The Moving Picture World (1907)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 687 the printing, publishing, writing as well as exhibiting pictures or stories of crime. The decision will serve as a guide for the police in future prosecutions. The pictures shown at the Lyric portrayed events not a whit more harrowing than those shown in "Salomy Jane" at the Opera House a. few week* ago. The film is entitled "A Race for * Millions." The hero, who has staked a gold claim, is shot; the heroine is held captive by the villain, who seeks to steal the hero's rich findings. But the hero gets free and kills the villain. The hero and heroine are reunited. Everyone is happy save the villain, and he doesn't know the difference by this time. The pictures at the American showed a country constable trying to capture two burglars. He recovers the goods and is himself arrested by the police mistaking him for the burglars. Everything comes right in the end.— The Cleveland News. Coz»2 , ©sp©iia(^©2ace. It Pays To Advertise. Dayton, Ohio, December 14, 1907. Editor Moving Picture World: Dear Sir—In one of your July issues of The Moving Picture World I inserted a one-sixteenth of a page 'ad," for which I paid you $3.25, advertising my Pathe "assion Play film for rent. Immediately after I received inquiries from your subscribers and since the "ad" ap- teared I received some fifty or sixty letters, and to date his one $3.25 "ad" has gotten business for me to the mount of $378.00 for film rental. This amount is iirectly traceable to the "ad" in your valuable paper. That your paper is treasured and stored.away for ref- rence can be verified by the fact that only yesterday 1 eceived another inquiry from a party in Georgia, asking ae about my Passion Play film/ which he said he saw ad- ertised in a July Moving Picture World. After the one "ad" appeared I was. kept busy answer- g letters and found it unnecessary to repeat it since. That your paper is a valuable asset to any one inter- sted in the moving picture industry, whether it be manu- cturer, renter or exhibitor, there can be no doubt. Should you care to make use of any part or all of this letter you have my permission to do so. Thanking you * or favprs of the past and wishing you all success, I re- ain. Yours very truly, C. J. Kilian. * * * Coincidence. Boston, December if, 1907. iiior Moving Picture World: •_.,-.. Dear Sir—Do you care to state which is the originator of the ibject "Laughing Gas" and which the copier—Edison or the itagraph? I recommended one to a prominent vaudeville [Use, and they- received the other,' which contained certain ings which they cut out. I did not suppose either house would guilty of such a practice. Yours truly, « John H. Thurston. [Jhe answer to the above letter as given to us by both the i|dison and Vitagraph companies is that it is one of those am- is coincidences that sometimes happen in life. The films are tirely different in subject and staging—only the name is simi- r - We trust this explanation will prove satisfactory to the ven correspondents whose letters are similar to above.— Ed.] * * * Operators* Union. Harrisburg, Pa., December 5, 1907. iior Moving Picture World: Should this reach you, approved by the Moving Picture Op- "tors' Union, No. 12370, of Philadelphia, Pa., I would be ed to see it in print in the near.future. It is called forth f the article of Mr. Raymond Harvey in November 23 issue, Wowed by your article in November 30 issue, entitled: "The Pernors' Association." While reading it, I was struck with * total absence of any reference to the Philadelphia union, but p this might not have stirred me up, had I not then received EW FILMS AND A NEW SYSTE 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. Send for Our Illustrated Catalogue. ALFRED WEISS FILM EXCHANGE. 219 SIXTH AVE., bet. 14th & 15th Sts., N. Y. Telephone, S191 Chelsea ,,*i>ov..-*fa.,.^,»i». « r .«iessawr*»ft-"-"» "■-' , ' "IT , A dramatic reproduction of the story that never grows old presented with the most careful attention to detail in scen- ery, costumes and cast. A triumph of Moving Picture Art and something entirely new. We can furnish lithographs of any required size, also books of the play. Send orders at once. Film ready for delivery December nineteenth. Length, about 1025 feet Code Word, Orphans Also ready for Immediate delivery, the new comedy film BURGLAR AND OLD MAIDS Length, 440 feet Code Word, Amaid The new dramatic subject THE EVICTION is an overwhelming success, photographically beyond praise; a new era in American film. Length, 585 feet THE SELI6 POLYSCOPE CO. (incorporated) 43-45 PecM Court, CHICAGO, ILL. imw^-^-^z&iz