The Moving Picture World (January 1908)

4o THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD EDISON FILMS - LATEST FEATURE SUBJECT. THE SUBURBANITE'S INCENIOUS ALARM. A New Comedy tilt. Fall of Amusing Incidents. SYNOPSIS OF SCENES. A broker's office In the City. Mr. Early, ' as usual, arrives late and Is caught by the manager and threatened with dismissal. Mr. Early bays an alarm clock which wakes him In the morning all right, bat refuses to stop ringing. He smothers the sound under his pillow and goes off to sleep affaln.- The late Mr. Early misses street cars and trains and arrives at the office In time to get another lecture from the manager. Mr. Early bits upon a plan. He buys a rope. Ties it to his wrist —drops It from bis window and arranges with his friend to pail ft in the morning, as he passes by. feeling sure this ingenious alarm will get him up in the morning—which It does, but not in the manner e expected. Near the small hours of the morning a burglar espies the rope banging from the second story window and is about to ascend, when he is interroped by a policeman, who at once proceeds to Investigate by climbing np the rope. Mr. Earlx finds himself suddenly jerked oat of bed. on to the floor and up to the window. He explains to the policeman his Ingenious alarm. He Is again aroused by a tipsy clubman upon whom be empties a basin of water and then goes-back to bed; this time tying the rope around his feet. A milk wagon appears on the scene and .the tipsy clubman has his revenge. He fastens the rope to the milk wagon, which drives off, palling poor Mr. Early ont of bed. Out of the window and into the street, * away the milk wagon drags him; down the street; around corners; over mnd holes, until at last be is. rescued by a passing policeman and sent back home In the milk wagon—but very much awake. • "•'•*: Mr. .Early arrives at the office in bandages and on crutches, but on time—-at 5 a. m.—much to the amusement of the scrub woman. Ho. 6338. Coda, Yeeikncht. Length, 595 ft. Class A. . SS9.SS OTHER LATE FEATURE FILMS. . Jfo. 6336. LAUGHING GAS.—Class A. Code, Veerboot. 575 ft. $86.25. For complete synopsis send for Circular No. 340. Ho. 6335. COLLEGE CHTTMS.—Class A. Code. Veenwortel. 700 ft- $105.00. For complete synopsis send for Circular No. 339. Ho. 6334. THE TKATNBB'B DAUGHTEB.—Class A. Code, Veen- werker. 800 ft. S120.00. For complete synopsis send for Circnlar- No. 338. Ho. 6333. MIDNIGHT SIDE OF FATTL SEVEEE.-^ClaES A. Code, • Veenwater. 915 ft. $137.25. For complete synopsis send for Circu- lar No. 334. Ho. 6332. JACK, THE KTBBT.R Class A. Code. Yeenrook. 755 ft. Sii3.2o. For complete synopsis send for Circular No. 331. No. 6331. A RACE FOE MILLIONS.—Class A. Code. Veengrond. 975 ft. $146:25. For complete synopsis send for Circular No. 328. Ho. 6330. THE RIVALS.—Class A. Code, Veenjrraver. 780 ft. $117.00. For complete synopsis send for Circular No.- 327. Ho. 6329. STAGE STEUCK.—■Class A. Code, Veendamp. : 785 ft. $117.75. For comple te s ynopsis sen d for Circular No. 326, Ho. 6323. THREE AMERICAN BEAUTIES, HO. 2.—Class A. Code, Veeobaas. Length So ft. Price. $24.50. For complete synopsis send for Circular No. 337. ATTENTION! ATTENTION! ATTENTION! - Nickelodeon and! Vaudeville Managers, Dealers, Benter*. and ., Exhibitors. The following list of headline and feature subjects are ENTIRELY otw to & large nmsbec ■cf those SOW identified with the motion picture business, as well as to a majority of the patrons of the , PRESENT DAY of notion picture exhibitions, We have just filled ' a, SINGLE order from ono of the largest and oldest exhibition and rental bouses in the country for 40,000 feet of film selected from the sub jects given below, which tells its own story plainer than words. Why should YOU not take this opportunity to profit by existing con- ditions 1 All- ordinary size orders made up and shipped within 12 hours after receipt of order. No. " 5799. The Great Train Robbery 746, A 6034. Capture of "Yegg" Bank Burglars 960. A 6045. Parsifal 1975, S 6052. Maniac Chase 530, B 6116. The Kleptomaniac... 670, A 612a. Tbe Seven Ages 415, A 6127. How Jones Lost His Boll 575, A 6147. "Baffles" the Dog.. 635. A 6156. Stolen by Gypsies.. 845, A 6181. The Little Train Robbery 725, A 6187. The White Caps 835. A 8100. Poor Algv 315. A 6211. The Watermelon Patch 725. A 6214. Down on the Farm.. 440, A 6222. Train Wrecker*.. .-C Slfc A 6221. Everybody Works bat Father ...: 350, A 6223. Life of an American Policeman, with, section showing river tragedy.. 1000. A . 6239. Dream of a Rarebit Fiend 470, A No. 6241. A Winter Straw Ride 500, A 6245. Tbe Terrible Kids.. 600, A 6259. Life of a Cowboy.. .1000. A 6223A, Life of an American Policeman, with section showing desperate en- counter between burglar and police 1000, A 6263. How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game 7S3. A 6265. Waiting at the Church .- 470, A 6266. Eatbleen Mavour- neen 1000. A 6276. Getting Evidence.... 930. A 0277. Scenes and Incidents D. S. Military Academy, "West Point 345, A C279. Honeymoon :-• at Ni- • - agara Falls.... 1000, A 6312, Daniel Boone; or Pioneer Days in Anrer- ; lea 1000, A 6313. The Teddy Bears 935, A 6327. The Nine Lives of a Cat 955. A EDISON MANUFACTURED COPJ3PAKY MAUI OFFICE a FACTORY 72 LaSesifio Avo„ Orange. [J. J. NEW YORK OFFICE, ...... jo Fifth Avenue CHICAGO OFFICE, ...... SC4 Wabash Avenue OFFICE F0Q UH1T2D IHHGSOHi 25 Cla?l£out7cll Head, London; E. C. England. SELLING AGENTS: The Kicetograph Co.,41 East21st St., New York George Breclc, 550-554 Grove St., San Francisco, Cal. , DEALERS IN ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES. alleging that ioo feet of film, valued at ten cents a foot and used by Harry Ward, manager of the defunct Airdome Thea- ter, has never been returned to them, and that Mr. Goss, who went guarantor for Ward, is therefore responsible. The suit was taken up in Municipal Court some time ago, but was adjourned. When it again was taken up another adjourn- ment, was taken. » Mr. Goss, through his attorney, Cornelius Buckley, has en- tered a general denial to the charges and will fight the case. T. D. Woolsey is appearing for the Chicago company. • * • -* Grand Rapids, Mich., is rapidly getting to be the moving pic- ture city of the State, if the present shows arid, the continued petitions for licenses is any criterion. Another 'show has been added to the list when Moses Salarny filed a petition with the city clerk for a license to operate a show on West Bridge street * * * . Manager Lucas, of Americus, Ga., has been unable to get a musician and has had to depend upon the kind offices of friends. He has canvassed Savannah, Atlanta, .Macon and other cities, . but without success. "We are somewhat up against it," said Manager Lucas, of Glover's Opera House. "It looks as if musicians were the most popular artists abroad in the land. It would be the easiest thing to get up a theatrical company or companies on short notice, but when it comes to the musical artists they are all engaged, it seems. "I am still working, and hope to get one by and by. In the meantime we are hoping that our friends will continue to help us out. The search will be kept, up until an expert is secured, and then we can let other seekers after musicians do the worry- ing."- . [Perhaps some of our readers would like to communicate with the above and gain a position.— Ed.] * * 9 MATINEE PRICES' RAISED. From Calumet, Mich., we learn that the management of the Grand and Star Moving Picture Houses have decided to raise the admission charge to their week-day .matinees to ten cents for,adults. Children will be charged five cents. On Sunday af- ternoon the admission will be ten cents for both' adults and children. The previous rate has been five cents for adults. In.'view of the decision the managements of the Star and Grand Theaters and the management of the Bijou announces that the admission to its Sunday matinees.in.tbe future will be fifteen cents. On week days the price will be ten cents, as usual. * * * PANIC AT A MOTION PICTURE SHOW. That the panic which occurred at one of the many motion picture shows in this city last Tuesday evening was not attended by. calamitous results must be regarded as a fortunate circum- stance upon which it would be folly to presume for future' im- munity. What happened then may happen any time. An ex- plosion of the machine was followed immediately by fire, and at. once there was. a wild stampede for the door. Fortunately, the proprietor of the place kept his head, and by his presence of mind somewhat allayed the fears of the frantic people who were struggling to get out, and to this may be attributed the fact that no one was killed and that while several peersons were cut and bruised in. the. crush, only two are said to hava been seriously injured. But an accident which might so readily have developed into a disaster shows the existence of a constant risk against which it is imperative that appropriate precautions be promptly taken. This is a subject upon which The Inquirer has more than once raised a voice of warning. There are a great many motion pic- ture shows in Philadelphia, and it is well within the limits of the truth to say that the majority of them are in varying de- grees unsafe. Those which are arranged with an adequate and intelligent care for the protection of the public are only a small proportion of the total number. These, entertainments are nearly all given in rooms which were not originally intended to be used as auditoriums, but which have been adatped to that purpose with a. controlling if .not an exclusive regard to pro- viding accommodation, such as it. is, for just as many people as could be crowded into the space available for their reception. With this object the aisles are made so narrow that in the case of. a crowd there can be. np freedom of movement along their length. The rows of seats are.placed so close together as to render ingress and egress difficult, while the single exit is so restricted that anything like a crowd must choke it.at once. It is the exception where there is, any exit except in the one direction. Some of these shows, not many, are given in corner buildings, which admit of lateral openings, but the great ma- jority can only be entered from the front, where so much room