Film Fun (July 1915)

0) ! $1 •'7GvA Film Fun Magazine of Fun, Judge’s Library and Sis Hopkins' Own Book Combined Published monthly by LESLIEJUDGE COMPANY. PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK CITY. John A. Sleicher, President. Copyright, 1915, by Leslie-Judge Company, Publishers. Title registered as a trade-mark. Single Copies, 10 Cents Reuben P. Sleicher, Secretary. A. E. Rollauer, Treasurer. 225 Fifth Avenue, New York. Entered at the post-office at New York as second-class matter. No. 316 JULY, 1915 Subscription by the Year, $1.00 jpILM FUN, which makes its first issue with this number, has been the first magazine to occupy the new field in the magazine world, the comedy of the movies. Film Fun will deal with the good, wholesome comedy of the screens, a change which conforms admirably to the general policy of the former Magazine of Fun, while confining it to a special phase of humor — the tabloid comedy of the screens, condensed in sizable doses for the busy reader. In these days of tense appre¬ hension, tinged with the gloom of war, we need more than ever what the comedy in the moving pictures may give us, a taste of fun that for an hour will lighten the shadows that darken the horizon. The comedy of the movie appeals because of its swift ac¬ tion, its ability to evoke spon¬ taneous laughter without the support of the spoken word, on which much of the humor of the stage depends. The man who can make us forget for a brief hour the burdens of the day, and whose fun in expression and ac¬ tion can brush away the cor¬ rugated wrinkles that care and anxiety have traced, is the real man of the hour. The real recognition of this quality of humor lies with the audience. The movie star who can deal with situations, not dialogue, and create laughter, is entitled to his bank president’s salary, for he “has eased the torturing hour” and given a whole¬ some relaxation that has no noxious reactionary effects. The laugh’s the thing. Movies Check Drunkenness gCORE one for the movies! Police magistrates are of the opinion that the workingman, who formerly gravitated to the saloon as the “workingman’s club, ” now goes to the picture ' show and takes the family with him. Magistrate John A. Leach, of the Borough of Queens, New York City, in addressing the Men’s Club of Astoria, com¬ mented on the marked falling off in arraignments for intoxication the last few years. In courts where formerly there were from fifteen to twenty cases of in¬ toxication a day, it is now rare to hear more than three or four. “We magistrates agree,” said Magistrate Leach, “in attribut¬ ing this condition to education and to the publicity given by newspapers showing the general distrust of drinkers by their employers, but principally to the moving-picture theaters.” Saloonkeepers, it is said, attrib¬ ute the falling off of patronage to the same factors.” 'X