Moving Picture News (1911) . oln avenue for Fred Hartman, to cost$5,000. Laramie, Wyo.—A new opera house is being consideredfor this town. Butte, Mont.—The Montana Amusement Co. will erecta new theatre to cost $96,000, on Park street. THE WESTERN FILM EXCHANGE OF NEW YORK CITY CUSTOMERS ARE ALLSATISFIED NOW READY TO CATER TOOUT-OF-TOWN BUSINESS LET US HEAR FROM YOU Telephone 2893Bryant 2893 Forty-Fiftn St. Ex. WEST 45tli STREET 20 THE-MOVING PICTURE NEWS 11 -^ THE HIGHER THE PEWER-(JE — - Up in the Air with-Thanhouser- --f ^ . When theThanhouser directors had in preparation TheHigher^
Moving Picture News (1911) . oln avenue for Fred Hartman, to cost$5,000. Laramie, Wyo.—A new opera house is being consideredfor this town. Butte, Mont.—The Montana Amusement Co. will erecta new theatre to cost $96,000, on Park street. THE WESTERN FILM EXCHANGE OF NEW YORK CITY CUSTOMERS ARE ALLSATISFIED NOW READY TO CATER TOOUT-OF-TOWN BUSINESS LET US HEAR FROM YOU Telephone 2893Bryant 2893 Forty-Fiftn St. Ex. WEST 45tli STREET 20 THE-MOVING PICTURE NEWS 11 -^ THE HIGHER THE PEWER-(JE — - Up in the Air with-Thanhouser- --f ^ . When theThanhouser directors had in preparation TheHigher^^^Tewer, an aeroplane elopement, which is to bereleas|ed^uesdaj% November 14th, there was a question ofeither.!!~dropping the whole production or else getting a realaeroplane and an instructor to teach one of the Thanhouserplayers the science of aeronautics. Without realism it wasdecided that the force of the humorof this comedy ^ weakened. The; directors knew that if they wishetl to make eflfective. the scene where the Yorkshire Kid, a prize fighter, car-ries of¥ the girl he loves in an aeroplane, from under the verynose of i rival, the picture had to show the kid and hissweetheart in actual flight. Actors are people who usually can act, but it is, at thisdate, too much to expect that they should know the in-tricacies of a flying machine. The problem, therefore, was,how much would it cost to hire a real aeroplane and a, manwho could instruct a Thanhouser star? After jockeying a bit, arrangements were finallj consum-mated with Captain Thomas Baldwin and Augustus undertook to run a kindergarten for the benefit of theThanhouser Company, and gave up the use of their course, there were many interesting incidents and nar-row escapes during the time of training. Chief among theseincidents was the experience with a farmer on Long Island,who demanded a thousand dollars because a Thanhouser actor alighted on his property. A thousand dollar
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