The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-30

/ reer contemplated the law. but before
I actually took up its strdy | was di-
verted into Wall street business chan
Eleanor Gates. author OF ..Thc Poor
| Little Rich Girl. which Mcssrs.
| klaw Erlanger arc presenting or
tour. says 1t was some timc before she
found name for the play.
- Finally one day. aliBcst in d.-
spair. she. said. II told an intimate
trend that ! could think of no suit-
able title.
- What's the play abou,!' sbe
:" 'wht, said. it, about poor
little rich girl, and she
4" There. -he exclaimed. stopping
me, there's your title. 'The Poor Lit
"Aud il was.
Full OF pleasing melodies aud offer
| ing, an amazingly lavish production,
Tho Prince OF Tonig'lt' enhanced
by the prestige afforded by the pres
ence in the title role of Tom Arnold,
should live up to its record rs q phe-
when. 1t appears here az the Salt Lake
theater. December s and Q.
Henry Miller, in common with many
! other representative actors and man
ayers. is not in favor of the new type
OF suggestive plays. In recent inter
view he had this to say:
| Just now there are managers who
are presenting exhibitions of the sewer
and having the efrrontery to assume
for their efforts a high moral purpose
their plays being supported by those
sections Of the public whose taste is a
matter OF their olfactoTy sense. The
inherent resentment OF the decent
people OF the community should have
killed them at the outset. While
| decry any mere printing for business
purposes, ! am happy to find a. re
sponse to wholesome play like The
Rainbow. Such support is the one
balance that is the ray of hope, the
testimony that the public is not all de-
cadent and vicious in taste.
! Twenty-Five thousand miles of mo.
tion picture films, enough 10 stretch
around the globe at the equator, viii
be the export record of the United
| States in the calendar wear 1913 The
United States is the world q greatest
manufacturer of motion picture films,
| probably three-fourths Of the entire
| films Of the world being manufactured
| III this country. Large quantities of
| films are sent out of the country, both
as blank or une1posed films and as
| finished films, ready for use in the
| stcreopticon.
The rapid increase in this branch of
| the export trade of the United States
resulted in the establishment by the
| bureau Of foreign and domestic COM
merce, department of commerce, OF
| detailed record, which shows the
quantity, measured by feet, and the
value of films exported from the coun.
try; the plain films and those ready for
use, separately stated; the countries Of
destination, and the ports through
which this distribution is made. This
nine months ended with September Of
65,50o,000 feet Of uneIppsed OF plain
films to be used in other parts of the
world in taking motion pictures, and
| 23,500,000 feet of exposed or finished
films ready for use in the stereopticou,
making a total of 100000 feet dur
ing the period. For the single month
| of September, however the total was
| 100000 feet, and should the remain
ing months of the year make similar
| record, che total exports of the year
| which ends with next month would be
l33, 100000 feet, or slightly more than
$4,000 miles, the distance around the
earth at the equator, In 1912, the first
| full calendar year for which figures are
| shown, the total length of films ex-
ported was 62,250,o00 feet, or less than
half the prospective total of 1913.
The stated value Of the films cx~
ported in the nine months ended with
September, 1913, is about $500 900,
being $l.sl1. 900 for the 65.500, 900 feet
of unexposed films and Sl,656.000 for
the 2a,500,000 feet OF exposed films
ready for use in the stereopticon, or an
average of 2& cents per foot FOR tho
unexposed and of cents per foot for
the exposed films.
England is by far the largest pur-
chaser of films from the United States,
and this applies especially to the uu
exposed films. OF the S0,000,000 feet
Of films OF both classes exported in the
fiscal year 1912, 70.000.00O feet went
TO England, 5,333.000 feet to Canada, a
little over 1000. 900 feet TO France,
10000 to the Philippines, over 100000
TO Brazil, nearly 100000 to Newfonnd-
land and Labrador. 100000 TO Australia
and slightly less than 250,000 to japan
Most of the films going TO Canada,
NEWFOUNDLAND and the Philippines are
exposed.
The importation of motion picture
films amounts to little more than
million feet per month, the total for
the nine months ended with September,
1913, being l0,250,000 feet, and for the
corresponding months of .l9lo, lo,5O0,.
600 feet. Nearly all. of the imported
films are in the finished state. ready
for use. the import price averaging
from 10 . cents per foot About one
half Of the total importation is from
France, which supplied approximately
100000 feet out of 14,50p.000 feet i'm
ported in the fiscal year 1912. Italy
supplied 2.750000 feet, England $685. !
600 and Denmark 1,250,000. while |
$4,000 feet came from Japan and 49,. |
600 feet from India.
Gaby Deslys has experienced consid |
erable trouble in getting her famous |
Victorian leghorp ben into the hotels |
in the cities where she PLAYS. In Pitts
burg last week, the Hotel Shenlcy man.
agement ordered her to vaeate her |
quarters unless sho gave up the fowl.
Complaint was made by several guests
t,a II, Ill l,,r. ,tnl