The Moving Picture World (1907)

704 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. seen 4he Merry Widow ? No? Can't goft seats? ■What would you say if you Siad. it for your NicReSodeon ? Can't be done? Exclusive rights? GUESS AGAEK. The Kalem Company bas a i.ooo ft. production, done by the original Viennese Cast as follows: . Die Lustige HSitwe* (THE MERRY WIDOW) Operetta in three acts by Victor Leon and Leo Stein. Music by Franz Lehar. CAST OP CHARACTERS: Baron Mlrfco Zeta, pontevedrlnlscher Oesaodter In Paris. .Cart riant bey Valcnclenne, seine Qemablln .... Charlotte D'AvIa Oral Oanilo Danilov/Hscb, aesandtschofta-Sekretaer, Mary Lance Donia, elae iunze Witwe . . . . . . Nelly Morean Camilla de Rcolllon .• , \ flax Ketaer Vicocite Cascade < Franzoaiacbe Cavallere > Otto Boedecfcer Raoul de St. Brioche ' ' Willy Scboellcr Kromow, pontevedrlnlscher Consul . . Tbeodor Wlttelo Olga, seine OeraahPn, . . . . . nslfos rtarsit Njegus, OesaadtacbaJts-Kanillst bei Zeta . • Karl Schroder Accompanying the film will be a complete musical score synchronized with the pictures. Remember! this is the first time such a feat has ever been attempted in moving pictures—the reigning success of the country, the grand New York production about which everyone is talking—condensed into a version which can be' put on by any house using a pianist and a.singer. No extra charge for this big attraction. Every Rental Bureau will have a dozen copies or more. GET ST FSRST! in law because contrary to section 263, of the Penal Code, it attempts to legalize labor and business, on Sunday, which is unnecessary and not a work of charity. If the ordinance passes, New York City will have a good many more blue Sundays, because we shall probably cause an injunction to be served upoj, the police to restrain them from obeying the law until its con- stitutionality has been settled, and that usually takes some time When its unconstitutionality has been declared by the courts, then my plan for a liberal Sunday would be adopted, for it grants all in the way of concerts and lectures and recitations that Mr. Doull's ordinance permits, using almost the same lan- guage, but forbids effectively unnecessary business, immorality and compulsory labor, and provides a commission to interpret the law instead of leaving it to the managers of the theaters and the moving picture shows or to the police. If Mr. Damrosch wants to open his symphony concerts, his only sure way will be to help secure the passage of my proposition, for it permits such concerts and is constitutional. "About the only objection that is made to the Concert Com-, mission is that it will reduce the attendance at Coney Island Does not everyone want the' immorality at Coney wiped out at least on Sundays? The worst result of Alderman Doull's ordi- nance would be the opening of the vast number of moving-pict- ure shows on Sunday throughout the city on the ground that 1 indoor entertainments are permitted by his ordinance and that Section 26s of the Penal Code, which forbids public shows, was meant to forbid only outdoor shows. This is, of course, con- trary to decisions of Judges Aspinall, Maddox and Kelly, but they would probably be able to persuade some one Supreme Court Judge like Judge Marean to decide with them and thus obtain permission from the police to open and continue business for a while. These iniquitous moving-picture shows are drawing the children from the Sunday Schools and ruining them. "We are relying upon all patriotic citizens who want decent concerts on Sunday to let their Alderman and the President of the Board of Aldermen know what they think about this matter before next Tuesday afternoon. We -want to save the day from business greed and compulsory labor. In this battle, graft is arrayed against godliness. Graft has able, legal, cunning and astute politicians in its employ, but the laboring people and the general public is not so easily deceived as in former years." * * * Mayor McClellan signed the Doull Sunday amusement ordi- nance, and as it takes effect immediately it and the Penal Code will govern the conditions under which entertainments may be held in the city on Sunday. Mayor McClellan had ten dav-5 in which to act on the bill, but he said that he had signed it promptly because public sentiment seemed to favor such an amendment to the existing law and because he could see no. good reason for delay. He had not deemed it necessary to~ hold a public meeting before signing the measure ■ for the reason that all the arguments for and against it had been fully threshed out in the hearing held by the Aldermen and in the debates of the board. The Mayor signed the ordinance after receiving this opinion from Corporation Counsel Pendleton: "I am in receipt of your request for an opinion as to whether the ordinance adopted by the Board of Aldermen at its last meeting, commonly called the Sunday ordinance, contravenes the provisions of the Criminal Code of the State. In reply I beg to say that in my opinion it does not. The ordinance in question allows on Sunday 'sacred or educational, vocal # or instrumental .concerts, lectures, addresses, recitations and singing, provided that such above mentioned entertainments shalLbe given in such a manner as not to disturb the public peace of an:ount to a se- rious interruption of the repose and religious liberty of the community.' These matters properly construed are not, in ray opinion, prohibited by the sections of the Penal Code in question." As soon as the theatrical managers learned that Mayor Mc- Clellan had signed the ordinance they started in to arrange their programmes for Sunday night. All said that they would comply with the law in every respect and would not attempt to put on any act that would conflict in the slightest degree with the ordi- nance. t .. m Moving pictures. of the Passion Play at Oberammergau will be given Sunday afternoon and evening at the Fifth Avenue Theater. N r, sue. EW VMK CITV 131 W, 24tfe STREET (Telephone 48i3 Madison) Selling Agent, Kleine Optical Co., 52 State St., Chicago London Agents: Urban Trading Co., 42 Rupert Street •■■;•«•- ^xm Nmm tmsm&i: -.-y,- .■■.',.::■-■ r,,?.. Brooklyn, N. Y. Despite the fact that an injunction had been obtained prevent- ing the police from interfering with the moving picture, places of Brill & Fox at S5q and 893 Broadway, Captain Wormell and his detectives, Behlen and Maxwell, went to the' amusement places with warrants yesterday afternoon and placed under ar- rest five of the employees, including a woman. No resistance