The Moving Picture World (May 1907)

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.