Reel and Slide (Jan-Sep 1919)

28 REEL and SLIDE Here and There Dr. Thomas Harsha, a member of the publicity division of the Department of Health Education, Harrisburg, Pa., delivered an illustrated lecture on "The Fly" at the Johnstown High School Auditorium. Children from the seventh and eighth grades of the public schools were present, although everybody was invited to attend. No admission was charged. In cooperation with the lecture, the child health exhibit at the Red Cross rooms showed a novel arrangement. The "fly's air line" was the subject, and the course of a fly from a barn to an outhouse and then through the windows into a home was shown. The flies moved by electricity and the arrangement was very clever and instructive. * * * A seven-reel picture, "Caterpillars in the U. S. Army," was shown recently in the Coliseum at Springfield, Ohio, to a crowd of nearly 4,000 employees and friends of the Holt Manufacturing Company. The occasion was an entertainment given by the Holt Caterpillar Relief Association. * * * An attractive program of motion pictures and music was given in Bethany Presbyterian Church, Trenton, N. J., recently. "The Traveling Salesman," a fivereel comedy, was shown on the screen, also a news, a cartoon, and an educational film, showing the workings of the U. S. postal service. Music was furnished by the Bethany Mandolin Club and by the male quartette of the church. These entertainments are for the benefit of the community and the small admission fee of 5 and 10 cents is made merely for the defraying of expenses. * * * Ten reels of films were shown at the high school auditorium, Enid, Okla., recently, including comedy, "The Children's . Hour," "Gathering Pineapples" and "Monkeys." The show began at 8 o'clock and no admission was charged. * * * School No. 21 Social Center Association, Paterson, N. J., held a motion picture entertainment recently in the school, Madison and Tenth avenues. The features were a film of the usual high class and in addition a two-reel comedy of extraordinary merit. Two shows were given, the first starting at 7 o'clock, while the second began at 9. =H * * The First Presbyterian Church, Duluth, Minn,, is holding a series of moving picture matinees for the younger children attending the church. * * * At the Red Cross convalescent house at Camp Gordon, Ga., recently, Dr. Abram Gideon of New York, who is an out-patient at the base hospital, gave his movie travelog, "Through the Rockies," under the auspicies of the American Red Cross. The travelog is a narrative of ten years' personal experience of the lecturer in the Kockly Mountain region, and shows some of the most thrilling scenes of Colorado and the western highlands. The color work of the lantern slides from views taken by Dr. Gideon was done by Nina Graves, formerly colorist to George East man, and partly under the direction of Major Harry D. Smith of Denver. The Visual Instruction Service of Iowa State College has distributed the U. S. Boys' Working Reserve films, which were produced last fall by the International Harvester Co. at the request of the Department the past twenty-five weeks. It is estimated that 250,000 people have been in attendance during the year. This does not include these showings of film not on the regular circuit. Prof. L. J. Ulmer, of the agricultural division of the state bureau of vocational education, addressed the pupils of the two grade schools and the high school at Williamsport, Pa., explaining the plan of gardening as it is done in accordance with the rules of the national gardening association. Professor Ulmer also shower motion pictures of the work in progress in a Massachusetts town and further emphasized the details of the work. The Woman's Faculty Club of Iowa State College presented "The Better 'Ole" as a means of financing the coming biemiial convention of the Federated Woman's Clubs of Iowa. 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