Review of reviews and world's work . CATCHJNG A CAVALRY CHARGE ON THE MOVING-F1CTURE CAMERA THE MOVING PICTURE AND THENATIONAL CHARACTER \/TOYI\C» pictures are the main American?*- A amusement of to-day. You must ap-preciate this first of all. Study this table: CITIK- York < hi Philadelphiav6oo,o»jo 325,000 M. 3IO 160142 75 ting CAPACIIY150,000 000 000 410 22,500 2Jt,>)>«) ;0 22,5X) 5,6O0 In New York City, the moving-picturecenter of the world, there are 250 showsagainst only 76 regular theaters. Some of thelatter include moving pictures on their bills. The chief com
Review of reviews and world's work . CATCHJNG A CAVALRY CHARGE ON THE MOVING-F1CTURE CAMERA THE MOVING PICTURE AND THENATIONAL CHARACTER \/TOYI\C» pictures are the main American?*- A amusement of to-day. You must ap-preciate this first of all. Study this table: CITIK- York < hi Philadelphiav6oo,o»jo 325,000 M. 3IO 160142 75 ting CAPACIIY150,000 000 000 410 22,500 2Jt,>)>«) ;0 22,5X) 5,6O0 In New York City, the moving-picturecenter of the world, there are 250 showsagainst only 76 regular theaters. Some of thelatter include moving pictures on their bills. The chief combination of manufacturersproduces 20,000 feet a week of new films—ofwhich eighty copies apiece must be Edisons royalty, begun only recently,amounts from this source to an income ofSSoooawcek. The middlemen or exchangespay manufacturers $0,000,000 for films, whichthe former rent at about $18,000,000 a year totheactual exhibitors or showmen. They in turn. • nun > mm 1111 v 16 >i» THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEW collet ted nickels and dimes in 1909, attheir 10,000 ticket-windows,amount-ing i $57,500,000. And these au-diences numbered more than two and; irter million souls per day -threetimes tht audiences of all the regulartheaters in America put together! When an enterprise as vast as thisgets into the 6eld of morals, some-thing serious is bound to happen oneway or the other. So far, it is hap-pening both ways. For instance, wequote from a last months newspaper: Charles Judson witnessed a suicidele lasl night in a moving picture showat Then he went home andcopied the plan of the picture li- bod} was found in his gas-filled roomthis morning. The suicide was nineteen years old. Thepin iirt- that he saw last night showed ayoung woman going through all the pre-liminaries t suicide by gas, finally reclin-ing on her bed and awaiting death calmly. What was thrown on the screen Judsonit <l to the last detai
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