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8 THEICHARLOTTE NEWS, MARCH 9, 1908. lie PICTURES POPULARITY OF m EER YWHEBE Thousands Daily Seek The Picture Shows for Amuse ments And Are Benefitted Thereby "Poor Man's Theatre.' ' Acting in Moving Picture Shows Must be Versatile The Actors Well Paid for Service And Find Work Pleasant. The moving picture tidal has swept across the amusement world, engulf in?: and submerging all other forms of cheap amusements, says Roy L. Me Cardell in the Xew ork World. The dime museum is done for. vau deville is sapped at its foundation and the cheap dramatic company is going, going, gone! It is because a man or a maid for a dollar can have the whole world for a peep show. A dollar means 20 complete bills at j as many nickleodeons. The spectator for nis nickel may be edified. instructed. amazed, and amused. You can see Li Hung Chang carried in his sedan chair by Xew York po liceman. Theodore Roosevelt thun dering at predatory wealth every ana every picture a And many otlier painful and serious ailments from which most mothers suffer, can be avoided by the use of mjiiiEi 5 riiwiu. i ins great remeay is a God-send to women, carrying them through their most critical ordeal with safety and no pain. No woman who uses ''Mother's Friend" need fear the suffering and danger incident to birth; for it robs the ordeal of its horror and insures safety to life of mother and child, aud leaves her in a condition more favorable to speedy recovery. The child is also healthy, strong and good natured. ' Our book "Motherhood," is worth its weight in gold to every woman, and will be sent free in plain envelope by addressing application to Bradffieid Regulator Co. Atlanta, Ga. o o ty""-" o horse comes on the lo the steamer. among the crowds assassin's hands. 210 Metre hill at go move a picture move. McKinley walks to his death at the the Japs charge on Port Arthur, the Russian prisoners by downcast and unkempt. For your nickel you can see the Lus itania going from her pier, the bat tleship Oregon firing her great guns, the Farnham airship in full flight, the Holland submarine boat going down, lit. Vesuivius going tip! The kaiser salutes you for your nickel, the pone blesses you for five cents. Tetrazzini throws you a kiss, and then from the hidden phonograph that wondrous voice of hers climbs up on up. blithely beautiful, to the high est note with which she caps the ca denza in "Rigoletto." Pictures of mirth, pictures of magic, pictures of peril and all for a nickel. For Si you may behold more things than were ever dreamed of in any one's philosophy, Horatio! In this city alone two big vaudeville houses Keith & Proctor's, at Union Square, and Keith & Proctor's on West 23rd street have cut out the contin uous and have put in moving pic tures. They have been named "Bijou Dream." both of them, and the admis sion is o and 10 cents only to the best seats in the house. These prices will cut the receipts in half, but moving pictures will cut the expenses for "the bill" from about $3. )'t0 a week to about $300.00 a week. Besides these two big shows and in their nine leading Xew York playhouses, the Manhattan for the past two seasons has been ex clusively a moving picture show house. Throughout the city proprietors of other features not at this moment profitable are considering the installa tion of the screen and projecting machine. This is speaking of the legitimate theatres built for tragedy, comedy, or vaudeville. It does not include over 400 store show, stucco fronted nickleo deons that survive and seeming ly make money all over the city of Xew York. Xeither does it include some half dozen palatial moving picture theatres built especially for that purpose, as gaudy and glittering as tiles, plaste". ginung, maroie, ami wonueriui hick. electric signs can make them. Two of these are on Fourteenth street, one very recently erected at a cost of $300,000. It is not vaudeville alone that suf fers or vaudeville actors, rather for the vaudeville managers saw the mov ing picture and the nickleodeon was profitable from the start and went into that line on the side. All cheap thea trical productions, the "ten, twent', and thirt' " repertoire companies, the "Uncle Tom'' shows, the cheaper grade of melodrama half of these at least have been forced out of existence by the tidal wave of moving pictures all over the land. The nickleodeon is bright and ag gressive. The "opery house" of the average small American towns is stuck away in a side stret somewhere over a hardware store or a butcher shop or a saloon over something, anyway. It is dark, dreary and dirty. The nickelodeon man gets a lease on an empty store on the main street, tears out the old front, puts in a new one", dazzling white and of ornate de sign and near-art decorations. A girl in the box office sells tickets for $5 a week, an operator at 310 manipulates the lights and runs the picture reel through the biograph. If it is a good-sized town and the business or competition calls for it, a pianist may be employed and a cheap vaudeville team who change their bin twice a week. These last, in dances and comedy acts and illustrated songs that is songs sung while the opera tor changes highly colored stereopti can slides, give variety. That isn't the last word for the moving picture show. There are travel ing moving picture shows now with su perlative "effects." The usual "ef fects" are appropriate sounds and noises with the pictures. The crash box with the comedy tumblf, the en coanu shells "Chip a chip! Clup a. clnp!" when the runaway up the street, the bell comotive. the whistle on etc. But now they have moving picture machines to which phonographs are synchronized. Voices follow or keep pace with gestures. efforts and ex pressions as the pictures flocker on the screen. This isn t all. Moving picture teams are added terrors of the time. A man and woman, sometimes several stand behind and emit dialogue to suit the characters that move and have their being on the films. Twenty-five million dollars is invested in the mov ing picture business in the United States. There is a moving picture trust and moving picture "independents." the business has half a dozen trade pa pers, two in this city alone, devoted exclusively to moving pictures, net to count the space, reading and adver tising given up to this amusement phase as The Clipper. The Billboard, Varieties, and the like. The best trick or magical pictures come irom trance, me best com pictures ami dramatic pictures are made in America. They are all taken from life. Of the moving picture busi ness it can not be said. "Tricks in all business but this," for moving picture taking is lull of tricks, and weird and wonderful things are done through fak ing. substituting and "double printing,' its- u xs eauea wnen one moving pic ture is incongrucuslv incorporated in to another moving picture and all the eye may detect is the wonderment of it. i ne at the garet Wycherly just to nam-1 i few have played pantomimic parts in mov ing picture comedies. Today, now that moving pictures have hurt the other sorts of show bus iness so. Mr. McCutcheon has a list of 2.000 professional people, great and small, big and little, young and old, at his command. The pay is good, the surroundings pleasant, the rehearsals not tiresome, and a picture of many scenes may be a week or more in the taking. Disen gaged or resting actors and actresses are not at all averse to making money in the moving pictures. Wallace McCutcheon. Jr., a real actor himself, lately with Willie Col lier, and now with Xat Goodwin, is perhaps the most versatile. In one picture. "The Elopement," young Mr. McCutcheon. as the gallant lover, had to ride a galloping horse, drive a racing automobile, run a motor boat, jump overboard in Deal Lake when it was made to explode in fragments. ana rescue a girl who couuln t swim. You see him towing her a hundred to shore and then carrying her S ordinary moving picture is sold rate of from 15 to 12 cents nor foot when new. Second hand, it va ries in price according to the popularity of the subject and the condition of the film. Coloring must be done by hand, save where a plain red tint for a fire scene or a light, blush-green tint for moonlight is employed. The coloring pdocess by hand is tedious and must ue painstakingly done, as color not placed just exactly right in every picture will bob around and jump when shown. Taking moving pictures and showing moving pictures simply means that so many separate and. distinct pictures a second, say 15. were taken, and when from the negative film a positive film was run through a projecting machine and 15 separate pictures a second were flashed,, one after another, in the same spot on a screen. The eye sees no movement i nthe scene, only the mov ing objects are made to move by this distinct flashing up of 15 consecutive photographs, one after another, per second. Before the Cooper-Hewitt and other forms of no-actinic electric lights only be taken by good, bright daylight, save at prohibitive expense. The first moving picture of any im portance taken by artificial light was the r.:;-' 'r'. ,: " 1":r ture cc.t ' .- Am r..;:i B.ograph Company ?10,0oo to take. Five miles of film were used and 200 arc lights were employed. The heat of these sickened and exhausted the gladiators. Even more interesting than seeing moving pictures coming out of the pro jecting machine is to see them going into the biograph camera. j Last we gained the guarded por tals of the Biograph studio on west Fourteenth street, and saw them tak ing the "Snow Man." The stage was set with a schoolhouse background. The floor was ankle deep with sawdust (it took white as snow in the picture, because they made a test trip to see). As the boy and girl actors came pour ing out from school, shouting and ges ticulatine:. the nronertv men in the flies tossed down handful after hand ful of white confetti. Electric fans out , of the picture made the confetti swirl j and scatter. When you see that picture you will j take an oath it was snapped during a1 merry blizzard. Snow is on the ground, snow is in the air, snowballs of cotton j or wool are being tossed to and fro.; You will swear it is snow. j The interior of the biograph stu-j dio is as a stage without the footlights, j A photographic "field" is marked off by a cord tacked down to the floor. Step over that cord down front and' will show in the picture distoneu,, . . i It 1 1 1 W I C 1 yards in his arms to a farmhouse. Innumerable "rescues" have been shown that were more than real. A girl, all for the sake of moving pic tures, jumped overboard in winter from a Xew Jersey ferryboat in- mid stream and was picked up by a life saver in a rowboat and she had a somewhat narrow squeak of it. Very few accidents, and those but slight, have occurred in taking mov ing pictures in this country. But in England a man tied to a rail for a melodramatic picture was cut in pieces because the engine driver miscalculat ed and the man was really tied which wasn't really necessary. j In the picture taken by Mr. Mc Cutcheon and Mr. Porter of the Edi son Company called the "Train Wreck ers, you see a gin ueu to me. rails. C;i comes the train: the engineer seed the girl. But it is down grade he can't stop! lie rushes ' from the cab, down the footboard to the pilot, and reaching down, snatches up the girl just as the train is upon her! This is a picture that makes you sit Tip and scream the first time you see it. and it thrills you wildly, see it ever so ofin. Yet this picture at this point is done by trickery with a real locomotive, however by trickery so simple and childish that you'd never forigve me if I explained, and the fair heroine was never in one bit of danger at alh at all. In the United States costly moving picture theatres of the most complete and ornate description are being erect ed. The store show obtains all over Eu rope from Madrid to Moscow, almost as plentiful as here. Shrewd showmen say the busi ness is just begun. So good-bye. Uncle Tom. AI! of Our Foois "Cut to the Point" Don't you need a Knife, Razor, Pair of Shears or a HARDWARE STORE ? someth: me C m H JP I ii Y mm publisi These Mattresses are slightly soiled, not enough to hurt. Just as comfortable as a Forty Dollar Hair Mattress. Money refunded if unsatisfactory. Mail Orders Filled as long as they last furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Pianos given 1000 pennyweights of Old Gold Jewelry. Will pay full market value in cash or exchange new goods for same. - We make special order f'clcb m uui aiiuy uu suun nuuee. .any iunci or repairing prompt auenuon. Garibaldi, Bruns & Leading Jewelers. "I"K-I The Presbylermn College For Worn Vii Bier A3, , J Sis M I V SsiS V V A HIGHER HEALTH LEVEL. ' I have reached a higher health lev- V-T 5 tS Y'o f) equipped schools in the South Life Pills," writes Jacob Springer, of A ,. I..V , West Franklin, Maine. "They keep my stomach, liver and bowels working just right." If these pills disappoint you on trial, money will be refunded at Woodall & Sheppard's drug store. 25c. (INCORPORATED? CASTOR i A For Infants and Children. Tha Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Sigrat"r3 of sa ? 9 t WW pou 4-' l..-lr.r, Otfin . ...... - o J 1 A f i It t-;,"' 'imi win arp irnne. so laTiW as the pic ture is concerned. Thr, i .n. .o wrrp ihpro we saw Man ager McCutcheon, of the company, and his troupe of biograph actors taking ; the merry domestic comedy of "The $ Yellow Peril." A housewife with servant troubles hires a Chinaman, and then she has more servant troubles. The cook throws him out of the window, the courting policeman clubs him. He nleads for rat fricassee, and all is turmoil siinlt :mrl hiitterv. The nd.irs in the moving pictures are real actors, Joseph Jefferson has played "Rip" for the moving pictures. Ross and Fenton have done "Oliver Twist" in Ihe moving pictures. Anna Held has enacted the wineglass scene f..,.,,. wifft" for the moving pictures, and such well known actors as V Kugene Canliebl, Charles Bradford Neil McNeil, Catherine Jefferson, Tay-jH lor Holiness, Uowo Stuart and Mar-j. 1 and as- is 13 t 9 t t i t Before U Buy or Rent C-room house N. Graham St. 2 lots on N. Davidson St. 1 lot on N. Tryon St.. with a 5-( room house on the rear, will i be sold or exchanged for other improved property. Q FOR RENT. O 1 C-room house on E. 3rd St. a 1 6-room house on corner ofp Stonewall and College St., with all modern improvements. $ 2 6-room houses on E. Vance St., a with hot and cold water, also electric lights in each room. 1 7-room house on South "A" St., all modern improvements. 3 7-room houses on S. Church St., all modern improvements. cNDJSl 202 S. Tryon St.. Phone 604. A School with a Reputation for doing hiah-arade work. Ono nf tv,, THE LARGEST. THE BEST. The ctrATKr. Oct fortnl r "".Twy. -rv.- i,n f-v,- 1 - i-3 A J 1 -. & v-c iuvuiij. iviuie siauuaico m pusiuuiis man an other schools in the State. Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Telegraphy and English. Write for hand some Catalogue. Address, KING'S BUSINESS COLLEGE Charlotte, N. C. or Raleigh, N. C. CHARLOTTE, N. C. SECOND TERM BEG INS JANUARY 9, 1901 Special Rates to New Pupils. J. R. BRIDGES, D. D., President, Charlotte Ho Refitted from top to bottom. Excellent Table. Rates $1. Charlotte, N. C Electric light, to $1.25 a day. Hot and Ccld Bath Rooms 50c. Near City Hall. A BOON FOR THE BATH ROOM. COPYRIGHT. A.R 8 E.C In most houses the bath room i; usually the one most neglected a; regards heating, and a cold hath reffl is not only a source of discomior. but the cause of many a bad cold. As electrical radiator will prove a ?r&: source of comfort. 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