The Moving Picture World (November 1907)

6l2 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. "ARCO" HIGH GRADE IMPORTED GERMAN The new Carbon lor Moving Picture Machines Quality Unexcelled L. £. FRORUP <SL CO. Sole Importers 235 Greenwich Street, NEW YORK Harry Davis' Film Exchange 347 Filth Avenue, PITTSBURQ, PA. SELLS Second Hand Films in First Class Shape RENTS Latest, Best & Newest Moving Pictures Made and all the Paraphernalia. GUARANTEE SATISFACTION THE WILLIAM H. SWANSOH & GO. HABIT Of Having" What You Want," "When You Want It." Has won for this, the biggest'of all film renting houses its much merited reputation. WILLIAM H. SWANSON has purchased the interest of his former partner and the business which has been the most extensive of its kinb 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, ii 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 BB1NO 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, Jesse C. Kelley, Manager. NEW YORK CITY, Room 1212, 116 Nassau Street. George F. Parker, Manager. Look 1 Our New -Pi- opos it ion Of renting entire outfit, consisting of choice of either Power or EdisoD Machine, operator and film changes, will interest all film users as it relieves our customer of all worry and responsibility. Let us .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 CHANOES OP FILM, $60.00 POUR CHANGES. r . 68 00 Swanson takes the worry off vour shoulders and furnishes you witfi the Box Office winners. A two cent stamp will get you acquainted with him. WM. H. SWANSON <& CO., 77-79 South Cla.rH Street, Chicago. SSH. ' Chicago, III. JV.B.—l, personally, can truthfully state that WM. H. SWANSON & CO. bare a Car-load of Moving Picture Machines in stock.—F. C. McCARAHAN, Chicago Manager, Tk* Biilbentd. covered by his pursuer, and arrested after a hard tussle, tat crowd, including the donkey, following. This performance dre» a crowd numbering hundreds, who interfered with the machine 1 ! operation, and compelled the moving picture man to waste 300 feet of films in two unsuccessful efforts before he succeeded in the third attempt. * * * A new moving picture show, called the Theater Premier, 25 Congress street, was opened on November 11 at Portsmouth N. H. » * * The second of a series of three lectures by George Noi McCain on "Savage Europe," was given at Unity Hall, Hart- ford, Conn., last week, when Mr. McCain spoke on the Western Balkans. Colored photography, the vistapraph camera, and mov- ing pictures, were all brought into effective use by the lecturer, who gave an interesting and instructive talk which.was greatly appreciated by the large audience present. The speaker treated of the countries of Bosina, Herzogovina and Montenegro, the latter being the smallest independent coun- try in the world. These three countries have a manifold in- terest, first as being the least known part of Europe, second u forming the frontier of the five centuries of struggle between the Christian and the Turk, and lastly, because in the time (I the Caesars, this was the recruiting ground of their legions. Th lecturer paid particular attention to Montenegro and presenta a vivid picture of this interesting little country. Worcester, Mass.—The moving picture machine has been fount to be a necessary adjunct of the sermon. The Rev. E. G. Zer lars, pastor of Spencer First Congregational Church, has an- nounced that he will use one at all Sunday night services to illustrate his discourses. ..'•.." "Thousands of moving picture-illustrated song theaters have closed their doors during the past few months," said D. J. Tasker, manager of the Lyman H. Howe Company. "Practically all of the five and ten-cent houses in Pennsylvania have beet closed, and most of the houses in the lower peninsula, Ohio, and other States I have visited this season are going out ol business. The demand for the entertainment offered by this class of theaters was unusual, but its decline will be as its growth. • ' "At the close of last season, when we played Cincinnati, then were seventy five and ten-cent houses there, but when we visited that city recently only four were left. At Portsmouth, O., there were seven last February, - but all have since been closed; Ironton, O., had four, but none were open on our last trip; Frostberg, Md., Cheboygan and Alpena, Mich., each had from three to five, which have gone out of business. Detroit has seven or eight left, out of about fifty. "The film supply houses, of which there were hundreds in the country, are getting hit about as hard as the cheap theaters, and many of themhave been forced out." [We don't remember having read a more pessimistic state- ment than the above in a great while, and if it is done with an idea of boosting the Lyman H. Howe Company, it is the worst policy that could be adopted. We hope the press will take it with a very large lump of salt. Our information is just the other way about, and the five and ten-cent theaters are increasing, instead of decreasing.— Ed.] * * '* Arthur Boisclair, of Rochester, N. H., opened his moving picture show in McDuffee Hall November 9. He has been 1 singer in a male quartet of late, having sung in theaters o( the Keith circuit, and at other places. * * . * Bayonne will probably get some revenue from the theaters, nicolets and other places of public amusement. At the meet- ing of the Council, held November 12, the ordinance providinj that all such places shall hereafter be licensed came up.foi action, and it was laid over until the next meeting, when, it is said, it will be passed. The ordinance provides that theaters shall pay an annual tax to the city of $240. No license shall be issued for less than three months, and the cost is to be proportionate. The places known as "nicolets," where exhibitions of moving pictures and illustrated songs are the attraction, also come under the ordi- nance, and must pay $50 a year for a license. Some of the councilmen were anxious until it was explained that the ordinance is not intended to affect entertainments giv«n by churches, clubs or societies. E A. Schiller, president and general manager of the Bayonne Amusement Company, which owns and operates the Bayonne Theater and the new opera .house, said, after he had learned