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Show Drew the Crowd. It was the ambition of the proprietor of the moving picture show to get a record house that week. The first two nights he failed to get it. On the third night his unparalleled attractions attrac-tions vere advertised thus through a megaphone at the hall door: "Ladies and gentlemen: Every picture pic-ture I shall show you tonight has cost the Hfe of a film actor. In the bridge wrecking scene two men were drowned, in the railroad collision one man was crushed to death, and the jungle scene three men were fearfully mangled by wild beasts. "Reprehensible tactics to mention those harrowing details," said the proprietors pro-prietors of other shows; nevertheless they achieved the manager's purpose, for the next day the house was packed pack-ed at every performance. |