The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-10
PUT ON FAKE FIGHT PICTURES
NORRIS SiTS HE VAS FOOLED
tND STOPS 'FH iT Over.
Films Rushed 90 American Music Hall Tor
waiting Audience No Time for Pri-
Nate Te~t-IIah . Minute Enough Co
cause Morris TO shut Them On.

William Morris. the vaudeville producer,
thought until $50 T. NJ. yesterday that
he would bs the first manager IN New
York Co put on the Jeff fries i ohnson hght
moving pictures IL, made the an
nouncement yesterday morning and part
- the audience at the American Music
Hall in the afternoon waited after the
regular programme To- see the show.
tn. films arrived at the American at
go r NJ The minute the films arrived
Mr. Morris rushed them up to the top gall
l"ry. stucN them IN the machine and sig
nailed the operator to go ahead. For
half minute a black man and white
man SPARED ON tho square of white sheet
ing Then Mr. Morris jumped up
Here he shouted stop that ma
chine. That's not Johnaon and the white
rnAu IL no more JecrieS than | am. I've
b,-..n fooled
\ representative of Mr. Morris stepped on
the stage and explained To the astonished
audience that Mr. Morris had no notion
until the pictures began to rnow that they
We're not moving pictures of the Oig fight
~. SAID that ANYBODY who wanted his
money back could get II at the box office
Two men ho hal seen the matinee show
stopped On thew out and got the price
# their seats
Mr. Morris said last night that he had
l.Ncn Imposed upon 10y the Empire Film
Company, which has contracted u furn lsh
HIM set IT films William Morris Inc,
- not supplied with motion pictures hv
the American Nitagraph Company, known
~ IN" moving picture trust because, like
Hammerstein MIR Morris has shown ia
mis- theatres motion pictures taken hy
picture concerns not IN the syndicate.
ma ir "A contract with th'm three
weeks b'irr" the night. SAID Mr. Morris
They told me thai they hal sent SIX men
- Reno and that they intended To get
films despite the tact that the American
NItagrapL Company hal obtained CN-
elusive nights from Tex RiCkard and the
lighters Naturally behevoi them Sew
'rsl days after m" fight | got word from
rh"m thai they had been able to get
pCtur,-s and that the films would b"
irlivsr,si a. the earliest pOs-ib" moment
They told me that the pictures We're
handy and that they would he delivered
.r m" AZ the American Theatre at ! 81
= VI to-day They didn't arrIv" az ~
,r 1T 80. hut they got Their" finally al
80 II hg always been my custom t.
...ya "a private exhibition of motion pc
'rr"- h"fpr" -'.pwIng them ." tina public.
pv' here was "A crowd which had waited
patiently IL the theatre and ~ ! went
I saw in less than half "A minute that
they weren't pictures of IN" big fight
They lookoi lik" thew had been taken IN
a baseball Iark H." negru looked Like
Joe. Jeannotte the white man like nohodv
knew Nr Bloom. NV general manager,
VIZ SpInguld. my repr"~sntatlV" at the
American and tried 10 get into com
muniCatIpn With the Empir" Film Com
pany. hut We couldn't g"t any satlsfaC-
tlnn a. III" officials had left for III" dav
I have h'."n notu,d by my attorneys that
! have grounds fer an action against tho
company and | shall bring -r.tr AT onCs.
don Z ike 20 pe double crossed
There WAS 20 good deal ot -n"r'Iiatiou
among tn"atrIcIl men a. u Nh"r" tn"
real hight pictures would D." shown
William Morris and Hamm"r-t"Iu can
ct them. '"rau-" both mann "'- hav"
.,-.l barred ~ the motion picture syndI-
AT" Manage Keith Of tn" Keith A
Proctor theatres has sad that b" will
not permit the pictures To- lie exhibited