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Show MOVING PICTURES ARE CLASSIFIED AS LUXURIES Washington, Aug. 20. Moving pictures pic-tures may be classed as luxuries, so fnr as the Turks are concerned, for those who have the moving picture craze in Turkey are charged two piasters, pias-ters, or alout nine cents, each at tho door, according to George Horton, tho United States consul at Salonlkl. There are four moving picture shows In operation in that clt, says Mr. Horton in a report to tho department depart-ment of commerce and labor, and the craze ha atta.ned such proportions there that upward of 3,500 persons nightly nttend them The films used i are cDtlrelv of Italian and French manufacture, the American filin6 hav- I iug been superseded. |