The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18
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 lately.
 - Seems to me that the world with his
 wife has joined the picture show clien-
 tele, and, believe me- it's some fun.
 They tell the story of the royal per sonage who when told that the poor had
 no bread to eat, answered naively: Why
 don't they eat cake?"
 That statement isn't as absurd as it ap-
 pears on the face of it.
 Cake is sometimes available where bread is impossible. I have known men to drive their costly autos because they didn't have car fare. I've seen men gllzzle wine because it was free when they couldn't pay for ''am and eggs. I've seen girls have silk stockings when presented to them when what they needed most in the world was good warm flannel union suits. But the movies have changed the trend of things and provided bread for the multi tudes, giving everybody a chance to see all their favorite classics and modern
 ists alike putting in their way things that
 used to be 'cake," at the price of a mere loaf.
 The snug smile of the week sits compla- gently upon ''The Rialto' Birmingham S very newest and latest motion picture house.
 Enormous audiences are tickling it's nice little, brand new ribs all day and part of the night It's just a little band box" of a theatre to be sure; all gold and browns and pastel tones; soft lights and adorable shades, making a perfect setting for the ideal pie ture playhouse.
 It's the darling of the gods in archi- lecture and beauty; a little round fat darling, tucked in between the walls of two great, big towering buildings and nesting right in the heart of the busy
 throbbing city
 There's a balcony for the orchestra, a lovely orchestra that beguiles the hours
 away with it's melifuous tones. When the orchestra isn't playing there's a "joy
 box all new and shiny that sings and
 sings it's tonal twang as if to say: Come listen to me; Pm the real accompaniment
 to the movies; m the big idea;' all the
 other music belongs in cafes and real
 theatres and operas" and then it begins
 to wheedle away again like a music hall soubrette who sings through her nose:
 ''Pd rather see movie with the man I love- Or, Man, what I want is a Ford"
 And some other rag time ditties that
 adore.
 The Rialto is so new and so epic and
 span that the young swain of whom the
 story is told about the chewing gum wouldn't score a point.
 You remember the fellow who was talk ing his best girl to the movie when the young lady said tp him:
 "Jim ain't you goin ter buy me no chewin' gum?'
 The gallant escort turned quickly to her
 and said:
 "G'wan now, Mabel, whut do yer take
 me fer? Er Vanderbilt? Whin you git in de movie feel under de seat an git you sum gum.
 Anyway, in this pretty little new thea tre the dim depths of it's attractive sur roundings form delicious refuge to while away dull care; with it's comfort able and attractive environment, the pie ! lures and the music to play on ones
 brain and wash away the inevitable bad idea or wreck a wrong notion. l If you want anything to think about | take it to picture show (even if it can
 walk along with yoD; there's nothing so restful and stimulating and clarifying
 and edifying; next to the real live peo-
 pie themselves. what better than their | likeness on the screen-your old-time
 favorites. your best est chums. Pic
 lures make just mental noise enough to
 silence the buzz of ones own mind; side 1 tracking worm eaten wheezes, anent wheels, a thoughtful mind is nosest in a quiet place, and there is no spot in the world to think of something else so l clearly as before a film.
 l Everybody at the "Rialto'' is wearing a
 broad grin these icy days Gf they don't
 watch out that smile will freeze) because
 they are so proud of the new theatre. 1 Mr. H. M. Newsome is more pleased 1 than anybody else, of course, because he owns the little gem of a playhouse. l MT Newsome has been going at high l speed" ever since the ''iRalto" opened, 1 but he slowed down enough yesterday to | tell a body what he thought about the I moving picture business in general and
 the "Rialto'' theatre in particular | Mir Newsome is lone of the pioneers in l the movie business in Birmingham. He's one of the energetic, clever. up-to- l date. progressive men who has made Bir- mingham real movie" star. He went | into the movie business to make suc-
 cess of it and he has achieved his ambi- l tior doubly. He is fine business man. q good citizen and is "of'' Birnins ham, and | for Birmingham, firsI. last and al 1 ways
 q am. of course, proud of my new theatre, AIr. NeWSome said enthusi- astically. T built it because l think Bir- mingham has a splendid future, 'movely'
 speaking. The prospects were never
 brighter. People are tremendously inter-