The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-24
How 1t Has Grown to Present
Proportions.
Show Men Talk About Actors
and Audiences.
JOHN BUNNY, BROADWAY STAR
He Has Warm Admirers Here
in Topeka.
Machine Perfected Until Shows
Are Delight to Everyone.

Come on, girls, let's go TO the
MOVIES said Handy Hal, the Broad
way hero.
Picture fans is a term that should
be added to the list of colloquial ex-
pressions in the supplement to Web
sters dictionary. 1t includes as many
clssses of people as were portrayed by
one William Shakespeare-men. women.
of every sort, and all the children in
the universe.
Charles Frohman, in connection with
| motion pictures, announces that he has
| found something new under the sun. "
In his production of the Girl from
| Montmartre,'' a new and naughty COM
edy at the Criterion. Miss Williams, IN
| title role cries, Anyone who loves me
can find me- and skips off the stage,
theoretically pursued by the hero, who
! is Mr. earle. Out go the lights, and
| the chase is reproduced in motion pic
ture-over wood and hill they go, and
! the runaway Is overtaken. Lights APP
pear, and the pair are found on the
stage. in a forest just where the Kline
macolor left them on the sheet The
audience taken unaware, signifies its
approval of the novel scheme by appre-
ciatiVe applause.
Daniel Frohman, who has accepted
the dictatorship of the Famous Players
Film company is advancing the grade
tar star, under his management, is to
appear on the picture sheet Sarah
Bernhart, who has been snapped sew
eral times, will be a motion picture he
rome in the drama of Queen Eliza
beth" Blanche Walsh, the distinguish
ed New York actress, will be seen as
Katusha Maslova in Resurrection"
ALA NazimoVa, that most fascinating
and original of Broadway stars, is anx-
iouS to pose for moving picture, and
declares that in time all dramatists will
agree with her.
Frank Klingaman, proprietor of the
Crystal theater in Topeka says that his
pictures are improving all the time.
Not only do the "highbrows" attend,
but the size of the audiences is in
Creas.ng. Last summer 1000 made a
large weekly audience; now 5000 is
the usual attendance.
Motion Picture Favorites.
'The motion picture artists are be-
coming as we'll known as the regular
actors,'' Mr.. Klingaman observed.
Marshall P. Wilder appears only on
the phorosheets, and John Bunny,
who played sixteen years on Broad
way, and is the most popular picture
hero, has no other business connec-
lions. Gilbert Anderson, whom the
ladies all like, is secretary of the
Essanay company, and a millionaire.
Rose Goghlan devotes herself to NOV
ing pictures. and Mabel Talliaferro,
one CT the highest priced actresses in
the world, was shown in Topeka with
the Cinderella films Will Wads-
worth, who has played with Blanche
Walsh, and whose father was formerly
in the Bank of Topeka, devotes him
self exclusively to the Edison pictures.
Charles Clary, a Topeka high school |
boy, plays with the Selig company, and
took the part of the discoverer of |
America in the Coming of Columbus /
that was shown at the Auditorium
last winter. Companies would rather |
act for films than in stock for there |
are no one night stands, and the en- |
gagements are certain.
Topeka is the hardest city in the |
country to provide with moving pic |
lures" Mr.. Klingaman concluded. cit |
has that reputation. Its audiences are
the most critical, and for that reason |
we often receive films before either |
Chicago or Kansas City. Ny pictures |
are licensed, and I show SO reels a |
week. The Pathe Freres slides of !
weekly events are a liberal education. |
Topeka sees the same pictures that are |
shown in New York or any other city |
in the world
just Because They're Cent Shows |
The better class of people seem to
have an aversion to the five cent show. |
Possibly the rest under the delusion I
that no amount Of amusement or edu-
cation can be received for the sum of
has catered to Topeka taste in pastimes
for years. tells how this difficulty is
to be overcome.
John Cort, Lubin. Edison and 9TH
at the same time that the pic
lures are being TAKEN" said he. 1T
will be impossible to show these reels
at the five cent shows. The perform |
ance will last two or three hours, and |
the price will be a dollar. 1t is then |
that the stars will consent to appear"
Mr.. Crawford is an oracle on the |
subject, for he owned the first picture |
machine in the state. II travelled in |
the small towns about 16 years ago.,
explained he, land displayed my 80 |
foot reels. 1 had calcium lights in |
stead of electricity, and spent at least |
half an hour winding my reels. Now !
the reels are 1000 feet long, and no time |
is lost in the preparation. To my |
mind the greatest step in advance
ment is in the making of the machines; /
no more Pickering lights; quick changes
and, though few people know it, fire. /
proof magazines. If a film caught fire,
there would be no danger, and moth
ing else would burn
That the standard of the motion pic
lures is rising no one can deny. This
is due to manufacturers,
writer's, critics, directors, exhibitors,
players, and, most of all. to the audi
ence. Better pictures are demanded
and, therefore, supplied.
Spectator Comments on Motion
Pictures the wideawake page in the
Dramatic Mirror, says that the stage
with it's "proscenium arch. unnatural
light, imitation settings. etc." is in
capable of making us forget that we
are looking at acting and hearing
make believe words" The Spectator de-
,lares that. on the other hand, in the /,
pest type of motion pictures there is
Such an illusion of reality that we |
IAN easily believe we are looking at
actual happenings"
In fact, as Roy Crawford observed
With finality. 1.-The day of the motion
picture it at hand
Booker II. Elected Again.