The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-11
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This news feature of The WASH
ington Herald is for the benefit Of
everybody interested in motion pic
lures.
Suggestions. comments, criticisms.
inquiries, and questions are invited.
In few days there will appear in
these columns many interesting news
items and entertaining articles You
will not find elsewhere.
Address communications to Motion
Picture Editor, Washington Herald
That the motion picture has arrived
every person who has given this new
force in our entertainment and education
fair consideration. must admit.
Ignorance, which in all ages and in all
lands has retarded every progressive de-
velopment for our enlightenment and
freedom, no longer holds back the APP
probation of the millions Of today, who
realize in moving pictures the great edu-
Iational force of the times.
Greater and better motion pictures are
the aim of all producers, and the demand
of exhibitors who voice the public's pref
erence.
Washington has about sixty-ive NOV
ing picture theaters, managed by gentle
men whose sole aim is to please the
people by giving them the best.
The weekly attendance i'm the local
moving picture theaters equals, In the
number of admissions each week, the
population Of Washington one and one
half times. Carefully prepared statistics
tell us that paid admissions to moving
picture theaters in the United States last
year equalled 1000 600 600. Figures almost
beyond conception.
Schools. churches, legislative halls.
council chambers of the Cabinet officers,
the White House, and private homes on
set occasions have had picture shows,
to the delight, instruction, and often In
the exploiting of 'the truth" as only
motion pictures can tell it, to the amaze
ment of public as well as private audi
ences.
The first-page announcement in yester-
days issue that The Herald. beginning
today. would feature motion picture
news brought this inquiry: When will
the picture, From the Manger to the
Cross, be shown in Washington In
quiry among local film concerns gives
the information that it has as yet not
been locally booked" 1t il States
rights proposition, and to DE shown IN
Washington this magnificent picture
play of the life of Christ, taken in Pales-
tine, thus adding true color to the scenes,
&C.. will needs be purchased outright for
the privilege of exhibiting it in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Interesting Pictures.
An interesting picture that will appeal
to all of a scientific turn Of mind, IS
shown today at the Pickwick Theater, on
the Avenue The Analysis of Notion.
This film was taken at the rate OF 1,2U
pictures per second, while the projection
is at the rate of but sixteen picture seach
second.
OF Nine Sarah Bernhard. Mark Twain
said: There are five kinds OF actresses,
bad actresses. fair actresses. good
actresses, great actresses, and Sarah
Bernhard" The beautiful three-reel flm
Romance Of an Actress" with the Di-
vine Sarah in her favorite role OF
Adrienne Lecoureur. at Moore's Garden
Theater, all this week, has proven big
attraction.
Feature films, such as James K. Hack
ett's Prisoner of Zenda," at the Ca
sino Theater this week, are the kind
that appeal to moving picture fans
and make many new recruits. They in
variably bring new faces" to picture
shows Casino crowds have been record