Show BIRSKY an ca 7 A ap pp AF JA X 11 by MONTAGUE GLASS y MET sam Po ro longin in tle the subi 1 way this morning barnett the waist manufacturer said as with the aid of his thumb and a gravy which remal remained ned from his portion 0 of potatoes and gravy he demonstrated the alie capillarity of a slice of rye bread and how Is the herring business busine 7 louis birsky the real estaver asked abra t do you mean the lierl herring business demanded the herring business Is now a side issue for sam him and J of katzberg in the pants business has formed the charoles Cha roses fallum company and next week they are going to release their first billum by the name the fatal murder 1 I the way it looks nowadays birsky said everybody has got two businesses his regular business and the moving picture business all except the feller in the cheap candy business said there sint nothing in the cheap candy bustness business no more birsky on account if alady a lady gives her six year old boy five cents lie he should buy himself a taffy on a stick he goes right away to a moving pictures instead and blows in the nickel to see thou not covet thy neighbors wife a capture billum in five reels N not ot alone cheap candy birsky said gald but every business Is feeling the effects of 0 the moving picture business a few businesses favorable like the and lunchroom business which the nearest some married men has bag got to a home cooked dinner since the lie moving pictures started is a halt half a pound of sliced belony mit kar toffel salad then there is the spectacle business lusia ess which aich while in former times ladies indies whose husbands made from thirty arty dollars a week down used to get knee from keeping the flat boking as neat as a pin hey have now got to be fitted with classes for eye strain from watching moving pictures every afternoon up v 0 five minutes before six or five min tes ites before whatever time the hus and comes home well theres one business in oving moving altures aint improved none birsky wd laid and the regular thearter thea lu business siness even on first nights nowa lays ays the fifty cent gallery and balcony I 1 empty excepting the ushers and a of ot dozen lozen reporters with false au staches and smoked glasses which yas yas barred out by the mian management agern cut pr claiming that the follies should night to be a stag the thearter thea mangers Is kicking something ter terrible hout out the way the moving pictures Is ting into their business 11 sure I 1 know said and they e their own worst competitors bircy its like if all the saloonkeepers saloon keepers uld become temperance lectures be luse se they seen a chance to make mak e a atle le money on the side and then om com allied there was no more profit in is e liquor business very thearter thea manager has got also chain of moving picture houses they e killing the hen that laid the golden gs 11 all right too birsky retted but compared with the golden i gs which moving pictures Is I 1 laying ie old time chayter was a rooster app ap pp and not only is the moving pic re ire fellers making big money but cy aint got to invest not near as you see a man stand still on th the e f 9 sidewalk and make marks C il ch capital as a regular theay thearter thea tep 1 1111 inger ger take this here belasco for mice which he specializes on shows with telephone switch I 1 ardi ada rda restaurants and doctors ollices ot ices 4 y id d supposing for instance lies got restaurant in it then ot I cry ry night light that show plays in new d j rk or grand forks or sandusky or 10 ea brever it happens to be they put ta the stage a real restaurant with y bee e machines and gas friddles griddles gr iddles and ey broll broil right there in front of the ence every day a steaks leaks for ten or 01 eca dollars because mr air belasco is ry artistic that way if he puts on estaura restaurant nt les ifa put on right it dont j f ke no difference ference lif what it costs but bul e i take a moving picture feller anti and M has got cot a 4 allum fallum with a 1 I in it nil all lie he does doea Is to go to n rant and ask the feller that runs it he should allow for a five dollar note the movie actors to carry on there ond and pictures Is taken hakea of it with a camera thon then when you go to see the billum understand me they flash on tha screen NED DISCOVERS HIS SISTER IN A fashionable BROADWAY restaurant and afterwards they show the fashionable broadway restaurant and op he wall Is a sign CHILI CON CARNE the difference between mr belasco and moving picture fe felders liers ors what do they care about being artistic if its going to cost an extra ten dollars all they want is to ke keep P t the h expenses down tc T h a where N vil re you make a big mistake declared moving picture fellers is eaten up with ex pAuses for instance the wages which moving picture fellers pays to their actors is so something methi terrible Five hundred a week Is s small mail already well why not birsky retorted look what a moving picture actor lg Is got to do to earn his bis money we will say tor for example that he goes to work at nine at half past nine lie he Z ra ea maybe the feller that works work the camera looking goes up to central park and falls out of 0 a otter mobIle running thirty miles an hour the first time he falls out maybe the feller that works the camera lo looking oldrig so hes got to fall out again this time somebody moves the camera so he falls out a third time and one way or another they keep that actor falling out of an olter mobile going thirty y miles an hour from half past nine to lunch time supposing he does get five hundred dollars a week Is that a life I 1 ask you just the same its a lot of money to pay sald said and furthermore all the moving picture actors gets contracts for a year already but what is such contracts worth birsky barsky asked it a moving picture f teller el wants to get rid of such a contract all he has got to do 1 la s to get the party of the second part to play ned in a billum where here ned escapes back from a cliff five hundred feet from the sheriff by leaping on horse high and the widow can frame the contract and hang it in the front parlor as a sow veneer of the two weeks when her husband aed to make five hundred dollars a week sighed heavily 1 I got a designer which has me under a three years contract since last tuesday already he said and if I 1 could hire maxine marine elleott for a model and C 11 schwab tor for a salesman I 1 get rid of that murderers designs for the cost of the linings alone theres big money in it ir for somebody who nho could persuade that swindler to play in a fallum where nod ned gets gels locked la in a burning ranch by the mexican for a thousand dollars a week I 1 would pay two weeks salary out of my own pocket and if they aint got a ranch to burn I 1 would even give the moving picture concern a house out in borough park which I 1 got iacano on my hands bands since 1913 maybe you think such a thing aint possible that a waist designer should get a job as a moving picture actor birsky said believe me the last thing in the world which is necessary in the moving picture business is exper experience lence in particular the actors and the people which writes the scenarios you remember in the old days that everybody thought lie he could sell clothing well nowadays every foot fool thinks he could be a moving ale picture zire actor and most of thorn them are its the same way with writing tho the scenarios tako take any retail dry goods concern today and everybody from the cash girls to the store superintendent Inte in Is writing scenarios on the side also if you go into a street car and a fellow opposite you is talking to himself funder stand you might think hea bes a lunatic but as a matter of fact ho he aint crazy by from three to ten dollars on account h hi is doping out a scenario which he would sell for around that price to a moving picture concern furthermore it if you see see a man stand still on the sidewalk and make marks on an old envelope with a par icil that aint no sign that hes tryla to figure how it could be he Is overdrawn ovet drawn at tho the bank two dollars and forty five cents no A feller could make a living nowadays collecting old envelopes lind and selling cm cin to people to make memorandums of scenarios on how IlloN sr do they do W it exclaimed 1 I could no more write a scenario and get away with it as a check tor for a million dollars because you aint never tried to write a scenario birsky said all youve got to do Is to take a play like hamlet for instance find and you call camlot ned and the king mexican louis then you dictate thel the moin maill points to a stenographer and send it 11 to a moving picture concern which wal formerly la in the plumbing supply bush bus ness or childrens knee pants and ani youre bound to get away with iti 14 because the only plays them belr fe lers knows anything about Is they used to take their customers to tl see and it if you are trying to sell a customer goods you n naturally a dont 10 a k take him to see II Il amlet am I 1 right or wrong you tou dont take him to a movin picture neither said 1 I know you dont doat cirsky replied As asking kinga a customer to go to a theny theay ter and then taking him to a moving pictures Is the equivalence of inviting him to lunch and then blowing him at a drug store to an egg chocolate with malted milk at that theres lots of people makes a luncheon oil off of clio choco late meted milk said welcome for all of me barsky said but so long as ive got the price I 1 would stick to soup meat dessert and coffee and im the same way about going to a show when I 1 go broke ill be a moving picture fan too but as it stands when I 1 feet feel like taking in a thea thearter I 1 want to see a show which was written by nn an author not a truck driver also als 0 I 1 like to hear bear an acal actor or as well as see him me ale too agreed and if hes got other talents besides falling out of an olter mobile going thirty miles an hour birsky so much the better copyright new york tribune |