The Moving Picture World (1907)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 667 So far the moving picture show business upon this Coast has not felt the effect of the money scarcity and general business depression, and new moving picture houses are continually open- ing in the larger towns. * * * "The management of the Wonderland, 711 Canal street, re- quests the presence of the Editor of the Moving Picture World at the special performance of the original Passion Play given for the benefit of the public school teachers of New Orleans on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, December 11 and 12, 1907; ».he first performance beginning at 7 o'clock, the second at 8 o'clock and the last performance at 9 o'clock. Prof. Wm. F. Wood, of Chicago, will lecture at each performance. This card idmits three persons." [We thank the management for the above invitation, but dis- tance is too great for us to attend. We commend the idea to others.— Ed.] * * * I. W. Ullman, of the Consolidated Film Rental Company, who import the celebrated Italian Cines films, is on his way to Europe. It is his intention to open branches in London and Paris. This augurs well for the future prosperity of the firm. * * * Alfred Weiss has removed his film renting business from Third avenue to 219 Sixth avenue, New York. While one of the youngest firms, Mr. Weiss is old in experience, having been for the past fourteen years one of the few jobbers commissioned to carry the Edison Phonograph. The experience gained in handling records and the methods adopted he. is using to carry on the film renting. He intends to conduct his business on the system of a one-price line, so that all customers will be treated alike. Asso- ciated with bim in the business is Mr. L. M. Smith, one of the old-time veterans and who,has grown up with the profession, who is acting as general manager. « « * THE SUNDAY SITUATION IN NEW YORK. Thirty-five managers, representing practically all the theaters, the opera houses and other places of entertainment in New York, decided at a meeting at the Hotel Astor to unite in giving New York an absolutely closed Sunday. There will be neither vaude- ville, orchestra, operatic concerts nor any other entertainment of any description given on a stage. This decision was reached a few hours after Commissioner Bingham had given to the reporters his general order directing the force to shut up the amusement places. The Commissioner said that Judge O'Gorman's order barred practically everything in the nature of a Sunday performance, from a moving picture show at the Y. M. C. A. to a symphony concert at Carnegie Hall. He thought that private entertainments such as are given by the Liederkranz on Sunday nights would come within the scope of the ruling made by Judge O'Gorman. It is understood, however, that no attempt will be made to prohibit music in the hotels or restaurants. These are regarded as clearly outside the lawl * * * Police Commissioner Bingham December 7 issued orders which, if executed, will make to-morrow as blue a Sunday as any of the days in "ye olde New England tymel" "No public entertainment of any land, class or quality is to be permitted!" That is the order. 1 • And the Commissioner explained to the nineteen inspectors of police that "public entertainment meant anything which enter- tains the public." Even Professor Felix Adler's little concert before his sermon to-morrow must be squelched by the police. It is classed as a public entertainment, under the ruling early in the week of Justice O'Gorman, in the Supreme Court. ^ " : It has been the custom of the Educational Alliance to give a harmless little entertainment Sunday afternoons, at which" one or more soloists appear. The police are instructed to prevent that concert. All roller skating rinks are to be suppressed to-morrow. All dances must be stopped, and that will affect about 700 dance halls on the East Side alone where every Sunday the residents make merry. All the moving picture shows must stop; no singing in beer gardens, no benefit performances, and the Settlement Workers will be arrested if they attempt to entertain the poor people of their community. Commissioner Bingham called all of the nineteen inspectors before him to give them his interpretation of Justice O'Gorman's decision, and the result was that he read to them an eighteen- hundred-word order to suppress every form of public entertain- ment "The ruling is perfectly plain," he said; "there can be no equivocation. It covers every form of public entertainment of —~ ■—^gS- BWPfflfff NEW CONCERN AND A NEW SYSTEM of serving our customers with the latest films at the right price. We carry everything as made in films, and furnish beautiful colored signs with each subject. A complete stock of Powers and Edison's machines always on hand. 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