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THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
there was no other music. It was an exceedingly artistic performance.
The English Motion Picture shows are characteristic. Since no true British man, woman or child can enjoy him or herself thoroly without a cheering cup of that national necessity, tea, the Motion Picture theaters bear placards over the door, "Afternoon tea served free during the performance from three to five. " It is a pleasant sight to see the: round-faced ushers distributing trays of this steaming liquid, while hair-breadth escapes, hold-ups and frenzied lovemaking go on unnoticed upon the screen. In war, in peace, in love the Englishman must have his tea. It is fortunate for the pocketbooks of American owners of Moving Picture shows that the Boston tea-party lessened our inherited thirst, for it must be a large added expense to furnish unlimited cups of even very weak tea every afternoon.
When we arrived in London the British enthusiasm over their recent king-making was still echoing in the Pageant of Empire at the Crystal Palace, and in the Kinemacolorgraph
— the Motion Pictures of the coronation colored to life by a new process. We had not been a part of that frenzied horde of curious tourists that flocked to England in June, but our second-hand peep at the coronation, on the screen, gave us probably a better— certainly a cooler — idea of the royal ! ' show. ' ' Taken off their guard by the malicious camera, the dukes and lords appeared in delightfully unconventional postures, and their heavy velvet robes looked realistic in color and warmth.
European audiences go to the Moving Picture shows to see the pictures, not to use them as an excuse for conversation. No whispered receipts for gingerbread or lemon pudding interrupt the dark grandeur of the Milan pictures of Dante's Inferno; no confidences about Harry or Charlie mingle with "The Indian's Sacrifice." They give the pictures the same respectful attention that they would a regular theatrical performance, and the result lifts the audience to the artistic level of the pictures themselves. "American papers please copy!"
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