Middletown transcript., 1911-12-02
FINE MOTION PICTURES

The Moving Picture Show man plainly
agrees with Cowper that variety is the
very spice of life"-reader, when you
quote this please put the ''very' in-few
people do it-for if you do not, you will
deserve Byron's sarcasm of "Just enough
learning to misquote."
But to return to the Moving Pictures,
Mr.. Newman is certainly giving his big
audiences varied bill of fare. For exam
pie, there was the stirring water scene Of
two small children floating out to sea in
an open boqt-thanks to the prank of a
bad boy who showed the boat off shore-a
frantic mother, wriDging her hands-a
steam launch sent in hot pursuit, a res.
cue OF the Woodworking youngsters
happy mama embraces the saved darliDgs
and "warms" the naughty boy with her
slipper-tabIeau all the kids in bed.
Next picture showing the primitive
fashion in which Arabian pottery 10 made
the clay mixed with their feet, then
hand-mouIded on their crude revolving
wheels-Iugs and spouts added-baked in
rude brush. heated ovens and finally de-
corated with enamel designs to issue at
last shapelv, artistic jars and vases.
Then some funny scenes produced by
trick photography, but ascribed to some
learned professor with his "Magic Mirror"
everybody by the ears with mimicking
''doubles.
Then bit Of comedy, "How Billy Won
His Grip who had given him the mitten
by kidnapping her dog. This scene show
ed the wonders of trained dog whose
acting, even to his GESTURES was not behind
that of the two legged playersl
Mr.. "Spender's" troubles with his
creditors was funny. A trip around Lake
Lucerne and an accent of Mt Righi in
Switzerland 5000 feet up by rall-beauti.
fuI scenes of Swiss chalets and water-side
villas and the flying panorama OF the up.
ward trip.
Then some fancy acrobatic stunts where.
in woman on q trapeZs holds another
trapezs from which man hanging by his
toes ties his left leg in double bow knot
around his own neck!
Then an "awful'' funny bit-"An Up
to.date EIopement'-painfully funny ill.,
fact, the audience literally screamed, peo-
pie laughed all the way home till the
street was an echoiDg ha-ha and te-ht!
This indescribable piece of ingenious
extravaganza was repeated by request on
Saturday evening, and they cay the ush-
ers after the performance gatheIel some
thing like half pint OF buttons burst off
in the merriment. How that voyage up
TO the moon OF the fat woman with her
''hero" hanging at her skirts aud the vi
vacious bull dog attached to the seat of
the hero's unmentionable0, was arranged
that's a stickeI! Or how that mass of
furniture came tumbling through the cell
ng followed by the actors themselves,
there's another poser.
But the ''TaIe of Two cities" was
charming affair Some Of the most
striking scenes in that wonderful novel
Dickens masterpiece were portrayed most
delightfully."-. The scene where Lncie Wis.,
tied her old crazy father Manette in his
garret making shoes at his bench, and
lovingly recalled his lost faculties, was
touching, and the writer found himself
exclaiming softly Beautiful! "Beauti
full" Other highly dramatic scenes from
the French Revolution were graphically
exhibited.
Then laugh provoking scene of how a
cheeky book agent sold an enIaged pur-
chaser three copies OF the book whose first
purchase for $500 had excited his wrath.
And so it goes-a'l soEts. We don't
wonder that there are "evPTynighters"
that come to get the tonic of hearty ha
ha; the profit of some fine foreign scene
or to have their blood sent tingling at
sight of some fine bit OF heroic doing; or
to view some stirring scene from the ma
tion's history etc.