Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-09-03
MOVIES At NORTH STONINGION


The second day of the North Ston-
ington grange fair brought the crowd.
By 8 O'clock Thursday there was q
crowd OF four thousand people on the
grounds and even at that hour auto
mobiles came rolling in at the gate
and the stream of money came pour
ing. in steadily at the ticket window.
BY the end Of the Afternoon they had
a big pasteboard box filed up with the
ereenbacks and it took considerable
length of time to count the change.
When the money was summed up
there was no doubt In the minds of the
grange members that their sixth an
nual fair is a big and satisfying sue
that North Stonington grange has had
y Movie Actors at Work.
Quite the most striking among the
many attractions on the grounds
Thursday afternoon was the work of a
couple Of automobile loads of movie
PLAYERS from Manager Totten's Essa-
nay headquarters in Voluntown. They
looke just like ordinary folk enjoying
the fair until a lively fight started on
near the cattle shed. People around
there were for interfering until they
saw that the men were not getting
hurt much and that off score OF feet
a movie photographer was busy with
hAs crank and film. 1t turned out
that the players were there to get
some color and atmosphere for pas
toraI that viii be called The Village
Homestead ard be three reels in
length. Miss Betty Brown, new lead
ing lady OF the company succeeding
Miss Beverly Bayne, was there as the
heroine of the play and Darwin Carr
was the hero. Together they stroIled
through the vegetable tent with the
machine directed at them all the while
and then they came out into the sun
and made love to one another, appar-
emily blissfully unconscious of any
others present. AS matter Of fact,
there was circle half g. dozen deep
all around the place where the movie
drama had Its stage. Then this village
heroine and her sweetheart got into a
jitney and automobiled happily away
while the camera clicked on. Then q
couple of the villains in the piece at
least they looked it, came out of the
tent and pointed around and disap-
pear in the crowd. Finally to show
country fair and not make-believe.
the photographer got up in the grange
hall and from a second story window
took a bird's-eye view for the COM
ing drama. 1t is privilege extended
by. Manager Totten to his friends to
let them get into the pictures and at
forwards he presents them with mega
tives of the scenes in which they fea-
tured. Hence it was not altogether
surprising to see a well known West
GT1y veterinary Ceiling IdkeA III one u
| the scenes Thursday. In their activi-
ties the Essanay players are using all
the country for miles around to stage
| their action and lot of them are
coming over to Norwich soon, perhaps
next week, to use city scenes in making
films. The chief OF police will be ask
ed for safetys sake. beforehand, and
so If a small riot takes place some
afternoon in Franklin square, some of
| the citizens will be In on whats doing.
Distributed suffrasist Arguments.
At the suffrage booth on Thursday
! afternoon the crowd of passersby kept
| the ladies' passing out literature shout
/ as fast as they were able. It was en-
couraging to them quite often 90 strike
a man who would refuse any of their
papers and tell them he was already a
convert to votes for women and didn't
| need any more suffrage arguments.
Mrs. Katherine Iudington. the New
London county chairman, was again
| in charge, assisted by Mrs. Allen from
suffrage headquarters at Hartford and
by Miss A. N. Grnf1n of Old Lyme and
i Miss Bliven Of New London.
i David Stone Kelsey, representing the
Connecticut Ground Limestone COM
i pany and the Connecticut Farmer. had
a part of the vegetable tent for his
/ exhibit, a new one this year. ON Thurs
day.
Judges at Work.
4 Thursday was the day on which the
judges had to buckle down to hard
work and strenuously, yet with impair
tial eye, wade through the long lists
| of exhibits in every department and
decide. the superiority OF horses and
vegetables and cake and antiques
4 Judging Is a job that taxes good ma
ture and human endurance pretty
nearly to the breaking point sometimes
but all the afternoon the signed pre-.
! MUM books kept turning up at Sec.
rotary Whites office and evidently this
awards made had been satisfactory, fol
the atmoshpere at headquarters re,
manned calm. although it undeniabI.
was hot. The excellent system where
bya "a folding tag. the flap hiding tn,
exhibitors name, and leaving only tn,
number exposed until after the judging
;, is done. is attached to each exhibit
accounts IN some measure for the sat
isfactoriness of the result and then
too. the fair management had exercised
excellent. Judgment In the selection o
experienced and sef1cient officials.
Awards on Cattle.
The awards in the cattle show, tn
biggest and best the grange fair Ma