Moving Picture World (July-Dec 1910)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD M White:— This is the mble in this tony neigh borhood, \\ e hav e too many person living above their moan-. Our dear preacher know. them all and when he wants some money he knows where to nil: \\ hy is it thai Mrs Springs dnl not shake hands witli your minister? White: — She is from an old aristocratic family, hut ruined hy her foolish hus band. A -In is -tuck on etiquette, not very congenial and not in a financial position to support the church, our pastor cannot waste much time on her, consequcntlv she is spiteful. Smith:— lias she not a soul to save? Mr-. White: — Have we any time to think of our souls in this high social turmoil? If we had to take religion seriously we would have to close our houses and dress ourselves like nuns. Mrs. Smith: — Yes. the church is nothing else than the Sunday social parlor. * * WHAT THE The Church. Smith: — What i the trouble with your pastor, he badly knocked Curran ?" White: — Our pastor is a paid man, he preaehes to please his congregation. Smith : — You mean to say that your pastor will gladly expose members of another faith and pass under silence ; the sins of his flock? White: — Yes. such is our pastor. smith: — Then why do you go ' to church? White: — By mere necessity and convenience. It pays me to go to church, it even pays me to hire the best pew and to give freely. We are a certain light in this neighborhood and it would be impossible for my wife to keep up her social functions if we were not seen every Sunday in our pew. I am considered some one because I am a regular church member. ■>mith: — Do you mean to say that it advertises your business? Vhite:— Without a doubt. Many of our neighbors would never visit my store, never pay me my prices, if I was not a pillar of this church. I pay no attention to the sermon. I come here to advertise myself. I am well thought of and, although the pastor knows that I play cards, even on Sunday, that liquor is sent to me by the back door, etc., he would never dare say of me what he said of Curran. Our pastor is a wise guy, he likes too much protei I tin (bar lob ib. > bid a murderer in jail, a man that was to be hang< i It -rem that tin :.,!! to til.' I tnui tin condemned man ■,l .1 razor and SO bad ly slashed bis throat that if help bad not arrived he would have died in a few minutes , The folks who bad such sympathy for the lobsters could not mi- the chance of having a m.ui hang at tin end ol o tin Governor v • espited the man to -;i\. chance to the besl doct to fix the neck of the murderer. This murderer would have enjoyed to b> a lobster, for if he had been one they would have allowed him to bleed for a if minutes ' and it would have been tin end, i le was not a lobster but a brother, and human beings do not deserve the sympathy of the good Chri-ti. Mrs Brown: — These are the that want to kill moving pictures. * MEN SAY. The Moving Pictures. -I did not sec you last evening. Brown: — No, T was detained down town and I went to a moving picture show. Jones — What, a moving picture -bow: do you patronize such immoral places ? Brown: — At one time I had the same bad opinion: in fact T was so opposed to ing pictures that T had more than a row with my wife for her letting the boy go to such places Jones: — T think too much of my reputation to go to such places and you will never convert me. Look at tin fuss on the fight pictur Brown -This fuss on the fight pictures is nothing than spite work and a political game on the part of the ministers and newspa pers Jones: — Yon are getting to be ouite an eloquent preacher Who converted you. may T ask? Brown: — Selfass invited me to take supper with him and after he took me to a moving picture theater and I was not sorry of it. Jones:— What did you see there" V man assaulting a woman? A murder? A burglary" What can you see in such places? Browe. : — You can see things that talk to your heart, that give you a good lesson, that help to make better men and women. I saw a French picture.. The title was. T.ove Ye One Another." Jones — With such a title I hi comfort to havi i-t him. You know that my wife i of tin mitti that tin tor i well taken can and tn\ has paid many of the good things found in the I Curran is a member of an Other faith, and as he re d to make a redui on a hill of good sup by bis firm for one of the entertainment-, the p i getting <\ en u itb him by denouncing him as a card player and a drunkard. Smith: — When you invited me t' i gi ■ to \ , mr church I was a little ashamed of my Self, as I bad not been in a church for over 20 year-. White: — You are as well off, because out of the church you can retain certain illusions, while on another hand, you lose entire confidence when you see what is going on in what they call the house of God. Just wait a minute. I hear these ladies coming down and you will he edified wdicn you hear them talk of what they saw at the church. Smith: — In this case you will not get me to go with you this evening. White: — Beg your pardon. You will have to accompany us to church; you are our guest and it is obligatory for us to give you the good example We would he sharply criticized for not taking our guests to church. Smith: — Are wc still under slavery? White: — Yes: under social slavery. The poor does not know how happy he is. that u v. moel Brown : Not on your lifi but it was to me tin revelatii m 1 if our daily injustice towards the poor fellow. (■■in-: Well you know that these beggars do not want work. Aii: T was under the -aine impression because I had been mi-led by th railed charitable institutions who warn us to pay 110 attention to tin-. gars, but to turn them to their societies. What are tbe-e so-called charitable tutions doing? They employ a big force of loaf ers, men and women who would not do an honesl day's work, and to keep this army of loafers on the payroll, the charitable societies invent all the red tape they can to drag the cases. and a man really starving has the chance to dii eral times before he can get help. In the said picture wc see a man out of work, he begs. 'be asks for work, he is willing to do anything, but he is turned down like a good for nothing. Was he a good for nothing' Xo. The last scene shows us the farm buildings burning down and the only man with enough courage to save some precious lives is the beggar, the man that everyone turned down. Is it not a strong moral lesson to mankind? Is it not better than the finest dry sermon? Pictures talk to our senses, while too often the words of the minister are as dry as an empty well. MIRROR SCREEN IN NEW YORK CITY. Through the efforts of Tuck & Manning. 406 Gaiety Theater Building. Xcw York City, wdio represent the mirror screen in this part of the country, one has been installed in the Varieties Theater, 112 Third avenue, just below Fourteenth street. The Varieties Theater is owned and operated by the Goodwin & Hartel Amusement Company. Harry Hartel being the active manager. They certainly deserve credit and the praise of the Moving Picture World as being the first theater in Xcw York to make a large investment simply for the purpose of giving their patrons a better picture. Mr. Porter, of the Mirror Screen Company, who superintended the installation of the screen, remarked that Xcw York wa? yet a town of horse cars and antediluvian ideas. He is right in-so-far as the Wrest can show us really fine moving picture theaters. In Chicago five mirror screens were installed in one week and they can be found in many small Western towns. But "New York has woke up," as Mr. Porter savs. and if theater managers do not appreciate the demonstration which Mr. Hartel is always ready to give, it is because they are wilfully blind. Wc would be accused of partiality if we say more, but our readers will be well repaid by a visit to the Varieties, at 112 Third avenue. Messrs. Tuck & Manning will be pleased to arrang demonstrations and quote prices to exhibitors who are interested in giving their patrons the best possible picture. WINCH LEAVING "BILLS." Frank Winch soon retires from the position of press agent for the "Two Bills." Winch returns to his former position in New York.