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A friend from the Far West writes me as follows :
"I notice in the Musings of the Photoplay Philosopher that he says that no satisfactory arrangement had been made as to boxes and higher scale of prices at Photoplay theaters, and I want to put him right as to this fact. Here in Portland, we have two picture theaters where there are boxes : The Majestic, showing independent pictures and seating twelve hundred people, and The People's, showing licensed films seating fourteen hundred people.
"These two houses have both been opened during the past few months and were built to be used exclusively for Motion Pictures and high-class singing and musical acts. They each have a large pipe organ, besides a piano and drum and various devices for producing effects during the action of the picture on the screen. The acoustic property of both houses is perfect and they have every modern convenience.
"The boxes, about twelve in number, each seating six people, are situated in the front rows of the balcony and have a separate entrance and stairway leading to the lobby. They are fitted with comfortable chairs, and are partitioned off somewhat similar to the loges in other theaters, there being a narrow aisle between the first row of ten-cent seats and the boxes. These box seats are sold at twenty-five cents each, and boxes may be 'phoned for and 'reserved at any time of the day for a certain hour. The price of all the other seats in both houses is ten cents. Each house changes its program Sundays and Wednesdays, and we get four 1000-foot reels at each change."
For all of which I am duly thankful; but the paragraph to which our friend takes exception referred to the one-floor theaters in and about New York City. We are far behind the West and the South, and we must admit that Portland can give us cards and spades.
Man has tamed, subdued and conquered the animals, the elements and the world; woman has done more — she has tamed, subdued and conquered man.
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I am informed that Will Carleton, the celebrated poet, is engaged in reducing some of his poems to scenario form. This is good news, for, who would not love to see the characters in "Betsy and I are Out," and "Over the Hills to the Poorhouse," and other familiar persons move, as we once tried to imagine we saw them, when we read those popular ballads years ago? I hope that each film will begin by showing a Motion Picture of Mr. Carleton as he is today ; because, in years to come, when the name of Will Carleton is but a memory, as those of Longfellow, Emerson, and Whittier are now, our children may know just how he was in real life.
There is one little word which accounts for all human sympathy, which is the explanation of all martyrdom, which is the definition of every good work, and which is the master of all human emotions ; that word is LOVE.
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