Moving Picture World (Jan-Jun 1909)

240 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD Let Our Motto be Yours: The Best not the Cheapest Send 50 cents and 4 cents postage for sample of our latest annoucement slides. Write for same. Advertising Slides Made To Order. OHIO TRANSPARENCY CO. 407 Superior Building, CLEVELAND, OHIO MEET US AT THE SECOND ANNUAL BALL or THE Miles Bros. Employees AT WEBSTER HALL llth Street Bet. 3d and 4th Avos. Wednesday Eve., Mar. 10, '09 8.30 P. M. TIPHITTI! ADMITTING GZf*% ^T*C * *^ ** t»*» GENTLEMAN AND LADY D ** ***»• Wonderland Film Exchange 1308 09-10-11-12 Keenan Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. Licensed under the Motion Picture Patents Company Handling the entire product of the Biograph, Edison, Selig, Pathe, Vitagraph, Kalem, Essanay, Lubin, Gauraont and Urban. EIGHTEEN brand new reels of different srbjects every week. Try our quality service and write us how many jeels you use and we will quote you prices. FIRST RUN CUSTOriERS SUPPLIED Morton Film Exchange (Incorporated) S. MORTON COHN, Pres. PORTLAND, ORE. High=Class Film Service LICENSEES MOTION PICTURE PATENTS COMPANY Parties desiring first-class service write us The Capture of Raffles by Sherlock Holmes and arranges a dummy at the window. At a given moment, Billy pulls up the blinds and Raffles, who had been watching for a good opportunity, takes up his gun and shoots. He hits the dummy, but great is his surprise when leaving the window, to find himself face to face with Sherlock Holmes in flesh. As Raffles turns to run away, he is caught by two officers. If you have seen "Sherlock Holmes I.," you know that for excellence of photography, the Great Northern Film Company cannot be excelled, you know that the acting is practically what you would expect to see at the famous "Comedie Francaise" of Paris, and you know that the manufacturers of this film pay the greatest attention to all the details and are unsurpassed in their staging. "Sherlock Holmes II." is a? much a masterpiece as its predecessor, and "Sherlock Holmes III." promises to hold the same rank. In "Sherlock Holmes II." you will find the same quiet, cool and possessed detective, his clever errand boy Billy, and the other performers in their well studied characters. VAUDEVILLE. One or two acts stand out as remarkably good, and there are several which were above the dead level of mediocrity, but the bulk were too cheap to be allowed in a motion picture place. The writer can not see that the vaudeville sketches add anything to the attractiveness of the motion picture shows and it would seem good policy to cut out this expense and invest it in better films and more of them. One would think to see some of the acts that the managers of the theaters are running charitable institutions. One cannot see any other reason for keeping on some of the acts which have been seen during the past two weeks. A manager can scarcely be expected to make money enough in these days of sharp competition to put on all of the best acts. They cost too much. He might quite as well cut them all out and save that much money to be used in improving other departments. THE LECTURES. During the week some fair lectures have been offered, though in this respect there is more need of changing the lecturers than the lectures. Some of them know nothing about lecturing and others have only begun to learn the rudiments, consequently a good deal must be borne from them. Again it is fortunate the audience at motion picture shows are good natured and really want to see motion pictures, otherwise there might be sudden vacancies in the lecturing department. The Philadelphia Projecting Co. has been incorporated to acquire the film rental business of Williams, Brown & Earle The concern starts business in N. Ninth street with 490 reels of film in active use. The service will be entirely independent and will be under the management of V. R. Carrick, who managed the same department for Williams, Brown & Earle.