The Moving Picture World (October 1907)

ing flowers and papers. Father arrives at entrance of hotel; girl sells him flower and otters to put it on his coat. He calls for paper and all rest of boys run for sale, so does little boy on crutches, who is knocked down in struggle. Man sees it and helps boy up and gives him $1.00 for paper. Boy and girl are now seen going home, giving sick mother money and point to picture on -wall, telling her-that he looks like the man that gave theni the money. This brings life to the stricken mother, and life and hopes blaze to the limit. She gets up and takes children by hands, and all three start for hotel to find man that gave them the money. Scene shows family waiting in the hotel entrance. Several men come out, but children shake; their heads, No. T.hey are now seen going back home, down-hearted, girl with flowers and boy with papers. On the way they stop at church and make few sales. Picture now changes to the home and wife; landlord serving notice to either vacate or make payment. Wife is seen weeping and watching for children. Picture again changes to church, shows people coming out. Man calls boy and girl to him; looks at them twice, thrice, and asks their names. All three get into auto and start for home, and as they near the place father, boy and girl are now seen to draw up to .door. Mother is seen inside weeping; the meeting is very pathetic. Father kisses wife and children; takes them away in auto. Screen reads: "Two Days Later." All are now seen dressed as five years before; happy, servant; and luxuries. THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. The Editor's Table. 543 THE NEW ARRIVAL. There is great excitement in the house; everybody runs, everybody hurries, hut nobody makes a noise. Suddenly the mas- ter of the house runs out of the house, upsetting everybody who comes in his way. His chase ends at the doctor's house. He gets the.doctor out.of bed, and pulls him along, followed by a big crowd. In the meantime a new arrival has made his appearance. "A boy?" "Why, cer- tainly itls a boy."— Lubin. MOSES SELLS A COLLAR BUTTON. Moses is a good business man; he tries h.->.rd to make a living by selling collar buttons, and he is persistent, Moses is; if he does not succeed he tries again. He meets many mishaps, but at last is suc- cessful, and sells a collar button to a little boy. A very funny picture.— Lubin. PRINTING for ..PATOE NEW PASSIOM FLAY also for the new Biblical Film THE PHOBKGAI* SON HENHEGAN © CO. 130 E. 8e& SUe&% CisciEB&ti, 0. We have received from the author, David P. Abbott, a copy of "Behind the Scen.es with the Mediums," which appears at a very opportune moment Many of our sub- scribers write asking us to give them sug- gestions that will be helpful to them in retaining old, and interesting new patrons, and from this book many tricks can be learned that will well help* to fill out a night's entertainment. The other night we paid a visit to a materialization seance by the Rev. (?) De Witt Hough, of Thirty-eighth street, New York, and saw some beautiful spirits (?) materialize to the number of fifteen, which held seventeen dollars' worth of au- dience spellbound for an hour and a half There was not a trick in the whole even- ing that we could not reproduce, and "Be- hind the Scenes" tells how it is done by simple, lucid instructions. In addition to this, slate writing, sealed letter reading, table rapping, cabinet rope binding, etc* are fully explained. In the twelve chap- ters, comprising Half Hours, Mr. Abbott gives a collection of the most valuable secrets of mediumistic work in existence, such as have never before been published in book form, but have been purchasable at enormous prices from mediums, and. then only under solemn seal. Four chapters are devoted to the reading of sealed writ- ings, and the dealer of secrets for the use of mediums must be in a frenzy of rage at the disclosure of such information, and one prominent spiritualist says he would like to wring Abbott's neck for taking his living away, and he hones the book won't get into the hands of his clientele. Four- teen chapters arc devoted to slate-writing and billet tests; Many of the slate tricks are worth at least ten dollars each, and the book, in its exposure of slate-writing and billet work of certain Chicago mediums of the present day, is of great value. It is impossible to enumerate here all the valuable secrets this work contains. Four chapters on "Some Modern Sorcery"* are invaluable to the inquiring mind, the exposer of shams and the entertainer. They teach how the tricks of Maskelync. and Cook, and later Maskelyhe, Jr., and Devant, of ths Egyptian Hall, London, perform some of their mystifying and hair-raising legerdemain. Also how the almost im- mortal Kellar performs his seeming impos- sible (except he be assisted by unseen forces) marvelous deceptions. That the readers may understand how the secrets herein revealed have been treas- ured and guarded from the public hereto- fore, and of the value placed on them by performers, we will state that the value of the secrets contained in this volume estimated at the prices charged for them by dealers, would run into hundreds of dollars. Not a few of the secrets have sold at twenty-five dollars each, while a number of them have never even been offered for sale. The little chapter on "Vest Turning" contains a secret that is being sold to-day for two dollars and fifty cents, while the secret contained in the chapter, "Performances of the Annie Eva Fay Type," was sold to a medium of Mr. Abbott's acquaintance for two hundred and fifty dollars. The . book can be obtained from The Open Court Publishing Co., Chicago, or pur publishers. 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