funny, and to make sure
that the people get it the word "Comica" is usually flashed
on the screen before the picture is shown. The Spaniards
like trick pictures and funny love stories.

^ -fa

T T is doubtful if a Spanish audience will want the higher
A class of film productions for a good many years to come.
They are illiterate as a class, the majority of them can't read
or write, and a film which needs words or titles to explain
it is never well received, except in the very best houses. The
few people who can read the titles repeat them out loud, and
those who can't read don't like the picture because it shows
up their ignorance. Something simple and predigested is
just their speed.

A live American with a collection of undesirable left-overs
of a vintage ten years back could doubtless take them to
Spain and make a bunch of money out of them, but for the
up-to-date manufacturer the field is still a virgin one, and is
apt to remain so until the people quit going to cock-fights
and bull-fights.

A good exchange could be established in Spain, however.
At present the business is not organized, exhibitors get films
where they can or subscribe to some inadequate service.
There is really a good opening for the right exchange man,
and a few manufacturers are beginning to realize it. After
all, in spite of the Government tax, Spanish people like the
theatre. They must have it, just the same as they must have
wine and black cigarettes. As long as this demand exists,
and there seem to be plenty of Spanish exhibitors willing to
take a chance, the exchange man ought to have the field well
covered.

Since time began it has been the custom here to have three
or four short performances a night in the theatre, but the
motion picture exhibitors seemed to think they weren't giv-
ing enough for the money, so they started the four-hour ses-
sion. If pictureplays could be given on the same session
scheme of the theatres they would be more money in it. Some
exhibitors have tried this, but in a faint-hearted way, and
they have included vaudeville acts, which helped eat up the
profits.

Vaudeville as an adjunct to pictures is fairly popular and
profitable here. The people like singing and dancing, and very
good artists can be found at very low prices.

The house which makes the most money is one which gives
four shows a night and includes vaudeville. Spaniards don't
like the daytime, because the sun is so hot, so perform-
ances begin at eight o'clock and last much later than they do
in America, and matinees are out of the question, except one
on Sunday as late as four or five o'clock in the afternoon. The
sessions last from an hour to an hour and a half, and the last
one begins at 11 :30 or midnight. Rent is low, and music
wouldn't cost much if it wern't for the fact that the audi-
ence is accustomed to a whole orchestra even at a picture
show and can't get along without it.

* ■ * . * *

THERE are very few local pictures shown. Perhaps if
more films were manufactured in Spain, by the Spaniards
and for the Spaniards, business would be on the boom. Pathe
and Kleine-Cines both have stock companies in Spain, but
most of the pictures taken are for foreign consumption. What
is needed most is a film favorite or two for the masses. They
have a confusion of actors and actresses from other countries,
but no native player to interpret their feelings for them in pic-
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Pathe Gets World's Fair Contract

PATHE FRERES have just been
appointed official cinematographers
of the Panama Pacific International
Exposition, which will be held in San
Francisco in 1915, to celebrate the
completion of the Panama Canal. The
contract was closed on December 5,
and is now officially in effect.

It grants to Pathe Freres the sole
right to make motion pictures in black
and white, in colors, and also talking
motion pictures within the - Exposi-
tion grounds, from the date of sign-
ing the contract to and including
thirty days after the Exposition
closes.

Competition for this appointment,
with its accompanying privileges, was
most keen. Cash offers, ranging from
$10,000 to $50,000, together with sub-
stantial royalties on the gross re-
ceipts, were offered the committee.
Pathe Freres secured the concession
without the payment of any cash
bonus, the committee and exposition
officials being convinced that none of
the other bidders could give the Ex-

TWO CAMERAS FOR "OUR
MUTUAL GIRL"

In producing the "Our Mutual Girl"
series, soon to be seen on the Mutual
program, two cameras are used in the
taking of every scene. This precaution
not only lessens the risk of loss due to
accident to the camera or film, but also
allows extra care to be used in the de-
veloping of the exposed negative.

One roll of negative is developed in
New York while the other is immedi-
ately sent to a Philadelphia factory.

The many important personages be-
ing photographed for the "Mutual Girl"
series are extremely difficult to get to
pose for motion pictures and if any-
thing happened to mar the negative,
once it was obtained, the chance of re-
taking the picture would be very small.

A print is made from each negative
and the better one of the two selected
for use in the picture. In addition to
this advantage is the fact that one
camera man usually obtains much better
action than the other, because his posi-
tion happens to be favorable.

STORM DELAYS ACTORS

Crane Wilbur and several other
Pathe players under the direction of
Frank Powell were held up recently
for four days by storms which kept
them from going over to Block Island
by steamer from Newport. The water
was so rough that the steamer was
turned back twice. Powell's desire
for Block Island backgrounds was
considerably diminished after several
severe attacks of sea sickness and
everyone in the party was similarly
affected.

position the world-distribution for the
pictures they were assured of receiv-
ing under the contract with Pathe.

Pathe Freres were represented
throughout the negotiations by J. W.
Binder, who spent six weeks in San
Francisco. Mr. Binder is a specialist
in business organization, who for
nearly a year has been making a
study of the motion picture art, with
a view of developing its use along in-
dustrial, educational and commercial
lines. As a direct outcome of the
Pathe contract, Mr. Binder has set
apart one day out of thirteen to be
covered by the World Congress on
Education which will commence in
San Francisco in July, 1915. The en-
tire day is to be devoted to a practi-
cal exposition of methods of applying
the motion picture to educational
work from the primary school to the
university.

Mr. Binder will represent Pathe
Freres at San Francisco working out
the details of the contract. He leaves
January 1.

EDWARD COXEN, OF THE
"FLYING A" FILMS

Here's to you, O Edward Coxen,
For we like the things you do;

We all like your style of loving,
And we care a lot for you.

And we like the look appealing
That is seen within your eyes

When you play the part of hero,
With some sweet girl for 'the prize.

We all think you great as sheriff,
And you make a cowboy grand —

So here's health and luck to you, Ed :
Gee! I'd like to shake your hand!

Edward A. Lifka.

TONS OF TURKEY

Two and a half tons of turkey,
more than three hundred big birds,
ordered from Maryland by the Vita-
graph Company, were given away to
their players and employees on the
day before Christmas.

It was amusing to see the Vitagraph
force leaving the studios the day
before Christmas, each carrying a big
turkey under his arm. This is usually
known at the Vitagraph studios as
"The Turkey Parade." This year it
was called "The Turkey Trot."

One of the requirements relative
to being in the "parade" is that every-
one must carry their turkey home
themselves. John Bunny, the most
portly man at the studio, got the
largest turkey, a prize bird weighing
thirty pounds. Confirmed old bach-
elors had the privilege of taking the
equivalent value of the turkey in
money with which to buy themselves
cigars or whatever else they needed.

OSHKOSH CONVENTION A
SUCCESS

The biggest and best convention ever
held in Wisconsin took place in Osh-
kosh on December 16 and 17, at the
Athearn Hotel. Harmony and good fel-
lowship prevailed throughout the con-
vention.

President Neff opened the convention
and was in the chair until just before
the convention adjourned, when the fol-
lowing elected officers were installed:

National vice-president, John R. Ek,
Oshkosh; president, Harry H. Buford,
La Crosse; first vice-president, W. J.
Judson, Portage ; second vice-president,
H. Z. Zander, Rhinelander ; secretary, A.
E. Gray, Oshkosh; treasurer, Neil Duffy,
Appleton, and sergeant at arms, C. L.
Hiller, Eau Claire.

Several feature film men were in at-
tendance and one or two manufacturers
and musical men. The Nicholas Power
representative, as usual, showed pic-
tures, and a new motion picture ma-
chine from Chicago was on exhibition.

The next convention will be held in
Green Bay, Wisconsin, in the month of
April. An organizer will be placed in
the field immediately, under the instruc-
tions of the State president and secre-
tary. The convention wound up with
a big banquet.

"KING BRADY'S" AUTHOR
WRITES FOR BLACHE

Herbert Blache, of Blache Features,
has just completed a four-part feature
entitled "Hook and Hand." This scen-
ario was written by William Doughty,
the author of the "Old King Brady" de-
tective stories. Hook and Hand is a
remarkable living character. He is at
the present time serving a fifteen-year
sentence in the Montana State Peniten-
tiary. The incidents in the story woven
around Hook and Hand are real facts
from his very sensational career. The
writer says that he is one of the most
peculiar characters in the criminal world.

PICTURES AID SUFFRAGE

Two suffragette leaders, Miss Rose
Windslow and Miss Helen Todd, car-
ried the fight for woman suffrage
into the motion picture theatres last
week, when they spoke at Marcus
Loew's Circle Theatre, where the
suffrage picture, "What 80,000,000
Women Want," with Mrs. Pankhurst
in the leading role, was shown. This
picture, which was taken October 23
at the Chelsea studios on West Thirty-
first street, was shown last Friday
for the first time in public, and may
go over the entire Marcus Loew cir-
cuit, in which event it would reach
approximately 1,000,000 people.

The suffragettes plan to have speak-
ers for the "cause" at every theatre
where the picture is shown to speak
to the audience after each showing of
the film. The picture is in four reels.

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LIFE OF QUEEN VICTORIA FILMED

A CAST of eight thousand people, of whom eight hun-
dred appear in one scene ; eight thousand two hundred
costumes, of which many were specially designed; five
months devoted to the writing of the scenario alone ; one
hundred thousand dollars expended in production — here are
some reasons why the picture "Sixty Years a Queen'' takes
rank with the most remarkable ever made, and in many ways
stands alone as a film masterpiece. ~~

The well-known English producer, William Barker, de-
lighted a large audience in the^- north- ballroom of the Hotel
Astor, New York, last Sunday-afternoon* with the first ex-
hibition of the picture in this countryrT" 4

Mr. Barker explained, for the benefit of those present hav-
ing a technical knowledge of projection, that the pictures.

THE GIVING OF THE FIRST VICTORIA CROSS

fifteen feet in size, were projected on only fifteen amperes
of electric current. This was due, he said, to the use of a
"Day and Night" screen. The projection was perfect — soft
and clear. It was a triumph from a mechanical point of
view as well as from the artistic.

Vigorous Search for "Types"

Later Mr. Barker talked interestingly of the picture and its
making, in particular of how its wonderful realism was ac-
complished.

In all nine months were required to complete the picture —
this by the energetic Mr. Barker, who says we produce too
slowly in this country. Three writers spent five months on
the scenario. A great deal of time ; but it must be said that
if such time is required to produce a picture so finished in
every detail, so faithful in reproduction, then the time is
assuredly well spent.

A good deal of delay was occasioned by the difficulty in
securing characters. Over six hundred persons were inter-
viewed for the leads. These were secured by liberal adver-
tising in the British press, offering fifty dollars for twenty
minutes' work.

In order to secure a character for the part of King Ed-
ward— who appears but once in the picture — the portrait of
the late King was published in the " Daily Sketch " for
eleven consecutive days. Four thousand replies were had,
one from a woman who covered four pages of note-paper
with proofs of her husband's likeness in every way to the
King and closed by stating that unfortunately the subject was
dead. Two hundred and fifty dollars were offered for this
character for three minutes' work.

Three actresses depicted the life of Queen Victoria from
young womanhood to old age. The small stature of the late
Queen, her facial characteristics, and the high order of acting
required made the selection of these characters extremely dif-

ficult. It proved impossible to find in England a young wom-
an for the part and Mr. Barker had to go to Austria for her.
She could not speak English and the excellent acting she does
was the result of Mr. Barker's instructions through gestures.

The part of the middle-aged Queen was taken by Miss
Heath and the elderly Queen by Mrs. Lytton, wife of the
well-known English actor, Harry Lytton. In both instances,
as well as with the young Queen, the utmost fidelity in ap-
pearance and queenly dignity was achieved.

Accuracy the Keynote

An idea of the fidelity of characterization throughout the
picture may be had from the frontispiece illustration in this
issue. Disraeli was splendid. The part of Lord Salisbury
was taken by the well-known English novelist, Arthur Shir-
ley. In this group the goatee of Disraeli and the side-whisk-
ers of John Bright were the only make-up used. Not a
single wig was used in the entire picture.

Charles Dickens was found by Mr. Barker one morning in
the Bakerloo tube. And so he diligently acquired his char-
acters. Many notables appeared with the request only that
their identity remain unknown. .

Accuracy was made the keynote of the picture. Hide-
bound facts must be observed. So Mr. Barker started his
work by securing, through the Lord Chamberlain, access to
all the engravings, paintings and other records in possession
of the Royal family. Even some of these proved inaccurate
in the light of the rigid investigation made. For instance,
in the well-known painting by Sir David Wilkie of the Queen
at her council meeting, the latter appears in a white dress.
A white dress was made for the scene, only to be discarded,
when there was found in the Queen's diary her own statement
that she appeared in mourning.

The costuming was the most important undertaking of all.
Eight thousand two hundred costumes, supplied by the London
costumer, William Clarkson, were used. Most of these were
original creations, perfected only after a deal of study in
every instance. All the dresses in the jubilee of '87, with their
odd bustles, panniers, and leg-of-mutton sleeves, had to be
created. •

In the Queen's diary she notes that her dress of gold at the
coronation weighed over two hundred pounds and that she
was unable to move without the aid of the pages. To secure
the desired realism, Mr. Barker had built a dress of brass,
weighing one hundred and fifty pounds, for use in this
picture.

At the exhibition of the picture much favorable comment
was caused by the realistic snow scene at the siege of Sebas-
topol, and many were curious to know how the effect was
secured.

The snow flakes were shavings of kid gloves, which have the

CHRISTENING OF KING EDWARD VII

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same specific gravity as real snow flakes and consequently the
very same floating effect. They were scattered from three
different boxes arranged at regular distances from the
camera. In each box the shavings were of graded sizes, those
nearest the camera being smallest and so on, the effect being
that all appeared of the same size in the picture. The cost
of the flakes was $55.

Immense Night Sky Scene

Another innovation in the Sebastopol scene was a night
sky scene 105 feet wide by 85 feet high. This is the largest
of its kind ever used.

Not a scrap of painted scenery was used in the picture.
Every ornament was real. The pillars in the Westminster
Abbey scene cost $1,000 to make. The gun at Ladysmith cost
one hundred and fifty dollars.

Mr. Barker is most insistent upon his policy of realistic set-
tings—in all pictures. He burns his settings once they are
used. They are valueless afterward, he claims. "Every show
should stand upon its own bottom," to use his phrase.

The film itself, which is about 7,000 feet long, is divided
into four reels, three long and one short. Part One shows
the Queen from her accession to the throne to her marriage
to Prince Albert of Saxe-Gotha. It opens with death of King
William. Then the Princess is notified that she is to be Eng-
land's Queen. Coronation scenes follow in great detail and of
great historical accuracy and value. Scenes are shown of the
celebration all over the British Empire. The Queen and
Prince Albert are betrothed. She indicates her choice by
presenting him with a flower at a public dance.

Albert, at a loss as to what to do with the posy, takes a

knife, skewers a hole in his lapel and inserts the flower. This
was the first boutonniere and the first buttonhole in the
lapel of a man's coat, a custom which endures to this day.

In Part Two are shown many scenes concerning the Cri-
mean War, the siege of Sebastopol, the death of the Prince
Consort, the mourning for him and other items of interest
such as the delivery of the first letter with an adhesive stamp,
the sending of the first trans- Atlantic cablegram by the
Queen, of President Lincoln, and Charles Dickens in his
study, with the characters he created visualized through very
fine double exposure.

Incidentally the reception of the cablegram by Lincoln is
the only disappointing scene in the whole production. Lin-
coln, himself, falls far below the popular conception of him
in this country.

Of Great Educational Value

In Part Three were shown many Indian scenes and historic
events. The marriage of Prince Edward, which the Queen
did not sanction by her presence, being one of the interesting
events.

Part Four, the short reel, shows the last days and death
of the Queen. The close is a bust of the Queen, at the base
of which persons of all classes lay their tributes to the good
Victoria.

"Sixty Years a Queen" shows a master hand in every ele-
ment of production. As an educational picture it has no equal.
It should have a large audience in this country for this rea-
son alone and for its inherent excellence. In Canada it should
prove, for patriotic interest, the most popular picture ever
shown there. W. A. J.

THE MOTION PICTURE IN GREECE

THE motion picture, so popular in the Orient, has not
yet enjoyed in Greece the same success that it has had
in Turkey and Egypt. Very badly exploited since its
inception about six years ago, it does not yet possess a single
establishment specially adapted for its performance according
to a bulletin issued by the French Chamber of Commerce in
Greece. These performances are given here and there all
over the country, in summer the theatres being without
roofs, which are hurriedly and badly transformed into
winter theatres when the season changes.

The public, spoiled during the summer by free open-air
performances, becomes difficult to please, and, in order to
make up programs, which their patrons demand shall be
changed daily, exhibitors are obliged to mix with their new
films a very large quantity of old films which bring discredit
upon the theatres.

Latterly, however, some of the big manufacturing firms
have opened agencies in Greece. These are tending to better
the conditions, and, by limiting programs to new films only,
will finish by giving the motion picture new scope, which
promises well for its future.

$ $ ■ ' %

FRENCH films are by far the most popular, although
American films are not despised. Public taste is more es-
pecially drawn towards tragic plays, highly colored melo-
dramas, stories of the police and criminals, and also "comics."

There being no actual sale for films, hiring business only
is done. The films are supplied by the big Paris houses which
have an agency at Athens.

The total import of films is more than 984,000 feet (300,000
metres) a year, but films only circulate for a short while in
the country, and are returned immediately after they have
been used. In spite of this, duty has to be paid, and is not
returnable when the goods leave the country again, as is the
case in Egypt.

Films, new or old without distinction, are assessed by
weight at the Customs: 5 francs 80 centimes, the oke (1,252

grammes), while the toll fees and other formalities bring the
charge to about centimes the metre (about one cent per
3 feet). Besides this, toll is exacted upon the films at each
town they enter.

* * *

UNFORTUNATELY the manner in which the toll fees,
and also the harbor dues, are levied in Greece, left as
they are to the judgment of agents who have no properly
established basis to act upon, very much augments the ex-
penses of exhibitors, and, in consequence, does much to retard
the spread of the motion picture in the rural districts.

A Corfu business man, for instance, taking his programs
to Athens, pays an amount equal to nearly 50 per cent of
the hiring charges in fees and duties.

The sale of projectors and general apparatus is as small
as that of films. When an outfit is imported, the duty of 5
francs 80 centimes per oke is sometimes levied on the pro-
jector alone, and sometimes on the complete outfit. Thus,
the amount of duty one pays ' on material worth 800
francs may be anything from 100 to 400 francs (from $20
to $80) according to the humor in which the assessor of
duty may be on the day of entry. Most of the big towns
have electricity. In others, generating sets supply the
curcent.

THERE exists one firm of film manufacturers in Greece —
the "Fabrisque Panhellenique de films S. Leonce," at Athens.
Up to now, it is true, this firm has produced only topical and
scenic pictures, but it announces its intention of issuing in the
near future some spectacular plays, which should certainly be
successful in view of the natural beauties and historical monu-
ments which abound in the land.

Altogether, although Greece has not yet progressed very
far in the motion picture field, one can foresee that the spirit
of imitation which dominates the Greeks, and their love of
everything connected with the theatre, will bring about a rapid
extension and development of the picture industry in their
country.

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OH, ITS AN INTERESTING LIFE!

Punctuated by GEORGE D. PROCTOR

of say, sixty, theatres within six
months. The pictures will be known
as "Broadway Star Features."

SURVEYING the week with the
cold, judicial air of that well-
known institution, the cash register,
it would seem that old Father Time
is soon to ring up another year. The
glad Yule-tide has come and gone.
Others have dilated on that fact by
and large. Now a brand new chunk
of Time, 365 days strong, confronts
the motion picture business.

Time is indeed golden and endowed
with wings in this industry. Fortunes
are being made quicker in the motion
picture business than in any other legiti-
mate occupation. Lose but a little time
and some unsleeping competitor may
beat you to the golden opportunity.
Little more than a year ago the man
would have been considered a hopeless
optimist who would have said that mo-
tion pictures would have made the
strides they have. Who would have
been brave enough to predict pictures
actually crowding the legitimate right
in Times Square, the few feet of earth
that make the theatrical center of the
country. But pictures now are crowd-
ing the legit and the legit is moving over
to make room for 'em.

Take the most optimistic prediction
which sounds reasonable for the com-
ing year and add fifty per cent. That
is my idea of what pictures will do in
the next twelve months.

The way in which the industry is pro-
gressing even the less meritorious firms
are going to get by with profits com-
paratively large. But the people who
deserve the credit and the money, and
who often get both, the Rollo books not-
withstanding, are the people who are
crowding every nerve to aid and uplift.
They are the people who are making
good pictures, the folks who are con-
ducting their business on sound prin-
ciples, the folks who do not connive at
trash, but steadily aim at all that is
highest and best. More power to 'em.
All of which may be construed as a
clumsy way of saying "Happy New
Year."

A combine has been made by the
theatrical firm of Cohan and Harris and
the Kinemacolor Company of America.
Cohan and Harris will furnish the plays
and the theatres. They will put pic-
tures next summer in the houses they
control, using black and white as well
as color pictures. This deal was put
through, it is understood, after Cohan
and Harris had dickered unsuccessfully
with several other motion picture firms.

Echoes drifting in from Ohio show
that the censors there are having trou-
ble among themselves. J. A. Maddox,
chairman of the censors, handed in his
resignation last Saturday to the Indus-
trial Board. No reason is given out, a
fact significant in itself. Mr. Maddox
has been in the motion picture business
in Columbus so he may return to his
place. His successor has not yet been
appointed.

With his face bearing the tan of
sunny Florida, Frank V. Beal strode
into our town recently. Frank was
down where the breezes blow soft and

FRANK V. BEAL— THAT'S ALL

sensuous, producing pictures for, Tampa
Films, Inc., but returned to see the fes-
tivities attendant upon the exhibition of
the picture he produced, "The Inside of
the White Slave Traffic." Frank, by
the way, was formerly head producer
with the Selig Polyscope Company, so
he acknowledges.

The Vitagraph Company of Amer-
ica announces that soon after the first
of the year a big Times Square the-
atre will be opened as the Vitagraph
Theatre. Most likely the Criterion,
as rumor has been very strong con-
cerning this deal for some time. Here
will be shown the big Vitagraph fea-
tures, of five or more reels, now being
produced, before their general re-
lease.

The Vitagraph Company, it dawned
upon me some time ago, has hit upon
the ideal method of procedure — to
produce big pictures and own its own
chain of theatres. I understand that,
if this present deal is successful, the
Vitagraph company will have a chain

Incidentally Vitagraph will soon
put out a new brand of comedies.

Charles Feature Abrams, who has
been selling Great Northern Special
Features since the flood, took his
pencil in hand the other day and com-
puted that he has sold more than
5,400,000 feet of film. Incidentally,
Charlie gave away nice little gold
pieces for Christmas presents to all
his employees.

Chester Beecroft, press agent and
advertising manager for the General
Film Company, is in Chicago on a
business trip.

Joe Brandt, the peerless press

agent of the Universal, has returned

from Europe. Mr. Exhibitor, take
note.

Taking testimony in the suit of
P. A. Powers against the Universal
Film Manufacturing Company and
Carl Laemmle, involving the Horsley
stock, has been continued till Janu-
ary 6. On that day hearings will be
held before Referee Morgan J. G.
O'Brien at 2 Rector street.

Maurice B. Seltzer has just taken
charge of the advertising department
of the American Theatre Curtain and
Supply Company, manufacturers of
Radium Gold Fibre screens. He was
formerly connected with the S. H.
Rosenheim advertising agency of St.
Louis.

The George W. Dillingham Pub-
lishing Company has closed a con-
tract with the Universal Film Manu-
facturing Company to produce "Traffic
in Souls" in book form. Eustace Hale
Ball, Marathon novelist, short story
and scenario writer, will write the
book.

Albert Blinkhorn gave all his little
playmates in his office a "Christmas
box" on the twenty-fifth. This is
English for an extra week's salary.

The souvenir program to be auc-
tioned at the Screen Club ball should
sell for a handsome sum this year.
Kessel and Bauman have already
started the fun with a bid of $1,000.

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the amount they paid last year. This
action is a challenge to other manu-
facturers. Here's hoping the bidding
is spirited.

Leading the list of recent social
events is the ball tendered D. W.
Griffith, head producer for the Mutual
Film Corporation, at Murray's last
Saturday. The affair was attended
by a crowd culled carefully from the
Mutual and Biograph, with which
Griffith was connected so long. The
feature was the presentation of an
evening set of platinum and pearl
cuff buttons and studs by Dell Hen-
derson. Mr. Griffith made a short
speech of acceptance. Mr. Miller and
"Spike'' Robinson also made speeches.

Among those present were Vera
Gordon, Gertrude Robinson. Norma
Phillips, Consuelo Bailey, Blanche
Sweet, Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish, Mr.
and Mrs. Will Louis, Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Lewis, Harris Gordon, Alan
Hale, James Kirkwcod, Henry Walt-
hall, Eddie Dillon. Jack Dillon. Earl
Fox, Walter Stanhope, Fred Aiken
and Jack Barrymore.

The engagement is announced of
Stephanie Le Tang and Raymond
Hoadley, of the Universal forces.

Clarkson P. Ryttenber. of the Ryno
Film Companjr, has imported a ""white
slave"' picture which he calls "Shack-
led Souls" or "In the Clutches of the
White Slave Traders." American
rights have already been sold to Al
Levy.

The Manhattan Feature Film Com-
pany, of 341 Fifth avenue, has opened
a branch office in Troy.

G D. Briggs. Jr.. succeeds Ben
Abrams. as manager of the Philadel-
phia office of Warner's Features. Inc.
Mr. Briggs has conducted exchanges
in Springfield, Mass., and Albany,
N. Y.

C. Lang Cobb, manager of sales
and publicity for Ramo films, is off on
another trip, this time for two weeks.
He will open offices in Minneapolis.
St. Louis and Indianapolis to handle
Ramo films and also expects to close
a standing order for Ohio and several
other big contracts.

One simply is compelled to hand it
to Arthur Leslie as a "stunt man."
His latest was to send around Christ-
mas stockings containing newspaper
clippings about the recipient. Most
timely, apropos, and all that.

BROUGHT IN BY SANTA CLAUS

Hereby is acknowledged the receipt of Christ-
mas cards from Edgena de Lespine, Bert An-
geles, Albert W. Hale, Frank C. Griffin, Charles
Simone, A. J. Lang, William L. Barry, William
Oldknow and his Consolidated Film and Supply
Company, and one more— —Joe Farnham.

William Sherry, of the Sherry Feature Film
Company, w.th offices in the Times Building,
Xew York City, is up-state selling Famous
Players features.

Marshall Xeilan has returned to the Kalem
forces at Santa Monica, Cal.

Harry Beaumont, one of the youngest Edi-
son plavers, does bis first "heavy" in "The
Witness' to the WiH."

Hare seen a neat little pocket-size catalogue
from the H. W. Johns-Manville Company, of
Xew York, manufacturers of asbestos goods.
The title of this booklet is "Theatre Necessities."
It deals principally with asbestos theatre cur-
tains, operating booths and fire extinguishers.
The booklet is a very neat little affair, well
printed in two colors on heavy enameled stock
and with embossed cover. It is profusely illus-
trated with half tones of the goods, for which
the sizes and prices are fully given.

After months of preparation the first picture
of "Our Mutual Girl," the fifty-two reel serial,
will be released by the Mutual Film Corpora-
tion on Monday, January 5.

The American Film Manufacturing Company
announces the completion of another three-reel
subject, the title of which will be "The Lost
Treasure," produced by Thomas Ricketts.

Alec B. Francis, of the Eclair Company, does
a wonderful bit of character work as "Coke
Morgan" in the three-reel subject, "The Case
of Cherry Purcelle."

Melodrama still holds good, lads. A coming
thriller which cost the Eclair Company thou-
sands of dollars and several weeks is "Into
the Wild." An overland express train of five
passenger cars arid engine is wrecked for the
big "punch."

William West, who has been playing leads in
Champion films, is in Xew York.

The All Star Feature Corporation has
secured the motion picture rights to the two
best known plays of James Forbes, "The
Chorus Lady" and "The Traveling Salesman."

Charles Brabin, Edison director, just back
from Europe, has taken unto himself a director
for life. The person in question was Susette
Mosher. but she is now Mrs. Brabin.

Otis Turner is making a two-reel p-oduction
of James Fenimore Cooper's novel, "The Spy,"
at the Universal Coast studios.

The first production of the Albuquerque
Film Company, "The First Law of Xature," a
three-Dart production, has been completed.

E. Mandelbaum, president of the World Spe-
cial Films Corporation, returned to Cleveland
to spend the holidays with his familv.

Franklin Price Knott, the camera artist, in seek-
ing special types, finds wealth of material among

The Pacific Coast Studios of the Uni-
versal." at Hollywood. Cal., are in the
midst of a season of activity never be-
fore equalled in the history of the
Western branch. Aside from the fact
that a mammoth stage, one block in
length, and big property and costume
rooms are in the course of construction,
six big productions are under way.

The four-reel production of "Samson,"
in which J. Warren Kerrigan is featured
and which is being directed by J. Farrell
McDonald, is well along.

The four-reel production of "The
Merchant of Venice.'" which is being
done by Lois Weber. Phillips ■ Smalley
and a cast of specially engaged actors, is
nearing completion.

Otis Turner has just completed a two-
reel story entitled "The Law of His
Kind," and he is ready to begin on the
adaption of James Fenimore Cooper's
novel, "The Spy."

Director Allan Dwan is finishing a
three-reel story entitled "Discord and
Harmony," and has started taking scenes
in the four-reel production of Bulwer's
"'Richelieu.''

Director Francis Ford is busy with a

""Flying A'* folks. Vivian Rich was selected
in the costume she wears in "Destinies Ful-
filled," a three-part feature soon to be released.
Peter Morrison and other cowboys were also
selected because of their individuality in the
work they are doing.

Beatrice Mable, who has been appearing in
character parts in Edison films, recently under-
went a successful operation for appendicitis.
Edna Hamel, her niece, was greatly upset over
her aunt's sudden attack, but now Miss Mable
is felt to be well on the road to recovery.

State rights to "Quincy Adams Sawyer," pro-
duced by the Puritan Special Features Com-
pany, of Boston, for Southern Xew Jersey,
Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland,
District of Columbia and Maryland, have been
sold to the Electric Theatre Supply Company,
of Thirteenth and Vine streets, Philadelphia-
Theodore Holman, of Mansfield, Mass., has
bought the state rights for Maine, Xew Hamp-
shire and Vermont. Milton Jacobs, of In-
dianapolis, has bought the state rights for Indi-
ana, and R. \Y. Lamphere, of Topeka, Kan.,
has bought Kansas and Oklahoma.

Ralph Ince, the Vitagraph director and actor,
will again be seen as Lincoln in a picture which
will be released along in February.

The Balboa Amusement Company gave a
Christmas dinner to the members of the com-
pany and invited guests on Christmas Eve at
the Virginia Hotel, Long Beach, Cal.

Hazel Buckham, late of Biograph, Broncho
and Kay-Bee, has been engaged by the Uni-
versal to play ingenue leads in Robert Leon-
ard's Rex company on the Pacific Coast.

Edwin August, of the Universal, entertained
recently in honor of Mary Pickford and her
mother at his Hollywood, Cal-, residence.
Among the guests present were Mr. and Mrs.
Isidore Bernstein, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Xash,
Mr. and Mrs. Phillips Smalley, Mr. and Mrs.
Otis Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mace, Hal
August, Barney Sherry, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Leonard, Allan Dwan, Ivy Shepard, Alice
Rhodes, Ethel Davis and Laura Oakley.

Florence Hackett, of the Lubin Company,
playing under the direction of Arthur Johnson,
communicates some entertaining ideas regard-
ing dress in an article published in the current
Motion Picture Story Magazine by Xorbert
Lusk.

Wallie Van, of the Vitagraph players, was
the winner of the prize of §100 in gold offered
by the Professional Woman's League at their
bazaar at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Friday
and Saturday, December 19th and 20th. The
winning number was C-409. It cost Mr. Van
the large sum of ten cents.

three-reel production entitled "The Re-
turn of the Twins' Double." This will
be a sequel to "The Twins' Double,"
which was recently done by Mr. Ford.

Al. E. Christie has just completed a
two-reel comedy, the first to have been
produced at the Pacific Coast Studios of
the Universal, entitled "When Ursus
Threw the Bull.

Director Henry McRae is working on
a two-reel production, "The Flash of
Fate."

Director Allen Curtis' Joker Company
holds forth at Universal City, where Mr.
Curtis is producing the biggest story he
has ever done. It is entitled "A Freak
Temperance Wave," and every animal at
the Universal ranch, including lions,
tigers, bears, wolves, camels, elephants
and python monsters are used in its pro-
duction. Max Asher plays the part of
an inebriate until the entire zoo i t a
traveling circus breaks forth and over-
runs the countryside.

Robert Leonard is directing himself in
a comedy entitled "The Boob's Honey-
moon," and Donald MacDonald is like-
wise directing himself in a comedy, "The
Boys in Camp.''

Activity at Universal Coast Studios

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FIRST BETTY NANSEN PICTURE A TREAT

Distinguished Tragedienne Stamps First of Great Northern Preferred Feature Attractions with Own Per-
sonality, Making "Princess Elena's Prisoner" a Notable Drama

WITH Miss Betty Nansen, the
distinguished tragedienne, play-
ing the leading role in this absorbing
four-reel drama, the Great Northern
Film Company is to be congratulated
upon bringing the photo-drama closer
in touch with the stage. The Nansen
series — there are several of them an-
nounced to follow as the Great North-
ern Preferred Feature Attractions —
judging by the first, promises a treat

THE PRIME MINISTER

for lovers of the artistic as produced
on the film.

Miss Nansen proves herself to be
an actress of exceptional ability, and
while there are those who may sug-
gest that in the earlier moments she
does not infuse more animation into
the role, it remains to be seen at the
conclusion of the story that her con-
ception of the part is all that could
be wished for. She has a thorough
grasp of the requirements of the role
of the Princess Elena, and her de-
meanor and histrionic ability serve to
make the production one of the note-
worthy photo-dramatic creations of
the era.

The story is simple enough in the
concrete, but with Miss Nansen play-
ing the leading role, the theme be-
comes powerful from the tragical
point of view. The actress possesses
an appealing personality on the
screen, and in truth she lives up
to the reputation which she has
earned on the stages of the principal

theatres of Europe. Now for a di-
gest of the story which affords Miss
Nansen her opportunity.

She is the Princess Elena, and her
father is a king who is bent upon mak-
ing war upon his neighbors. Before
hostilities have been resumed for the
latest outbreak, the Princess meets
Captain Versin, who belongs to the
hostiie country, and she learns to
love him. There is a dinner being
given in the old castle, and the Prime
Minister announces with pride that
the armies of the King have won an-
other victory over the enemy. The
company is elated, all but Princess
Elena, who recalls having met and
loved Captain Versin during times of
peace. When the prisoners of war
are brought in, Miss Nansen supplies
an excellent bit of acting as she sees
the man of her choice taken to the
hospital on an army cot. She orders
him taken to the castle after nursing
him back to health, and in the mean-
time the Prime Minister is looking
on with jealous eyes. She aids him to
escape but he is recaptured.

The Captain proves himself a cra-
ven and pleads that he be given an-
other opportunity to escape, and the
Princess appropriates the uniform of
one of the guards and permits Versin
to escape. He has many exciting mo-
ments, but in the meantime the Prin-
cess Elena, realizing that her love has
been misplaced, uses the stiletto on
her wrist, and when the Prime Min-
ister arrives in order to carry out the
sentence imposed upon Captain Ver-
sin, he finds the Princess dead on the
floor of the cell.

Miss Nansen is seen to excellent
advantage in the role of Princess
Elena, and her supporting company
gives evidence that the directorship
was handled most carefully. The en-
tire story is one that requires the most
careful attention in the way of en-
semble, and the appearances of Miss
Nansen in the screen picture lend a
dignity and appeal that is calculated
to win its way to the hearts of lovers
of genuine photo-dramatic produc-
tions.

G. D. P.

THE FAREWELL

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Vol. VIII

January 3, 1914

No. 26

WHAT IS A MOTION PICTURE?

OF the scores of thousands of exhibitors who show
motion pictures in their theatres in all parts of
the world, probably few could reply to the
question at the head of this article so clearly that the
answer would be understood by a schoolboy. It is our
object to make plain what the motion picture really
is — that is, of what it is made, and this quite outside of
the story, the acting, the settings that make the play or
subject which the picture illustrates. We think that
the exhibitor would find it of use to him, if he would
master this information for himself and make it known
to his audiences, as there is a widespread desire for
such knowledge. This we know from what is said to
us by many exhibitors and members of the public in-
terested in the motion picture.

In technical language, a motion picture is a film of
perforated celluloid, upon which is superimposed a
positive silver image in pure gelatine. Say this to an

ordinary exhibitor or a member of the public and he
would reasonably ask:
What is celluloid?

What do you mean by superimposition ?

What is a positive silver image in gelatine?

The answers to these questions will, we think, make
our explanation clear to all. Until about twenty-five
years ago, all photographs were taken on glass and
then printed on paper. But amateur photographers,
travelers and others complained of the weight of a
number of glass plates, which they had to carry. So
experiments were made to provide a light substitute
for the glass — a substance that you could roil, that was
flexible like paper or leather, that was lighter than glass
and from which you could make your prints with the
same ease that you could from glass. This substitute
was found and it proved to be what is now known as
celluloid. Anybody who uses a Kodak Camera to-day
is using the substitute for glass that was then sought.

T>EFORE the motion picture, as we see it to-day,
could be made, it was necessary to have a flexible
support and that flexible support is celluloid. Thus
as a matter of historical fact the Kodak system of pho-
tography with celluloid and the making of motion pic-
tures on celluloid were perfected about the same time.
So you may say it was this celluloid which made pho-
tography so popular and the motion picture popular.
In Kodak photography you roll your film around a
spool, in motion picture photography you do practi-
cally the same, you wind it around a reel, either in the
camera or in the machine that shows it on the screen.

Now, what is celluloid? The base of it, the sub-
stance out of which it is made is known in general
terms as cellulose, which is a combination of little cells
of a white papery looking substance, which is extracted
from the wood of trees or plants. Ordinary cotton is
really one form of cellulose. Absorbent cotton, or
cotton wool, as it is sometimes called, is one form of
cellulose.

Imagine a mass of white, fluffy, pure, absorbent cot-
ton, then you will get an idea of the first and most im-
portant ingredient that enters into the making of cellu-
loid.

This mass of pure white cellulose is mixed with
nitric acid and sulphuric acid, two powerful liquids,
which will remove the skin from your fingers, if you
are careless in handling them. They are known as
corrosive acids ; they dissolve some metals and other
hard substances easily. They are used in making ex-
plosive compounds. The result of mixing your cellu-
lose with these strong acids is to form an explosive
mixture known as gun-cotton. When this nitrated
cotton, as it is also called, is dried and you take a little
of it and light it or throw it into the fire, you will see
that it burns or explodes quickly. This substance is
known to be the base of many explosive compounds.

TT AVING obtained this gun-cotton, the next step in
* * the preparation of celluloid is to dissolve it, and
make a liquid of it. This is done by means of a mix-
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"THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD"

Hepworth

WITH the exception of a few scenes which the subtitles in
the print shown did not sufficiently explain, the "Vicar
of Wakefield," the latest three-part Hepworth feature
drama, to be presented in America by Albert Blinkhorn, 110
West Fortieth street, New York City, is a production of un-
usual excellence. Based on the famous story by Oliver Gold-
smith, although greatly modified to meet the limits of the
film, the presentation should prove popular. The photography
is excellent, the acting of the best, and the action, staged as
it is on scenes similar to those portrayed in Gildsmith's mas-

THE MOCK MARRIAGE

terpiece, is of a character that holds the interest during most
of the film.

In one or two respects, however, the direction of the piece
invites criticism. Several scenes are not clearly explained.
For instance, it is not demonstrated why Jenkinson, the man-
servant of the wicked Richard Thornhill, and the clergyman
who performed the mock-marriage, which turns out to be
real, happen to be in jail with the Vicar. The reason for Sir
William Thornhill's presence there also, is not fully made
plain. Just why the two dissolute female companions of Rich-
and Thornhill are dragged into the action, for the sole purpose
apparently of extending an invitation to the Vicar's daughters
to come to London, a trip which never takes place, and is
quite unessential to the development of the story as produced,
is another point that is not quite clear, unless it is an excuse
to bring in the scene at "Ye Olde English Fair.''
* * =k

THE theme of the production deales with the attentions
of the dissipated Richard Thornhill, nephew of Sir Wil-
liam Thornhill, to the pretty daughters of the Vicar, Olivia
and Sophia. Suspecting his 'nephew's designs, Sir William
Thornhill disguises himself and after meeting the Vicar's fam-
ily overhears a conversation which confirms his suspicions.
The scenes which ensue in the first part show Richard trying
to get Olivia, with whom he is infatuated, and her sister to ar-
range to go to London with him, at the invitation of two dis-
solute women, whose aid he has obtained. Moses, the weak-
minded son of the Vicar, is sent by the family to the fair to
sell their colt in order to obtain funds to finance the trip to
London. He returns without money, having traded the colt
for a stock of green spectacles.

This part is really a digression from the progress of the
plot and in no way adds to it, especially as the audience is
given no intimation previously of Moses' mental limitations.
From this point forward, however, the action is excellent, and
there is little which could be elided without detracting from
the development of the story.

Failing to persuade the Vicar's daughters to go to London,
Richard Thornhill finally gains Olivia's consent to run away

with him. He plans a. mock marriage, but through the enmity
of Jenkinson, his body-servant, it is made a genuine ceremony.
Later, tiring of Olivia, he tells her their wedding -was not bind-
ing. She flees from him and is found by the Vicar, her father,
at an inn, where she has sought refuge.

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RICHARD THORNHILL. repenting of his haste in casting
Olivia off, seeks her again at her father's house, which
is owned by him. When his demands are scorned he throws
the Vicar into prison as a debtor. Here the Vicar meets Jen-
kinson and the clergyman who had performed the marriage
between Olivia and Thornhill, and wins their friendship.

The Vicar's family go to see him, and Jenkinson, recogniz-
ing Olivia, becomes remorseful. Richard also visits the prison
to taunt the old man. His uncle, Sir William, who has come
to aid the VicaF, encounters him. He reproaches his nephew
for his conduct to his wife, and is told that Olivia is not a
wife, as the ceremony was a mock one.

His statement is confuted by Jenkinson, who produces the
marriage certificate and the clergyman who performed the
ceremony, greatly to the confusion of Richard Thornhill.

Sir William, after paying the debt for which the Vicar is
being detained, escorts the venerable parson and his family
back home, where all is again peace and happiness.

The Hepworth stock company, which produced the "Vicar
of Wakefield" in able fashion, includes Warwick Buckland,
Harry Gilbey, Harry Buss, Jack Raymond, Marie De Solla,
Chrissie White, Ruby Belasco and Claire Pridelle.

IMPROVEMENTS AT SOLAX PLANT

This photo shows the Solax plant in the process of ex-
pansion. The building in the background is the old plant,
150 x 150, three and one-half stories high. The studio ac-
commodates five sets in a row.

The present factory has an equipment sufficient to turn out
100,000 feet of positive film a week. The frame-work to the

right in an outdoor stage used for light effect purposes.

The new two-story building in process of construction is
on the left, size 50 x 100, and in it will be housed the factory
and laboratory to be removed from the main building. The
added facilities will make it possible to turn out about :.00.-
000 feet of positive film in a week.

The space in the foreground which is also the property of
the Solax and Blache companies will be improved and
fenced in by ornamented iron railings.

"FLYING A" HISTORICAL SUBJECT

Players of the American Film Manufacturing Company, un-
der direction of Lorimer Johnston, have finished a two-reel
subject under the title "The Coming of the Padres." reproduc-
ing the founding of the Santa Barbara Mission by Padre Juni-
pero Serre. The principal role will be played by Sydney
Ayres. . The production will not be an exclusively religious
one, but will introduce much interest of early California life.

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The Ernemann Film Printer

ONE of the most up-to-date devices
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from the negative is now on exhibition
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one of the most highly scientific instru-
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Directory of Players and Directors

THE EXHIBITORS' AND MANUFACTURERS' REFERENCE
GUIDE IN ADVERTISING PLAYERS AND DIRECTORS

FRITZI BRUNETTE

Playing Leads in Victor Films

Universal Film Mfg. Co.

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Directing and Playing Leads in

Imp Productions

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Universal Films

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Manager Imp Studio

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EARL METCALFE
Lubin Films

Second Season

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Imp Productions

"Universal Program"

What is a IV

( Continued

ture of ether and alcohol, two liquids much in use
in the arts and sciences. Everybody has an idea
of what these spirit-like liquids are. The cotton dis-
solved in these fluids makes a viscous body, heavier
than water and like a light oil. It has a familiar, pun-
gent odor which everybody who has been under the
hands of a doctor or druggist will recognize. This
liquid is called collodion. You can spread it out on
glass and it will form a thin transparent coating. It
is used in photography and for medical and other pur-
poses.

We are now getting near to the actual base of the
celluloid film. This liquid, when commercially pre-
pared and poured out upon glass plates, will dry and
form a thin, transparent film. But it is not strong; it
will readily break and so it is necessary to make it
tough enough for photographic and motion-picture
work as the film has to undergo a great deal of wear
and tear. So a hardening substance or substances are
added to it — cne of the latter is the familiar camphor.
By adding camphor to the collodion, spreading it out
upon glass plates or slabs, you get your celluloid film in
large sheets, which is cut into the ribbons or films that
are used in making motion pictures.

This celluloid is inflammable. It lights or takes fire
readily because it has in its constitution substances that
burn readily, the gun-cotton and the alcohol. Cellu-
loid films which do not burn and are known as non-
flam are made but so far have not been a success in
practice, because while you make your celluloid non-
inflammable, or non-burning, you also make it less easy
to handle in the projection machine. It does not last
so long. It is not necessary for us to go into the
chemical explanation of this, because this is not a
chemical article.

'TP HE actual picture consists of silver — it is called
pigmentary silver. Although it is black and has not
the white shiny luster that we usually associate with

otion Picture?

row, page 32)

silver; it is, nevertheless, of the same nature. That it
is black is due to the fact that the picture was pro-
duced by the chemical action of light on silver,
which is incorporated in the gelatine that is coated
on the celluloid.

How does light act in making the picture? Simply
in this way — it was discovered years ago that salts of
silver, such as chloride of silver, bromide of silver and
iodide of silver were affected by light, and that if you
applied a suitable chemical to them they were made
actually black instead of being roughly of a cream
color. These salts of silver are so sensitive to light
that you have to make them in the dark and you can
only expose them in a camera, otherwise they would
blacken all over — just as a silver spoon does if you
leave it long in the atmosphere. Everybody knows
that silver blackens or darkens in light and has to be
constantly polished.

The gelatine fulfills the office of carrying the silver
salt in suspension. You make a mixture (or emul-
sion) of gelatine nitrate of silver and bromide of
potassium. The two salts mixed form another com-
pound which is white bromide of silver. The other
salts so formed are washed away.

All this is done in the dark and the celluloid is coated
in the dark with the gelatine and bromide of silver
in it. The film can only be exposed in a dark camera
through a lens. When it is exposed it is developed
in a dark room. Development consists in making the
action of the light stronger. It darkens the part of
the film that has been acted upon by the ligbt. The
part of the silver that has not been acted upon by
light is dissolved out of the film by a salt of soda.
Then the film is washed and dried, and you have what
has been described in the earlier part of this article
as a celluloid film carrying a positive image of metal-
lic silver in clear gelatine.

This substantially is a motion picture : Celluloid,
gelatine, silver.

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GOLD MEDAL AWARDED

More than seven million people
daily attend motion picture theatres,
it is estimated. This fact brings to
mind what an enormous task it is and
has been to safeguard their lives.
This is principally attained by means
of proper and sufficient safety devices
on the projecting machines, and it
is interesting to note that a gold
medal has just been awarded to the
Nicholas Power Company, manufac-
turers of Power's Cameragraph No.
6-A, by the American Museum of
Safety, under whose auspices the
First International Exposition of
Safety and Sanitation was held at
the Grand Central Palace, New York
City, December 11 to 20, inclusive.

This distinguished tribute to the
mechanical genius and untiring efforts
of Mr. Nicholas Power has been the
occasion of much rejoicing by those
who have been bending their energies
to uplift the motion picture art, es-
pecially with regard to the prevention
of fire and accident, and Mr. Power
has been heartily congratulated.

TO FILM MEXICAN WAR

Thomas H. Ince, vice-president and
director-general of the New York Mo-
tion Picture Corporation, recently de-
tached from his working staff in Los
Angeles, Cal., a number of intrepid
camera men to take motion pictures
of the Mexican war. The pictures
taken will be brought and first shown
to President Wilson, his cabinet and
Congress before they are sent out for
release.

Six motion picture men will jour-
ney to Jaurez, Mexico, where they
will be joined by two others already
on the scene. Then some of the party
will join the Constitutionalist Army,
and another coterie will push on
toward Mexico City, for the purpose
of entering the city and taking mo-
tion pictures of scenes of strife there.

The camera men's equipment in-
cludes a portable dark room, extra
lenses, rations, and other supplies suf-
ficient to last several weeks.

AN APPRECIATIVE LETTER

Clarence J. Harris, Oklahoma City,
Okla., wrote the scenario of "The Trail
of the Lost Chord," a recent two-reel
production of the American Film Manu-
facturing Company, which met with uni-
versal approval and is still drawing full
houses. When the picture was run in
an Oklahoma house Mr. Harris was so
well pleased with the production that he
wrote at considerable length to Ed
Coxen, who played the lead. The first
paragraph reads as follows :

"Permit me to express to you my sin-
cerest appreciation for your masterly
and artistic work in my drama, 'The
Trail of the Lost Chord.' Naturally, I

In writing to

FRED R. JONES
General Manager Inter-Continental
Film Co.

went to the theatre with no little anxiety
and expectancy. To say I was charmed
with your work is slightly expressing it;
the drama and its lesson depended on
you; it all lay with you, and you lifted
it to most exalted altitudes and gave to
it such a stamp of your own personality
that it thrilled me as I felt the strength
of your high ideals and magnificent indi-
viduality."

The letter is much appreciated by Mr.
Coxen.

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VADES NEW YORK

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They will show there shortly their three-
reel special feature, "Life in a Western
Penitentiary," produced under the direc-
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The Citagraph Corporation also pro-
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SPECIAL FILM REVIEWS

"Over Niagara Falls." (Sterling
Camera and Film Company. Four
reels.) — Though newcomers, compar-
atively, in the producing line, the
Sterling Camera and Film Company
are here to stay. The fact is empha-
sized by this four-reel drama. Al-
though melodramatic in character,
with plenty of hairbreadth escapes,
there is not a sign of anything
throughout that could be construed
as obnoxious or disagreeable even to
the most sensitive minds. Good di-
rection in every scene, the avoidance
of anything inconsistent with a clever
story, and capable acting will get this
picture "over" with any audience.

Tom Wright and his cousin, Bob
Farrell, go to college together. Bob
is expelled for gambling and on his
way home meets an unscrupulous
lawyer, who engages him to smuggle
in Chinamen. The method used is
rather original. Tom, in the interim,
has graduated, a full-fledged doctor.
While in an automobile he runs over
a woman, whom he carries to her
home — a gambling house. While there
the house is raided, and a policeman
is shot. The blame falls on Tom. He
is sentenced to twenty years at hard
labor.

King, a Secret Service detective, is
watching some men, in an attempt to
catch them smuggling. There are
some excellent fights, one man being
thrown off a high roof. And then
comes the thrill of the production. An
automobile containing the lawyer is
actually hit by an express train and
smashed to pieces. Tom's sister is
caught by the thieves, and after being
placed in a barrel, is sent over the
falls. Bob is killed and his body
floats over the falls, after a desper-
ate, hand-to-hand encounter with
King. Bob's previous confession" vin-
dicates Tom of all blame for the mur-
der.of the policeman.

Among the players who deserve credit
in the production were James Ailing,
Augustus Collette, John Mahony, Ar-
thur Donaldson and Violet Stewart.

A. D. M.

"Miracle Mary." " (Victor. Two
parts. Dec. 26.) — An excellent Christ-
mas release which incidentally extolls
one of the virtues of the motion pic-
ture. Glenn White and Fritzi Bru-
nette, the principals,' play with their
usual talent. The story is not allowed
to become at all conventional at any
time. A very commendable picture
for this season.

"Miracle" Mary, a member of the
Salvation Army, is called upon to tes-
tify at the trial of an alleged burglar,

whom she had known for some time.
She tells his past history and how
good a record he has had since his
release from prison, but despite this
the man is sentenced and sent to
prison. The testimony of the various
characters in the court scene are
shown as they talk, in fade-away
scenes making it more realistic. A
good vision of the manger in Bethle-
hem with the Virgin and the Christ
Child is also shown with good effect.

Christmas day in the prison arrives,
and the kind warden and his helpers
have arranged for an entertainment
for the prisoners. It is during this
performance that the innocence of
the boy is proven. A motion picture
film is projected on the screen show-
ing him at some aeroplane races. He
is freed when the reel is proven to
be genuine. After his release he be-
comes a member of the Salvation
Army, with his affianced wife, "Mira-
cle" Mary.

"The Blind Power." (Lubin. Dec.
20. Three reels. General Film Com-
pany Exclusive Service.) — Somewhat
similar to "The Evil Eye," released
some time ago by the same company.
This story deals with mental sugges-
tion and is appropriately termed a
"mystery story." Romaine Fielding
plays the lead and deserves commen-
dation. He has the power in the
story to absorb anything he wishes,
through his tremendous will power.

He goes blind, and takes away the

sight of his nephew that he may see;
he steal's his sister's wonderful brain
that he may write; he steals an in-
ventor's mind that he may become
famous, and then he meets the girl
he learns to love, and rather than
steal her voice, he commits suicide
in a spectacular manner. In places it
is as creepy as though from the pen
of Edgar Allen Poe.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin." (Kalem.
Two parts. Dec. 17.) — There is a pos-
sibility that there is no one, even in
the most rural sections of this coun-
try, who has not seen this beautiful
dramatization of the work of Harriet
Beecher Stowe. But there are many
who have not seen it since childhood,
and to these this production of the
Kalem company will appeal strongly.
To children it will be a boon. This is
the second time it has been produced
in the pictures, but this attempt is far
more perfect than the first, and is ac-
curate in every detail.

There are summer and winter
scenes, the action covering a consid-
erable length of time. There was no
attempt to try to equal the death
scenes as represented in the original
drama. That would have been im-
possible without the voice, and so
they were but lightly touched upon.
In this way there was no chance of
making an unfavorable comparison.
The escape of Eliza, on the other
hand, was much more realistic than

THE FILM PROVES HIS INNOCENCE

Scene from "Miracle Mary." (Victor — 2 reels.)

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the speaking drama because of the
facility of real floating ice, a real
river, real dogs, etc. But the most
wonderful piece of work in the whole
production is the fateful death of
Legree at the conclusion. This was
wonderfully portrayed.

"Within the Enemy's Lines." (Ed-
ison. Two reels. Dec. 19.) — From
the story, "A Captured Santa Claus,"
by Thomas Nelson Page. An excel-
lent offering, which is sure to "get
across." The story is of the Civil
War, and vividly describes the hero-
ism of a man who, in disguise, man-
ages to get to his home for Christ-
mas to bring the children their toys.
He is known to be in his house, and
his little son, knowing that he will be
hanged if caught without a uniform,
goes after one. Although shot he
saves his father's life.

The vision and double exposure
work is very well done. There is a
great deal of realism throughout; one
can almost hear the pistol shots. The
final sub-title is "The Yankees Didn't
Capture Santa Claus." Augustus
Phillips looks well in a goatee. Little
Yale Boss rendered an excellent ac-
count of himself as usual.

"Some Elopers." (Lubin. Split reel.
Dec. 5.) — Arthur Johnson would have
played the lead more capably than the
one cast for it. Same reel with "An In-
terrupted Courtship." Night scenes
should have been tinted.

"An Interrupted Courtship." (Lu-
bin. Dec. 5. Split reel.) — Same reel
with "Some Elopers." The best part
was the bathing suit scenes, which

excited admiration. As father insists
on marrying the widow, his clothes
are stolen. They manage anyway and
all are reconciled.

"An Equal Chance." (Selig. Dec.
9.) — Two girls love the same fellow.
The one, rich in worldly goods, gives
some of her clothes to the other, and
thus lets her win the fellow. A very
pretty love story.

"The Troublesome Mole." (Bio-
graph. Dec. 11. Split reel.) — -Same
reel with "A Foul and Fearful Plot."
Beauty doctors and burglars both try
to get rid of the mole. Some funny
make-ups.

"Children of the Forest." (Essa-
nay. Dec. 11.) — An Indian story,
dealing with the period when the
white people were not plentiful on the
frontier. A forest fire is introduced.
As is customary, a stray white man is
the villain.

"A Military Judas." (Broncho.
Three reels.) — A most appropriate
title for a clever, well-told drama,
from the pen of William H. Clifford.
Although in parts the action becomes
slightly conventional and time-worn,
the total effect is very good. Two
brothers. Jim and Jack, fighting side
by side in the Civil war, are both in
love with the same girl. Jim, though
the unworthy one, is apparently the
favored suitor. While drunk, he is
prevented from shooting a man by a
spy of the enemy, who obtains such a
hold on him that he gains informa-
tion from him regarding the move-
ments of his army. A letter written

on his brother's stationery, falls into
the hands of the general. Jack
court-martialed and, recognizing his
brother's writing, conceals the truth.
Jim, in despair, and feeling the qualms
of conscience, commits suicide, first
confessing his guilt. After the war
is over Jack marries the girl whom
both he and his brother had loved.

"Finger of Fate." (Patheplay. Dec.
18. Two parts.) — The title of this is
not self-explanatory. The story is
one with a strong moral and makes a
worthy release. A young doctor and
a girl form a fast friendship. The
girl accepts an invitation to dine at
the man's apartment. While waiting
for her he falls asleep and dreams of
what will be the inevitable end of
their dinner. The vision is so realistic
that he marries the girl before he will
allow her to enter his house. Irving
Cummings and Eleanor Woodruff
play the leads. There is some excel-
lent emotional work registered.

"Dr. Kean's Secret." (Cines-Kleine.
Two parts. General Film Company
Exclusive Service.) — A very interest-
ing story which grips one by its
pathos. A doctor having discovered
a cure for a deadly disease, dies be-
fore he can make known his secret.
One of his assistants discovers the
cure in its hiding place and sells it.
The other assistant discovers the for-
mula and is able to save many lives.

"The Trail of the Snake Band."

(Essanay. Dec. 18.) — The plot of this
story has been worked so often be-
fore that it loses some of its interest.
A man is accused. of robbery because
he has a hatband worn by the thief.
He proves his innocence. Rena Val-
dez and True Boardman are the prin-
cipals.

"A Son of His Father." (Lubin.
Two reels. Dec. 18.) — Nothing very
convincing about this story. It plays
up the worn-out plot about heredity.
The son inherits gambling instincts
from his father. Later, having de-
serted his mother, the boy meets his
father in the West and a reconcilia-
tion follows. There is a little romance
and a fight which would be impossi-
ble anywhere.

"I Hear Her Calling Me." (Selig.
Dec. 17. General Film Company Ex-
clusive Service.) — There are n any
very beautiful scenes in this rather
pathetic story. It is a good release.
A girl is killed by a leopard, through
her husband's negligence. The view
of the leopard in the fight with the
girl is by all odds the best of its kind
ever seen by the writer.

"GUILTY!"

Courtroom scene from "Miracle Mary." (Victor — 2 reels.)

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INTERESTING FILM REVIEWS

Educational — Industrial — Scenic — General

"The Girl at the Lunch Counter."

(Vitagraph. Dec. 19.)— A splendid
comedy, with such pleasing players as
John Bunny, Lillian Walker, Flora
Finch, Willie Van and Kate Price.
The College Widow, loved by all,
marries the unexpected, one, but the
chap with the cash.

"The Stigma." (Essanay. Two
reels. Dec. 19.) — A very good drama,
the action of which is very clear and
makes a good offering. Francis X.
Bushman plays the lead. A girl leper
escapes miraculously and is adopted
by a farmer. The son learns to love
the girl, but she will not tell her rea-
son for refusing him. The truth final-
ly becomes known and they both com-
mit suicide.

"Who Stole Jones's Wood?" (Lubin.
Dec. 19. — General Film Company Ex-
clusive Service. Split reel.) — On the
same reel with "When Cupid Took in
Washing." A fairly humorous com-
edy in which a trap catches the one
that set it.

"When Cupid Took in Washing."

(Lubin. Dec. 19. Split reel. General
Film Company Exclusive Service.) —
A comedy love story that should get
across. Because she can't get the fel-
low she wants, she takes in washing
and so wins him.

"A Scandinavian Scandal." (Pathe-
play. Dec. 19.) — A roaring good slap-
stick comedy. One of the month's
best. A servant and her unknown
lover get entangled with her mistress
arid a jealous husband. Many unique
and origina1 situations.

. "The Lure of the Road." (Selig.
Dec. 19.) — A gypsy story which de-
serves commendation. A wanderer
finds it difficult to abide a cross wife,
but later returns to her. Good cos-
tuming and splendid atmosphere.-

"A Christmas Story." (Vitagraph.
Dec. 22.) — Very well named. Tefft
Johnson so closely resembles Earle
Williams, that many are . confusing
them. The story . of. Christ in • the
manger causes three little tots .to
look in their own barn and there they
discover something ■ similar. .Good
grouping and fine winter scenes are a
great help to this picture.

' "Through Flaming Paths." (Lubin.
Dec. 22.) — Very similar to "Ninety
and Nine." A huge forest fire must

be gone through in a trolley car and
the girl acts as motorman when the
coward won't. The latter becomes
ashamed of his lack of nerve and
forms an electric circuit with his

hands.

"Products of the Palm." (Edison.
Dec. 22. Split reel.) — On the same
reel with 'Teaching His Wife a Les-
son." Showing the methods of pick-
ing cocoanuts, bananas, etc., and load-
ing same on steamships for the mar-
kets in this country. Good photog-
raphy.

"Teaching His Wife a Lesson."

(Edison. Dec. 22. Split reel.) —
Same reel with "Products of the
Palm." A very clever comedy which
will be well received by everyone.
Hubby warns his wife against pick-
pockets, ,then tries to teach her a prac-
tical lesson with disastrous results.

"The Open Door." (Selig. Two
reels. Dec. 22.) — A good finale in this
picture takes away any thoughts but
those of the best. A little boy is lost
as a child and after a number of years,
in which he has many adventures, he
lands back in his home town. He is
tempted and steals the purse of a man
in the public library, but decides in
remorse later to return it. He does
so and finds out that he is back in his
old home. One inconsistency does
not mar the picture.

"Pathe's Weekly No. 78." (Pathe.
Dec. 22.) — An unusually interesting
number of the weekly. The finding
of the Mona Lisa forms an interest-
ing item. The thrilling automobile
races at Acheres, France, was also
good. Photography throughout ex-

"A Dead Man's Papers." (Gaumont.
Two reels.) — Not a very good offer-
cellent.

ing. The story is good, but an at-
tempt by the Gaumont Company to
imitate the American "Western"
rather spoiled it. Some spectacular
shooting and a huge fire are its best
features.

"Ancient Order of Good Fellows."

(Vitagraph. Two reels. Dec. 20.) —
Litle Audrey Berry, when asked how
she was able, in this picture, to love
big Hughey Mack, answered, "Be-
cause I. really love him," which has
nothing much to do with the story.
Mack is a big policeman who gets in
"bad ' with the ward heeler and is
given a short time in which to make
good. He does this, arrests a man
who is badly "wanted," and gets his
promotion. Just a good-natured com-
edy, that is pretty sure to make every-
one interested.

"The Haunted Bed Room." (Edi-
son. Dec. 20.) — The story seems to
resemble something we have seen be-
fore. A man dies, leaving some money

SCENE FROM "A MILITARY JUDAS"

(Broncho — 2 reels.)

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under the flooring. His ghost haunts
the room until the money is delivered
to the person to which it belongs.

"The Conscience of Hassan Bey."

(Biograph, Dec. 20.) — A suggestive
story of Turkey, showing scenes in a
harem, etc. There is much elaborate-
ness about the settings. Not very re-
alistic.

"Broncho Billy's Christmas Deed."

(Essanay. Dec. 20.) — A pretty story
following somewhat the lines of pre-
vious productions. G. M. Anderson,
Marguerite Clayton and Harry Todd
are the principals.

"The Fire Bride." (Patheplay. Dec.
20.) — Evidently a Russian or French
story, photographed. Two lovers are
separated, but the man drags the girl
off, and holds her in a barn, where
they are both burned to death. Many
good scenes of peasant life are shown.
A very desirable release. The pho-
tography is excellent.

"Beyond All Law." (Biograph, Dec.
18.) — A "blood and thunder" melo-
drama, which has, however, several
redeeming features. A man manages
to steal the wife of another, but she
leaves him later and rejoins her hus-
band. The latter obtains vengeance.

"The Cities of Japan." (Melies.
Dec. 18.) — A full reel, dealing at
length with the cities of Yokohama,
Nara and Kyoto. The photography
is good.

"Buster's Little Game." (Selig.
Dec. 17.) — A conventional "Western"

which does not seem to "get across."
A cowboy, having inherited an estate,
goes East and to college. He returns
as a tenderfoot. Poorly trained ani-
mals mar the picture.

"Any Port in a Storm." (Vitagraph.
Dec. 17.) — Good sub-titles greatly aid
this picture. Two old sailors get
themselves mixed up in a love affair
from which they have hard work to
get disentangled.

"Love or a Throne." (Imp. Dec.
25. Two parts.) — Directed by Her-
bert Brenon in Berlin. The story
itself is conventional and possesses
but little originality. A king has two
sons, the eldest of whom is in love
with an opera singer. Upon the king's
death he refuses the throne, and abdi-
cates in his brother's favor, thus being
enabled to marry the girl.

"Animated Weekly, No. 93." (Uni-
versal, Dec. 17.) — A very fair number.
As usual, the cartoons of Hy Mayer
make the hit of the picture. News
from the Mexican border and the
catastrophe to the steamer Zulia in
New York were most important items.

"Hello, Trouble." (Essanay. Dec.
17.) — A romance over the telephone
between two offices in which the
bosses, unfortunately for them, join.
Billy Mason and Ruth Hennessey
play the leads.

"Falling in Love with Inez. (Edi-
son. Dec. 17.) — Gladys Hulette looks
so splendid in this picture that all
sympathize with the lovesick swains.
Inez has suitors galore and her uncle

kicks them all out until the football
player arrives.

"Good for the Gout." (Kalem.
Split reel. Dec. 17. General Film
Company Exclusive Service.) — A Ruth
Roland and John Brennan slapstick
comedy. A father is cured of imag-
inary ills.

"Frayed Fagin's Adventures." (Ka-
lem. Split reel. Dec. 19.) — Same reel
with "Ulster Day in Belfast." A
laughable comedy featuring John
Brennan. Inconsistent in some scenes.

"Ulster Day in Belfast, Ireland."

(Kalem. Split reel. Dec. 19.) — Same
reel with "Frayed Fagin's Adven-
tures." Included with the scenes from
Ulster Day are the following: Fair at
Stratford-on-Avon, Races at Brook-
lands, Conscripts in Paris, Druids in
London, Sheep Fair at Winchester,
and a fire in a lumber yard in Lon-
don. Good photography prevails.

"The Coryphee." (Victor. Two
reels. Jan. 2.) — Florence Lawrence in
a dancing part always looks her best.
It seems natural to her. In this story
she saves a girl from a husband's
wrath by throwing the blame on her
own shoulders. A fine release.

PROMINENT WRITERS FOR MU-
TUAL

In its effort to raise the standard
of the motion picture the Mutual Film
Corporation has contracted for stories
by many of the most prominent au-
thors of novels and magazine stories.
These will be condensed into scenario
form and produced under the direc-
tion of D. W. Griffith.

Among the authors whose work has
been contracted for are Thomas Nel-
son Page, ambassador to Italy; Paul
Armstrong, the playwright, whose
drama, "The Escape," a romance of
the underworld, is now being pro-
duced by Mr. Griffith personally; John
Kendrick Bangs; George A. Birming-
ham, who wrote that very successful
Irish comedy, "General John Regan,"
now playing in a long run at the Hud-
son Theatre, New York; Daniel Car-
son Goodman, author of "Hagar Rev-
elly;" the publication of which An-
thony Comstock attempted to pre-
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H. Davis, of the Munsey Magazines;
Paul West, of the New York World;
H. R. Durant, playwright and associ-
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Pattullo and Roy Norton, both of
whom are famous writers of Western
stories; E. Phillips Oppenheim, the
celebrated English novelist; Mary
Roberts Rinehart and Roy McCardell.

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From this time on full play length Feature Film Master-
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CHARLES KLEIN'S

The Third Degree

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present by the representatives of the Mutual Company
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Resolutions were adopted upholding President Neff
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W. C. Caldwell, of Battle Creek, Mich., resigned as
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genic drama by Paul Armstrong, and
other features by Thomas Nelson Page,
Ambassador to Italy; John Kendrick
Bangs, George Pattullo, E. Phillips Op-
penheim, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Robert
H. Davis, Homer Croy and Paul West.

To get the atmosphere of the stories,
the pictures will be taken in the original
locale, new studios being opened next
month in London and the South of
France, and, so as to have them histori-
cally, and scientifically correct, the lead-
ing experts, including the foremost pro-
fessors of the prominent colleges of the
world, will be engaged as critics.

BUY "LURE OF NEW YORK"

The Canadian rights to "The Lure of
New York" have been purchased by the
International Feature Film Corporation,
Ltd., of Montreal. This company also
has contracted for other productions of
the New York Film Company.

'EXHIBITORS'

Here

are some

Money Getters

Exclusive for New York and
New Jersey, in three parts

"The Great Lure of
Paris"

now at Hammerstein's, New York,
for Third week.

"David Garrick"

in 3 parts, produced by Seymore
Hicks and Ellaline Terriss, Eng-
land's famous actors.

" Sculptor's
Masterpiece*'

in 3 parts, an Ambrosio dramatic
masterpiece.

"In the Sultan's
Power"

in 2 parts — ultra sensational.

"Justice or Love?"

in 3 parts, teaching a good moial
lesson, helped by very strong dra-
matic action throughout.

"Scrooge"

in 3 parts, for New York State
only. This is a portrayal of one of
Charles Dickens' famous Christmas
Carols.

We carry a large stock of
FEATURE and COM-
MERCIAL FILM
with posters.

Time flies, things transpire
Send in Your Order by Phone or
Wire.

The Film Exchange

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PHONE 3427 BRYANT
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Four New Edison Series

The phenomenal success of the "Mary" series proves conclusively
that the "public wants these serial [films. They are"A the greatest
money-makers the exhibitor has ever had. There are four new series,
in addition to "Cleek." Put them on your program.

Mary Fuller

in "Dolly of the Dailies,"
twelve newspaper stories
by Acton Davies, re-
leased on the last Satur-
day in each month, be-
ginning January 31st.

William Wadsworth

in "Wood B. Wedd,"
comic series by Mark
Swan, released the last
Monday of the month,
beginning December 29th.

Andy Clark

in "Andy" comic series,
first release Wednesday,
December 31st, all others
the second Wednesday
of the month.

Barry O'Moore

in "The Adventures of Oc-
tavius — Amateur Detec-
tive," comic series released
the second or third Mon-
day in the month, first re-
lease January 12th.

Coming Two Reel Features

***THE ANTIQUE BROOCH

Produced in England

The mysterious disappearance of a price-
less brooch, during a big house party, ter-
minates in a thrilling battle upon a flying
express train. The thief is pursued along the
outside of the car and overpowered while in
the act of strangling his victim.

Released Friday, January 2nd

***THE WITNESS TO THE WILL

A dramatic tale of a stolen will, a wealthy
girl who is forced into poverty by her cousin,
and of a loyal groom who is hurled over an
embankment by the thief. But the groom sur-
vives and forces the thief to make restitution.

Released Friday, January 9th

Coming Single Reels

*STANTON'S LAST FLING

A thrilling tale of adventure.

Released Saturday, January 3rd

*THE GIRL IN THE MIDDY

A socie'y girl goes back to childhood.

Released Monday, January 5th

**ON THE GREAT STEEL BEAM

A sensational rescue in mid air.

Released Tuesday, January 6th

**A LONELY ROAD

A selfish millicnaire awakes — too late.

Released Saturday, January 10th

**THE ADVENTURE OF THE ACTRESS'
JEWELS

First of the adventures of Octavius, Amateur Detective.

Released Monday, January 12th

*A NIGHT AT THE INN

The innkeeper's sister twice saves the traveler's life.

Released Tuesday, January 13th

*THE SHERLOCK HOLMES GIRL

(On the same reel)

AFRICAN SEA BIRDS

Released Wednesday, January 7th
•One Sheets. **One and three sheets. ***One, three and six sheets by the Morgan Lithograph Co.

*ANDY PLAYS HERO

He saves a little girl by wearing her clothes.

Released Wednesday, January 14th

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FIVE-A-WEEK

Coming, Friday, January 2nd

"The Awakening at Snakeville"

(IN TWO PARTS)
FEATURING MARGARET JOSLIN AS "SOPHIE
CLUTTS" AND AUGUSTUS CARNEY AS
"ALKALI" IKE

Without fear of contradiction we claim this picture to be a money-
getting box-office attraction of unusual merit. A comedy such as has
never before been shown. A feature that is a feature. Heralds and
posters now ready.

Released Tuesday, December 30th
"THE GHOST OF SELF"

man's true character. Ruth Stone-

A drama with
house and E. H.

punch showing a
Calvert featured.

Released Wednesday, December 31st
"WHEN LOVE IS YOUNG"
"ASCENDING SUGAR LOAF MOUNTAIN"
(South America)

A juvenile comedy-drama of "puppy love" and an educational subject
of merit.

Released Thursday, January 1st
"THROUGH TRACKLESS SANDS"

A Western drama that grips. Thrilling situations that chill.

Released Saturday, January 3rd
"THE REDEMPTION OF BRONCHO BILLY"

A novel and extremely interesting Western drama with MR. G. M.
ANDERSON.

NOW READY

NOW READY

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$30 500 COPIES OR $60 A 1000.

^Coming Friday, January 9th

,!"The Hour and the Man"

(IN TWO PARTS)
Laws are made forbidding men to murder — yet we murder those who
disobey the law. This is an unusual drama founded on circumstantial
evidence. It is a story with heart throbs and situations unparalleled.
FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN AND RUTH STONEHOUSE FEATURED.

OUR POSTERS ARE DISTINCTIVE. They will boom your business.
Lithographs are in full four colors. You can order these from your
exchange or direct from Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, 521
First National Bank Bldg. Your lobby display will look attractive if
you use photographs of ESSANAY players, 8 x 10, $3.00 per dozen.
You can secure these from the PLAYERS' PHOTO CO., 177 N. STATE
ST., CHICAGO, ILL.

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ACTRESS IN LION'S DEN

"With the hungry gaze of forty
hungry lions fixed upon her, Kathlyn
Williams, a local actress," says the
Los Angeles Herald, ''entered the
arena of the Zoological Gardens at
East Lake and stood unarmed and
alone before the crouching beasts.

"Outside the arena, breathless
groups of actors and newspaper rep-
resentatives waited tensely; armed
guards with weapons ready lurked
about the danger zone with alert eyes
on the hungry swarm of lions, while
the motion picture camera 'turned' on
a scene which few people, either in
photoplay or in real life, have been
called upon to witness.

"Miss Williams was undergoing but
one of three terrific ordeals called for
in the massive production, 'The Ad-
ventures of Kathlyn,' written for the
Los Angeles actress by Harold Mac-
Grath.

"The venture into the arena with
settings royally Indian has its humor-
ous side, grimly enough in the story,
for the heroine is supposed to undergo
a series of tests to avoid taking a
husband to share a throne. However,
the people who witnessed the splendid
courage of the Selig Company's lead-
ing lady had no thought of humor.
The grim reality of the scene before
them precluded anything but the ob-
vious danger of the act.

"Miss Williams is known as the
nerviest woman 'in the game.' Her
hair-raising escapes during the past
few years seldom have crept into print,
but they have been as real as her
appearance among the lions.

"Tn the arena, where Miss Williams
passed her first ordeal, as Kathlyn,
were lions which had but recently en-
tered captivity. Among them were
eighteen lions just received from
Hagenbeck that joined the big group
already in the Selig Zoo. The scene
was intense to the highest degree,
while the animal men and the photo-
graphers worked frenziedly. The
lions were at times uneasy and made
some menacing leaps. However, the
long scene was filmed successfully
under the direction of F. J. Grandon."

"THE ESCAPE" SOON TO BE
RELEASED

Paul Armstrong's drama, "The Es-
cape," will soon be seen as a four-
part motion picture. It is being pro-
duced by Director D. W. Griffith for
the Mutual program. The appearance
of this picture will be of interest, as
it will not only mark the first ap-
pearance of Blanche Sweet as a Mu-
tual star, but it will also be the first
Mutual picture thus far presented ac-
tually staged by Mr. Griffith.

The cast is made up of such players
as Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Donald
Crisp, Earl Foxe, C. S. Abbey and
Spottiswood Aitken.

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS 49

"Selling Out" in Spain

(Continued from page 25)

tures. French, Italian, English or American players won't
do for the Spaniards. They need a favorite of their own
blood, who understands their emotions, their sense of humor,
and can translate it all into pictures.

A clever manufacturer could hire a good company of
Spanish comedians very cheaply, train them and develop them
into a company which would produce native pictures that un-
doubtedly would draw all the business away from the shows
which rely upon second-hand, cast-off and worn-out reels.
The motion picture world of Spain is ten years behind the
times, and a shrewd manager who could bring out a Bunny
or Billy Quirk in native talent would be sure of a fortune.

Spain is an ideal spot for the camera man, but so far it
has been comparatively overlooked. Quaint sets and pic-
tures abound. The Cines stock has a large company working
in Seville at present with good results, and Pathe Freres have
several companies of players in different parts of Sunny
Spain, but it is doubtful if the Spaniards themselves will
see all these pictures that are being made in their country,
or if they will care for them peopled with foreign actors.

There is no film censorship in Spain, which makes it an
open field for pictures which fail to pass elsewhere. Spain
doesn't believe in censorship in anything. The few popular
magazines they have are full of photos that would make An-
thony Comstock start raiding at once.

It's a free country in the way of morals, and many a pic-
ture gets by in Spain which would be stopped in puritanical
America. Another reason that censorship is not needed in
Spain is that very few children go to the theatre. There are
no five-cent tickets for children in the land of the Dons. They
pay full price or nothing at all, and you can't see a dozen
even at a matinee.

The grown-ups like blood-and-thunder pictures as well as
comics. They fall hard for the Western picture, even if
taken in Spain. The other night I saw a thrilling Western
drama cribbed from some California company's reel and re-
produced in Spain. Oxen were substituted for steers and
goats for sheep, but the people here didn't know the differ-
ence, and thought the whole thing was happening on the wild
ranges of Western America.

* * * *

JUST now the three-reel picture of Christopher Columbus
from America is making a big hit. Here it is called
"Cristobal Colon," and everybody shouts and sighs over all
the dramatic scenes. The Spanish audience is very tempera-
mental and appreciative.

Smoking isn't allowed in the theatres, but everybody smokes
just the same. They have two firemen sitting down front
who look like Boy Scouts and wear Hessian soldier uni-
forms. There's never been a fire in a picture house in Spain
of any importance, but somebody has to pay the salaries of
the city firemen, so they put it up to the exhibitor.

In spite of bad conditions there are good opportunities
awaiting Americans here. American films are the most popu-
lar. The people want them, and before long they're going to
have plenty. There is a good chance awaiting the man who
comes to Madrid or Barcelona with good connections and
starts a big show out-of-doors. Spaniards have an ideal cli-
mate and love to be outdoors, but so far they've never heard
of an open-air theatre. In summer the heat is unbearable and
the people practically live in the streets at night, looking for
a cool place. A big picture place open to the stars would be
an acceptable innovation that would pay dividends.

Cafe life is very popular in the big cities, and if motion
pictures were combined with cafes, somewhat after the
fashion of Coney Island and American resorts, the exhib-
itor could make good profits. But a big city would have to
be picked for such a venture, and Spain hasn't many Win
cities. The two most progressive are Madrid and Barcelona.

At Barcelona the business methods are almost American and
the people have more money to spend than in any other city
in Spain, except the Capital, Madrid.

Spain needs motion picture promoters, but to make a prof-
itable start in this land of the siesta a man- must study the
conditions and know the people. There are chances all along
the line, for manufacturer, exchange man and exhibitor, but
the people will have to be educated and developed to a point
where they will look for something better than they are now
getting.

Viva la Spain! But if you come over you'd better bring
along a property pistol and make up your mind to fight King
Alfonso and his taxes to the last ditch.

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The Motion Picture in Canada

(Continued from page 18)
of the pictures on this program will be shown in the city
for six weeks after being shown in the 'theatre securing
the contract. Advertising can now be done a full two
weeks ahead and exhibitors do not care who knows what
their program is going to be, since no one can infringe
upon it. This may be old news to the larger United States
cities but it is new here and marks the era of the keen
competition among the thirty local houses.

The advantage to the manufacturer, who can ship films
without the expense of the long haul and without the
tiresome "hold-up" which is of such frequent occurrence
at the Custom House, without the customary deposit of
thirty-three and one-third per cent, which ties up much
cash and without many of the attendant customs house
evils which arise, is obvious. But obvious as it is, no one
has yet chosen to take advantage of it and give to Cana-
dians what Canadians want.

* * * *

HOW much fiums suffer from the local censors can best
be told by the film agencies. The number tells of
the eager and sometimes mistaken energy of the holder ot
a pair of sharp scissors. These films are censored in al-
most every city and as no two censors have the same
moral standards the films suffer even to the slicing off of
sub-titles. The exchanges in Canada can tell the ex-
changes in the United States about it, if they have not
already found out for themselves.

What better example of catering to the public wants
could be had than the recent production of "Moths" at
the Province theatre in Winnipeg, a film which featured
Maude Fealy. The Province was jammed to its doors for
two days. Not by those who wished to see "Moths" alone,
but by those who wished to see "Moths" with Maude
Fealy in the leading role. Miss Fealy had played two
seasons in stock in Winnipeg and was well known to its
theatre-goers.

Broaden this idea of catering to the millions or even the
tens of thousands, broaden it to a Dominion-wide sub-
ject and the results will be proportionately equal if not
greater.

"Why then," asks some one, "do not Canadians go in for
manufacturing and producing?"

Surely the manufacturers can themselves best answer
this query. Would the Canadian film find a market among
the present output? Would the Canadian find a market
for his wares under conditions as they now exist?

Every city in Canada is controlled by two or three film
agencies, which in their turn are controlled by United
States manufacturers. At least, that is the general view
of the situation in Western Canada to-day. It requires
large capital to organize and launch such a concern in the
face of things as they seem to exist. But this will not al-
ways be, although necessarily, it must be some years be-
fore the Canadian industry can hope to approach the
present excellence of the film production in the United
States, much less prove a competitor.

IN the meanwhile, should not the masters of the indus-
try consider the Canadian field? Looking at it from a
purely business point of view it seems that they should.
Canada each year more loudly demands Canadian pictures,
not so much just now pictures of Canadian manufacture,
but pictures of Canadian subjects.

"Ivanhoe," produced by the Universal, did the greatest
business in the history of any of the Canadian theatres
that used it, and at an increased price for admission. Its
success was because it was an international subject and
of British international interest more than all.

It is foolish to say that pictures cannot be taken in

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Canada. In Manitoba, for instance, there are annually
more hours per diem of sunshine than in any other part
of the globe — India, Africa and Australia included. The
air is clear and fine, the days perfect, the winter dry and
cold, and the conditions ideal for in- and out-of-door pho-
tography.

There are many places, cities and towns located on rail-
road divisional points which offer especial inducements to
manufacturers of all kinds in order to get them to settle.
Free sites and grants are common. But the day of cheap
sites and free grants are on the wane. Canada is becom-
ing more thickly populated; in proportion the demand for
Canadian pictures for Canadians is increasing, and those
first on the ground, necessarily, will reap the greatest ad-
vantages.

The tremendous power of motion picture photography
has not even to-day been estimated. It has become one
of the greatest powers of amusement and education in the
world. How easily it could be made to weld the love and
friendship of two great nations together.

WOLVERINE TO HANDLE ECLECTIC FEATURES

The Eclectic Film Company have granted an exclusive
agency to the Wolverine Feature Film Company, with head
offices at Detroit, Michigan, and a branch office at Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.

The Wolverine Feature Film Company henceforth will
handle all Eclectic features exclusively in the states of Michi-
gan and Wisconsin. Their contract enables them to seize forth-
with any films of the Eclectic brand that may be booked by
outsiders within these two states. Exhibitors in Michigan and
Wisconsin should therefore apply for service direct to the
Wolverine Feature Film Company.

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cents each. Ezo is clean to handle, will not
drip, and does not cause smoke. It makes
every movable part of the lamp respond to the
slightest touch. That means perfect and
instant control of the light. It is applied in
an instant, while the lamp is heated. Ask
your exchange for it, or wrap a quarter in one
of your letterheads, and mail it to the

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Novelties in Moving Picture Apparatus

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NO DEPRESSION IN MOTION
PICTURE INDUSTRY

Business depression is an unknown
term in the motion picture industry,
according to news gleaned from the
dividend columns of the daily papers.

The Mutual Film Corporation an-
nounces its regular monthly dividend
No. 8, as one-half of one per cent,
with an extra dividend of one-half
of one per cent on the common stock.

The New York Motion Picture
Corporation, which manufactures pic-
tures for the Mutual program, an-
nounces the seventh monthly dividend
•as one per cent on its capital stock
and an extra dividend of one per cent
thereon. Both of these notices are
signed by Charles J. Hite, treasurer
of the Thanhouser Company.

THE LURE OF NEW YORK

The International Feature Film Cor-
poration, Ltd., of Montreal, Canada, has
bought from the New York Film Com-
pany, through arrangements with Mr.
Dauzier, the manager, the Canadian
rights for "The Lure of New York" and
all other releases made by the company.

The Michigan rights for "The Lure
of New York"' were recently sold to S.
E. Rosenthal, 178 Walkins Street, De-
troit, Mich.

BLINKHORN BUSY

In less than seven weeks Albert Blink-
horn has sold his seven-part feature,
"David Copperfield,'' in every State and
territory in the United States. Reports
are received daily of the popularity of
this production.

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Dec. 13 — A Tragic Experiment 2 reel Dr.)..
Dec. 20 — The Law of Compensation (2 reel

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Dec. 27— Satan's Castle (2 reel Dr.)

Jan. 3— The Silent Hero (2 reel Dr.)

AMERICAN

Dec. 15— Where the Road Forks (2 reel Dr.). 2000

Dec. IS — Personal Magnetism (Com.) 1000

Dec. 20— Fate's Round-Up (W. Dr.) 1000

Dec. 22 — The Shriner's Daughter (2 reel Dr.). 2000
Dec. 27 — The Rose of San Juan (Spanish

Dec. 29— In the Firelight (2 reel Dr.) 2000

Jan. 3— The Miser's Policy (Dr.) 1000

Drama)

Jan. 5— The Power of Light (2 reel Dr.) 2000

Jan. 10— The Son of Thomas Gray (Dr.) 1000

Jan. 12— Destinies Fulfilled (3 reel Dr.) 3000

Jan. 17 — Unto the Weak (Soc. Dr.) 1000

AMMEX

Nov. 24 — Fatal Reckoning 2000

Dec. 8 — His Pard's Sister 2000

Dec. 15 — The Lucky Nugget 3000

APOLLO

Nov. 30 — Her Husband and My Wife (Com.).
Dec. 7 — Fred Goes in for Horses (Com.)..

Dec. 14 — The Portola Festival

Dec. 14 — Los Angeles Police Parade (Top.) . .
Dec. 21— Fred's I. O. U (Com.)

BISON

Not. 36 — The White Vaquero (2 reel Dr.)..
Not. »9 — The War of the Cattle Range (2 reel

Dr.)

Dec. 8 — The White Squaw (2 reel Dr.)

Dec. IS — The Werewolf (2-reel Dr.)

Dec. 20— The God of Girsah (2 reel Dr.)

Dec. 27— The Water War (2 reel Dr.)

Jan. 10 — The Eleventh Hour (2 reel Feature)

ALBERT BLINKHORN'S FEATURES

Dec. 1 — David Copperfield (Hepworth — 7

parts)

Dec. 20 — After Many Years (General Film

Agency — 3 parts)

Dec. 22 — The Harper Mystery (Turner Films,

Ltd. — 3 parts)

Dec. 29 — The Vicar of Wakefield (Hepworth

— 4 parts) .•

BRONCHO

Dec. 10 — The Woman (Dr.)

Dec. 17— The Open Door (2 parts — Dr.)

Dec. 24 — Her Father's Story (2 parts — Dr.)
Dec. 31 — The Woman (2 parts — Dr.)

Jan. 7 — A Military Judas (3 parts — Dr.)

Jan. 14 — Conscience (Dr.)

CRYSTAL

Dec. 9— Baldy is a Wise Old Bird (Com.) . .

Dec. 14— First Love (Dr.)

Dec. 16— The Soubrette (Com.)

Dec. 16— The Trained Nurse (Com.)

Dec. 21— The Heart of an Artist (Drama)..

Dec 23 — My Brudder Sylvest

Dec. 23 — The Baby Question

Dec. 28— The Lure of the Stage (Dr.)

Dec. 30 — The Kitchen Mechanic (Com.)

Dec. 30— Hubby's Night Out (Com.)

Jan. 4— The Lifted Veil (Dr.)

Jan. 6 — Shadowed

Jan. 6 — Fighting Is No Business (Com.)....
Jan. 11— The Ring (Dr.)

DOMINO

Dec. 11— The Filly (2 parts — Dr.)

Dec. 18— The Curse (2 parts— Dr.)

Dec. 25— True Irish Hearts (2 parts — Dr.)..
Jan. 1 — True Irish Hearts (3 parts — Dr.)....
Jan. 8 — Harp of Tara (2 parts — Dr.)

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ECLAIR

Dec. 14 — Nutty Has a Romance

Dec. 17— The Serpent in Eden (2 reel Dr.) . .

Dec. 21 — Loaded

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Dec. 31 — The Governor's Veto (2 reels)

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Jan. 4— Nutty Has Big Ideas

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-Out of His Class (Dr.)

-Slim and the Petticoats (Com.)....

-His Better Self (Dr.)

-Slim and the Bandit (Com.)

-His Father (Dr.)

-Slim's Last Trick (Com.)

-The Winning Stroke (Dr.)

-Slim's Strategy (Com.)

-Cross Roads (Dr.)

GAUMONT

-The Broken Heart 2000

-Dollar Bills at a Cent Apiece 1000

-Leonce and His Guardian 1000

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The Trials of Alexander (Com.)

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-St. Milo to Dinan

-Mike and Jake in Society (Com.)...

Their Little Ones

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Some Nightmare

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KAY-BEE

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-Her Legacy (Dr.)

-Soul of the South (Dr.)

-The Pitfall (Dr.)

-Harvest of Sin (Dr.)

-Prince (Dr.)

KEYSTONE
-San Francisco Celebration (Topical)

-A Ride for a Bride (Com.)

-The Horse Thief (Com.)

-The Gusher (Com.)

-Fatty's Flirtation (Com.)

-Protecting San Francisco from Fire

-His Sister's Kids (Com.)

-A Bad Game (Com.)

-Some Nerve (Com.)

-He Would a Hunting Go (Com.)...

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KOMIC Feet

-The Wild Indian (Com.) ■

—No Release

-Wifey's Christmas Present (Com.)..

—The Live Wire (Com.)

-The Bad Man from the East (Com.)
-Levi's Luck (Com.)

LACLEDE

-Pale Face Squaw 30ni

LEWIS PENNANTS

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-Decreed to Die

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LUX

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-Bill on the Telephone (Com.) 510

— A. Day in the Country (Com.) 385

-When Auntie Made Her Will

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-Ostrich Farming Near Nice (Indus.) 410

-Detective Larkin (Dr.) 585

-Travels in Hungary (Sc.) 350

-Only a Little Drop of Water (Com.) 355
-A Quiet Flat (Com.) 555

MAJESTIC

— (No release this date)

—The Rival Pitchers (Com.)

-The God of To-morrow (Dr.)

-A Man's Awakening (Dr.)

—The Prisoner of the Mountains

(Dr.)

—Mrs. Brown's Burglar (Com.)

-The Pride of the Force (Com.)

NESTOR

-The Lightning Bolt (Dr.)?

-A Tale of the West (W. Dr.)

-A Hopi Legend (Dr.)

-And the Villain Still Pursued Her

(Com.)

-The Dead Line (W. Dr.)

-When Ursus Threw the Bull (2 reel

Com.)

POWERS
-A Cracksman Santa Claus (Dr.) . . .
-What Happened to Freckles (Com.)

-The Unhappy Pair (Com.)

-Three Children (Com. Dr.)

-An Evil of the Slums (Dr.)

-Them Old Letters (Dr.)

-Who So Diggeth a Pit (Dr.)

PRINCESS
-His Imaginary Family (Com. Dr.).

-The Law of Humanity (Dr.)

-Cupid's Lieutenant (Com. Dr.) ....
RAMO

-Fangs of Hate 3000

-The Devil Within 3000

RELIANCE

-The First Prize (Com.)

-At the Cabaret (Com.)

-The Pseudo Prodigal (Dr.)

-The Fly Leaf of Fate (Dr.)

-The Alternative (Dr.)

-Grovanni's Gratitude (2 reel Dr.) . .

-Daybreak (Dr.)

-His Awful Vengeance (Com.)

-Seeing Stars and Stripes (Com.) ....

-Some Rogues and a Girl (Dr.)

REX

-The Jew's Christmas (3 reel Dr.) . .

-A Wife's Deceit (Com. Dr.)

-The Dream (Dr.)

-His Faithful Servant (Dr.)

-The Female of the Species (2 reels)

-A Fool and His Money (Com.)

-An Arrowhead Romance (Dr.)

-The Cycle of Adversity (Dr.)

SOLAX

-Ben Bolt 4000

-The Shadow of Moulin Rouge 400(1

THANHOUSER

-Lawyer, Dog and Baby (Com. Dr.).

-Peggy's Invitation (Dr.)

-Jack and the Bean Stalk (2 parts) .

-(No Release)

-An Orphan's Romance (Dr.)......

-His Father's Wife (Dr.)

VICTOR

-Incognito (Dr.)

-A Girl and Her Money (2 reel Dr.)

-Rory of the Bogs (3 reel Dr.)

-Miracle Mary (2 reel Dr.)

-The Field Foreman (Dr.)

-The Coryphee (2 reels)

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Dec. 15 — Oh, Sammy! (Com.)

Dec. 15 — Riley's Decoys (Com.)

Dec. 18— Beyond All Law (Dr.)

Dec. 20 — The Consc.ence of Hassan Bey (Dr.)

Dec. 22 — For Her Government (Dr.)

Dec. 25— Her Wedding Bell (Dr.)

Dec. 2? — The Club Cure (Com.)

Dec. 27 — The Suicide Pact (Com.)

Dec. 29 — The Wedding Gown (2 parts — Dr.)

Jan. 1 — Skelley's Skeleton (Com.)

Ian. 1 — A Motorcycle Elopement" (Com.)....

Jan. 3— The Abandoned Well (Dr.)

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Dec. 23 — At Cross Purposes (Dr.) (Parts I

& II)

Dec. 30 — When a Woman Wills (2 parts —

Dr.)

Jan. 0 — The Smuggler's Son (2 parts — Dr.).
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Dec. 2— The Price of Human Lives (Dr.).. 1000

Dec. S — The Thrifty Janitor (Com.) 1000

Dec. 6— Alexia's Strategy (Dr.) 2000

Dec. 0— What Shall it Profit a Man? (Dr.). 1000

Dec. 8 — The Manicure Girl (Com.) 1000

Dec. 9— The Stolen Plans (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 10— The Joining of the Oceans (Sc.) 500

Dec. 10 — Greedy George (Com.) 500

Dec. 12 — Peg o' the Movies (Dr.) 2000

Dec. 13— The First Christmas (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 15 — A Pious Undertaking (Com.) 1000

Dec. 16— The Actress (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 17 — Falling in Love with Inez (Com.).. 1000

Dec. 19 — Within the Enemy's Lines (Dr.) 2000

Dec. 20— The Haunted Bedroom (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 22 — Products of the Palm, the Banana
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Dec. 22 — Teaching His Wife a Lesson (Com.) 675

Dec. 23— The Upward Way (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 24— Mary's New Hat (Com.) 585

Dec. 24— The Janitor's Quiet Life (Com.)... 415

Dec. 26— A Tudor Princess (Dr.) 2000

Dec. 27 — A Proposal from Mary (Being the
Sixth and Last Story of "Who

Will Marry Mary")

Dec. 29— Her Face Was Her Fortune (Com.). 1000
Dec. 30 — The Mystery of the Dover Express

(Dr.) 1000

Dec. 31— Andy Gets a Job (Com.) 1000

Tan. 2— The Antique Brooch (Dr.) 2000

Jan. 3 — Stanton's Last Fling (Dr.) 1000

ESSANAY

Dec. 13 — Sophie's New Foreman (W. Com.) . .

Dec. 16 — Life's Weaving (Dr.)

Dec. 17— Hello Trouble (Com.)

Dec. 18— The Trail of the Snake Band (W.

Dr.)

Dec. 19— The Stigma (Dr.) (Parts I & II) . .
Dec. 20 — Broncho Billy's Christmas Deed (W.

Dr.)

Dec. 23 — A Vagabond Cupid (Dr.)

Dec. 24— At the Old Maid's Call (Com.)

Dec. 24 — Glimpses of Rio de Janiero (Sc.) . . .
Dec. 25— That Pair from Thespia (W. Com.).
Dec. 26— The Great Game (Dr.) (Parts I &

II)

Dec. 27 — A Snakeville Courtship (W. Com.).

Dec. 30— The Ghost of Self (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 31 — When Love Is Young (Com.)

Dec. 31 — Ascending Sugar Loaf Mountain

(Sc.)

Jan. 1— Through Trackless Sands (Dr.) 1000

Tan. 2 — The Awakening at Snakeville (Spe-
cial— 2 parts— Com.) 2000

Tan. 3 — The Redemption of Broncho Billy

(Dr.) 1000

KALEM

Dec. 3 — The Cave Men's Ware (2 parts —

Dr.) 2000

Dec. 5— While Father Telephoned (Com.) . .
Dec. 5 — Andrew Carnegie's Gift to the World

(Top.)

Dec. 6— The Footprint Clue (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 8— The Strike (Dr.)

Dec. 10 — The Chinese Death Thorn (Dr. —

Parts I and II)

Dec. 12 — General Bunko's Victory (Com.)....

Dec. 12 — Piano Manufacturing (Ind.)

Dec. 13 — The Invisible Foe (Dr.)

Dec. 15— The Hunchback (Dr.) (Parts I & II)
Dec. 17— Uncle Tom's Cabin (Dr.) (Parts I

& II) 1

Dec. 19 — Frayed Fagin's Adventures (Com.)

Dec. 19— Ulster Day in Belfast (Top.)

Dec. 20— The Electrician's Hazard (Dr.)

Feet

Dec. 22 — "Gilt Edge" Stocks (Dr.)

Dec. 24 — The Big Horn Massacre (Dr.)

(Parts I & II)

Dec. 26 — Emancipated Women (Com.)

Dec. 26 — Talcum Powder (Ind.)

Dec. 27 — Her Indian Brother (Dr.)

Dec. 29 — A Modern Jekyl and Hyde (Special

—2 parts— Dr.) 2000

Dec. 31 — An Unseen Terror (Special — 2 parts

—Dr.) 2000

Jan. 2— Bill's Board Bill (Com.)

Jan. 2 — Cambridgeshire Race Meet (Sports)

Jan. 3 — A Dream of the Wild (Dr.) 1000

LUBIN

Dec. 5 — Some Flowers (Com.) 400

Dec. 5 — An Interrupted Courtship (Com.)... 600

Dec. 6— Her Father (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 8— The Smuggler's Daughter (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 9— An Enemy's Aid (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 11 — Hydraulic Works on the Adda 400

Dec. 11— His Best Friend (Dr.) 1600

Dec. 12— Life, Love and Liberty (W. Dr.).. 1000

Dec. 13— The Real Impostor (Dr.) 400

Dec. 13— A Pill Box Cupid (Com.) 600

Dec. 15— When the Well Went Dry (Com.).. 400

Dec. 15— A Masked Mix-Up (Com.) 600

Dec. 16— When He Sees (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 18— A Son of His Father (2 reel Dr.).. 2000
Dec. 19 — Growing and Gathering Cocoa Beans 400

Dec. 19— Banty Tim (Com.) 600

Dec. 20 — A Love of '64 (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 22— Through Flaming Paths (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 23 — Between Dances (Com.)

Dec. 23— A College Cupid (Com.)

Dec. 25— The Parasite (Dr.) (Parts I & II)..

Dec. 26— The Death Trap (Dr.)

Dec. 27 — The Doctor's Romance (Dr.)

Dec. 29— Her Boy (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 30 — Before the Last Leaves Fall (Dr.).. 1000
Jan. 1 — Manufacturing Pearl Buttons (In-
dus.) 300

Jan. 1— The Inspector's Story (Dr.) 1700

Tan. 2 — A Corner in Popularity (Com.) 400

Tan'. 2 — The Missing Diamond (Com.) 600

Jan. 3— The Circle's End (Dr.) 1000

O. KELIEB
Nov. 27— Japanese "Judo" Commonly Known

as Jiu Jitsu. 1000

Dec. 4 — A Woman's Mission (Dr.)

Dec. 4 — A Trip to the Famous Picnic

Grounds at Arashyama, Japan

(Sc.)

Dec. 11 — At Phnom-Penh, Cambodia (Travel)
Dec. 11 — Beautiful Angkor-Vat, Cambodia

(Sc.)

Dec. 18 — Cities of Japan (Sc.)

Dec. 25 — The Ruins of Angkor-Thorn (Sc.)..

Jan. 1 — Temples of Japan 1000

PATHE FREEES

Nov. 29— The Blight (Dr.)

Dec. 1 — Pathe's Weekly No. 72 (News)

Dec. 2 — A Peasant Marriage in Hungary

(Cus.)

Dec. 2 — Edible Fish of the Mediterranean..
Dec. 2 — The Geysers of New Zealand (Sc.)

Dec. 3 — A Break for Freedom (Dr.)

Dec. 4 — Baseball's Peerless Leader (2 parts

— Com.) -

Dec. 4— Pathe's Weekly No. 73 (News) . . .

Dec. 5 — A Bear Escape (Com.)

Dec. 6 — Col. Heeza Liar in Africa (Novelty)
Dec. 6 — Glimpses of Pond Life (Zoology) . .

Dec. 8— Pathe's Weekly No. 74 (News)

Dec. 9 — The Stolen Inheritance (Dr.)

Dec. 10— You've Got to Pay (Dr.) '

Dec. 11 — A Modern Portia (Dr. — Parts I and

II)

Dec. 11 — Pathe's Weekly No. 75 (News)

Dec. 12 — Birds of the Inland Marsh (Bird

Life)

Dec. 12 — A Journey to the Environs of Naples

(Sc.)

Dec. 13 — Uncle John to the Rescue (Com.) . .

Dec. 15— Pathe's Weekly No. 76 (News)

Dec. 16— The Couple Next Door (Com.)

Dec. 17 — Insects that Sing (Zoology)

Dec. 17 — Nice and Its Environs, France

(Travel)

Dec. 18— The Finger of Fate (Dr.) (Parts I

& ID

Dec. 18 — Pathe's Weekly No. 77

Dec. 19 — A Scandinavian Scandal (Com.)....

Dec. 20— The Fire Bride (Dr.)

Dec. 22 — Pathe's Weekly No. 78 (News)

Dec. 23 — An Indian Don Juan (Dr.)

Dec. 24 — Two Up a Tree (Com.)

Dec. 25 — Lady Madcap's Way (Com.) (Parts

I & II)

Dec. 25 — Pathe's Weekly No. 79 (News)

Dec. 27 — The Moth and the Flame (Dr.)

(Parts I & II)

Dec. 27 — Corfu, an Isle of the Ionian Sea

(Travel)

Dec. 27 — Lady Madcap's Way (Spec. — 2 parts

— Com.)

Dec. 29— Pathe's Weekly No. 80 (News)

Dec. 30 — The Sneak Thief (t orn.)

Dec. 31— By the Two Oak Trees (Dr.)

Jan. 1— When Strong Wills Clash (Special—

2 parts — Dr.)

Jan. 1— Pathe's Weekly No. 81 (News)

Jan. 3 — The Resurrection (Special — 2 parts

—Dr.)

SELIG

Nov. 21— Outwitted by Billy (Dr.) 100(

Nov. 24 — The Quality of Mercy (Dr. — Parts

I and II)

Nov. 25 — Mounted Officer Flynn (Dr.)

Nov. 26 — Cupid in the Cow Camp (Com.) ....

Nov. 27 — A Message from Home (Dr.)

Nov. 28 — The Supreme Moment (Dr.)

Dec. 2 — The Rustler's Reformation

Dec. 3 — Within the Hour

Dec. 4 — Grandaddy's Boy

Dec. 5 — Northern Hearts

Dec. 8 — Master of the Garden (Dr.— Parts 1

and II)

Dec. 9— An Equal Chance (Dr.)

Dec. 10— Hilda of Heron Cove (Dr.)

Dec. 11 — Physical Culture on the Quarter

Circle V Bar (Com.)

Dec. 12 — The Mysterious Way (Com.)

Dec. 15— The Wolf of the City (Dr.) (Parts

I & II)

Dec. 15 — When Father Craved a Smoke

(Com.)

Dec. 16 — With Eyes So Blue and Tender

(Dr.)

Dec. 17 — Buster's Little Game (Com.)

Dec. 18— Until the Sea (Dr.)

Dec. 19 — The Lure of the Road (Dr.)

Dec. 22— The Open Door (Dr.) (Parts I & IT)

Dec. 23 — Mother Love vs. Gold (Dr.)

Dec. 24 — A Dip in the Briney (Com.)

Dec. 25 — Doc Yak's Christmas (Com.)

Dec. 26— His Sister (Dr.)

Dec. 29— The Adventures of Kathlyn— No. 1—

The Unwelcome Throne (Special

—3 parts — Dr.) 3000

Dec. 30— The Stolen Heart (Com.) 1000

Dec. 31— Father's Day (Dr.) 100O

Jan. 1 — Good Resolutions (Dr.) 1000

Jan. 2 — At Cross Purposes (Com. Dr.)

Jan. 2 — Buster and Sunshine (Com.)

URBAN ECLIPSE
George Kleine
Aug. 12— The Mong-Fu-Tong (Part I & II)

(Dr.) )*«'

Aug. 19— The Clown's Revenge (Part I & IT)

(Dr.) »0(.i

Oct. 14— The Last Minute (Dr.) (Part 1

& II) »f»0(

Oct. 28 — The Rajah's Diamond Rose (PaTi

I & II) (Dr.) 20*m

Nov. 25 — The Subterranean City; or Trail-
ing the Jewel Thieves (2 part Dr.)
VITAGRAPH

Nov. 28 — Betty in the Lion's Den

Nov. 29 — The Golden Pathway (2 part Spe-

cial)

Dec. 1 — A Game of Cards (Dr.) loot

Dec. 2— The Wreck (3 parts — Dr.) 3G<>{,

Dec. S— A Pair of Prodigals (Com.)

Dec. 3 — The Coliseum of Rome

Dec. 4— The Swan Girl (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 5 — A Lesson in Jealousy (Com.) 100H

Dec. 6 — Beauty Unadorned (2 parts — Com.).200H

Dec. 8— 'Mid Kentucky Hills (Dr.)

Dec. 9 — Deception (Com.)

Dec. 10— That Suit at Ten (Com.)

Dec. 10 — Performing Lions (Edu.)

Dec. 11 — Sacrifice (Dr.)

Dec. 12— The Life-Saver (Com.)

Dec. 13 — Love's Sunset (Dr. — Parts I and II)

Dec. 15— The Uprising of Ann (Dr.) 10'Ui

Dec. 16 — Up in a Balloon (Com.)

Dec. 16 — Elephants at Work (Edu.)

Dec. 17— Any Port in a Storm (Com.) IOOi

Dec. 18— The Face of Fear (W. Dr.) inn*

Dec. 19 — The Girl at the Lunch Counter

(Com.)

Dec. 20 — The Ancient Order of Goodfellows

( part Com. Dr.) 2"0>

Dec. 22 — A Christmas Story (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 23— Her Faith in the Flag (Dr.) inor

Dec. 22— A Christmas Story (Dr.)

Dec. 23— Her Faith in the Flag (Dr.)

Dec. 24 — The FTonorable Algernon (Com.)...

Dec. 25— The Spirit of Christmas (Dr.)

Dec. 26 — The Golf Game and the Bonnet

(Com.) .

Dec. 27— Heartsease (Dr.) (Parts I &• TI) .

Dec. 29— Her Husband's Friend (Dr.) 1000

Dec. 30 — His Second Wife (Com. Dr.)

Dec. 30— The Baby Show (Edu.)

Dec. 31 — The Education of Aunt Georgiana

(Dr.) 1000

Tan. 1— Secret of the Bulb (Dr.) 1000

Tan. 2 — Misadventures of a Mighty Monarch

(Com.) 1000

Tan. 3— The Street Singers (Special— 2 parts

—Dr.) 2000

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January 27

For Her Brother's Sake

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True Irish Hearts

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January 8

Harp of Tara. . . . (2 Reels)

January 15

The Primitive Call

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January 22
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BRONCHO HEADLINERS

January 7 A Military Judas (3 Reels)

January 14 The Cure (1 Reel)

January 21 Conscience (2 Reels)

January 28 The Yellow Flame (2 Reels)

February 4 A New England Idyl (2 Reels)

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