Moving Picture World (Mar-Dec 1907)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. and will be fitted up for the opening about July I. This will make the third electric theater and. moving picture show in Danbury, and it will be in an excellent location for the business. The work of putting in a new electric front and the proper interior fixtures and furniture will be commenced within a few days. It will make a brilliant appearance upon the street and will add largely to the amusement opportunities of the city for the Summer. * * * The “Camaraphone,” or talking and moving picture scene, was the new headliner at Hammerstein’s Paradise Roof Garden over the Victoria and Belasco Theaters. New York, last week. * * * Moving picture show No. 5 was opened on June 15 in the Roller Skating Rink on Twenty-ninth street by Messrs. E. T. Aisthrope and Lloyd Gates, two of Cairo’s (111.) most popular and well-known young men. Realizing the need of a moving picture show uptown, these young men leased the roller rink and opened a picture show there so that people residing uptown will not have so far to go when they want to spend a part of the evening in recreation and pleasure. * * * OPENING ANOTHER PIOUSE.— Lawton & Joyce proprietors of the Grand Theater in Marquette, Mich., have secured a location for a moving picture-illustrated song theater at Green Bay, and Mr. Joyce is now there getting the house in condition for the opening the latter part of this month. This will make five houses under the management of the firm and a vaudeville theater is also soon to be opened by them in the lower peninsula. * * * Albion, Mich. — Suit for damages has been brought against Dr. Samuel Dickie, Dr. F. E. Day, Prof. Clarence Greene, Dr. A. J. Abbott and H. N. Post, of the Albion Methodist Church, for suppressing a moving picture exhibit in the church after Prof. G. S. Kimball, superintendent of the Sunday school, had signed the contract for three Sunday school benefit performances. Billboards of the city were covered with lurid posters announcing that “The Great Train Robbery,” “A Daring Daylight Robbery,” “Those Terrible Kids” and “A Slick Pair” would be seen at the Methodist Church. The Methodists were shocked by the glaring announcement and the doors were locked after the audience began to arrive for the first performance. “Her Sweet Smile Haunts Me Still” and “The Beauty Show” were not seen. The house was dark and the box office didn’t open. The show people now bring a suit for damages. Superintendent Kimball, who signed the contract, is now in New Jersey, but the other prominent Methodists will answer in court. * * * Once more the question of right between moving picture emporiums and the believers in a strict Sabbath was threshed out before Magistrate Tighe in the Butler Street Court, Brooklyn, last week, and this time a previous decision was reversed, and Elijah D. White, proprietor of an establishment at 388 Court street, was held for the Special Sessions, despite . the vigorous protest of his brother and counsel, Elmer S. White. Halfden Bryeldsen, a musician of 399 Union street, was the complainant, and he charged the defendant with conducting a Sunday performance in his establishment on May 19. Attorney White made an impassioned plea in his brother’s behalf. He denounced Justice Kelly’s recent M 7 decision in the matter of Sunday performances with hearty conviction, and just as heartily lauded Justice Marean, whose previous ruling left the proprietors of such places to their own devices. Pounding the desk with his fist, Mr. White declared that Justice Kelly had displayed premature judgment and taken a course without precedent. This outburst of eloquence followed a denial for dismissal. The attorney took advantage of the fact that Magistrate Tighe had previously dismissed the defendant on a similar charge, after Justice Marean had made his ruling. He asked the Magistrate how he could hold the prisoner on this occasion if his action in discharging him previously had really sprung from conscientious construction of the law. Pie declared that the activity of South Brooklyn ministers, physicians, etc., had already injured his brother’s business, and declared that it would work further injustice if the man were held for the Sessions. But the Magistrate decided that arguments pro and con should be passed upon by the Court, and he disposed of the case accordingly. * * * MOVING PICTURES OF POLAR GAME.— To hunt the polar bear, the musk ox, the walrus and the caribou at home in the shadow of the North Pole, not only with his rifle but with a moving picture machine as well, is the Summer vacation planned by John R. Bradley, an amateur sportsman of New York City. Lie will depart on July 1 to board his auxiliary schooner at Boston. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, former companion of Robert E. Peary, veteran of Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, will accompany him. Mr. Bradley has hunted in every part of the world except the vast, unexplored territory of the Arctic Circle. He has made several trips to Africa and to Asia and has covered almost every foot of big game country in the United States and the Northwest. He was in Mongolia last year seeking the long-haired cave tiger. Before that he was in Thibet, where he obtained specimens of one of the rarest of mountain sheep. For his coming voyage Mr. Bradley purchased a Gloucester fishing schooner, 118 feet over all, and installed in her a powerful engine. He has had her sheathed with three-inch oak and reinforced and braced inside and out. He will take a large crew, with officers and an ice pilot, and does not expect to return until the latter part of the year. “We will go up the west coast of Greenland,” said Mr. Bradley recently, “and hunt caribou for a time. From there we go to Melville Bay, from where I expect to get Polar bear all the way up to Smith Sound, which is 78 degrees north latitude, or within 8 degrees of the ‘farthest north’ reached by Peary. On the islands of the sound and the surrounding mainland we hope to strike the musk ox and, of course, the walrus. These will be particularly plentiful, I understand, in Baffin’s Bay After that we will go south into Hudson Bay, turning into Chesterfield Inlet, if the ice permits, where we will be able to hunt in the Barren lands, for musk ox. “Of course, I shall attempt to obtain good specimens of game, but one of the interesting features of the expedition will be the taking of moving pictures. I have used the camera largely in all my travels, and had arranged to take a moving picture machine with me last year, but I could not get films in Paris. We hope now to photograph animals as they live and move.” “While I am hunting,” continued Mr. Bradley, “Dr. Cook will be pursuing his studies of the Eskimo. He