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Thomas H. Bates, Cross Examination. 1017
Picture Patents Company's films, and had made the engagement and cancelled the engagement.
Q. I notice that in your letters to the Patents Company you refer to your part of the exhibition in the theatres as a "vaudeville act." A. Yes, I called the attention of the Motion Picture Patents Company to that title, thinking that, perhaps, they would be willing to overlook the other because of the use of the film, by allowing it to go on as a vaudeville act.
Q. You thought it was a vaudeville act when you called it one? A. No.
Q. You did not? A. No, sir, it could not be.
Q. Did you mean to make them think it was a vaudeville act if you didn't think so? A. It was a motion picture, of course. It couldn't be a vaudeville act, but if they allowed it to go by or under the name of a vaudeville act —
Q. You were willing that they do so? A. Yes, sir, I was trying to see if they would do it.
Q. And you were helping them let it go by as a vaudeville act? A. No, they understood the business, and if they wanted to consider it that way, it was up to them to do so.
Q. You lectured, you say? A. Yes, sir.
Q. And the child came forward on the stage? A. Not frequently. You see, I was amenable to the law, and I couldn't take the child upon the stage and connect him as a part of the performance, but I could take him from the audience as a spectator, and with the courtesy of the management let him stand on the stage in front of the audience, and identify him with his picture.
Q. And did you always do that? A. No, sir.
Q. Did you show in other States? A. Yes, sir, in Maine.
Q. In the Stale of Maine you exhibited him right along with the film, and lectured on him at the same time? A. Yes, sir.
Q. And he came on and did the actual act you saw in the picture? A. Yes, sir.
Q. And in that case it was an actual vaudeville act, because the boy went th rough the exact vaudeville acts that are indicated on the film?
M|r. Grosvexor : I object to that as an improper statement of counsel for defendants, and implying