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New Suits
The St vies to He.
The Palais Royal
The writer is just troni a vacation-business tour. The
leading stores of New York and lloston were visited last week
and the chiefs of the various Suit Departments consulted, so
that vou can be told what the women of two great cities are to
wear.
Silk Jersey Top Costumes
W ith Pleated Skirt of Broadcloth.
One of the prettiest of these new costumes, offered at
Sjj.i." the leading stores of lloston, is here at only SiS.^o.
Have one tried on?and learn how truh graceful, are these
new dresses.
H $25
for Very Spin
ning Cost nines,
with silk ierse\ ami
pleated skirts of prunel
l:i < loth.
?20.50
silk braided jersey :in>l
pleated cloth skirt.
$37.50 ,'nmU:
with beaded silk jersey
and black satin duch
esse skirt.
BSsck Chiffon Taffeta Waists, $1.98.
Selling' for Sj.50 in New ''i ork.
I lie correct 1\ new Lnglish and I rench >t\les aie shown,
tailored and fancy. Jet buttons are one feature. All sizes are
here from ^4 to 44. inclusive. Shown as yet only in New
York's most exclusive establishments, at S3.50. I he price to be
quoted here?Si.0^?i^ an advertisement to create an early
autumn demand.
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to 75c,
Well Known Si.00 (iarments.
The Palais Royal's Si. 00 Lingerie,
combining C orset C over and Skirt or Cor
set Cover and Drawers, is well known.
Fitting to perfection and trimmed with
good laces and ribbons, these garments are
extra good value at Si.00.
S1.00 Sactjtics. 69c.
\\ e may be looking to
the autumn-winter, but
you know many warm
days are vet due. so that
these Lawn Sacques. with
low or high necks, are real
ly seasonable and rarely
good bargains at 69c.
Japanese Laces, 10c and 29c Yd.
\"alue> Are I'p to $2.oo Yard.
These < )riental Laces in white, butter and ecru are up to
X inches in width, embroidered in colors. The description
gives no idea of the beauty of these laces. Xow the prices are
ioc and 29c per yard instead of from 75c to S2.00, many will
purchase who only admired until now.
Veilings at Reduced Prices.
25c to ."Vor Fancy Mesh Veilings;
all colors: plain and with J
."hic to 7f?c Fancy Mesh Veilings;
all colors: plain and with
?2..V> Square Chiffon ('loth
Veils. ll4_ yards square;
all colors
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SlMso Chiffon Cloth Hood ? ji Tjtf])
Veils: all colors
To Be 25c Yard.
Most perfect and beautiful of 15a
ti-te and Swiss Embroidery Bands: some
with net foundation and flowers of ba
tiste appliqued: some embroidered in
Japanese silk: widths to 6 inches. Val
ues are to S3 yard. Choice for 25c yard.
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Swiss Embroidery Bands. Some
combined with baby Irish lace und
blind embroidery; up to 4 inches
wide: some were *1.00
yard
lx-inch Swiss Nainsook and Cam
bric Corset Cover Embroid- 'lOp
erics; worth up to $1.00 yd....flJ'^**
24 and 27 inch Swiss and Batiste
Embroidery Flouncings. heavy open
and blind edges; worth up {? fl e.rij
to Stt.OO yard vIl.SO'
27-inch Swiss and Batiste Embroid
ery Flouncings, heavy, deep edges of
liish crochet and eyelet
effects; were sr..on yard....
$2.6?
Flowers for as Little as 1c,
All Millinerv Is Finallv Reduced.
ostricli Feathers; black
and whit ?; were S.Vtti. To fljg
Rough Straw Sailors; last
of manv; some were SI..10 "
Children's Sailors, in navy blue,
brown, cardinal and white: with silk
JS and velvet streamers: some
tt were HI
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All .V)c Roses, Lilacs, Daisies. Vio
lets. Foliage and other flow
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$1.19 S
Wings and Fancy Featil
ers. were $1.50. reduced to.
Silk Net. 42 inches wide: navy blue,
brown, ecru and white; worth 25c
lHome Needs Sale Continued!,
The second week of this Annual August Sale began this
morning with such enthusiasm that we need not another line
of advertising?need only thank you for your patience in wait
ing for packages a little longer than usual. With most of the
bargains a> advertised for last week and with many added we
look for another phenomenal week. See this evening's Times 3
for tomorrow's best bargains. g
The Palais Royal,
? A. LISN'FK.
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<; and i rrii streets.
HYGIENIC DRESS FOR WOMEN.
Wearing of Corsets?Good Effect of
Modern Athletics.
I "?mi I he Ymilii'." ? '"Iii>i;ii ?h
on the subject o< hygienii atiiie lor
women there has always been a great
? "?ill or hcM-st nonsense talked atid much
?? sspe'lt trouble lake:: for the reason
t at a great numbt'i' of people have the
t pe ot n inl t at irresistibly associates
e uglj w ir 1: the ealthy and the nau
seous wit I, t' t? \vho!< some.
>t t .>-\ think n edicim- cannot We
? 'lii a loi - mless t is thi>'k and l>lai k
: il nusi\.- >o tl>.> think women cannot
? eat1:'- and prosper unless they look
: ve a oale hay with the middle hoop
* ;t. Hial ii pursuance of this conviction
e\ !i 'u?' mam of the alleviations of
l:*e. among wiiilj sugar-coated pills ami
well made corsets should fake high rank.
Wl en looking at the t-ort raits of the
Spanish school of which Velasquez is
.aster on is < oustantly struck by the
\\ a * t ?? w omen seem to be con lined in
? ?me barbara instrument <>f torture so
:'at are their ? I e>ts and so narrow and
II iv t!.? uncomfortable looking drawn
.'own waists. S'irelj no material less
i gid 11 lit ii u ood > ould l>e trusted to pro
!:ic? this invariable effect in women of
til ages antl degrees.
Now turn from these women of medie
. al da> s to a modern picture gallery and
bserve the freedom the individuality,
? c graceful ?as.- which for the moat
.ait the \aoiii;-m of toda> permits her
-elf and is p.-rmitted by modern sanc
tions. Indeed, it is not necessary to cwn
tia^t her with the woman of the middle
ages. She ;s so much m>re comfortable
and sensible in hei- dre?r> than was her
urandtnother or even her mother.
Tli.s fact is largelx the result of tiie
I general acceptanr-e of athletics for worn
I en With the invasion of the up-to-date
! girl of tiie tennis court, the golf course
; and the lakes and rivers, the seventeen
ineh damsel who seemed to spend a
large portion of her time in fainting
spells vanished, one may hope forever.
It is possible to knock a croquet ball
about in tigiit clothes, but for a game
like tennis, that calls for real pla\ of
muscle and free ;ytion from I ead to
foot, one must he properly dressed.
So much iias been done of late years to
improve the corset that its reproach as a
menace to health has in fact been wiped
out. The liest corsets no longer inter
fere with the breathing apparatus, and
many modern corsets leave the dia
phragm free and support-and restrain as
they should.
With their help and provided that
skirts are not too hoavv and dragging
from the hips women are often better
off with corsets than without them.
Taking It Easier.
I nun ?j,?* Detroit Free
"John, said his wife, "'you must take
tilings easier in this hot weather. Don't
exert yourself too much."
"I won't, my dear. But who will you
get to carry your bundles home while
I'm resting?"
Looking Forward.
I rom fho AlihN.in til..lie
When a young woman marries an old
man it is an indicatior she thinks sh ?
would look well In black.
He (just rejected)?I shall never marry
now.
She?Foolish man! Why not?
Me?If you won't have me, who will??
Boston Transcript.
| The Altenburg Case. |
H By GEORGE DYRE ELD RIDGE. ?
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COPVR1GHT. l?>y, BY GEORGE DYRE EL.DR1DGB.
XIII?Continued.
"This note came l>y mail, probably Mon
day. At least. Altenburg was in town .
I that day and got mail, which was rather (
| an unusual thins for him to pet. Later!
j he called Grlmbleshaw on the phone and i
had a talk with him. You see. lie looked |
the telephone number up in the book, j
showing that lie was not in the habit of i
talking to Grimbleshaw over the phone. 1
made a memorandum of it on ihe tirst (
pi?*ce of paper lie picked tip. which luip- ;
petted to he this, and there you are."
Fry left the window and coming 10 the|
table studied the indorsement over Traf- !
ford's shoulder.
"You're prohablx right." lie said:,
"though you're light so often it's abou! |
time for you to go wrong. How do you,
know it came by mail?"
'it's heen folded crosswise to til an!
ordinary sized envelope
"And would have been if it were sent !
by messenger."
"Good! But if you'll hold it so the light j
runs along its face?so. you'll see just a
tinj curved mark, that would be round 1
if >011 could see the whole of it. 1 here, !
what do you make of that?"
"I s'pose you make it a dent from the |
postmark on the envelope." said Fry. in
a tone that indicated disgust over con
viction of blindness. ".Most folks would
call it active imagination."
"The difference between folks some
times lies in knowing fact from imagina
tion. That mark is a fact. It's deeper,
in the middle of the curve, and was made!
with a hand-stamp struck a trifle tin-1
evenly. A glass wijl help you." and
Trafford handed over paper and glass. j
Fry examined the supposed postmark
and saw exactly what Trafford pointed
out. lie understood what Trafford re
frained from hinting even, that unless
some one had pointed it out he never
would have seen it.
"A little more an' you'll he telling me j
you can read the name of the office where
it was mailed." he said, as he handed the ;
articles back. He cotdd at least cover
his irritation thus.
Trafford shook his head.
"Keep in the path." he said. "It's easy!
as lying to get los in the bushes. Now
let's see where the path leads. Alten
burg has some business or other with
Grimbleshaw. I can guess what it was,
but that has nothing to do with the mat- j
tec in hand. He decides to get his num
ber in the telephone book and call him
up. He picks up a piece of paper from
his desk, writes down the name, finds the
number in the book and writes that down.
Then he lays the paper down where lie
tan read it as lie stands at the phone,
and when he's through talking leaves it
where he laid it. It stays there till you j
find it."
"Haven't noli wandered a little into tiie
bushes?" asked Fry. "How do you know
he didn't write it all down at once out ot
the hook? What's the good of knowing
whether he did or not?"
"Number one," smiled Tratiord. who j
knew that Fry was incensed at his fail- j
ure to discover what it was beyond his I
capacity to see for himself: "if he'd
started with the book nine times out of
ten he wouldn't have written the name
at all, but only the number. Put your
self to the task and see how it works.
Probably lie took the name from another
paper of some kind which he did not
want to mark up or leave lying about "'
"But there's no such paper turned up."
interrupted Fry.
"It isn't the only tiling that hasn't
turned up by a long shot. Of course, we
don't know, even in the sense that we
know the other things we're talking
about, that there was such a paper, but
we do know it well enough to keep our
eyes open for it. and to try and deter- ;
mine whether it means anything that we
have not found it. If there wa$ it's prob
ably very important. But let's get'
through with one thing at a time.- I he j
name was written with one pencil, which j
was moderately hard and sharp, and the
number with another, not so sharp and
a trifle softer. Evidence, he wet the tirst
after he had written the 'Grimble'. The
't-e-l' is written with the first."
Fry seized the paper and examined it
under the glass. When he handed it buck
he contented himself with saying:
"You've found tiie pencils?"
"Yes. but I knew ot the pencils because"
of the writing, and not of the different
writings because of the pencils. The pen
cils are simply corroborative."
"Well, what do you make of it?" Fry j
asked the question with the air of a man
who admits that another may have i
guessed rightly and then stumbled on evi- 1
deuce that enables him to convert his
guess into a logical deduction, and also
with the air of a man who holds these
things to he simply exhibitory. unless
they clearly lead to useful results.
"i don't know." said Trafford. frankly.
"Every scrap of knowledge that reveals
any part of the day or days preceding the;
murder has Its value. It s for us to find
out what it is. and often that's the hard
est part of the task. We have evidence ,
here that Altenburg didn't know Grim- \
tiles ha w very well. He even went to the
trouble to write down his full name, 1
which is no small item for some men.
We have evidence that he had To look tip
his telephone numlier. and that it was (
he who called Grimbleshaw. and not
Grimbleshaw him. We have an indica- i
tion, at least, that there was a paper]
from which he took the name, which, j
therefore, related In some way to Grim- j
bieshaw, which paper, if it ever existed,
has not yet been found. We probably
have evidence that Altenburg expected j
to call Grimbleshaw again, since lie left I
the paper, wit ? 1 tiie address, lying there |
as a reminder, so that he could get the,
number without going to the book again.
We have evidence that Altenburg didn't
attach much importance to this paper
or the note on the other side since he j
preserved it, but used it as a memo- j
randum /paper. Still, there stands out ,
against this last the fact that the writer I
of the note urges the opportunity for him ;
to call, without being seen, and seems to 1
think it will commend itself to Altenburg
as well as himself. And. finally, we have '
the probability that whoever it was!
called Grimbleshaw that night saw his j
name 011 this paper, took it for granted i
he was Altenburg's physician and so !
called him to Altenburg's aid."
"So you think somebody did call Grim- j
bieshaw?"' It was almost a sneer.
"We have it positively that some one |
did and gave the ltumbei as eight-four- |
two."
"Yes, and held the wire until the con
nection was got! It might l ave been any
old number for all we know. Whoever
ci.itI it knew t.ha trick of the telephone,
anyway. The same thing happened with
Ma 1 boii, didn't there?"
"If some one railed Grimbleshaw from |
AItenburg's. and I have no doubt now.
that some one did, he was in a hjirry. ,
and natflrally held on to the wire. If it j
was the man who diil the job he was in
a hurry .0 get away. If it was some one j
else he knew the need of quick help."
"Now look here, Trafford," said Fry, ;
seating himself at last at the other sidej
of the table, "let's talk sense and imag-1
ine setise if we're going to take imagina- j
tion as our guide, as seems to be on the)
carpe.. What would the man who did:
the job want to call a doctor for?
"Assume it was an accident.
"He'd have stayed until the doctor was!
there." , , j
"Even a man who made it a point of j
his coming that he was to be seen by 110 ;
one?"
"He'd have forgo.ten that under the
new condition of affairs
Trafford. the most patient of men. gave1
attention to this aspect of the matter. He j
turned it ov#er to see if there was an\ ;
phase that had been neglected. Then he j
glanced up with?
"Well? Next?"
"That closes that chapter. The man,
w ho did the job didn't call Grimbleshaw. \
What then? You assume thai somebody j
found the man after he was done for and |
that he called Grimbleshaw That's only
a little moi-e ridiculous than the other.
Where did he come from, and, above all,
what became of him?"
"Grimbleshaw found people there ran
sacking the house."
"So Grimbleshaw says."
"So Phil Barber says, too."
"Phil Barber says enough things lo
/
make a dozen men's reputations as first
class liars. When this thing is over "to
lie like Phil Barber' will become a pro
verb of Laneeboro."
"Well?"
"It's altogether too complicated. We
know that Altenburg had some dealings
with Grimbleshaw; we know that those
dealings concerned some overdue notes
Grimbleshaw had given "
"No. we don't know that." interrupted
Trafford. "Don't let's put it any stronger
than the facts."
"Well, we guess, if that suits better for
this particular phase of the business,
though the Lord knows we've been talk
ins about knowing things that we don't
know half so well. We guess tiiat cer
tain overdue notes given by Grimbleshaw
had come into Altenburg's bands and
were the subject of the dealings between
the two. Grimbleshaw has a talk with
Altenburg over the phone, and certainly
doesn't pay the no;es. for Vltenburg is
going to call him up again. P.?*fore he
can do il Altenburg is murdered. Grim
bleshaw discovers the murder and tells a
cock-and-bull story of being called on tue
telephone. He is called on fie telephone,
but nobody knows from where. The call
suggests Altenburg. whom he is expect
ing will call him??"
"Hold on," interrupted Trafford. "let's
have the story present as few difficulties
as possible. Altenburg does call him and
tells him he wants that money. Grimble
shaw sees his chance, tells him that
will bring it. goes anil murders Alten
burg. That accounts naturally for the
telephone call, at least."
"Bv George. Trafford." exclaimed Fry,
enthusiastically, "you've hit it! I don't
mind owning now that that telephone call
bothered tne."
"It's no use to own it now" said Traf
ford. gravely "You should tave done it
before."
It was one of those rebukes, tHe very
force of which lies in their simplicity. It
was not often that Trafford called his
assistants to the bar of judgment, but
when he did it was with words that star
tled by their difference to the ordinary
rebuke. To Fry it was a staggering
blow.
"Yes." he admitied. "yes. you'd have
done it." It was the most abject of con
fessions that lie had failed - before his
master.
"Well." said Trafford. kindly and en
couragingly. "we've done some pretty tall
guessing, now let's get at some facts."
"The only thing 1 can't really get round
is Phil Barber."
"Another confession. Just now you dis
posed of him as a liar. Put him on the
stand and he'll go to state's prison as
Grimhleshaw's accomplice, anil the prose
cuting attorney won't have to half try."
"There isn't a grain* of value to any
thing: he says."
"Sometimes a liar proves the most valu
able of witnesses," declared Trafford.
"What do you find valuable in this par
ticular liar's lying?" asked Fry.
"That he should think he had to invent
some startling reason for being fright
ened," answered Trafford. "It shows that
he really was frightened, and the cause
invented shows that he was terribly
frightened."
"Humph!" grunted Fry. "I don't see
as it needs a lie to prove that lie was
start, an' I don't see that the lie helps
us a bit to find out why he was scart."
"Ah, but it was too silly ever to have
been invented by Grimbleshaw."
"You're trying to shield that man,
said Fry, brusquely.
"Yes." said Trafford. "against unjust
suspicion. At a time like thiSysomebody
has sot to stand between public madness
and its readiest victim. It's loo early
for the courts, for that presupposes offi
cial accusation, when halt the mischief's
alread\ done beyond rerdedy. There's no
body to do it at this stage but the inves
tigator. the county attorney, nominally:
the detective in reality."
"I've heard you say that before."
growled Fry, who was a tritle bored.
"Yes. and you'll hear me say It again,"
answered Trafford. "The state has no
more right to brand unjustly a man's
reputation than it has in the same way
to take his property or his life. Men
who'd shudder at the thought of stealing
or killing for personal gain, will stab a
man's reputation without winking, mere
ly to gain for themselves public plaudits.
Of the two kinds of criminal I rather
take to the first."
"All right." said Fry. who knew the
uselessness of argument when Trafford
once mounted his hobby, "only don t shut
the door so tight that there hain't a
crack through which you can watch this
Grimbleshaw."
"Why?"
"So that you ?-an see that if he couldn't
have invented Phil Barber's story after
he heard it. he could make his tit to it
to a t-.v-ty. Barber told his first."
(To he continued tomorrow.!
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CABINET FOR LACES.
Different Kinds Can Be Kept Sepa
rate in Same Drawer.
There is no longer any excuse for hav
ing things topsy-turvy. So many little
appliances have been turned out to aid
those who are systematic that even the
careless are becoming neat in spite ofj
themselves. One of the most convenient
of these devices is the lace cabinet de-!
signed by a Texan, a cabinet which is i
equally useful at home or in stores. This
cabinet is provided with a series of bot
tomless drawers, the sides of which are
not much more than half the height of
the front. At intervals along t'teso sides!
are slots adapted to receive 111 ? ? axles J
of spools on which the laces are wound, j
In front of each spool Is a wire guide.:
rising above it, and the ends of the lace,
are run over these guides and passed!
through slots in the front of the drawer.!
In this way it Is impossible for any one
piece of lace to get mixed with the others
and all that is needed to get the lace de
sired is to glance at the front of the cabi
net, make your selection and unreel as
much as is wanted.
A Local Sensation.
Krem the Kansas <"it.v Journal.
"1 see you farmers are all buying an- j
tomobiles.'*
"We are," admitted Farmer Whiffle- I
tree, "and you can believe it or not, but '
my hired man has developed enough en
ergy to be pinched for speeding."
A Homebody.
From th?? Detroit I'rPf Pros*.
"What sort of a woman is his wife?"
"Splendid. She refused three invita
tions to join afternoon card clubs."
"What does your husband like for his
breakfast?"
"Anything I haven't got in the house"
?Cleveland Leader.
MILLIONS IN MOTION
Large Investment of Money in
Moving Pictures.
THOUSANDS OF THEATERS
t
i Manufacture of Films Also an Im
portant Industry.
VIEWS OF PEOPLE IN ACTION
?
Separate and Distinct Scenes
Blended With the Aid of In
tricate Machinery.
Forty-five million dollars is ?< wry
I large sum <>t" money, yet. according to an
authority thai ought to he reliable, thai
sum represents the amount of capital in
| vested in tin- moving-picture enterprise
Itoda*\ It would take ratjier a long time
to make-up from the admis
sion fees of 3 and Hi cents, the custom
ary charges at the motion-picture houses,
.but there are those who are willing to
take the chance. There are 10,0'Hi thea
' ters in the country where moving pic
I unes are exhibited. There are also
'many concerns which produce the inov
i ing picture films, and many more which
'act as intermediaries between the film
I producers and those who exhibit the pic
tures to the public.
As all good tilings seem to breed trusts,
(according to thg popular belief of the
!day, the moving picture has bred what
j has come to be known as a trust by
I those who compete with it. Ten of the
| leading film manufacturers, in order to
prevent duplication of films and thereby
save expense, and for many other ap
parently good and sufficient reasons,
{bought up ail the patents for making
i films which seemed to them to promise
the best results in the moving picture
: line. They organized and laid down cer
tain rules for the conduct of their joint
business.
I These manufacturers then licensed 1
| film-renting exchanges, which in turn
' rent, the film reels to those who exhibit
the pictures to the public, regulating the
rental of a reel according to the "new
Incss" of the film. Some motion-picture
j exhibitors rent films direct from the
manufacturers, thus insuring the abso
lutely first exhibition of the pictures in
their theaters; others rent from the ex
changes.
Scope of Alleged Trust.
The trust, if ii can be called such, em
braces not only the film manufacturers,
; but the film exchanges and the exhibitors
i of the pictures. The exhibitors, it is
j claimed, profit by membership in the
trust in several ways. First, only they
'can rent the films produced by the ten
' manufacturers: second, the manufactur
ers and exchanges undertake to protect
j such exhibitors from competition by de
I elining to furnish or rent films to those
'not in the trust, or to accept for mem
bership those whose theaters come within
(a certain distance of theaters already
established and using the trust _ films:
' third, they are guaranteed against a
!duplication of films in the same city 'r
town, except by special arrangement,
land fourth, they are guaranteed only
I films that have passed the central board
of censors, thus insuring that the) a.ie
1 not objectionable from a moral, a re
ligious or a patriotic standpoint.
? The motion picture combination consid
ers this last feature one of the greatest
; things it has accomplished in the interest
of the motion picture business. !t has a
board of censors composed of three prom
inent clergymen and four progressive
members ot the combination. No film
that does not receive the approval of this
board, can be sold or rented. The ten
manufacturers are not restricted as to
ihe number '>!" new films they may pro
duce each week, and each manufacturer
! is actually in competition in the produe
' tion of films, as well as In the quality ot
i those produced. The output at the present
| time is said to be about eighteen new
j films a week, but this is shortly expected
I to Vie increased to twenty.
Regulates Use of Machinery.
There is also a regulation of the trust
as to the kind of machinery which shall
he used in producing the pictures, the
idea being to concentrate the entire in
terests of the business as far as possible
for tiie benefit of all the members of the
J combination.
The machinery used in this country, at
' least, is almost exclusively of American
manufacture, and it is claimed to be the
best. It costs about It consists or
an aiv lump and a rheostat to control the
current. The two make a lisht of about
? candle power at its bent. There is
. also the projecting machine, which throws
| the picture on the screen. It is equipped
I with an intricate combination of shut
ters that are operated with inconceivable
rapidity to shut off the light between the
pictures; for be it remembered that there
are a great many separate and distinct
pictures on a film reel that are blended
with the aid of this machinery so as to
j appear upon the screen as only one pic
I ture with living and moving beings in it
I acting just as they do in life. A reel that
i runs IT minutes displays probably WMX.io
! pictures. These pictures are but r'4 of an
! inch by 1 inch in size on the film, yet
when projected on the screen are about
14 by 18 feet in measurement. In o'.her
words, tiie film picture is magnified by
the projecting machinery about 4N.U09
diameters, and, notwithstanding tiie deli
cacy and wonderful power of tfie ma
chine, it takes a very clever operator to
prevent the picture on tiie screen from
| flickering and injuring the eyes of the ob
! server.
The screens are made of ail sorts of
white material?fireproofed. There is also
a stereopticon required for announcements
and other slides. This makes tlie ma
chinery outfit.
Cost of Outfit Varies.
The cost of establishing a motion picture
theater varies, according to the ambition
and aspirations of the owner. There Is
one in this city which is said to have cost
its owner iS'.KMiOO. It is equipped in all re
spects like a standard theater, with dress
ing rooms, stage entrance and the like, be
cause it. combines live vaudeville with its
picture exhibit. From that sum the cost
runs downward, according to the location,
size and equipment. The expense of run
ning the theater also varies, according
to the film service and the extras provided
("sually a nimble-fingered young woman,
with a resounding piano, constitutes the
orchestra. The cost of me film and other
service in Hie ninety-thousand-dollar the
ater already mentioned is about ?WJO to
a. week, almost equtrl that of a minor
theater for dramatic productions.
In the operation of the business the film
exchange buys from each manufacturer
| one or more films a week. The films are
on reels and are frequently referred to as
reels. The exchange then forms a circuit
in its licensed territory and starts the
reels on their round to the motion picture
theaters. Some set new reels every day
and some less frequently?it all depends
upon what they pay for the service. The
average cost of a reel to au exchange is
about $ 1 ."?0. and with I2n exchanges to run
| it can easily be seen what the manufac
turer realizes.
Each theater uses front two to three
reels a day in its exhibitions. Two of the
i avenue theaters 'representing the trust
J and tiie independent interests rent their
reels direct from tlie manufacturers and
give their audiences always absolutely
new .pictures. This service costs tWm
| probably ??-?<> a day. It costs some tiie-j
aters in the city as high as a day and
others perhaps more. The rental fluctu
ates according to the age and condition
of the film. Its "newness" is determined
by the length of time it has been ex
hibited.
Of Unlimited Scope.
The scope of the motion picture is un
limited. Not only can the little machine,
probably twelve pounds In weight, with
which the negatives for tiie films are
tak?n. faithfully record everything that
can be reproduced with photography, but
by clever manipulation the films can be so
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doctored ?? to make pictures do the im- '
possible. That is a sort of Irish bull, but |
j it is true. For instance, the films can be
so manipulated as to make a human being
j actually defy the laws of gravity; make a ,
mere man turn a backward somersault1
j ov >r objects a* high as the Washington!
I Monument; even make the tiny house fly
apparently juggle sticks of cord wood]
land dumbbells incredibly large.
The possibilities of the motion picture in ;
i trick pictures are at times astounding. A
| very recent film represents a man seated
j at a table smoking. Around him are scat
tered pipes, cigars. tobacco, cigarettes and
! matches. He falls asleep, and almost ini
j mediately a tiny fairy princess steps out
| of the tohaeeo box. followed bv a smaller
fairy. The fairy attendant climbs into the!
j pipe and pulls the tobacco over her head.
The man awakens and tries to light Ids
[pipe, but it will not draw. He examines j
it with a magnifying glass, and out of the
I blue smoke arising from the tobacco the
fairy looks up and laughs in his face.
Into the tobacco box she jumps and out
again with the princess: back into the
box again they go. leaving one arm pro- I
I jecting. The man grabs at it and finds in ,
his lingers a large rose. In a moment
smoke puffs from it. and out liobs the
fairy blowing the smoke of a cigarette at
him. Soon the leaves detach themselves
from the rose and roll themselves into a
cigar. The man lights it and the smoke
! from it pours into the neck of a bottle on
j the table. The fairy is inside. The man
breaks the bottle, and lo! she is on the
tobacco box. She hands him a cigarette
j and he blows the smoke at her. whereupon
! she retaliates by setting off the l>ox of
matches and disappearing In the blaze.
But One of Many Effects.
! This is but one of tiie charming trick
pictures that have recently been produced.
There are others perhaps not so mysteri
ous. There was recently exhibited in a
local theater a series of pictures show
ing former President Roosevelt hunt
ing lions in Africa. It was made in Chi
cago. The lion was actually bought and
killed for the purpose, but not before lie
had almost killed two of the manufac
turer's staff. Yet there was President
Roosevelt and there the'strangely garbed ;
I and ungarbed Africans of the jungle. The (
! picture was very realistic and excited ,
I much favorable comment.
j But it is not in trick pictures that the
I greatest interest lies. There are films that
i are instructive as well as entertaining:
j those that show foreign lands and the
customs of the people; those that vir
tually uike the audience lo some far-away
city orcountry and Rive a series of vtews
of its industries. The straw hat industry
of Italy, for instance, has been shown
in the minutest detail from the gathering
of the straw to the packing of the fin
ished hat.
Pictures of this sort are classed as edu
cational. One need not go abroad to see
foreign countries: they are brought to
his door by the motion picture man.
Then there are other pictures of a
highly educational character. With the
aid of competent actors and the make
up, scenes of a historical character are
enacted probably just as they occurred.
Recently one of the manufacturers turned
out four reels which depict the life of
Washington, with the setting, costuming
and environments historically correct.
The same firm has produced three reels
depicting the more important incidents in
the life of Napoleon.
?
Passion Play Reproduced.
The celebrated Passion Play of Ober
ammergau has been reproduced with the
strictest fidelity, and it is estimated that
more than 2o,000,UUo people have seen it
who would never have seen it otherwise.
It is one of the most beautiful and in
spiring series ever produced. Every one
of Shakespeare's plays as produced by
eminent players has been reproduced in j
the motion picture flint. So, too, of many
French historical plays, the scenes being
laid in the very rooms where the inci
dents they represent occurred, with cos
tumes and manners as they were in the
times they recall.
Indeed, the development of the motion
picture film has called into play every
conceivable factor necessary to the re
production of historic, dramatic and na
tional incidents and events. In France
the best actors in the theatrical pro
fession do not scruple to forsake their
smaller audiences of the theaters at
times to present themes for the edifica
tion and information of the world at
large in the theaters, parks and environ
ments provided by the manufacturers for
motion pictures. Some of the greatest
dramatic masterpieces of the world have
been reproduced by them for this pur
pose.
The leading American players have not
yet reached the stage where they are
willing to follow suit, but it is believed
the time is not far distant when they
v. ill appreciate the honor ??f giving thou
sands the pleasure of seeing their great
performances in this way to the tens
that see them in the legitimate theaters.
Sarah Bernhardt will soon appear for
the sreat French film manufacturers.
Many of her company have already re
peatedly appeared in this way.
In Natural Colors.
Tiie manufacturers of films have also
succeeded in producing motion pictures
in tiie natural colors of th?? objects. It
is a most difficult and delicate under
taking to color the thousands of thc-st
miniature film pictures that go to nuke
up a series, and ye! i. has been accom
plished in a remarkable way.
The motion-picture theater is frequentiy
spoken of as the poor man's theater,
probably because of the extraordinary
cheapness of admission, hut in all the
big cities, as well as in Washington, the
most refined of the social circle, the ex
clusive of the elite, may he found seated
side by side witii the poor man or the
poor woman enjoying a motion-picture
exhibit. One evening recently there were
twenty-eight automobiles of the finest
type lined up against tiie sidewalk on
Pennsylvania avenue, while those who
came in them were enjoying a motion
picture show on the inside of one of the
theaters. It is almost incredible the busi
ness done by these small theaters, one
alone, whose seating capacity is lus. haj
an actual attendance of l-l.non people
in one w?ek.
Everybody loves pictures. Adults as
well as children will while away hours
looking over a picture book. What. then,
must he the possibilities of the living pic
ture book whose pages are changed daily
in the thousands of petite tiieaters
throughout the land?
LET THE 6RAY RUIN REST
PLEA AGAINST "RESTORATION"
OF GLASTONBURY ABBEY.
.
Source of Inspiration?Modern Copy
of Venerable Pile Might De
stioy Sentiment.
i.
I mm th<- l?n<l?n Spectator.
An interesting article on <ilastonbtirv,
while recalling 'he jiast. suggests also i
I Question for tli<? present. We are ill
at uin' in feeling 111?? appeal of t'u?
place. T.? Mr. G res well it is pre-en i
j nently the Church of the Celts. Hut it
I is a 'so much c!rp besides. and with it*
| wealth nf long associations it become*
: typical of thai great spiritual commun
ion which unites the church of today
with mediaeval monk and mason as \v ??!
i as with Arthurian knights and hermit
saints of a still older day. We must all
i he at one. too. in wishing il to
iconic again a source, of inspiration" in
j as full a sense as ever it was in tha
past. And here comes in the prartii il
j question, and, we fear, also a practic.il
danger. The enthusiast's tirst inst'n< t
' is to wish tha? the same ancient rliuri li
| should Ik used once more for the saiu<i
! ancient worship. Many do not stop t,?
i realize that this wish is impossible i?*
' fulfill. Money is offered for a restora
] tion. Guardians of priceless building!*
; can generally be persuaded to restore,
j and. just as when drunkards are per
suaded to refresh, the goinl old plausible
I plea that no harm will be done this
: time receives one more practical coiu
j 111 en t.
Much May Be Sacrificed.
If there is any such danger, it is wise
! to meet it before it lakes shape, ami
we would ask you to spare us space
1 implore the public to reflect before they
act. An amateur may not know th-.C
in adapting ruined masonry to canv
weight and keep out water much will
be sacrificed through necessity and much
through want of appreciation. But !:?
ought to be able to see (what he seldom
does sect that the twentieth century
cannot produce twelfth-century art. Be
tween that age and ours the differences
are immense. To take just one. The
old workman was Quite different from
the workman of today. He was not
educated in board schools and on th??
halfpenny press, hut in the schools of
folk-lore and nature and real life. He
, was saturated with legends of the saints
' and of the Holy Grail, and w ith the ideals
i and the atmosphere of which his ait
| is the expression. The spirit of the
man lies at the root of architecture as
of all arts; and unlike causes produce
unlike effects even when the mystic
| word "Gothic" has been conjured with.
Belonged to Middle Ages.
j Glastonbury Abbey Church as it was
' in the m'ddle ages is a thing we can
i never have again. The fragments which
I remain we value for their beauty and
their sentiment. The beauty which is "a
source of inspiration" will not be found
in a modern lifeles- copy, and it cer
tainly will not be found where the copy
gives out. and tiie restorer, driven b;c-k
on conjecture, repeats old :ag- ad nau
! seam like a schoolboy's copy of I.at in
verse. The sentiment of an old building
is. if possible, even more easily destroyed
than its beauty. Amid the ruimsd stones,
left as ?iieir builders left them, we can
soak ourselv?s in the ideals of the past,
and may seem in imagination almost to
hear the voices and talk with the spirits
of the dead. But with the old st<?ies
refurbished, swamped by unsympathetic
masses of new work, outflavored by a
pervasive modernity?a las! we know the
process and the effect?what mortal with
eyes, what ghost with local attachments,
would not flee the place? Restoration
would, in fact, actually repel precisely
those men who have most imagination
and who would most, value the associa
tions of Glastonbury. Such men would
infinitely prefer to hold their common
worship in a new church hard by and
have the precious relics of the past pre
served for them unmutilated.
My society has nothing hut sympathy
with the idea of founding a college at
Glastonbury, which should gather up and
perpetuate the inspiring traditions of ti e
past. A chapel for practical needs would
cost little, and should be independent of
the ruins a 'id should not interfere with
them. To restore the old buildings
would absorb enormous sums, which had
far better be devoted to living work: and,
sfler all. it is living: work coupled wit'i
reverence for our forefathers wiii'i
would constitute the true "restoration"
of the Glastonbury of the past.
Bicycle Pump Terrifies Chinese.
l'veiii I.oluloii Picas.
One of the sneakers at the "overflow**
meeting of the Anti-So. ialisi League held
recently was Lord Lamington. who. dur
ing hl> governorshi > o.' Bombay, had a
sur>risiiu, ? xperience when an old Hin
doo woman flung herself in front of his
motor car in order to secure his attention
to a petition which she was anxious t<j
present. Lord Lamington. having no <!??
sire to understudy the juggernaut, was
only able to pull up in lime to prevent
t lie old woman from being killed. lie
won great respect from the natives :>v
his unconventionality. Instead of ponri
and circumstance of a state carriage and
a long retinue of attendance. Lord Lam
ington has often appeared in public on
his bicycle. While in (Queensland lie was
known as "the traveling governor," ow
ing to liis fondness for cycle touring- l'ur
ing one of his lours he was startled liv ;i
woman's shtiek. lie "scorched" in in
direction of the cry and found a woman,
wild-eyed with terror, being pursued by
two Chinese, who were brandishing knives
in a very threatening manner. Lord Lam
ington roue between the Chinamen and
their frightened quarry, and. whipping
out his bicycle pump, so soundly be
labored them that they fled, while the res
cuer and rescued walked in triumph to
Brisbane.
Little Tommy Whacken was taken by
his mother to choose a pair of knicker
bockers, and his choice fell on a pair
to which a card was attached, stating: ^
"These can't be beaten."?Current Liteiar
tuie.