The Moving Picture World (November 1907)

594 THE MOVING it V >9 HIGH-GRADE IMPORTED German Carbons For Moving Picture Machines A new Carbon of unsurpassed quality. Used by many of the leading houses in the business ft /& f& /*? WRITE FOR SAMPLFS AND PRICES L. E. FRORUP (£L CO. Sole Importers 235 Greenwich Street, NEW YORK THE WILLIAM H. SWANSON & CO. HABIT Of Having" What You Want," "When You Want It." H.v* won for this, the bujge*t of all film renting houses its much merited reputation. WILLIAM H. SWANSON his purchased the interest of his former partner and the business which has been the most extensive of its kind in the world, has been enlarged in every way. We will, in order to get personally acquainted, as well as present the opportunity to prospective customers of looking the ground over fully, pay one-half your transportation within a radius of seven hundred miles of our Chicago office, it you place your film contract with us. This applies only where you actually come to see us and we must be advised by letter, or wire, of your coming. BRANCHES ARE BEINO ESTABLISHED in a number of the largest cities throughout the United States. OUR SOUTHERN OFFICE: Wm. H. Swanson Dixie Film Company, at New Orleans, La. Opened September 19th, .lease C. Kelley, Manager. NEW YORK CITY, Room 1212, 116 Nassau Street. George F. Parker. Manager. LooRi Our New Proposition Of renting entire outfit, consisting of choice of eiih-r Power or Edison Machine, operator and film changes, will interest all film users as it relieves our customer of all worry and responsibility Let ui do the worrying, we have expert picture men to do that for you. We assume all express charges, furnish all condensers, carbons, take care of your repairs and require from you no Film Bond. THIS OUTFIT AND THREE CHANGE* OP FILM. $60.00 FOUR CrlANOES. - 69 00 Swanson takes the worry off vour shoulders and furnishes you with the Box Office winners. A two cent stump will get you acquainted with him. WM. H. SWANSON *m CO.. 77-79 South ClarR Street, Chicago, 111. Chicago, Iu. •rV.fi—I, personally, can truthfully state that WM. H. SWANSON & CO. have a Car-load of Moving Picture Machines in stock.—F. C. McCARAH AN, Chicago Manager, The BUlbon* J. \ .. . PICTURE WORLD. there was no greater evil in the city than .the nickel shows, and said, "delivery wagons and cigarettes," were'next in .juvenile sin making. . # '• ; .' Mr. Akers directed his charges mainly against a recently In- stalled amusement place at 393 East Sixty-third street. He urged the women to "starve it out of existence." Several of the women present, including the club's president, Mrs. Oscar T. Hulburd, arose immediately after Mr. Akers had concluded and expressed belief there was no harm in ihe five-cent theaters. One woman said she had visited the theater at 393 Sixty-third street and had found it "morally good." "They have a five-cent theater down at Hull House, and I am told they consider it an educator," said Mrs. Hulburd. This remark drew a motion that the civic committee of the club make a weekly investigation of the form of amusement on sale at the theater at. 393 Sixty-third street, which the mem- bers said was the only one in Woodlawn. The members of. ihe committee will make their inspection of the place on Friday and Saturday and will report at the club's next meeting on ' Tuesday. SEEK SIN AT A BARGAIN. Mr. Akers began his attack on the five-cent theater by assert- ing the hope of Woodlawn was the salvation of its boys. He said the average boy considered a lamp post and his teacher constant enemies and held the boy's home training was to blame. "The five-cent theater is the devil's apothecary shop," he said. "It is an awful curse to the boy. The ingenuity of the »age is to get sin in some form where it can be bought for a penny. The five-cent theater undoubtedly is a sin producer. "This theater is a blotch upon our' community. I wish you women would stop it. Keep your,children and your neighbor's children away from this place and then you will be able to starve it out "I am in constant touch with boys as principal of a grammar school, and I am able to tell you with absolute knowledge that there is no greater handicap to the boy. No prooerly con- ducted home will permit its boys to go near these places. "I want to say also that the boy who comes from the home of a pipe smoker has a blemish on him. He is stained with a hereditary weakness. He is branded. The pipe is the awfulest thing we've got to deal/with to-day with the boy." WOODLAWN ALL RIGHT. THEY SAY. The 150 women present at the meeting were anxious to know what might be the matter with Woodlawn, but.when Alderman Bennett and the Rev.. Melbourne P. Boynton, of the^Lexington Avenue Baptist Church, finished their remarks they* concluded Woodlawn was not in a bad way. . * ♦ ♦ Detectives Cunningham and White, of the Fort Hamilton. Brooklyn, N. Y., precinct,- closed the free moving picture show in connection with the Golden Horn Casino at Ninety-sixth street and Third avenue, Sunday afternoon. November 3. George W. Hoch, proprietor of the- casino, and William Reed, operator of the moving picture show, were arrested. and taken to the Fifth Avenue Court. Magistrate Geismar adjourned the case until November 12. Both men are 'charged with violating the Sunday law. * * * W. H. Swanson, of Chicago, went to Lafayette recently to investigate conditions at the Happy Half Hour Theater on Main street, which he he has been supplying with films. S. C. Lank, who managed the theater for a year, went away October 15 and left his wife in charge of the amusement place. Mrs. Lank ran the theater a week and gave it up Saturday, October 26. The theater owed the Swanson Company a considerable sum for the film service, and the head of the firm came here to look after his claim. He decided to keep the theater open ard make an effort to sell it to get his money back. He paid off claims on the piano and chairs, and the theater is being managed by agents of Mr. Swanson. * * * • Orange. Tex.—Manager Jack Auslet, of the Orange Theater, opened his new place of amusement, the Majestic, a moving picture show, on Fifth street. * * * Mr. W. A. Cannon, formerly of Mount Carmel, 111., who has been conducting a moving picture show in Carmi for orne months past, has sold out his interests in that line and ha <"" ganized a theatrical company, with whieh he will go on the road. * * * We learn that the Royal Five-Cent Theater, started at Ander- son, Ind, is under the management of W. W. McEwen.