The Film Daily (1918)

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Everybody quit work Monday and there was so much peace celebration that I couldn't get a review ready. Instead am giving you this fine example of a "come back" from the "flu shut down." Old Pal Herschel Stuart of Hulsey's Theatres in Texas pulled it. HoW It Happened That No One Caught the "Flu" at Hulsey 1 heatres f\' A germ never did and never can live in the Old Mill or Queen or Hippodrome Theatres. Why? Easy. These shows are ventilated — not by any fancy method, but by "the open window" process. That's nature's own way of sanitation and prevention. You can't beat it. Doctors will tell you the same thing. ff What do we mean by "the open window" way? We mean the old-fashioned way, the same as you may do in your bedroom at night for proper ventilation. You lower the top sash of your window and raise the lower sash. Nature does the rest. There is a circle of fresh air to breathe and "used air" is drawn thru the top sash. fl[ You never breathe the same air twice at the Old Mill or Queen or Hippodrome Theatres. You never breathe your neighbor's air. He has his own individual supply provided. You never breathe "used air." Don't forget that! You get it fresh from outdoors by "THE OPENWINDOW WAY!" Fresh air is an important element in human life, health and Hulsey theatres. That's worth remembering. Here air is changed (not every three minutes), but AT ONCE, continually — it's always on the jump. fT How does "the at-once" system work? Great "pull" fans draw fresh air into the theatre. Great "push" fans sweep the "used air" thru the roof. Watch what happens to a Hun -of -agerm: A lady sneezes. You don't think she had the "Flu." Don't worry! Maybe there was a germ in that sneeze. Let's follow that son-of-a-gun of a germ a second. That's as long as he'll visit with us. The sneezing lady was his last friend. The "push" fans got his number the instant he was east upon his own resources. His will be a hard journey. Up, up, up goes brother germ, like lightning, toward the roof, thru the vents in the roof and is hurled into eternity (his finish) upon the roof or street below, where he bakes in the sun and dies the death becoming to a Hun. f[ That's the system in Hulsey theatres that keeps you well. Every morning from sun up till open ,up time every door and window and fire exit is thrown open to let in Nature's sunlight in great beaming rays that pour in like big flashlights from Uncle Sam's ships. Porters are busy here and there — not with brooms, but with vacuum cleaners. No dust is raised, but every speck of dust is beating it for the ash can — not circulating about and landing on the seats or walls. That finished, the porters give the carpets a bath in a spray that makes them sweet. f[ During the time we've been closed we've renovated in spite of the regular daily precautions. Every stick of furniture, the walls, the ceiling and the screen have been washed with water and soap. The carpets have been taken up and cleaned by experts. Even new carpet paper has been substituted for the old. Even the clocks have been taken down and apart, oiled, polished and cleaned. flT When we open, next week, you can come home to the pleasures recently given up temporarily. We'll welcome you, as always, with open arms. We will want you to feel at home. We are bereaved for the loss of some clear friends who were victims of the plague. Some measure of consolation will come when we will again be permitted to mingle with hundreds of friendly faces and be comforted by hundreds of friendly voices. It will be indeed comforting to hear gentle women and strong men again roaring with laughter at a bit of comedy in the film. And it will be glorious to again hear those children in the front rows scream at the antics of the comedians in the pie comedies. There are few things more worth living for than to hear and see a group of happy children laughing while at play in a picture show. iT We believe that beginning next week or very soon that things will be much happier for us. Possibly being separated a while will make us appreciate each other more. It's going to be splendid to see the "Great White Way" on Elm street ablaze with the glare of a million lights and to. take part in the lure of the crowds and the hum of merry voices and when we can again see Charlie and Mary and Doug and all the rest thru the greatest medium of fun and amusement on earth — THE SCREEN. When our good friend Mayor Lawther says "Open Sesame" it will be a sure-enough "Sesame," and we'll all be kids together again. Eh, what? At HtiUey'* Health *RejorU Zyhe Old Mill. Queen. Hippodrome a Texas ' Greatest Shows 9 '