Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-11-13
Baseball Pictures
Hot Off the Bat
The Championship Games
Almost simultaneously Re-
peated for Theatre Patrons
The National Baseball Commission Gives
Exclusive Privilege for Reproduction
of the Contest On the Diamond On
Which the Byes Of Every Fan Arc
Conferred. )

Through Harry NJ. Stevens, the Ma
tional Baseball Commission have award
ed the exclusive privilege to take mo-
ton pictures of the Championship Base
ball Series TO be played In New York
and Philadelphia, commencing October
9TH to the Commercial Motion Picture
Company, Inc, New York, and an in
novation originally inaugurated by them
will be followed In this instance. Mo-
ton pictures of the games to be played
in New York will be developed and
printed the same day and delivered TO
the theatres in Greater New York in
time to be exhibited that same evening,
Of the games to be played in Philadel.
phia, the films will be sent to New York
by special train or by high-power motor
car, developed and printed the same
evening, and distributed to the theaters
in Greater New York the following
morning, in time to be exhibited at
matinees.
This plan of procedure origina ted with
the management Of the Commercial Mo-
ton Pictures Co, and was carried into
effect in the case of the funeral Of the
late Mayor Gaynor. Motion Pictures
of the funeral were taken from the time
the procession left City Hall, during the
services at Trinity Church, and at the
burial at the cemetery. These pictureS
were exhibited throughout the larger
theaters in Greater New York, at 8
o'clock that evening. Nr. Roskam, man
ager of the picture company. states that
he has received no less than thirty-two,
requests for bookings from subscribers
for the baseball films. These films will
also precede the Giants" In their trip
throughout the world, and win be ex.
hibited in each city where they play.
The wonderful advantage to the Amer.
lean public, particularly to those inter-
ested in the National Sport, is that they
are permitted to see in detail, through
Motion Pictures, the entire Champion
ship Series at a cost Of FIVE or ten cents,
whereas as high as one hundred dollars
per seat is being charged at the ball
grounds. without any extra advantage.
Employers, too, it is believed, will bene-
mt in so far as they will not be over
burdened with requests from clerks and
office boys for leave of absence to at.
tchu IuucIdiS VI ThnuLuOtnerS. GUuIS
and uncles on the days of the games.
Hector ]. Streyckman's importation for
American motion picture audiences Of
the Pasquale multiple-reel feature, The
Last Days of Pompeii,' is sure to create
a sensation, and win admiration through
out the country. 1t is a special drama
t~ization for the films of Bulwer-Lytton's
classical historical romance, and faith
fully visualizes that thrilling story. Full
artistic justice is done to all the leading
characters: Glaucus, the Roman aristo-
crat;. Nydia, the blind girl who secretly
his love. and Arbaces. the wicked priest,
the villain of the drama. Supporting
these and the other prominent charao-
ters are hundreds-there seem to be
thousands-of soldiers, gladiators, at.
tendants. spectators and populace gem
orally, not to speak of the lions and
other animals that figure in the arena
scenes.
Action, quick, strong and thrilling,
characterlzes every scene, but those that
stand out most strikingly are the arena
scenes. In one of these is a chariot
race in which the leading horses trip
and fall, and the three competing char
lots crash into the first with a result.
ing tangle Of horses and men and brok-
en- vehicles. In another are seen twen-
~ Glaulators, ten on a SIDE, engaged IN
mortal combats, a duel to the death be-
tween two gladiators, and the great
scene where Glaucus is thrown unarmed
into the arena, there to fight an en-
=. ragged lion. OF course, the greatest Of
all scenes is the finale, the terrible erup-
: ton of Nesuvius, when doomed Pompeii
4 and its inhabitants are buried under an
ocean of burning lava.
? OF The Last Days OF Pompeii," it
, will he said, not that il is a big feature
with a big punch" but one with an,
unremitting succession of punches
OF all the work King Baggott did while
abroad with his supporting Imp Com
pany, he regards the new feature, Alb
sinthe,' which was just finished before
he left Europe. as his masterpiece 1t
is from the pen of Herbert Brenon, and
breaches a powerful sermon against the
use of a drug that has been the active
cause of half of the moral and physical
, gers that Turk in this green poison, the
: Government of the United States re-
Gently forbade its importation into this
country. To get the proper atmosphere
, for this great flm-drama, King dressed
as an Apache and went to the actual
haunts of the absinthe fends and stud
led at first hand the hideous effects on
the habitues.
Among recent feature importations
the film dramatization of Charles Dick.
ems David Copperfsid," brought ia
this country by Albert Blinkhorn, has
already won prominent place. All thu
familiar personages of the story are ably
characterized, and the scenes pictured
are those Dickens himself described 81
wildly.
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The Universal is about to produce z
series Of comedies, The Adventures OF
Mike and Jake" Max Asher. and Har-
ry Mccoy have been engaged to enact
J tba ttks Toles.