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WHY THE OPERATOR LOST HIS JOB
JOHN was the finest operator that ever turned a crank or adjusted a carbon.
John was a husky, manly fellow. He liked his friends to call him " Jack."
But to call him "Johnnie" was like throwing a lighted match into a reel of
film. There would be doings. He wouldn't stand for being called Johnnie
by anyone — except Mabel. Somehow or other "Johnnie" sounded like
music to him when Mabel said it. Mabel was the belle of her town. She had her
choice of its wealthy bachelors, but being sensible as well as beautiful, she preferred a
real man, so she took " Johnnie."
A short time after they were married Jack's luck changed. He lost his job. But a good operator seldom has trouble in " landing," and Jack soon had a new job. At the end of the first week he was let out again, and inside of several weeks he had been " fired " from six houses. Jack was proud of his wife — he didn't want the rich guys who had been turned down to have the laugh on her, so he began to worry, Worrying made him think. And in a little while he had doped the whole thing out like this : .
"Proprietors kicked because my projection was bad — I let the house go dark too often; the pictures jumped all over the screen. I remember now that every one of these houses used a second-class service. Second-class films are always faulty — sometimes one reel has from fifteen to twenty patches out of frame and the sprocket-holes are badly torn. They have every fault a film can have, and even when they run smoothly only one in five is worth looking at. No operator could do any better than I did with them. After this I'll make sure that a house is using the best service on earth before I ask for a job in it."
Then Jack went out and landed a house using General Film service. That was three years ago, and he is still in the same job, well paid, well liked, and well satisfied. Mabel is happy and proud, and she and her two little Johnnies come regularly to see the perfect pictures that Papa projects.
The fans enjoy the good pictures which do not hurt the eyes, and operators appreciate the excellent condition of the films on the program of the
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200 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK
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