The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-13
Thinks Movie Show
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Is a Sleeping Car
Act 1, Scene 1.


with life and a determination to see
the sights of the capital of Forrest
county. He came in unheralded and
alone. They have moving picture
shows in Purvis. They have tri-weekly
exhibitions, or whenever the crowds
gather sufficiently to pustify the un-
winding of the three rented reels. Not
try-weekly, but tri-weekly. They tried
it every week there for awhile, but the
blond ticket seller said she didn't take
in enough to pay her own chewing
gum bill, so she quit. So did the ronce
a week performance.
Act /, Scenes 2 and 8.
Our young hero walks up to
the ticket takers window at the
theatre, and planks down a couple
or jits. He gets in turn a
fistful of green trading stamps and
some left over exposition votes,as well
as admission to the show. The non
chalant way in which our young hero
tossed over the couple Of jits showed
conclusively that he didn't care how
he spent his money, that cash means
nothing to him when he is out for
good time.
Act 2, Scenes 1-3.
Our hero from Purvis gets a
seat In the very front row, away
down front, to the right. There
is beevy of girls skipping across the
screen when he enters, and SO he
wants to see them at close range.
Hence the nearness of the seat to the
screen. Reel after reel of smiling,
dancing girls are whirled off, and our
hero sits amused, taking in the sights
with his eyes, while his ears catch
the strains of the orchestral music
coming from the other side of the
building.
Act 8, Scene /.
A drowsiness creeps over the Wis
ltor from Purvis. In his native
town they give you three reels
FOR dime and then expect you to get
up and go out, to give some other fel. |
low a chance tol see Hattiesburg is
different. Our hero sees reel after
reel turned off, and pretty soon he
1ods. He's drowsy; he feels as If he !
were going to sleep. In fact, he is /
going to sleep.
Act q, Scene IS.
It's dark. Nothing at all can be
seen. 1t also is quiet. Except the
sound coming from the street made by
passing night watchmen, patrolmen,
ind milk wagons. Our hero opens his
,yes. and he is frightened. The atmos-
,here doesn't feel like that of Purvis.
His shaking hand reaches his brow,
md he wonders. where am II" he
4sks himself, and, as IL answering,
ays. "You can search me-" He then
the dancing girls and the
eel after reel of pictures, and his trip
o Hattiesburg, and then it davis upon
i'm that he has fallen asleep in the
movie theatre, and that every body
las gone away and left him.
Act S, Scene 1.
A night watchmen hears an unusual
Ioise inside the theatre. He creeps
onward. heavily armed, and quickly
hrows open the door. Hands up"
10 says, and our hero. feeling that he
8 in earnest, throws up his hands. He
5 an obliging young man. He gives
good account of his late. hours. and
) released.
Ict s, Scene f.-New Orleans and
Northeastern depot. at s a. m.
Our hero, much chagrined, steps up
o the ticket window and asks for IS
ents worth of tickets to Purvis. He
cts them. and In q moment No. /, Of
he Northeastern thunders into the
tation and stops. Our hero boards
Ter. and as quickly as possible, is car
led back to Pnrvis where his Job in
he composing room of the Purvis
'ooster is waiting for him
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