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Show VU POPULARITY OF MOVING PICTURES Tho moriiig picture, enjoying popularity popu-larity in America second only only to that of the souenir post card, is getting' get-ting' a strong foothold in Europe, Aus. tralia, South Africa. Japan and many other parls of the globe. Reports made to the department of commerce and labor by United States consuls in these countries are interesting, even astonishing. A few years ogo the moving picture didn't exist, yet today a vast business has grown up, both In producing and exhibiting the films. London has 287 picture pla-houses, with more being constantly 'added. There the prices of admission vary from -1 cents to 01 cents. Consul Griffiths also remarks upon tho rapidity with which some English films arc made. For example, the Grand National Steeplechase rate was held In Liverpool, 200 miles from London, at 3 o'clock in tho afternoon The race was photographed, the pictures pic-tures developed on a train rushing them from that city to London, and the film shown at some of the music halls that ven, ovening Most of the films In London, however, are American-made, American-made, although French pictures are popular there. Colored moving pictures pic-tures the invention of a former Ohio man, by the way are nlso in great favor In Scotland the films used are chiefly American and French, while In Germany the product of the United States enjoys a wide popularity. In Berlin alone there are 360 film tho-aters, tho-aters, and one now under construction construc-tion will have a seating capacity of 1.200. Norway, Russia, Spain and Turkey all support mov.ng picture shows, and American films are preferred in all of these countries. In Japan the "American invasion" is not so marked, nor in Syria, the Straits Settlements and New Zealand In South Africa, on the other bond. American films are very popular. In the Johannesburg Johannes-burg consular district there are forty film theaters, many of thom finely deslgnod and well appointed. Ten years ago the moving picture show was unknown. Assuredly we live in a rapid age? the moving pic- i 'M turo has practically girdled th.o globe ( f J in a decadel Cincinnati Times-Star. ( nn li Vim |