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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-18
ADJUSTMENTS
~rurn to the Rish~ Please.

~rurn to the Right" Pleases Again.
Turn to the Right" comes back to
the Academy seemingly brighter and
better than when 1t was here in No
vember. The members OF tho company
have fitted securely into their roles. and
the action moves like clockwork- For
comedy filled with human touches, we
know OF no better evenings entertain
mcnt than this wcll-written and cx-
ccllcntly staged play.
From Joe 3ascome. who starts off
makes her appearance in the last act,
each and every character is brought
out true to the life. and a good story
could be written around each of them.
This IL play with a moral-frequcnt-
ly d deadly infiction-but. in this in
stance, very happy moral. which
seems to be that, when one comes out
of Sing Sing. or any similar institution,
he should take the first turn to the
will have good fortune in the shape OF
large peach crops. thriving business.
pretty bride, automobiles and en-
cmics converted into stanch friends.
All through this runs a current of
sparkling humor.
Ruth Chester gives as good a pic
ture of the mother AS the most c1 :
acting critic might ask; Chester Nor
ris repeated the fine impression which
come. looking and playing. the part
quite perfectly; De Witt Ncwing. an
old favorite here. and Mike Donlin. as
the two pals of Joe. are superb. The
others of the cast also gave satisfac-
ton. JOHN GEORGE HARRIS.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-18
RECIPES FOR THE KITCHEN

Veal Loaf and Tomato Sauce-Grind
n 1-2 pounds Of veal and Ia pound of
oork together. Season with pepper and
tsalt. adding 1 egg. 3 tablespoons OF
milk and ! cup of cracker crumbs. Mix
well, forming 1t into n loaf. Place half
he prepared meat in rooster. lay hard
BOILED eggs end to end on top: then
ldd remainder of meat. pouring 1-o cup
IF water around 1t. Bake until brown.
Sauce for meat-Strain l pint Of toma-
:oes. Season with salt, pepper and
outer. Thicker with one tablespoon
IF flour, wet with little milk.
Cheese Ralls-One and one-half cups
grated cheese, | tablespoon -four. Ia
teaspoon salt, 1-S teaspoon paprika. 3
.gg whites. 1-2 cups cracker crumbs.
Min the cheese. flour. salt and paprika,
add the egg whites stiffly beaten. shape
with a spoon into balls one inch in
diameter. roll in. cracker crumbs. Roll
in the palms Of tho hands to shape,
let stand one hour Fry in deep fat
until a delicate brown color. Drain
on brown or tissue paper. Serve hot
Or cold with salad course. This makes
eighteen.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-18
Lyric Show Good.

Appreciation of the amusing bill! was
shown by the audience at the Lyric
yesterday evening by their reception
zellas tropical bird act headed the
vaudeville program and was we'll re-
ccivcd by the audience. An especial
~ interesting feature of the act is the
conversation carried on between one
OF the birds and the attendant in
charge.
evening when they sang. Where the
River Shannon Flows" Among the
other acts on the program are Clinton
and Rooney, and the Mayos The
Singing Teacher" presented by Homer
and Currie Lind. was well received.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-12-06
P. GONZALEZ, DLEGUEZ I
TREVINO LLEGARON
ALA CAPITAL
Los tres celebraron confe-
rencias con Ell jefe del
Ejecutlvo

CIUDAD DE MEXICO, Die o
Procedentes, respectivamente de
Puebla. Zacatecas y Europa. ilegaron
2 esta ciudad los generates Pablo
Gonzalez, Manuel N. Dieguez y Jacln
TO Trevino. Los tres vienen con Ell
obieto de conferenciar con el Jefe
del Executive acerca de las comisio-
mes Il han tenido a su cargo. Con
zalez entregara el mando de sus fuer-
zas en- Q! Estado de Morelos; Neguez
informara sobre su gestion miiltar
en- chihuahua Y sobre e. Conscjo de
Guerra Y fusilamjento del General
Angeles, ' T~evino hara 10 mismo a
cerca de los estudios que Sc le orde-
naron hiciera en- los ejercitos del vie
10 mundo.
Tanto Trevino como Gonzalez QUE
daran listos para entrar de lleno a Ia
politica, el primero como candidate
a n P~residenci& Municipal c]apitalina
V ell segundo 4 la de Ia Republica, que
va acept6. segin Sc dice, en- vista de
que ell Ing. Bonillas 10 Sc resuelVe
a entrar decididamente al campo de
la lucha contra Obregon.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-12-06
MlRELES FUE
LLAMADO A MEXICO
En- CoahuiIa qued6 de gober.
nador INFERNO ell Doctor
Ddvila Sanchez

SALTILLO. Coah., diciembre A
Gustavo Espinosa Mireles, goberna-
dor del Estado, salio aver para 81 ca
pital dc la Republica, acompanado
de su famiiia, habiendo hecho el VIA
je en- ell caro- especial "Penolcs."
Ha quedado al frente del gobier-
no del Estado, Ell caiidad de INFERNO
V mientras dura la ~ausencia de Es-
pinosa Mircles, cl doctor Jesus Val
des Sanchez. rombrado para el efec-
to per Ia Legislature Local.
Los amigos de Espinosa Mireles
dicen que este ha lido u la capital del
pals llamado por Carranza Y que es
muy possible que Sc lie de algin car
90 en- ell Gabinete; pero en- los clrcu
los oficiales Sc dice que ell Goberna-
dor ~rcgresara dentrc de diez dias.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-12-06
HAY TN C0MBAT'E'
Al sur de Ia capital del
Estado de Coahuila
Carrera Torres sostuvo una
lucha con las fuerzas de
seguridad del Estado

LAREDO. TEX, diciembre 4.-En-
tire las fuerzas de seguridad del Es>
tado de Coahuila y los rebeldes que
hace varios dias d%etuvieron I'm tren
en- Aguanueva e incendiaron ia esta-
cion de csc lugar Sc libro IN encuen
tro en- Estanque de Valladolid, al SUI
restn la ciudad de Saltillo.
En- este en~cuentro, del que traen no
ticia les v~iajeros llegados de Ia ca
nital de Coahuila, perecieron sels re-
beldes. p~ertenecientes a las fuerzas
comandadas por Carrera Torres quien
cs ell iefe de los insurrectos que han
empezado a desarrollar u actlvl-
dades al sur de Salti!lo.
Dicen los pasajeros que, segun los
informes llevados a la capital Goa
huilense nor los soldados de la Fuer-
"a de Soguridad del Estado, los re
beldes con quienes conbatiercn en- rs
tamoue de V~alladolid, al en- hume
70 de ciento cincuenta. les que esta-
ban armados con carabinas 3OX30 Y
con mausers V escopetas.
Una vigilancia eficaZ, segun re-
fisren les viajeros. esta ejerciendo,
Sc Dor las tropas sobre la via ferrca
con ell objeto de evitar que Sc acer-
2uen a ella nuevamente los insurrec
tos Y suspendan el -rafico con Ia from
terra.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-12-06

dose de TODD que el es cl v~erdadero
culpable V que debe saber de donde
proceden los timbres y en- que iugar
Sc resellaban despues de sustraidos
de las oficinas de Ia Secretarla de
Hacienda.
Oropeza, para defenderse, alega
que un desconocido lie entrego move
cientos pesos de timbres a cambio
de un anillo de b%riliantes Y cue des-
pues 81 mismo Sc encargo de vender-
las con descuento, porque asi lie con-
venia, segun los terminus de la ope-
raci0n. Esto no Sc lie ha creido y ell
juez sigue investigando el $ hasta
descubrir TODD 10 que haya en- el fon-
do.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-12-06

NOTA:-Los suscrptores, al zanzibar de Residential, de>en darnos
tanto la nueva como la antigua direction, a fin de podcr anotac ell canElo
en- nuestros hbros.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-12-06

Cinco nillones de pastillas contra ell
paludismo-
FL Departamento de Salubridad del
Consejo informa que es alarmante la
i propagation del paludismo en'muchas
zonas de importancia de Ia Repubii-
ca entera. SegGn los datos que en-
esas oficinas sc han recibido, la cpl
demia esta causando estragos, es-
pecialmente en- los lugares donde hay
aguas acumuladaS y va en- estado de
decomposition. FL Departments
trabaja con toda actividad para aten
der a los pedidos que Sc lie hacen
de elementos para combatir e. nal, y
es tai la necesidad que hay de medi-
camentos, que desde hace varios dias
ell mismo Departamento esta envian-
do diariamente NADIA menos que Gin
co millones de pastillas de quina pa
"a tomar Y para inyecciones, a dis
tintas zonas del pals. Sc han envia-
do, ademas, varias brigadas santa
rias q los lugares mas infectados Y
de mayor peiigro.
Sisue tr~amitdndose el fraude o fall
sificscion de estsmpillas.
FL escandaloso asunto del fraude o
Justification de las estampillas del ra-
mo del p%ulque, continua tramitando-
Sc con actividad en- los tribunales; y
auraue hasta hoy no sc ha deScubier-
to gran cosa, 81 Sc hs podido saber
que Agustin Oropeza es n de los
principales resopnsables en- la circu-
lacion de los timbres, por 10 que Ell
juez cue conoce del asunto 10 decla-
70 va formalmente preso. Oropeza
fu6 careado con algunos de los que
tambian Sc e~ncargaban de la circu-
lacion de Ia estampillas, d~esprendien-
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-12-06
RECRESAAGUILAR
No ocupara la Secretarla
de ReIaciones Exteriores
Isidro Fabela, que tambien
regresa sera quien reciba
esa Cartera

CIUDAD DE MEXICO, diciembre
4.-De una manera Official Sc do a.
noche la noticia de que Candida A
guitar ha salido de Espana para
Mexico, y que llegara quizas a fl
mes de Ia presente semana.
Sc dice que Aguilar no ocupara la
Secrataria de Relaciones EXteriores,
como Sc ha venido afirmando en- al
gunos circulos, sino que quien que
dara al frente de la referida Score
taria. sera el Licenciado Isidro Fa-
bella. ouien regresa con Aguilar de
Europa, en- donde estaba desempe-
nando una comision especial desde
que hizo entreea de Ia Legacion en-
Argentina q Amado Nervo.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-12-06
VA ESTAN ~TRABAJANDO
LOS H~UELGUESTAS
DE ORIZABA
Noticias generates de la Gu
dad de Mexico

CIUDAD DE MEXICO, Die. A
En- las Oficinas de la Confederation
de Camaras Industriales Sc recibleron
informes relatives a la huelga de Orr
zaba. en- ell sentido de que los obre-
o volvieron pacificamente a sus la
bores, de acuerdo con el pacto firma-
do ante el Jefe del Executive, Y en-
cspera de que en- el termino fijado Sc
zanjen todas las dificultades de orden
~economico Y legal.
Con este motive Ia comision ejecu-
tiva de Ia Confederation Sc reunlo
hoy en- sus oficinas de Ia avenida
Cinco de Mayo, a efecto de tratar de-
finitivamente sobre el asunto de "a
huelga V deiarlo en- terminus de que
pueda solucionarse m el plazo que
fijo Carranza.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-12-06
La construction de carreteraS en- io'
Estados.

FL Director del Comite de Subsis-
tencias dirigi6 al gobierno n excl
tativa para que no Sc abandone el
proyecto que Sc tiene. relative a Ia
construction de ~carreteras en- los Es-
tados V en- ell Distrito Federal, o ell
objeto de f~avorecer al ramo de Agri-
cultura, el que contara con Was de
communication de ran utilidad.
Sc sahe que como resultado de las
primeras gestiones que a este respec-
to hizo ell citado Comite, va Sc ha
~procedido a la construction de carre-
teras en- varios Estados. especialmen-
te en- Tamaulipas Y algunos otros de
la f~rontera. Actualmente Sc esta
co~nstruyendo una entire Toluca y Ia
cua!pan, que quedara terminada prom
TO.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-12-06
FL clero ~suspendera dos colegios de
suma utilidad en- la Villa.

FL clero suspendcra dos colegios de
suma utilidad en- la Villa.
Ell Inspector de Escuelas del Dis
trito ha communicate a la Direcc..lH de
instruction Primaria. cue el clero de
Ia Villa de Guadalupe va a clausurar
dos colegioS cue estableci6 cuando
Ell Ayuntamiento pasado Sc halo in
capacitado para sostener los estable-
cimientos oficiales de esta indole.
Estos colegios son los que Sc italian
en- Ell edificio de la Basilica Y en-
ellos hoy profesoreS normalistas pa
Gados por el mismo clero de Ia Villa.
siendo SUI plan de estudios de acuer-
DO con 10 p]revenido en- los regla
mentos respctivos.
Como Ia desaparicion de cStos be-
n&ficos p~lanteles causara graves per
~juicioS, el referido Inspector 10 pone
en- conocimiento de la Direction pa
"a que Sc tomen las medidas del ca
so.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

ephone rang snd a crisp voice
said: This is Sam Spedon. heard
that you were looking for data for
a story about the origin of the mo-
ton picture, and there is nothing I
like better than talking about it. II
you will come to my Office I shall be
delighted to tell you everything YOU
want to know"
"Do YOU" we asked TREMENDOUSLY.
do you know what was the first
picture ever shown"
Yes, I've got it all down here.
When will you be over?"
Right away we answered, and
rushed out and grabbed one of those
nice tin taxis that take you ten
feet for 20 cents, and flew over to
ol6 Fifth Avenue as fast as the
traffic and the traffic cops would
allow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

gong away to the opera then all
the servants got out the wine and
danced until the master and mis-
tress came home and found them.
This ran for sixty feet
SO, after listening 20 all Mr.. Ca
pelham had to tell, we went home,
determined to put on record the fact
that Lumiere had made the first pic
ture and had called it "Johnny Play
Trick on the Gardener" for all
though the subject did not exactly
appeal to our romantic nature, still
it seemed to be the best we could do
Neither could we determine the ex.
act date, SO we decided to be mys.
ferrous and let its origin be set down
with artistic vagueness, rather than
bold accuracy.
And then the next morning the tel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

dies. Max Under was the first one
to be successful in comedies; the
first star in France. Max Linder's
first picture was called The
Skaters First Day at the Rink, and
the title was nearly as long as the
picture itself. Pathe saw at once
what could be done with pictures.
1t was question Of technically to
put more film into the camera and
to pass it out again. Edison's
camera was the first to do this
correctly"
"Who invented motion pictures?"
he was asked, and answered: IL doubt
if any one knows. The idea is so old.
At first they had gyroscope like a
round box. We used to put figures
ln it and turn it around and they
appeared to be moving. The Lu-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
an important InterUie,c

Sam Spedon is deliberate. He
smiled genially and acted as though
t was an everyday occurrence tor
a young woman in an imported hat
1--WE insist on the hat, because it cost
US all that we are going to get for
this story to invade his premises
and demand the name of the first
motion picture ever made.
Of course he could not know or
appreciate our anxiety. He seated
himself in swivel chair opposite
our uncomfortable one, and placing
the tips Of his fingers together he
said:
SIN 1877 Muybridge made the
first motion pictures.'
"In 1877" we exclaimed. "Whv.
there weren't any motion pictures
then. There couldn't have been!"
Not motion pictures as we know
them. but they did have a certain
KIND of action. Muybridge took
horses running by placing twenty
four cameras in row and swapping
them on each camera as they passed.
When these pictures were passed
through = slide, they appeared to be
moving
"But this picture didn't have anv
name, did it," we asked.
mo, of course not; it was only
to show the action of animals. And
ten years later a man named lie
Prince did the same thing, only he
took sixteen pictures on one mega
tive and, showed them in a camera
with sixteen lenses. They, too, ap-
peared to be moving. There was
at that time also zoctrope. which
was only toy, but it had pictures
inside which moved when you
turned it around. 1t was the same
principle as the present day motion
picture, but no one had been erie
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

niore brothers were the first to put
1t In shape to commercializc it, ] am
nearly sure.
"The first Pathe pictures, and the
most interesting to my mind, were
The chase pictures-pursnlt pictures
We cali them. Of course, they had
no tit,e-they needed none-and the
real picture will come when we are
able again TO make pictures without
titles"
Here we do not agree with Mr..
Capellani at all. We love brilliant
lines, whether they are spoken on
the stage or flashed to us on the sill
YER sheet.
81 still have the first picture
ever made. 1t was called When the
Cat Is Out the Mice Will Dance
First, it showed Mr.. and Mrs. Blank
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

> to make a camera to successfully
project the pictures on the screen
until Edison did it.
Il think Pathe perfected one about
the same time, and then every one
had ideas on the subject and every
one jumped in and made cameras,
with the result that there were moth
ing but lawsuits for the next few
years, while the motion picture in
dustry Was at a standstill. Finally,
they compromised by allowing each
claimant to use all of the good points
in the others invention, and the mo-
ton picture industry began to move
again.
"In 1898 or 1894 Alexander Black
showed Miss Jerry and Capital
Courtship,' and called them moving
pictures; only they didn't move very
fast. Charles X. Harris did the
same thing in his illustrated songs.
and he claims that it was Just
Break the News TO Mother that
suggested the idea Of having stories
told on the screen"
"But these We're not real motion
pictures. You do know the name
of the first picture, don't you" we
asked, feverishly.
Mr. Spedon considered. yes" he
said, slowly, II think 1 do. 1t was
called The Ocean Wave The May
Irwin Kiss was shown about the
same time. They ran about fifty
feet. Another old one / remember
at this time was called The History
Of Sandwich
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
The First Closeup

The First Closeup
SIn 1896 Joseph jefferson did
Rip Van Wrinkle before a Biograph
camera. Here he appeared in one
closeup, surely the first on record.
And Marshall ?. Wilder and Anna
Held used to make pictures of this
sort, too. No scenarios were re
qulred and no titles were used. TIE
pictures were too short for that.
The fact that they moved at all was
sufficient. 1t was like the dog walk
ing on his hind legs. People marvel,
not because he can 90 it so well.
but because he can do it al all.
And then one day We received
scenario; it was the first one ever
written by an outsider I have ii
here"
"Oh, do let us have it, we begged.
ut will be such novelty" for we
had visions of an imposing looking
manuscript, yellow with age
Instead, Mr.. Spedon took out a
letter. Here it is: Dear Sir: Why
don't you make picture about a bad
little boy, who does things to all the
nelghbors, so they come and COM
plain to his fathe, and make him
promise to spank him. The boy had
stick Of dynamite III his pocket
and when the father spanked him
the dynamite exploded and ali the
people were blown TO atoms. Hope
you can use this
"The author Of that got So for
his scenario. We did use it,"
We wish it were as simple as that
now. We might write one.
When we talked TO Mr. Naultv.
Of the Famous Players, he told us
great many things that Sam
Spedon verified later. Mr.. Naultv
was one of the people who had
suggested Mr.. Spedon in the first
place
Il believe that The May IRWIN
Kiss was the first picture, anyway
it was the first one ever saw.
and it set style in motion Die
lures. Now no photodrama is com
plete without one But for some
reason people seemed to prefer
The Great Train Robbery. There
were more prints made of this
than any other picture ever sold.
And I helped to make it. 1t was
great sport. Another popular
picture was The Life of A Fire
man l remember how crude this
was, and yet how splendid we all
Thought it.
One scene showed the fremea
awakened by the bell, jumping into
their clothes and sliding down the
pole. The next day we went back
tc finish taking the picture and the
bremen were mostly away. So we
called on the clerks in the office
and pressed them into service.
They had no suits, so they appeared
manning the trucks in their shirt
sleeves, or any way they happened
to be. And when the picture was
run off it looked as though the
firemen had changed their costumes
between the time they slid down
the pole and the time .hey were
seen leaping on the trucks. but
no one minded in the least. They
moved, and moved fast-that was
enough.
After this the pictures began to
get better. There was The Moon
sinners and The Little Lost Child
and 'Melia's Trip to the Moon and
Stolen by the Gyps:es.
"And didn't any Of these picturc5
have titles?" we asked, for we
wished to know apc ut the evolu-
ton Of the title quite as much cs
about the evolution of the picture.
Every few" answered Mr..
Naulty, land they were never CON
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
nile. SO to Albert Capellani we

smile. SO to Albert Capellani we
went.
Mr. Capellani is almost certain
that the first motion pictures we're
made in France, though he himself
has been making pictures only about
sixteen years: He said:
"The first picture that I can re-
member was made by Lumiere. 1t
showed boy walking in the garden
and putting his foot on a hose. The
gardener wondered why the water
had stopped running and stopped
down to look in the hose, when the
boy took his foot off the hose. This
was hailed as great achievement"
Later, when we talked to Herbert
Miles, be told us that his Lumiere
picture was the first one he ever
had seen, too. 1t was shown at
Keith's Theater in Union Square
However, we are still backing "The
May Irwin Kiss"
Mr.. Capellani told us that the
carly pictures were made in a cellar
Of the Grand Cafe, Paris. In
America, here, we had higher as
pirations, for Sam Spedon told us
+hat our early pictures were made
on the roof of the Morton Build
ing at 116 Nassau Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
Faster the Better

''In those early days people were
satisfied" he said eff they saw
things move, the faster the better
We never had any stories, nor
plots. We would gather at the
studio, two or three of us, and
would say well, we have to make
o picture to-day And then we
would get a table and couple of
kitchen chairs and a dog, if possible,
and start in to be funny.
FINALLY the time came when /
made the first two-reel picture
1t was called 'L'Assommoir' At
that time. remember that I
considered America very far be-
hind in the picture game, but one
day picture came from America
called The Haunted House. How
it was made no one could under
stand, for the objects moved of
their own accord. Pathe offered
prizes to any one who could solve
the mystery, but we never did
learn.
S "However, at that time I had an
idea Of my own. found that by
moving the objects little at time
and taking hundreds of pictures of
them, and then running them off
fast, it appeared as though the
objects were moving of their own
volition.
"Then we began to make come
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