The Moving Picture World (April 1907)

120 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. Lawyer David Cohn appeared for the remonstrants and explained that a number of merchants were greatly annoyed by the noise, and on asking that it be abated the manager had ignored the request. He went further and stated that he had been informed that the manager had pooh-hooed the idea of the phonograph being shut off, claiming the aldermen would take care of him. When Lawyer Cohn made the remark regarding the aldermen it aroused the ire of Alderman Downey and he asked to know to whom the remark had been addressed. This sort of testimony was barred out and the hearing proceeded on different lines. M. L. Rogowski, millinery dealer, said the rasping music, ground out for hours at a time, annoyed his mil- liners until they became nervous. Dentist Van Riper allowed he was fond of music, but when it floated out on the.air hour after hour when he was working at his profession, it made him weary of even such popular airs as "Arrah Wanna." Alderman Downey said he had made an investigation and on learning that it was a nuisance it was on motion of Alderman Daly decided to stop the barker or else sub- mit to his license being revoked. * * * The Coliseum at Waukesha, Wis.", is rechristened the Bijou and opened last week as a vaudeville theatre with a strong bill of European and American acts, illustrated songs and moving pictures by the vitagraph. A change of bill will be made twice a week. _ - * * * Immoral pictures are under the ban at Walsh's Dream- land Moving Picture Theatre, on Sixth street, East Liv- erpool, O., and the management announces an attraction that will be of far more public benefit than would scenes of the Thaw tragedy. To-day begins the production at Walsh's of the most magnificent of all picture subjects, "The New Life of Christ" This film is 3,114 feet long and requires over an hour to show it The film is filled in with colors by hand, and is en- tirely different from anything in pictures ever shown the people of East Liverpool. No man, woman or child should miss seeing this wonderful depicting of the'life of Christ Owing to the enormous cost, the management at the Dreamland is compelled to charge ten cents admission. Special arrangements have been made to seat as many people as possible at the opening performance. The thea- tre reopens at 10 o'clock the following morning, and exhibitions will continue throughout the day at frequent intervals in order that every man, woman and child may see "The New Life of Christ" at Dreamland. * * * The North Hudson Amusement Company, of Union Town, N. J., is a novelty in corporations, being organ- ized and incorporated for but one special event Al- though the event will be in the nature of a midsummer carnival, to be held at Schuetzen Park, it will be an appeal for charity solely. The purpose of the carnival will be to raise funds for the building of the new h'orth Hudson Hospital, the present institution having been found too small to meet the exigencies of the growing population. The forthcoming carnival will comprise every species of entertainment, from the modern circus to the special act in moving pictures that makes vaudeville appreciated. The officers of the North Hudson Amusement Com- pany are L. A. Menegaux, president; G. H. Duck, vice- president; J. H. Lachman, secretary, and John S. Dar- ling, treasurer. P. J. Casey, who has been engaged to supply the various attractions, figures that the carnival will cost at least $12,000. * * * From Parkersburg, W. Va., we learn that J. C. Har- ner and A. Blackburn, who conduct five-cent shows on Markif and Fourth streets, respectively, were served with warrants from the court of 'Squire Thomas charging them with conducting their places of business without having first obtained a county license. The complaints against the men were made by the prosecuting attorney at the instance of the county clerk. They arranged a bond for their appearance before the justice for a hear- ing. They may arrange to pay the costs and take out a license, thereby settling the. matter. * * * There is no diminishing in the big crowds that go to the Nickel Theatre in Providence, R. I.; on the contrary, the fact that the entertainments of motion pictures and illustrated songs offered there are so thoroughly clean and wholesome, and the pictures are always brand new, makes a steady increase in the regular clientele of that theatre and many people go there twice a week to see every change of motion pictures. * * * Notice. —1. To constitute gambling in the statutory term it is not necessary that both parties should stand to lose as well as to. win by the chance invoked. It is enough.that one party stands to win only or to lose only. 2. A slot machine so operated that the operator put- ting into it a nickel coin receives in any event a cigar of the value of his coin, and also stands to win by chance additional cigars without further payment is a gambling device. 3. A cigar store where such a machine is set up for the use of customers and is used by them, becomes here- by a statutory nuisance and may be enjoined as such. The above decision of Chief Justice Emery relating to gambling machines is published for the information and as a warning to those who may have such machines in their possession. Arthur L. Holmes, City Marshal. Waterville, Me., April 11, 1907. [We clip the above from the Waterville Sentinel and would like to see it enforced in every city where gam- bling devices are in existence.— Ed.]