The Moving Picture World (1907)

670 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. Film Review. Biograph releases this week "Dr. Skinum," one of the absurdities of film work. Na- ture works wonders, but science goes her one better, and while criticising her works essays to, and at times succeeds in improv- ing her products. The verity of this asser- tion we show in this Biograph farce com- edy. Dr. Skinum, the learned professor of physiology, dermatology, biology and all the other "ologies," boldly claims to cor- rect any error of nature, be it ever so anom- alous. The promulgation of this fact draws to his office a most startling variety of monstrosities, all anxious to submit to his esoteric powers, whereby they hope to be- come "Utopian as to face and figure. In his suite are a number of cabinets, in which the mere confining of the patient works wonders, transforming unsightly Calibans into beautiful Houris. The first to enter his chambre mysterieux is a tiny mite of femininity. The young lady Js less than three feet tall, but under the professor's wonderful treatment she grows rapidly, and while she has now attained a condition of extreme pulchritude, she is placed in a most embarrassing position from the fact that as she grows tall and stately her gowns have remained le memc, reaching only to the knees—Oh, mercy! ■ As an absolute antithesis of his first patient there appears a young girl who, though fair of face, must have been a lineal descendant from Teutobochus, the ancient giant king. She is at least eight feet tall and surely a "line of sweetness long drawn out" Placing her under a pile-driver, the. hammer of which balances 3,000 pounds, the professor hypno- tizes her and starts the machine. Blow ■ o MOTEOBJ PICTURE FBE*M B Lengih 1,000 Feet International Championship Contest at London BEFORE the NATIONAL SPORTING CLUB DECEMBER 2,1907 Made by CHAS. URBAN TRADING CO. Cabled advices from London announce the successful taking of this subject. We control the film for the United States and Canada First prints expected to arrive about December 27, 1997 i a \ $32 STATE ST. §662 §12 ^\ /CHICAGO NSW LA PATR1E BUILDING, MONTREAL. CAR. upon blow is rained on her shapely head until at last she emerges, a Naiad of sym- metrical loveliness. Then comes a lady sporting a pair of pedal extremities that would surely cause Chicago to look to her laurels. These are quickly reduced from their amplitudinous dimensions to the pos- sibility of a "Louis Quinze." The proboscis next requires the professor's attention, a handsomely dressed society lady appearir g with a • marcel wave on her nose. B.it watch the professor! While he is engaged with this patient the Gargantuan form of a woman comes waddling in. She looks like a balloon and moves along with the grace of the car of Juggernaut. She echo> s Hamlefs plea, "O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew!" But Doc Skinum's the boy who knqws what to do, and placing her on a stretcher, with a block and fall he lifts her onto the reducing table. He then turns on the current and through the pelhi- cide vapor that arises we see the rapidly evanescent form of Elephantine Lizzie. The doctor having been called away by the lady with the distorted olfactory organ, whose footman had gotten into one of the cab- inets and instantly changed to a police- man, forgets to turn off the fluid, and around goes the pointer on the indicator like the hand of a clepsydra, until, on his return, he finds poor Lizzie reduced to an infinitesimal modicum of her former self. In fact, she is about the size of a new-born infant Here would be trouble for anyone but Skinum. So hurriedly placing her in the cabinet of beauty, she is transformed into a most charming duenna. These and many others are the amazing changes and cures performed by the old professor in the course of the film, which, as a whole, "will prove a most effective cure for "blues" in the spectator whose good fortune it will be to view it, for it is unquestionably an assured laughing hit. «-i In "College Chums" the Edison Com- pany have produced an excellent film. It starts off with the interior of the Girl's home—Jack proposes—The Girl accepts— The engagement ring—The kiss—In the park—Jack caught flirting with another girl. The college room—The telephone call—Jack trying to explain that the other girl was his sister—The Girl doubts—Jack assures her—Girl decides to call and see his sister. Jack in deep water—His churn Tom arrives—The explanation—A plan is made^-Tom to be the sister—He dresses as a girl. The Uncle, Aunt and the Girl arrive—Tom is introduced as the sister- Tom as a girl has shocking manners. All off to see the college—The Uncle returns —(Miss) Tom meets him—He flirts with the Uncle—The Uncle falls in love with Tom—The kiss—Dancing and high kick- ing, when Aunty arrives on the scene—-A hasty retreat. (Miss) Tom has a quiet smoke—Discovered by Aunty—The Uncle returns for more kicks and kisses, but the course of true love fails to run smooth. (Miss) Tom meets Jack's fiancee—Girls will be girls—They love, kiss and tell sweet secrets together—Poor Jack wild with rage —He succeeds in getting his fiancee out of the room—Ah! Retribution at last!—He beats and pounds little (Miss) Tom in « shameful manner—Horror of horrors, his fiancee arrives with Aunty and discovers Jack beating his sister—Torn gets all the hugs and kisses—Jack is a brute—A beast. —Jack leaves the room—The Uncle arrives —Jack shall beg his sister's pardon—The Uncle rushes after Jack, much to Toms delight—The Uncle returns witii Jack—A