AliJb WEW: IPZiOTOG^APZiS The oalar ladepaade&t Weo&ly Journal published I» ttto isafcoreafts of Masa«aft»ctur«r» and Oparaton off Aaisaatod PS&otograpHs aad Cinematofgs-aplu Projection* . Hl«asts»fefte4S Soz&rjs, 2»atntesra Leetoroe asa«2 E#©saS©ffa SSado Mailers PWBS.HSS3&© S? THE WORLD PHOTOGRAPHIC PUBLISHING BROADWAY, NEW TOBK Vol. 1., No. 9. $Sa^ 4, -.19©? Price, lO Cents NOTICE.— Sf yo^s wl Sq g$et your copies wiil* yo^ff ^ews Agents os» s©nd tss ycmff THE AMESICM HEWS ?, Trail© Agents. There's a reason for every success in business. Are you conducting a successful moving picture show or are the people in your neighborhood going to your com- petitor ? If they are the fault lies entirely with your ilm.' S@rvic< Your patrons know good films and want them, and The "G. N. Y. Film Service" will certainly satisfy them. We handle only the latest and best films manufactured is this country and abroad. We also handle a complete line of machines and accessories. Call on us now and write us and we'll go into further details. Our showrooms are located right in the film renting neighborhood, and within easy reach of all transit lines. We are making a specialty of supplying a full show for Sunday afternoon and evening concerts which will include machine, operator and illustrated song slides, singer and a good programme of moving pictures. The Greater New York Film Renting Go., 24 UNION SQUARE, ZHZiSZnS&ZZTSSES s and MOTION PICTURE MACHINES The best and only reliable are for sale here WE ARE SOLE AGENTS FOR wer 's Camerag'raph WITH ORIGINAL FIREPROOF MAGAZINES AND Edison's Kinetoscopes We are the largest dealers in Philadelphia in Machines, Films and General Supplies Lewis M. Swaab S3© Sps>aaeo St* t? PJaiSasSoXpSaio, Pa. 130 CLASS A FILMS 15 Cents per foot THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 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All cash enclosed with letter is at the risk of sender. EUROPEAN AGENTS: . INTERNATIONAL NEWS COMPANY Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London.E. C. • To the Operator We want operators — good operators — to take advan- tage of our Employment Bureau and use it for their own advantage. We want a complete register of every opera- tor in New York City, those in employ, and those out . of a situation. To the present we have, had 24 applica tions. We found situations in New. York for seven and outside one, and are now in a position to place eight or nine more into good berths. Twice last week we were rung up on the 'phone for operators Jo go to Jamestown Exhibition, once for in- formation from our list, but the applicants were too far away to do any good; another sent a letter seeking a high-class operator, and we were unable to supply him off-hand. There was never so great a demand for skilled help as at the present time, and we can get situations for men, as we say above. .They must be honest, sober, well- dressed, well recommended, with recent testimonials, that will bear investigation, capable of going into Fifth ave- nue houses without bringing discredit upon themselves or their employers. The lowest salary offered is $22.50 with traveling and hotel expenses, while the highest is for a confidential position of trust, $35.00 per week. Fill up and return to us the blank found on another page, stating if only for register or for situation. All applica- tions will be treated in strict confidence. Directory We are compiling a complete directory of every lec- turer, lanternist, cinematograph operator, vocalist (who uses song slides), lantern slide maker and colorist in the United States. We need our readers' assistance in this task, and again ask them to send us names, addresses and qualifications of those known to them. We tender our thanks to those dealers who loaned us their lists, and operators who sent us names. At the lowest computation there are 15,000, and we want them all. When writing to Advertisers please mention The Moving Picture World.! 132 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. Optica of Photographic Projecting Lenses. Chapter III. and ■:.i PRISIMATIC SPECTRUM, OR THE COLORS OF LIGHT. By Joseph Menchek. We have hitherto considered light chiefly as a simple homogeneous substance, as if all its rays were white, and as if they were all refracted in the same manner by the different lenses on which they fall. Investigations, however, into the nature of this wonderful fluid have demonstrated that this is not the case, and that it is possessed of certain additional properties of the utmost importance in the system of nature. Had every ray of light been a pure white, and incapable of being separated into any other colors, the scene of the universe ; would have exhibited a very different aspect from what we now behold. One uniform hue would have appeared. over the whole face of nature, and one object could scarcely have been distinguished from another. The different shades of verdure which now diversify every landscape, the brilliant coloring of the flowery fields, and almost all the beauties and sublimities which adorn this .lower creation would have been withdrawn. But it is now ascertained that every ray of white light is composed of an assemblage of colors, whence proceed that infinite variety of shade and color with which the whole' of our terrestrial habitation is arrayed. Those colors are found not to be in the objects themselves, but in the rays of light which fall upon them, without which they would either be invisible, or wear a uniform aspect. In refer- ence to this point, Goldsmith has well observed : "The blushing beauties of the rose, the modest blue of the violet, are not in the flowers themselves, but in the light that adorns them. Odor, softness, and beauty of figure are their own ; but it is light alone that dresses them up in those robes which shame the monarch's glory." • Many strange opinions and hypotheses were enter- tained rsepecting colors by the ancients. The Pytha- goreans called color the superficies of bodies ; Plato said that it was a flame issuing from them. According to Zeno, it is the first configuration of matter; and accord- ing to Aristotle, it is that which moves bodies actually transparent. Among the moderns,- Des Cartes imagined that the difference of color proceeds from the prevalence of the direct or rotatory motions of the particles of light. Grimaldi, Dechales, and others, thought the differences of color depended upon the quick or slow vibrations of a certain elastic medium filling the whole . uniyerse. Rohault imagined that the different colors Were made by the rays of light entering the eye at different- angles with respect to the optic axis; and Dr. Hook conceived that color is caused by the sensation of the oblique, or uneven pulses of light; and this being capable of no more than two varieties, he concluded that there could no more than two primary colors. Such were some the crude opinions which prevailed before the era of illustrious Newton, by whose enlightened investigati the true theory of. colors was at last discovered. the year 1666 this philosopher- began to investigate subject, and finding the colored image of the sun form by a glass prism, to be of an oblong, and not of a tin form, as, according to the laws of refraction, it ought t be, he was surprised at the great disproportion betwea its length and breadth, the former being five times tin length of the latter ; and he began to conjecture that li^ is not homogeneal, but that it consists of rays, soot of which are much more refrangible than others. Prior f this period, philosophers supposed that all light it passing out of one medium into another of differea density, was equally refracted, in the same or like circum stances ; but Newton discovered that this is not the fact but that there are different species of light, and that eacl species is disposed both to suffer a different degree ol refrangibility in passing out of one medium into another, and to excite in us the idea of a different color from tin rest; and that bodies appear of that color which arise from the peculiar rays they are disposed to reflect. Iti now, therefore, universally acknowledged that the ligt of the sun, which to us seems perfectly homogeneal w white, is composed of no fewer than seven different co! ors, namely, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigi and Violet. A body which appears of a red color ha the property of reflecting the red rays more powerful!] than any of the others ; a body of a green color reflect the green rays more copiously than rays of any othe color, and so of the orange, yellow, blue, purple and violet A body which is of a black color, instead of reflecting absorbs all, or the greater part of the rays that fall upa it ; and, on the contrary, a body that appears white re fleets the greater part of the rays indiscriminately, with out separating the one from the other. Before proceeding to describe the experiments bt which the above results were obtained, it may be props to give some idea of the form and effects of the Prism by which such experiments are made. This instrumerf is triangular and straight, and generally about three « four inches long. It is commonly made of white glass, a free as possible from veins and bubbles, and other simi! defects, arid is solid throughout. Its lateral faces, or sides, should be perfectly plane, and of a fine polish. The angle formed by the two faces, one receiving the ray of light that is refracted in the instrument, and the other affording it an issue on its returning into the air, is call« the refracting angle of the prism, as A C B. Wj manner in which Newton performed his experiments, and established the discovery to which we have alluded is as follows: In the window-shutter, E G, of a dark room, a hole, F, was made, of about one-third of an inch diametef and behind it was placed a glass prism, A C B, so the beam of light, S F, proceeding directly from the sta ... THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. «3 as made to pass through the prism. Before the inter- ssition of the prism, the beam proceeded in a straight Be towards T, where it formed a round, white spot ; but, .fog now bent out of its course by the prism, it formed t oblong image, O P, upon the white pasteboard, or reen, L M, containing the seven colors marked in the rure, the red being the least, and the violet the most re- acted from the original direction of the solar beam, S T. his oblong image is called the prismatic spectrum. If e refracting angle of the prism, A C B, be 64 degrees, id the distance o'f the pasteboard from the prism about ! feet, the length of the image, O P, will be about 10 dies, and the breadth 2 inches. The sides of the spec- mi are right lines distinctly bounded, and the ends are mi-circular. From this circumstance, it is evident that is still the image of the sun, but elongated by the re- tctive power of the prism. It is evident from the fig- e that, since some part of the beam, R O, is refracted much further out of its national course, W T, than some other part of the beam, as W P, the rays towards R O have a much greater disposition to be refracted than those towards W P; and that this disposition arises from the naturally different qualities of those rays, is evident from this consideration, that the refracting angle or power of the prism is the same in regard to the superior part of the beam as to the inferior. By making a hole in the screen, L M, opposite any one of the colors of the spectrum, so as to allow that color alone to pass — and by letting the color thus sepa- rated fall upon a second prism— Newton found that the light of each of the colors was alike refrangible, because the second prism could not separate them into an oblong image, or into any other color. Hence he called all the seven colors simple or homogeneous, in opposition to white light, which he called compound, or heterogeneous. -T [We are much obliged to this correspondent for the names furnished, and will be glad to receive the others. Will our readers take note and please do likewise ? — Ed. I Logansport, Ind./ April 27, 1907. ilor Moving Picture World: Dear Sir — I thoroughly agree with Mr. W. M. Wear, Charleston, W. Va., in everything he says in article, pour paper, in regard to the examination of operators. ind that the managers of theaters in this locality are lined to hire some boy to handle the machine, at a sal- that no one but a boy can exist on. I saw a letter m one manager just the other day where he says that "has hired his own runner," and that he can save ney. Now if this man was compelled to employ a npetent man to handle films, he would not have to r a large sum of money for damage to film which is bound to do under the circumstances. have been operating for a trifle over six years and & that I am capable of handling a machine in a capa- manner, although I don't know it all by any means. inclosed find my application for registering. I also Jose names of the operators employed in this city 'ides myself. I can furnish you with the names of Hly every operator in this State within a week or so. Very truly yours, H. S. Lewis. G. P. Hamilton, the representative of Geo. K. Spoor & Go./ Inc., of Chicago, was in New York this week for the purpose of securing expert help which he is taking back with him, at the same time gaining information of immense value to his company in the formation of a film photographic plant they intend establishing in Chicago. The' company have for a long time been contemplating the -manufacture of films, and now the plans are satisfac- torily completed to commence on a large scale. They have secured for their photographer one of the most ex- pert men in the business, who has learnt his work thor- oughly and made posing and lighting of his subjects a special study. In the course of the next two months they will 'be ready to talk business; dealers and renters who are- booking for good films will get them. Not a stone will be left unturned to produce one of the finest and best equipped studios in the country, from which they will turn* out films to suit the most fastidious. They propose also'-to work in the open, and obtain views, etc., all over the States. There is $1,500,000 back of the concern. 134 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. Projection Lenses. For the Nickelodeon. • : ~ ■ By The Editor. Referring to our issue No. 4, March 30, and the table of distances, several correspondents have written that they cannot get the size disc as mentioned with Darlot lenses. The ie uses mostly in use in England, where these tables have been in use for the past fifteen to twenty years, are cylinder lens of English and French make, on which is engraved their focal length, and if these are used there should be no difficulty in using the tables. When exhibiting for the Gilchrist and University lectures-, in halls varying from 50 to 150 feet distance from screen, we relied absolutely on the tables and they never failed us. For the benefit of our readers we are now making ex- periments with Darlot lenses and will shortly publish the results, and if necessary prepare a new set of tables for their use. In the meantime, if readers will find the focus of their lens by holding front of same pointing towards a window and get a sharply defined image on a piece of paper pinned to wall, then measure from paper to mid- way of lens mount, they will get the focus of lens. Do not . use the back focus as a guide or it will cause difficulties ; for instance, if the back focus is 12 inches and the front focus 9 inches, the equivalent focus of the lens should be between 8 and 9 inches, and if our readers will bear this in mind when using these lenses their troubles will vanish. We have pleasure in reproducing a reference table we prepared for cinematograph lenses. This table is worked out on similar lines to the lantern lenses, and from several tests we have made it is approximately accurate. The following figures will interest those owners. 4 Nickelodeons who have one or more competitors an complain because there is not variety of film subject enough to supply a number of theaters situated near eaci other without repetition or duplication of subject; tfe figures are approximate, and do not include an occasional subject imported from an irregular source of supply, There were placed upon the American market new fib subjects: In November, 1906, total number of feet 10,00 In December, 1906, total number of feet n^oo In January, 1907, total number of feet. ...... 12,00 In February, 1907, total number of feet 14/xx In March, 1907, total number of feet 28,00 An analysis of these figures means that the availabl number of reels of new film subjects increased from ta in November, 1906, to twenty-eight in March, 1907. Tm Nickelodeons located in one block, changing reels thre times weekly, each using new subjects only, were force to show the same pictures more than half the time November, 1906, while in March there was no need duplicating at any time.' The representative of a moving picture manufacture received this- week the following: "Enclosed please find $6.50 and a photograph of mysd and band. Please send me quick as possible a 50-foc moving picture of the band and oblige." — So Saj Variety. Distance between Cinematograph and Screen. 10. feet 12 " IS " 20 " 25 '*-■ SO " 35 " 40 " 45 " 50 " i 75 "■ 100 .« - 150 " •/ ■•• 2 in. READY REFERENCE TABLE DISTANCES FOR CINEMATOGRAPH LENSES. FOCUS OF LENS. 2% in. 2% in. 3 in. 314 in. 3^ in. • • 4 m. 5 m. ft. in. 5 o DIAMETER OF PICTURE (obtained with i-inch mask). 6 7 10 o 12 6 J50 17 6 20 o 22 6 25 27 49 o 6 o 6 6 73 6 ft in. 4 O 49 60 80 10 o 12 O 14 O 16 O 18 O 20 O 30 O 40 O 60 o ft in. 36 44 56 7 3 90 it o 12 8 14 6 16 4 18 4 27 8 37o 55 4 ft in. 3 4 40 50 6B .84 10 o 11 8 13 4 150 169 25 1 33 5 50 1 ft in. 3 2 39 48 62 79 93 io 7 9 12 4 14 o 15 6 23 3 3 1 o. 466 ft in. ft in. 2 8 m 46 58 7^ 86 10 o 11 6 130 14 3 21 5 28 7 ' 42 ii -■ o 3 S" 50 60 70 88 98 ii o 11 9 17 6 239 35 9 ft in. 2 O 26 30 46 5 10 62 7 8 92 10 o 150 20 o 30 b 6in. ft in. 14 18 20 34 38 40 48 5" 70 78 114 150 22 41 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 135 Edgar C. Maurer, the moving picture man of Potts- town, has leased the Boyerton Opera House from Dr. Thomas J. B. Rhoads until June, 1908. * * * From Wm. H. Havil, of Chicago, we received a notice calling attention to the reel, holding 1,000 feet of film, [hat he makes. The price seems reasonable. * * * Mr. O. K. Hass has had the quarters at 31 West Trade tfreet, Charlotte, N. C, fitted up for a moving picture raller)'. This makes the fifth show in operation now. * * * A theater, giving continuous exhibitions of moving pic- tures on the popular price basis, as in Eastern cities, is to be opened on Washington avenue in Ogden, Utah, in he next few days. * * * William Hickey has rented the store under the Ban- quet Hotel, on the corner of Evelyn and West streets, Rutland, Vt., where he will conduct a moving picture show there during the summer. * * * The season is opening early at Paragon Park, Hull, Mass. Durgin has set up his illustrated songs and mov- ng pictures paraphernalia in his cafe, and large and ap- >reciative crowds gather nightly to enjoy the entertain- nent James S. Thomas and others, of Plymouth, Pa., have eased the new Cimmet Hall and will turn it into an amusement place. Changes will be made in the interior adapt it to the purpose. Mr. Thomas will be the nanager. * * * The People's Theater, of Duluth Minn., a vaudeville and moving picture venture, has been sold by E. M. Wells ad his associates, who are St. Paul parties, to William P. Welch, of Bemidji. The transfer was made last week "id Mr. Welch is now in possession. Lewis M. Swaab, of Philadelphia, finding he had not sufficient elbow room for his business, has just completed to addition to the building, and has now about twice as ch space as before, thus adding to the comfort of his clientele calling at 338 Spruce street. It has been demonstrated that moving picture shows or continuous vaudeville does not pay in La Bend, Ind. For two weeks a company has been giving excellent pictures at the Century Theater, but the attendance scarcely paid ex- penses. The company paid up all outstanding bilk and left the city. A new moving picture theater f or A. L. Shepard Opened in the old Globe store on West Main street, Meri- den, Conn. Mr. Fiske, of New York, represents Mr. Shepard. The new theater will be one of the most attractive of the sort in this part of the State and is sure to prove a popular resort . * * * From North Adams, Mass., we learn that another pop- ular price entertainment house is to be opened May 1 in the Columbia hall in the F. M.' T. A. building on Center street. A lease has been taken of the place by Mears, Coffin & Mears, of Boston, and they will present illus- trated songs and moving pictures as the entertainment. A new city ordinance licensing slot machines has gone into effect in Bloomington, Ind. All machines which do not pay full value for the player's money are under the ban, and a license has been placed upon those known as "sure-shot" machines. A complete record of all machines operated in the city will be kept by the police department * * * The experiment of the International Moving Picture Company at Trenton, N. J., in showing a moving picture 26 feet wide by 20 feet deep, proved to be a success, 'and the concern gained the credit of showing the largest sized moving picture ever shown in this State. The "Life of Christ" was shown to an appreciative audience. Our useful little contemporary of England, The Optical 'Lantern Journal and Cinematograph Journal, is now get- ting full-fledged and commencing to take a high flight A letter from the Editor informs us that arrangements are in operation to make it a weekly publication under the title of Kinematograph Weekly. We send them hearty good wishes for success and prosperity. . * * * Success of the most pronounced kind attended the open- ing of the Lyric moving picture and illustrated song the- ater on East State street Trenton, N. J.,- recently. About 3,000 persons visited the handsome little theater and en- joyed a solid hour's show. The Lyric is conducted by the National Amusement Company, of Philadelphia. Three reels of motion pictures and two illustrated songs com- prise the program at each show. This bill occupies one- hour in presentation. All of the attendants are uniformed 136 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. and the general conduct of the place is strictly first-class. The theater will be open every day from noon until 12 o'clock at night. All the pictures shown will be the best and cleanest that the market can produce. * * * The management of the Nickeldom Theater, Des Moines, calls attention to the difference between the clean moving pictures and other attractions at this thea- ter, and the cheap, vulgar, sensational and morbid attrac- tions in the Chicago 5 -cent moving picture shows against / which the Chicago Tribune is waging a vigorous war- fare. A most urgent invitation is extended to the city authorities and all citizens who are interested in the moral cleanliness of Des Moines to visit the Nickeldom Theater and inspect the pictures ; they are also invited to inspect the moving pictures at the New Jewell Theater, oppo- site the street-car waiting room, which opens May z. The management of both theaters will not engage or tol- erate a single objectionable picture. — So says the Regis- ter and Leader. * * * The Kleine Optical Company, of Chicago, is about to open a suite of offices at Nos. 662-664 Sixth avenue, in New York City, principally for the sale of moving pic- ture films. The New York branch will be in charge of Mr. Davis, formerly with the People's Vaudeville Com- pany, although Mr. George Kleine, president of the com- pany, will divide his time hereafter between Chicago and New York. Mr. Kleine states that the transactions of his company cover so wide a field that it was found im- perative to open an important office in New York to give necessary attention to customers located nearer that point than Chicago. The situation is such in the Middle and further West that additional offices may be opened at two points west of Chicago, possibly Denver, Minneapolis or Kansas City, and San Francisco. * * * As a result of his crusade against penny gambling slot machines in New York, especially in the vicinity of public schools, Inspector Sweeney, of the Sixth District (taking the upper west side of Harlem), arrested two shopkeepers — Isaac Rosenblatt, of 2467 Eighth avenue, and Henry Getten, of 2461 Eighth avenue — who were arraigned be- fore Magistrate Cornell in the Harlem Court and re- leased on bail for further examination. The principals of several schools in Harlem have complained that small shopkeepers near their schools have put slot machines in their stores for the purpose of attracting the pennies of the students. A few days ago Anthony Comstock raided a storage warehouse in Harlem and confiscated 100 of the machines. The present crusade will be carried to saloons in which penny gambling machines have been installed. * * * The following newly formed corporations show the public trend: Atlantic Park Company, Boston, Mass. ; amusements, theaters, etc.; capital, $100,000. President, James E, Dunn, Cambridge, Mass.; treasurer, Albert M. Munroe. Marblehead, Mass.; clerk, Frank Munroe, 706 Tremont street; Boston, Mass. ' The Knickerbocker Amusement Company was incor- porated at Albany, with the following Rochester men named as the incorporators: William Craig, Jacob Ger- bnfif* J r -> Charles Keller, George C. Gerling and Fred C. Gerling. Jacob Gerling, Jr., said that the company was not ready to announce any definite plans as yet, but it is understood that it is the purpose of the company to establish a moving picture theater similar to the Bijou Dream. It is proposed to have the theater in the Gerling block. • * * * We called at the busy office of Miles Brothers last week and found Mr. Herbert L. Miles just returned from Europe. Though generally conservative on most matters, Mr. Miles was inclined to enthuse over the many fine subjects which he has on the way to their New York office. He stated that he had secured the exclusive American agency of absolutely every European manu- facturer of films with the exception of those already represented in America. This, he said, means about eighteen manufacturers which they will represent in this country, all of which are now turning out some very fine things. He men- tioned two or three of them especially, on which he is ready to stake the reputation of the firm, as rock steady and mechanically and photographically perfect. Mr. Miles has been connected with the moving picture industry in this country since its inception and has watched its growth up to its present mammoth propor- tions. Being the first who recognized the importance of and catered to the continuous moving picture theaters he was qualified to instruct the European manufacturers regarding the kind of subjects his firm desires for the American market. Miles Brothers will have a permanent European office where a representative almost as fully acquainted with the American needs as Mr. Miles himself will select the subjects for this market The titles of a score or more subjects had already been cabled by Mr. Miles to their New York office and they have Been liberally advertised in the Moving Pic- ture World and other publications with the result that their first shipment amounting to $42,000 were sold oat before they reached New York. This alone will gte one an idea of the enormous demand for films in this country. We have already seen a number of these foreign sub- jects, among them "The Polar Bear Hunt," "Catch the Kid," "True Until Death," etc., and find them of excel- lent quality and distinct novelties. * * * The company being organized in Torreon, Mexico, for the purpose of opening an amusement park in the eastern THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 137 part of that city will have a capital of $100,000, the greater part of which has already been subscribed, by Torreon capitalists. The plans for the buildings, nata- torium, moving picture theater, skating rink and other features are completed. The Colonial Amusement Company, formed for the purpose of conducting moving picture entertainments in the city of Des Moines, filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State, its capital stock being $2,000. Clarence L. Mott and Fred W. Graham are the incor- porators. Charles L. Closewood, Jerome Jones, W. B. Arm- strong, G. H. Hall, W. C. Puckett and J. M. Simonton, of Atlanta, Ga., applied for a charter for the Phoenix Amusement Company; capital stock, $25,000. They ask the right to conduct a suburban amusement park known as the Windy City, and to open other amusement and theater attractions. Around the World Company, of Dallas; capital stock, $10,000; organized to provide amusements. In corpora- tors: George K. Taggart, E. A. White, R. Campbell. Fair Park Amusement Company, of Dallas; capital stock, $10,000. Formed for amusement purposes, with incorporators as above company. * * * Alfred Patek, the veteran journalist, who recently re- aped the managing editorship of the Times to go to Panama to make a thorough study of the isthmian situa- tion, gave his impressions of what he saw and learned there to a Denver audience on April 23. Besides some 200 stereopticon views, his talk was illustrated with fifteen moving pictures taken on the isthmus under his direction by the most skilled kinetoscope operator in the employ of the Edison Company. Mr. Patek and Frank Lundy Webster, another well- known Denver newspaper man, made a special trip to Panama this spring to study life and construction on the canal and isthmus. They took with them the Edison operator, and these three men, each an expert in his' pro- fession, spent several weeks in gathering material for this lecture, which combines an intelligent and comprehensive review of the great canal work, past, present and future, with pictures that explain better than words all the phases of governmental work in Panama and the life of the natives and the Americans who are carrying on the tre- mendous undertaking of our Government. . Mr. Patek's talk covers not alone the technical work of the enormous enterprise, but all the human interest feat- ures that were seen through the eyes of a trained news- aper man. His hearers, transported to Panama, see the scenes that he saw, and which he describes and his pic- Nres portray. The entertainment was intensely interest- ing as well as educational. A newspaper man knows >ow to dress attractively a statement of facts. The moving pictures arrived on the eve of the lecture rom the Edison factory and are the first and only views ■ the kind ever taken in Panama, and give a vivid im- pression of life and labor on the isthmus. ■ They were made especially for Messrs. Patek and Webster, and were all taken under their personal direction. Most of the photographs shown in lantern slides were also taken under their direction. In a general order, issued April 23, Police Commis- ? sioner Bingham, of New York, called upon all com- v manders of precincts to furnish him, forthwith, a descrip- tive list of places of amusement in their jurisdiction, es- pecially noting "penny arcades" and cheap theaters. There was recently a conference on the subject of the restriction~of theaters between the commissioner, Dr. Dar- lington, head of the Department of Health, and Fire Com- missioner. Lantry. At that time it was decided to subject these places to a more rigorous supervision. At a meeting of the Board of Aldermen a week ago, a resolution was passed calling for a thorough report on the arcades. Commissioner Bingham incorporates this in his general order, as follows : "Whereas/There are to-day in existence throughout the city of New York various show places commonly known as 'penny vaudevilles,' '5-cent theaters,' 'moving picture shows,' etc., ell apparently being conducted without com- plying with the provisions of part 21 of the Building Code, relating to public buildings, theaters, and places of assembly, and particularly section 109 of said part of the Building Code, defining entrances and exits, seating capa- city, width of aisles, fire precautions, and matters of detail of building construction conducive to safety of life; and "Whereas, These places of public entertainment have caused much annoyance and vexation to residents in their immedite vicinity, prompting the general opinion that they are a common nuisance, because of the gather- ' ing of motley crowds, and making of loud noises and breeding fear of disturbances and the danger of fires, of which latter one of a serious nature occurred in one of these places recently ; therefore, be it "Resolved, That the Police Commissioner and the Chief of the Bureau of Licenses be and they are hereby re- quested to furnish the Board of Aldermen at the earliest practicable moment with a list of all the licensed show places and other so-called places of public amusement holding licenses, together with the dates when such licenses were issued, and if complying with the pro- visions of the Building Code relating to places of public entertainment." Commissioner Bingham will have all applications for renewals of theater licenses submitted to him personally before May 1, the time when they expire. He said that he intended to go over each one with the greatest care, to see if the fire, police, or building regulations were being disregarded. It is common talk about headquarters that licenses will be refused to many of the cheaper theaters. It is be- lieved that most of the penny arcades and such will have to go or rearrange their places. 138 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. Conversation Heard in the Office of a Dealer in Motion Picture Machines. (Concluded from last week) C. : What would happen if I would use a large carbon on both top and bottom? D. : There are quite a number of operators using the same size of carbons on top and bottom, but I would not advise the same. C: Why not? D.: Practical experience has taught me better. The same style carbon, five-eighth inch soft core, can be used for both top and bottom on alternating current. C: Why do you use it on the alternating, and not on the direct current? D. : The alternating current has neither positive or negative coil ; however, the upper carbon sometimes burns away faster than the lower one, no doubt owing to the intensity of the heat which travels upward. C: The instructions you have given me are intensely interesting and it makes me more eager to s& the results of the picture on the screen. I notice the distance here is about twelve or fourteen feet from the screen; the distance that I shall have to use it in the church will be, as far as I can judge, some sixty feet Will this lens project at that distance? D. : What size picture do you want at a distance of sixty feet? C. : Life size. D.: A thirteen-foot picture is considered life size, and the height is always three-quarters of the width. C: Can I get a smaller picture at this distance, or a larger one, with this same lens? D.: The one lens will only project a given size picture at a given distance, and cannot be increased or decreased, unless the machine is moved further from or closer to the screen, whereby the projection will vary. We are prepared to furnish you with five different sets of lenses to give you different sizes of pictures at -the mentioned distance, sixty feet. C. : Is there more light required for a large size picture than the one you mentioned at sixty feet? D. : That also depends upon circumstances. As, foi example: we will project a six-foot picture, and wish to increase the same to a twelve-foot picture; it would be necessary to increase the amperage to give better light for this enlarged projection. G: You spoke some time ago of the rheostat or resist- ance box. What is this for and where is it placed? D. : As mentioned before, the rheostat or resistance is usually placed between the main and the electric lamp, and it is composed of a secret composition in the amal- gamation of wires, and the best resistance known is the Krupp wire. C: Why is Krupp wire the best? D. : For various reasons. We have tried several makes of wire and find this particular brand gives the best re- sistance. C : What kind of wire is used? D. : I am told by the manufacturers it comprises cop- per, nickel and steel. It is puddled and rolled into wire, It does not flake after long usage and maintains an even resistance, thereby preventing the carbons and arc from fluttering, which is noticeable when a cheaper grade oi wire is used. There are a number of resistance wires, such as German silver, steel wire and water, and other means of controlling the quantities of the current used, but the former is the most compact, and, from experience, the best known resistance made. C. : If I am successful in using this machine, I ma; be asked to go to a neighboring church, where, I am informed, they have alternating current. Will this same rheostat answer there? D. : Providing your picture is not too large. As a rule more amperage is usually required on alternating than on direct. C: Why do you use more amperage? D. : As I have heretofore mentioned, direct current is preferable when it can be obtained. The same rheostat can be used, providing the voltage does not exceed 104 volts. C: I think I understand this perfectly now, and will take the apparatus ; if you will send up an electrician to make the necessary connections, I will esteem it a favor. If your man will, at the same time, instruct me how to fix the wires and to set up the machine it will be very helpful. Updegraff & Browhell, managers of the Bijou Thea- ter, of Reading Pa., have decided to discontinue burlesque attractions. They have entered into a contract with S Lubin, of Philadelphia, whereby continuous vaudeville and moving picture shows will be conducted in the Bijou all season. The contract calls for 900,000 feet of films a year, equivalent to over 3,000 feet a week, or four or six-picture scenes every day. The feature of the new venture is that the shows will be 5-cent entertainments and will last one hour at least The management also proposes to furnish a complete program of entertain- ment, including two to four high-class vaudeville acts each week, in connection with the moving picture display- The first two weeks in July the theater will be closed to allow improvements to be made. The lobby and entrance will be beautifully finished in white and gold, with mar- ble floor and side walls. The ceiling will be finished in ornamental steel and studded with 500 incandescent lights. The interior of the theater will undergo manj improvements. The franchise with the Columbia Amuse- ment Company places this theater in a circuit of fifty. THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. *39 .*. ister. Operators in any locality may register without charge of any kind. In your application be sure to fill out the "locality" blank. Fill out blank and send to The Moving Picture World- • • Name , • - .. • - ■ : Permanent Address. While in the vicinity of Fourteenth street and Third avenue, the other day, we looked in on Le Roy, of Acme- graph. He trod on our corns with a vengeance, because we had unwittingly stolen his thunder by using the phrase "fool proof" (which he claims is his pet saying, invented by himself) without acknowledging its author. Oh, king t live forever. We herewith make full amends. The Ac- megraph No. 1 is out, and we saw the permits for its sale and use from the Board of Underwriters, and the Bureau of Electricity of New York. Every improvement, every safety device, long wear and tear, in fact, a perfect machine, and "fool proof" is what the maker claims for this machine. Write to him for particulars ; his address will be found in our buyers' guide. ...... ........ Senator Frelinghuysen's bill, prohibiting the use of slot machines for the purpose of gambling for money or Ag C Married or single. . , '-..;. other valuable things, passed the House last night with- out opposition. It now goes to the Governor of New Salary per week . Jersey. Desires position as Also proficient in Employed last by. .« and Stereopt icons kinetoscopes, Cameragraphs FILMS OF ALL MAKES EVERYTHING IN SUPPLIES From . ... r .... Previously employed by. C. B. KLEINS, 662-664 SixtH Ave., Send f©*» Catalog F. New York. . . . •• • 1 ...... From To... • ..<•• .»••••••••••*« Other experiences and references, with machine accus- tomed to • •*•••»•*■ 1 •••••• i What locality do you prefer working in?. .-. . . . . •»•••••. . » . • • a . . . . . . . . . . . < \ Remarks ... .......... 1 ^ •••••• 1 ....... '••••«•••! ......... • • • • It is hereby understood that I will at once notify the Editor on acceptance of a position, whether obtained through The Moving Pictubb World or not. IF YOU WANT THE BEST RENT YOUR FILMS FROM HARRY DAVIS Davis Building, 347 Fifth Avenue PITTSBURG, PA. 140 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. The NicKelodeon. There is a new thing under the sun — at least new within a short period of time — and entirely new in the sense that the public is waking up to what it means. It is the 5-cent theater. The nickel place of amusement made its appearance with no greater blare of trumpets than the noise of its phonograph horn and the throaty persuasions of its barker. It came unobtrusively, in the still of night. It is multi- plying faster than guinea pigs, and within a few months has attained to that importance where we may no longer snub it as one of the catch-pennies of the street- One day a Pittsburg man hit on the 5-cent theater idea. He equipped a building at a cost of $40,000, bought a phonograph with a big horn, hired a leather-lunged barker and threw his doors open. The theater was such an unqualified go in Pittsburg that the men who started in competition with the origina- tor of the scheme decided that a new popular chord had been struck in the amusement line. They hiked to Chi- cago and opened a theater near State and Van Buren streets. The theater prospered from the moment the barker first opened his mobile face to extol the wonders of the show "upon the inside." That was the beginning in Chicago. ■ Of course, they were opened in other cities, until now it is estimated there are from 2,500 to 3,000 5-cent theaters in the United States. One of its chief attractions is the knowledge that if you are stung it is for "only a nickel, five pennies, a half a dime," as the barker says, and that if you don't like the show they can inflict only fifteen minutes of it on you. Here are the ingredients of a 5-cent theater: One storeroom, seating from 200 to 500 persons. One phonograph with extra large horn. One young woman cashier. One electric sign. One cinematograph, with operator. One canvas on which to throw the pictures. One piano. One barker. One manager. As many chairs as the store will hold. A few brains and a little tact. Mix pepper and salt to taste. After that all you have to do is to open the doors, start the phonograph and carry the money to the bank. The public does the rest. It makes little difference what time of day you go to a 5-cent theater. The doors are opened as early in the forenoon as there is an chance of gathering in a few nickels, the downtown theaters opening earlier than those in the outlying districts to accommodate the visitors. Each "performance" lasts fifteen minutes. At the end of each a sign is thrown from the cinematograph on the canvas announcing that those who came late may stay for the next "performance." Often they stay for several. After they find out that nobody cares and that they can stay all day and far into the night and bring their lunch if they want to, they leave, disappointed because nobody tried to get the best of them. They are great places for the foot-sore shopper, who is not used to cement sidewalks, to rest ; and it took the aforesaid foot-sore shoppers about one minute to find this out:' It is much more comfortable than to take street-car rides to rest, and they don't have to pay the return nickel The name of the play is flashed on the canvas, so that it may be identified if eyer seen again. Understand that the young men who sing the "illustrated songs" are the only live performers in. these theaters. The rest is moving pictures; and that is the startling part of the great favor with which these theaters have been received by the public. . • The plays that are put on at the 5-cent theaters are for the most part manufactured abroad. Paris is a great producing center. London has numerous factories that grind them out. They are bought by the foot. This system of buying drama and comedy by the foot has its distinct advantages. If the piece grows dull at any point the manager can take a pair of shears and cut out a few yards or rods, thereby enlivening the whole performance. * ' The worst charge that has been made against the 5-cent theaters is that some of them put on pieces of the blood- and-thunder type, depicting murders, hold-ups, train rob- beries and other crimes. This charge has led the man- agers of the new style theaters into a hot discussion with, the uplifters of the public morals. Few people realize the important part these theaters are beginning to play in city life. They have been looked upon largely as places of trivial amusement, not calling for any serious consideration. They seem, however, to be something that may become one of the greatest forces for good or for evil in the city. On the other hand, in the congested districts the 5-cent theaters are proving a source of much innocent enter- tainment. The mothers do not have to "dress" to attend them, and they take the children and spend many restful hours in them at very small expense. The possibilities of them in an educational way are unlimited. The tuberculosis society already has seen this and has under way a plan for having the cinematograph theaters show pictures which will instruct the public, of and precautions to be taken against consumption. A great many educational lines might be developed among the people in this way. We understand that the premises of the Globe Film Service, 59 Dearborn street, Chicago, have become too cramped for their increasing business, and they have secured more spacious quarters at 79 Dearborn street, where they will be doing business after May 1. , THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 141 THE BUYERS' GUIDE. Films. MANUFACTURERS. iMfiCM BiograpU Co., " E 14th st, New York. American Vitagraph Co., 116 Nassau St., New York. •&£on Mfg. C5>.. 31 Unjon so.. New York. rTubin. 21 S. 8th St. Philadelphia, Pa. \iaes Bros., 10 E. 14th St. New York. (tiles Bros., 790 Turk st, San Francisco, Cal. 55 Polyscope Co., 41 Peck court, Chicago, 111. Viiscope Mfg. Co., 112 E. Randolph st, Chicago. 111. DEALERS. Acme Exchange, 133 Third ave., New York. Jul Film Co., 87 E Washington st, Chi- i^ican Exchange. 630 Halsey St. B'kjyn. N. Y. American Film Exchange, 60S Wabash Bldg.. Pitts- EoswSi Mfg. Co., 122 Randolph st, Chicago, III. ii H Buckwalter, 713 Lincoln ave., Denver, Colo. Chicago Projecting Co., 225 Dearborn st, Chi- cago, III. . • , - — _ Wo. H. Clune. Los Angeles, Cal. a T. Crawford Film Exchange, 14th and Locust 7 FUlimore st, San Francisco, CsL _ Boston .Film. Exchange, 564 Washington st, Bos- ton, Mass; ..__.. ___ __ / Caletum and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. : ... Central Supply Co., 114 N. Edwards st, Kalama- mo, Mich. ; . - , Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph st, Chi- cago, 111. ■ Consolidated Film Exchange, 143 E 23d st, New . York. '<■•-. Detroit Film Exchange, Telegraph. Bldg., Detroit, Mich. . - ■ Eog. Cline & 'Co;, 59 'Dearborn st,' Chicago, III. Wm. H. Clune, Los Angeles, CaL - • . '. ' Globe Film Service. 79 Dearborn st, Chicago, 111. W. E. Greene, 228 Tremont st, Boston, Mass. F. J. Howard, 456 Washington st, Boston, Mass. Inter Ocean Film Exchange, 99- Madison at., Chi- cago, 111. * Kiietograph Co., 41 E 21st st, New York, Heine Optical Co., 52 State st, Chicago, IB. C B. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave., New York. Uemmle Film Service, 167 Dearborn st, Chi- cago, 111. ■ , F. Meyers, 123 W. 27th st, New York. L Manasee & Co.. 88 Madison st, Chicago, III. . Miles Bros., 10 E 14th. st. New York. • Miles Bros.. 116 Turk st, San Francisco, Cal. Sational Film Renting Bureau, 62 N. Clark st., Chicago, 111. N'oTelty Moving Picture, 1063 Broadway, Oakland, Cal. JJ'm. Paley, 40 W. 28th st. New York. . Peerless Exchange, 112 E- Randolph st, Chicago, ftttshurfr Calcium Light Co., 515 First ave., Pitts- bun? Pa P. W. 'Robertson, 407 Park Row Bldg., New York. Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. 5th st, Onem- „nai. Ohio. ' ■ — . „. wo. K. Spoor & Co., 62 N. Clark st, Chicago, 111. Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin 6t, Chicago. I1L »«. H. Swanson & Co., 79 S. Clark St., Chicago, Tooele Film Co., Masonic Temple, Chicago, 111. -W> Century Optiscope, 91 Dearborn st, Chicago, Chas. Beseler Co., 251 Centre st, New York. Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. • • Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph st, Chi- cago, 111. ' _ ■ Erker Bros. Optical Co., 608 OUve St. St Louis, Mo. Walter L. Isaacs, 81 Nassau st. New York. C. B. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave., New York. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Pa. L. Manassee, Tribune Bldg., Chicago, 111. McAllister, 49 Nassau st. New York. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 37 Randolph St., Chi- cago, 111. Moore, Bond & Co., 104 Franklin St., Chicago, III. Pioneer Stereopticon Co., 237 E 41st St. New York. Riley Optical Lantern Co., 23 E. 14th st. New York. . Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin st, Chi- cago, UK Lewis M. Swaab, 336 Spruce st, Philadelphia, Pa. Moving Picture Machines. AND SUPPLIES. Acme. Exchange, 133 Third ave.. New York. H. H. Buckwalter, 713 Lincoln ave., Denver, Colo. Chicago Film Exchange, 133 S. Clark st, Chicago, 111. Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Central Supply Co., 114 N. Edwards St., Kalama- zoo,- Mien. i Ch. Dressier & Co., 143 E. 23d st, New York. Eug. Cline & Co., 59 Dearborn St., Chicago, III. Edison Mfg. Co., 31 Union sq., New York. Edison Mfg. Co., 304 Wabash ave., Chicago, III. Enterprise Optical Co., 154 Lake st, Chicago, 111. Erker Bros., 608 Olive st, St Louis, Mo. German-American Cine, and Film Co., 109 E. 12tb st. New York. , Harbach & Co.. 809 Filbert st, Philadelphia, Pa. Wm. H. Havill, 88 S. State St., Chicago, IlL Kleine Optical Co., 52 State st, Chicago. C B. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave.. New York. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st. Philadelphia, Pa. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 57 Randolph st, Chi- cago, HI. Wm. Paley, "40 W. 28th st, New York. N. Power, 117 Nassau st, New York. Pittsburg Calcium Light Co., 515 First ave., Pitts- burg, jPa. D. W. Robertson, 407 Park Row Bldg., New York Selig Polyscope Co., 41 Peck court, Chicago, 111. L. M. Swaab & Co., 338 Spruce st, Philadelphia, Pa- Wro. H. Swanson & Co., 79 S, Clark st, Chicago, 111. 20th Century Optiscope, 91 Dearborn st, Chicago, 20th "Century Optiscope Co., 2 W. 14th. St., New York. '■- Williams, Browne & Earle, 918 Chestnut St., Phil- adelphia, Pa. Song Slides. FOR ILLUSTRATED SONGS. Boswell Mfg. Co., 122 Randolph st, Chicago, 111. Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E Randolph st, Chi- cago, IlL Chicago Transparency Co., 69 Dearborn st, Chi- cago, III. Elite Lantern Slide, 207 W. 34th st. New York. Eugene Cline & Co., 59 Dearborn st, Chicago, 111. Kleine Optical Co., 52 State st, Chicago, III. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Pa. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 37 Randolph St., Chi- cago, 111. Moore, Bond & Co., 104 Franklin st, Chicago. HI. Scott &"Van Altena, 59 Pearl st. New York. Selig Polyscope Co.. 43 Peck court, Chicago, IlL Alfred Simpson, 257 W. 111th st. New York. Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin st, Chi- cago, 111. DeWitt C. Wheeler, 120 W. 35th st, New York. Calcium «asac3 Electric Light. OX-HYDROGEN GAS MANUFACTURERS. Brooklyn Calcium Light Co., 112 Front st, Brook- New York Calcium Light Co., 410 Bleecker st, New York. New York Calcium Light Co., 309 S. 51st St., Philadelphia, Pa. Philadelphia Calcium Light Co., 621 Commerce st, Philadelphia, Pa. Pittsburg Calcium Light Co., 515 First ave., Pitts- burg, JPa. St Louis Calcium Light Co., 516 Elm st., St Louis, Mo. Nelson Weeks. 217 William st, New York. - Windhorst & Co.. 104 N. 12th st., St Louis, Mo. Music Publishers -who Issue Song Slides. Leo Feist, 134 W. 37th St., New York. Chas. K. Harris, 33 W. 31st st, New York. F. B. Haviland Publishing Co., 125 W. 37th st, New York. Helf & Hager, 43 W. 28th st. New York. Melville Music Co., SS W. 28th St. New York. Mills Music Publishing Co., 28 W. 29th St., New York. New York Music Publishing House, 1433 Broad- way, New York. Jerome K. Remick & Co., 45 W. 28th st, New York. Maurice Shapiro, Broadway and 39th st, New York. Joseph W. Stern Co., 102 W. 38th St., New York. Harry Von Tilzer Co., 37 W. 28th st, New York. M. Witmark & Sons, Witmark Bldg., 144-146 W. 37th st, New York. Condensors and Lenses. Kahn & Co., 194 Broadway, New York. C. B. Kleine, 622-624 Sixth ave- New York. Ivn, N. Y. afciu NEW ENGLISH FILMS Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. - Carrick Electric Mfg. Co., 218 N. Ashland ave., Chicago, III. Cincinnati Calcium Light Co., 108 Fourth st, Cin- cinnati, Ohio. Coleman & Newton. 237 E. 41«t st, New York. Erker Bros. Optical Co., 603 Olive st, St. Louis, Mo. Globe Electric Co.. 419 W. 42d st. New York. „tu. Wm. H. Havill, 88 S. State st, Chicago, 111. "•-S. Film Exchange, 59 Dearborn st, Chicago, Indianapolis Calcium Light Co., 116 S. Capital ave., Indianapolis, Inrfc We are sole American agents for HEPWORTH MFG, CO. CRICKS & SHARP R. W. PAUL New subjects every weeR* For descrip- tion see Film Review in this issue >P *» **» Write for Lists Trade Supplied WILLIAMS, BROWN & EARLE Department P 918 CfessM St., PHILADELPHIA, U.S.I. 142 Now Film*. ____ -i BIOGRAPH. The Fencing Master 650 ft The Truants 638 ft Mr. Hurry-Up 625 ft Trial Marriages 76s ft. The Lighthouse 528 ft Drunken Mattress 702 ft Married for Millions 751 ft Sky-Scrapers .... 610 ft Tunnel Workers 805 ft Dr. Dippy's Sanitarium..... 716 ft EDISON. ^Daniel Boone; or Pioneer Days in f America 1000 ft Teddy Bears 935 ft Trip Through Yellowstone. 735 ft Honeymoon at Niagara Falls 1000 ft Getting Evidence 930 ft Scenes and Incidents, U. S. Military Academy 345 ft The Vanderbilt Cup 400 ft. GAUMONT. Clowns and Statue 400 ft The Stolen Bride ..684 ft My Servant is a Jewel 507 ft The Smugglers ; . . .260 ft Disturbing His Rest 407 ft. New Toboggan 260 ft Curfew Shall Not Ring' To-night 750 ft Parody on Toreador 107 ft. First Dinner with Father-in-Law....3l4 ft Flirting on the Sands 167 ft Napoleon and Sentry 200 ft Take Good Care of Rahv 454 ft The Carving Doctor 594 ft The Bad Son .' . . , 470 ft The Terrorist's Remorse.. 750 ft Chasing a Sausage .....310 ft Reformation When Stormy Winds do Blow HALE TOUR FILMS. C. B. Kleine. Street in Tokio 65 ft Street in Canton 114 ft Passing Trains 65 ft Ascending Mount Pilastus. Switzer- land 508 ft Ceylon 311 'ft Market at Hanoi .*. 82 ft Street in Lourdes 08 ft Ascending Mount Zarrat 164 ft. Descending Mount Zarrat. . .1 131 ft Vesuvius 213 ft Across the Alps. ..:.... 164 ft Street in Agra 08 ft Street in Frankfort . . 82 ft Engadin, Switzerland. LUBIN. Salome 400 ft A Thrilling Detective Story 325 ft Good Night 65 ft Bank Defaulter 1000 ft How to Keep Cool 3"> ft. Whale Hunting. 500 ft MELIES. The Mischievous Sketch 243 ft Rogues* Tricks 265 ft Mysterious Retort ..200 ft The Witch .i.820 ft Seaside Flirtation 238 ft. The 'Merry Frolics of Satan logo ft. The Roadside Inn 230 ft Soap Bubbles..... ...........230 ft A Spiritualistic Meeting 250 ft Punch and" Judy.... ..V.7....T;.... .140 ft ■ THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. MILES BROS. . Chefs Revenge* '•'. 236 ft Wizard's World 350 ft Sailor's Return 535 ft A Mother's Son 392 ft Knight Errant 421 ft Catch the Kid 270 ft Cambridge-Oxford Race 250 ft The Naval Nursery 400 ft Cheap Skate .288 ft True Till Death 494 ft Polar Bear Hunt 1622 ft Auntie's Birthday 393 ft O'Brien-Burns Fight 8000 ft Gans-Nelson Fight 5000 ft Indian Basket Weavers. pathe! Tragic Rivalry 295 ft Wonderful Flames 246 ft Amateur Photographer ,246 ft. Herring Fishing 656 ft. Golden Beetle ...:..... 164 ft. Japanese Women 410 ft Boxing Matches in England 410 ft The Baby's First Outing 475 ft From Jealousy to Madness. . . : 590 ft A Military Prison 820 ft. Pompeii -54* ft Picturesque Canada 4*10 ft SELIG POLYSCOPE CO. Girl from Montana ".. ..900 ft. Foxy Hoboes.. .............290 ft When We Were Boys.... >....4i5 ft The Grafter 535 ft The Tramp Dog ..550 ft Who Is Who?... 500 ft Female Highwayman 910 ft. Dolly's Papa 385 ft Trapped by Pinkertons 750 ft Sights in a Great City 475 ft The Tomboys 525 ft. The Serenade 500 ft. CHAS. URBAN TRADING CO. URBAN— ECLIPSE. The Park-Keeper 310 ft Servant's Revenge .567 ft. A Pig in Society 167 ft Great Boxing Contest - for Heavy- weight Championship of England (Genuine) ... .547 ft . Artist's Model 484 ft. Miss Kellerman 320 ft Baby's Peril 16b ft An Early Round with the Milkman. 400 ft Quaint Holland 345 ft Wonders of Canada 784 ft His First Camera 284 ft Conjuror's Pupil 320 ft. Trip to Borneo 400 ft The Dolomites 534 ft Ts Marriage a Failure? 374 ft Traveling Menaeerie 640 ft Flashes from Fun City ;28o ft Puck's Pranks on Suburbanite. .... .427 ft Father! Mother Wants You The Vacuum Cleaner VITAGRAPH. Amateur Night 500 ft The .Hero 250 ft Retribution 770 ft The Belle of the Ball 475 ft A Curious Dream .300 ft The Spy. 600 ft. The Haunted Hotel 500 ft Fun in a Fotograf Gallery 785 ft The Bad Man ..........66b ft. The Mechanical Statue and the In- genious Servant. 450 ft Foul Play.. 875 ft A Mid-Winter Night's Dream...... 600 ft WILLIAMS, BROWN & EARLE The Busy Man 5-1 The Fishing Industry ^"J Father's Picnic 256 {■ Drink and Repentance , 57^ Quarter Day Conjuring y^L Fakir and Footpad ■. 287 fc She Would Sing 2356 Signal Man's Son ..' 3451 Horse Stealers 3^5 g Foiled by a Woman ^ggjj Slippery Jim, the Burglar. 220 fti Black Beauty. 475 3 After the Matinee. 325 ' Race for a Kiss.. 225, Up-to-Date Studio 125 3 <•=*= HELP WANTED A firm well known in the trade wants several \ men to handle films; must be familiar' with the dis makes, that is, feature films marketed in the U: ; States by Ed boa, Pathe, Meltes, Biograph, VhagmSj Gaumont. etc. Principal work will be in rental depS ■ ment, but we add pay for ability to operate michc-' '. familiarity with general projection work and edueii : sufficient to write description of films' for circuhr^; ■' Must be honest, neat and not ashamed to «pcs» nj record in detail. Write experience stating with vi— I' you have worked, salary wanted, various kinds of i:i'' that you have doae.etc. Address, S, E. KINKEAD, M99 No. Clark St., Chicago, & . TO PKrU.KRS ONLY Objectives, 4tc., && : BA.BH 1 CO. How YorS Fop S*ist of Films aft 3c, ^c and 5c &or foot l©«asa E»q©Bs &Oe each Everything is NEW and S.O. !M®ii Picture MaeMnes . PUma,Stereopticons,Song Slides ana Supplies. Same Wanted, Catalogues free. Harbsch & Co., 809 Filbert St, Phil*-, Pa. DeWitt Co WSseeler, Inc. 120 W. 31st STREET :: NEW Y0# Slides for Illustrated Son The BEST Sengs— Iu&str*ted by the BEST SIfcSes— at the BEST Prices I manufacture to order only and do not dej in slides of other makes I DO NOT RENT SLIDES When writing to Advertise? please mention the Moving Pk ture World. THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 143 St. Louis, April 26. — In the arrest of H. A. McAlister, ho conducts, a "Nickelodeon" at 1819 Market street, the >olice have begun a series of raids promised for some etks. The suggestive pictures confiscated include one if extreme licentiousness, showing a young woman in prions stages of retiring for the night. This is only one out of over one hundred such places St Louis, and the police say they are going to raid ill that have objectionable pictures. The maximum fine * * * There has been some debate as to which concern will upply the moving pictures to the Klaw & Erlanger vaudeville circuit next season. The American Vitagraph Company was credited with aving the inside track for the business, but it is moie ikely that Archie L. Sheppard will be awarded the con- ract. Mr. Sheppard has been playing his moving picture ihows in several of the K. & E. houses, filling in the ipening Sundays along the line. He will continue to do his, according to all information, and in connection will save charge of the film department of the vaudeville livision. Names, addresses and references of these operators are on He in the office of the Moving Picture World. No charge is cade for registration, and letters addressed to any one in our are will be forwarded. L OPERATOR, 40 years of age, married: expert in all sracches; salary, $25.00. Prefers New York. Has machine and sianist extra by arrangement. 4. OPERATOR OR MANAGER, age 36. married; well rec- ommended: salarv. $20.00: New York or Pennsylvania. 6. EXPERT ELECTRICIAN AND OPERATOR. 3 years* aperience; salary, $25.00; age 19; single; Central States. 7. M. P. OPERATOR, age 24, single; salary, $20.00; has own ":ne; Eastern States. 8. OPERATOR, age 23, single; Powers and Edison machines; alary, $15.00; will travel. 9- OPERATOR, age 23, married; $18.00; efficient in wiring ?ad repairing; own machine; will travel. .n. OPERATOR, used to all machines, age 28, married, de- . iires position : salary, $25.00 ; New York and New Jersey. .12. OPERATOR with machine and stereopticon. age 24, 5! "gfe, 3 years* experience, prefers Canada, salary $18.00. 13. OPERATOR, good appearance, age 24, married, sober, onest, well recommended as A No. 1, prefers Illinois, Indiana, owa or Wisconsin. if # MANAGER, promoter and moving picture operator, wants osition or partnership, has money to back up business, if. YOUNG MAN. age 20, single, practical electrician, wishes position" as operator, Edison or Power's machine; understands Ky.-nyd. cas. Will travel. New York, Pennsylvania. New Jer- *» and Ohio, or settle permanently around New York City. Salary, traveling. $12.00 and all expenses, or $i6.oo-$i8.oo per- manent Proficient for vaudeville theater. 1 'fi- OPERATOR. 2T. single, orofident m electrical work; alary, $25.00. Central States preferred. J*. OPERATOR, age 40, married ; has double stereopticon nd moving picture machine; capable, efficient, abstainer; salary, '35-M: anv loca lity. , . * 18.. ELECTRICIAN OPERATOR, well recommended; age ' sinpte: salarv. St&oo: Wisconsin. Illinois or Michigan. 10. OPERATOR, all machines; age 24, married; salary, »«>: Middle West States. * OPERATOR, well recommended; age 20, married; $25.00 ?3o.oo per week; uses all machines; prefers the Middle Slates. CLIPSE Trading Co. THE PARK- KEEPER (Comedy) SI© feet GREAT BOXING MATCH Between Gunner Moir and Tiger Smith for championship of England, with winner in his training quarters 6BO feet A PIG IN SOCIETY (Comedy) 167 feet fl For the convenience of our eastern customers, we have opened an office, principally for the sale of films, in New York City at the address given below. The latest subjects will be found in stock .\ ,*. 52 STATE ST. I 6@2 SIXTH AVE. CHICAGO. SMEW YORK % 144 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. - P. O. BOX 460, N. Y. As our standing orders for European films are far in excess of our first shipments, we have cabled for mo copies of many of the following. All subjects re-ordered will be held till second shipment arrives. Place order now and be supplied from first distribution. LOOK AT THIS LIST s Cambridge-Oxford Race (Great Human Interest).. 250ft. Land of Bobby Burns (Great Human Interest) 330ft! EggS (A Roar) i.-. 3 00ft | Enurphy'S Wake (Great Comedy) 34 3ft The Coroner's Mistake (Comic Ghost Story) •• 430ft. A Cheap Skate (Comic Chase) 288ft*. Anarchist's Rflother-ln-Law (a side sputter) 294ft. True Until Death (Beautiful and Highly Dramatic).... 494^ Polar Bear Hunt (Absolutely Novel and Sensational).. (J20ft. Auntie's Birthday (Comic Kids) 393ft. Fatal Hand (Dramatic) 432ft. Romany's Revenge (Very Dramatic) 300ft. Johnny's Run (Comic Kid Chase) 300ft. Weil-Bred (Tricky Kids) 275ft. ROOf to Cellar (Absorbing Comedy) 782ft. BOSS Away, Choppers Play (Fantastic Comedy).... I SCMt. Chef's Revenge (*■*»»* comedy) 236ft. Wizard's World (Comic Trick)... 360ft. Sailor's Return (Highly Dramatic) i 035ft. A Mother's Sin (Beautiful, Dramatic and Moral) 392ft. Knight Errant (Old Historical Drama) 421ft. Village Fire Brigade (Big i*u g h) 325ft- Catch the Kid (A Scream) a 270ft. You .need have no hesitancy in placing your order promptly as follows : . I3c per foot for single copies. 10% discount on standing order of one copy of e subject received by us. lOc per foot flat on standing order <• for three or snore copies of each. As all selections are made especially for the American market, no favoritism will be shown, be filled in rotation as soon as films are received from Custom House. Write for additional lists. All orders wi! hub theatre: BOSTON 7<9© TURK ST • Sana Francisco lO FAST B4ft]k STREET, NEW YORIS Wmi • : ; - 1 If you are renting and don't get the latest European films, send us the name of your renting concerns and we'll keep them posted. We know that all the above subjects are good for your use, because they were personally selected by one of the Hub Theatre, Boston HEADQUARTERS FOE FILMS, MACHINES AND AIX —mm-mmmm. "■'-".--'.' '■■"•.- ft ■ '■-''■, ■ '• . '■-. THE fho only SE&a2'epaEM9©nt WeeRly JasaPEaaS pta2slis&to^ asa fth© sjitesresCo of Manu&ctui cq(| Opesra&Cbrs of AaisnaCads PJhi©CorJs 8 e.pEiic asasJ CM:acsTi3a«©£ss , Qph Ps*©joc4ios», 2EE«ssftPstlo«3 ©oi&^8» I*araters& JLec£«ss»oQ and Lasaftoraa SSido M&H070 fol. Li No. IO. THE W©1L© PHOTOGRAPHIC PUBLISHING C©MPAOT, 361 BROADWAY, HEW YORK May 11, 1907 Price, IO Cents NOTICE.— If you wisfii to get your copies regularly, leave as* order with your News Agent, or send us your subscription. THE AMERICAN MEWS COMPANY, Trade Agents. 1 What's That- Dissatisfied with your film service ? Trade falling away and patrons not pleased ! Well what's the use of worrying. " There's a remedy for every ill," and our professional advice is to give the people in your neighborhood a trial of . ■'« I* I! You may be surprised to hear it, but it's a fact that your patrons are mighty good judges of films. The best is none too good for them, and it's certainly up to you to give them what tney want. What we I can promise for our service is PROMPT DELIVERY, THE VERY LATEST AK3D BEST FBLftflS, AND THAT YOUR INTERESTS WBfLL BE OURS. Let's get acquainted. Call on us now or write, giving full particulars regarding amount of reels you use, number of changes desired, etc. It will be to your J.Y. interest. - ■ , . The Greater- i ■: i 24 Union Square, f3ew York \*M?mw*x>>m*wi** m-r-'t- FILMS : FILMS and MOTION PICTURE MACHINES The best and only reliable are for sale here WE ARE SOLE AGENTS FOR Power's Cameragraph WITH ORIGINAL FIREPROOF MAGAZINES AND Edison's Kinetoscopes We are the largest dealers in Philadelphia in Machines, Films and General Supplies ewis M. 5waab S3C» Spruce St. 4» Philadelphia. Pa. 146 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. CLASS A FILMS 13 Cents per Coot Exhibition Model fjlE All Kinetoscope vliv.UU FILMS AND PROJECTING KINETOSeOPESl THE ^©©QKIIIEU© eTANBARB® THROUGHOUT THE WORLD 12 Coats per foo( Universal Mode!$7E ft( Kinetoscope OftMII Edison Eacnioition Modioli Kinetoscope Improved ToKo-Up a»«3 Film M&gasinso, $135,0© Improved T&Be>Up and Film Magazines* SSSoOO Improved T&Re*Up, S15oO@ Film Magazines, Each SIO.O© GREAT HISTORICAL PRODUCTION OR, ANIE DAlFs AMERICA SYNOPSIS- OF SCENES: Boone's Daughter. Befriends an Indian Maiden— Boone and. Companion Sat; Out on a Hunting Expedition— Boone's Cabin Attacked by the Indiana — The Desperate Defence— Burotsj ti Cabin — Abduction of Boone's Daughters— Boone's Return— The Oath of Vengence— On the Trail— The lo&a Camp— Escape cf Boone's Daughter— Discovery and Pursuit— A Fnend in Need— The Fight— Defeat ol lit Indians— Capture of Boone— Surprising an Indian Picket— The Fight on the Cliff — Death of the Indian— Shoctej the Burning Arrow into the Indian Camp— Boone Tied to the Stake— War Dance— Torturing. Boone— Burccr Arrow Lands in the Indian Camp— Indians Become Panic Striken— Rescue of Boone by bis Faithful Hone- Desperate Bowie Knife Duel Between Boone and Indian Chief— Death of Indian Chief — Tableau. PERFECTION ITSELF AOJE&CTIVES UNNECESSARY SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE No. SI I.' No. 6312. CODE VELLOBBIG. LENGTH, 1000 «eet. CLASS A. $150 CO. Another Up-to-the Hinats ''B^KJTH? <5S Edison Comedy Hit 1 , A LAUGHABLE SATIRE ON THB A SURE MONEY GETTER. Beautifully Meno-TInt«3 TEDDY" BEA1SI POPULAR CRAZB A OBIE BJSST BET. Photographically Perfect. Send for Illustrated Circular No, 317. No. 6313, Code Veslaondiff. Length, 035 feet. Class A, $149 IS. - Send for Latest Catalogs and Illustrated Circulars. EDISON MANUFACTURING CO. MAIN OFFICB AND FACTORY, ORANQB, N. J. Chicago Office, 304 Wabasb A venae. New York Office, 31 Union Square. Cable Address, Zymotic, New York. OFFICE FOR UNITED KINGDOM: as CLERKENWELL ROAD, LONDON, E. C, ENGLAND, SELLING AGENTS: THE KINETOGRAPH CO., .... 41 East aist Street, New Tot 1 PETER BACIGALUPI, . . . 1107 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, Cal | GEORGE BRECIC, . . . . 550-554 Grove Street, San Francisco, Cal j DEALERS IN ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES. Ar^ cL LJ ^ OUR T£3R^J£ ILAT^ST SUBJ^CT^ "Tlie . T©iidierfi©iim Tragedy' 9 Length, 481 feet. A Comedy Drama of intense interest. 69 Very fanny subject. "Jamesf A "drawing" carc3 steely. 99 Length, 428 feat. »• xposition beantifnl film of the opening ceremonies including a view of President Roosevelt pressing the electric button which started tho big show in motion. Length, about 400 feet. pictures are made with our celebrated Biograph Cameras, (tar films ran on any machine. ICAN MUTOSCOPE & BIOGRAPH COHPANY 11 East 14*fc» §*sre©* 9 New York PACEF2C COAST BKAHCE3. " a*3 N. Broadway.- Los Antfetoa, Col. ii mil iniii , iissssgaM— is THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 147 lic Opinion as a Moral Censor. In previous issues of The Moving Picture World we have called attention to the depressing effect upon the moving picture business which will surely follow the misguided manufacturers and dealers who persist in issu- ing films of subjects bordering on the sensational or immoral. A wave of rebellion has risen against five-cent theaters on this account alone and has even made its influence felt in Chicago. It was proposed to suppress the penny arcades and nickelodeons entirely, and in this event, of course, the innocent would suffer with the guilty in the loss of business. We are glad, however, to see that in Chicago, at least, less stringent methods are to be adopted. At a meeting in the City Club rooms on May 2, a resolution was offered by Miss Jane Addams, that, instead of suppressing these places, they be placed under proper supervision and regulation, which motion was ap- proved of. It was also pointed out that these places, rightly conducted, are a benefit and not a menace, espe- cially to the poorer classes. ! The consensus of opinion seems to be that the public desires these shows, but it wants them clean and wholesome. What the public wants, it is going to have; and manufacturers, dealers and ex- hibitors of shows that do not meet the approval of public opinion will only be the sufferers in the end. j That it is a menace to the profession is not to be denied. The daily press all over the country has contained, in the past few weeks, innumerable protests from property holders, min- isters, teachers and societies for social reform. Equally numerous are notices now appearing that So-and-so's nickelodeon, not receiving sufficient support, was com- pelled to decamp to parts unknown. We are in a position to judge of the trend of public opinion because we are supplied with press clipping ser- vices from New York, Boston and, Chicago, giving us the news and comments from all over the 'country, even to the little country town of 2)000 inhabitants and its one newspaper. Public opinion is a mighty factor in the show business, a fact that was realized by the late P. T. Barnum, the greatest showman of his day, and we trust that it will also be realized by producers of moving pict- ure films. The following editorial, clipped from an influential New England daily, emphasizes all that, we have said. Such press notices work much harm to the profession. There is only one way to squelch them or change them, into glowing encomiums and recommendations that will advertise every moving picture show: ""The five-cent theater, with its up-to-date music and moving pictures, is growing* more and more popular, 148 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. It is; very 5 attractive ft> those whose money fbf amusement* purposes-lie's within the nickel limit, and appeals particu< larly to-: children for.this reason. . . - "Of la$e a strong protest has been entered in some quarters against the five-cent theater. Its pictures, songs;'' and associations are denounced as demoralizing in their nature. The effect .upon the minds of children of pictures of burglars at work, of prize fighters in the ring, of gam- blers, of drunkards, or other equally objectionable or questionable views that may be readily called to mind, is deplored, and the suppression of these pictures, as dan- gerous to public morals, is called for. It is also pointed out that the habit of visiting these places leads children and young girls and boys into undesirable company, and paves the way to ruin in some cases. "All this is probably true, at least to some extent. The invention of the biograph and similar machines has made it possible to depict life and motion in a very realistic and fascinating manner. Like everything else, however, the moving picture show has its good and its bad -side. Pict- ures of clean, honest sport ; of funny, but not vulgar, situations ; of noted men and their public appearances ; of workers of various kinds; and even of accidents of not too harrowing description, are all legitimate and by no means unprofitable subjects for this species of enter- tainment. They are the kind of thing that both the real and the grown-up children enjoy seeing, and, except for the strain on the eyes, which is often considerable, they are not specially injurious. "The remedy for the evils of the five-cent theater is the same as that successfully employed in many other cases — the substitution of the wholesome and harmless for the unwholesome and hurtful. The five-cent theater has probably come to stay, as it has gained great popu- larity. This being so, entertainments of this sort that are lively, interesting and clean should be made as easily accessible as those of the other class. It will not do to' make them dull or goody-goody. Persons in search of amusement, whether old or young, do not want some- thing dry and uninteresting forced upon them instead. They want life, action, fun, and plenty of it. A baseball match, a football game, a yacht race, a country fair, a circus — anything that corresponds to what they enjoy in actuality — will be enjoyed with zest in a picture show and will not be likely to injure manners or morals appre- ciably, and the thing to do is to devise means of providing it on a paying basis." Continuous nickel performances of vaudeville, illus- trated songs and moving pictures will begin at the Woon- socket Opera House Monday, May 6. Manager Barry announces that there will be several vaudeville acts, an illustrated song or two and the best of moving pictures obtainable. The performance will begin daily at 1 130 p. m. and continue without interruption until 10 p. m. New vaudeville acts will, be introduced every Monday during the season. There will be changes of the mov- ing pictures twice a week. ' I Lantern Slide Ma Hi rig. At the London and Provincial Photographic Associa- tion recently a lecture was given by J. S. Teape, who demonstrated the making^ of lantern slides. He said that his aim was to. explain a system of making lantern slides so as to avoid av waste of plates and materials. To make a bad slide was an easy process — one bought a box oi plates, made" an exposure, developed according to in. structions, and obtained something. The factors to be considered in making lantern slides Were: first,, the nega- tive ; second, - the- lights and3third, the developer. 1 most directions one: ;read>lKa£" f or an ordinary negative such aa exposurevatj ^uch '^distance was to be given. But what was ;an i ordinary negative?.' What "the chairman would call such, posably he (the lecturer) would not; hence he recomrnendejd%- test frame, which consisted, of aa ordinary printing/ frame with a shutter of. thin wood, marked in half inches,, so that a series of exposures could be made, and thus the proper exposure for that class of negative obtained. He also recommended a printing board ; the one shown was marked in 3-inch divisions, with two blocks of wood at one end of sufficient distance apart to just take the printing frame, the light — a fishtail gas burner- — being movable, and placed upon the division fine in use. He also had a pair of small zinc squares, which were useful for deciding what part of a negative to- use for the slide, thus enabling him to put the desired part central upon the lantern "plate. A y 2 -p\ate frame was used when printing from %-plate negative, a card- board mask to take the negative enabling the worker to square up any lines out of truth. He strongly recom- mended the following developer: 1. Hydroquinone 2 drs. Acid sulphurous 1 dr. Potass, bromide . ... .... .". . .'.'. ... 30 grs. Water 10 ozs. 2. Soda caustic 2 drs. Soda sulphite -. . . 10 drs. If BKa *■ • • • • * • • ■ • •••••• • ••«•*• • L\J Ui>-i 3. Potass. Bromide .'.' " 2 drs. Ammonia carbonate . ......... 2 drs. W3tcr ••••••••* •-;• •••«**•••■*•«•• s ozs. This was used Nos. 1 and 2, 2 drs. of each, and 1 oz- of water. The formula, as issued by the makers, he said, often gave- hard results with blocked-up shadows, and should when used be diluted with water. A good yellow light was preferred to ruby in the dark-room when making slides, and the No. 3 solution was only used for colored or toned slides by development. Slides were then made by the lecturer and a collection of slides from one nega- tive shown, the plates used being Alpha and Paget slovf- Using the first-named a fine brown was obtained by 3° sees, exposure at 6 ins. from a fish-tailed burner, and de- veloped with the normal developer. With" 60 sees, ex- posure a warm brown was obtained;- with ^5o- sees, at B THE MOVING: PICTURE WORLft. f M9 ins., a black; with the same at i8< ins., a cold black, whilst with 60 sees., at 6 ins. .and the addition of three minims of No. 3, a red was. obtained- Using the Paget slow, 20 sees, at 12 ins. gave. a black;. 40 sees, at 12 ins. with 40 minims of No. 3, a brown; 60 sees at 12. ins. with 40 minims of No.3,a warm brown ; 100 secs.at 12 ins. with 60 minims of No. 3, a. very fine warm. brown; 60 sees, at 12 ins. and 106 minims of .No. 3, a' red, this latter taking just one hour to develop.. It was, he said, a curious fact that the colors looked much warmer when viewed out of the lantern than when in, as, for instance, a slide apparently of a red. color would be brown when on the sheet. — PhQto.Neuts, . . . . . . The Right Kind of Advertising. By "One in the Swim." "Sweet are the uses of advertisements," as Shakes- peare ought to have said when writing "As You Like It," but he didn't, he wrote "adversity" instead. William of Stratford knew little or nothing of newspapers, let alone advertising therein, for the first newspaper in Eng- land did not appear until he was twenty-four years of age. Nevertheless, the question of advertising is now not to be passed lightly over, for it is of extreme import- ance to dealers— large or small — in these go-ahead days. This is an age of printer's ink, and there is nothing so conducive to success in business as advertising— persist- ent advertising. The human mind, as Mr. W. I. Scand- lin, the eminent American authority on "publicity" says, is so constructed that impressions created in it are quickly effaced and are replaced for the time being by others of more recent or engrossing interest. It is due to this wise provision of Providence that most of us are enabled to throw off an all-absorbing grief or the memory of some terrible calamity and to take up at once the cares and worries and finally the pleasures of a continuing ex- istence. It is a fact beyond 'dispute that in all normal cases the strong impression of yesterday or last month gives way to others of more recent date with ever acting regularity and certainty. It is because of this condition of the human mind that advertising is profitable or even possible, for to be suc- cessful the advertisement must be the constant, persist- ent and judicious creator of new impressions. It is not enough that it should endeavor at one great leap to make such an impression on the public mind as will relieve the advertiser of all further effort in this direction. Such an impression, if left Without the proper amount and kind of follow-up publicity, soon spends itself and the impres- sion created by its appearance is quickly lost in the mul- titudes of new thoughts forced upon the public attention. It may even be that unless this impression is fastened in the public mind by frequent and persistent methods some quick witted competitor will find a way to turn it to his own use and without the connecting link between the first impression and the address of the advertiser, ■which if they read them at all, and bill-board advertising is iden repetition would provide, may pervert the value of the impression to his own ends. Thus we find in any branch of business these conditions confront us. A merchant or a manufacturer with a line or lines of goods to sell — a public with ability to buy if so in- clined — and nothing else. Let the merchant place his wares on view, a limited number of buyers will appear and some sales result. The merchant becomes known to those who have found him out, but having had the trouble of discovering his whereabouts they are not im- pressed with any idea of imparting this knowledge. to others. But on the other hand, let some one else, deal- ing in the same wares, take original and effective means to keep the public informed not only of his whereabouts but of the merits which his goods possess and the result will be far different Emerson truly says, "If a man can write a better book, or preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." But the 1 path will be far more quickly made and more deeply worn if the public is judiciously directed. Another most important and equally universal principle on which publicity is based is often wholly misunder- stood. It is that advertising is not so much intended to sell certain goods to people wanting goods of that sort as it is to make more people all the time believe that they do need such goods, whether, in fact, they do or not And Where should the dealer — large or small — adver- tise? In reply to this let me say that at a recent meeting of the Merchants' Association of Richmond, Va., a reso- lution was adopted. practically restricting the advertising patronage of the members of that organization to news- papers. This method is adopted by many manufacturing and mercantile organizations in the United States, whose members -are continually being solicited to advertise in mediums of doubtful value. The emphasis placed by .the Richmond commercial body upon the superior value of advertising in newspapers is based not only on right, the- ory, but on practical experience as well. As our es- teemed contemporary — "The British and Colonial Print- er" — truly said a few weeks ago, a great deal of money is wasted by manufacturers and merchants in injudicious advertising, as many of the varied and novel schemes which business men are solicited to adopt as a means of obtaining publicity for their wares are far more profitable to the promoters than to the advertisers. There is no doubt that every form of publicity has a certain value, but very often the method is not adapted to suit the busi- ness in question, with the result that considerable money is thrown away in advertising that doesn't reach the peo- ple for whom it is mainly intended, or meets their eyes casually when they are absorbed and in no mood to give it consideration. Much of the handbill advertising that is scattered abroad is swept into the rubbish pile or lightly thrown aside as waste paper. People have formed the habit of regarding advertising circulars with scant notice, 150 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. tified with the public mind with the blare and extrava- gance of circus and vaudeville exploitation. Advertising in the periodical press, and especially in the trade jour- nal, has a great advantage over any other form of adver- tising. In the first place the trade juornal or the periodi- cal press affords a wider and prompter publicity and a more effective distribution of the advertising information than any other means that can possibly be employed. In these mediums the advertiser can bring his name and his wants to the attention of thousands of readers when they have the time and the disposition to give deliberate and undisturbed attention and consideration to what is pre- sented to them in the columns of the journal. Persistent advertising and in the right place is, let me say again, the most satisfactory method. "No advertiser has ever achieved fortune through a single announce- ment," says a writer who knows, in "Publicity," but thousands have through continuous announcements. Na- ture points an unheeded moral to the transient advertiser. The seas thunder against the white cliffs of Dover and "gradually" alter their conformation. The coral insect "gradually" rears a structure that defies wind and sea. The teachings of Nature are the teachings of "persist- ency." The transient advertiser is working "against" great natural laws as unerring in the field of human en- deavor as in the operations of nature. The persistent advertiser is working with every advantage in his favor. It was Shakespeare who wrote, "Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak," but long before, Lyly had written, "The soft droppes of rain pierce the hard marble and many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks." Mr. William Gamble, in his new book, "The Business Life," puts the matter con- cisely, too: — " Above all things, it is necessary to be per- sistent in advertising. A man who hears about you fifty- two times a year, will know you fifty-two times better than if he had heard of you but once and the more he knows of your goods, the more likely he is to trade with you." — The Photographic Dealer. been occupied chiefly in making special sets of slides for that fraternity. As regards motion pictures, Mr. Sana- ders' experience in that direction extends so far that hs has exposed, developed and exhibited films. — From Vietis. Films Index. Saunders. — Sir Alfred H. Saunders of Empire Com- mandery has accepted the position of editor of the Views and Films Index, a position for which he is qualified by an experience of twenty-two years as a photographer and slide maker. He was formerly editor of the Optical Lan- tern Journal of London, England. — Masonic Standard and Wilson's Photographic Magazine. "The Moving Picture World." — We have received the first number of a new weekly publication issued un- der the above title from the World Photographic Pub- lishing Company, 361 Broadway, New York. It is a jour- nal of the cinematograph and lantern-slide trade, and is edited, we see, by Mr. Alfred H. Saunders, who will be remembered by readers in Birmingham as having for a period been responsible for the appearance of that fully- titled publication "The Optical Magic-Lantern ! Journal and Photographic Enlarger." — British Journal of Pho- tography. The Moving Picture World and View Photogra- pher, a journal devoted to the interests of manufacturers and operators of moving pictures, etc., makes its appear- ance under the able editorship of Mr. Alfred H. Saunders. late of Views and Films. The moving picture has firmly established itself as a popular form of entertainment and instruction. — Wilson's Photographic Magazine. The Moving Picture World and View Photogra- pher, a journal devoted to the interests of manufacturers and operators of moving pictures, etc., has made its ap- pearance in America under the able editorship of Mr. Al- fred H. Saunders, late of Views and Films, and the Brit- ish Magic Lantern Journal. — The Photographic Dealer. What Others ThinK of U». Mr. Saunders' experience in this business extends over a period of twenty-two years, during which time he has been professional photographer, slide maker and lantern operator in many parts of England and Scotland. Early in his career he was the operator for the Gilchrist lec- tures, in which capacity he has also been of great service to many prominent English uniyersity professors. He introduced the cinematograph in the lecture hall of the Birmingham University. Since 1894 Mr. Saunders has contributed extensively to photo and lantern journals in England, and in 1902-03 occupied the chair of editor of the Optical Lantern Jour- nal ; he came to America three years ago. In this country, being a high degree Mason, Prelate of his Commandery, and a Noble of Mecca Shrine, he has Eddie Hern, the operator of a moving picture machine at the Vaudele Theater, Muncie, Ind., had a narrow es- cape from injury at a small fire at the theater last week. The celluloid film became ignited and burned up, caus- ing quite a scare in the theater, no one, however, being hurt, The shutter or safety attachment to the machine by some unknown reason got out of order and the film caught on the machine. Young Hern, instead of leaving the room when the film ignited, attempted with unusual bravery to extin- guish the flames. He was unsuccessful, but did not leave the room until he saw the film could not be saved. Al- though he was: in the room with the blazing film he was uninjured when he came through a specially arranged trap door. The loss was confined to the film alone, its value being in the neighborhood of $200. - THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. iSi Now Compsniss Formed. . Peerless Film Manufacturing Company, Chicago; jfUpital, $2,500 ; manufacturing moving picture films ; in- :orporators, Robert Vehoeven, Edward P. Perkins, John K. Vehoeven. * * * Wenwark Amusement Company, Chicago, $5,000 ; op- fate places of amusement James A. Scott, Abner A. lodges, S. R. Markman. * * * . The City Amusement Company Omaha, Neb., formed or the purpose of maintaining places of amusement. The apital stock is authorized at $20,000. Louis V. Guye, rharlesr Jordan and B. J. Keegan are the incorporators. * * #** The Royal Amusement Company, Cleveland; Louis . Spauner and others ; $10,000. The General Amusement Company of Syracuse; cap- tal $5,000. The directors are C. F. Backus, J. N. Ard- ler and O. F. Lee of Syracuse. .* - * * Riverview Amusement Company, Wilmington, Del., conduct places of amusement, etc. ; capital stock, $300,- 100. * * * Acme Amusement Company, Lincoln, Neb. The in- orporators are L. M. Gorman and Floyd Kerns. The apitalization is $io,ooo. • * * * - The company who will operate a nickelodeon in Mc- Mechen, Va., consists of several of the bu-sinesslke em- )loyes of the Moundsville division of the Wheeling Trac- ion Company, as follows: J. W. Ferguson, J. W. Ap- •legate, J. H. Luikhart, W. B. Hammond and H. B. Harris. The business will be conducted in a portable ent. S. M. Wilson, a former conductor, has r?s'gned us position, in order to manage the- concern, and has or- dered all of the necessary accoutrements pertaining to he business. This move will ensure McMechen a place >f entertainment, at which to kill the dull evenings, ana change of pictures will occur twice a week. The Theater Dreamland, 147 Boulevard, Revere, Mass., one of the new attractions on the beach. The principal features will be fine moving pictures and illustrated ^s. The theater opens evenings at 7 p. m., and Sat- rtays at 2 p. m. - ? '- : ' '"■ " J. W. Lawton, of the Grand Theater,. Calumet, was in Ishpeming with a view of locating a theater there. He expects to establish a chain of ten-cent theaters through- out the upper peninsula. * * * Contracts are out in Philadelphia to alter the store building at Nos. 926-28 Market street into a moving picture establishment for S, Lubin. The cost will, be $10,000. * * * A moving picture theater will be opened at 734 Penn street, Reading, Pa., by Rothleder & Schwalm, of Pitts- burg. Especial attention is to be given to the comfort of ladies and children. The performance will be continuous from 9 a. m. to 11 :30 p. m. * * * Considerable excitement was caused on Pitkin avenue, near Watkins street, Brownsville, last Sunday, when Plain Clothes Men Irving O'Hara and Frank Flynn ar- rested Joseph Bernstein, eighteen years old, a son of Special Officer Bernstein, of 130 Thatford avenue, for violating the Sabbath law by operating a mechanical ma- chine for an unnecessary purpose in the Garden Moving Picture Theater at 21 14 Pitkin avenue. At the station house Mrs. Ida Cohen, wife of the manager of .the mov- ing picture show, went bail for young Bernstein. ^ — ^_ * * * At Fairmont, W. Va., S. M. Casterline has opened a Nickelodeon in quite a new locality, and is doing well. The room has been elegantly fitted up for the business. * * * In Cortland, N. Y., the new moving picture theater, known as the Star Theater, opened in the Graham Block. The managers are Fred I. Graham of this city and V. C. Bassage of Bradford, Pa. * * * Ivor J. Davis, of Niles, Ohio, is now managing a mov- ing picture show in Niles, and is making good at it. He contemplates buying a theater of his own. Says the opening is too good to be lost. * * * J. Victor GraybfH, sole owner and manager of The Graybill Amusement Company, has sent out a very neat and attractive prospectus for the season of 1907 to the managers of hospitals, firemen's associations, institutions or any lodge or. organization who desire to. hold a carnival or fair to increase the funds in their treasury. The company carry all their own tents and shows, and competent people to care for and manage the same, also furnish a complete electric light equipment. Mr. Graybill will open the season at Hackensack, N. J., from May 11 to the 25th, where his company will hold a grand carnival for the benefit of the Bergen County Chil- dren's Home. The heads of all organizations who desire a prospectus can obtain one by addressing the company, at Norris- town, Pa. . During all of his undertakings Mr. Graybill has been 152 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. most successful, owing to his pleasing and courteous manner, and his willingness to always look after the com- fort and pleasure of his patrons. * * # At the Taunton, Mass., Theater, April 30, a Summer season of moving pictures and vaudeville began. The vaudeville, it is stated, will be supplied by William Mor- ris, booking agent for Klaw & Erlanger's new vaude- ville ventures. The admission will be five and ten cents. Manager Cross stated Saturday that he was not certain whether he should keep the City Theater here open this Summer or not, although he had the matter in contem- plation. The Academy of Music in Fall River is another large house that is going into Summer entertainment, using Shepard's moving pictures. The City Theater is already booked solidly till June. It is stated that 200 theaters through the country are going into this vaudeville movement, and some very good people are announced to appear. .*.'■*■• Jersey City has another vaudeville house using moving pictures. It is known as the Nassau Theater, and Ber- nard Nassau is the manager. The theater is situated at 48 and 50 Gregory street Bargain matinees will be given on Mondays and Tuesdays, when seats all over the house will be ten cents. The theater is a cozy and comfortable place. It was formerly the Imperial Music Hall. The entire interior has been remodeled and refur- nished. The regular prices for seats at the evening per- formances will be ten, twenty and thirty cents. The house will be one of seven which the Nassau Amuse- ment Company controls. * * ■ * The Newton, Mass., Free Library has begun a collec- tion of Lantern Slides for general circulation. It is hoped that this may be of interest to schools, clubs, Sun- day schools, village improvement societies, lecturers, etc. The first subject was Egypt and upwards of a hun- dred slides have been received, many of them colored. These pictures were shown at the hall in Bigelow school, May 1. Mr. Albert E. Bailey, of the Allen school, who has recently visited Egypt, explained the views shown. More pictures on Egypt and on other subjects and countries are to be added from time to time. * * * The Dayton, Ohio, fire department is to be immortal- ized in moving pictures and the immortalizing takes place on Main street. The thirty pieces of apparatus will be divided in two divisions. Chief Ramby will head the first run, and Assistant Chief Madigan will be in charge of the second. All of these stunts will be pulled off on Main street south from the monument. The street will he roped so no one can interfere with the big camera or the rigs. Edward Shields, moving picture expert, is here now and will take the pictures. Shields brings his company to the Victoria May 15 and 16, playing as a benefit for the local firemen, and the pictures of Satur- day will be one of the big features of his vaudeville show. In addition to the run a parade of the entire bunch be made on Third street, so -that the large, buildings come in for representation. \... * * * Mayor Busse and Chief of Police Shippy, of ordered a censorship of five^cent theaters .and anypk tures found of a morbid or .criminal nature will be de- stroyed and the proprietors of the theaters prosecuted. A similar order was issued to apply to cheap vaudevifc theaters and concert halls! Ten detectives, commands by a lieutenant, are to maintain the censorship. * *■ * ■ Work on the new Arcade and Wonderland Theater on Fourteenth street, Wheeling, W. Va., is being rushed, and indications are that the theater will be opened aboc the 9th of May. The machine equipment for the Arcade has been principally shipped, there being in the neigt borhood of $6,000 worth of mechanical machines of vari- ous kinds, including the latest models of motion machine pictures, on the road now to Wheeling. These machine will be set up within the next ten days.- * * * "I see the uplifters are after the nickel theaters," sak the biograph man, according to the Chicago Recori Herald. "They say we run tough places and that wedf harm to the young. I would like to say 'fudge.' Why, the biograph is doing more to educate the lower classes in art, travel and history than any other agency befon the public Next week we will run 'The Passion Play' of Oberammergau. Do you know it cost the Frendi company over $20,000 to get up that set of pictures! There are over two miles of 'stamps' — that's what we cal the miniature pictures that pass before the eye and mak you think that the picture is moving. The films are odIj loaned us. It costs me $50 every week that I show "lbs Passion Play.' We raise the rates to ten cents when « give a show like that. We can't take care of the peopk;| have to do something to keep them out. Ministers anil priests come to 'The Passion Play,' when you could notp get one of the 'sky pilots' into a regular theater. Tbeyf say that particular show is all right. One member of I cloth became so much interested in 'The Passion Phfj that he praised it in church and advised his congre to attend. "The biograph has made a great advance in the la^jj ten years. The perfect machine has no flicker. Capfe'l has taken hold of it, and the art is steadily being iffl-J proved. There are three principal companies that area furnishing the biograph films — Paris, New York anc| Chicago. It is a regular business, with hundreds of ec-j ployes. For instance, if it is decided to show a scene o;| a bank cashier robbing a bank there must be the setting P of the counting room and a bale of professional acto&r to dress up and act the parts. So you see there is re-f quired a vast amount of stage paraphernalia, and the ac-| tors must be paid big salaries. "Take 'The Passioin Play/ or an uprising in St THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 153 ersburg. Hundreds of supers are needed to depict such a spectacle. Ain't they genuine pictures ? Nahl They are manufactured .right in Paris or New York. Still we do lots of genuine stunts. The views in Ireland, Scot- land, Egypt and other countries are taken honestly. Whenever it is possible to get interesting stuff legiti- mately the companies prefer to do it, but life is rather commonplace and the people want a touch of the dra- matic. "The French have made the greatest advance in the bio°Taph. They were the first to give us the color views. They have gotten it down so fine that we can give the spot skirt dance where the colors change every minute or two. Each one of the 'stamps/ no bigger than a postage stamp, must be colored separately by hand. It is a work of in- finite patience. Hundreds of young girls are employed in Paris. in painting.. the films. "But we haven't :reached the limit of the. art by any means. A company has been formed by which the bio- graph characters are to talk while they act. The com- pany will combine the phonograph and the biograph. "We are getting better all the time, and that the people appreciate us is shown by the crowds. The nickel shows are making money with less investment of capital than any other amusement scheme in the country." »• * * The Penny Arcade building, at Riverside Park, Sioux City, la., burned out April 29. The structure was en- tirely consumed, and the ill fated equipment of pictures formerly exhibited downtown by John Spencer, and re- cently sold to J. G. Blake and others, and removed to the park, was a complete loss. The apparatus and films all told were worth about $4,700. There was about $3,- 500 insurance on the equipment. The blaze started after everyone at the park was sound asleep, and few knew there had been a fire. Details as to the cause were lacking, though it was presumed to have been of incendiary origin. Park Policeman Daniels said he was awakened by an explosion and that when he looked out the Penny Arcade was all in flames. \ The building was a small frame structure about 20 x 25 feet in dimensions. Spencer recently was prosecuted on a charge that the pictures were obscene, but the jury disagreed. The mayor refused to renew his license to show the pictures in the city. * * * George E. Watson, proprietor of the nickel show at W7 Third avenue, New York, up to April 27, when it was raided by the Children's Society, was fined $100 in Special Sessions on May 2 on the charge of imperilling the morals of young boys. The particular offense was that boys were permitted to witness the moving picture show called "The Great Thaw Trial." Besides Watson four boys were arrested as witnesses by Agent King, and. the conviction was found on their testimony and the pictures -themselves: The boys were all under fourteen. The judges after inspect- ing the films, decided that two of them, that purporting to depict the drugging of Evelyn Nesbit by Stanford White and that portraying what is called the scene of the shooting of White on the roof garden, were declared to be unfit for children to see. * * * "Wonderland," a new moving picture theater, will be opened within the next few weeks at No. 224 South Front street, Mankato, Minn. The theater company took possession of the building on May 1, and alterations and improvements will be commenced at once. The front will be removed and a new attractive theater front will be installed. The house will be elegantly furnished and will be a more elaborate little theater than any in the Northwest. It will give moving picture exhibitions alone, and the manager who was in the city guarantees entertainment of the most re- fined character. The pictures will be changed daily, in- stead of weekly, the new theater being on an international circuit that supplies it with many unusual advantages. "Wonderland" will open about May 15 and will be in the ten-cent class. * * * Whoever imagines that moving pictures have seen their best days and should be relegated to the rubbish heap, has just another guess coming, to say the least. On the contrary, they are daily being recognized more as a means of entertainment There is no form of amusement in which so much cap- ital is invested. Large and powerful companies are now to be found in all the leading cities of the world whose only business is to promote this science. The day has passed when the mere novelty of seeing a moving object in a picture was sufficient to attract an audience. Now, large corps of pantomime artists are constantly employed in the creation of "features," resulting in perfect pro- ductions, be they comic, tragic or mysterious, easily un- derstood and enjoyed by people of all languages. Acting before a moving picture camera is a decided boon for the artist, since the moving picture he af ten- ward sees enables him to pick every flaw in his own work. He thus sees himself as others see him. So says the editor of Mankato Press (Minn.). * * * . . Another public amusement will be added to Elgin's list of playhouses about the middle of May by the installing of a five-cent theater by Wiliam Sechrist and Charles Oakes. These men plan to give a program of moving and illustrated songs. Three performances will be given each evening, and later matinees will be put on. They also have planned to install a penny arcade. * * * A moving. picture theater is being installed in the store of William Dunn, at Tucson, Ariz. 154 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. Correspondence. Opening for Piano Player and Singer. Star Theater, Clear Lake, Iowa, May 2, 1907. Editor Moving Picture World: Dear Sir — We want a singer and piano player com- bined, and will pay a good salary to the right party. Trusting that you may be able to supply us or announce this in the next issue of your valuable paper, I remain, Respectfully, John Hartmann, r Manager. A Congratulatory Letter. 511 Manhattan Avenue, New York City, May 4, 1907. Editor Moving Picture World : New York City. Dear Sir — As one of the pioneers in the construction of animated photographic apparatus and a reader of your very readable, able and up-to-date paper since its second issue, and also a subscriber, allow me to congratuate you upon the bold and determined stand taken by you in the establishing of an absolutely free and unrestricted pub- lication which ought to fill a long-felt want among the fraternity of the "Living Picture World," not only from the standpoint of its brightness and intellectuality, but because of the great fact, in these days of trusts and com- bines, of its absolute freedom to one and all, the high and the low, the operator and the dealer, the mechanician and the barker, to not only ask for information, which I found to be so readily given, but to discuss matters of vital importance to themselves which they very often feel would be positively absurd to ask, but which are really of very vital importance, remembering that the wisest words often come not from the wisest heads. At my very pleasant interview when I called to obtain some infor- mation which you very gladly gave me, you impressed upon me three great points, viz. : The Square Deal for Everyone. *** * *.: The absolute and Positive Freedom of the Paper. . The Broad Fraternal Basis of Equality. Also allow me to congratulate you upon the manly stand that is to be admired by all who meet you, as being the editor of the first paper devoted to the interests of the "most animated fraternity" in the entire universe, an in- dependent paper "Par Absoluta." Wishing your publication the most "animated success," Yours truly, Hugh Meredith. . THE EDITOR'S TABLE. The New Polxopse Lena. Who, among exhibitors, has not wished for a lens that will do everything in projection a lens can do, from a small to the largest size picture, and yet carry within it- self every focus that is contained in a large cabinet of lenses? It has been the dream of optical workers for years, theory after theory has been advanced, but ther failed in the working. All these difficulties have no* been overcome, and we. examined and tested a lens which is perfect; starting first with a' 15-foot picture, it was gradually decreased in size till it was about 2 feet, and at the same time showed a hymn slide to perfection. The Polyopse Lens is a wonderful triumph in lens mak- ing. It accomplishes that seemingly impossible feat of giving a picture of almost any desired size at any regular distance from the screen. That is, with the lantern say 30 feet from the screen the size of the picture may be va- ried as desired from about 15 feet square to about 6 feet square, any size between these being .also obtainable. In short, it combines all the properties of the *4, %, 2-3 and 4-4 size lenses. It may be used at any distance from 5 to 100 feet from the screen. The method of use is extremely simple. When used as shown on left of cut it is practically a % size lens ; by slipping the cell shown at right of cut over the rear of the lens, any picture within the range of a Y2> 2-3, or 4-4 size lens may be had by drawing the bel- lows in or out until the desired size is obtained and then focusing the lens with the rack and pinion. It gives a picture that for sharpness of focus and brilliancy of defi nition cannot be excelled. For the up-to-date lanternist it is a sine qua non. The Actograph Company find their space all too small for business and are moving to larger premises, at 52 Union square, New York. ,> Rome, April 6. — The Pope and Cardinal Merry del Val and several other prelates attended an entertain- ment recently given by Engineer Vannunci, an employee of the Vatican, who showed views of the chief cities of the United States by means of a bioscope. The pictures were mainly of New York and Washington. He ex plainpd each picture briefly. The Pope thanked the en- gineer warmly and said that he felt that he had almost realized his wish to visit the new world. THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 155 A distant subscriber informs us that on the night of toil 4, a fire occurred in Bombay, India, at the Paris "inematograph Company's exhibition and the tents were educed to ashes in about fifteen minutes. It is said that be hot fragments from the arc carbon were the cause of onflagration, these igniting the loose films which were Jlowed to fall under the machine stand, there being no ake-up device or fireproof magazine. The loss amounted nearly $2,500, but fortunately no personal injury was The proprietor of the concern is a Parisian and one. ad a large collection of Pathe films. * * * Last Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, at Tre- aont Temple, Wakefield, Mass., Burton Holmes closed lis double series of finely illustrated travel-talks with Vesuvius and the Eruption of 1906" as his subject. Mr. Holmes had the good fortune to sail into the Bay if Naples the day before the serious outbreak of last ^pril began, and he was, therefore, an eye-witness of he earlier days of this awe-inspiring outburst of nature's orces. Being on the spot and with a battery of motion- ictures and other cameras, he and his fellow traveler and ssistant, Mr. Depue, were enabled to record photograph- cally the many exciting episodes of the eruption; the error-stricken crowds of refugees, the destruction of the illages, the religious processions and ceremonials in- aided to put a stop to the lava flow, the torrents of lolten lava and the terrific column of smoke, ashes and inders pouring from the crater of Vesuvius, all gave to fr. Holmes exceptional opportunities for the exercise of is photographic genius. It is needless to say that he and Mr. Depue embraced ach and every opportunity, and his closing lecture is, lerefore, a marvelous "scene-transference" adding to its ravel-interest an historic value as a record of the great- st eruption which has occurred at Vesuvius in the last entury. * * * That the amusement field of Wilkesbarre must be an inactive one to many outside promoters has been evi- enced on several occasions in the recent past. For sev- rai days a representative of a Pittsburg amusement syn- icate has been in the city looking over the field for a uitable location for an amusement enterprise of consider- Me magnitude. If successful in obtaining a site suit- Me for the purpose, Pittsburg and local capital will be ombined in a handsome brick pavilion of about the same roportions as one now in operation in the Smoky City. Tie basement provides well-lighted quarters for billiard wms and bowling alleys, the ground floor is equipped V roller skating, and the second floor is so arranged that • nay be used for vaudeville, a dancing pavilion and the nd near the entrance will contain a section devoted to etoscope and phonograph entertainments. Options on sites have already been taken, one on Northampton a second on Washington street, and both the local firs and those in Pittsburg give assurances that the rise will be a certainty before next fall. THIS WEEK FILMS Tiie Hundred Dollar Bill or The Tramp Ccraldn't Get if Changed . A GREAT COMEDY SUBJECT LENGTH 800 FMT— PRICB, 896.00 DESCRIPTION This film opens with an attack by foot-pads on a gentleman and bis wife returning from the theatre. As the man is being overpowered, a tramp appears unexpectedly on the scene carrying a big stick, which he uses to such good effect that he puts the robbers to flight. The victims of the thieves feel extremely grateful, and the husband rewards the tramo with a One Hun- dred Dollar BUI. The tramp almost faints with joy at the unexpected good fortune. Visions of square meals good beds, high living, pass through his brain. He had never before realized that there was so much mosey in the world. Early next morning he goes to a first class restaurant, and is served with suspicion. When he gives the waiter the bill in payment, the man staggers, and after a moment's absence returns to say that the house cannot cnange it. When be next offers his bill the proprietor sends for the police and he is arrested. After explaining to the magistrate how it was obtained, the hundred dollar bill is returned to him and he is released with a warning. Despairing because he cannot obtain change for the bill, he passes dejectly along a stream in which a man is disclosed bathing. The tramp has a brilliant idea — the man's clothes are lying on the bank; the tramp takes them and leaves his rags behind. Once more a restaurant; but now, attired like a gentleman, self-confidence in his face and contentment on his brow, he eats a leisurely meal and smokes a good cigar, knowing that his appearance will at last warrant the changing of the ons hundred dollar bill. But alas ! when the waiter comes to collect every pock- et is searched and emptied, but no one hundred dollar bill is found and the rejuvenated hobo remembers at last that he left the money m his old clothes. In the meantime the swimmer goes ashore, and is astounded at the metamorphosis of his clothes. Finally he departs in anger to the nearest police station. He complains to the judge, and is at the point of showing him tne one hundred dollar bill which was found in the tramp's clothes, when the hobo is himself btought in, arrested for beating a restaurant. The ex-swimmer recognizes his clothes upon the tramp and explanations follow. The judge fines the tramp ten dollars for his offence and takes it out of the one hun- dred dollar bill, giving ninety dollars in small change to the delighted hobo, who departs with his original clothes. 52 STATE ST. I 662 SIXTH AVE. CHICAGO, NEW YORK iffliff",;: 1 .a 156 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. Film Review. Gaumont>KIeine Optical Co. The $100.00 Bill. A gentleman and his wife are observed coming down the road, by side of a fence. Two foot-pads appear op the scene and observe them; they draw back, not having been observed by the two pedestrians (who are absorbed in themselves), and a turn in the road hides them from ■view. When the couple reach the bend one foot-pad darts iorward and throws a large handkerchief oveV the head of the gentleman, tightening it at his throat, while the other .seizes the wife ; both are being overcome by the foot-pads and borne to the ground. Suddenly a tramp appears on the scene; taking in at a glance the situation, Jie belabors the foot-pads with a stout stick he carries, with such good effect that they are glad to beat an igno- minious retreat. The gentleman and wife are grateful for the timely aid of the tramp, whom they profusely thank and reward him with a $ioo.oo bill. Shaking him by the hand they depart, leaving the tramp full of aston- ishment at his good fortune. His amazement at the largeness of the bill gradually changes to one of delight. He carefully finds a place of security in his ragged coat, puffs out his chest and walks off quite elated. His troubles now commence. He calls at a wayside inn and is served with light refreshment; in payment he tenders the bill; the lady declares she cannot change it, and he goes off without paying for what he had con- sumed. He next tries a grocery store, but with no" better luck, the proprietor cannot change it. He next enters a high-class restaurant, where the waiter eyes him with suspicion but serves him with a sumptuous repast, which he eats with .great relish. Preparing to depart, he asks for his bill, which the waiter very dubiously presents. With a great flourish the tramp produces, to the astonish- ment of the waiter, the $100.00 bill which he offers in payment. The waiter cannot believe his eyes, and goes off, and excitedly calls the proprietor who, on under- standing the situation, becomes suddenly suspicious and sends .the waiter for the police. To while away the time in the interval he accepts a cigar from the tramp, also drinks with him. The police now appear ; the proprietor hands the tramp over to them as a suspicious person and, despite his protests of innocence, they take him before a magistrate; who, after listening to his story, and there being no evidence to the contrary, dismisses him. The tramp, finding all hopes of cashing the $100.00 bill gone, walks dejectedly down the street ; turning down a by-path, he finds himself on the banks of a stream in Which a bather is disporting himself. The' bather's cloth- ing lies on the bank and attracts the attention of the tramp ,who, conceiving a way of changing his bill, takes the clothes of the bather, leaving his own in their place. Making his way to a secluded corner of a bridge and side walk of the river, he dons the clothes and swaggers .off. In his now respectable appearance, he goes to the restaurant where he. first tried to cash the bill. The waiter does not recognize, him and serves him with tie best the house affords. About to leave the tramp searche his pockets for the $100.00 bill, turning everything i out in his eagerness to find .it. After' emptying tfc pockets Of their contents, which. he strews about the floor, he fails to find the bill. ^He calls the waiter to Him explains the situation to him. The waiter summons tt proprietor who, not relishing the loss of the cost of tia dinner, and thinking it is done for the purpose of ge a meal free, calls the police and gives the tramp in charge In the meantime, the bather, getting tired, comes of the water, finds his clothes gone and in their place bundle of rags. He tries to cover his nakedness the: and hurries off to the magistrate, to whom he explains te plight, exhibiting the rags of the tramp and the $ioo.oc bill he had found in the coat, fully believing it to bs j counterfeit. At this juncture the police arrive with tk tramp. Mutual recognition of the clothes take p] The bather accuses the tramp of stealing his clothes, tramp willingly changes garments, again resuming old coat and the $100.00 bill, which he is overjoyed regain. Explanations follow and the magistrate fines tramp $10.00 for what he had done. He hands $100.00 bill to pay the fine, receiving the change in $1, bills; and with $90.00 in his possession, with which will have no further troubles about the change, he gos on his way rejoicing. Situation® Wanted. Names, addresses and references of these operators are < file in the office of the Movikg Picture World. No charge made for registration, and letters addressed to any one in jj Film Co., Masonic Temple, Chicago, 111. Century Optiscope, 91 Dearborn st,.-Chicago, Sftoreopfticons. Chas. Bcseler Co., 251 Centre st, New York. Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph st, Chi- cago, IU. Erker Bros. Optical Co., 603 Olive st, St Louis, Mo. Walter L. Isaacs, 81 .Nassau st. New York. C. B. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave., New York. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Pa. L. Manassec, Tribune BIdg., Chicago, III. McAllister, 49 Nassau St., New York. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 37 Randolph st, Chi- cago, IU. Moore, Bond & Co., 104 Franklin st, Chicago, 111. Pioneer Stereopticon Co.. 237 E. 41st st, New York. Riley Optical Lantern Co., 23 E. 14th st. New York. Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin st, Chi- cago, 111. Lewis M. Swaab, 336 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. Moving Picture Machines. AND SUPPLIES. Acme Exchange, 133 Third ave.. New. York. H. H. Buckwalter, 713 Lincoln ave., Denver, Colo. Chicago Film Exchange, 133 S. Clark st, Chicago, Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Central Supply Co., 114 N. Edwards st, Kalama- zoo, Mich. Ch. Dressier & Co., 143 E. 23d st, New York. Eug. dine & Co., 59 Dearborn st. Chicago, III. Edison Mfg. Co., 31 Union so,., New York. Edison Mfg. Co., 304 Wabash ave., Chicago, 111. Enterprise Optical Co., 154 Lake st, Chicago, 111. Erker Bros., 60S Olive st, St Louis, Mo. German-American Cine, and Film Co., 109 E. 12th st. New York. Harbach & Co., 809 Filbert st, Philadelphia, Pa. Wm. H. Havill, 88 S. State St., Chicago, III. ' Kleine Optical Co., 52 State st, Chicago. C. B. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave.. New York. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st. Philadelphia, Pa. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 57 Randolph st, Chi- cago, IU. Wm. Paley, 40 W. 28th st, New York. N. Power, 117 Nassau st, New York. Pittsburg Calcium Light Co., 515 First ave., Pitts- burg, Pa. D. W. Robertson. 407 Park Row BIdg.. New York. Selig Polyscope Co., 41 Peck court, Chicago, 111. L. M. Swaab & Co., 338 Sprnce St., Philadelphia, Pa. Wm. H. Swanson & Co., 79 S. Clark st, Chicago, 20th Century Optiscope, 91 Dearborn st, Chicago, 20th Century Optiscope Co., 2 W. 14th st, New York. Williams, Browne & Earle, 918 Chestnut st, Phil- adelphia, Pa. Song Slides. FOR ILLUSTRATED SONGS. BosweU Mfg. Co., 122 Randolph st, Chicago, 111. Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph st, Chi- cago, ni. Chicago Transparency Co., 69 Dearborn st, Chi- cago, IU. Elite Lantern Slide, 207 W. 34th st, New York. Eugene Cline & Co., 59 Dearborn st, Chicago, 111. Kleine Optical Co., 52 State st, Chicago. 111. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Pa. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 37 Randolph st, Chi- cago, IU. Moore, Bond & Co., 104 Franklin st, Chicago, 111. Scott & Van Altena, 59 Pearl st. New York. Selig Polyscope Co., 43 Peck court, Chicago, HI. Alfred Simpson, 257 W. 111th st. New York. Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin St., Chi- New York Calcium Light Co., 410 Bleecker st, New York. New York Calcium Light Co., 309 S. 51st *t. Philadelphia, Pa. Philadelphia Calcium Light Co., 621 Commerce st. Philadelphia, Pa. Pittsburg Calcium Light Co., 515 First ave., Pitts- burg, Pa. St. Louis Calcium Light Co.. 516 Elm st, St Louis, Mo. Nelson Weeks, 217 WilUam St., New York. Windhorst & Co.. 104 N. 12th st. St. Louis. Mo. Music Publishers who Issue Song Slides. Leo Feist 134 W. 37th st. New York. Chas. K. Harris, 33 W. 31st St., New York. F. B. Haviland Publishing Co., 125 W. 37tU St., New York. Helf & Hager, 43 W. 28th st, New York. Melville Music Co., 55 W. 28th st. New York. Mills Music Publishing Co., 28 W. 29th St., New York. New York Music Publishing House, 1433 Broad- way, New York. Jerome K. Remick & Co., 45 W. 28th st. New York. Maurice Shapiro, Broadway and 39th St., New York. Joseph W. Stern Co., 102 W. 38th St., New York. Harry Von Tilxer Co., 37 W. 28th St., New York. M. Witmark & Sons, Witmark BIdg., 144-146 W. 37th st. New York. Condensors and Lenses. Kahn & Co., 194 Broadway, New York. C. B. Kleine, 622-624 Sixth ave.. New York. Kleine Optical Co., 52 State St.. Chicago, IU. cago, IU. (eWi m S. Film Exchange. 59 Dearborn st, Chicago, DeWitt C. Wheeler. 120 W. 35th st, New York. Calcium and Electric Light. OX-HYDROGEN GAS MANUFACTURERS. Brooklyn Calcium Light Co., 112 Front st, Brook- lyn, N. Y. Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Carrick Electric Mfg. Co., 218 N. Ashland ave., Chicago, 111. Cincinnati Calcium Light Co., 103 Fourth st, Cin- cinnati, Ohio. Coleman & Newton, 237 E. 41st st. New York. Erker Bros. Optical Co., 603 Olive st, St Louis, Mo. . Globe Electric Co.. 419 W. 42d st. New York. Wm. H. Havill, 88 S. State st, Chicago, IU. Indianapolis Calcium Light Co., 116 S. Capital ave., Indianapolis, led. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Williamson Buckman. — Thanks for clippings and information; it is much ap- preciated. •G. F. C. writes: I am a good amateur lantern slide maker, and am thinking of taking it up as a profession, (i) Which is the best process ? (2) What are the best plates on the market? (3) What do you consider the best lens to use for all-round work — that is, to take life models in the open and to use for the slides? (4) What cameras would you advise me to get, for held and making slides from negatives af- ter? (s) In reply: (1) We have always* held the opinion that the wet collodion pro- cess is by far the best, and do not see any reason to alter it (2) This is a matter ot individual opinion; each maker claims his are best, and after users have become ac- customed to a certain brand, they are the best Try Seeds ; they are full of latitude and worked well in our hands. (3 and 4) A Cooke lens, Series III. or V., by all means. We use a 6% x 8% on an 8 x 10 camera, and find it everything we want for the field. Using it on an enlarging and reducing camera it answers every purpose, for reducing from the 8x10 negative (or smaller sizes if used) or enlarging from small negatives up to 8 x 10 transparencies for .the window. Your other question is answered by mail. J. Stutts. — (1) No. (2) Write adver- tisers. (3) No. (4) Yes. Nemo. — Your letter is just a little too personal, but if you will allow it to go over your signature, we will publish it. Anony- mous correspondence of this nature we wish to avoid. J. F. B. W. — You are quite correct in your surmise; the paper is owned and con- trolled by the firms you name. We may publish the inside workings in a short while. He is only a schoolboy yet. G: S. — We are sorry if our summing up gave you offense, but it is entirely unbiased. If you can show us any way out of the dif- ficulty, we will give full publicity to your letter. . 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 are decidedly in- fringements; s, 7 are doubtful, but it is a 100 to 1 shot, they do also. 158 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. New Filoi«. BIOGRAPH. The Tenderloin Tragedy 481 ft. Crayono 428 ft. Jamestown Exposition 400 ft The Fencing Master 650 ft The Truants 638 ft Mr. Hurry-Up 625 ft. Trial Marriages 76$ ft The Lighthouse. 1 528 ft Drunken Mattress 702 ft Married for Millions 751 ft EDISON. Daniel Boone; or Pioneer Days in America 1000 ft Teddy Bears. 935 ft Trip Through Yellowstone :73s ft Honeymoon at Niagara Falls 1000 ft Getting Evidence ....930 ft Scenes and Incidents, U. S. Military Academy 345 ft The Vanderbilt Cup 400 ft GAUMONT. Clowns and Statue 400 ft The Stolen Bride 684 ft My Servant is a Jewel 507 ft The Smugglers 260 ft Disturbing His Rest 407 ft. New Toboggan 260 ft Curfew Shall Not Ring To-night. . . .750 ft Parody on Toreador 107 ft First Dinner with Father-in-Law....3U ft Flirting on the Sands 167 ft Napoleon and Sentry 200 ft Take Good Care of Baby 454 ft The Carving Doctor 594 ft The Bad Son 470 ft The Terrorist's Remorse 750 ft Chasing a Sausage 310 ft Reformation When Stormy Winds do Blow HALE TOUR FILMS. C B. Kleine. Street in Tokio 65 ft Street in Canton 114 ft Passing Trains 65 ft Ascending Mount Pilastus, Switzer- land 508 ft Ceylon 3" ft Market at Hanoi 82 ft Street in Lourdes 98 ft Ascending Mount Zarrat 164 ft Descending Mount Zarrat 131 ft Vesuvius 2J3 ft Across the Alps 164 ft Street in Agra go ft Street in Frankfort 82 ft Engadin, Switzerland. LUBIN. Salome 400 ft A Thrilling Detective Story 3*5 ft Good Night 65 ft Bank Defaulter. IOOO ft How to Keep Cool 310 ft. Whale Hunting. 500 ft MELIES. The Mischievous Sketch. .......... .243 ft Rogues' Tricks 265 ft Mysterious Retort 200 ft The Witch 820 ft Seaside Flirtation. 238 ft The Merry Frolics of Satan * .1050 ft The Roadside Inn. .230 ft Soap Bubbles.. . ................... .230 ft A Spiritualistic Meeting 250 ft Punch and Judy 140 ft MILES BROS. Chefs Revenge 236 ft Wizard's World 350 ft Sailor's Return ...........535 ft A Mother's Son ...392 ft Knight Errant 421 ft Catch the Kid ,...270 ft Cambridge-Oxford Race . ; .259 ft The Naval Nursery .400 ft Cheap Skate 288 ft True Till Death ....494 ft Polar Bear Hunt 622 ft. Auntie's Birthday 393 ft O'Brien-Bums Fight 8000 ft Gans-Nelson Fight 5°°° ft Indian Basket Weavers... PATHE. Tragic Rivalry 295 ft. Wonderful Flames 246 ft Amateur Photographer 246 ft Herring Fishing 656 ft. Golden Beetle 164 ft Japanese Women 410 ft Boxing Matches in England. 410 ft The Baby's First Outing 475 ft From Jealousy to Madness 590 ft A Military Prison. .820 ft. Pompeii 54* ft Picturesque Canada 410 ft SELIG POLYSCOPE CO. Girl from Montana 900 ft Foxy Hoboes 290 ft When We Were Boys 4»5 ft- The Grafter 535 ft The Tramp Dog 550 ft Who Is Who? 500 ft Female Highwayman 910 ft Dolly's Papa 385 ft Trapped by Pinkertons 750 ft Sights in a Great City 475 ft The Tomboys 525 ft The Serenade 500 ft. CHAS. URBAN TRADING CO. URBAN— ECLIPSE. The Park-Keeper 310 ft Servant's Revenge 507 ft A Pig in Society 167 ft Great Boxing Contest for Heavy- weight Championship of England (Genuine) 547 ft Artist's Model 484 ft- Miss Kellerman 320 ft. Baby's Peril 160 ft An Early Round with the Milkman. 400 ft Quaint Holland 345 ft- Wonders of Canada 784 ft His First Camera ..284 ft Conjuror's Pupil 320 ft Trip'to Borneo : -....400 ft The Dolomites 534 ft- Is Marriage a Failure? 374 ft Traveling Menagerie.. ..640 ft Flashes from Fun City .....280 ft Puck's Pranks on Suburbanite.. 427 ft Father! Mother Wants You The Vacuum Cleaner VITAGRAPH. Amateur Night 500 ft The Hero ... 250 ft Retribution 770 ft The Belle of the Ball .475 ft A Curious Dream 300 ft The Spy..... MO ft The Haunted Hotel ....500 ft Fun in a Fotograf Gallery .....785 ft The Bad Man v. .660 ft The Mechanical Statue and the In- genious Servant 4SO ft Foul Play. ••••••••••.••»•••••.•••• .075 ■»• A JVJidyVvinter NighVa Dream...... 600 ft WILLIAMS. BROWN & EARLE. The Busy Man... e* |, The Fishing Industry.... 400ft Father's Picnic 256 ft Drink and Repentance 570 ft Quarter Day Conjuring. 300 ft Fakir and Footpad 287 ft. She Would Sing 235 ft Signal .Man's Son 345 ft Horse Stealers 346 ft Foiled by a Woman 480 ft Slippery Jim, the Burglar 220 ft Black Beauty 475 ft After the Matinee 325 ft Race for a Kiss 225 ft Up-to-Date Studio 125 ft USE23& Review. THE TENDERLOIN TRAGEDY. The story, based on an actual occurrence, depicts the gay life along the "Great White Way" of New York. The principal char- acter is an elderly merchant, whose son is a physician. The old gentleman, on account of his wife's ceaseless chatter and her ob- jections to his smoking or taking a drink at home, is forced to seek these pleasure outside, and so we find him spending his evening in one of the well-known cafes in the company of a couple of chorus girl?. A supper is served in one of the private rooms, and after indulging freely in cham- pagne, 'the trio become very hilarious. This is too swift a pace for the old gentle- man and he falls, a victim of heart disease. A hurry call for a doctor brings the young son, who has stopped at the same cafe for refreshments on hjs way home. While the climax is tragic, the film abounds in com- edy situations, which enliven the subject CRAYONO. . Here, indeed, is a novelty. It is a very funny film, showing a well-known cartoon- ist at work in his studio. All of the draw- ings are extremely comic and are drawn with lightning-like rapidity. He also shows how a few strokes added to an already finished picture will change the entire tone of the subject. JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION. By virtue of special concession the Bio- graph Company have secured a series of most interesting scenes of the opening cere- monies of this great tri-centennial. The film opens with a splendid picture of Presi- dent Roosevelt and family arriving at Dis- covery Landing. They walk directly to- ward the camera, giving a close view of all In the party may be recognized, besides the President, Mrs. Roosevelt, Major-Genenu Grant, Rear Admiral Evans, Lieutenant Fitzhugh Lee, Wm. Loeb, Jr., Miss Ethel Roosevelt young Archie and Quenticc. Following come the naval and military rep- resentatives of thirty-seven nations, the most remarkable gathering ever photo- graphed. The final, scene shows Presiden Roosevelt making the opening address, at ■ the finish of which he turns and presses ■ the electric button which started the giant ■ show in motion. TO DRAI.BR3 ONZ.Y S©G, ©CtSV@Sj <$2rC t [ K A SB ST Qt, CO. S9# ©s-oenSwajr. • 2*©w Yos-B liley Optical Instrument Company Manufacturers of OPTICAL LANTERNS LANTERN SLIDES AND ACCESSORIES Itrine o f Lantern Slides a Specialty. Slides Made to Order from Customers' Own Negatives or Prints. S3 East S^S&a Street, HEW 275 Page Catalogue and Hire List Free. THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 159 Kinetoscopes 9 Cameragrapfas and Stereoptieons FILMS OF ALU .MAMS EVERYTHING IN SUPPLIES C. B. ELEEBJE, Send lor Cotolog F. -664 Smth. Avenue How TorSx. Wfiay Me C©«l«a M©t Keep His Employees. He adopted slave-driving methods. He took no interest in their welfare. He was arbitrary, captious and unjust. He always appealed to the worst in them, instead of the est He considered that their entire salaries were in their :ay-envelopes. His policy was to get the most work out of them for he least wages. He regarded them merely as a part of the machinery of lis business. He resented the idea that his employees should share in lis prosperity. He used them as safety valves to vent the spleen of his yspeptic moods. He humiliated his employees by rebuking them in the >resence.of others. « \ He never trusted them, but always held suspicious oughts toward them. He killed their enthusiasm by finding fault and never raising or appreciating them. He tried to make them feel that neither he nor his usiness owed anything to them. He regarded suggestions from them for improvements his business as impertinences. He stifled ambition by treating the painstaking and the onscientious, the careless and the shifty alike. He never asked himself, "What is the matter with me?" ut, "What is the matter with my help?" He constantly made them work overtime without re- eration, but if they were a minute late they were e d. — Success. I OPERATORS by their subscriptions appreciate pr efforts. Are you among our friends ? No ! ' e H hustle into camp. "$?.go admission. URBAN-ECLIPSE Chas. Urban Trading Co. THE PARK KEEPER (Comedy) 31 feet GREAT BOXING MATCH Between Gunner Moir and Tiger Smith for championship of England, with winner in his training quarters 66O feet A PIG IN SOCIETY (Comedy) 167 feet «l For the convenience of our eastern customers, we have opened an office, principally for the sale of films, in New York City at the address given below. The latest subjects will be found in stock .*. .*. JiieiiieCptiea^Cc. §2 STATE ST. 1 663 SIXTH AVE. CHICAGO* NEW YORK i6o THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. P. O. BOX 4BO, N. Y. As* our standing orders for European films are far in excess of our. first shipments, we have cabled for more* copies of many of the following. All subjects re-ordered will be held till second shipment arrives. Place- yom] order now and be supplied from first distribution. • LOOK AT THIS LIST : '" Cambridge-Oxford Sac© (Great Human Interest).. 250ft. Land Of Bobby Burns (Great Human Interest) 330ft! Egg8 (A Roar) , •.—•300ft. • Murphy'G Wake (Great Comedy).;.. 343ft. ThO Coroner's mistake (Comic Ghost Story) 430ft. A Cheap Skate (Comic Chase) ..288ft. Anarchist's Mother-! n-Law ( a side sputter).. .... 894ft, True Until Death _ (Beautiful and Highly Dramatic). ...494ft. Polar Bear Hunt (Absolutely Novel aud Sensational) -620ft, Auntie's Birthday (comic Kids) 393ft! Fatal Hand (Dramatic).... 432ft. Romany's Revenge (very Dramatic) 300ft. Johnny's Run (Comic Kid Chase) 300ft. Weil-Bred (Tricky Kids) 275ft. ROOf to Cellar (Absorbing Comedy) 782ft. BOSS Away, Choppers Play (Fantastic Comedy).... |20ft. Chef's Revenge (Fine Comedy) 236ft. Wizard's World (Comic Trick) SSOft. Sailor's Return (Highly Dramatic) . t 835ft. A Mother's Sin (Beautiful, Dramatic and Moral) 392ft. Knight Errant COM Historical Drama) 421ft. Village Fire Brigade (Big i*ugh) 325ft. CatCh the Kid (A Scream) 270f You need have no hesitancy in placing your order promptly as follows : .te. 12c per foot for single copies. 10S» subject discount on standing order of one copy of each] received bar us. lOe per foot flat on standing order for three or mora copies of each. . . As all selections are made especially for the American market, no favoritism will be shown, All orders willj be filled in rotation as soon as films are received from Custom House. Write for additional lists. HUB THEATRE BOSTON lO FACT UQtifo. BR©a STREET, HEW 790 TURK ST. Sara Fs'aini cisco If you are renting and don't get the latest European films, send us the name of your renting concerns and we'll keep them posted. 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All cash enclosed with letter is at the risk of sender. EUROPEAN AGENTS: INTERNATIONAL NEWS COMPANY Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C. 1TB»e Operato?s League. The replies we have received to our editorial on the above subject encourages us to offer a scheme for the approval of our correspondents, and others of our readers who may fall into line to make the League a success. We would like to get a meeting of those interested, that by an exchange of ideas some practical work could be accomplished, but as the operators are too far apart for such a meeting to take place, we must perforce resort to our columns for the elucidation of ideas and suggestions. So come, now, let us reason together, and try to find out what is needed, and how best to supply that need. We clip the following from some of the letters we have received: v "An Operators' League is a good idea, and if care is made in the selection of members, testing applicants, and verifying their credentials, giving a diploma of experi- ence, and a badge, it ought to go. Of course every ap- plicant should be willing to pay for this privilege. I enclose my application form, and $5.00 to cover all ex- penses. My experience commenced in 1886, and have used Edison and Powers machines. J. K," "Wish to register as a Moving Picture Operator. Started with the Muto and Biograph Company in 1889; next with the Kinetograph Company. Have operated the Big American Biograph, closed with it in Los An- gles in 1903. Took up small hand machines. The English Bioscope, the Edison and the Powers Camera- graph. J- E. D." "Think your League is fine. It ought to unite the fraternity of M. P. O. as nothing before has done. Keep out skimps and boys. Make a reasonable fee for examination, and let the certificate show qualifications and be a guarantee of standing. W. H. J." "I like the suggested union of M. P. Os. Its what we boys want. Something to give us a respectable standing. Doctors, lawyers dentists and others have their certifi- cates and degrees. Why not the boys behind the ma- chine? We have to work hard enough, and hold the l>eople's lives in our hands same as the engine driver on the R. R. or any other old place. Make us fellows of the Fraternal Order of Moving Picture' Operators of the United States of America. Give us our money's worth every time, and we can do something then. I've been on the road, with tent and wagon shows, in churches and Masonic lodges for the past fifteen years, and appreciate a good thing when I see it D. F. A." 164 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. "I suggest you get different colored papers printed, so. that we will know the quality of the holder of them. For operators over fifteen years a red color; ten years and under fifteen," blue color; fire years and under ten. yellow color, and green for those under five years. "C. E. F." "Ill do all I can to get members and help the cause foi the improvement of the profession. It's O. K-, that idea of yours. Send me a certificate along. Here's- $2.00 to pay for it. I'll get it framed when it comes. L. W." "Best wishes for success of League. Send me full particulars. I'm in for one W. R" "Every success for your bright and sensible little pa- per. If the League is half as energetic and does as much good it will be bully. Count me on the Wagon. B. H." One or two suggestions in the above letters are worth carrying out, and we will try to please all. G. K's letter is sensible and practicable. The $5.00 are returned. D. F. A. is facetious, but there is a germ of good in his letter, although the letters for title are too many. L. W. is in too great a hurry. $2.00 returned. We are now preparing a series of questions of a tech- nical nature based upon the laws regulating the Boards of Electricity, Fire Underwriters and Electrical Work- ers' Union. These questions will occupy two sheets of foolscap, and fully test the capacity of the applicants who will be required to furnish three recent testimonials of character and fitness, in addition to which his present employer will countersign the question sheet. A diplo- ma will then be granted to the applicant, stating on the face of it his full qualifications. In addition,- a button, or pin, will be struck off in various kinds of metal. For operators who have seen fifteen years .and up- wards of service, a gold button. For ten years and up to fifteen, a silver and enamelled button. For five years and up to ten, a plain silver button. Under five years, a gun metal button. The matter of fees or dues can be left till later. A few interested operators in New York have expressed their willingness to act as a preliminary committee, in conjunction with the dealers and managers who are well known to the profession throughout the States. Is this a good augury? Now, Mr. Operator, send your approval, or disap- proval of the above outline of organization, stating fully and frankly how you think it will work in your own inter- ests, giving suggestions for name, design for button and rules for working. In the multitude of counselors there is wisdom, and we welcome full and free discussion of the subject. U In response to our request for names, some 2.500 y been sent us, and these added to those Ave already han form a goodly list. Singers, lanternists, lecturers, slidr makers, moving picture, operators, models for animator raphy are all included. We tender our thanks to thoa who have so well responded to our request Bat, lib Oliver Twist, we still want more; we have not va -reached the 15,000 limit. We still wait your list. What' that? You'll send it on in a day or two. Thank Much obliged! The elevation of Vaudeville. We haven't scription yet. got that Two' Dollars for a sub- From the humble origin of the crude varieties of a few years ago vaudeville has advanced by gigantic strides . the very front rank of high-class amusement, and from its beginning, with a few obscure performers, now in- cludes many of the most talented and. accomplished ma and women on the American stage, who present acts oi superior refinement and elegance which compares favor- ably with the best theatrical efforts yet produced, and which represent a degree of talent and ability second to none displayed on the so-called "legitimate stage." Another delightful feature of vaudeville is the fact thai each act is a complete performance in itself, and that no matter at what stage of the progress of the entertain- ment one arrives at the theater, the portion of the per formance yet to come is absolutely complete. The fact has made vaudeville the popular fad of society, for the reason that after a late dinner, when perhaps the regular dramatic productions are well under way, a fully satis- factory visit to vaudeville may be made and an amp* number of pleasing acts enjoyed. Salaries far in ex- cess of those offered by other lines of the histrionic art are paid the stars, and $1,000 per week is a by no mean; uncommon figure for artists of especial ability and promi- nence. Vaudeville offers in a condensed form the bei and most alluring attractions the amusement world h* to offer. - They are presented in the most attractive pos- sible style and under the most comfortable and satisfac- tory conditions to the audiences These facts no doobt account for the extreme and growing favor of this most popular form of entertainment, which to-day stands fort- most in elegance and merit among the many and flWll features of the amusement world, together with the mo- tion picture film and the illustrated song, without wbio no vaudeville company would think of appearing, ad* to its attractiveness. Last, but not least, the fact that* is presented in the very best possible style at popultf pricf. \s jtlso an attractive factor, which has aidai largely in building its popularity. THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 165 Coloring Lantern Slides and >ncie«. E. J. Wall. I know that to many the suggestion of painting a antem slide will not only at once raise the thought that hey are unable to use a brush at all, but also that 8 ainted slide is abhorrent. This may be so, but any one who has seen the exquisitely colored Japanese slides must idmit that they are not only artistic but extremely pleas- ing. The particular method adopted by the Japanese is 1 secret, but the slides, while possessing all the fidelity of 1 photograph, seem to be nothing more than colors, it is anly here and there that one can detect anything like a )hotographic basis. In the first place, black-toned lantern plates should be used, fully exposed and developed with a metol developer only just long enough to bring out the whole of the im- age — density is not required. After fixation and thor- ough washing, the slide should be laid film down on a sheet of opal glass or white paper, or even the bottom of a clean porcelain developing dish will do; naturally, whichever be used, it must be well wetted to prevent the gelatin film sticking. If there is any shadow density, or the image is more than a bare ghost, it must be reduced with a reducer, such as ammonium persulphate, till the density is reduced and nothing but a very faint ghostlike image is left. Then, after washing and drying, the slide is ready for painting. The colors to be used are the special aniline colors as now sold by many firms for this and postcard coloring. I prefer to use the dry dye and make my own stock so- lutions, which are saturated solutions in distilled water; as very small quantities of the dyes are required, a one- half ounce of ' stock solution will . last for a very long time. The medium is a solution of gum arable ; the finest white pieces should be used, and they should be rinsed with water to free them from adherent powder or dirt. The formula for this solution is : Gum arabic % ounce. Glycerin .20 minims. Carbolic acid 1 minim. Distilled water 2 ounces. Suspend the gum in a small muslin bag at the top of the water, and leave till dissolved ; do not press out the mus- lin, as this retains the dirt. Leave the bottle to stand for two or three days till the sediment has settled and then do not shake. The brushes I use are water-color sable hair, and for small detail those known as "lark," "crow," and "duck," while for larger masses a flat No. 4. Besides this, one wants a painting table. I use a whole-plate sheet of £lass supported at the ends by plate boxes or books — whichever happen to be handy — so that there is a clear space in the middle on which the slide rests, while un- derneath is placed a piece of white paper at an angle of 45 to act as a reflector. Several saucers or sheets of opal glass can be used as palettes. A small blob of the gum water should be placed on the palette and then a drop of the dye solution— and for this, one of the small brushes should be used — is placed by its side and the two mixed till of the required shade. To paint the slide for small detail the very smallest brush should be dipped into the dyed gum and a series of min- ute dots just dropped on the film, and if they do not run one into the other should be made to do so with the brush tip. In no sense is there brushwork of the ordinary kind ; it is, except for large space like trees, grass or sky, mere- ly a matter of dots or blobs of color, made to coalesce. If the number of dyes used is large, it will be quite possible, as a rule, to find a color to match, but if not, a color can be imitated by mixing, only the effect of mix- ing should be tried first on plain glass, or some of the dyes will not mix comfortably, but get cloudy. Still, it is always easy to put another color over the first, when the latter is dry. Use as little gum and as much color as you can, keep the slide flat, and always paint by artificial light, as the colors do not always look the same by day as by gaslight. When the slide is finished, put away to dry flat and face up, in a place as free from dust as possible. Dust set- tling on the tacky surface may cause considerable trouble. — Photographic News. How the Cinematographer WorRs, and some of His Difficulties. CHAPTER I. Should you ever seek the source of the moving pictures of the vaudeville theater, you will learn that the comic, the tragic, the fantastic, the mystic scenes so swiftly en- acted in photographic pantomime are not real but feigned. You will find that the kinetoscopic world is much like the dramatic, that it has its actors and actresses, its play- wrights and stage directors, its theatrical machinery, its wings, its properties, its lights, its tricks, its make-ups, its costumes, its entrances and its exits. Exception of course should be made- of those moving pictures which record public happenings, like the police parade in New York City, the morning drill of the King's House Guards in London, or the Czar and his court on their way to church. Kinetoscopic representation of ac- tual events, however, are seen less and less frequently nowadays. There is not the same popular demand for them as for what is known as "the story picture," which has a plot linking its various scenes together, with sudden dramatic turns^-"thrills," the gallery gods call them— and which usually end with the most unexpected sort of cli- max. For the story pictures, as for the novel or the play, the first and most important requisite is an imaginative x.66 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. mind. Every establishment engaged in the business of making moving pictures pays its highest salary to the man who can think up the most novel themes for photographic reproduction. Such an individual most times is both play- wright and stage manager. He not only plots the various scenes, but directs their enactment. To perform this lat- ter task successfully he must possess a high degree of generalship. Some of the moving picture productions of the modern times are planned on such a big scale that the performers who act the different parts constitute a small sized army. In "The Train Wreckers," for example, two special trains and about 100 people were employed. And not only must the man who directs the taking of moving pictures be a good executive, he must also pos- sess tact and resource. He must be able to solve sudden difficulties. Oftentimes he is called upon most unex- pectedly to straighten out some dilemma in which his company while enacting a play outdoors has fallen. When one of his men "stabs" another of his troupe in a crowded thoroughfare to get a picture of a murder in low life, and some bystander, not knowing that it is all a play, rushes to the rescue and tries to kill the supposed murderer, he must be able to prevent such an interrup- tion. It sometimes happens, however, that events occur too quickly for even the quickest-witted moving picture man. In Summit, N. J., recently a kinetoscopic company s The undertaker was about to make some reply, when one of the "yegg men" cut him short by saying: "No wonder. If I made money the way he does I wouldn't fear death either." ; Here is another instance where the camera was thwart- ed. A moving picture concern had planned to get a thrill- ing picture of an amateur photographer who, while trying to snap a herd oftows, placed his camera on a railroad track, and was knocked down and run over by a train. Permission had been obtained from the traffic manager of the railroad, and it was all explained to the engineer of the train that on reaching a certain point he should not pay any attention to a photographer on the track, but run right over him and keep on as if nothing had happened. Accordingly, a few minutes before the train was scheduled to arrive one of the moving picture part) put a camera on the track and stuck his head under the cloth. Meantime the kinetoscopic impressions weTe being taken of the scene. A moment later the express hove in sight. It came thundering along at a furious speed, and when about a quarter of a mile distant the moving picture machine was stopped, a dummy was quickly substituted for the flesh and blood photographer, and the machine started again. . But the engineer, instead of running over the straw artist, blew the whistle madly and reversed his engine. The locomotive just came to a standstill as it gently planned to get a photographic representation of two yegg knocked the dummy photographer and his camera into a men breaking into a bank. After a good deal of parley the bank people consented to have their treasury "looted." They were promised that the name of their bank would not appear in the pictures. In the most realistic way 1 the "robbers" broke into the bank, held up the cashier, shot a guard "dead" who attempted to come to the res- cue, grabbed up a large bundle of money, and made their escape. Thus far all went well. The thieves were run- ning down the street with the police in pursuit, just as the picture had been planned, when an undertaker, aroused by the racket, looked out of his shop. One glance sufficed to tell him that the time had come at last when he might become a hero. The "robbers" were heading toward him, ditch. The engineer, fireman, mail clerks, brakesmen, porters, conductor and passengers all leaped off the train and . rushed to the scene of the accident. One woman sobbed outright as she stooped forward and, picking up the dummy, looked into its deathlike face. She was so beside herself as she stroked its lifeless forehead that she muttered, "Poor man. I wonder if he leaves any chil- dren." In spite of their protestations, the moving picture men were first believed to be highwaymen. And when the tangle was at last unraveled it was found that there had been a mistake as to what engineer had charge of the train. The locomotive driver to whom such elaborate ex- and, leaping into the middle of the sidewalk, he aimed a planations had been given had taken a day off on this par- ticular day. So great are the obstacles to taking moving pictures outdoors that one concern engaged in this business is building at the present time a great photographic theater, large enough for the biggest Broadway production, revolver at the foremost fugitive with the threat : "Stop, thief, or I'll blow your brains out. 5 ' -The thief stopped short with such suddenness that he almost turned a back somersault. The undertaker then aimed his gun at the second "yegg man" and brought him to a standstill. Then in spite of the pleas of the head w ffl have a stage 75 feet long and 40 feet wide, and un- of the kinetoscopic party and all his men that the whole demeath a tank with a depth of eight feet of water. The thing was for the purpose of taking a realistic picture, the stage will be in sections, so that a small part may be re- undertaker took his men by the nape of the neck and moved for a "brook" scene, a larger portion for a "pond tried to drag them to the police station. Indeed, he did picture, and the whole of it may be taken away to repre- not give up until the head of the bank which had been sen t the ocean. The building will have a roof made en- "robbed" came to him and explained the true condition of tirely of glass and will cost $100,000. The plans were things. designed in part by Thomas A. Edison, who of late years "But, although you've been pretty badly fooled," said has made a special study of the possibilities of the km the bank president, "I must say you showed considerable etoscope. bravery." (To be continued.) I THE MOVING :PICTURE WORLD.! 167 \V. J. Mahnker, resident manager and operator of the Majestic Family Theater, has resigned his position with the Breslauer and Moore circuit, and will close with them at Mankato, Minn., May 18. After that date will open in Austin, Minn., May 27, having joined partnership with C. C. Towne, and they intend to open four moving picture theaters, and will be named the Gem Family Theaters. They now hold the lease on the Opera House in Austin, and closed another in Watona. The program will consist of high class moving pictures and illustrated songs. Change twice a week. Mr. Mahnke will person- ally manage the operating part, for he is considered an expert at the machine, having worked the largest houses in the East, and being an old-timer in the picture busi- ness. * * * Burton H. Allbe, Hackensack, N. J., is making a spe- cialty of colonial and revolutionary history, including a study of the colonial architecture. He has made a series of photographs of these structures which have been re- produced in a series of slides. He is now lecturing all through New Jersey upon colonial and revolutionary times and customs. He has lately retired from the presi- dency of the Bergen County Historical Society. He is a popular contributor to leading periodicals upon- his- torical subjects, dealing with the early history of the country. * * * Because of threats that if the moving picture, "Mur- phy's Wake," at the Lyric Theater, Providence, R. L. were not discontinued, a party of loyal Irishmen from Pawtucket would create a riot, Mayor McCarthy visited the Lyric, and after seeing the picture which had caused the threat, ordered that portion of the entertainment to be discontinued at once. The manager, after pleading that he had not known that the picture was. objectionable, submitted to Mayoi McCarthy's order, but not before he had had a verbal set-to with the mayor. Early next evening Mayor McCarthy received a tele- phone message from Pawtucket that highly objection- able film designated at "Murphy's Wake," was on exhi - bition at the Lyric and that, as a consequence, a party of citizens of Pawtucket had arranged to visit the -show house where the picture was exhibited and there would be a "rough house." ? The mayor told his caller that if it was as bad as rep- resented he would see that the picture moved on and on until it was completely out of sight. He then went to the Lyric Theater and purchased a seat where he could get an unobstructed view of the screen. "Murphy s Wake," as shown, consisted of a series of hlrns depicting the return, of a drunken man to his cot- kge. a quarrel with his wife and a bluff at suicide by hanging. At the "wake" everybody was shown drinking "loor from bottles, the "corpse" at times surreptitiously 'eaching out and helping itself to copious libations. In another picture, drunken men, while shouldering the coffin to the grave, staggered about and dropped their purden, while women stood about and wailed. In the grave-digging scene the "corpse" got out of the coffin and drank from the sexton's bottle, chased the sexton home and broke up a drinking bout in which the widow and another woman were dancing a jig. When the last film had been run off the mayor went to the box office and, talking- through, the aperture in front of which the manager sat, said : "I suppose I am addressing the manager of this en- tertainment ?" The manager — "You are." The mayor— "My friend, allow me to say that you are ' perpetrating a gross and criminal libel upon a time-hon- ored custom among decent people. You are perpetrat- ing, in placing on exhibition the picture which you just now permitted to be thrown upon your screen, a delib erate insult to a respectable race. "The Irish people do not make a travesty of their fu- nerals. They honor their dead by assembling and offering prayers for the peaceful repose of the souls of the de- parted ; not to engage in disgraceful orgies. "Let me tell you that but for my interference you would have had a much different performance in your house this evening. I was called up on the telephone b> an indignant citizen of Pawtucket who complained of the insult you are offering the Irish people, and who informed me that it was the intention of a number of his friends to come here to-night and rough-house your place, and they would have done so, too, had not I prevailed upon him and them not to resort to anything of a rash nature, but to allow me to act" "I have seen the picture and I am -free to confess that their indignation is. too well founded. You must not continue these insults to respectable citizens. You have had a close call for something not on your bill." ■-■_■; . * * * ■ Williamson Buckman, who has journeyed extensively in Europe, last evening delivered an illustrated address on his travels at a social conducted by the home depart- ment of the Prospect Street Presbyterian Sunday school, at Trenton, N. J. Mr. Buckman confined his remarks principally to Ger- many, France and Spain, and told of the things unique and characteristic of those countries. He showed .a number of photos of mediaeval buildings. The most prominent view shown was a moving picture of a Spanish bull fight. Rev. Francis Palmer, in speaking of the picture, said that. the reason it was shown was to illustrate how barbarous some countries are. The pic- ture was a vivid reproduction of the manner in which the fights are conducted. Another moving picture showed the emperor and em- press of Germany reviewing a parade of soldiers. ■■ * * * The moving picture craze seems to continue its hold on the public. It is announced that the International Moving Picture Company, which has two circuits of moving picture shows in the State, has closed a contract with Charles L. Patterson for moving pictures in Ma- sonic hall, Trenton, N. J., all Summer. • .. . s * * * S. PI Dunham & Co., Trenton, N. J., have arranged to give their patrons a modern moving picture show in the spacious music hall, on the third floor of the big store, every day. The arrangements were only com- pleted this week after 'making' an exceptionally high offer to the International Moving Picture 1 Company, of this city. . This company has a reputation throughout the State for giving the best moving pictures; those which are without that flickering and breaking. : " • i68 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. V Rev. Peter MacQueen M. A., formerly pastor of the Day street Congregational Church, chaplain Fifth infan- try, M. V. M., Charlestown pastor, raconteur, and trav- eler, who was on the "firing lines" in South Africa, Phil ■. ippines, and Cuba, will travel for the next year in Ugan- da, German East Africa, and the Congo Free State. For this purpose he has secured leave of absence from his church, the First parish (Congregational), Charles- town, and State military officials. He will be accompanied by Peter Dutkenich, a photog- rapher of New York City, and an old companion in the Philippines. Relative to the trip Mr. MacQueen said to a reporter for this paper: "It is my intention to spend about a year in equatorial Africa for the purpose of photographing die animal and native life of that section of the world, which to-day contains the largest game and the most interesting tribes of Africa. We intend to be the first Americans to ascend the Rowenzori Mountains, recently ascended by the Duke of AbruzzL "We also purpose to penetrate into the regions of the Congo hitherto unvisited by white men. We shall be well armed with rifles and shall have a small party of native couriers. "I do not think it necessary to quarrel with the natives, and we shall be in no danger except from wild animals. "In regard to political matters of the Congo, I am not inclined to make up my mind as to whether the Belgians are responsible for the atrocities which have been re- ported from that section. "The rubber and gold of the Congo are said to be so valuable that there is liable to be a great many European complications. It is my desire to look at all these ques- tions in the Congo with a mind wholly unprejudiced against either the Belgians, the French, Germans, or the English. Any facts that I can gather relating to the rights or the wrongs of the black men in central Africa I will not hestitate to state unequivocally. "My chief desire and aim, of course, is to secure along the route that Stanley and Livingstone traversed the best series of photographs and motion pictures than can pos- sibly be made. This, I think, is of the most important in- terest to the world because it will show these savage peo- ple exactly as they live." * * * The Electric Parlor, located at 413 Broadway, Hanni- bal, Mo., opened last week. The proprietors, J. W. Se- niff & Co., spared neither pains nor expense in making the place attractice. The auditorium is seated with 200 or more comfortable chairs and brilliantly illuminated with hundreds of electric bulbs. The cinematograph used is one of Edison's exhibition models, and is in charge of an experienced operator. * * * Commencing last Monday, a Summer season of moving pictures and illustrated songs was inaugurated at New Bedford Theater at popular prices. The management intend to give a continuous performance. Archie Shep- ard's Jiigh class moving pictures, together with the latest and best illustrated songs and a head-line vaudeville act constitutes the programme. * * * Manager Jacobs has decided to inaugurate at the Co- hoes, N. Y., Opera House for the Summer the latest pop- ular style of entertainment, which has proven tremen- dously profitable wherever tried, and consists of a con- tinuous performance of moving pictures and illustrated songs. He has arranged with Archie L. Shepard, who is recognized as the originator and leading purveyor of this style of amusement, to take charge of {he forthcoming exhibitions. * * * The Grand Opera House, Wilmington, -Del., will open for the Summer with moving pictures and illustrated songs, and arrangements has been made for presenting Archie L. Shepard's high-class moving pictures. Apropos of the constantly increasing numbers of the moving picture shows in Charlotte, - the total being a present six, and the three fires that have recently occurred in these establishments, Chief of the Fire Department W. S. Orr stated that each one of the managers of these concerns has asked him to order for him a hand ex tinguisher which is highly effective and can be instantly applied. ' They desire this known that the possible fears of the nervous may be allayed. Chief Orr himself saj> he believes these will remove any possible danger arising from the combustible nature of the material. [We understand that one large dealer in each city is being appointed agent for these extinguishers, which are filled with a chemical that instantly puts out a burning film. We have been promised one by the makers for the purpose of testing, and will keep our readers informed with the tests we make. Miles Bros, are sole agents in New York.— Ed.] * * • The new Empire Theater, on Mitchell street neat Seventh avenue, Milwaukee, Wis., which was opened to the public last Saturday, is proving a good move, as it b crowded nightly. The bill includes. high-class vaudeville of the first character. * * * Two girls, one 14 and the other 10 years of age, who were arrested at Chillicothe, Ohio, on a charge of theft, admitted the charge, declaring that they were led to com mit the act by what they saw at a moving picture show. At the show in question the pictures showed a gill stealing jewelry and when these young girls saw how easy it was to secure fascinating gems they decided to put the idea in practice, with the result that they were arrested. There is a lesson in this that should be heeded rigt here in Youngstown. Children should not be allowed to view exhibitions where theft or any kind of crime is shown any more than they should be permitted to see vile pictures similar to those ordered out in this city some weeks ago. Officials should co-operate with parents in safe-guarding the children of Youngstown. * * * , Steady police supervision and regulation, says the Mil- waukee Sentinel, of the multifarious class of cheap shows now in vogue in the cities is the proper course. The shows are not to be branded as bad merely because they are cheap. There would be no warrant in law or justice for proscribing them because they are cheap. They may be, and some of them are, at once cheap and good- in their small way. There is a demand for them among people who have not much money to spend on their amusements. Thoa. who cannot afford champagne must put up with beer. Those who cannot afford $5 for grand opera must tab their pleasure at the cheap playhouse, or even the humble 5-cent picture show. The thing to be done is to keep the cheap show clean and wholesome — morally much more sanitary than, say representations of "Sapho" and similar rancidities 01 genius at the high-priced, high-toned houses. Some of the cheap shows are not Only cheap, but urj THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 169 structi ve; those, for instance, where for the nimble nickel one may see moving picture scenes of foreign travel and manners. On the other hand, some cheap theaters, speak- ing generally and not locally, emulate and surpass some hi^h-priced, fashionable theaters in presenting immoral, evilly suggestive, and crime-inducing spectacles. These should be weeded out, pulled up by the roots, and their filthy proprietors put permanently out of busi- ness. Regulation, not prohibition, is the treatment for pleasures that are not wrong or harmful per se, but are table to wrong and harmful developments. * * * Moving pictures for colored people exclusively is the object with which William Ward, colored, chief janitor at the City Hall, will remodel a part of the Consolidated^ Lodges' building at Thirteenth and Walnut streets, Louis- ' ville, Ky. The plan of the room will be similar to that of the general run of the S-cent theaters. * * * Jesse Allman, the local theatrical man and amusement promoter, left Canal Dover, Ohio, for Tiffin, where he expects to establish an electric theater. He is the Dover representative of the bill board. ■ • * * F. W. Pentland has leased the west room in the Opera House, Marion, Ind., and is having it remodeled with the purpose of putting in a moving picture show. Mr. Pentland has leased the room for a year. * * * A visitor to Chicago said : "Penny arcades and million- dollar art museums all look alike to me. That which con- stitutes low art in the one surely cannot be high art in the other." That statement embodies a common confusion of very different things. There are many people who hastily con- clude that a nude statue by a great sculptor is on a plane.. as regards subject and suggestion, with the lewd picture of a high-kicking actress in tights or the obscene pos- turing that accompanies the "danse du ventre." Fortunately for the reputation of the American people for common sense, such views do not generally prevail. The fundamental distinction between art and obscenity is too plain for them to mistake. The latter appeals to what is lowest in man. The former appeals to what is best. This is especially true of those antique creations which even in their mutilated forms still remain the types of unapproachable perfection. The man or woman, boy or girl, who stands before a reproduction of the Discus Thrower or the Farnese Her- cules or a statue of Venus or Diana will get quite a dif- ferent suggestion from that afforded by the living figures which pose upon the stage for the delectation of the crowd or before the film for the profit of the manufac- turer and the penny wonderlands. In every human soul there still survives the sense of beauty and a half religious awe at its manifestations. In every mind there is at least a glimmering recognition of the austere dignity of the human form and delight in its rtistic reproduction and idealization. This sense of uty will be quickened and this glimmer strengthened nd made steady by the sight of genuine works of art '"Q one, we think, will be heard to deny that this will e lp to lend a breadth to character and a needed grace °hfe. — Chicago Examiner. * * * Houston, Tex. — Judge Kittreli's court was very much owded with insurance agents and electricians, the cass "ng the injunction asked by Taylor Bros, and half a ozen others operating moving picture shows in the city. The writ was taken out against the city and others, who had stopped the plaintiffs from giving' their exhibitions on the ground that the electric wiring was not what it ought to be and greatly increased the fire risk. * * * It seems that the insurance companies have an agent Mr. Roule, who travels over the State examining build- ings that are insured to see that the policies are not vio- lated. Mr. Roule was the only witness on the stand and consumed about two and one-half hours answering ques- tions and explaining wherein the policies had been vio- lated. He was examined very closely by the attorneys and the- judge himself. It was stated by the defendants, who had the wiring done, that it had been done under the approval of the City Electrician, and that moreover, they had complied with the requirements of the law in all respects by 'taking out licenses, etc., and that they had been operating the shows here anywhere from three weeks to three months. Proprietors of the moving picture shows now operated in Houston have, by legal methods, sought to remedy what they term an impossible condition. By their state- ment they were given five hours in which to secure from Paris, France, a quality of flexible wire insulated with asbestos^ Because the demand could not be obeyed they were closed. At the same time they aver that every protection is offered patrons, that the owners of the buildings regis- tered no protests and that they are willing and have been willing to meet every precautionary order issued, when it is reasonable or possible to do so. The shows were closed on Thursday under orders front City Electrician George, and because of complaint from Representative Roulet of the Texas Fire Underwriters Association. Later a writ of injunction by which thi- order was vitiated was granted by District Judge Kittrell upon the application of C. H. C. Amerman, the legal rep- resentative of Taylor Bros., Blalock & Latham, O. Mc- Lane, J. H. Daughdrill, Turnpaugh & Bode and Billings & Solon. It is stated by Mr. Amerman that several inspections had been made, after each of which additional restrictions were imposed. Finally came the demand for asbestos flexible wire, and they were forced to close. It is declared that the rooms in which the machines are located are in every instance either built of iron so as to be fireproof or lined with metal to attain the same end. In regard to the fire at Amarillo, cited as an instance of danger, it has been asserted that the building used there for the purpose designated was barn-like in con- struction and that none of the precaution taken in Hous- ton had been observed. "We deny," exclaimed one of the proprietors recently, "that our patrons are endangered in visiting the shows. We have done everything possible to insure safety, and will continue to do so as long as possible. The flexible asbestos wire demanded could not be secured this side of Paris and it is not imperatively needed in the event other precautions already taken are observed. "As for the entrances and the exits, all are marked. Practically the entire fronts of buildings occupied are open and but a small number attend each performance because the accommodations are not great." * * * Justice Kelly, of the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, after hearing argument on .the application of Edward M. Schindler, of No. 2702 Atlantic avenue, and Lewis Cohen. of No. 1795 Pitken avenue, to continue the temporary h 170 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. injunctions obtained by them restraining the police from interfering with their Sunday moving picture exhibitions.. denied the motion. Justice Kelly said that, in the testimony nothing had been offered to show that there is anything immoral in the pictures shown, but the Penal Code prohibits Sunday public shows of all kinds. If the law is unjust, he said, the proper method of procedure would be to have it re- pealed. Rev. Floyd Appleton, of No. 22 Pennsylvania avenue, rector of St. Clement's Episcopal Church, testified that the edifice is about two blocks from Schindler's place. He visited the show Sunday evening, April 7, and saw- flashed on the canvas pictures that he would not approve as proper for the inspection of youthful eyes. Parents of children who frequented these shows, the clergyman said, had urged him to use his best efforts to have the places closed. Schindler declared his place was conducted in an or- derly manner. The doors were kept closed and no noise reached the outside. "What are the titles of the pictures that you throw on the canvas ?" Justice Kelly asked. "On Sunday they are mainly religious or historical. Among them are 'Joseph Sold by His Brethren,' 'The Life of Moses,' .'The Life and Death of Christ,' and such.'' "Name some of the songs that are sung there." "Well, the evening that Rev. Floyd Appleton visited the show," Shindler replied, "the soprano was singing 'We Have Never Been So Far Apart Before.'. There is nothing immoral in any of the songs sung at my place." "Schindler," said Justice Kelly, "Capt. Thomas Conlin of the police, in that precinct, who visited your place saw no violation of the law. Still, the code prohibits Sunday exhibitions of that kind and I refuse to continue the in- junction." * * * The local Spanish War Veterans are so pleased with the stereopticon pictures depicting their camp life at Jacksonville which were exhibited at their reunion dinner at Hackensack last week that efforts will be made to secure other pictures and frame them up for one grand collection. Then an entertainment may be arranged and all the pictures shown with some one to explain and talk on camp life in general. * ♦ * Canandaigua children cry for Bijou Dreams, but the village fathers say "naughty, naughty." Recently, at the meeting of the village trustees, the requests of Wickhan; Brothers, of Binghamton, and J. Robinson and J. Papa panais, of Canandaigua, for licenses to conduct moving picture theaters were turned down, and the trustees voted to revoke the license given Munger & Boswell, of Geneva who are conducting the Bijou Dream on Main street. Some of the board members declared that the shows were demoralizing to children and others complained that the crowds blocked the sidewalks. Wickharri Brother* have fitted up a theater at a cost of about $600. and the Robinson-Papapanais firm has one nearly "ready to open and has expended about the same sum. * * * The Children's Society, New York, resumed its fight on the small penny and nickel arcades and theaters which cater to children. Agents Jennings and Flickner arranged in Yorkville Court John Hansa, proprietor of a moving picture show at No. 416 First avenue. Agent Jennings told Magistrate Steinert that he and his partner went into the place recently and found it packed with young girls and boys, although the building. they said, was not arranged • to accommodate any such crowd. The ages of the children ranged from five to fourteen. Jennings said the scenes shown by the moving pictures were a liberal education in how pickpockets pk their art. The second section of the performance, said the agent, showed how a young girl was drugged and ruined by a villain. This is the moving picture drams commonly referred to as the Thaw- White case. Magistrate Steinert said that he was in sympathy wilt any work which protected the children, and held Hansa in the custody of his counsel. * * * '' Addison is to have a moving picture show and the small boy will be happy. Green's Opera House has been leasee by George Bovee and work of fitting it up as a Thea torium will commence at once. The opening performanct will be given in the -near future. Mr. Bovee has pur chased a new Edison moving picture machine. * * * Albany, N. Y.— The Assembly, May 6, passed Assem blyman Prentice's bill,- which prohibits children from be ing admitted to the cheap arcades. The bill provide* that no children under 16 years of age shall be admitted in any place where any kinetoscope exhibition, movabk panorama, exhibition of moving pictures or any devict for the reproduction of vocal or instrumental music 01 for the reproduction of any other performance is publidj displayed or conducted. * * * If it takes all the policemen in New York, they an going to close up — guess what? The race tracks, where licensed bookmakers break tht laws and rob the public? No ; not the race tracks. They are going to close up the five-cent moving picture shows. It seems that those moving picture shows are a great menace to the majesty of the law. Pickpockets go in there and get nickels and dimes and even dollars out of the people's pockets. And the society in the five-cent moving picture shows isn't as good as it might be. There are some undesirablt people there. The authorities say it will never do to lei these things go on, and so they are going to close them. The law, must be respected, and dishonesty must bt discouraged — in five-cent picture shows. What a pity they couldn't get the same interest in those big and really dangerous institutions, the race tracks! What a pity some society, or police chief, or prosecuting official, couldn't find it in his heart to break up those race track dens of gambling and disorder. Every one of them is an offence to the law. Every one of them violates the Constitution of the State. Every judge on the bench and every public official, from the Governor down to a countr) constable, is perfectly well aware of the fact. Everybody knows that the race tracks gather together blacklegs and all kinds of criminals, and that they manu- facture criminals out of honest men. Everybody knows that the race track is a center where stolen money is spent on the races, where men lose their reputation and their sense of decency, as well as their money. But nobody in- terferes with that particular form of vice. The race track collection of undesirable people is allowed to go on be- cause a few men who like the excitement of gambling and of racing are determined that the people shall paj for it, even if clerks have to be made into thieves, em- ployers robbed and careers blasted. Our law is very powerful when it comes to deauc» with five-cent picture shows. But it falls pretty flat a» THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 171 akes oft its hat politely when it comes to dealing with a tive-milli'n-dollar gambling hell managed by "very re- kpectabe rentiemeh/'' 'However, while it may take time, Hie race track gambling will end, mark that I Veiling Journal, May 11. -Editorial, feendallville, Ind., is to have a new theater this Sum- er, Messrs., Bert Wisehaupt and A. A. Abbott, of Bluff- on, have leased the skating rink and will convert it into in electric vaudeville theater. They arrived in the city Saturday and have gone to Chicago, where they will en- rage their talent. They announce that the new theater vill be fitted up in first-class style and that it will be mown as "The Remo." They expect to open early this veek. * * * The New England Insurance Exchange voted to im- x>se an extra charge of 1 per cent, upon all buildings in irhich moving picture machines are operated. The Ex- :hange thus puts itself in line with other legislative bodies ^throughout the country. 1 The American "Pleasure Park" is to be introduced Into England. In the Summer of 1908 the British holiday laker will flock to replicas of Luna Park or White City, icago. • . Six of these resorts are to be built by a powerful syndi- ate, and will be known as "fun cities." Sites are already ecured for the first two, which will be opened next year. The position of each "fun city" will be settled so that it s within easy reach of a population of at least 500,000. There will be the usual entertainments — circus, bands, nechanical sensations and freak shows. London will >robably have two of these resorts within reach, one on he coast near Brighton and another on the Thames. The ndoor "fun city" at Olympia, London, last Winter, was uch a success that the syndicate believe the enterprise an be extended. Charles B. Cochran, who ran the )lympia show, is organizing the new scheme. * * * - From advices to hand we learn that Henry Robecht, of 00 Springfield avenue, Newark, N. J., is launching out ery successfuly in moving picture theaters. He now las entire control of three and half interest in one, situate is follows: • Model Five-cent Theater, Thirty-fourth street and ighth avenue, New York. C. W. Thomas manager arid •art proprietor. Model Five-cent Theater, 100 Springfield avenue, New- rk, N. J. J. S. Keller, manager. Model Theater, 335 Main street, Orange, N. J. Sol. S. iVeinthal, manager. Pastime Five-cent Theater, 607 Spring street, W. Ho- oken, N. J. Henry Robecht, manager. Twain on Advertising, Mark Twain says : "When I was editing the Virginia '% Enterprise, writing copy on day and mining the pext, a superstitious subscriber once wrote and said h< ad found a spider in his .paper. Was this good or bac |uck? I replied to him in our 'Answers to Correspondents f olumn as follows : 'Old Subscriber — The finding of a spider in youi ||°Py of the Enterprise was neither good luck" nor bad «e spider was merely looking over our pages to find out vhat merchant was not advertising, so that it could spin |ts web across his door, and lead a free and undisturbed astence forever after.* " Kinetoscopes, Cameragraphs and Stereopticons BBR^SSU, C. B. ELEINE, 662-664 Sixth Avenue Send for CaUa31©3 17. Now YorK. b The American Rights and Patents of an English Acetylene Generator. Immense sales In Europe. APPLY OFFICE MOViS PICTURE WORLD The Kisnematograph and Lantern Weekly (The Optical Lantern and {Cinematograph Journal) Published Weekly E. T. HERON & CO., 9-11 Tottenham St., Tottenham Court Road, London, W, A 1. FILM RENTAL Picture Machines, Films, Slides and Supplies. Prompt honest service our solid foundation. Best prices paid for second-hand Machines and Films. SPECIAL FILMS AND SLIDES MADE Bargains in Song Slides and Films — Best equipped mechanical workshop. — Optical Lense-Grinding.— Our new patented Automatic Shutter put on any machine for$io. German-American Cinematograph and Film Co. • Eberhard Schneider, Manager 109 E. 12th STREET. NEW YORK 172 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. :clusi¥. Placed upon fcEne .A > me2 , Ic&.E& ssaag'feeS during the months specified, feh© K1L&IH& OPTICAL CO,, tHe names of iHe makers SHIPMENTS OF ADDITIONAL NEW SUBJECTS ARRIVE WEEKLY. I. GAUMOHT & CO. APRIL. Clown and Statue 400 ft. SmoKKlrm 280 ft. Picnic Hamper 517 ft. In a Picture Frame 234 ft. I hn.lng the SnuiOKf S10 ft. Terrorist's Remorse 7SO ft. MARCH. The Electric Belt «67 ft. DlnlorblDB Hit Rest 4<>7 ft. Oh: That Molar 220 ft. Paying; Off Scorea 200 ft. The Runaway Van 347 ft. The Old Coat Story. . 417 ft. Carving Doctor. 394 ft. Take Good Care of Baby 484 ft. Car few Shall Not Ring To-night. . .750 ft. Casslmlr's Night Ont 360 ft. Woman TJp-to-Date 440 ft. Doable Life 587 ft. Moonlight on Lake 177 ft. Mra. Smlthson's Portrait . . .244 ft. Little Lord Mayor 304 ft. The Murderer 470 ft. IiOoking for Lodgings 400 ft. Artful Dodgera. 367 ft. FEBRUARY. Miner's Dnusrbter 617 ft. Her First Cake 314 ft. Brown Goes to Mother 347 ft. Servant Is a Jewel 507 ft. Winter in Switzerland 467 ft. Stolen Child 7SO ft. Going Away for Holiday 374 ft. Man Monkey 534 ft. Moonlight on the Ocean 100 ft. Message from the Sea 434 ft. Modern Diogenes .177 ft. Man Who Hongs Himself 287 ft. Baby Cries 167 ft. Bad Sou. .' .470 ft. New Toboggan 274 ft. Policeman Has an Idea 174 ft. Lower World of Paris 867 ft. Animated Stamp Pad 167 ft. His First Cigarette. .207 ft. Burglar and Policeman 117 ft. Soldier to Colonel 267 ft. When Friends Meet 310 ft. CHAS. UBBAff TRADING CO. URBAN-ECLIPSE APRIL. Tlrolean Dance 80 ft. Curloua Carriage of Klobenateln. . . .240 ft. Artist's Model 484 «. Servant's Revenge 507 ft. How the World Lives 547 ft. The Vacuum Cleaner 297 ft. Father, Mother Wants Too 214 ft. Captain Kidd and His Pirates 387 ft. Lady Cabby 307 ft. An Early Round with a Milkman 400 ft. Baby's Peril .160 ft. Silas Kellermnn 320 ft. A Pig In Society 167 ft. Boxing Contest 547 ft. MARCH. Conjuror's Pupil 320 ft. Debut in Photography 284 ft. Wonders of Canada 784 ft. la Marriage a Failure? 374 ft. The Dolomites 534 ft. A Trip to Borneo 400 ft. Flirting on the Sands. 167 ft. Napoleon and the Sentry..... 200 ft. With a Traveling Menagerie 640 ft. Beware of the Turkey Raffle 400 ft. Her First Snow Sail ; 267 ft. Puck's Pranks on a Suburbanite. . .427 ft. Flashes from Fun City 280 ft. His First Dinner at Fat her- In- Law's. 320 ft. Parody on Toreador 107 ft. Magic Bottle , 214 ft. Hand of the Artist 214 ft. Picturesque Holland 534 ft. FEBRUARY. Skiing In Norway j 214 ft. Snow Bailing. 107 ft. Indian Customs 534 ft. Wrestling Match, Hackenschmldt . . .480 ft. My Wife's Birthday ....284 ft. Two Rival Peasants 320 ft. My Master's Coffee Service 284 ft. Carnival of Venice 267 ft. T. P. PARIS Interesting Reading. 134 R Cream Eating Contest 117 ft Robbing a Bird's Nest 200 tt Children's Lunch cr a Trouble at a Wedding 400 ft Klnd-Hearted Girl. . . ._. 434 ft Two Cabbies for One Customer 108 It Non-Commissioned Officer's Honor. .800 ft Stealing Candles 334 ft Boys' Tricks 130 ft Making Faces si ft Barometer of Love. 134 ft Clever Detective 700 ft Wanted, a Governess 517 ft First Love of a Collegian .200 ft L. GAUXI0HT & CO. JANUARY. Stepmother 584 ft Drunken Mattress. 737 ft Stormy Winds Do Blow 387 ft Cheating Justice. 784 ft Little Globe Trotter 487 ft Gardener's Nap 109 ft Reformation 834 ft Life of Christ 2159 ft The Stolen Bride CS4 ft CHAS. URBAN TRADING CO. URBAN-ECLIPSE JANUARY. Trial Trip of the Balloon "La Pntrie".334 ft 'Whale Fishing r 4» Making Champagne 400 Willie Visits Aunt 3» FoUowlng Father's Steps. 5*7 ft Deer Hunt 3f» Beaver Hunt 3M ft This list totals 1 17 subjects — or 45,356 feet — of new titles which we were able to deliver during the first font months of 1907, the product of five factories, in addition to the general lines of films made by other companies. This collection .shows a high average of merit, both as to story and photography. It means that our exclusb* lines included 45 reels of new subjects in four months, or an average of 1 1 reels per month. 'Note. — A stock of recent film subjects will be found at our New York Office from which point E customers will be supplied. Distribution of subjects will be made as usual from our Chicago Office for benefit of Western customers. Shipments of novelties are made on the same day from both cities. mX^I^JE? 52 -State CHICAGO t .... 662=664 Sixth Av« NEW YORK THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 173 .S' GUIDE. Films. MANUFACTURERS. crican l^ograph Co., 11 E. .14th st. New York. mean Vitagraph Co., 116 Nassau St., New York. ^lison Mfg. Co., 31 Union so.. New York. \fnbin 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Pa. illss Bros., 10 E. 14th St. New York. "aJs\Bros.. 790 Turk St., San Francisco, CaL "-i;« folyscope Co., 41 Peck court, Chicago, 111. ■Sope Mtg. Co.. 112 E. Randolph strChicago, s DEALERS. Aeae Exchange, 133 Third are., New York. £2erican Film Co., 87 E, Washington St., Cht- AjSericao Exchange, 630 Halsey St.. B'klyn, N. Y. American Film Exchange, 605 Wabash Bldg., Pitts- B^weU Mfg. Co., 122 Randolph St., Chicago, I1L H H Bucltwalter, 713 Lincoln ave., Denver, Colo. Chicago Projecting Co., 225 Dearborn St. Chi- cago, 111. _ ^. Win. 11. Clune, Los Angeles, CaL 0. T. Crawford film Exchange, 14th and Locust stsl St- Louis, Mo. Harry Davis, Davis Bldg., 247 Fifth ave., Pitts- Edison Mfg. Co., 304 Wabash ave., Chicago, IIL Enterprise Optical Co., 154 Lake St., Chicago, 111. Erker Bros., 608 Olive St., St, Louis, Mo. Fort Pitt Film and Supply Co., 808 House Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa. German-American Cine, and Film Co., 109 E. 12th st- New York. Harbach & Co., 809 Filbert St., Philadelphia, Pa. ? J. Howard, 456 Washington St., Boston, Mass. Z. L Hull & Co., 209 E. 57th st. Chicago, 111. KinetjgraDh Co., 41 E. 21st st, New York. Oeine Optical Co., 52 State st, Chicago, 111. S Lubin, 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Pa. C. Melies, 204 E. 38th st, New York. L E. Ouimet, 624 St Catherine, E., Montreal, Can. Pathe Cinematograph Co., 42 E 23d st, New York. People's Vaudeville Co:. 2172 Third ave., New York. D. W. Robertson, 407 Park Row Bldg., New York. Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. 5th st, Cincin- nati, Ohio. M. Swaab & Co., 338 Spruce st, Philadelphia, tk. Vim. H. Swanson & Co., 112 Grand ave., Kansas City. Mo. ohn H. Thurston, 50 Bromfield st, Boston, Mass. Williams, Brown & Earle, 918 Chestnut st, Phila- adeJphia, Pa. RENTERS. Bldg., American Film Exchange, 605 Wabash Pittsburg, Pa. Atlas Motion Picture Co., 223 Havemeyer st, Brooklyn, N. Y. Bacigalupi, 107 Fillimore st, San Francisco, _ CaL Boston Film Exchange, 564 Washington st, Bos- ton, Mass. Calcium arid Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Central Supply Co., 114 N. Edwards st, Kalama- zoo, Mich. Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph st, Chi- cago. 111. Consolidated Film Exchange, 143 E. 23d st, New lork Detroit Film Exchange, Telegraph Bldg., Detroit Mich. Duquesne Amusement Supply Co., 616 Fifth ave., Kttsburg, Pa. tjg. Cline & Co., 59 Dearborn st, Chicago, IIL ftm. H. Dune, Los Angeles, CaL Spbe Film Service, 79 Dearborn st, Chicago, IIL ". E. Greene, 228 Tremont st, Boston, Mass. f- J. Howard, 456 Washington st, Boston, Mass. later Ocean Film Exchange, 99 Madison st, Chi- ««>. 111. Ksetograph Co., 41 E. 21st st, New York. Wrae Optical Co., 52 State st, Chicago, IIL C- B. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave.. New York. gUenmle Film Service, 167 Dearborn st, Chi- ejo. III. • Meyers, 123 W. 27th St., New York. . Hanasee & Co., 88 Madison st. Chicago, 111. **» Bros., 10 E. 14th st. New York. Miles Bros.. 790 Turk st, San Francisco, CaL ' *s*raal Film Renting Bureau, 62 N. Clark st, Chicago. 111. ' . "cal'* Movin 8 Picture, 1063 Broadway, Oakland, -E. Ouimet, 624 St Catherine, E., Montreal, Can. |Aa. Palp-, 4 o \V. 28th st. New York. <*"<» Exchange, 112 E. Randolph st, Chicago, "^nt Calcium Light Co., S15 First ave., Pitts- ."gTS. Pa. f-W. Robertson, 407 Park Row Bid?., New York. Kn t Oh^'' m ^ xehan S e ' ,46 W - Sth "*•» Cincin- " £ Spoor & Co., 62 N. Clark «t, Chicago, ID. Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin st, Chicago, IIL Win. H. Swanson & Co., 79 S. Clark st, Chicago, Temple Film Co., Masonic Temple, Chicago, 111. John H. Thurston, 50 Bromfield st-, Boston, Mass. 20th Century Optiscope, 91 Dearborn st, Chicago, 111. U. S. Film Exchange, 59- Dearborn st, Chicago, Stereopticon*. Chas. Beseler Co., 251 Centre st. New York. Calcium and Stereopticon Co.,. 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph st, Chi* cago. III. Erker Bros. Optical Co., 608 Olive st, St Louis, Mo. Walter L. Isaacs, 81 Nassau st. New York. C. B. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave., New York. H. A. Lande, 410 Market St., Pittsburg, Pa. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Pa. L. Manassee, Tribune Bldg., Chicago, IIL McAllister, 49 Nassau St., New York. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 37 Randolph-' st, Chi- cago. III. . . Joseph Menchen Electrical Co., 354 W. 50th st. New York.' Moore, Bond & Co., 104 Franklin st, Chicago, 111. Pioneer Stereopticon Co., 237 E. 41st st. New York. Riley Optical Lantern Co., 23 E. 14th st, New York. Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. Sth St., Cincin- nati, Ohio. 'i Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin st., Chi- cago, 111. Lewis M. Swaab, 336 Spruce st, Philadelphia, Pa. Moving Picture Machines. AND SUPPLIES. Acme Exchange, 133 Third ave., New York. H..H. Buckwalter, 713 Lincoln ave., Denver, Colo. Chicago Film Exchange, 133 S. Clark st, Chicago, IIL Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Central Supply Co., 114 N. Edwards st, Kalama- zoo, Mien. Ch. Dressier & Co., 143 E. 23d st, New York. Eug. Cline & Co., 59 Dearborn st, Chicago, IIL Edison Mfg. Co., 31 Union sq.. New York. Edison Mfg. Co., 304 Wabash ave., Chicago, 111. Enterprise Optical Co., 154 Lake St., Chicago, 111. Erker Bros., 608 Olive St., St Louis, Mo. German-American Cine, aild Film Co., 109 E. 12th st, New York. Harbach & Co., 809 Filbert st, Philadelphia, Pa. Wm. H. Havill, 88 S. State St., Chicago, 111. Keller & Co., 465 Greenwich st, New York. Kleine Optical Co., 52 State St., Chicago. C. B. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave.. New York. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st.,- Philadelphia, Pa. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 57 Randolph st, Chi- cago, 111. Wm. Paley, 40 W. 28th st, New York. ■ N. Power, 117 Nassau St., New York. PittsburgCalcium Light Co., 515 First ave., Pitts- burg, Pa. D. W. Robertson, 407 Park Row Bldg., New York. Selig Polyscope Co.. 41 Peck court, Chicago, III. Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. 5th st, Cincin- nati, Ohio. L. M. Swaab & Co., 338 Spruce st, Philadelphia, Pa. Wm. H. Swanson S Co., 79 S. Clark st, Chicago, 111. • 20th Century Optiscope, 91 Dearborn st, Chicago, IB.' 20th Century Optiscope Co., 2 W. 14th st, New York. Williams, Browne 4 Earle, 918 Chestnut st, Phil- adelphia, Pa. Song Slides. FOR ILLUSTRATED SONGS. Boswell Mfg. Co., 122 -Randolph st, Chicago, 111. Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph at, Chi- cago, 111. Chicago Sow? Slide Exchange, 225 Dearborn st, Chicago, III. • Chicago Transparency Co., 69 Dearborn st, Chi- cago, 111. Elite Lantern Slide, 207 W. 34th st, New York. Eugene Cline & Co., 59 Dearborn st, Chicago, 111. Kleine Optical Co., 52 State st, Chicago. 111. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th St.. Philadelphia, Pa. , Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 37 Randolph st. Chi- cago, 111. Moore, Bond & Co., 104 Franklin st, Chicago, 111. Scott & Van Altena, 59 Pearl St.. New York. Selig Polyscope Co.. 43 Peck court, Chicago, 111. Alfred Simpson, 257 W. 111th st. New York. Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin st, Chi- Devfttt C. "Wheeler, 120 W. 35th at, New York. Calcium and Electric Light. OX-HYDROGEN GAS MANUFACTURERS. Brooklyn Calcium Light Co., 112 Front st, Brook- lyn, N. Y. Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Carrick caecuic .1114. Co., 218 N. Ashland ave., Chicago, 111. Cincinnati Calcium Light Co., 108 Fourth st, Cin- cinnati, Ohio. Coleman & Newton, 237 E. 41st st. New York. Erker Bros. Optical Co., 603 Olive st, St Louis, Mo. Globe Electric Co., 419 W. 42d st, New York. Wm. H. Havill. US S. State st. Chicago, 111. Indianapolis Calcium Light Co., 116 S. Capital ave., Indianapolis. Ind. New York Calcium Light Co., 410 Bleecker st, New York. New York Calcium Light Co., 309 S. 51st st, Philadelphia, Pa. Philadelphia Calcium Light Co., 621 Commerce st, Philadelphia, Pa. Pittsburg Calcium Light Co., 515 First ave., Pitts- burg, Pa- St Louis Calcium Light Co., 516 Elm St., St Louis, Mo. Nelson Weeks, 217 William st, New York. Windhorst & Co., 104. N. 12th st, St Louis, Mo. Music Publisher! who Issue Song Slides. Leo Feist, 134 W. 37th st. New York. Chas. K. Harris, 33 W. 31st st, New York. F. B. Haviland Publishing Co., 125 W. 37th st. New York. Helf fit Hager, 43 W. 28th St., New York. Melville Music Co.. 55 W. 28th st. New York. Mills Music Publishing Co., 28 W. 29th St., New York. New York Music Publishing House, 1433 Broad- way, New York. Jerome K. Remick & Co., 45 W. 28th st. New York. ) Maurice Shapiro, . Broadway and 39th st. New York. f Joseph W. Stern Co., 102 W. 38th st, New York. Harry Von Tiller Co., 37 W, 28th St., New York. M. Witmark & Sons, Witmark Bldg., 144-146 W. 37th st. New York. Condensors and Lenses. Kahn & Co., 194 Broadway, New York. C. R. Kleine. 622-624 Sixth ave.. New York. Kleine Optical Co., 52 State St.. Chicago, 111. WANTED to buy one hundred sets of illustrated song slides. State price ; Address, JONES, care of Moving Picture World. for a four months trial subscription to the 25 Cents AMERICAN AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER AND CAMERA AND DARK ROOM Monthly 15c. per copy $1.00 per Year The best illustrated and most instructive magazine published exclusively for Photo- graphers. Address I AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER 361 Broadway, New York TO DEAXKRS ONI.Y Lenses, KAHN 194 Broadway CO. - Now YorK 172 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. A LIS Placed upon the Amaeiracaia marked Iby- felke HLII,IL1S?TO OPTICAL, CO. during tHe months specified, givas&gg the saaasaes of the makers SHIPMENTS OF ADDITIONAL NEW SUBJECTS ARRIVE WEEKLY. L. GAUMONT & CO. APRIL. Clown and Statue 400 ft. Smugglers 260 ft. Picnic Hamper 517 ft. In a Picture Frame 224 ft. < Im.lnic the Snii.n K «- 3IO ft. Terrorist's Remorse 750 ft. MARCH. The Electric Belt 4W7 ft. Disturbing Hla Rest 407 ft. Oh! That Molar , , .220 ft. Paying Off Score* 200 ft. The Knnnwny Van. . . . ; 347 ft. The Old Coat story . 417 ft. Carving Doctor 384 fL Take Good Care of Baby 484 ft. < urfriv Shall Not Ring To-night. . .750 ft. Casslmlr's Night Ont 330 ft. Woman Up-to-Dnte 440 St. Doable Life 507 ft. MoonllKht on Lake 177 ft. Mra. Smlthson'a Portrait. ...244 ft. I.lttle Lord Mayor 304 ft. The Murderer. 470 ft. Looking for Lodgings 400 ft. Artful Dodgers 307 ft. FEBRUARY. Mlner'a Dnughter. 017 ft. Her Flrat Cake 314 ft. Brown Goea to Mother 347 ft. Servant la a Jewel 507 ft. Winter In Swltserlnnd 437 ft. Stolen Child 750 ft. Going; Away for Holiday 374 ft. Man Monkey 534 ft. MoonllKht on the Ocean 100 ft. Bleaaase from the Sea 434 ft. Modern Diogenes 177 ft. Man Who Hangs Hlmaelf 287 ft. Baby Crlea 167 ft. Bad Son .470 ft. New Toboggan 274 ft. Policeman linn an Idea .174 ft. Lower World of Paria 807 ft. Animated Stamp Pad 167 ft. Hla Flrat Cigarette. .207 ft. Burglar and Policeman 117 ft. Soldier to Colonel 267 ft. When Friends Meet 310 ft. CHAS. URBAN TRADING CO. UHBAN-ECLIPSE APRIL. Tirolean Dance 80 ft. ^"J? .?" S B 3§f** °* Klobensteln 240 ft. Artlat'a Model ; . . . .484 ft. Servant's Revenge 507 ft. How the World Lives 647 ft. The Vacuum Cleaner 297 ft. Father, Mother Wants You 214 ft. Captain Kldd and His Pirates 387 ft. Lady Cabby sot ft. An Early Round with n Milkman. . .400 ft. Baby's Peril .130 ft. Mtas Kellennan. 320 ft. A Pig in Society 107 ft. Boxing Contest 547 ft. MARCH. Conjuror's PupU 320 ft. Debut in Photography 284 ft. Wondera of Canada 784 ft. la Marriage a FaUnreT 374 ft. The Dolomites 534 ft. A Trip to Borneo 400 ft. Flirting on the Snnds. 167 ft. Napoleon and the Sentry 200 ft. With n Traveling Menagerie 640 ft. Beware of the Turkey Raffle 400 ft. Her First Snow Ball ." 207 ft. Puck's Pranks on a Suburbanite. . .427 ft. Flashes from Fun City 280 ft. Hla Flrat Dinner nt Father-ln-Law'a.320 ft. Parody on Toreador 107 ft. Magic Bottle. , 214 ft. Hand of the Artist 214 ft. Picturesque HoUnnd 534 ft. FEBRUARY. Skiing In Norway 214 ft. Snow Balling. 107 ft. Indian Customs 534 ft. Wrestling Mntch, Hackenachmldt. . .480 ft. My Wife's Birthday .284 XL Two Rival Peasants .» 320 ft. My Master's Coffee Service 284 tt. Carnival of Venice 267 ft. T. P. PARI 8 Interesting Reading. ist ft Cream .Eating Contest 1H ft, Robbing a Bird's Nest 300 ft Children's Lunch 07 it. Trouble at a Wedding 400 ft Kind-Hearted Girl.. 434 ft Two Cabbies for One Customer 100 ft Non-Conunlssioned Officer's Honor. .800 ft Stealing Candles 334 ft Boys' Tricks 150 ft Making Faces 84ft Barometer of Love. 134 ft Clever Detective 700 ft. Wanted, a Governess 517 ft First Love of a Collegian. 200 ft L. GAUM0NT & CO. JANUARY. Stepmother 884 Drunken Mattress 727 Stormy Winds Do Blow 307 Cheating Justice. 784 Little Globe Trotter 48T Gardener's Nap.. 100 Reformation 834 Life of Christ 2U0 The Stolen Bride 0S4 CHAS. URBAN TRADING CO. URBAN-ECLIPSE JANUARY. Trial Trip of the Balloon "La Pa trie". 334 ft Whale Fishing 480 ft Making Champagne «•» "■ 'Willie Visits Aunt 32) V. Following Father's Steps 507 ft Deer Hunt SO tt Beaver Hunt. 310 n. j ! This list totals 117 subjects — or 45,356 feet— of new titles which we were able to deliver during the firstfoot months of 1907, the product of five factories, in addition to the general lines of films made by other companies| This collection .shows a high average of merit, both as to story and photography. It means that our exclusto\ lines included 45 reels of new subjects in four months, or an average of 1 1 reels per month. Note. — A stock of recent film subjects will be found at our New York Office from which point Easte customers will be supplied. Distribution of subjects will be made as usual from our Chicago Office for : benefit of Western customers. Shipments of novelties are made on the same day from both cities. KLEINE OPTICAL CO., ■*'.-■■ -" .' ' w 52.~State Street, CHICAGO Sixth Ave NEW . YORK J THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. THE, nnWDft ' 173 Films. MANUFACTURERS. merican liiograpU Co., 11 E. 14th St., New York. merican Vitagraph Co., 116 Nassau St.. New York. airdison Mfg- Co., 31 Union sq., New York. rST^Lubin. 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Pa. Biffla Uros., 10 E. 14th st, New York. Milk Uros., 790 Turk st, San Francisco, Cal. i.L Polyscope Co., 41 Peck court, Chicago, III. ''•'■Viawope Mfg. Co., 112 E. Randolph St. Chicago, 111. DEALERS. ixaae Exchange, 133 Third ave., New York. African Film Co., 87 E. Washington st, Chi- American Exchange. 630 Halsey st, B"klyn, N. Y. African Film Exchange, 60S Wabash Bldg., Pitts- Banrtu Mfg. Co., 122 Randolph st, Chicago, III. H H Buckwaltcr, 713 Lincoln ave., Denver, Colo. Chicago Projecting Co., 22S Dearborn st, Chi- C2K0 II" Vin.il. Clune, Los Angeles, Cal. 0. T. Crawford Film Exchange, 14th and Locust ilirry Davis? U Davis°Bldg., 247 Fifth ave., Pitts- Edison' Mfg. Co., 304 Wabash ave., Chicago, 111. Enterprise Optical Co., 154 Lake st., Chicago, III. Erker Bros., 608 Olive St., St Louis, Mo. Fort Pitt Film and Supply Co., 808 House Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa- German-American Cine, and Film Co., 109 E. 12th st. New York. Harbach & Co., 809 Filbert st, Philadelphia, Pa. r I. Howard, 456 Washington st, Boston, Mass. c! L Hull & Co.. 209 E. S7th st, Chicago, III. Kinetogranh Co., 41 E. 21st st, New York. Kleine Optical Co.. 52 State St. Chicago, 111. S Lubin, 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Pa. i Melies, 204 E. 38th st. New York. L E. Ouimet, 624 St. Catherine, E., Montreal, Can. Pathe Cinematograph Co., 42 E. 23d st. New York. People's Vaudeville Co;, 2172 Third ave., New York. 3. W. Robertson, 407 Park Row Bldg., New York. Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. 5th st, Cincin- nati, Ohio. _ L M. Swaab & Co., 338 Spruce st, Philadelphia, S ; „ ,Vm. H. Swanson & Co., 112 Grand ave., Kansas City, Mo. ohn H. Thurston, 50 Bromfield st, Boston, Mass. Villiams, Brown & Earle, 918 Chestnut st. Phil- adelphia. Pa. RENTERS. IildK., Imencan Film Exchange, 60S Wabanh Pittsburg, Pa. Ulas Motion Picture Co., 223 Havemeyer et, Brooklyn, N. Y. Bacigalupi, 107 Fillimore st, San Francisco, at Boston Film Exchange, 564 Washington st, Bos- ton, Mass. jlcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Antral Supply Co., 114 N. Edwards at, Kalama- too, Mich. licago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph at, Chi- cago, 111. msolidated Film Exchange, 143 E. 23d at. New York, droit Film Exchange, Telegraph Bldg., Detroit Ilia. uquesne Amusement Supply Co., 616 Fifth ave., Pittsburg, Pa. jug. Cline & Co., 59 Dearborn st, Chicago, IU. vm. H. Clune, Los Angeles, Cal. jlobe Film Service, 79 Dearborn st, Chicago, III. • E. Greene, 228 Tremont st, Boston, Mass. J. Howard, 456 Washington st, Boston. Mass. nter Ocean Film Exchange, 99 Madison st, Chi- cago, 111. lnctograph Co., 41 E. 21st st. New York. Clcine Optical Co., S2 State st, Chicago, III. - B. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave., New York. aemmle Film Service, 167 Dearborn st., Chi- ,ago, 111. • Meyers. 123 W. 27th st. New York. •Manasee & Co., 88 Madison st, Chicago, 111. ' es Bros., 10 E. 14th st. New York. Ifla Bros.. 790 Turk st, San Francisco. Cal. 'awmil Film Renting Bureau, 62 N. Clark st, ro Chicago, 111. . Cal Mouin K Picture, 1063 Broadway, Oakland, ,E. Ouimet, 624 St Catherine, E., Montreal, Can. & Pal 2'' 40 W. 28th st. New York. wiess Exchange. 112 E. Randolph at, Chicago, f 1 ^" 1 "! Calcium Light Co.. SIS First ave., Pitts- J£ Robertson, 407 Park Row Bldg., New York. "y™ Film Exchange, 146 W. Sth st, Cincin- . "w|| Uhio. N E. Spoor & Co., $2 N. CUrit at, Chicago, HL Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin st, Chicago, III. Wra. H. Swanson & Co., 79 S. Clark st, Chicago, Temple Film Co., Masonic Temple, Chicago, 111. John H. Thurston, 50 Bromfield st, Boston, Mass. JOth Century Optiscope, 91 Dearborn st, Chicago, U. S. Film Exchange, 59- Dearborn St., Chicago, IU. Stereopticon*. Chas. Beseler Co., 251 Centre st. New York. Calcium and Stereopticon Co.,. 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph st, Chi- cago, 111. Erker Bros. Optical Co., 608 Olive st, St Louis, Mo. Walter L. Isaacs, 81 Nassau st. New York. C. B. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave.. New York. H. A. Lande, 410 Market St., Pittsburg, Pa. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Pa. L. Manassee, Tribune Bldg., Chicago, III. McAllister, 49 Nassau St., New York. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 37 Randolph* st, Chi- cago, 111. 1 Joseph Menchen Electrical Co., 354 W. 50th St., New York." Moore, Bond & Co., 104 Franklin st, Chicago, III. Pioneer Stereopticon Co., 237 E. 41st st, New York. Riley Optical Lantern Co., 23 E. 14th st. New York. Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. Sth St., Cincin- nati, Ohio. Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin st, Chi- cago, 111. Lewis M. Swaab, 336 Spruce St., Philadelphia. Pa. Moving Picture Machin«i, AND SUPPLIES. Acme Exchange, 133 Third ave., New York. II:. H. Buckwalter, 713 Lincoln ave., Denver, Colo. Chicago Film Exchange, 133 S. Clark St., Chicago, Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Central Supply Co., 114 N. Edwards St., Kalama- zoo, Mien. Ch. Dressier & Co., 143 E. 23d st. New York. Eug. Cline & Co., 59 Dearborn St., Chicago, III. Edison Mfg. Co., 31 Union sq.. New York. Edison Mfg. Co., 304 Wabash ave., Chicago, 111. Enterprise Optical Co., 154 Lake St., Chicago, III. Erker Bros., 608 Olive st, St. Louis, Mo. German- American Cine, and Film Co., 109 E. 12th st. New York. Harbach & Co., 809 Filbert St., Philadelphia, Pa. Wm. H. Havill, 88 S. State St., Chicago, IIL Keller & Co., 465 Greenwich st. New York. Kleine Optical Co., 52 State st, Chicago. C. B. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave.. New York. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st,_ Philadelphia, Pa. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 57 Randolph st, Chi- cago, 111. Wm. Paley, 40 W. 28th st, New York. . N. Power, 117 Nassau st, New York. Pittsburg" Calcium Light Co., SIS First ave., Pitts- burg, Pa. D. W. Robertson, 407 Park Row Bldg.. New York. Selig Polyscope Co.. 41 Peck court, Chicago, III. Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. 5th st, Cincin- nati, .Ohio. '•»...... L. M. Swaab & Co., 338 Spruce st, Philadelphia, Pa. Wm. H. Swanson & Co., 79 S. Clark at, Chicago, 20th Century Optiscope, 91 Dearborn st, Chicago, 20th Century Optiscope Co., 2 W. 14th st, New York. Williams, Browne & Earle, 918 Chestnut st, Phil- adelphia, Pa. Song Slides. FOR ILLUSTRATED SONGS. Boswell Mfg. Co., 122 Randolph st, Chicago, 111. Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph st, Chi- cago, IIL _ Chicago Song Slide Exchange, 225 Dearborn st, Chicago, III. _ ^ • , Chicago Transparency Co., 69 Dearborn st, Chi- cago, III* Elite Lantern Slide, 207 W. 34th st, New York. Eugene Cline & Co., 59 Dearborn st, Chicago, 111. Kleine Optical Co., 52 State st. Chicago, 111. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st. Philadelphia, Pa. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 37 Randolph st, Chi- cago, 111. Moore, Bond & Co., 104 Franklin st, Chicago, 111. Scott a Van Altena, 59 Pearl st., New York. Selig Polyscope Co.. 43 Peck court, Chicago, III. Alfred Simpson, 257 W. 111th st, New York. Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin st, Chi- DcW^tt C Wheeler, 120 W. 3SUi «t, New York. Calcium end Electric Light. OX-HYDROGEN GAS MANUFACTURERS. Brooklyn Calcium Light Co., 112 Front st, Brook- lyn, N. Y. Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Carrick ciccnic .u»g. Co., 218 N. Ashland ave., Chicago, 111. Cincinnati Calcium Light Co., 108 Fourth st, Cin- cinnati, Ohio. Coleman & Newton, 237 E. 41st St., New York. Erker Bros. Optical Co., 603 Olive st, St. Louis, Mo. . . Globe Electric Co., 419 W. 42d st., New York. Wm. II. Havill, 08 S. State st, Chicago, III. Indianapolis Calcium Light Co., 116 S. Capital ave., Indianapolis, Ind. New York Calcium Light Co., 410 Bleecker st, New York. New York Calcium Light Co., 309 S. 51st st, Philadelphia, Pa. Philadelphia Calcium Light Co., 621 Commerce st, Philadelphia, Pa. Pittsburg Calcium Light Co., SIS First ave., Pitts- burg, Pa. St Louis Calcium Light Co., 516 Elm st, St Louis, Mo. Nelson Weeks. 217 William St. New York. Windhorst & Co., 104. N. 12th st, St Louis, Mo. Music Publisher! who Issue Song Slides. Leo Feist 134 W. 37th st. New York. Chas. K. Harris, 33 W. 31st st. New York. F. B. Haviland Publishing Co., 125 W. 37th st, New York. Helf & Hager, 43 W. 28th st, New York. Melville Music Co., 55 W. 28th St., New York. Mills Music Publishing Co., 28 W. 29th St., New York. New York Music Publishing House, 1433 Broad- way, New York. Jerome K. Remick & Co.. 45 W. 28th st, New York. Maurice Shapiro, Broadway and 39th St., New York. Joseph W. Stern Co., 102 W. 38th St., New York. Harry Von Tilzer Co., 37 W. -28th St., New York. M. Witmark & Sons, Witmark Bldg., 144-146 W. 37th st. New York. Condensors end Lenses. Kahn 4 Co., 194 Broadway, New York. C. B. Kleine. 622-624 Sixth ave.. New York. Kleine Optical Co.. 32 State st, Chicago, III. WANTED to buy one hundred sets of illustrated song slides. State price ; Address, JONES, care of Moving Picture World. 1*% fazmftsk for a four n,onths lriMl JBrxJ ^/CUfllUS subscription to the AMERICAN AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER AND CAMERA AND DARK ROOM Monthly 15c. per copy $1.00 per Year The best illustrated and most instructive magazine published exclusively for Photo- graphers. Address : AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER 361 Broadway, New York TO DEAl^RS ONI.Y Lenses, K94 Broadway* CO. • New YorR 174 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. New Films. BIOGRAPH. The Tenderloin Tragedy 481 ft. Crayono 428 ft Jamestown Exposition 400 ft The Fencing Master 650 ft The Truants 638 ft Mr. Huny-Up. 625 ft Trial Marriages ....765 ft The Lighthouse. .....528 ft Drunken Mattress ...702 ft Married for Millions 751 ft EDISON. Daniel Boone; or Pioneer Days in America 1000 ft Teddy Bears 935 ft Trip Through Yellowstone 735 ft Honeymoon at Niagara Falls 1000 ft Getting Evidence 930 ft Scenes and Incidents, U. S. Military Academy 345 ft The Vanderbilt Cup 400 ft GAUMONT. Clowns and Statue 400 ft The Stolen Bride ; 684 ft My Servant is a Jewel 507 ft The Smugglers 260 ft Disturbing His Rest 407 ft New Toboggan 260 ft Curfew Shall Not Ring To-night 750 ft Parody on Toreador 107 ft First Dinner with Father-in-Law. . . .314 ft Flirting on the Sands ..167 ft Napoleon and Sentry .200 ft Take Good Care of Baby 454 ft The Carving Doctor $94 ft The Bad Son .".470 ft The Terrorist's Remorse... 750 ft Chasing a Sausage 310 ft Reformation When Stormy Winds do Blow HALE TOUR FILMS. C. B. Kleine. Street in Tokio 65 ft Street in Canton 114 ft Passing Trains 65 ft Ascending Mount Pilastus, Switzer- land 508 ft Ceylon 311 ft Market at Hanoi 82 ft Street in Lourdes 98 ft Ascending Mount Zarrat 164 ft Descending Mount Zarrat 131 ft Vesuvius 2J3 ft Across the Alps 164 ft Street in Agra 08 ft Street in Frankfort 82 ft Engadin, Switzerland. LUBIN. Winter Day in the Country.; ..750 ft. Too Mueh Mother-in-Law 700 ft. Papa's Letter 27s ft Father's Washing Day. 295 ft Jamestown Naval Review 500 ft Wanted, 10,000 Eggs 300 ft The Pirates -500 ft Life in India 465 ft The Anarchists 341 ft. 1 The Stolen Bicycle. 255 ft Spring Cleaning 300 ft Salome 400 ft A Thrilling Detective Story 3*5 ft Good Night 6s ft Bank Defaulter. 1000 ft. How to Keep Cool.. .310 ft Whale Hunting.. ..........500 ft MELIES. The Mischievous Sketch . 243 ft Rogues' Tricks 265 ft Mysterious Retort 200 ft The Witch..... ...820 ft Seaside Flirtation. 238 ft The Merry Frolics of Satan. ..... . .1050 ft The Roadside Inn 230 ft Soap Bubbles.. 230 ft A Spiritualistic Meeting... 250 ft Punch and Judy 140 ft MILES BROS. Chefs Revenge 236 ft Wizard's World „ 350 ft Sailor's Return 535 ft A Mother's Son 392 ft Knight Errant 421 ft Catch the Kid ... 270 ft Cambridge-Oxford Race 250 ft The Naval Nursery , 400 ft Cheap Skate 288 ft True Till Death 494 ft Polar Bear Hunt 622 ft Auntie's Birthday 393 ft O'Brien-Burns Fight .8000 ft Gans-Nelson Fight 5000 ft Indian Basket Weavers. PATHE. Tragic Rivalry 295 ft. Wonderful Flames 246 ft Amateur Photographer 246 ft. Herring Fishing 656 ft •Golden Beetle 164 ft. Japanese Women 410 ft Boxing Matches in England 410 ft The Baby's First Outing. 475- ft From Jealousy to Madness 500 ft A Military Prison 820 ft Pompeii 54 1 ft- Picturesque Canada .410 ft SELIG POLYSCOPE CO. Girl from Montana 900 ft Foxy Hoboes. 290 ft. When We Were Boys 415 ft The Grafter 535 ft The Tramp Dog 550 ft Who Is Who? .500 ft Female Highwayman 910 ft. . Dolly's Papa 385 ft Trapped by Pinkertons. . ; 750 ft Sights m a Great City 475 ft The Tomboys 5*5 ft The Serenade .500 ft CHAS. URBAN TRADING CO. URBAN— ECLIPSE. The Park-Keeper 316 ft Servant's Revenge .567 ft- A Pig in Societv 167 ft. Great Boxing Contest for Heavy- weight Championship of England (Genuine) 547 ft Artisfs Model 484 ft Miss Kellerman ^320 ft. Baby's Peril 160 ft An Earlv Round with the Milkman. 400 ft. Quaint Holland 345 ft Wonders of Canada 784 ft His First Camera ...284 ft. Conjuror's Pupil /. .... .320 ft. Trip to Borneo.. .....; ....400 ft. The Dolomites. . .. <534 ft Ts Marriage a Failure? 374 ft. Traveling Menagerie. ; .•.64o ft. Flashes from Fun City ,•. .280 ft. Puck's Pranks on Suburbanite 427 ft Father 1 Mother Wants You. The Vacuum Qeanef.. ...... '..;...« '.1 . v.; VTTAGRAPH. Amateur Night 53, ^ Retnbutton ......*.......... »,, _, . , 77* u The Belle of the Ball...... ...... ..475ft A Curious Dream. - 7. too ft. The Spy. foofc The Haunted Hotel 500 ft; Fun in a Fotograf Gallery 781 * The Bad Man $,\ The Mechanical Statue and the In-/ genious Servant ^..ifok Foul Play ...I...KI A Mid-Winter Nighfs Dream 600 ft WILLIAMS, BROWN & EAF'LE. The Busy Man. 525 It The Fishing Industry 400 ft Father's Picnic 256 ft Drink and Repentance 570 ft Quarter Day Conjuring 300 ft Fakir and Footpad ... 287ft She Would Sing 235 ft Signal Man's Son 345 ft Horse Stealers 346 ft Foiled by a Woman 480 ft Slippery , Jim, the Burglar 220 ft Black Beauty 475 ft, After the Matinee 325 ft Race for a Kiss 225 ft Up-to-Date Studio 125 ft ENG FIL We are sole American agents for HEPWORTH MFG, CO. CRICKS & SHARP R. W. PAUL New sralbjecfc© every tiona se© aim Write for Lists Trade Supplied WILLIAMS, BROWH 4 EARLE Department P 918 GEisstnat St., PMJUBELPBm, U. S.* THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 175 Names, addresses and references of these operators are on Ha in the office of the Motinq Pictube Womb. No charge is made for registration, and letters addressed to any one in our care will be forwarded. i OPERATOR, 40 years of age, married; expert in ail branches; salary, $25.00. Prefers New York. Has machine and pianist extra by arrangement i OPERATOR OR MANAGER, age 36, married; well rec- onSnended; salary, §20.00; New York or Pennsylvania. , 6. EXPERT ELECTRICIAN AND OPERATOR, 3 years* experience ;- salary, $25.00; age 19; single; Central States. & OPERATOR, age 23, single; Powers and Edison machines; lary, $1500; will travel .3 . ,; 11. OPERATOR, used -to all machines, age 2% married, de- res position; salary, $25.00; New York and New Jersey. 12. OPERATOR, with machine and stereopticon, age 24, Je, 3 years' experience, prefers Canada, salary $18.00. 14. MANAGER, promoter and moving picture operator, wants isition or partnership, has money to back up business. 15 YOUNG MAN, age 20, single, practical electrician, wishes jsition as operator, Edison or Power's machine; understands xy.-hyd. gas. Will travel, New York; Pennsylvania, New.Jer 7 ty and Ohio, or settle' permanently around New York City. alary, traveling, $12.00 and all expenses, or $i6.00-$i8.oo per-. anent Proficient for vaudeville theater. ifi, OPERATOR, 21, single, proficient in electrical work; lary, $25.00. Central States preferred. 17. OPERATOR, age 40, married; has double stereopticon :nd moving picture machine; capable, efficient, abstainer; salary, 135.00; any locality. iR ELECTRICIAN OPERATOR, well recommended; age '3, single; salary, $18.00; Wisconsin, Illinois or Michigan. to. OPERATOR, all machines; age 24, married; salary, .00; Middle West States. 20. OPERATOR, well recommended; age 29, married; $25.00 $3000 per week: uses all machines; prefers the Middle States. 21. OPERATOR, 27, single, $20.00 and expenses. Makes is; Photographer, or Manager. Used to Edison and Powers lachines; 10 years' experience. 22. ELECTRICIAN, Operator, and Manager, age 32, mar- ied; salary $30.00 to $35.00. First-class references. Capable, rith 17 years' experience, ' of Powers, Edison, and Lubin Ma- iines. Total abstainer. 23. MANAGER, highest references, age 27, married; salary 35.00. West or East. 24. OPERATOR, Electrician, age 38, single; salary $25.00; 1 years' experience ; has Powers Machine No. 5. Any locality. 25. OPERATOR, age 24, single; salary $18.00. East. 26. OPERATOR, Electrician, wiring and repairs; age 24; arried; salary $25.00. Powers and Edison Machines. East 27. SINGER, Illustrated Songs, age 25; single; salary $25.00. exas preferred. Can also operate Edison and Powers Ma- rines. • . ■ • -. • •.-.■". 28. OPERATOR, age 22, single; salary $25.00. Used to Pow- ;s and Edison Machines. Prefers New Jersey. New York, ennsylvania, or will go to Jamestown for Summer.. 29. LECTURER; with good lectures, wishes to meet with ■ partner who has machines, etc., and a little capital, to go on High class stage manager, full of resources for posing ad getting up new subjects ; capable of taking charge of nt. High class references and recommendations. At erty first June. . Apply. Z...ML P. ,W.,Box 450, New fork. .•:. ~\ --*" '■" [Robert R. Goss, 529 Bronx River Road, New York as now plenty of open time. Wishes to connect with |me one at once for summer." If pianist who also sings J needed, would be glad- to connect jointly. 'Can fur- sh machine and films if "so desired.' HaVe fine selec- cannot afford to miss the succeeding copies of the Moving Arrangements have been made with H. 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Photographs and CincwaaaftogffapSi Projection* IlSos&rated Songs, Laafora Leetoros and E»anfiern Slide MaHero THE WOULD PHOTOGRAPHIC PUBLISHING COMPAHY, 361 B80ADWAY, NEW YORK rol. 1., No. 12. May 25, 1907 Price, lO Cents NOTICE.— If yoiz wisfi* to get your copies regularly, leave an order with your News Agent, or sen©! us your subscription. -THE- AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY, Trade Agents. NEW FILMS NOW READY GAUMONT FILMS. The Cup and Ball (Comedy) A Child's Cunning (Sensational) Village Celebration (Comedy) The $ ioo Bill- (Comedy) Janitor's Tea Party (Comedy) Nurse takes a Walk (Comedy) 2 Cents worth of Cheese 367 ft. 667 ft. 473 ft- 800 ft. 400 ft. 36 7 ft. 284 ft. 52 STATE ST. 66S 882CTH AVE. 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No advertisements can be Bted and no changes can be made in standing ads unless the breaches us by 10 A.M.i Thursday. Please remit by express money order, check, P. O. order or reg- fered letter. AH cash enclosed with letter is at the risk of sender. EUROPEAN AGENTS: INTERNATIONAL NEWS COMPANY Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C. The Film Manufacturer and the Public. Last week, in the New York courts, a nickelodeon proprietor, named Hauser, was fined $100 for showing *he film of the Thaw-White tragedy. The report will be found in Trade Notes. We are sorry the manufacturer of the film was not in the box with Hauser, and that he had been compelled to pay the fine. Press clippings from all over the States and Canada have been sent us by the dozens, all show- ing the total suppression of the exhibition of the film by various police authorities. It is now an opportune time for the whole trade to join with us in asking the manu- facturer to 1 withdraw this obnoxious film from the mar- ket. The exhibition of this one film alone has been the cause of more adverse press criticism than all the films manufactured before, put together, have done. It has made the police active in trying to put down the nickel- odeon. It has been the cause for action by church, chil- dren's, purity and other societies, and these societies have branded all alike, taking the old saying, "Birds of a feather flock together," which certainly does not apply in this instance. The trade jointly should ask for the withdrawal; the nickelodeon should refuse to exhibit, and the manufac- turer should take it off, for the sake of the future pros- perity of the five-cent theaters, all of whom are now .menaced by public opinion, and their existence jeopar- dized. Our attitude on this subject is consistent with good judgment. If there was one redeeming feature in the film we would not write so strongly, but there is not one. We saw the film when it first appeared, and ex- pressed our opinion then. There is nothing to elevate, nothing to entertain, or any good lesson to be gained in the exhibition. It was a travesty of good taste to pro- duce it, and a grave mistake to foist it further, when a long-suffering public asks for its withdrawal. We do not wish it understood that this is the only film to be condemned. There are many others. Such as those depicting drunken men and women ; those that hold up to ridicule and contumely a people's religion, and those owing their origin to the Opera Comique, of Paris. Very few of these latter are suitable for an American audience and importers should make careful selection before sending them out. to the dealers and renters. Owing to the great demand on our space this week, several interesting film descriptions are held till next issue. THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. bers of his family" in the great tragedy of their li Y Thaw appeared to be chiefly concerned over the factt the pictures were not. correct- John E. Hauser/ the defendant, was charged with pairing the morals of children by showing moving p 2 j tures of the Thaw tragedy at his place at 416 First avj The' pictures" particularly complained of by "Abstain entirely." These two words constitute a cable reply received in St. Louis this week from the Madrid branch of the Credit Lyonnais, according to Secretary Wiedemeyer, of the., Erker Bros. Optical Co., in response to a letter inquiring about the validity of drafts drawn on E. Castelli Co., of Madrid, by A. Theus. & Co., of Buerios Ayres, South America. The drafts were sent to St. Louis wholesale dealers in photographic supplies and other materials, ac- companying orders to the amount of more than $2,000. Mr. Wiedemeyer says this cablegram has confirmed suspicions his firm has entertained regarding the South American concern and the order it sent and they will not ship goods to A. Theus & Co. Others who have received orders from the same firm express themselves more con- servatively and say they will ship no goods to A. Theus & Co. until they know more about that firm. In the latter part of March, Theus & Co. ordered bv mail, inclosing a draft in each case> moving picture machines and photographic films to the value of about $1,120 (240 pounds sterling, to be exact) from Erker Bros. ; cameras to the value of $485 (100 pounds ster- ling) from H. A. Hyatt, dealer in photographic supplier and opera glasses and field glasses to the value of about $560 (120 pounds sterling) from the Western Optical Co. In addition, the same company is said to have ordered goods from and inclosed similar drafts to the American Bed Co., and E. B. Filsinger. The goods were not sent to A. Theus & Co. Instead the drafts were taken to their respective banks by thfi firms receiving .them. No assurance has been received from any financial institution that A. Theus & Co. is a firm of sufficient standing to warrant the St. Louisiana in shipping goods on their 90-day drafts. Erker Bros, cashed their draft at once through the Mercantile Trust Company, and it was in the investiga- tion that followed that the letter of inquiry was sent to the Credit Lyonnais. * . * * ' Orange, Tex. — Perry Burr, who recently purchased a half interest in the Empire Theater, a moving picture show, has sold his interest in the business to his partner, Hector McKinnon, who is now sole proprietor, and who will continue to operate the little house on Fifth street * * * The prosecution in the Court of Special Sessions, New York, of the proprietor of a moving picture hall drew a protest from Harry "K. Thaw against the character of pictures purporting to represent himself and the mem- new audience is coming in, the -piano player slips nue. agents of the Children's Socie^~ represented the leadq events in the lives of Thaw and his wife. The sen began with pictures of Evelyn Nesbit posing. they showed the marriage ceremony and the shooting < Stanford White on the Madison Square Roof Garde Superintendent Jenkins referred to them as lewd disgusting. Hauser was found guilty and the court was about 1 impose sentence, when Lawyer Dan O'Reilly entered ; asked the attention of the court in behalf of Ham- ] Thaw. "Mr. Thaw has requested me," he said, "to inform 1 court that the moving pictures which have just under consideration are riot what they are purported 1 be. He wants it distinctly understood that the picture ( his wife is not a good one, and that the other pictures | not show the marriage ceremony as it occurred, nor l principals in it The same applies to the tragedy on 1 roof garden. My client wishes your honor to take 1 nizance of these facts." The three justices listened to Thaw's lawyer, but no comment. Hauser was fined $100. * * * - The nickelodeon shows have furnished occupation I young women, many of them girls, who, after they 1 practiced the piano for years, found they could not 1 a living as well as the girl who had learned nothing 1 to wash dishes. There must be two score of the mov picture shows in Pittsburgh, not to speak of those in I legheny and McKeesport, and every one of them has I piano player. The piano players at the nickelodeons of a year or i ago furnished excruciating music, for they were us girls who played at street carnivals and the attrac in the private parks. As the shows became known 1 people of taste learned that frequently very intere scenes were represented, the managers sought for girls c another social class, with the result that the quality' music has improved and the higher class selections dicated as appropriate by the manufacturers of the artistic films are played with taste -and precision in of the shows; With the coming of these girls fac for withdrawal from the public eye had to be provid Even now One sees, at a few of the shows, the girl pis player boldly face the incoming audience, with the lig turned up ; flirting with the ushers and altogether porting themselves with the same freedom as a me of a peripatetic German band; but at other places,: soon as the film has passed through the machine ai THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 181 e stage and is not visible until the lights are turned ran and the film starts again. It is said that some of e girls have a very good social standing, and that their.! iends do not dream that they are earning an honest liv- j a by plaving the piano in a public place. Rev. A- B. Cristy delivered an illustrated lecture at e Woodbury Memorial Chapel, Providence, R. I., re- ntly, his subject being "The American Boy and His Mr. Cristy began by showing the boy in his home and » leaving to make his fortune in the world. He then owed by means of the pictures on the screen the many [falls and snares laid for them at every turn, and the ual end of it all when carried to the extreme. He scored the United States Government for legaliz- \ the sale and manufacture of intoxicating liquor, de- tring that 180,000 men and women died from strong ink every year in this country alone. The saloon-keep- he described as the greatest Anarchist of all, as he is against all law that pretended to curb him in hi«s siness. The speaker described Abraham Lincoln as e of the first advocafes of temperance in the Union d threw on the screen a fac simile copy of the pledge ncoln wrote and to which he obtained hundreds of [natures. The Interurban Amusement Company, which has a ise on Springbrook Park, Ind., and is preparing to give msement lovers of that vicinity a veritable "White ty" by next season, filed articles of incorporation. The pital stock is given at $2,000, and the directors as cob P. Lechner, William Heinrich and Thomas Rourke. le object of the corporation as stated in the papers is develop and maintain a pleasure resort and moving :ture theaters. * * * Carl F. Miller, who with William Fisher, has been nducting the Wonderland Picture Show on Croghan eet, Fremont, O., has purchased the interests of his rtner and will direct the business in the future. Mr. Fisher has picture shows at Painesville and War- % and will start another at Delaware next week. * * * Amusement Park, Spokane, Wash. — Contract has been jned with the Breinig Construction Company for build- l the entire park, to be known as the White City, a new msement park adjoining Recreation Park, which will st in the neighborhood of $100,000. It -will not be pos- >le to open this Summer, because of lack of electric wer. AH preliminary work will be done, grounds laid t, lake built, etc. A large roller skating rink will be e of the features and this will be opened this Fall. It ako hoped that a nickelodeon will be completed. -* * * The latest hobby of Des Moines men is to run moving toe shows. Three are now in operation and plans are being made to establish at least seven new ones within the next six weeks. In addition to the moving picture shows in the business district there will be the moving picture stunt in connec- tion with the vaudeville at Ingersoll Park, which will open May 26. The following are some of the proposed locations of the projected moving picture shows : J. L. Black, in the new Younker block at Sixth and Mulberry streets. A Chicago company in the room on Locust between Fifth and Sixth. Mr. Reuben, in the room on Walnut, near Fifth. Carl Quimby, two in East Des Moines and one at West Twenty-first and University avenue. Chicago parties on Walnut near Fourth. In addition to these, Elbert & Getschell have two in operation — one near Sixth and Mulberry and another on Locust between Sixth and Seventh, and Dick Mott one on Walnut; street between Seventh and Eighth. In the Warren Mirror's account of the last meeting of the borough council is the following: Chief Windsor presented an ordinance governing con- struction and conducting or prohibiting of moving pic- ture shows in the Borough of Warren. The following are some of the rules and regulations governing the con- struction and running same. There shall be at least three separate and distinct exits from said room, which shall open directly from the audience part of the room on and into an open street or alley that is sufficiently wide and open at ends to permit general travel. That the said exits shall be at least five feet wide and six feet high and the doors shall swing outwardly. All chairs must have iron legs or standards, and must be screwed to the floor in such a manner that each room will have at least two wide aisles leading through and leading di- rectly to the different exits. All machines must be equipped with an approved fire magazine for the films. The ceiling, sides and floors of the operating room where the machine is placed must be fully covered inside with sheet iron or similar metal. A proper ventilating system shall be arranged that will insure pure air. All exits shall be properly marked inside the room by red electric lights which shall burn continually during the perform- ance. Each room shall be supplied with as many fire ex- tinguishers as the Chief of the Fire Department shall see necessary. The playing of graphophones, talking ma- chines or similar instruments on the sidewalk in front of the building or in that part of the building which faces on the sidewalks, is forbidden. That each theater or moving picture show or vaudeville house within the bor- ough limits shall pay a license of $100 per year in ad- vance, having 100 seats ; and for each additional twenty- five seats or part thereof, $25 per year additional. 182 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. On motion of Mr. Leonhart the ordinance passed first reading. * * * Considerable New Haven, Conn., capital is interested in the P. A. L Company, incorporated in Hartford, May 13, for $50,000, to do a moving picture and illustrated song business. When interviewed last evening, Mr. Windisch, one of the incorporators, stated that the plans of the company were not complete, but that the project was one of considerable magnitude and that moving pic- ture amusement houses would be established in several cities in the East. One will be located in New Haven. The two other incorporators are: Louis M. Sagal and William T. McCormick, both of New Haven. Shares are to have a par value of $100, and business will start with $6,000 paid in. Mr. Windisch is manager of the New Haven theater, owned and operated by S. Z. Poll. * » * Plans for the exterior adornment of the new Star Theater on East Market street, Wilkes-Barre, look good. The contractor has already commenced work on it and expects to have it ready for occupancy in about a month. The new theater, which will be under the management of Foster and Corbin, a New York syndicate, will be lo- cated in the Pettebone building on East Market street. It will be a moving picture theater, and judging from the plans will add materially to the attractiveness of the neighborhood. The front will be finished in tiling and ornamental plastering of beautiful design. * * * * M. H. Morley & Son, of Sodus Point, N. Y., have de- cided to install a private electric plant at their pavilion this Spring to light the building and run a picture outfit. * * * * Messrs. W. K. Coulthurst and W. H. Mayhew, of Bos-, ton, secured a lease of Freeman's Hall, Portsmouth, N. H., for the Summer. They will open a moving picture show. In connection with the pictures there will be sung the latest illustrated songs. It will be known as the "Dimette," and the admission will be ten cents to all parts of the hall ■* » : * Magistrate Furlong, on May 16, in the Gates Avenue Police Court, rendered a decision which may have an important bearing on future arrests of the proprietors of the cheap moving-picture shows which are thickly scattered about in certain sections of Brooklyn, N. Y. Julius Spoerry, 41 years old, of No. 1105 De Kalb avenue, was arrested recently charged with conducting a moving picture show at No. 1537 Broadway without a license. Spoerry's lawyer, when the case came up, con- tended that under the code a theatrical performance needed a stage and human beings, and as the show in question had neither of these necessities, it was not a theatrical performance and consequently no license was needed. Magistrate Furlong accepted the motion to dis- .miss oh the grounds put forth and Spoerry was charged. * * * The managers of the moving picture theaters in towi do not show apprehension that another is being built a busy locality and that others are headed this way. A a matter of fact, the pioneer in the business here, speak ing for the others as well as himself, says that the she help each other and that every new one to open increas the list of those who find frequent visits to the pictui ' shows a satisfactory and economical way of providing amusement. The shows have many regular patrons an a considerable number of those visit all theaters imps tially. Whether interest in moving pictures will event ually disappear, as did roller skating years ago, leavini their theaters scattered every little way along the street is a matter of conjecture. The managers of the theatet say the interest, will remain for a long time to come, an the money they are putting into their houses indicate that they are willing to back the belief. — Elmira, N, Y, Gazette. * ♦ •*. The fact that the Grand Theater of Calumet, Midi under the management of Lawton and Rice, is about expand, is one of the surest indications of the continue popularity of the 10-cent refined vaudeville show. Th new theater under the management of these gentlemt will open in a short time in Ishpeming and will on doubtedly attain a success in the hematite city which \\\ rival that of the institution in Calumet. The clean, wholesome show at a popular price is aj predated by the Calumet public. Almost every eveni the theater is crowded and the variety of pictures wta is presented makes the entertainment always new. G umet friends of the Grand Theater hope that the dents of the iron range town will appreciate the oppa tunity to secure some good amusements. The theate will be managed by Mr. Lawton. The Bijou Theater of Calumet contemplates an 1 pansion in the direction in the near future and a modi moving picture show will be fitted up in the Corgi building just opposite the present Bijou. This, too, w be successful, as has been the Majestic in Laurium, tl Palace, Savoy and other shows of this variety in tl copper country. .'. ^ '■> * -*• * The scenery along certain portions of Mexican » roads is to be advertised by means of moving picture according to present plans. A Chicago company is a ranging with the railroads to secure pictures from tl rear platform of moving trains in various parts of t* republic where the scenery through which the roads pu offers an opportunity to secure pictures that for beats and uniqueness cannot be surpassed, and it is expecfe that within a short time some of the Well known localnK will be visited by representatives of the company. THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 183 Portions of the scenery on the Mexican road between lexico City and Vera Cruz are to be taken, and it is lso probable that scenery on the National Lines and the ;entral will contribute to the film of the picture machine. As an advertisement for Mexico the pictures of scen- ry will probably do more to interest tourists in this mntry than any other one thing, as the scenery along: ie railroads' is unsurpassed for beauty, and no other ountry in the world can offer any stronger contrasts ,an are found in the geological formations of different arts of Mexico. The pictures to be taken are to in- lude scenery in the tropics, in the central and the north- rn parts of Mexico, and will be extensively displayed the United States, Canada and possibly European puntries. *.. * * Mt Pleasant, Mich. — The opera house block in this ty was completely destroyed by fire May 9, involving a iss of about $10,000, practically covered by insurance. he fire started in the Temple Theater on the first floor. his was a five-cent theater running moving pictures, tc The film in the moving picture machine ignited rom the arc lamp and flashed up like an explosion: In short time the entire building was in flames. The round floor of the building was occupied by the Isa- ella County Savings Bank. All the money and fixtures ere saved and transferred to the Commercial Bank uilding, where the bank resumed business. The stock of Miller's millinery store was destroyed by ater, involving a loss of $3,000. On the upper floor Ellington's law office and Dr. Baskerville were burned ut. Hall's barber shop was also destroyed. The loss to ie theater itself is estimated at about $400, covered by ' ■ounce, * * * Housewives of Knoxville, Mt. Oliver and.Carrick bor- ughs, Pa., are mourning the abandonment of the gar- en truck stands and the meat stalls at the Knoxville arket house in Bausman street. The space formerly ccupied by the stands is now being used for a moving icture show on the first floor and a roller skating rink n the second floor. * * * Owosso, May 6. — -"Here, don't you show any more of at stuff in the Methodist Church." This statement not only startled the audience, but al- wst broke up the moving pictures at the Methodist hurch on Saturday night. The statement was caused y the operator putting on some picture's showing some cenes between a business man and his typewriter. The cenes were so objectionable to the teachers of the clas9, nder whose auspices the entertainment was given, that e uttered the protest against the pictures. * * * Morris Goldstein, of' 1796 Brooklyn avenue, visited a roving picture resort at 1780 Brooklyn avenue, to look «r the pictures. He felt some one tug at his vest pocket and turning saw a crook running away iwithhis wallet, which contained sixteen dollars and a half. The thief was not caught. • ■ * * * * An Evening With Birds. — On Monday evening. May 13, Prof. E. H. Forbush, ornithologist of the State Board of Agriculture, spoke before the Clinton, Mass., Historical Society on "Our Useful Birds and How to Attract and Protect Them," dividing his subject: 1, Why protect them? 2, How protect them ? 3, and some legal steps necessary for their protection. Most birds are useful and very few harmful. Their usefulness de- pends on the quantity of insects and pests which they de- vour. We can count on the fingers of the hand all the harmful birds in Massachusetts. Many eat more than their own weight every day ; a woodcock, weighing but five ounces, has been known to eat ten ounces of earth- worms in a single day. Many of them capture moths. The young robins, under their diet, provided by the par r ent birds, grow in three weeks to be nearly equal in size to the old birds. Young birds appear about the right time to be useful, most of them hatching at the time when there are the most insects for their food. The amount which birds eat in a day, if eaten proportionately by a person, would equal sixty-seven feet of bologna sausage. Some birds by regurgitation dispose of the hairy and bony parts of caterpillars for which^tfiey do not care. • The speaker said the nighthawk is not a hawk at all nor is it a night bird. As showing the appetite of this bird, the speaker said 500 mosquitoes have been taken from the stomach of one hawk. Owls are useful in that they destroy insects and field mice; the horned owl kills skunks, rabbits and chickens, and can very rarely be ap- proached sufficiently near to be captured on the nest by a camera, a view being shown of one thus caught by the camera after weeks of search. Incidentally the speaker mentioned the difficulty of handling owls, and said their grip surpasses the grip of any known secret society. Reference was made to seabirds and to the herring gull ; they live in aslt marshes and feed upon the army worm and other pests-, and some of these birds will clear a field of the potato beetle. The wild ducks will be ex- terminated by the hunters unless given protection. A description was given of the various methods by which birds may be attracted, so that they will feed out of the hand and fly into the house, as by improvising a dry goods box, feeding them with suet, erecting birds' Christmas trees, building bird-houses, etc. Mr. For- bush showed a view of his home at Wareham with his contrivances for cultivating the acquaintance of the birds. In a grove near his house 1,000 robins lived and thirty nests were in sight of the house. The importance of teachers instructing their pupils how to attract the birds was mentioned. ) Many birds are killed by cats, one having made a rec- ord of fifty-eight captured in one season. The 'necessity 1 84 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. of more effectual laws for the protection of birds was dis- cussed, with the expressed determination that next Win- ter the Legislature shall enact more stringent legislation. Pointed reference was also made to the cruelty of hunt- ers who, in the interest of milliners, will steal up under a nest where the egret is feeding her young, shoot the bird and leave the little birds to starve, all that the ladies may wear the beautiful plumes which are plucked from this bird. Said Mr. F. : "Ladies ! you do not need these plumes ; you are beautiful enough without them." Men- tion was made of various sections and countries where, by the protection of wardens, the birds are being saved in their breeding haunts. At the close of the lecture Dr. French inquired about the English sparrows. Mr. Forbush said it was a great mistake to have brought them here, but they are here and we must make the best of the situation. He knew of no way to exterminate them excepting by poison, and he was not prepared to advise that remedy; he said they do much good in the way of clearing off pestiferous in- sects, but not as much good as other birds would do if they were here instead of the sparrows. * * * Ollie and Ernest Alexander, of Carthage, Mo., who are conducting a "Dreamland" show at Webb City, had the misfortune to lose by fire one of the long films which they use. The film caught from a lighted match which had been lit for a moment to see how to adjust something about the machine. The match happened to be held too close, it flashed up and was all afire in a moment. Fortunately no' damage was done aside from the loss of the film. [This puts one in mind of the man who tries to find a gas leak with a candle. Same result. — Ed.] ;•* Correspondence. Editor The Moving Picture World: Dear Sir — Permit me to extend to you my high appre- ciation of your very valuable journal, The Moving Pic- ture World. I find it clear, instructive and "newsy," and am of the opinion that there is no one interested in animated photography in all its different phases, or stereopticon work, but that could be materially benefited by its regular visitation. I have not been an operator for a number of years, but when I entered the business I had no little experience in electric lighting, which benefited me much. I guess my work has been satisfactory to the company that employs me, from the fact that I have been called upon to install two enterprises they have since es- tablished. If I am a good operator, and I am conceited enough to think I am, I can attribute some of my success to your paper. Yours very truly, Otis Brattain. Urban-Eclipse Films Rogie Falls and Salmon Fishing (Des- criptive) 325 feet Beating the Landlord (Comedy) .167 «■■ Gaumont Films Sing of the Times (Comedy) Dog and the Tramp (Pathetic) Buying a Ladder (Comedy) Salome (Historical) 567 feet 287 " 604 « 534 " Additional prints of the following older subjects have been received: Urban-Eclipse ■ First Dinner at His Father-in-Law's . 320 feet Catastrophe in the Alps . . . 434 " ' Master's Coffee Service . «•• .294 " T. P, Films— Paris : Governess Wanted . . . .-517 feet Cream Eating Contest . . . Ill " Non commissioned Officer's Honor . . 800 " Interesting Reading . . ." . .184 ,r | Clever Detective . . . . 700 " ■ The following films were the. new subjects of last week: Gaumont Films The Village Celebration . Child's Cunning . Cup and Ball . . . Hundred Dollar Bill ,. . Nurse Taking Walk . Two Cents Worth of Cheese Janitor's Tea Party 473 feet 666 " 370 «•. 800 " 285 «« 2S4 £9 400 " 52 STATE ST 662 SIXTH AVE. CHICAGO* NEW YORK / ■ l THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 185 The Moving Ficture Hazard dently weaker, but superposed by the image film uninjured and to be capable of using Analyzed. No. 2, and as the immovable parts coincide films a great many times. With proper exactly, our eye perceives the sensation of care a film is capable of being projected the moving object, attitude No. 1, succeed- through the machine from 500 to 800 times. A prominent underwriter who has care- e d by attitude No. 2, and so on up to atti- "Cinematography, or the art of reproduc- fully investigated the moving picture haz- tude No. 900. (The 'flickering' so detri- ing animated scenes, has not yet reached ard ra dealing with the subject says: mental to the art and injurious to the eye- the highest perfection, which would mani- "A few words as to the origin of chrono- sight of the spectators is due to the dark festly be attained in the reproduction of photography, or the photography of move- intervals which intervene between the sue- moving objects in such a manner that "they ment, may not be out of place. In the cessive pictures projected.) would appear upon the screen exactly the early part of the nineteenth century Platau T* > s necessary to have an apparatus to same in every respect as they in reality produced an instrument termed the phena- produce thus within one minute the 000 light naturally do— as they are in nature. While kistoscope, demonstrating the principles of eclipses by which 900 substitutions of sue- cinematography is far from reaching this the persistence of vision, and this subse- cessive images are obtained. These eclipses ideal, it has come to stay, and is of great quently gave rise to the zoetrope in 1845; are obtained by means of an opaque shut- value for educational and scientific pur- this optical instrument exhibited pictures **i which revolves at the rate of fifteen poses, as well as contributing to the pleas- depicting the successive attitudes of object* times in each second, and is attached so ure and amusement of a large number of in motion. In about 1870 the praxinoscope, that during its movements it intercepts the people^. s by Renault, appeared, and in 1874 the pho- light coming from the projecting lantern at ^Electroscope, knographoscope, veriscope, Vraphic revolver by Janssen. Muybridge, ^ch turn, and consequently the illumina- vitascope and cameragraph, are names ap- jchutz, Greene, Marey and other scien- tion on screen on which the image is pro- plied to various machines essentially like /» brought us nearer to the realization jected disappears during a fraction of MS the cinematograph. A new apparatus ha:. jA animated photography as we now know second. To operate the substitution of tm- recently been invented giving a combina- lt, and which was first commercially and *&& the 900 successive photographs are tion of the cinematograph and the phono- practically illustrated on the appearance of made on a flexible film about fifty-five feet graph tailed the -cronomegaphone,' a /the Edison kinetoscope in 1893. Certain Jong and one and three-eighths inches wide, speech being given the figures as they are defects existed in this machine which were The dimensions of each picture are about thrown on a screen. The Edison kineto- removed in 1895 by Lumiere's cinemato- one inch w 'de and four-fifths inch long, scope is the familiar box seen in the many graph On either side of the film are perforations penny arcades in New York City and about "The working principle of the cinemato- (two holes to each picture) at exact dis- pleasure resorts, and consists of a box con- graph is the persistence of the luminous tances from each other, into which sprock- tabling a roll of films, which are run by impressions upon the retina. If we ob- ets periodically penetrate, with, the object an electnc motor past an incandescent lamp, serve an object, the image in the eye is of pulling the film downward and displac- The electrical and celluloid hazard is in- transmitted to the nervous membrane mg it at each passage of the rotating shut- volved in combination, called the retina. If the object ceases to ter. The sprockets remount immediately The cinematograph and apparatus con- be illuminated suddenly, the image in the in order to attack the next two holes, and nected therewith is a very serious hazard retina is progressively removed, and so so on. and should have intelligent supervision and long as it has not entirely disappeared, the "The cinematograph is composed of two regulation. As the apparatus is installed optic nerve continues to be impressed, and essential mechanical parts— the eccentric m theaters and higher class amusement the eye continues to see the object as if rank and the sprocket frame and sprockets, places with experienced operators, the haz- it had remained illuminated. The duration The rank is manipulated by a handle which ard is reduced to a minimum, but the of the persistence of the luminous im- the operator must turn very regularly 'nickelodeons' and cheap amusement re- pression on the retina varies with the (about two turns per second) ; while the sorts usually combine an uninsurable phy- intensity, duration and color of the light crank rotates once, the eccentric transmis- sical hazard (aside from the bad moral on the object, although It does not con- sion rotates about eight times, or about hazard invariably connected with this class), tinue in full strength for the entire time; sixteen turns per second. The eccentric is Owners of these cheap establishments arv. for a normal illumination it is about 2-45 fixed behind the transmission, and moves in the habit of buying old and worn out second, and is prolonged for another 2-45 the sprockets so as to. engage and disen- machines without modern safeguards, and second, although the illuminated object gage the film. At the end of the crank is placing them in charge of boys and inex- may have disappeared suddenly. Conse- fixed a shutter, which is composed of two penenced and incompetent operators. So quently, if an illuminated object is pre- light metallic sections, which can be regu- many accidents have occurred from these sented to the eye and masked by an opaque lated so as to increase or decrease the size causes that the leading men in the business screen during 1-45 second, for instance, its of the same. There are necessary median- advocate that special laws or ordinances image persists in the eye 1-15 second, and ical parts which it is unnecessary to take be passed in every State or municipality we do not even perceive its passing eclipse, up in detail. The machine should be fitted regulating the exhibiting of moving pic- Let us assume therefore, a number of with magazines for holding the films and tures, and that it be required that operators -photographs on 'a film at 1-15 (3-45) sec take-up device for rewinding the film as it be at least twenty years old, and have a ond intervals, showing the successive move- passes through the mechanism after being certain amount of experience and be li- ments of an object; the various pictures ob- projected. censed. Massachusetts now has such a tained are like each other, that is to say, if "The additional apparatus necessary foi law, and the requirements of the Depart- any two thereof are superposed, the parts projecting with the cinematograph is a pro- ment of Electricity of New York City are which represent the fixed objects are ex- jeering lens, an electric lantern resistance quite rigid. The principal hazards .arc actly the same whereas those which corre- coil, a stand and a screen. The cinemato- enumerated under the following heading :' spond with the object in movement occupy graph sets on the front of the stand, with Suggested Safeguards positions of which the displacement has the lamp house in rear and the magazine ; 1U ^c-uards. been accomplished during the time in which for holding the films before projection is Every cinematograph, or other similar two pictures have been taken. located above the machine. The other mag- apparatus involving the use of a combusti- "Now let us assume that we have taken azine is attached to the under side of the ble film, should be inspected and approved 000 successive proofs during a minute, and stand. The resistance coil or rheostat us- by some designated department before be- Iet us project the same o'n a screen by ually sets on the floor near the apparatus, ing placed in operation. It should be re- means of any lantern. Let us eclipse im- Sometimes a calcium or oxy-hydrogen light quired that the films be wound upon a age No I by interposing between the lum- is used instead of electricity. The lantern metal reel inclosed in an iron box having inous source an opaque screen which masks is provided with a condenser, which may be a slot in the bottom only sufficiently large the light during 1-45 second, and, as before a globular glass bottle containing water or to permit the film to pass through the stated the eye will continue to see the pro- a glass condensing lens, which concentrates metal rollers of the projecting mechanism, iected' image not only during the whole of the light of the arc into the projecting ma- and these rollers should fit tightly to the the passage of the opaque screen (or shut- chine. The water globe is decidedly prefer- .film, in order to smother out any flame ter) but even after it has passed, during able to the glass condensing lens, which which might be started outside the cases, the time equal to the difference between has many disadvantages, and especially This iron box or magazine, as it is called, 2-4* second (duration of persistence) and that of concentrating the heat rays on the should be securely made of heavy material 1 at second (duration of the passage of the film when' same is stationary— the water in put together without solder, and the door shutter) that is 1-45 second. Assume, the glass globe absorbs all the heat and the should be a snug fit and provided with a then that a second image has been, substi- power of lighting is increased. The con- spring catch. A similar box to this should tuted for the image No I when the shutter struction of the mechanical pa/ts of the be provided beneath the projecting appa- atrain unmasks the source of light; we still .apparatus must.be extremely exact in all ratus to receive the film after it has been see during 1-45 second image No. 1, evi- its- movements, in order to keep the fragile through the machine; sometimes this box 186 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. / ( t is used without a reel, but a reel with a sider the hazard a measurable one when On his way he meets two~frienJk «*, take-up device is decidedly the preferable on inspection apparatus is found to be out of a saloon; they invite him «•= he ac- arrangement. The film m passing from the properly installed and managed, and think cepts their invitation. Rearing the ladder upper magazine to the machine and from the average theater rate is sufficiently high against the corner of the house, he follows the machine to the lower magazine should to cover the risk." his friends. A pedestrian coming alone has be protected through its course by a metal Middle States Inspection Bureau, his attention attracted by some one, bumps tube large enough to give a good clearance. into the ladder, knocking it downrand^fafis ■ Th K StS^ US a f S j° uId rest Up ° n *" r-,- . « May I3 ' l9 ° 7 ' over it Getting up, he places the ladder incombustible stand and secure supports. Editor of The Journal of Commerce and lying down leaning against the wall acros=, The operating crank for the him should be Commercial Bulletin: the door of saloon, and goes on his way. securely fastened to the shaft on machine Sir— Referring to the article on "The The three friends, rather elevated by the so there will be no possibility of its coming Moving Picture Hazard Analyzed," pub- liquid refreshment they have taken, are now 25L JJll ^1J! reV f nt w, eping », th £ film m "shed in your edition of May ii, 1907, the seen in the doorway of the saloon. They constant motion. A shutter should always writer ^ to he took mm £ ^' sure fa u over t he ladder into a heap in the side- be in front of the condenser, arranged to ^j also aC q uired va luable information in walk, and after some difficulty manage, to be easily closed when it is necessary to perus ; n g it get on their feet. The question of what to u mk 1 a - rayS " • ft. arC l amp As the art 'cle so pertinently states— with do with the ladder is now a problem. They should be enclosed in an iron box set on the a pp aratU s as installed in high class the- decide it by all three taking it broad side the incombustible stand with the projecting aters ^ amusmen t places, with experi- on, and commence their journel SeveraL- apparatus, and be so arranged as to catch enced opera tors, the hazard is reduced to a mishaps befall them in the crowded thojr all sparks and hot carbon The rays from minimum, but far from being minimized in oughfares, miraculous escapes from ccf the arc are extremely hot and frequently the ch amusement resorts. sion with cabs and other vehicles fall\ wt Se 21 Wa ln ■ con / en ? er *? h ° l \ In almost every town of size, so-called their lot; one of the coaches stops in thY When this occurs a piece of coke attached "theaters" are being, or have been, estab- nick of time from running over them as to a wire may be inserted to promote regu- lished where moving and illustrated-song they all fall together. A narrow passage «'r vap0 t5 a ? n l ■ u «. j- pictures are exhibited exclusively. These with two iron pillars at entrance is seen m ♦• , r W S , Uld a t according to "theaters" are generally located in a con- with the three friends coming through from National Board rules and be covered with ed district ( 8 if ^^ is one m ^ t own the other end. On arriving at the pillars, a fine wire netting to prevent anything from « r d } ^ a , most d fa 4- the ladder locks itself on s t hem, and the coming in contact with it, and the wiring, therefore far {rom "fireproof '—building, friends fall over and do some gymnastic switches, etc., connected with the appar- The picture mac hi ne is generally in an el- stunts. A pedestrian, finding the passage atus should be carefuly installed and prop- eyate £ wooden ^ a * d g ^ ou , d seem Mocked enters into ^ altercation with erly insulated, special care being given to he wfi d B fa ^ ^ and . g set for his mt erference. any flexible connections which may be nee- ticular dass q{ « theat ers" to supp ie m ent A crowd gathering causes a policeman to essary. Safety fuses should be provided in ^ saf ard mentioned in the article noted remove the obstacle, which the owner walks case the current may become too strong. ^ b hay ; h interior of the booths off with, leaving his two friends in the The connections carbons, eta should be lmed throughout (including the door and custody of the policeman, examined each time before the ^apparatus d * f fa v open ings) with asbestos A not quite sober cabman now comes is put into operation and the powei ■ shoula board ^ d meta , "» ■ down the H road and invites the man with / be limited to 1 10 volts. The voltage (or Thjs actke is recommended as being the ladder to take a ride. He gets up on pressure) required for operating is from inC3q)ens t ' ive and at ^ same time affording the bo X sea t and, placing the ladder across ^ct«& ****** j-c*— »**• j.-ft-sa« s? as of people in the audience, and it should all . h ^jfroad depoL T he man tries ^t«\a«S Film Review. S^^^oSSfittig blanket made of asbestos or other incom- . . °. - f . * p XOress . WtJhle material would be a valuable pro- Kleine-Gaumont. two and is sent on its way. An express bustiWe material would The ^^ tf & & %?&£% ffiSf wttSJ. WdeTS "Even though the aparatus be properly seen, with ladders of various sizes, displayed. %£g% ^^^A^ %ia*£«£! made and instilled along the line, enumer- A gentleman approaches examines them- Yol plrfclC O. D She pays, and with ated above, they are not 'fool-proof,' and and purchases One. In his endeavors to £ ssista „ce of the expressman the par- there is much danger of fire with an m-i carry it away he comes to grief first break- osed of th e two halves of the lad- competent or careless operator. Films; ing in the crown of his silk hat then plac- j .£ ^ j ide „ corded to _ made of celluloid are naturally very in- mg it unequally under his arm, it gives him ... -^ Qn ^ nd> and Ae flammable, and an enormous quantity, is a jar Eventually he ■manages to get it *gmtmBmm on his way, leaving the used in these machines, some of them bemy properly balanced and goes off, and the fun * d ■ fa ^ h She obtams a-l-.ng as 8,000 feet If the rays of light commences. His nearest way home is by woma x ^ husband who uses the which are extremely hot, rest top long at the Subway ; he makes his way towards the > crutches to hobble off any one point of the film a fire is sure to entrance through crowds of pedestrians, « » occur (which shows the necessity of the who turn to watch him yanish down the shutter referred to, and secure crank as stairs. Evidently something is going on well as careful attention. If anything hap underground, for they crowd along the rail THE D OG AND THE TRAMP, pens to the mechanism it is imperative that at the top and look dpwn to ascertain what riIt „ ftwr Kivtkp the light 11 shut off at once, and a careless the trouble is. They have not long to wait Gaumont-Kusine. operator usually leaves the fire-proof for the man and his ladder are thrown out ^ country woman is observed leaving a magazines open, or does not take proper on the sidewalk. Failing to get home by village grocery store leading a dog in a care of the reels with the films on them, the Subway, he tries the trolley cars and i easn> rapidly making her way with her Machines are frequently found in operation is thrown off with his ladder. He now purc hases through streets, over hill and without any fireproof magazines, with the mounts a 'bus, and is settling down, sitting jjjj^ unt ii s h e comes to a cottage; ffl a field celluloid films on an enclosed reel at the on 'his ladder, which he places on the seat Dy the side of which there grows a tree, top of the machine, and, perhaps, a can A passenger objects to sitting on so uncom- to w hich she ties the dog, bangs her bag vas bag or, sometimes, nothing, at the fortable a cushion, and calls the conductor, f provisions on one of the branches, and bottom of the machine to collect this highly who with the passenger's assistance puts bidding the dog take cate of the same, she inflammable material, a self-evident dan- him off. He plants his ladder against the makes her way* to pay a call, to the uihabi- eerous arrangement side of the "bus, mounts up to the top, and ta„ t f the' cottage. £ "Operators should be impressed with the is about to draw the ladder up, but the con- & tramp now appears on the scene, and, responsibility resting upon them to prevent ductor has taken it away, so he comes down see jng the bag. of good things hanging on anv accident which would be sure to en- again. A crowd assembles, and dogs bark &c tree, trieTto reach it but is kept at bay danger the lives of their audience through and try to. bite the man, who, thinking dls- fcy Aft" dog. Finding all efforts fulile to Dame, even though no serious fire ensued, cretion the better part of velor. , retires f rom ^Jn a meal, a thought at last strikes the From an insurance standpoint would con- the contest and decides to walk home. r beggar, which he at once puts into execu- THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 187 rion. Taking from his pocket a half- enawed bone, he offers it to the dog, and Lns around the tree, followed by the dog, who is gradually drawn to close quarters, and unable to do any harm, finding the coast clear, the tramp now reaches down the bag. and makes off with it, the dog in vain trying to get after him. The woman now appears, goes to the tree for her bag, finds it sone, and the predicament the dog is in, unwinds him, and they start off on a run after the tramp. The tramp having made his way to a quiet spot on the road- side, sits down to enjoy the good things the bag contains. Scarcely had he taken a bite, when his startled ears catch the sound of someone running, looking round he sees the dog coming after him in the distance. Cramming the good things back into the bag, he starts off, with the dog quickly pursuing. Up hill and down dale they go, the dog taking a piece of clothing here and another there, across a sheep pen, falling in the midst of the sheep, whkh they scatter in every direction, falling down an embankment, where the dog pins him to the ground until the arrival of his mis- tress, who, gathering her goods, which she rejoices to regain, calls off her dog, goes her way, leaving the poor, battered beggar to soothe his wounds. We see him drag- ging his weary bones, until he falls down utterly exhausted, bemoaning his lost hopes to obtain a stolen meal. • TRUE UNTIL DEATH. Miles Bros. A magnificently staged old-time romance, in whicji a real castle, with turrets, moat and drawbridge are used for settings. A beautiful love-story, magnificently pro- duced, with characters in sixteenth cen- tury costume. The hero and heroine op- pose the wishes of the stern parent, who has another and richer suitor selected for his daughter. The daughter, through many pretty and touching love scenes, proves hei preference. The hero is abducted in one scene, re- turns in the next disguised as a wandering minstrel, serenades his inamorata, who is leaning from the window of yon tower. She, quickly descending, is enveloped b> his cloak, and they hurry past the sleeping sentinel and flee through beautiful wood- land scenes, stopping anon to rest her lady- ship. Finally, overcome with fatigue, they seek shelter under a spreading tree. The stern father, entering the castle gates with the suitor he has chosen, to arrange the betrothal, discovers "the absence of his daughter and calls for his courtiers and men with bloodhounds' to start the search for the miscreant ones. The party of the irate father track the fleeing ones over hill and through valley, until finally they come .upon the lovers peacefully sleeping in bliss- ful ignorance of the approaching danger, "udely are they awakened and torn from ch other's arms, the lover hurried back the castle and ordered shot. The Baron's fjemen face the unfortunate lover, who ith bared head and bended knees awaits> is doom. As two shots ring but the beau- iful daughter springs forward, and the two pvers receive the two bullets. The frantic gather throws himself upon the prostrate onn of his beloved daughter. its way northward. Seagulls .make the air black, and the crew, clothed in heavy furs, move lively, on the lookout for walrus, seal and "Polar bear. Within full view are seen in rapid suc- cession seals disporting themselves on the icy brink of bergs. Walrus, with their im- mense tusks, are shown cavorting through the water, plunging after fish. The comical penguins in great numbers get in front of the camera at close range. The wonderful and mysterious musk-ox in his native haunts is shown life-size, and stamping his disapproval of being brought into such close proximity to man, his natural enemy. Then the critical dramatic moment ar- rives when the hunters leave their ship and start across the icy fields after his majesty of the Arctic regions. Soon is seen an enormous white Polar bear, slowly mean- dering in his search for provender. He discovers the hunters, rears on his hind feet, ready to give battle. A masterful shot striking a vital point fells him and he is seen rolling in his own life's blood. The hunters cautiously approach, and when fully convinced of the death of old Bruin, load him on their sleds and start for the ship. Finding the return trip too la- borious, they unload their spoils and pro- ceed to strip off the valuable, shaggy coat, remove a choice saddle of bear meat, and leaving the bare carcass freezing in the solitudes of the Arctic, trudge once more to their ship. CATCH THE KID. Miles Bros. " A novel juvenile chase, starting with a precocious youngster in a perambulator, teasing and tantalizing his nurse and her lover. Escaping in an unguarded moment, he leads his nurse a merry chase, incidentally getting himself into all kinds of scrapes, at every turn adding one or more victims to the crowd of chasers. Finally he secures a gun from a peripatetic hunter and turns upon his pursuers, who to a man flee before the determined look on the youngster's premature phiz. Turning the tables, the kid chases his tor- menters through all sorts of impossible places, until finally in dire confusion they all become entangled in the clothes and clothesline of an energetic old Irish washer- woman. The clothes basket is used to cap- ture the kid, he is placed back in his per- ambulator and held there by many hands until finally subdued, producing one of the most surprising endings to a comic chase film. POLAR BEAR HUNT. Miles Bros. < ; Swiftly passing through seas of floating £e,. a vessel with masts, spars and decks entirely covered with ice is seen pushing LOST IN THE ALPS. Edison Manufacturing Company. A dreary place to live must be the Alps Mountains. This is the first impression judging from the lone cabin and desolate surroundings of this home of the Alpine Shepherd and his family. Two children, a boy and a girl, the former about ten and the latter perhaps twelve years of age, emerge from the house ready for an errand of some sort. They are joined on the out- side by their mother who, after kissing them good-bye, starts them on their way. The object of this errand is soon re- vealed, a quiet grazing spot comes to view, upon which is feeding a flock of sheep at- tended by the Alpine Shepherd and his sheep dogs. He sees his two children ap- proaching with his mid-day meal The lit- tle girl stops long enough to coax a pet from the flock, pats its head and then hur- ries on with the dinner to her hungry fa- ther. The children play around until the father has eaten his meal and then start homeward. • Storms gather quickly in the Alps. A blinding snowstorm sets in, changing the character of the surroundings, and the chil- dren lose their way. They wander on through the mountains,' over rocks and ledges, the snow becoming so deep that they can hardly wade through. The little fellow becomes exhausted and falls. Hu» sister lifts him to his feet, but he is unable to stand. In desperation she endeavors to carry him, but the burden is too heavy and she becomes exhausted and falls in the snow. Young though she is, she knows they both will be frozen to death, and vainly struggles to her feet, but her strength is is gone and she sinks unconscious beside her brother. The children's long absence has alarmed their mother. Time after time she looks out into the raging storm in hope of see- ing them returning. She sinks down into a chair in despair. Becoming frantic, sht jumps up, throws on a cloak and starts out in the blizzard in search of them, but re- turns without any trace. Shortly the shep- herd reaches home, evidently glad to be in out of the storm, but is horrified when his wife tells him the children have not yet returned. He rushes out and makes his way to a Monastery and hurriedly explains the situation to an Abbot, who disappears, but soon returns with two large St Ber- nard dogs. The dogs are let loose and the search begins. The trail leads through deep snow, over hills, through forests and across streams. The dogs suddenly come to a halt, poke their noses around in the snow, evidently being satisfied the object of then search lies beneath. One stands sentinel, as if to mark the spot, while the other hur- ries back to meet the searchers, returning with them. The men begin to dig away the snow, and soon come upon the two uncon- scious children. They wrap them in the blankets which had been strapped to th<- backs of the dogs, and carry them home. The mother is anxiously waiting the return of the searching party when the door opens and they walk in with their unconscious burdens. The blankets are taken off and under the influence of a warm room ana a vigorous rubbing they regain conscious- ness. The subject closes with a close-view head picture of a St. Bernard dog. All who see this picture cannot help but admire the ex- pression of intelligence here so accurately reproduced. The dogs used as models in this film received, respectively, the first and second prizes at the recent Dog Show at Madison Square Garden, New York. MOVING PICTURE HENNEGAft & GO., Cincinnati. roo good Second-hand Feature Films. Must be in good condition and low price. Also views, Song Slides, Lecture sets and Motion Picture Machines. Newman, I45>£ Sixth Street, Room 2, Portland, Ore. i88 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. Burglars Break in and Steal. The New York branch factory of Geo. Melies, of Paris, at 204 East Thirty-eighth street, wasjgntered by thieves, during the night of Sunday last ( 19th) and a large num- ber of negatives taken, including boxes Nos. I and 3 of a new film the firm were about to place on the market and for which they have received many advance orders, "Under the Seas." Mr. Gaston Melies, who is the man- ager of the New York branch, is at present in Paris. His son is in charge during his absence, and from him we learn that it will be a month or six weeks before they can get other negatives from Paris to replace those stolen. From the systematic manner the thief or thieves went to work, it is evident they knew the run of the factory and where the various negatives were stored. Mr. Melies thinks it must be some former employe of the firm. The Melies live in the rooms over the store, and heard noth- ing of them working, but probably the storm which raged so violently deadened the noise. The thieves must have been disturbed ; they had commenced to unscrew one of the latest printing machines, which they seem to have left in their hurry to get away. Some three hundred negatives were stolen, and if our readers are offered any of the following, we ask them to hold the vendor, send for the police and communicate with Mr. Melies : 26 A Terrible Night. * 82 A Nightmare. 105 The Last Cartridges. 155 The Famous Box Trick. 159 Adventures of William Tell. . 167 The Four Troublesome Heads. 177-178 The Bridegroom's Dilemma. 185-187 The Devil in a Convent. 190 A Midnight Episode. 194-195 The Clown and Automobile. 204 Christ Walking on the Water. 219-224 Cinderella. 228-229 The Lightning Change Artist. 243 The Cook's Revenge. / 262-263 The One-Man Band. 264-275 Joan of Arc. 276-278 The Seven Capital Sins. 281-282 The Rajah's Dream; or, The Bewitched Wood. 293 The Up-to-Date Spiritualism. 294 The Triple" Conjuror and the Living Head. 298-305 The Christmas Dream. 309-310 Fat and Lean Wrestling Match. 312-313 Going to Bed under Difficulties. 322 How He Missed His Train. 325-326 What is Home without the Boarder. 332-333 The Brahmin and the Butterfly. 334 The Triple-headed Lady. 335-336 Dislocation Extraordinary. 337~344 Red Riding Hood. 348-349 A Maiden's Paradise. 352-353 The Temple of the Sun. 357-358 Excelsior ! 359 Off to Bloomingdale Asylum. 361-370 Blue Beard. 382-383 The Man with the Rubber Head. 384-385 The Devil and the Statue. 386 The Dwarf and the Giant. 387-389 The Cabinet Trick of the Davenport Brothers. 392-393 Prolific Magical Egg. 394-396 The Dancing Midget. 399-41 1 A Trip to the Moon. - ■ . 412 The Shadow-Girl. 413-414 The Treasures of Satan. 415-416 The Human Fly. 417-418 Marvelous Suspension and Evolution. 686-689 The Crystal Casket. 690-692 The LiUputian Minuet. 693-695 A Mesmerism Experiment. 696-698 Mr. Dauber and the Whimsical Picture. 699-701 The Venetian Looking-glass. 702-704 The Chloroform Fiends. 705-726 The Palace of the Arabian Nights. And the following positive prints :. Skipping Cheeses. Rogues' Lucks. Mischievous Sketch. Robert Macaire and Bertrand. Merry Frolics of Satan. Tramp and Mattress-makers. Mix-up in a Gallery. Lilipiitian Minuet. . Black Imp. Sunday Shows in Brooklyn The invasion of quiet residential sections of Brooklyn by moving picture show men, who give Sunday perform- ances, is opposed by clergymen and occupants of fine houses, who have been assured of the support of Mayor McClellan and Police Commissioner Bingham. Led by ex-District-Attorney Hyram R. Steele and Rev. H.C. Morse, and backed by the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Children, many of the wealthy resi- dents of Carroll Park were Monday in the Butler Street Court to protest against the setting up of one of these shows, with its brilliant lights and noisy megaphoned phonograph. Elijah D. White, who has rented a store at CarroD and Court streets for a moving picture show, was charged with conducting • it Sunday. It was pointed out that while such exhibitions in some sections of the city had been held to be no violation of the Sunday law, as no neighbor had protested that his peace was disturbed, con- ditions were different in Carroll Park, where all the resi- dents were united in an effort to have quiet Sundays. White was held in $5,000 for examination. : Rev. Floyd Appleton, rector of St. Clement's P. E Church, was the leader of residents of the East New York section, who appeared in the Sates Avenue Court to testify that Edward M. Schindler and Henry Hewlet conducted shows in Atlantic avenue, near Vermont street, and that they did business Sundays. Each defendant was held in $500 for examination. '* * * The Park Theater, Worcester, Mass., after being re- modeled and redecorated, opened Monday as a moving picture house, under the management of the Gordon Brothers. It makes a very attractive little playhouse. 1 ■ * * * John Wanamaker says in Judicious Advertising: "Advertising doesn't jerk ; it pulls. It begins very gent- ly at first, but the pull is steady. It increases day by day and year by year, until it exerts an irresistible power.' THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 189 THE BUYERS' GUIDE. Films. MANUFACTURERS. » m »rica- BiograpU Co., 11 E. 14th St., New York. .j££an Vittgrapb. Co., 116 Nassau st. New York. Edison Mfg- CO., 31 Union sq.. New York. S Lubin 21 S. 8th St. Philadelphia, Pa. Mite .&»-. 10 E. 14th st. New York. M « Bn*. 790 Turk St.. San Franciseo, Cal. Stlig Polvscope Co., 41 Peck court, Chicago,. IB. Viiiope Mfg. Co., 112 E. Randolph st, Chicago, 111. j DEALERS. ' \cme Exchange, 133 Third ave., New York. American Film Co., 87 E. Washington st, Chi- Amtfican Exchange, 630 Hatsey st, B-klyn, N. Y. American FUm Exchange, 605 Wabash Bldg., Pitts- Dcwll Mfg. Co., 122 Randolph st, Chicago, I1L H H Buckwalter, 713 Lincoln ave., Denver, Colo. Chicago Projecting Co., 225 Dearborn st, Chi- cago, HI- _ _ Wo. H. Clune, Los Angeles, CaL 0. T. Crawford Film Exchange, 14th and Locust sts. St. Louis, Mo. Harry Davis, Davis Bldg., 247 Fifth ave., Pitts- burg, Pa. Edison Mfg. Co., 304 Wabash ave., Chicago, 111. Enterprise Optical Co., 154 Lake St., Chicago, 111. Erker Bros., 608 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. Fort Pitt Film and Supply Co., 803- House Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa. German-American Cine, and Film Co., 109 E. 12th st. New York. Harbach & Co., 809 "Filbert st, Philadelphia, Pa. F. J. Howard, 456 Washington St., Boston, Mass. C L Hull & Co., 209 E. 57th st, Chicago, 111. KinetograDh Co., 41 E. 21st st, -New York. Kleine Optical Co., 52 State st, Chicago, III. - S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Fa. G. Melies, 204 E. 38th st, New York. L. E Ouimet, 624 St Catherine, E., Montreal, Can. Patbe Cinematograph Co., 42 E. 23d St., New York. People's Vaudeville Co., 2172 Third ave., New York. D. W. Robertson, 407 Park Row Bldg., New York.- Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. 5th st, Cincin- nati, Ohio. - . L M. Swaab & Co., 338 Spruce st, Philadelphia, Pa. Win. H. Swanson & Co., 112 Grand ave., Kansas City, Mo. • John H. Thurston, 50 Bromfield st, Boston, Mass. Williams, Brown & Earle, 918 Chestnut st, Phil- adelphia. Pa. RENTERS. American Film Exchange, 605 Wabash Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa. Atlas Motion Picture Co., 223 Havemeyer st, Brooklyn, N. Y. P. Bacigalupi. 107 Fillimore st, San Francisco, Cal. Boston Film Exchange, 564 Washington st, Bos- ton, Mass. : - Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Central Supply Co., 114 N. Edwards st, Kalama- 100, Mica. Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph st, Chi- cago, 111. Consolidated Film Exchange, 143 E. 23d st. New York. '• Detroit Film Exchange, Telegraph Bldg., Detroit, Mich. Duquesne Amusement Supply Co., 616 Fifth ave., Pittsburg, Pa. • . : ■. tug. Cline & Co., 59 Dearborn st, Chicago, IH. Wm. H. Clune, Los Angeles, Cal. Globe Film Service, 79 Dearborn st, Chicago", lit «• E. Greene, 223 Tremont st, Boston, Mass. F. J. Howard. 456 Washington st. Boston, Mass. Inter Ocean Film Exchange, 99 Madison st, Chi- cago, III. Kf.etograph Cos 41 E-. 21st st, New York. Kleine Optical Co., 52 State st, Chicago, I1L . f. R Kleine. 662 Sixth ave., New York. Uemmle Film Service, 167 Dearborn st, Chi- „cago, 111. f- Meyers, 123 W. 27th St.. New York. k . Manasee & Co., 88 Madison st, Chicago, 111. Miles Bros., 10 E. 14th st. New York. Miles Bros., 790 Turk st, San Francisco. CaL National Film Renting Bureau, 62 N. Clark st, Chicago, 111. Mwelty Moving Picture, 1063 Broadway, Oakland, QflL ' t. E. Ouimet, 624 St Catherine, E., Montreal, Can. ym. Palcy, 40 W. 28th St., New York. I ^f 33 Exchange, 112 E. Randolph st, Chicago, Kttrfmre Calcium Light Co., 515 First ave., Pitts- .ocrg.Pa. g- W. Robertson. 407 Park Row Bid?., New York. awthern FUm Exchange, 146 W. Sth st, Cincin- .ndb, Ohio. Geo. K. Spoor & Co., 62 N. Clark st, Chicago, DL Chi- Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin Chicago, 111. Wm. H. Swanson & Co., 79 S. Clark st, Chicago, 111. Temple Film Co., Masonic Temple, Chicago, I1L John H." Thurston, 50 Bromfield st.. Boston, Mass. 20th Century Up t is cope, 91 Dearborn st, Chicago, U. S. Film Exchange, 59 Dearborn st, Chicago, ill. Stereopticonn. Chas. Beseler Co., 251 Centre st. New York. Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph st, Chi- cago, 111. Erker Bros. Optical Co., 60S Olive st, St Louis, Mo. Walter L. Isaacs, 81 Nassau st. New York. C. B. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave., New York. H. A. Lande, 410 Market St., Pittsburg, Pa. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Pa. L. Manassee, Tribune Bldg., Chicago, 111. McAllister, 49 Nassau St., New York. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 37 Randolph st. cago, 111. Joseph Menchen Electrical Co., 354 W. 50th St., New York. Moore, Bond & Co., 104 Franklin st, Chicago, 111. Pioneer Stereopticon Co., 237 E. 41st st, New York. Riley Optical Lantern Co., 23 E. 14th st, New York. Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. 5 th st, Cincin- nati, Ohio. Stereopticon.Film Exchange, 106 Franklin st, Chi* cago, 111. Lewis M. Swaab, 336 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. Moving Picture Machines. AND SUPPLIES. Acme Exchange, 133 Third ave., New York. H. H. Buckwalter, 713 Lincoln ave., Denver, Colo. Chicago Film Exchange, 133 S. Clark st, Chicago, I1L Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Central Supply Co., 114 N. Edwards St., Kalama- zoo, Mich. Ch. Dressier & Co., 143 E. 23d st. New York. Eug. Cline & Co., 59 Dearborn st, Chicago, 111. Edison Mfg. Co., 31 Union sq.. New York. Edison Mfg. Co., 304 Wabash ave., Chicago, 111. Enterprise Optical Co., 154 Lake st, Chicago, III. Erker Bros., 603 Olive st, St. Louis, Mo. German-American Cine, and Film Co., 109 E. 12th st, New York. _ Harbach & Co.. 809 Filbert st, Philadelphia. Pa. Wm. H. Havill. 88 S; State st, Chicago, 111. Keller & Co., 465 Greenwich st, New York. Kleine Optical Co., 52 State St., Chicago. C. B. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave.. New York. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st. Philadelphia, Pa. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 57 Randolph St., cago, 111. Wm. Paley, 40 W. 28th st. New York. N. Power, 117 Nassau st. New York. Pittsburg Calcium Light Co., 515 First ave. burg, Fa. D. W. Robertson. 407 Park Row Bldg., New York. Selig Polyscope Co.. 41 Peck court, Chicago, III. Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. Sth st, Cincin- nati, Ohio. L. M. Swaab & Co., 338 Spruce st, Philadelphia, Pa. Wm. H. Swanson & Co., 79 S. Clark st, Chicago, IB. 20th Century Optiscope, 91 Dearborn st, Chicago, 20th 'Century Optiscope Co., 2 W. 14th st. New York. st., Calcium and Electric Light. OX-HYDROGEN GAS MANUFACTURERS. Brooklyn Calcium Light Co., 112 Front st, Brook- lyn, N. Y. Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Carrick Electric Mfg. Co., 218 N. Ashland ave., Chicago, HI. Cincinnati Calcium Light Co., 108 Fourth St., Cin- cinnati, Ohio. Coleman & Newton, 237 E. 41st st. New York. Erker Bros. Optical Co., 603 Olive st., St Louis, Mo. Globe Electric Co., 419 W. 42d St., New York. Wm. H. Havill, 88 S. State st, Chicago, IU. Indianapolis Calcium Light Co., 116 S. Capital ave., Indianapolis, lnd. New York Calcium Light Co., 410 Bleecker st. New York. New York Calcium Light Co., 309 S. 51st st, Philadelphia, Pa. Philadelphia Calcium Light Co., 621 Commerce St., Philadelphia, Pa. Pittsburg Calcium Light Co., 515 First ave., Pitts- burg, ±*a. St Louis Calcium Light Co., 516 Elm st, St Louis, Mo. Nelson Weeks, 217 William st. New York. Windhorst & Co., 104 N. 12th st, St Louis, Mo. Music Publishers who Issue Song Slides. Leo Feist, 134 W. 37th st. New York. Chas. K. Harris, 33 W. 31st st, New York. F. B. Haviland Publishing Co., 125 W. 37th st. New York. Helf & Hager, 43 W. 28th St.. New York. Melville Music Co., 55 W. 28th St., New York. Mills Music Publishing Co., 28 W. 29th St., New York. New York Music Publishing House, 1433 Broad- way, New York. Jerome K. Remick & Co., 45 W. 28th st. New York. Maurice Shapiro, Broadway and 39th st, New York. Joseph W. Stern Co., 102 W. 38th St., New York. Harry Von Tiller Co., 37 W. 28th st, New York. M. Witmark & Sons, Witmark Bldg.. 144-146 W. 37th st. New York. Condensors and Lensei. Kahn & Co., 194 Broadway, New York. C B. Kleine, 622-624 Sixth ave.. New York. Kleine Optical Co.. 52 State st. Chicago, 111. WANTED to buy one hundred sets of illustrated cht- song slides. State price ; Address, JONES, care of Moving Picture World. Pitts- 25 § for a four months trial subscription to the AMERICAN AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER AND CAMERA AND DARK ROOM wiiUaSs, Browne & Earie, 918 Chestnut st, PhOa- Monthly I5c. per copy $1.00 per Year adelphia. Pa. Song Slides. FOR ILLUSTRATED SONGS. Boswell Mfg. Co., 122 Randolph st., Chicago, I1L Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph st, Chi- cago, 111 ■' Chicago Song Slide Exchange, 225 Dearborn st, Chicago, 111. Chicago Transparency Co., 69 Dearborn st, Chi- cago, IH. Elite Lantern Slide. 207 W. 34th st, New York. Eugene Cline & Co., 59 Dvarborn st, Chicago. 111. Kleine Optical Co., 52 State st. Chicago; lit S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th St.. Philadelphia. Pa. . Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 37 Randolph St., Chi- cago, 111. Moore, Bond & Co., 104 Franklin 6t.. Chicago, Hl- Scott & Van Altena, 59 Pearl at. New York. Selis Polyscope Co.. 43 Peak court, Chtcsso, IH. Alfred Simpson, 257 W. 111th st. New York. Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin st, Chi- cago. 111. DeWitt C. Wheeler, 120 W. 35th St. New York. The best illustrated' and most instructive magazine published exclusively for Photo- graphers. Address : AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER 361 Broadway, New York TO DEALERS ONLY sing Lenses, 1Q<$ Broadway* CO. - New YorK 190 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. CONSOLIDATED FILM CO. OF NEW YORK #T We give individual atten- tion to customers' needs AH up-to-date films rented Supplies and operators always on hand :: :: :: CONSOLIDATED FILM CO. OF NEW YORK 143 East 23d Street :: New York City Kineto'scopes, Cameragraphs and Stereopficons C. B. KLEIHE, 662 Send fos* Cq£q5o£> IT. FILMS OF ALL MAKES lywrmms in supputs 664 Sistla Avenue ! The American KigE-ats and (patents of an English Acetylene Generator. 8 immense sales In Europe. APPLY OFFICE HUM PICTURE -WflRU The Kinematogi and Lantern Weekly (The Optical Lantern and Kinematograph Journal) Published Weekly E. T. HERON & CO., 9-1! Tottenham St., Tottenham Court Road, London, W, What's That Dissatisfied with your film service ? Trade falling away and patrons not pleased ! Well what's the use of worrying. " There's a remedy for every ill, " and our professional advice Is to give the people in your neighborhood a trial of T^ g, N. Y. FILM SERVIC You may be surprised to hear it, but it's a fact that your patrons axe mighty good judges of films. The best is none too good for them, and it's certainly up to you to give them what tney want. What we , can promise for our service is PROMPT DELIVERY, THE VERY LATEST AND BE8T FILMS, AND THAT YOUR INTERESTS WILL BE OURS. Let's get acquainted . Call on as now or write , giving fall particulars regarding amount of reels you use, number of changes desired, etc. It will be to your interest.. The Greater I FILM fiENTA 24 Union Square, 3£ew York OST complete workshop in optics, mechanics and electricity in the U. S. A. Special machinery or every- thing belonging to Chronbgraphic , Photo- graphy and their numerous appliances. Film perforating, printing, developing, coloring, slide making. Nickelodeon an- nouncement slides. Planing, milling, gear-cutting, electro- plating, lens grinding, and designing. 300,- 000 feet of choice film subjects to rent frem. . Manufacturer of the world's celebrated moving picture machine, "THE MIROR VIT/E," a masterpiece of optical and me- chanical workmanship; fire-proof, with 100 features above any apparatus in the world. German-American Cinematograph and Film Co. 109 E. 12th STREET. NEW YORK THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 191 ©i&uatione Wanted. Names, addresses and references of these operators are on e ui the office of the Moving Picture Would. No charge is ade for registration, and letters addressed to any one in our re will be forwarded. t. OPERATOR OR MANAGER, age 36, married; well rec- nmended; salary, $20.00; New York or Pennsylvania. 6. EXPERT ELECTRICIAN AND OPERATOR, 3 years' [perience; salary, $25.00; age 19; single; Central States. 11. OPERATOR, used to all machines, age 28, married, de- res' position ; salary, §25.00; New York and New Jersey. 12. OPERATOR with machine and stereopticon, age 24, ngie, 3 years' experience, prefers Canada, salary $18.00. 14. MANAGER, promoter and moving picture operator, wants ssition or partnership, has money to back up business. 15. YOUNG MAN, age 20, single, practical electrician, wishes Kition as operator, Edison or Power's machine; understands cy.-hyd. gas. Will travel, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jer- y and Ohio, or settle permanently around New York City. alary, traveling, $12.00 and all expenses, or $i6.oo-$i&oo per- ianal!. Proficient for vaudeville theater. j6. OPERATOR, 21, single, proficient in electrical work; ilary, $25.00. Central States preferred. 17. OPERATOR, age 40, married; has double stereopticon nd moving picture machine; capable, efficient, abstainer; salary, 55.00; any locality. ia ELECTRICIAN OPERATOR, well recommended; age 3, single; salary, $18.00; Wisconsin, Illinois or Michigan. 19. OPERATOR, all machines; age 24, married; salary, 20.00; Middle West States. 20. OPERATOR, well recommended ; age 20, married ; $25.00 ) $30.00 per week : uses all machines ; prefers the Middle States. 21. OPERATOR, 27, single, $20.00 and expenses. Makes as; Photographer, or Manager. Used to Edison and Powers facilities; 10 years' experience. 22. ELECTRICIAN, Operator, and Manager, age 32, mar- ied; salary $30.00 to $35.00. First-class references. Capable, irith 17 years' experience, of Powers, Edison, and Lubin Ma- hines. Total abstainer. 23. MANAGER, highest references, age 27, married; salary 35.00. West or East. 24. OPERATOR, Electrician, age 38, single; salary $25.00; 1 years' experience; has Powers Machine No. 5.; Any locality. 25. OPERATOR, age 24, single; salary $18.00. East 26. OPERATOR, Electrician, wiring and repairs; age 24; narried; salary $25.00. Powers and Edison Machines. East 27. SINGER, Illustrated Songs, age 25 ; single ; salary $25.00. rexas preferred. Can also operate Edison and Powers Ma- rines. 28. OPERATOR, age 22, single; salary $25.00. Used to Pow- ;rs and Edison Machines. Prefers New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, or will go to Jamestown for Summer. 29.. LECTURER, with good lectures, wishes to meet with 1 partner who has machines, eta, and a little capital, to go on our. 30. OPERATOR, 20, single; salary, $22.50; understands all nachincs ; will go to Jamestown or any locality. OPERATOR, age 23, single; three years' experience with jdison and Powers machines; also as manager of nickelodeon. ^rmancnt position desired, or on the road; salary not less than >i8.oo. Address, J. E. Lindsay, 76 Hague street, Rochester, N. Y. EXPERIENCED OPERATOR at liberty after June 8; n road or locate; three years with Lyman H. Howe; age 26; trictly sober. Address, F. A. Moore, 102 Bridge street, Ash- labula. Ohio. ■ This column is free to Operators 'ho need situations* -We have Hted others* Why not you ? 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