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The phonoscope (Nov 1896-Dec 1899)

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THE PHONOSCOPE. November, 1896. IRew films . . . for . . . "Screen" Machines PIER AND WAVES, taken at Coney Island during the great storm of Oct. 6th, 1896. A tremendous hit WAVES AT FAR ROCKAWAY, same as above. MONDAY MORNING WASH DA ST SCENE. Showing washing and hanging of clothes. True to life and very popular. OLD-FASHIONED SPINNING WHEEL SCENE. This is an unusual clear and bright film. Shows fine smoke effects, turning of wheel, and Newfoundland house dog. LOVE SCENE. Showing lovers, entrance of mother, exit of lover on bicycle. A decided hit. FARM SCENE. Feeding of hens and ducks. Unusually fine effects. BACKYARD PARTY. Showing party of colored pickinninies eating watermelon for a prize. This is a most popular film. THE STEAMER ROSEDALE. Showing the ill-fated steamer, which, while loaded with passengers, was recently sunk in New York Hi i-bor in collision with the ferry boat Oregon. PAT AND THE POPULIST. Showing the Populist endeavoring to convert Pat to his own political views. IRISH POLITICAL DISCUSSION. Showing two Irishmen discussing politics over a glass of whiskey. FIRING OF CANNON AT PEEKSKILL BY THE BATTERY OF ARTILLERY. This film shows very fine smoke effects upon the discharge of the gun. LI HUNG CHANG. Shows Li Hung Chang entering his carriage at the door of the Waldorf Hotel, with a file of the Sixth U. S. Cavalry, with drawn sabres, standing nearby. SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK. This view is taken in Mott street, New York City, and shows a busy throng of people. THE N. Y. "WORLD" SICK BABY FUND. Showing the children of the poor people enjoying themselves in swings and on hobbyhorses. THE HAYMAKERS. Showing the cutting of grass with a scythe and sickle in a manner true to life. BLACKTON SKETCHES. The New York "World's" caricature artist, drawing sketches on a screen. No. 1 represents him as drawing a large picture of Mr. Thomas A. Edison. No. 2 showing the artist drawing pictures of McKinley and President Cleveland. No. 3 Is a humorous selection, showing the artist drawing a life-size picture of a female figure, in which the expressions of the countenance are rapidly changed. THE FISHERMAN'S RETURN. This shows the surf breaking upon the shore, and in the distance, two fishermen in a boat, returning from a day's fishing. THE CARPENTER SHOP. Showing three carpenters busily engaged at the work bench. THE OLD GERMAN MILL, in which one of the millers thrusts a woman into the hopper of the mill and she soon emerges from beneath it, having apparently been run through the machinery. CAMEL PARADE. Showing young ladies and children riding on camels. GERMAN CHILDREN. Showing a procession of children and adults, with a German band. THE SAILING OF THE AMERICAN TRANSATLANTIC STEAMSHIP, ST. LOUIS, FOR SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND. Showing ono of the fastest transatlantic steamers afloat, sailing down the river, as she starts on her long voyage. THE FOREGOING FILMS ARE MANUFACTURED AND SOLI) BY THE INTERNATIONAL FILM COMPANY, 150 WORTH STREET, NEW YORK. *phe Latest Popular ^ongs. % ¥ $ THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF THE VERY LATEST POPULAR SONGS PUBLISHED BY THE LEADING MUSIC PUBLISHERS OF THE UNITED STATES .jt .j* j* jt jt j* jt descriptive Songs anb Ballabs. Title. Publisher. Author. An Revoir. Sweetheart. 6 Trevalyn A Picture of My Best Girl. 3 Moreland A Dream of My Boyhood Days. 3 Dresser Bright Happy Days. 6 Walker Dreams of My Own Land. 6 Dean Don't Tell Her That You Lore Her. 3.... Dresser Don't Forget. My Boy. you're leaving home.6.Wheeler Don't give Up the Old Love for the New. 6.. Thornton Down in Tomale Town. 4 A mauds First Love, Dearest Love. 6 Penn. Going for a Pardon. 6 Thornton His Last Thoughts Were of You. 6.. Marks ft Stern In the Baggage Coach Ahead. 3 Davis I'll Be Home To-morrow Night. 6 Howard In the Language of the Flowers. 1 Coburn I Love You, Dear. 6 Stromberg Just Another Girl Who Left a Happy Home. 4.Petrie Johnnie. 4 G. Evans Kiss Me Good-night, Mother. 1 Moran Kathleen. 6 Mora Love Makes the World go Bound. 5 Smith & Englander Love. I Adore You. 5 Cooper & Osborne Love's Souvenir. 6 Feist Let me Call You mv Sweetheart Again. 6 Thornton My Dad's Old Violin. 1 Golden My Gert. 1 Golden & Outcault Mother Was a Lady. 6 Marks & Stern Xo one Ever Loved You More Than I. 6 Marks & Stern On Sunday. 3 Flynn Polly. 1 Blandford & Chase Pebbles on the Beach. 1 Mann & Starr Serenade. 5 Smith Summer Girl of Brighton Beach. 1 Rogers She's a Stranger to Him Now. 1 Campbell Streets of a City Grand. 1 Gillespie Sunday Night In Lover's Lane. l....Ford & Bratton She's been a Mother to me. 1 Ford & Bratton She Might Flirt With Others, Still She Loves but me. 4 Marion Those Lost Happy Days. 6 Feist Two Heads are Better Than one. 5 Goodwin & Morse They All Love Maggie Grady. 3 Slafer The Teacher and the Boy. 6 Marks & Stern Tell Her That we Love Her Jnst the Same. 4 Petrie The Belle of Hogan's Alley Bernard & Blake The Sweetheart I Left at Home. 6 Braisted The Desert Way. 1 Braisted Whisper Your Mother's Name. 6. . .Braisted & Carter When it is Love at First Sight. 1 Mock When the Girl you Love Is Many Miles Away. 6 Cohan & Koepen Wont' Somebody Give me a Kiss? 4 Smith You're so Good, Daddy. 1 Starr You'll be Sorry When I'm Gone. 3 ..Rosenfeld You, Only You. 4 Keene Malt3 Songs. Grace O'More. 6 Witt I Will be Your Sweetheart. 2 Cohan I Love my Girl. 6 Rosev & Reed My YonDg Man. 6 Stromberg On the Benches in the Park. 6 Thornton She's the Sweetest Little Girl in Town. 6 Trevelyan She's the Comfort of Their Home. 6 Rogers Sweet Rosie O'Grady. 6 Nugent Comic Songs. As They Did in Days of Yore. 1. .. .House & Seevers And Then he Woke up. 2 Johnson Appearances Were Against Her. 6 Stromberg Bold Pierre. 5 Smith & Englander Cod Fish Ball. 1 J. & H. Dillon Come Play With me. 5 Hawtrey & Plumpton Down to Coney Isle. 1 Gilmore & Leonard Finigan's Fancy Ball. 3 Gilmore & Leonard Games we Used to Play. 6 Marks & Stern Handicap Vocal. 6 D. Reed, jr. Honeymoon Vocal. 6 D. Reed, jr. Hugh McCue. 2 Cohan I am so Different From the Rest. 4. .. .H. W. Petrie I'll Tell my Big Brother on You. 1 Edgar Selden If I Were Really a King. 5 Smith & Englander Johnnie Took the one I Wanted. 1 J. & H. Dillon Isabelle (a Girl who is one of the Bovs). 1 Ford & Bratton Mary Black From Hackensack. 2.. ..Lew l>o -k^'mler Moonlight on the River. 1 Golden ft Dolen Oriental Echoes Vocal. 6 Reed Oh! Aunt Jane. 4 Petrie Oothcey Koochey. 5 Goodwin & Morse Parlor Sofa Politics. 6 McLaughlin Pebbles on the Beach. 6 Starr & Mann Rootie Tootie. 2 Golden Singing in a Trolley Car. 1 Fuchsius The Real Thing, March Song. 4 Petrie The Day the Farmer Came to See the Town. 4 Keen That's What— By Gosh. 4 Parker There are Things That Cannot be Explained. 1 Horwitz & Bowers When it's a Boy. 4 Goodwin & Morse You're all Right, But You Won't Do. 3 Goodwin & Morse Coon Songs. Ain't I Your Honeyboy no More? 3 Davis Black Four Hundred Ball. 3 Johnson & Cole Dere's a Bully Gone to Rest. 3. .Dryden & Mitchell De Bully's Weddin' Night. 7. .Carleton & Cavanagh Dead Swell Colored Lady. 3 Burke Dancing With the Girl You Love. 2. . . .Schackford Eighth Battalion on Parade. 1.. Williams ft Hogan I'm Lonely Since my Baby's Gone. 4. . . .Emmersou I'se Your Nigger if You Wants me, Liza Jane. 3 Dresser Looking for a Bully. 6 Howard Louiser. 1 Francis My Gal is a High Born Lady. 1 Fagan Raccoon and the Bee. 1 Abeles That'll be all Right, Baby. 2 Cook When Miss Maria Johnson Marries me. 2 Williams ft Walker Yer Baby's a Comin' to Town. 1 Kelly *<!>♦<•>♦<•>♦ fUMscellaneous. All Over Town Booze, Glorious Booze. 2 Deane Boys, She's a Dream Dillon & Levi By a Brook Sat a Lady. 6 D. Reed, jr. Caprice, a great character song. 6 Marks I'm Saving up to Buy a Home for Mother. 2 Cohan Like a Good Little Girl Should do. .Ford ft Bratton Modern Century Girl. 6 Packford Old Jim's Christmas Hymn. 2 Gray Send me a Picture of the Old Home. 1 Arnold Would You Ask. 5 Smith When the Light is Turned Away Down Low. 2 Spauldlng NOTE.— The publishers are designated as follows : 1. Whitmark & Sons: 2. Spaulding & Gray ; 3. Howley, Haviliuid ft Co. ; 4. Petrie Music Company: 5. T. B. Harms & Company: 8. Jos. W, Stern A Company; 7. Carelton & CavanaUffh. We have received lists of numerous other new songs, too late for classification in this issue. 8° a IS T-r^OR THE VERY LATEST i ts METROPOLITAN SUCCESSES — SONGS!! Write to = Spalding & Gray, | 16 West 27th Street, 9 NEW YORK. IAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA