The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-25

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! Ito see western play If there is one
on the screen today"
in preference to Charlie Chaplin? p
| said outraged at her remark and then
added as I was her guest: Il never was
| brought up on sublimated dime novels,
but We'll go just the same because the
scenery is always grand and the horses
and rivers and stage coaches and sol :
diers are always splendid"
You know they say" whispered my
movie friend. that the New York film
| companies stage all their western plays
in the Adirondacks and that's where
they get all their handsome cowboys
and sheriffs and good looking girls"
BY this time we had paid our little
10 cents each and following the young
usher who loudly called out two
Tseats?" and answering him, followed
down to the second row where l al
ways adore to sit.
What a wonderfully well fitting
calico gown that miner's wife has on" |
remarked as we lifted our eyes to the
screen. Il wonder who her Rocky
mountain dressmaker is! Do you suppose
we could reach her over long distance =?
always did like calico"
My movie friend dimpled as she look ed
at me knowingly
It's her corsets; that $25 kind that
give the fit, and no miners wife or bar
maid alive should be without them
ut
poots! couldn't wear them across the
street without falling down, and vet
the heroine of the Sierras will run a
Deaths race through a socky CANYON
, to save her lover from the moose with
out running down her heelsi Hush F.,
Here comes the angel c-h-e-e-i-l d.
who reunites her divorced narents
through her earnest prayers and art
less prattle.
the next show caused us to comment
upon the beauty of the average lovely
housemaid who fits through the society
drama They are positively beautiful
and you can't help wondering why they
are not more ambitious, aspiring to be-
come chorus girls or the owners of "a
perfectly good manicure parlor.
Inc moving picture actors and ac
.resses are all handsome" my movie
friend Informed, especially the policeman
l fairly dote on the moving n,cture no1;oa
man. But, here comes Tweedledun Ioo,,
ana iisten at the laughter of the children
al over the playhousel No wonder their
parents like to bring them here.p
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ism the French idea of humor remark
able?' | asked curiously, lust at tb 8
point To tumble from a window. knock
somebody down. and join in the chase is
10 the french audience the essence of wit.
just look at that foolshness. Somebody
falls from the window lands on scaffold
ing. breaks through. upsets a bucket of
whitewash, knocks over a step ladder
ana sign painter, and lands right side up
apparently unhurt. It's regular Charlie
Chaplin trick"
Did you ever see as crazy a crowd as
there always is in his pictures?" asked
my movie friend. curiously. "A crowd
starts in pursuit of the willy Mr. Chaplin
and during the confusion a wagon of bar
rels is upset The barrels start on a steep
declivity, carrying the entire population
with them down a bank into river"
I'm glad I'm not on the pay roll of the
movies" I said, refiectively. Failing from
three heights of windows, and pitching
headlong down river bank into the
water must require the constitution, of an
Arctic explorer and the nerve of an avia-
tor"
More delighted laughter went up fror,
the vast audience as a street car all but
passed over the hero as he stumbled over
his feet on the track. carrying everything
down with him, again la Mr.. Chaplin.
do you believe they have dress re-
hearsals Of those monkey shines before
the camera?" l asked innocently.
My movie friend thought 1t was even
SO. and said she felt in her bones that an
East Lynne" film or something akin to
it would follow the funny picture, as the
audience had an East Lynne look on it.
We didn't wait to see. but before we
realized it we stood before third "gilded
cage" and asked for tickets
''Cleopatra's Lover" was announced on
the big, gaily colored posters" and as we
took our seats we noted the magnificently
staged Roman tragedy shot on the screen.
Look how beautifully their togas IT."
I said triumphantly, as we noted the splen-
did, 1.-THE soldiers and also remarked the
beautiful maidens and their well fitting
peplums and prettily sandaled feet
IT tell you it's those $25 corsets," my
movie friend insisted, and then she added:
mo wonder ancient history is silent
about Cleopatra's lover. He was the sa-
oon-keeper in a Rocky mountain drama
saw on the screen last week. No wonder
Mrs Cleo is ashamed to introduce him
to Marc Antony"
shall we take in a society drama next
or automobile races?" asked my movie
friend as we continued our intemper-
ance Of the movieA