Moving Picture News (Jul-Oct 1913)

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THE MOVING PICTURE NEAVS 9 WILLIAM LORD WRIGHT'S PAGE 111 our mail yesterday was an invitation to tour Europe this winter for $800 a tour. We can make several tours this winter at five cents a tour — at the moving picture theatre. * * * * Young men who take young women canoeing in the moving pictures, should hug the shore exclusively. ^ * * * Even the most entertaining features go unappreciated when the pictureplay fan is breaking in a new union suit. * * V * It may be said of our investigating bodies and criminal court attaches that they can face the heavy firing of the moving picture camera squads without flinching. An educational film teaching the correct method of gathering edible fall mushrooms would seem almost indispensable in this day and age. * * * * It cost a moving picture company $35,000 to wreck two trains for a central feature of a film drama. Now, why wouldn't it make a good picture to dynamite some skyscraper? * + * * A New York burglar wrote a poem and gained a pardon, but some pictureplays written and produced will never be pardoned. * * * * If moving pictures continue to gain in popularity, within ten years some editor will be asking what has become of the old-fashioned town that used to have a stock company every fair week? An investigation . reveals the fact that there is enough coal to last 8,071 years. Consequently one need not worry about keeping warm in the moving picture show. In view of all the jobs the writers are getting under the Wilson administration, it is feared the supply will not meet the demand unless a few pictureplaywrights are pressed into patriotic service. ^ ^ Virginia reels were once very popular. ^ ^ ^ ^ Even Bufifalo Bill's Wild West succumbed to moving pictures. + * * + Slit trousers promise to be quite fashionable but we hope to crusade strong enough to bar them from the picture screen along with the hat with the bow in the back. ^ ^ ^ ^ New York has a novelty in open air moving picture shows and makes them pay. Here's another vacant field for the municipal ownership faddist. * * * * We have our hours of misgiving when we feel certain that the dear old friend who casually drops in to assure us that we have the best page in the country is going to borrow $3 this time instead of a half dollar. * * * * We don't suppose that Secretary Bryan could spend even a half hour at some moving picture theatre without prompting someone to accuse him of neglecting his official duties. * * * * Our idea of what constitutes real riches is to be able to take the whole family on a tour of the picture shows two evenings a week. * * * * A splendid moving picture of the Balkan war could be shown by running the film half way and then reversing it. * * * * "Laughter lifts the lid from our imprisoned sorrows," says Lillian Russell. But the trouble is a person doesn't know where to laugh during the course of certain moving picture comedy. * * * * Some things never change. The young doctor acquires side whiskers and the honest young hero in the moving picture play always has his shirt open^ at the throat. The Monday morning newspaper would no longer have a monopoly of automobile accident stories if the wise father would only take the family to moving picture theatres the day previously. * * * * Chicago mail order houses are sending out 9,000 tons of catalogues, which is a few hundred in excess of film company house organ sheets up to date. ^ ^ * "Evangeline" and "Rob Roy" are announced by Broadway managers after feature film companies had given notice they would dramatize the productions. Register another advance step for the moving picture. In the past the theatrical managers were first with announcements. Why has Jawn L. Sullivan been permitted to pass unnoticed by moving picture men? He could be depended upon to make an unqualified hit. Governor Cox, of Ohio, asserts that moving pictures of the adventures of Harry K. Thaw will not be permitted to be shown in the Buckeye State. Governor Cox shows judgment and good sense in that statement and we advise other Governors to follow in his footsteps. ^ * * * Relics of the past: Dr. Cook's wreath of roses and chase scenes in Wild Western picture plays. * * * * Verily, a precarious time is predicted for those geniuses who have been raking in the festive dollar by advertising fake correspondence school courses for pictureplay writers. The dictagraph will get 'em if they don't watch out! ^ ^ ^ With all the celebrities real and near being exploited in moving pictures we are at a loss to understand why Lydia E. Pinkham continues conspicuous by her absence from the center of the screen, * * * * Julian Hawthorne, released recently, is devoting himself to writing about prison improvements. So long as he refrains from writing pictureplays, we shall enter no objection. * * * * Captain Leslie T. Peacocke, well-known pictureplaywright, is in the swim. He has successfully floated a comic opera starring Annette Kellerman. Several "dives" are realistically shown in the action, although the book is anything but sensational. He * H: * Our memory reverts back to the time when Colonel Roosevelt could never have gone out to call on the Hopi Indians without having two or three enterprising concerns bidding for the moving picture rights. * * * * We have a deep, dark suspicion — it is only a suspicion mind you, but it is worthy of earnest investigation — to the effect that Elbert Hubbard is about to write a moving picture play and revolutionize the art. * * * * A fatal railroad wreck in Iowa the other day was caused by a bull. Which leads us to reflect that the same cause has wrecked innumerable pictureplay productions. * * * * Among those little things most noticeable in the pictureplay is, that every time a fierce altercation occurs in the dear old cottage between father and son, there is always an embroidered motto on the wall: "God Bless Our Home."