This man opened in one with a short series of pictures illustrating his jump from the Pittsburg bridge. These pictures are very good, and got quite a hand. He got advance applause, and the act went very well. The trunk trick of course got big applause. I am working up some special features for him that will be talked about, and he ought to do some business for us. 24 minutes, full stage.
ON at 6:26, 14 min in 1. Showing views this week of the Counties Mayo, Atrim and Cork, Ireland; very good pictures.
Yellowstone Park:- A very brilliant and highly colored travel film that holds the interest well.
Haunted Hotel:-This is the best comedy film that we have run since the “Rarebit Fiend”. It has more laughs in it to the running yard than any series brought out of late
Showing a picture this week that is specially worthy of mention, showing the making of a newspaper from the printing rooms through the various departments to the streets, 10 minutes.
3 shows, 20 min. in 1. Showing the following two pictures:
- “The Lost Child”. With our audiences this afternoon this proved to be the biggest laughing hit in the form of a motion picture that has yet been put upon the market. They simply howled over it, and at the finish applauded heartily. Will keep it here two weeks.
- Parade of the Knights Templar at San Francisco, Cal. This is an excellent picture of its kind, and was secured upon our request, as so many New England Knights were represented at the conclave. Photographically, it is a beautiful picture, and shows to advantage one of San Francisco’s most magnificent thoroughfares. Think it would go anywhere on the circuit, as it would be sure to attract the patronage of influential Masons.
With his ‘Sight-seeing Wagon.’ With the aid of Stereopticon Views, shows various sights of New York. By the use of the Megophone gives some bright material to the patrons of his rubber-neck wagon. He had the audience roaring during his entire act and is the biggest laughing hit of the show up to this time. 18 min. in two close in one. 3 shows.
These people gave us their new act to-day which they call ‘Winning a Queen.’ It is decidedly away from anything we have had, and after some of the rough edges are worn off, it will be decidedly worth while. The act opens with Gardiner in tramp make up, talking with a sentry inside of a fort. Evening comes on, he goes to sleep inside a mammoth cannon. The cannon is fired. By means of the moving picture machine he is shown going through the clouds until he reaches the moon, when he is swallowed by the moon. This brings him into his second set, representing the interior of the moon, where he meets the Queen of the moon. After some good comedy with the headsman, an eccentric character, he persuades the Queen to go back to New York with him. They then take positions on a big star, and the picture machine is again used to show them falling from the moon to the earth, where they crash through a skylight, and down into a dining-room. After some comedy here, the act closes with an eccentric dance on the order of the one used by Guyer & O’Neill. The act is a decided novelty, and well worked out. The comedy introduced is good, as is also the singing. Held the attention of the audience this afternoon, and three curtain calls at the finish, showing that the act was appreciated. 20 mins. Spec, in 1/2/ & 3.
3 shows, 20 min. in 1. Principal picture was the hill climbing contests that took place at Mt. Washington which is a splendid series of photographs, which were applauded at several points.
4 shows, 14 min. in one—just a medium lot of pictures, one or two of them being interesting enough to redeem the balance. Personally, it is always attractive for me, and I cannot see why it does not interest others. However, it is the strongest feature we can put at the end of our show. Comment: the show is a very strong one, and if I had been able to retain it as I first made it up, it would have gone much better than it did, but Johnson & Dean absolutely refuse to do any work in one, and I had to make a quick shift of acts, with the result that the show was weakened. It also run over 15 minutes. Owing to the fact that the time was incorrectly given. The show will pan out very strong went it get[s] arranged right.
3 shows, 20 min. in 1. Principal picture this week is that of the Brooklyn Handicap of this year, which, as claimed, is probably the best race picture ever made. It evidently excited unusual interest among our audiences, but strange enough was not applauded to any extent. Another picture called, “A Daylight Burglary,” scored a much better hit.
