The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-01-12

growth In the popularity of the enter
tainment has been truly remarkable
during the past few years. You go.
too, OF course. Well, didn't you ever
take few minutes off the ALL absorb
ing show To observe the people sitting
around you? IL you never have, do it
the next time you visit "a show.
In the black magic of the darkened
theater the audience becomes almost
a part OF the scenes being enacted on
the screen In front, and under these
circumstances one is likely To and most
do show their real feelings. The moods
Of the onlookers vary with the nature
of the scene in front. But each shows
II I'm his individual way. Take an ex-
| citing melodramatic picture. The man
on your right shows his feelings only
by the brightness of his eyes and the
tenseness of his face. A woman near
you will be all a-quiver.
The villain is silently-they always
do 1t silently in moving picture. ex-
| cept for the dramatic pink plank of
the Notwithstanding up on the hero.
who unconsciously smokes his pipe.
The woman sitting next to you-the
one who is chewing gum-realizes his
danger.
"Oh, why doesn't he turn around -
she excitedly inquiries of her compan-
ion in stage whisper.
The woman sitting next to her on
the other side turns to the excited one
with plying smile, whereupon the
hero's champion feels like thirty cents,
and remains subdued and quiet for a
time
A few days ago a very exciting fire
picture was being shown at local
theater. The heroine, her baby in her
arms, had fallen on a stair landing, in
faint and the flames were licking
at the wood few feet away The au-
dience was tense with excitement, but
one woman forgot herself, and leaning
forward queried in a tense voice:
"Oh. | wonder If she'll be burned
Why don't they go up the stairs. oh,
why don't they save herr
A minute later fireman had found
the huddled form on the stairs and
carried her to safety. The woman
relaxed. and settled back in her seat
Seeing that she had been of nearly az
much interest as the picture she re-
manned very quiet for some time
evidently ashamed of herself
Often these little incidents liven up
q show.
You've surely noticed the fellow
who sits behind you and painstakingly
spells out the title on the screen each
time the scene Is changed. And didn't
you ever notice the people who bring
all the kids to see the show? IT'S not
costly and it's not much trouble. All
you have TO do Is to find a seat for
each one and then let them alone.
There's no place for them to fall off
and hurt themselves; nothing they can
get 10 eat that will hurt them: and
no danger of their straying away. The
children do lose interest In the picture
sometimes. though. and then they
climb upon the seats and turn around
Ia inspect the people In the seats be-
hind while they Groom those childish
tunes the poets write about.
Ret you always try TO guess how
picture Is going to come out" lust as
you viii snb,kingly open the last page
~ book To see II the hero and hero
Inc finally get married. AS soon as a
picture Is started on the screen you'll
hear people around You discussing
what the outcome win be.
Another question often heard and
answered IN various ways, some OF