Reel and Slide (Jan-Sep 1919)

28 REEL and SLIDE jmmiimiiuiiiiinimimiinmiiiiiiiiiiiNiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiniiiiiNii Here and There imimnimiimniiiinimnmimiimilimillllllllllllll Lantern slides are being used in a civic campaign at Louisville. Elwood Street, executive secretary of the Welfare League of that city, is speaking in the churches, delivering an illustrated lecture entitled "Team Work for a Better Louisville." Dr. Leslie W. Sprague of the University of Chicago showed slides in connection with a lecture on "Reconstruction and Our Duty to the Returning Soldier" before the Rotary Club of Johnstown, Pa., recently. Dr. Sprague spoke as a representative of the United States Department of Labor. Miss Jane A. Neil, principal of the Spaulding School for Crippled Children in Chicago, has asked permission of the board of education to have the activities at the Spaulding school filmed for exhibition before an international Red Cross meeting at New York, where she is scheduled to speak. Students at the Doylestown, Pa., high school have purchased a motion picture machine and will use it for educational and amusement purposes both. Rev. Dr. Armstrong of the Central Church, Williamsport, Pa., recently gave a lecture on the Zionist movement, illustrating his remarks with lantern slides on Palestine. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, premier American ace, used both motion pictures and lantern slides in a lecture at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Mass., recently. The films showed encounters between American and German airplanes and the slides showed phases of airplane construction. Prof. Edgar A. Emens of Syracuse University spoke at Auburn, N. Y., recently, using lantern slides to illustrate his address, which was entitled "Greek Life as Shown by Memorial Sculptures." Dr. Bransford Lewis of St. Louis, addressing the Sangamon County Medical Society at Springfield, 111., used lantern slides to illustrate his remarks on "Diagnostic and Operative Cystoscopy." "Is Christianity a Success?" was the theme of an illustrated lecture given at a convention of Seventh-Day Adventists at Fleetwood, Pa., recently. The eight-reel production of "Les Miserables" was shown recently at the high school in Ardmore, Okla. The picture was shown under the auspices of_ the senior class and was the first of a series of six to be shown in a period of six weeks. The primary object of the exhibitions is to encourage community gatherings. Other pictures to be shown are "The Last Days of Pompeii," "The Vicar of Wakefield," "Vanity Fair," "The Chosen Prince" and "Quo Vadis." School children of Springfield, Mass., recently were shown lantern slides in con nection with a talk on "Swatting the Fly." An illustrated lecture was given recently in the Guthsville, Pa., school building under the auspices of the state department of agriculture on the different diseases of potatoes and how to control them. Speaking on the subject, "Garden Roses for Everybody," Ernest F. Coe, landscape architect, showed an audience in New Haven, Conn., many beautiful lantern slides in natural colors. The address was given under the auspices of the New Haven Woman's Club and was free to the public. A moving picture entertainment was given at the Lansing Theater in Troy, N. Y., recently for the benefit of the ParentTeacher Association of the Powers School. Two performances were given and the theater was filled each time. The committee in charge consisted of Joseph Wallace, Samuel E. Rounds Jr. and Sidney Rolls. Prof. Roy E. Jones, poultry expert of the Connecticut Agricultural College, addressed Meriden poultrymen recently on "Brooding and Rearing of Chicks," illustrating his points with lantern slides. George Leland Hunter, an authority on tapestries, gave an illustrated lecture on "Rare Tapestries" recently at the Detroit Museum of Art. "Our Teddy," the motion picture visualizing the life of the late Theodore Roosevelt, was shown free to school children of Lorain, O., a short time ago in the auditorium of the local high school. Three showings were given, on Friday', Saturday and Monday mornings. C. P. Bull, a member of Jaeger's Red Cross agricultural mission to Serbia, gave an illustrated lecture on "Conditions in Serbia" to the Junior Auxiliary of the Council of Jewish Women at Minneapolis recently. Rev. C. Harmon Johnson, pastor of the Clinton, 111., Presbyterian Church, showed lantern slides in connection with an address on "Early Pioneers and Heroes of Illinois" in his church recently. Using lantern slides and diagrams, Leon R. Brown, office and field engineer of the New York State railways, explained to an audience in Rochester, N. Y., how he had taken soundings in the Niagara River. Addressing a gathering in the Baptist Church at Glens Falls, N. Y, Prof. L. D. Cox of the landscape engineering department of the New York College of Forestry, showed colored lantern slides to illustrate his remarks. "Park Service in the Community" was Prof. Cox's subject. H. J. Hoffman, assistant state superintendent of public instruction of Illinois, showed films contrasting the early oneroom country school with the modern equipped schools of today when he spoke at the dedication of the Hawthorn School at Libertyville recently. "Art Here and There in Massachusetts" was the subject of a stereopticon lecture under the auspices of the New Bedford Women's Club. The lecturer was Mrs. Alice Howland Macomber. Dr. Charles Theodore Carruth of Boston, lecturing at University Museum in Philadelphia on "II Beato Angelico," the famous painting of Fiesole, showed works of the artist with lantern slides. The value of lantern slides in the study of chemistry was demonstrated by Wallace C. Crawford, headmaster of the Boston Trade School, in an address at the annual meeting of the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers in Boston. Mr. Crawford showed views of the nitrate fields in Chile and of the stock yards in Chicago. To demonstrate methods of safety in the handling of explosives, Col. James L. Taylor recently showed a number of lantern slides to 375 employes of the New York Central Railroad at Newberry, Pa. Rev. Charles F. Ulrich, pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist Church of Columbus, O., used lantern slides in connection with a lecture on "What Shall Be the Signs of the End of the World?" The slides pictured signs that the speaker declared already had been perceived and signs that he said would be given later. The East High School Parent-Teacher Club and the junior class at Aurora, 111., recently gave a movie entertainment afternoon and evening in the high school auditorium. The picture shown was "The Way of a Man With a Maid," featuring Bryant Washburn. Because they are unable to obtain slides of subjects the}' want, students of the eighth grade at Grant School, Forest Park, 111., are collecting picture postcards of training camps in America and France, which can be used in the stereopticon machine. "Fit to Win," the government film dealing with disease, w-as shown in the Chamber of Commerce auditorium at Columbus, O., twice daily for three days under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club. The picture was shown to explain the purposes of a free clinic which has been opened in Columbus through the appropriation of $10,000 by the city council. Speaking on the subject, "Great Women in the World," Ira P. Dean, religious work secretary of the Railroad Y. M. C. A., at Harrisburg, Pa., used lantern slides to aid the effectiveness of his lecture. The Virginia Mechanics' Institute of Richmond, Va., has been presented with a motion picture machine by Jake Wells, a prominent exhibitor of the South. Teachers of the primary department of the Sunday School of the First Baptist Church at Altoona, Pa., reviewed the lessons of the first quarter with colored lantern slides. Dr. Donald A. Armstrong of New York lectured on "Health" at the Haverhill; Mass., High School recently, illustrating his lecture with stereopticon views, after which several reels of motion pictures were shown. Prof. Louis A. Fuertes of Ithaca, N. Y., recently showed motion pictures and lantern slides of bird life at a meeting held in Syracuse under the auspices of the Boy Scouts.