The Moving Picture World (January 1908)

8 THE MOVING PICTURE WOPXD m wmrn^mw t,mm 700 ***«» Wl<3ow •? j§ Mo? Can't jge* aeafis? WStAt would Vera »»y if tow *»»<S st for y«mr NiclSeS©**©©** ? Ctua'4- fee done? Exc»«a«*Ve srijtfhts ? '• CVK99 AGAIN. The Kale in Company has a i.oco ft. production, done? toy the original VJeoaess Cast ea follows: Die lUistige QKtwe. (THE MERRY WIDOW) Operetta in three acta by Victor Leon and Leo Stein. Music by Franz Lehar. - - '^ ' I CAST OP CHARACTERS l 3 Baron Mttfai Zola, pqatcvadrlfllselMraefantitar is Paris. :-..:, Cart HaEthey . Vafcndaano. s«io«S Gemabllo . . . .• ,:'. . Charlotte D'AvE» : OrafDanSj BsaSSoWliscb, flcisaiHltschafJc-Se&njtocj-, M«ry iaia'ge ■D«J3Sa-,«ioa jKago WItwa CanjJHa flo ResMfon .-, /■'■■■" Vtcot^te C«aeBA#-...' < FranzMlAghie Cavatlera . Raeal do 5t. Briof be ' ', Xrcmow, ticaSewxSrlotechtr Coosa 1 . . . : ©3s», seico Oeuutbi'ftz. ...'..' . . SUeiws. Ge*an(Mse!wi»fi»K«DxH»t fed Zetc . Kelly tesreaa j ■;■ fiiut (Caiaw J- Otto Bceaedfcrar^ 'WI«7lSefewtl*p TfeecxW? WStteft K«fl SeftmSer. Accompanying the film Will be a complete aiualcel score trynchrontoed with the pictures. : " •.. -1 • Remember 1 this is the first time such n feat has ever been attsmpted in moving pictures—the reigning .euccesa of tho: country, the grand New York production about which everyone is talking—condensed into a version which can be put on by any house using a pianist and a singer. No extra charge for this big attraction. Every Rental Bnrean will have a' dozen copies or more. GET IT FIRST J . S«t:#j; Ajsrf, IC!<s!r»« OatScaS Co., 3a State St., Chicago. !■ •• 'taafe* - AyaW- fob a n Tradfng Co^ 4iftufce>t$^nt;:; ; HP •;-. ' - I -./,ys Sunday law and were fitted $5-each/ They «acmbited a series of pictures Sunday depicting the "Midru'gat Side of Paul,Re- vere"• and "Mother's"Prayer.": "Their;counsel 'contended .'the show was within the meaning of the • Couli ■ ordtntivre: Magistrate Butts', heard. the case at rieegth and tiiea wrote out hss decision, which 'he.: read from the baach as follows': : . The question before me is: Has the section"265 or the Penal Code, of .this State ofNew. York,"been repealed -or'ratified, in anv.way by-ifae-Doiil! ^ordinance?• There js. rib dbutA„as°to'the meaning of this sectiort All exercises and shows, astong other things, are prohibited on Sunday. .:' ; -- ''' "I hold the exhtbi^ioh of rooymg pictures by the defendants on Sunday, the -22d day of December, iQCvY-tobe a 'show* within the meaning of the said section 3o$ of the Penal Code,-and they must be found guilty of violating its provisions, unless the eald Doull ordinance has changed the-law of "the State relating / to shows or exhibitions on Sunday and has.authorized such ah exhibition or show as that exhibited' by the defendants on Sun- day, Dec. 22, 1507. "This question st once presents, itself:.What right, power or .authority has the Board of Aldermen of the city of New. York to repeal,' amend, modify or in any way change any law of this State? Said board has no such power. "The provisions ot the Dottlt amendment are clearly incon- sistent with section 265 of the Penal Code. The-said amend- ment is therefore absolutely null and void." 1 ■-•■ ■• : - ' ■ ■■ •- ———————— — PICTURE MEN'S . BOOKING AGENCY. The nidcelets and moving picture places about New York, which only recently began,..to add vaudeville acts to _their pro- grams, are not slow in making the next step in their develop- ment into an organization. A dozen or fifteen have combined into a cohesive . booking circuit, and all together play in the neighborhood of fifty acts a week. James Barry, manager of Local No. 1, Actors''Union, supplies tiie attractions. Each act is called upon to do about six minutes for a turn, and shows from : three to six shows a day. The places in,the miniature theater circuit are within a radius of twenty- mites of City Hall, from Long Island to Yonkers, and some of the acts play the whole chain. * » * .v.: NEWEST PICTURE SHOW OPENS. The Uniquej the newest and •easily the handsomest popular priced vaudeville theater in the city, opened. Saturday . night, on East Fourteenth street, opposite the Academy of Muiic. It occupies the building formerly known as "The Alhambra.'* •■ This week the entertainment furnished consisted of three moving picture, reels and illustrated songs,, for art admission fee of io'cents. When the house is in.running order. twoVpr three vaudeville acts will be.added, The manager of the place, Win. A. Brady, who also operates the Comedy'Theater,; a simi- lar establishment on Fourteenth street, is in negotiation ;with the Actors' UmoU; to supply the attractions.. The interior of the Unique is elaborately, decorated in- red and gold and seats areprovided for close, to i^ap.persona. The show is continuous. It is said its ownera nave in mind the scheme of building up a considerable ciratit in Greater New York. : FIRE CAUSES SCARE INMOVING PICTURE SHOAVS. Fifty Women and Childrfen.Run to the Street, and pamage is ^5; For several minutes Decetrtber 26 there was considerable ex- citement in a moving picture> theater at No. 588 Hadson- street, when a fire was discovered near': the .machme.v It was extin- guished with very little. damage. At the time there were about fifty women ahdychildreh in the place. A small-boy saw flames about the machine and immedi- ately shouted "Firel" The audience made a nisb for-the exits ?nd was in the street long before the fire apparatus arrived Only a Mlnrmax extinguisher was iised in putting out the blaze, which did about $25 damage.. •-.■.-*** From Cleveland, O^ we hear some fifty moving picture show men, meeting.at.The Hollendeii last week, "formed an organiza- tion, manufactured a little 'lid" for thcmse3ves,;Teso!vcd out of : existence'all features of the business which th^ythor^jht would displease the people or •tbe'chief of police, and adjourned in a hiRhly edified mood- ... Th?n they sent a committee, consisting: of Proprietors.Builoclc, SomerS'and Cole over'tb tell Chief-:Kohler what they had dt?ne. • The .chief, was pleased^, too. Here are some of the'features'of .the regenerated kinetcsepp'e- .No.vaadevJlle acts between films, the shows to be only devoted .mechanically.;!.© the pictured drama; nothing riaiighty• or.even ' ; ■