Moving Picture News (1911) . humor; the actors begin to look and to actthe parts; the director knows how to make every point telland-is= evidently master of the situation. We have just seen Mutt and Jeff and the German Band,which will be released Saturday, Sept. 2, and, though thetheater _ was lacking, we actually laughed allthroughout the running of this film. (By the way, we do notlaugh very readily). A number of other competent judgesof motion pictures were present. Laugh? No; theirs was avolcanic eruption of Ha-Ha-Ha,s! When we were able to talk, we exchanged notes, and Mutt an
Moving Picture News (1911) . humor; the actors begin to look and to actthe parts; the director knows how to make every point telland-is= evidently master of the situation. We have just seen Mutt and Jeff and the German Band,which will be released Saturday, Sept. 2, and, though thetheater _ was lacking, we actually laughed allthroughout the running of this film. (By the way, we do notlaugh very readily). A number of other competent judgesof motion pictures were present. Laugh? No; theirs was avolcanic eruption of Ha-Ha-Ha,s! When we were able to talk, we exchanged notes, and Mutt and Jeff and the Ger-man Band was unanimously voted the funniest of the series. The story deals—no, there is no story attached to this orany other Mutt and Jeff picture—its just an incident, butone of those incidents worth a dozen stories. It depicts aphase in the topsy-turvy life of these luckless devils createdby that king of cartoonists, Bud Fisher. Mutt and Jeffare not looking for adventures; they are content with the. more prosaic occupation of hunting for the almighty German band of the usual ill-assorted variety appears tomake money with the aid of a little blow. A suspiciouslooking blind fellow grinds out agony after agony on anantique box-organ and gets the dough. A golden vistasuddenly opens before the hungry gaze of Mutt and become troubadors, or rather, JefT shoulders the bigbrass horn, while Mutt slides to first base with a slidingtrombone. Instead of a shower of small coin, they are madea target for broken bric-a-brac and breaking brick-bats. Theend comes amid a pandemonium of laughter. P. S.—We hear that David Horsley is personally puttingon the IMutt and Jeff farces. If the rumor is true, we take of?our hats to him as being one of the best comedy directorsin the business. Spokane, Wash.—The Interstate Amusement Co. will estab-lish theaters here. Kennywood, Pa.—The Penny Arcade Building was de-stroyed by fire. Loss, $3,500. Oneida, N. Y
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