The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1911-05-05

Anywhere. eyerywlre. you find them In tho
United States you wi have 10 hunt a town OF
less than 1000 lnhabhnts II you wish to escape
the moving pictures,
Five millions OF herlcans daily visit these
shows.
Tho exhibitors payis 900 900 year for their
films The public p@ s57.5OO.o0O a year to SEQ
them.
Mr. Edison hsfNh average weekly royalty
therefrom OF 5000
SO It ia n pretty big business. pretty thor.
oughly organized quite universal In Its reach,
soapbubbly in It's unlVersality.
The child OF the poor. with n clay pipe and the
suds from the weekly wash. can have Just as
good time as any rich young fellow with an I'm.
ported meersehaum and the best CASTLE
SO It is with the movingplcture shows. II re.
quires little capital 10 run them. A long room
easily darkened, nltefeet square patch OF white
cloth some benches for the spectators. an oper.
ator at ten dollars week. and a rented film. now
takes the place OF company Of actors stage
scenery properties lights and properly
equipped building. And the poor boy gets as
much value for his nickel as the rich boy can get
for any number OF dollars.
Yet they run into Dangers that no soap.bubbles
can allure Fire Is OF these the most patent
or the moral dangers we will speak later. II
is through the moral soap.bubble that we can see
more clearly tho moving pictures gossamer
tinsel
Fire however Is the first and most vital dan
ger The Charity BAZAAR fire I'm Paris In which
no many women were trampled TO death by COW.
nrdly men, was caused by the fall Of a spark
upon some ceuloid movngpicturo nlr's which
had been dropped into basket. In Canton 600
men, Cinnamon. were burned to death In FIRE
In moylngpicture show house In Quito Ecua.
dor fifty men and women lost their lives in
similar calamity
II speaks well for tho widespread and con.
slant vigilance OF the nro departments OF tho
United states that no great catastrophe has yet
come to the moyhgplcturo houses OF this
country.
Lives have not been lost In the moving picture
shows Lives have been lost through the moving
picture shows.
Whore once the dime and nickel novels sug.
gested ways OF crime to unbalanced youth tho
moving picture has come TO make a more ready
and more potent appeal. The printed word Ia
never 80 ardent with an impressionable mind as
the scted word.
Several ways have been thought Of to lessen
these obvious evils. Charles sprague Smith late
thought he had solved the problem when he in.
duced the manufacturers Of the moving pictures
to agree to a national board OF censorship.
The manufacturers, good trade diplomats.
readily assented and then saw to II that tho
board OF censorship should be advisory and not
antagonistic. The result is that many pictures
that create havoc among youthful minds when
shown on the public screens get by" tho ma.
tlona board OF censorship.
No This bubble that Edison bos ,oosod ,,,op
us will play itself out Just so far as the instincts
OF the whole people OF this country will permit;
no farther, no sooner
One night went to a prize fight. Only men
were present The casual observer might have
SAID they were all tough men After the fight
canvas was erected in the ring and an an.
shown to the members of this club"
The Hcture proved to be OF French mapufac.
ture and portrayed vile situation in dive
Instantly Kisses and storm OF exeoratlon burst
from the audience The running of the film was
stopped and the picture removed before II was
all shown. Grim silence greeted the removal o,
the canvas.
The crowd that GOrled in the action o, the