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MOTION PICTURE COMMISSION. 179 Mr. Brylawski. The colored population purchases pictures when they are pretty old; they can not aiford others; their clientele is very small and the only pictures that they desire are the same pictures that we have shown down town. Besides, they can not get any others. Mr. Towner. You think you are entirely justified, then, in the statement that these outlyino- theaters—I do not only refer to the colored population, but I mean the others Mr. Brylawski (interposing). Yes; you mean tlie suburban thea- ters. Mr. Towner. Out in Georgetown, and in the outlying districts. ]\Ir. Bryla>\ski. Tliey could not afford to buy any new pictures; they can only afford to buy pictures tliat have been used GO days or 90 days, and those pictures that have been exhibited 60 days or 90 days have been exhibited down town and in city after city before these other places can afford to get tliem. They can not afford to pay the price for pictures other than those that are GO days or 90 days old, they paying only a nominal sum for them. Mr. Towner. Then, it may be said, that there are certain exhibi- tion houses in the city that receive the initial representations, and that all the others, as given in the other exhibition houses, are merely reproductions ? Mr. Brylawski. Yes, sir; there are at the present time, as I have stated, some feature pictures, and if you gentlemen know the char- acter of the men who are connected with these feature pictures it is sufficient evidence of their purity—Mr. David Belasco, Frohman, Klaw & Erlanger, Liebler & Co., and others. These people are creat- ing pictures which they can not afford to show in a 5 or 10 cent house; they must get 25 cents, 50 cents, or 75 cents. They are pic- tures of the highest character—Quo Vadis, Anthony and Cleopatra, the Savage and the Tiger, the Christian, the Eedemption of David Corson, and pictures of that character. They are never seen in the small theaters because they can not afford it. But these manufac- tures—this 2 per cent. 3 per cent, or 4 per cent—are feature filni makers who depend upon the highest class ■ of trade for their patronage. Mr, Towner. Have you put in the record the names of those s6ven theaters? ]Mr. Brylawski. No; I have not. Mr. Tow^ner. Will you please give them to tlie reporter? Mr. Brylawski. I shall be very glad to do so. Mr. Toavner. Will you name them now? IVIr. Brylawski. The Colonial Theater, the Pickwick, the Palace, the Empress, the Plaza, the Garden, the Orpheum, and the Crandall. You asked for all the theaters, did you not? Mr. Towner. Yes; all. Mr. Brylawski. That showed all the new pictures? Mr. Towner. All the seven theaters. Mr. Brylawski. That is what I understood you to ask. INIr. ToA\NER. In Avhich these pictures Mr. Brylawski (interposing). In which the first pictures are shoAvn: those that show the first reels in the city of Washington. I understood you to ask for the seven and I gave all of those seven.