The Billboard 1911-09-16: Vol 23 Iss 37 (1911-09-16)

se: TEMBER 16, 1911. The Billboard 55 The best results obtainable in producing Motion Pictures and Spot Lights if ] h i, " | | Nis re ly NEW YORK 165 Greenwich St. are effected with the Just one trial will convince you CHARLES L. KIEWERT CoO. 114-116 Huron St. MILWAUKEE AND ALL LIVE FILM EXCHANGES . "all HA times as m * FORT WAYNE COMPENSARC io he clearer, whiter, intense unflickering li RNG tan waa Ppa ue emma omg Theehine has three adjustments and the circuit can rot break for even an instant in passing from one to another. No delays, no bother, Bo waste, no danger, no heat. Pt AAR...) 1 + ~ ieee It tells you how you can get a FORT WAYNE ELECTRIC WOR 1401 Broadway, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Of General Electric 9 Company, EXPERIENCE OF IMP. CO. Mr. Hayward Mack tells this one: During the course of the stay in Havana an Itallan grand pera company failed to find sufficient favor among the natives to bring proceeds up to ex penses, and they were left stranded at the ho tel, while the Payret Theatre closed until the next company was due The day after the last performance the Imps were on thelr way to a place outside the city, where some scenes were to be taken They were already made up for the pictures, and some women on the street cat took them for the stranded opera troupe. One of the women in the crowd, surmising that the Imps could not speak English, was jesting quite freely about the sad appearance of the singers and finally suggested that a collection be taken up for their benefit. The remarks the Imps had heard had tickled them almost to the bursting point, and the suggestion of the collec tion for their benefit was more than they could stand. At this remark, Mr. Ince, director of the company, arose, and pulling a wad of money from his pocket of such size ag to forbid pasSage of it through the epiglottis of any equine, nearly a thousand dollars which he had to send on this production, showed it to the crowd and thanked them very kindly for their offer just as the car reached its destination and the company were ready to alight. Mr. Mack leclares he will never forget the expression on the women's faces as they gazed from the car $50 01 55.00 nches. J windows at the company strutting off in the dis is tance. with Mr. Ince’s pocket bulging out on 8. the side where he carried the greenbacks. + Mr. Weston. the allround man of the com Pany, had many strange and exciting experi PANS-§ ers with the people to whom moving pletures themselves were strange, and the taking of them P beyond their comprehension, but the following et AB tiperience he likes the best: It was decided ce take ‘ =o picture. and as a Dutch ship S in pert, a Dutch setting was determined some por Mr. Weston was detailed to secure ideas on Dut milltary costumes from the officers rren’ ° f.. tp Mr. Weston asked to see the cap ‘Bo. Ms gentleman was very much inclined with * Weston overboard rather than converse vats on Dutch enstoms Mr. Weston was cost, affa ven subservient The captain would Mr. Weston told him of the pride with Americans looked on the Dutch millem. The captain grew Interested. Mr haces sked to see some of the military cos ume He was shown them. He admired, — even sald that he envied the Dutchmen “4 mn grew warmer. Finally Mr. Weston * might borrow some of the costumes, ot le it he wanted to hold them up and m4 them. The captain was hesitating, rt ‘greed to the garments being pro me since it was for “educational pur — Weston had put If. After the gar Imr were secured the male members of the imi} ‘any proceeded to take pictures of lend e and. in fact army tactics tn Hol moe the ald of the suits. This was not valled Mhe next day the old captain was pre whi on to give a naval demonstration, fn , ised up several hundred dollars’ worth tien. “Who says the Dutch are not education,”” says Mr. Weston, + mi ‘f moving pictures in public often re the reat deal of ‘crust’? on the part of tn order not to have the picture fn terfered with, and also to get such people who are not in the company and whose pictures are H E desired to act properly. Mr. Miles was directing the taking of. a picture outside the Florida Hotel, on Obispo Street, the main street of the town. It was during the carnival, which is held during Lent, and which turns the town WEEK practically over to the amusement-seeking ele Wwo-Ament. Mr. Miles became so interested in the HANHOUSER picture that he failed to notice that in holding up traffic he had blocked the street for five or six blocks on both sides of the scene of opera tion. When the taking of the picture, which lasted about fifteen minutes, was over, Mr. Miles noticed the crowd and two huge coppers simultaneously. The cops sought a reason for blockading Havana's Broadway for fifteen min utes in the middle of the day during the car nival season. Mr. Miles aft first could think of no reason especially this privilege, = he knew ot many odd ee got by the police in carnival time, so explained 6 be that it was part of the carnival. The officers ‘ft Must be so. wanted to ee the nature of their stunt, so Mr. | DOvVel in itself. Wateh for it. Miles just told them the name of the picture. HANH EW Where There's Life There's Hope. This sounded , faky enough to be in connection with the carpival. and as the blockade was beginning to loosen about this time, the officers were satisfied, and Mr. Miles was not apprehended. + | Joe O'Donnell, electrician, declares that if he ever gets to Spain he is going to square with Weird—Fnthralling—Unusual | a series from the novel by RELEASED TUESDAY, SEPT. 12.| RELEASED FRIDAY, SEPT. 15. The Buddhist Priestess} IN THE CHORUS A Look on the Inside —NOW FOR THE BIGGEST-|. why he should be allowed [ny 9 few weeks we will release “THE EARLY LIFE OF DAVID COPPERFIELD," first of i arles Dickens. It is a complete story. “DAVID COPPERFIELD” has been divided into three periods, each a complete GREATER THAN ‘Romeo and Jullet."’ “The Exhibitor’s Guide,” containing the Thanhouser Lobby-Decorator, sent FREE OF CHARGE to all who carn show connection with the Moving Picture Business. ADDRESS, SHOW DEPT., THANHOUSER CO. NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y Sales Company Agents for U. S. and Canada. We realize as well as you that some one of the nobility there for one of his , experiences on the island. Joe and the scenery | painter, Kline, were meandering about Havana | one Sunday afternoon, when they noticed a | Spaniard eyeing them curiously. He followed | them for several blocks and finally approached them. He explained that he was a_ chauffeur for a Spanish prince sojourning in Cuba, and marked: ‘‘What Is it?’ Ruby says these three also inquired if they would like to see a bull | words were the most consoling ones he has ever fight. He explained that one had been tipped | heard spoken. An interpreter was now on hand off to him. and that for the small admission fee | who could explain. After some conversation, of one dollar paid to him the bull fight could | Ruby was relessed. and found out the next day be seen. This proposition struck Joe and Kline | that the fine for carrying a gun was six years’ as being about what they were looking for, and | imprisenment, and he had a forty-eight in each they hauled forth the dollars The Spaniard | of his hip pockets all the time, and was sure then conducted them to a private residence on | to dave been searched at the police station had ‘the outskirts of the town, where he showed | not the interpreter happened along just at the them hanging on the wall a rather cheap ofl | moment he did. painting of the bull in the battle scene. Kline A Moving Picture arrested—Mr. Jack Read is somewhat of a painter himself, and has a| Jr.’s experience: A scene was being taken outfull appreciation of the art but he sort of | side the Miramer Hotel, showing a quarrel and feels, he says, that if ever the Spanish prince | fight between some men at a table. In the mid | journeys to West 56th Street in his machine, | dle of the scene a bantam-weight Cuban policethere will be a dead Spaniard before they | man comes around the corner, and seeing the make their exit. fight, draws his sword, or ‘‘machete (nearly as * big as himself), and with a shout came dashing on to the scene. waving his machete in one hand and trying to draw his revolver with the other. The director, photographer and bystanders shouted a warning, but no use—the little bluecoat jumped into the picture, and dashing in among the would-be combatants. ordering their immediate submission to the law. This, of course, broke up the picture, while the director drew out ai special permission, signed and Ruby, the property man, will never again journey in foreign lands without first gaining at least a smattering of the language spoken there. He started out one day to have some of the costumes pressed, and through a misunder standing was directed the wrong way and landed at the suburban end of one of the trolley lines, As he disembarked from the car he was seized by two officers of the law, neither of whom | Sealed by the Mayor of Havana, and showed it could speak English, and accused of stealing to the officer. When the little copper saw the the garments he had with him. Ruby creased | OMcial document his eves bulged and his de meanor quickly changed from anger to respect, end seeing the looks of annoyance on the faces of the director and actors, quickly said with suare Spanish diplomacy: “Caballeros, you should not be angry at what I have done, as it only serves to show how good and how realistic your ‘artistas’ perform: it fooled even me, an officer of the law."’ And thus, of course, we had to pat him on the back and call it square. (To be continued next week.) some of the trousers with his fingers. and tried in every way to explain what his mission was, but to no avail. His association with the moving picture actors had taught him much about pantomime, but in this case it failed to work. Ruby refused to be arrested, and the argument lasted for some time. He was fust about beginning to think that he would “have to ex lain to the Hleutenant.”’ when a Cuban happened y, and noticing the conversation, casually re ADVERTISERS MOVING PICTURE SERVICE CO. 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