Variety (January 1909)

VARIETY Weak Jan. 4, Hammerstein's Victoria, New York ' Chantouse Permission Messrs. KLAW, ERLANGER and ZIECFELD Miss I mimI my sobriquet of "Dancing Devey" ¥y hard work and originality. Miss Moor* Is the only woman In the business correctly portraying "Cow Boy" and "Book Indian. »» IBS THB ALIO, 6Willard's a Templeof Music" Blake's Animal Circus A liml of sKagecrnft. (At tho American this week.) ruetaring tho Mantoal Sawmill (largest masieal novelty inotrumont in tho world). With tho original goo How, Hand. Biggest laugh of this wook at Linooln Square (ask Dr. Hooligan). lualvoly I ra»o-fc«>cl *>y ^ VI BIOGRAPH FILMS RELEASED JANUARY 4tH, 1909 "THE MANIAC COOK" Biograph Story of a Child's Peril. John Drydon said: "There in a pleasure la bain* mad, whick none bat tho madmen know." With tho family of Mr. Holland thoro la employed a oook wbo has hitherto proved horaelf to be an honest and willing domestic The little family, comprising Mr. and Mrs. Holland and their infant ohild, through dinner, leave Margie, tho oooh, la tho hitchen finishing up her work. fnddowly thoro comes a change over her, her usually feasant countenance taking on a iamnalsn expression. ' sntors, ami Margie, la wild f renay, leaps si her throat Her screams bring Mr. Holland, sad they succeed la stargie and tying her to a chair, and tel e pho n e tho police. Meanwhile the oook, with supernatural effort, from the chair, dashes out of tho kitchen door, and, with a fiend's cunning, takes tho key with her. 80 whoa Holland returns he tads tho oook gone, therefore (Hiiplano the polioesjaa. Discovering tho key gone ho barricades tho door, tat they hare hardly retired whoa tho oook forces how way in. Piokisg up s butcher's clearer, she makes her way to the bedroom, sad her first impulse Is to behead tho sleeping forms of Mr. sad Mrs. Holland, bnt going to tho baby's crib she takes it to tho kitchen, plaoea It la the oven of the range and pro0sets to build a fire. la this she is interrupted by Mrs, Holland, who has come to got soma hot water. Mr. Holland follows to toll his wife to never mind. Tho oooh has already started the Are. As Holland eaters the oook pounces upon him and in the struggle they Jar the oven door open, disclosing the baby's peril. The polioemen, attracted by the screams cf Mrs. Kcl^nd, take the -ock in charge and baby is rescued, none tho worse off for her experience. LENGTH. 583 FEET ■ ■■IS 1 ill. 1 RELEASED JANUARY 7tn. 1909 'MRS. JONES ENTERTAINS" Was Jones Present ? "Well, 1 Guess* * Mrs. Jones Is a member of the Ladies' Temperance League, and has invited the sisters of the League to a luncheon, no lives a note to the offeet that they will accept tho invitation upon condition that Mr. Joaes is not to evidence. This intelligence is most felicitous to Joaes aad ho prepares to "beat it" A Bote, however, from the caterer informs Mrs. Joaes that owing to a strike of the Waiters' Union he is unable to furnish service. "What ia to be donel Ah, I have it, Hubby, dear, shall act" And so Mrs. Jones broaches the subject to him. "What, I, the Hon. Edward Everett Jones, play the waiter to a bunch of antediluvian hens of the Carrie Motion variety* Never, Madam, never!" Bat Mrs. Jones ooo- iagly persuades—"Yes. dear, do this for me. You can put on a false beard and a moustache and no one will know you." W *"» Jonm at lMt we * kenl *»* the maid is dispatohed to tho costamer's for the waiter's outfit aad Joaes, when rigged out, looks the typical garoon. The door-bell rings aad tho Amsaonisn snnihilators of Demon Bum arrive. Holy smoke! What *. buB ? h of P* ckJe *- 'riend Heins never turned out anything sourer in his whole 67 kinds. They are ladies with curdled dispositions and complexions of ohow-chow. Such a frappe pervades the room it makes one's teeth chatter. They eat as if it wove a duty, not a pleasure. The luncheon is served until it comes to the ooffeo, when Jones works his dire design. In all the caps, excepting that of his wife, he pours a generous dose of ram. This the old girls drink with keen relish aad ask for more. Well, you should see those giddy old ladles thaw out. Mrs. Jones is amased. One old lady as far forgets herself as to try to kiss Joaes. This arouses the ire of Mrs. J., who ejects the bunch of booty Eves and then falls weeping into'- ton arms of Jonas, dosing a Biograph subject that is a scream from start to finish. LENGTH. 685 FEET THE BELEA8E DAY8 OF BIOGRAPH SUBJECT WILL BE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE MONDAY AMD FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK. GET ON OUR MAIL LIST AND KEEP POSTED ALL PICTURES ABE MADE WITH OUR WRITE FOR OHR DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULARS BIOGRAPH CAMERAS. OUR FILMS BUM OB AMY MACHINE. AMERICAN MUTOSCOPE -BIOGRAPH COMPANY 11 E. 14th STREET, NEW YORK CITY When anewering advertisement* kindly mention VABORT.