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Vol. XIX, No. 9,
just returned from a four months' trip to Australia, will succeed Mr. Shapiro. He formerly was Cleveland manager for the General Film Company.
Sunday shows in Michigan are illegal.
An official opinion to this effect has been handed down by Attorney General Groesbeck.
Mr. Groesbeck says Sunday shows are in violation of the state constitution and no city has the authority to enact ordi
nances to the contrary, even though the city may have home rule. The ruling was given as a result of agitation for Sunday shows in the town of Holland.
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It is announced at Washington that distributors shipping films out of New York by boat must submit all pictures to custom house officials at least seventy-two hours before their scheduled departure. The new order also applies to mechanical devices, including cameras.
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Harry Chandlee, editor of the Paralta eastern scenario department, was married recently to Miss Edith Creel Spoffard at Washington, D. C. The couple are at home now in New York.
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Edward J. Bauman, special representative of McMahan & Jackson, Cincinnati, has returned from a successful trip through Kentucky booking William S. Hart productions.
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The Titan Film Corporation of Spokane, according to announcement by J. Don Alexander, the president, has acquired a studio site covering 70 acres near Spokane.
Charles C. Burr, who has just been appointed assistant general manager of the distributing department of the Famous Players— Lasky Corporation.
Realism with a Vengeance
Montgomery and Rock, comedians in Vitagraph Big V. comedies, have been in bad for months with everybody in authority within a radius of twenty miles of Los Angeles, and now they are on the blacklist of the Southern Pacific.
They decided to add a few frills to a scene in "Tramps and Traitors," where the action calls for a couple of hoboes to roll down an embankment in front of an on-rushing passenger train just to show how near they could come to getting run over.
An ordinary train wasn't good enough, so they chose to work with an Overland Limited at a curve where it slows down to something like forty miles an hour. Down the embankment they bumped and square on the rails. The engineer didn't wait to see them keep on rolling, nor did he see the camera, Director J. A. Howe, or anybody else. He jammed on the emergency brakes and brought his twelve-coach train to a stop with a jerk that upset all the passengers and brought the conductor to the scene on the run. Explanations helped, but the conductor and the engineer thought it would have been only fair to have tipped them off to save wear and tecr of nerves and brake shoes. Mr. Howe said, however, that had the engineer known such a stunt was to have been pulled off, he would have slowed down a bit and thus much of the thrill would have been lost.