The Moving Picture World (1907)

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across. The company walked away from the cameras with the fly paper showing prominently. There was an adjournment for lunch in a little restau- rant not far away, and after luncheon everybody returned to the borrowed boarding-house, and the rube went to sleep under the window and the fat man threw fly paper on him, and the rube had a terrible struggle in front of the cameras to get it off. This finished the "Troublesome Fly" set, but the man- ager held his company and finished up a set called "For Love's Sweet Sake," where the fat actor strangled the soubrette right out in plain view of all the horrified spec- tators, but before the police could arrive the fat actor and the soubrette went over to Cottage Grove avenue to eat ice cream. THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 663 NEW FINDS AMONG PRIMITIVE PEOPLES. Ethnologists hunting for new light on the early stages of cul- ture now and then discover among the remote tribes of to-day mtirely new facts. Dr. Rudolf Poch has had this good fortune during his two years' work among the tribes of New Guinea and the neighboring islands. Among the mountains of German New Guinea he found that the tribes produced fire very readily by rubbing a split piece of wood with a rotang rope made from one of the varieties of the rattan palm. He says that this method of producing fire seems to be widely distributed in the inner parts af New Guinea and he knows of no other place where it is prac- tised, excepting by some of the Negritos among the mountains of the Philippines. Dr. P6ch found inland tribes in the northeastern part of British New Guinea that wear long and very heavy pigtails. The Kworafi, at Cape Nelson in British New Guinea, have a very peculiar mourning costume consisting of a cap and'a jacket orna- mented with the seeds of the Coix lacryma. The natives were pressed with the resemblance of these round, white seeds to leavy tear drops. This likeness long ago gave the plant its dentine name. Dr. P6ch was making excavations near Collingwood Bay. one y when he unearthed, besides human skulls and skeletons, a rved shell, obsidian implements and ancient pottery of better sign and more skilful manufacture than any now produced long these tribes. The inhabitants of to-day do not know the rt of shell carving nor do they make necks and handles on any f their products, though these characterize some of the pottery inearthed. The natives have no traditions relating to such ob- jects, and Dr. Poch is credited in Europe with having discoverd races of an old, forgotten and in some respects higher culture in "ew Guinea. Dr. Poch took phonographic records of the native languages, ales and songs. In the songs melody is very little developed, t the rhythms are often perfect, though sometimes surprisingly triplicated. It was very difficult to get a good quality of .cine- atograph exposures, for in their dances and some other move- ents which the explorer especially desired to record the natives ere always moving over considerable distances and he had to follow with his machine. About" 60 per cent, of his moving pie- ces, however, came out well. These two inventions for record- g sound and movement are among the most valuable appliances n the study of primitive peoples. *. * ยป ."If any man should show that picture to my child I would all him. The town is full of this sort of places and they are Hoing incalculable harm. The police should close every one of sthem." ,That is what Police Magistrate Crane said in the Harlem 'ourt, New York, in passing on the case of William Short, a wing picture exhibitor of no West 116th street, whom he re- anded for trial in $1,000 bait Short was arrested for exhibit- jjfig a picture of the interior of a Chinese opium* den. Short's attorney was arguing that while the picture might order on the obscene, it was not obscene, when Magistrate Crane interrupted him with a question as to whether he was a father. When the attorney said he had no children the Magis- trate made the declaration quoted. * * * The Secretary of the Treasury has written a letter to the Pittsburg Calcium Light and Film Company to the effect that moving picture films sent into Canada for use for a time and afterwards returned to the United States, whether of domestic or foreign origin, may be exported and returned under the pro- visions of Department Circular No. 64 of October 29, 1907. * * * Butte, Mont., is now maintaining three moving picture theaters, in which a series of moving pictures are shown six or seven times nightly. The houses seem to be crowded all the time and they certainly look like money-making propositions. Since the moving picture invention was given to the public it has had a marked evolution and now the films give a most per- fect reproduction without any strain to the eyes as they did in the earlier stages. O. N. Olds, the man who had charge of the bench show last year, walked into Park Street Moving Picture Theater. His dog sneaked behind him. In one of the scenes a bulldog runs out and jumps into a pool of water after a stick. When the dog was shown on the canvas Olds' canine began to bristle up and growl. In spite of attempts to get him out the dog made a race for the canvas, and making a vieorous dash for the bull pup, went clear through the canvas. The audience went into an uproar of laughter. Manager Krieter says it was the prettiest exhibition of shadow fighting he ever saw. Then he told Olds he wanted $8 for the canvas. Olds said that Krieter should be highly complimented by the dog's action, as it proved the realism of the scene. Then he shook dice with Krieter to see whether he should pay $16 or nothing. Krieter lost. That's lucky," said Olds. "I'd have been in a bad fix if I had lost. All the money I had was 65 cents." Krieter has a shotgun ready for the next dog that gets into the house. He declares he wants no further demonstration of the "realism" of the moving pictures. * * * Partial destruction of a downtown landmark and a panic among employees of the Twentieth Century Optiscope Company resulted from a fire in the structure at 22 to 28 State street December 2. The company occupies the second floor. Several persons were injured in the panic including R. G. Bachman, president of the company, and Policeman James S. Knapp, of the Central station, both of whom aided in rescuing several women. Mr. Bachman, who lives at .146 Ohio street, was wrenched while he was holding a ladder, as he hung from a fire escape, to enable several women to reach the ground. The others injured were: Mavme McNerney, 25 years old; Elsie Griefen, 23 years old, and Sadie Grodin, 21 years old. The fire is thought to have been caused by the explosion of a moving pirture film, which the optiscope company manufac- tures. A sheet of flame flashed from a room next to where^ Misses McNerney, Griefen and Grodin were working. They gave the alarm and ran toward the stairs, but found escape cut off, so went to a window. Miss McNerney, in her leao, landed at the feet of Assistant Chief Schuettler, who had left a con- ference at Chief Shiopy's office when he learned of the fire. Misses Griefen and Grodin clung to a sign, while flames shot over their heads from the window, until rescued bv firemen. While the firemen were saving the women from the State street side. Policemen Crook. Wheadon. Donohue and Knapp raised a ladder to the front of the building to take down several who were clinging to the fire escape. The ladder lacked several feet of reaching the frightened women and Policeman Knapp climbed on the fire escape. Wrapping his legs about the supports he held one end of the ladder while Policemen Wheadon. Crook and Donohue held the other. Mrs. R. G. Bachman. wife of the president of the company, was taken down this way, as also were Miss Katie Mandenmarch and Miss B. M. Moore, a stenog- rapher employed by the optiscope company. The flames spread to the fourth floor before they were extin- guished. The damage done to the building is estimated at $3,000. A case is now pending in Muncie, Ind., the outcome of which will be watched with interest by a great many people, especially those in the moving picture show business. The case is a damage suit of the Vaudelle Amusement Com- pany, composed of Ernest Miltonberger, Jacob D. Miltonberger and James Howe Leffler, against the Globe and Rutgers Fire Insurance Company, through Benbow & Benbow, its local'agents, and is being tried m the court of 'Squire Gray. Damages to the extent of $198.01 are asked. On the evening of April 24, while # the Vaudelle # Theater, a place of amusement devoted to the exhibition of moving pictures.