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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS
FIRST KEYSTONE TWO-ACT COMEDY
"Zuzu, the Band Leader" Features Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling
WITH the motion picture "Zuzu, the Band Leader" the Keystone Company enters the field of two-part comedies. This is the first of the famous Keystone laugh-makers to appear in that length. Its success means much to the producers and will be watched with interest by other producers. So, on this single picture, rests considerable importance. This fact has spurred the Keystone producers on to do their best and the result is a two-reel comedy picture which is bound to set a new mark. It goes the whole length without a dull moment and has proved, by its reception, that motion picture patrons will welcome two-reel comedies even more enthusiastically as they have welcomed the one-reel comedies.
Ford Sterling and Mabel Normand, those two inimitable comedians, with their numerous fellow players are likely to cause many a stitch in the side when this picture is shown. It is by far the best that they have produced in a very long time in point of humor. Even the staid censorship board and the apathetic press were mighty interested when the picture was shown at a private exhibition. And it might be added that all felt . in a better humor after.
Any one who is acquainted with the work of these two stars, and "anyone" means everyone, can well imagine what two thousand feet of it must be like.
It is not necessary for Sterling to have a story. He is the story by himself. But the addition of a corking
THE GIRLS FLOCK AROUND ZUZU
good comedy does not detract from his work or its effect.
So agreeable and profitable has been the work of the Keystone Company aided and abetted by the two mentioned and Mack Sennett, that their work has been copiously copied by several other companies.
This picture was produced under the personal direction of Mack Sennett, the Keystone magazine director.
In Los Angeles the Keystone people may have the city hall if they re
quire it, so popular are they.' • Many times have they called out the, fire department or needing assistance the regular police department have aided them with a few "comedians."
This first two-reeler is to be supplemented by a number of others all of which will be released as "specials," the booking of which will be done through the Mutual exchanges.
A. D. M.
ROYAL FILM EXCHANGE BUSY
The Royal Film Exchange, of 286 Market street, Newark, which distributes the Universal program in New Jersey, has sold to the Bergen Theatre, at Bergen and Springfield avenues, Newark, an automatic ticket machine of the latest design. They have also furnished the City Theatre, at Springfield and Twenty-first streets, Newark, with a mirroroide curtain, 850 opera chairs, an automatic ticket machine, and two Powers 6A projection machines.
IN ALL HIS GLORY
Lorimer Johnston, one of the directors of the American Film Manufacturing Company at the Santa Barbara, Cal., studios, has just started a three-reel feature production.
The story is laid in America, and embraces the periods of 1860, 1880, 1900 and 1913. The parts are all played by the same people. The picture starts in 1900 and goes back to 1860, showing the cast in their younger days, and then bringing all the characters up to the present day.