The Moving Picture World (June 1907)

THE MOVING PH^URE WORLD. 201 Fhe manager went up on the. roof of the building and jiscovered that some one had severed his wires. Mr. Stamm then returned to the floor of the hall, announced what had happened and offered a reward of $50 for the discoverv of the offender. The matter was then placed in the hands of the police. It was but a matter of a few feninutes until the wires were mended, and the program was completed. * * * Evanston, 111., has now a permanent house for moving >ictures at 613 Davis street, of a strictly high class, being >oth entertaining and instructive. There will be travels n all parts of the world—climbing the Alps, journeys hrough Italy, Egypt, India, Holy Land, etc. Then there vill be battleships in action, views of mines with miners n actual operation, the chase in hunting scenes, and no :nd of interesting subjects. There will also be comic nctures for the children, but nothing which will offend he most fastidious. It is under the management of Z. Maisel and H. Karsten. The motion picture craze has struck Oil City. Two >f these places of entertainment are open to the public, me on Seneca street and another on Sycamore street. fhe third will open on Sycamore street in a few days. The opening of Beach Oswego for the Summer de- «nds upon the weather. Manager Wallace said there ould probably be moving pictures in the new theater. t is the idea to start the season with moving pictures, ollowed later with vaudeville. * * * Because one of Owosso's moving picture shows put on Passion Play" films for the benefit of a church society, le two other motion picture shows put on the same Ims, and charged but 5 cents, while the "church show" sked 10 cents. There are many sore spots. This is poor spirit and bad policy. Despite the tentative decision of the American Fed- ration of Labor that the members of the Picture Ma- hine Operators' Union should be- seated as members of he Central Labor Union, the latter hody at its meeting lay 19 refused to do so. The Central Labor Union ent a long letter to the American Federation, defining s side thoroughly and asking that body to go into the latter more carefully than it did during the past week " so. It had been expected that this action would be ken, and as a result there was no surprise. The reason or the move is, according to the Central Labor Union ien, the picture machine operators should not be ad- mitted because they are really members of the Calcio and alcio-Electric Operators, and should become members i that organization. It was said they had no right to e classified as a separate body. * * * Three arrests for running moving picture shows on unday were made in the Brownsville (Brooklyn, N. Y.) recinct Sunday, May 19. In one case the alleged pro- netor claimed that he was conducting the show for the "nefit of charity, but Police Captain Reynolds, unable locate any section in the code which permitted the w to be violated for such purposes, had the man ar- gued in the Gates Avenue Court. John Turrletaub, 7 2 Glenmore avenue, charged- with having a show and g> n g five cents admission at 1703 Pitkin avenue. Officer Flynn stated he saw people paying admission to get in and that he witnessed a series of moving pictures inside. Turtletaub was held in $500 bail for examina- tion on May 31. Louis Cohen, 38 years old, of 1759 Pitkin avenue, was arrested by Officer Wood, who claimed.a small fee of admission was charged. Cohen, when arraigned in court, claimed that the show was be- ing conducted for a charitable purpose. "They can't work that on me," declared the captain. "I know of no section in the code which permits that." Cohen said he had been arrested four times for the same offense and that cases against him were coming up on May 23 and May 24. He asked to have this case adjourned until the latter date. Bail was fixed at $4,000. The third man was Nathan Levine, charged with having a show at 1812 Pitkin avenue. This was the first time he had been ar- rested, he said in court. "I shall increase the bail each time you are brought before me," said the Magistrate. "It's highly impudent for you fellows to go on violating the law this way; $1,000 for May 31." Later, Cohen secured bail. He said that he was being harshly treated by Captain Reynolds, who allow.ed other men to do the same things without arrest. "He says he can't arrest them because they sell soda water," said Cohen. "Well, last week I was selling soda and he arrested me." "Well, I'll see that not even Captain Reynolds makes a butt of you," said the Magistrate. J. W. Hickey's new five-cent theater in the Gryphon block, on West street, Rutland, Vt., opened for business last Monday. The soloist will be Nestor Ross, who for the last three years has taken the part of choir boy with "The Volunteer Organist." Arthur E. Behim, of Brook- lyn, N. Y., will act as pianist. Mr. Hickey has installed an auxetophone, the latest thing in talking machines. Mr. Hickey's five-cent theater in the Banquet House block will be opened in about three weeks. The annual picnic of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company's employees will take place on Sat- urday next, June 8, at Schuetzen Park, Union Hill, N. J. Music will be provided by the West Shore Military Band for those who like to trip the light fantastic toe. All our readers who have twenty-five cents each to spare are invited to take their wives, sisters, or the other fellow's sister, to Union Hill, where, given fine weather, they are assured the time of their lives in fun, frolic and the latest pictures produced by the firm. By the bye, a great deal of fuss is being made about the new venture of phonograph and cinematograph com- bined exhibitions. The Biograph used the system in 1899. To be accurate, a film and dialogue entitled "A Gay Old Boy" was produced on the roof of 841 Broadway, New Y^ York, on August 16 of that year, photographed by Armi- tage. The phonograph was worked at the side of the wheel, but after two or three public exhibitions was withdrawn. The Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly, of London, has fully started on its way, and can be obtained by American readers for $1.75 per year. It is the official organ of the Bioscope Operators Union and is edited by Theodore Brown, an old veteran in the ranks of lantern workers.