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Show THE .JORDAN JOUR NAL. MTDV AI.E PTAR . .THE SCREEN: ITS AMAZING HISTOr\Y First Movie Actors Worked for Joy of it or for the Free Advertising No One Took the Ea-rly Films Seriously, Not Even the Inventors these days can be measu red by a review of a Biograph catalog ue, then curren t: 184-T he Pretty "stenographer; or Caugh t In the at .A.ct-26 ft.-An elderly but gay broker Is seated He . rapher stenog pretty his to ng his desk dictati s a stops In the progre ss of ·his letter and bestowwife his does he As girl. lng unwlll not kiss on the by entere. She Is enraged. Taking her husban dThe kneel. his on get to him ls compe she ear the p'retty stenog rapher bursts Into tears. By PROE HL HALL ER JAKLO N 00:\:I Five of the West Orang e (N. J.) lab- oratory of Thoma s Alva Edison bu;z;zed with excitem ent on the mornin g of Octobe r 6, 1889. Two men, one young, the other older, were keenly Interes ted in a black wooden box about five feet high. Near the top W.llS a peephole, and the young man, with an air .of triump h, u-rged the older man to peer into the small openlng. Im!lde an arc light sputter ed. There was a noise of machin ery, and ther.e came into view a transparent strip of celluloid bearin g the prints of · many photog raphs. As the strip began to move, the photog raphs come to life. It was a moving picture of the younge r man, walkin g, smll!ng, bat In hand, approa ching as If to extend a gJOeetlng, As he came nearer there was heard the phonographi c reprod uction of the young man's voice, saying : "Good morning, Mr. Edison. Glad to see you .. back. I hope you ore satisfie d with the kinetophonog raph.'' This was the remark able demon stratio n which greete d Edison upon his return from the Parts exposi tion. T)1e proud young man was William K. L. Dickson, an :IT4;ogllshman who flve years betore had come to study under the tutelag e of the - Wizard of Menlo Park. Edison had entrus ted Dickson with the develo pment of certain Ideas, and this was what the young man had to show for his labors. The Motio n Pictu re Is Born • The birth of the motion picture is marke d officfally by this demon stratio n. From this crude beginning, in less than thirty- seven years it has attaine d the Import ance of a major Indust ry, providing employ ment for mot·e than a mlllion persons throug hout the world, and giving enterta inment to more than 100,000,000 person s weekly in every civilized and many unclvll lzed lands. · Following the formul a that the time to write history is while It is happen ing, an American, intima tely acquai nted with the film lnd~try, has produc ed, after five years of careful , Intellig ent researc h, a two-volume history which bears the title, "A l\IIlllon and One Nights : the Illstor y of the Motion Picture ." lle Is Terry Ramsa ye, former newsp aper man, screen editor and execut ive. The origina l edition, of which there we.~te only 327 sets, eac-h bearin g the autogr aph of Thoma s A. Edison, and selling for $7(5, was launch ed by Simon & Schust er, those two young men whose succes s with the cross-word-puzzle books startle d the publish ing world in 1924. Mr. Ramsa ye set out about six years ago in ~earch of his materi al. The pursui t took him to all section s of the United Sttttes and many parts of Europe . Dickso n was found living In retirement in France . lie Intervi ewed the r .. l Invent or ot instant aneous photog raphy on Cape Cod. In at! he talked with more than 400 individ uals who contrib uted to the growth and develo pment of the art. Court and corpor atton record s were made to glve up their l'ltorles, while letters and origina l papers were ~lill availab le, as they may not be to a tatet· histori an. Startin g al:i far bnck as he could go, l't!r. Ramsaye traces !tis picture history from Aristo tle to Edison. He sl ows us the camera obscur a, the magic lautem , Stamfe r's whirlin g disks, the spinning coin of Hersch el, but the two most Important develo pments , he says, were the camera by Dague rre, the French man, In 1829, and the Inception of wet-pl ate photog raphy In 1860. To Settle a $25,0 00 Wage r The credlt for the discov ery of instant aneous photog raphy fs given to John D. Isaacs, a civil engine er, workin g for L.eland Stanfo rd In 1872. Stanfo rd mainta ined that artists were all wrong In their picture s of ho:r:ses in action. Their legs were shown in unnatu ral POiltlons, be declare d, an<f made a bet of $25,000 that he was right. He engage d a San Francl sco photog rapher , Eadwe ard ll!uybrldge, who later receive d the glory, to catch a trottin g horse in action by employ ing a batt€ry of camera s. Muy'brldge flliled. Isaacs, knowlp g someth ing about photog raphy, realize d that the lens shutte rs then In use were too slow for the job. and so he attach ed rubber bands wlth a hundre dpound pull ~o the shutter s. This gave llQ exposu re of one two-th ousand th of a second and "caugh t" the motion of the horse. Muybrldge, who was the photog rapher , gained the fame. Isaacs went on about his own busine ss attainIng success, and rarely referre d to the iocldent. Later the task perfor med by the battery of cameras was done much more efficiently with a single camera , a spring taking the place of the rubber ban<ts. In 1886 LePrln ce, a Frencb man Jiving In the United States, used sensiti zed strips of paper fn place of the old-fas hioned wet plate, and soon after Carbu tt substit uted celluloid for the paper. George Eastm an, a photog raph supply man of Roche ster, N. Y., produc ed much thinne r celluloid strips and put them on the marke t In the form of dry plates for his kodaks . Dickson, in September, 1889, bought a small supply for use In the klnetoscope, as Ed !son c&lled his new device. Edison sold the exploi tation rights to this device to a firm consis ting of Norma n C. Roff, a western capita list; Frank Lomba rd, presid ent of. the North Ameri can Phono graph company, and Frank Gammon, a high-powered young busine ss man. In turn, they marke ted state and foreign rights to their toy. Edison , at his West Orange labora tory, agreed to produc e the pfctur(l.S. Edison obtain ed a patent on his kinetos cope tn 1891. Learni ng that foreign patent s would cost a.bout $1501 he told his attorne y that they were not wort11 ft. A patent more or less meant nothing to Edison. He foiled also to protec t his Ioven-' tlon for a disk record for his phonog raph, preferring the cylind er type. now many millions were lost becaus e of this neglec t can only be guessed at. The first motion -pictur e actor In the world, accordin g to ~1r. Hamsa ye's findings, was one Freel Ott, a mechanic In F:dfson's labora tory. He dresse d In absurd clothin g and made tunny This Departm ent Supplie d b)' the Ameri c an Leg to n News Se rvice. ) Thirty- seven years ago there were no moving picture a. Today tM:: movlo Indust ry ranks fourth In tho United States, with an lnvoste d capital of $1,500,000,000, employ ing more than 600,000 por. sons In produc tion, distrib ution and exhibit ion, with 60,000,000 person s paying from ton cents to two dollars for weekly admiss ions to theater a, large and small, dotting towns and cltlea throug h. out the countr y. R (Copt for 1fre ___UICAN IJJiiON JUDGES ARE CHOSEN FOR ESSAY CONTEST MOT HER :- Two men and a woman of nation al Castoria is especially prepr.otnin<'nce have agt·eed to judge the 1 pared to relieve Infants in American Legion nation al essay contest for Americ an school childre n fo1· arms and Children all ages of the year 1026, it was announ ced reConstipation, Flatulency, Wind cently by Frank C. Cross, nation al diThey Use the "Cutb ack" Colic and Diarrhea; allaying "The Life of an Ameri can Firema n," produc ed rector of the Americ anism commission Feverishness arising therefrom, and, by regulating the Stomach in 1002, was one of the first picture s to ut!l!ze that of the Legion. The judges, announ ced by 111r. Cross, very effective device, the cutbac k. It showed a and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving natural sleep. Oysof elt Roosev ore child in a burnin g house, with the brave fireman are Col. Theod ter Bay, N. Y., former assista nt secreon his way. To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of Barton of In 1903 Adolph Zukor, a Chicago furrier , arrived tary "of the navy; Bruce f'.bsolutely Harml ess-B2, Opiates. Physicians everywhere recommend it. and auIn New York to collect $3,000 which a friend had ~ew York city, noted editor mon of ----McSkl borrow ed to start a penny arcade . It was not thor, and l\Iiss Mary Cow• Good Feed er• ent of the Naprospe ring, and Zukor' s efforts to save his money Brookline, 1\Iass., presid tion. Good cows eat about 5,800 pound s associa put the furrier Into the peony arcade busine ss, tional Ed.ucatlon The subjec t of t11e contes t this year of silage, l ,!300 pounds of hay and and later led to his meetin g with Marcu s Loew, proved by one application of Flag Creed.'' That 2,800 pounds of grain each year in anothe r penny arcade r. By 1906 Zukor was a full- Is "'.rhe Patrol t's by the Legion 's additio n to- being on pastur e about fledged theate r proprie tor. Famou s Player s-Lask y subjec t was chosen In the hope that a flag five and one-ha lf months , accord ing corpor ation, the world' s bigges t movie concern, re- commil'sion e for adoptio n by the na- to figures compiled by Prof. 0. S. sulted, while Loew l.s head of the Metro-Goldwln· creed suitabl tion would be written .by some young Rhode, agricu ltural extens ion speclal Mayer company, a close rival. lst of the Univer sity of Illinois. an boy or girl. Carl Laemmle, clothin g store clerk oll Oshko sh, Americ secure to orlng endeaY The Legion Is Wis., In the winter of 1005 confided to a Chlcaat> patriot 's flag creed which will fosa g clothin the of advert ising agent that he was tired inflamed eyelids or other ter greate r respec t for the flag by setlrrlta tlons. You will eye busine ss. They talked over the posslb llltles o:l the I for ideas and forth the Ideals tlnd a soothing and sat& movies. Finally he opened a theate r In 1906. A ting the flag stands , and the sacrl· remedy In MITCH ELL few month s later he started a film exchan ge and 1 which EYE SALVE . that and glorious achiev ements flees subsehis of Out at all en. showm other to HALL & RUCKE L prints sold 1 represe nts. drU&'&'ista. It City York New ts Interes ndent Indepe the ze organi to quent efforts "A perusa l of a few hundre d of these ln their fight agains t Edison came the Univer sal picked at random from the essays Picture s. Both Laemm le and Cochra ne, the adverRPnt in from every state fn nds thousa tising man, made fortune s. dispel all fear that pawill Union the In 1907, the censor ship pot, long si=er ing, burns in the hearts longer no triotism boiled over. Ramsa ye recalls fOr us the Chlcaa o o:l today," Mr. youth' g of the 'flamin Give price and description 'l'rlbun e editori al, "The Five Cent Theate r," which d. Cross declare in :first letter . damne d the nickelodeon up and down hlll. At Valuab le prizes wllJ be awarde d the They shows. such 119 had o Chicag time that Geo. Bake r, Plaq uemi ne, La. winner s of the conteRt. Th-e first were blamed for juveni le crime, and a list of prize winner in the nation will receive picture s, to whlch objecti on was taken, waa a $750 schola rship In a college or unf· printed . The same year New York officials becam e· vers!ty of his own choice. The second arouse d and closed every 15-cent show in the clty. and third prize winner s In the nation Exhibi tors protest ed, there was a compromise, and wJIJ receive $500 and $250 schola r· of all kinde Yanish when Dr. C. H. BerTJ'I Freckle the Ointment ie osed. Your friends will ma.rTe1 at as a result the Nation al Board of Censor ship was ships, respec tively. Winne rs of state eomplexl on. Tbe oae of tbia ~ream your in ebansre law shlp formed. The first state to pass a censor will keep your akin elear and soft too, We a-oarante e prizes were awarde d a sliver medal Price •1 25 it. At drua- and dept. atore• or by mail. BOOKLE T. was Pennsy lvania In 1912. 1o11d 61ie. Send for l!"REE BEAUTY tor first t~rize, a bronze medal for ~>ec Berry Co., 2975 Mlchlpn Ave.,Ch Jcaso H. C. Dr. ond prize, and a certific ate of merit Appe aled to "Rou gh Elem ent" The cinema, It seems, had been In bad odor, for third prize. PARK ER'S more or less, from the start. Its appeal , Ia BALS AM HAIR critics asserte d, was mainly to the "rough ele- Depa rtme nt ol Kans as ment.'' Then, too, followed the theate r disaste rs Has Rese arch Program in which many person s lost their llves. Films Ancien t Indian battle ground s, his6ften caught fire In the crude projec tion machin es, rs theate such enter to Remove s c.,ma. OIL1toric spots and unreco rded trails of HIND ERCO RNS and many person s feared oomtort to the ensures paln, all stops etc., lonses1 ed preced who Uves. ers their explor to h early Spanis becaus e of the reporte d danger teet, makes walking easy. l5o bt mall or at Dru1• ctsts. Iliscox CbemiCD.l WoriU, Patchoj~ue, N. I Everyo ne had heard of the Charit y Bazar fire In the Lewif! nnd Clarke e..'Cpedltlon in ive Posit f Proo to ed them expect are among est the Pacific Northw 1897 at Paris. Nearly 180 person s, Johnny had been the guest of honor many French nobles, had lost their lives when be brough t to light by investi gation of a party the day before, and his litat ment depart a projec tor lamp exploded. Prejud icial feeling and resenrc h by the friend, Tommy, had been hearin g tle durimmed iately arose to impair serlouE>ly the statu$ Kansa s o.f the Americ an Legion lt. "Have a good time?'' asked about Ing the ~qJrlng and summer. of the screen In the minds of the upper classes. y. Tomm s Annou nceme nt o:l' the lnYestlgaUon With the estabU shmen t throug hout the countr y "Did I?" answe red Johnny . "I'm for d deman a d was . made by Thoma s Finiplanne created was of many theate rs there hungry yet 1" not more and better films. People were tiring o! thEI gan, a membe r of the depart ment exold run-and-hop variety of subjec ts. Exhibi tors ecutive committee, who took the mat· Don't Forget Cuticu ra Talcum wanted story picture s,. and the produc ers' prob- ter up recentl y with the state historWhen adding to your to!let requisi tes. lems begRn anew. The motion picture had . no Ical society. The knowledge that a Spanis h ex- An exquis ite face, skin, baby and dustrespectab111ty then, and actors were scornfu l. It Samo an Curio sities In ing powde r and perfum e, render ing was necess ary to seek out the hungry ones and peditio n out of Santa Fe. N. M., More than 25,000 shells have the spring of 1630, paRSE.'.d near Kan- other perfum es superfl uous. You may tactful ly sugges t work In "the picture s." ra Cutlcu ed in Samoa by a specia l ex1Je-l the Qulnof collect near one e S fought !edl"-li rely on lt becaus Actors who met on the movie stages of Edison, sas City, ), of the Bishop Polyne sian Talcum dition tered and ent slaugh Trio (Soap, Ointm and eventu ally was Vltagr aph and Biogra ph In those days kept their daro study at Honolulu. The for . seum ement Loup dvertls 25c each everyw here.-A battle at the junctio n of the film "sham e" a secret. It was the accept ed prac- to a brough t back also n pedltio ka, the Platte river In Nebras tice of the time to Impres s the actors into service with llfe on that island, 1 early of rellcs Nibbl ing the Bait from an unusua l but authen tic as carpen ters, scene painte rs, and the llke. Flor- came histori ans believe. t graves tone nnclen an eluding , She (pouti ngly)- "Don't you ever ence Turner , an early favorit e, when not acting source a manus cript written ln St. and weighi ng rock blue hard From speak of love?" He (tactf ully)- ''Er- from was mlst.ress o:t the wardro be. But when Mauric e . pounds Louis. 1\Io., by a priest. the only man yes. Lovely weathe r, isn't It?'' Costello went over to Vitagrll.ph from Edison a massaro Quinda the from escape to preced ent was set up. "I am an actor and I wlil cre, comes the story of these early y.'' 0 ,. . a. o. eo. <JI,.J.l scener paint net-b ut I will not bulld sets and was re-~ cript manus The tions. expedi He won on his dignity. cently found in the archive s of a Enter Charl ie and His Pants Paris library . E. E. Blackm an, Lein debut screen l)iS gionnaire, former ly of Kansa s City Charle s Chapm an made the caught galt s and now curato r of the State Histor 11J13. His big pants and curiou Pic1\Iotion Ical society of Nebras ka, uncove red eye of Adam Kessel of the New York just r the enligh tening old manus cript. ture company, who strolle d into a theate him offered Kessel on. g0 act the l\Iuch inform ation is expect ed to be see to time In ree Charli films. the in on the early history of the arappear to gained week a $75 a $100 of offer uent subseq Konsa s of the Wyand otte Ina in did he rival as fused It, he and $150 to raised was remna nt of the Iroquo is a ante the dians, week. Finally Los at made York, It fs said. was New of picture 'rlbes • accept ed. His first "Kid's the called was It Angeles for Keystone. Auto Races, " and made a hit. Other Chapm an Bureau Settl es Long picture s followed, and the llttle EngUs hman beClaim l~r Insurance · came famou s before his name was known. Later The long-est claim for lnRurance of I his name was change d to Chaplin. the y, industr the In pments develo later the Of a derea~ed 'Vorld war vetera n and · censor avoid to effort the was cant prohah ly the long-eRt in the history of most signifi re Interfe sly t<eriou might that tion lmmrnnce has juRt been arlju<licated ship and regula HY allow these ag-gravating, filthy pests to Fatty for party wild a 1917 by the United States Vetera ns' bu- 1 with progre ss. In ruin your outings? In camp or at home FEt reau, acco1·rllng to Inform ation re· Arbucki~ In BoRton drew unfavo rable attenti on will free you from the nuisance. both to the player s and film oflldal s wl1o attend ed celved hy the nation al rehabi litation J It. In 1021, Arbuck le with other movie people 1 commi ttee of the Americ an Legion at , F1it spray clears your home in a few minut es of ' of e d!Yorc Wa!lhingtou, D. C. smashe d In to a screen scandal. The disease-bearing flies and mosquitoes. It is clean, Eight~'· four relativ es WPre In the Mary Pickfo rd from Owen Moore in Nentd a was safe and easy to use. anothe r cause cf scanda l becaus e of her early permit tea class of beneficlnrles under I Kills All Household Insects marria ge to Douglas I•'airbanks, an actor just [ the law. Their names, ages and ad- 1 I the long, that feet felt five ers IIRt a produc made The drE'SRPS favor. winnin g publlc Flit spray also destroys bed bugs, roaches and ants. It ~earches someth ing had to be done. They formed an longest ever filed with the bureau . out the cracks and crevice~~ where thex_ hide and breed and Incl_uded on the list were nine broth- : associa tion of motion picture produc ers, and destroys insects and their ejtgs. Spra,r Flit on your ~arments. aunts, six chairuncles, e six , one-tim sisters IIays, RIX Will ers, it phtced at the head of Flit kills moths and their larvae which eat holes. Extensivee insistersand e!gllt w, ttee, rs-fn-la commi al broth!:' nation six tests showed that Flit spray did not stain the m011t delicat man of the Repub llcan n ninetee s, nephew -three twenty law, fabrics. 1 postma ster genera l. -eight Thirty the ther. now stepmo fs a and and nieces Hays tackled his job seriously, Flit is the result of exhaustive research by expert entomolot Names . 'l'aylor to of comes name 1t bear the ogists and chemists. It Is harmless to mankin d. Flit hu screen 's most powerf ul figure when , Bornes Berch, any Include the others replaced the old method s becaUiEI it kills all the lnaeet a-and decidin g on what may be shown. He can klll Goss, Davis, ell, Campb does it quickly. story and can exile any actor from the screen Broadw ater, l ThQrn· and r Lemon, Manning, Ponde Get a Flit can and spraye r tod1.7. For sale everywhere. .A.nd he 111l.s used this power. Mr. Ramsa ye has brough t his fascina ting h!stol") ton. Under the settlem ent, the stepdown to the separa tion of the produc ing depart · STANDARD OIL CO. (NEW JERSEY) l'rothe rs and ment from the exhibi ting depart ment of the Fa- mother and the fifteen $1.92 a month for , mous Player s' organlzat.lon. Balaba n & Katz ot sisters will each get Chicago took over the theater s. On June 5, 1926, twenty years. Famou s Player s bought them buck. 1 This presen t nrtlcle mentio ns only scatter ed Sierra Unit Char tered Ramof rs chapte one eightythe th& from of gs unit gleanin The flrst all-Spa nish saye's work. For one Inciden t set down here there Americ an LPglon auxilia ry in the na- I are scores of equally interes ting ones gather ed I tfoR was charte red at Col!tello, N. M. 1 1n the two volumes. The one thing about this 1 recently, oml will be known a~ Sierra I history which llPJ)eais perhnp s more than any Unit "in token of Its high and lofty I other single qnallty Is the att!tnu e of the his- alms." '!'he tirst all-Ind ian unit of thf Fliea Mosqu itoes Moths .. I'M 11ellD"' ean wlth tlw torian. Hi· face was not long and stern when he a'!xllla ry was charte red at Bullhe ad 1 bkoek band'' Ants Bed Bu~s Roach es wrote. lle bUW the lmmnn side of this COJilt-dy S. D., not long ago, and Is known as drama. He lui'' a twit kle ln his eye. West Wind Unit ~ - fA~~~~, ~~u!E~?~~ Resinol Thoma s Alva Edison , Invent or of tho motion picture film, tho camera and the Kinet oscop -the techno logical founda tion of tho art of tho motion picture . (Court esy Simon and Schust er.) faces. Soon vaudev llle actors began to appear . A young dancer named Dennis was among them. She ls now Ruth St. Denis. TilE fil'St motion -pictur e empor ium was opened Avril 14, 1804, at No. 11515 Broadw ay, New York. Ten peepho le klnetos copes attract ed the publlc. It must be remem bered that picture s on the screen as we know them had not yet made their appear ance. All movies were shown to one person at a time. throug h the peephole. This, of course, llmlted the patron age. The magic lantern , on the other hand, for severa l hundre ds of years had (lhown stlll-pl ctures to entire audien ces. On the Scree n at Last Why not combine the magic lantern and the klnetos cope? This questio n stirred , almost simultaneou sly, the minds of severa l men, includi ng Edison. In Chicago Edwin Hill Amet ponder ed the Idea; in Virgin ia Prof. Woodvlll Latham played with It; In Englan d Robert Friese- Greene started working, and !u France two instrum ent makers , Louts and Augus te Lumle re, set about to put motion picture s on the screen. Out of all this effort grew litigati on which in one form or anothe r was going strong untll as late as 1911, and may still have a belated appear ance on some court dockets. l\Ir. Hamsa ye says that the Lumle re projec tor made its debut in March, 1895, under the name of the cinema tograp h. Severa l weeks later Profes sor Latham , · In Americ a, demon strated his projec tor, and only a short time later Amet made hls showIng. In general, all these devices were the same, with minor except ions in the perfor ation of the film and In inethod of windin g and rewind ing. These precip itated legal battles fn which were spent m!llions of dollars In costs, only to end, as a rule, In compro mise and combination of the competing parties . Thus the projec tor, the last vital develo pment of motion picture s, was ready to revolu tionize the world of amuse ment as early as 1805. The first public screen showin g was made ,April 20, 1896, at the old Koster & Bioi music he!l, In Twent y-third street, New York. These were simple subjec ts, dancer s, acroba ts and the llke-anyt~lng with action In it. 'Ihe Idea that any actor would want money for his efiort!l never occurr ed to the early fUm makers . The publici ty they got out of It was held to be Carme nclta, a Spanis h ample remun eration . dancin g star, perform ed ; Annab elle Moore put on a serpen tine; Sandow and other notabl es of the time all worked on this basis of payme nt. Censo rship Begin s About this time came the first censorship. The Edison company had produc ed a piece In which Dolori ta put on a boochle-koochle, a dance made known to America at the Chicago world' s fair. Klneto scopes by this time, In 1896, were fairly well distrib uted, and there were severa l doing busine ss on the Atlant ic City board walk. Somebody took a peep at Dolori ta, becam e shocked at her perform ance, and promp tly wrote a letter to the oothor ltles. The result was that the owner of the establi shmen t wrote the New York office, "Send me anothe r film. The pollee say that Dolo. rita's dance is too strong .'' by known yet not , movies the As early as 1896 on attenti the attract to that tltle, of course, began of scores of men who saw the opport unities for money-making. Their fmagln atlons had been fired by such exploi ts as the filming, In 1897, of the Corbet t-Fitzs immon s fight at neno, which ran 13,000 feet, and was shown at the old New York Academy of Music, the first special showin g of a picture . The same year one Alexan der Vict01·, a magician, opened the first motlon-plctm·e theate r with 200 chairs in lt. This was in Newar k, N. J., and admiss ion was 25 cents. It soon fulled. The war with Spain helped boost the new art. IIere was an opport unity to get rea! action. The Vltagr aph company, formed by Jimmy Blackt on, a New York reporte r, Albert E. Smith, a sp!rlt cabine t exhibit or, and one Pop Hock, a Harlem b!lllard hall keeper , concocted a pleture called "Teari ng Down the Spanis h Flag." In Chicago George K. Spoor, news dealer by day and ticket vender by night in a cheap vaudev llle house, and Edwlu H. Amet, the Invent or of one kind of projector, showed the destruc tion of Cerver a's fleet. Both of tl1em were fakes. The flag was "torn down" on a lot in Brooklyn, and the "fleet" was maneu vered In a washtu b at the Wauke gan (III.) studio of Spo.or and Amet. This was the day of. the film pirate. If anyone made a picture which attract ed the public, others Immediately would copy lt. The indust ry had lured the unscru pulous entrep reneur as well as those who lived by higher ethics, and where money is at stake anytl1lng Is Ukely to happen . One company produc ed the story of the cruriflx!on and anothe r promp tly copied It and "bootle gged'' ' it to not unwill ing exhibit ors. The status of genera l produc tion of vtcture s for ~~Better · lubrication for yo ur • autotJtobil~ oN'r NEGL Wanted--Farm Land for Cas h Buyers •tracto~: andallfa r1n eqwement I 9lieS' and mosquitoes tove catnper.r W I I |