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December, 1911.
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Essanay Pictures for the Holidays
By Franklin Pierce
CHRISTMAS is close upon us. One cannot go into a store, or walk down the street, or even stay at home without being reminded of that fact. Christmas greetings are in the air, Christmas presents are in the windows, and Christmas films will soon be everywhere upon the screens.
The Essanay people are evidently firm believers in Christmas, for they have devoted particular attention to their' holiday pictures, each scene of which clearly reveals the care which has been taken in its production. They are presenting a varied holiday program, consisting of the second of the children's pantomime series, besides two Christmas stories and a New Year's comedy.
The fairy tale is a very pretty presentation of "The Three Bears," one of childhood's favorite stories. It relates how little Goldilocks drops asleep and dreams a very strange dream. It will be remembered that the Big Bear, the Middling-Sized Bear and the Teeny Tiny Bear leave their porridge to cool and go for a walk. Little Goldilocks wanders through the woods, espies their cottage and enters. Delighted by its quaintness she looks about the room, finds the porridge and samples each bowl, finally eating all of the Teeny Tiny Bear's breakfast. Then, feeling sleepy,
she goes into the adjoining room, where she curls up in the Teeny Tiny Bear's bed and sleeps until the bears return. Goldilocks is discovered, chased out of the house and pursued by the bears, but luckily before the bears catch her she wakes up to find it was only a dream.
The first of the Christmas stories, "A Goodfellow's Christmas Eve," released Friday, December 15, is an excellent production. This picture was made last January to be released this Christmas, but part of the old negative was damaged, so the picture was retaken in its entirety. The result is most pleasing.
. The story centers around a grouchy old bachelor, who, it seems, had had an unsuccessful love affair during his youth and time had never healed the wound. It is New Year's Eve. A number of the clubmen, loaded down with baskets of good things, are going out to visit the poor of the city. Grouch is invited to join them, but he waves them aside and tells them he will have none of such foolishness. However, he falls asleep, and in his dreams he re-lives an old time Christmas when he was a boy. The dream awakens in him a desire to share in the cheery spirit of the Yuletide and he leaves the club to find his cronies, now on their charitable mission. He finds them together stooping
The Reformation of Old Grouch.