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COMEDY.
runs away, cab driver and junk dealer escape, Biddie is dragged out of the ruins more dead than alive, and the cab itself is a total wreck.
For sustained action and actual, unadulterated comedy, Cab 23 has never been excelled, and will be unanimously accepted as the "one best bet" in comedy production.
S. F. 2523-2530. THE ROLLER SKATE CRAZE.
Approximate Length, 500 feet.
Price, $60.00.
Bicycles, automobiles, roller skates and such amusements have each in turn had their vogue and enjoyed their share of popularity, but the roller skate craze, beginning with the young folks, has made good with all sorts and conditions of people, and is now a favorite pursuit with old and young, male and female, fat as well as thin, and short as well as tall. The learners certainly cut funny capers, and some of the funniest "stunts" ever shown by animated photography have been reproduced in this film in such an exceedingly comic fashion that laugh follows laugh in rapid succession, and there is not a dull instant while the picture is being shown. Full of comic action from end to end and so exceptionally good in photographic detail that all who see it will agree in ranking it as the most pronounced comedy success we have yet produced. Just the thing to fill your theater in the hot weather and enthuse your audience when the ordinary subject would hardly wake them up.
To illustrate the prevalence of this craze and the hold it has taken on all comers, we see many prominent citizens on roller skates and cutting up their Comical antics. A messenger boy, cigarette in mouth and perusing a dime novel, pursues his leisurely way, and stopping to rest and read until the thought of a possible tip for speedy delivery of his letter sends him more quickly on his way. A nurse girl, baby in arms, staggers along the sidewalk on rollers, making the spectators tremble for the safety of the precious infant at every lurch which she makes, while a saloon porter with his brush and pail appears to perform his morning work with the handicap of skates under his feet, and makes many a funny tumble, to the enjoyment of the spectators. The majesty of the law is represented by the patrolman on his beat, who has also joined the popular movement but is not very sure of his "standing," and contributes much mirth to the occasion by his wabbly and uncertain movements, while the mail man, better drilled and more at his ease, makes his way from door to door and delivers letters on skates to skates and from skates in a thoroughly "skatorial" manner.
The scene changes to the home of Mr. A. R. Skater, where so
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