The Moving Picture World (1907)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 57 ham, and the police will investigate to see if the laws are being complied with. Deputy Chief Binns is also mak- ing an investigation in behalf of the Fire Department to see if the rules of that department are being violated in any of these resorts. The appearance of.managers of Broadway theatres caused some comment, but Commissioner Bingham ex- plained that they protested against the authorities allow- ing these small places to violate the law when they were compelled to pay thousands of dollars to live up to the law. In Warren, O., Messrs. W. T. Smith and D. J. Lewis have opened a moving picture show in Ashtabula, and Mr. Smith is managing the same. * * * The Harvard (Mass.) Amusement Company has been incorporated for $3,500, with Simon Alexander, Zimond Samuels, and Max Schlanger as promoters. * * * A moving picture and illustrated song show is to be conducted in the store of the Shipton building, Spring- field, Mass. James D. Furlong, of Rochester, N. Y., is the owner. * * * Springfield, Mass., has now another place of amuse- ment in full swing, the Bijou, at 286-288 Main street, to give continuous shows until 10.30 p. m. I Moving pictures and illustrated songs fill the programme. * * * From Cardington, O., the news comes that E. C. Car- ter has joined his son, Will, for business. The two men have purchased a moving picture outfit and are fixing up a room in the Smythe block for its operation. * * * Thomas W. Flynn, president of the Calumet Amuse- ment Company, Chicago, has purchased a tract of almost 200 acres in sections 5 and 8 of the town of Bloom, the ground lying some distance north of Chicago Heights. The purchase was made for $26,325. * * .* C. B. Kleine has now moved from Thirty-second street to 662-664 Sixth avenue, between Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth streets, New York, where he will have larger space and better facilities for his growing business, and as soon as he settles down in the new premises several schemes, now under way, will be announced. **♦•'■ South Main street, Wilkesbarre, is to have an amuse- ment house of an interesting nature. The new place will be known as Dreamland. There will be various kinds of amusements, chief of which will be continuous moving pictures. The new place is owned by Maurice H. Kuhn and J. M. Cargano, who have similar places in other cities. * * * From Galveston, (Tex.), we hear that continuing for some time moving pictures will be on view at the Grand Opera House nightly. The bill will be changed twice a week, and at each performance 4,000 feet of the films will be spun off. The local management is arranging to procure some of the latest and best films for the amuse- ment of its patrons. * * * Mr. Chas. J. Glidden, of Boston, who has driven his automobile nearly 40,000 miles in 36 countries of the world, will relate some of the incidents of his travels with the motor car in many of the countries visited, at the Newton (Mass.) Methodist Church on Thursday even- ing, April 4th. The talk will be illustrated with 244 lan- tern slides from negatives taken by Mr. Glidden en route. * ♦ * Salt Lake City furnishes the following item: The Logan Amusement and Investment Company filed its arti- cles with the secretary of state. The company is organ- ized to do a general amusement business. The officers are: President, A. G. Lundstrom; Vice-President, Moses Thatcher, Jr.; Secretary and Treasurer, H. P. Emeis. The other directors are: Robert Murdock, H. J. DeWitt and Lehi Olsen. * * * Steps were taken by the Minneapolis license inspector to suppress the showing of pictures suggestive of the events leading up to the murder /of Stanford White by Harry Thaw in a moving picture thgatreron lower Hen- nepin avenue. A complaint to Judge John Day Smith brought out the inspector. It was alleged that the ma- jority of the patrons of the house were boys and girls and the pictures were "mind poisoning." * * * From Peoria, 111., we hear that the moving picture shows in that city have taken a great hold on the public and the neat little theatres are crowded nightly. The matinees also draw a good attendance and the crowds are constantly changing. The performances given are meritorious and the .people have developed a great crav- ing for the pictures. Frequent changes of programme are made and all the new and novel films are shown. * * * In view of their helplessness to deal with the nickel show the authorities see in the new bill to regulate taxes on amusements just introduced at Harrisburg, Pa., a club by which they can make these places properly protect the public. Phonograph exhibitions and moving picture shows, if the bill becomes a law, will be under the same regulation as theatres and will have to pay a $200 license