Dr. W. H. Earle, vice-president of the Southern California Realty Company, is at the head of a syndicate of Los Angeles and Eastern capitalists which plans to erect a fine tourist hotel or a building devoted to amusement purposes on the ocean front opposite the Decatur Hotel. The site, which is 231 feet in length, extending from Marine street to Navy avenue, has just been purchased *** The building on Lisbon street, Lewiston, formerly occupied by the Lewiston Morning News, has been leased by the Shepherd Moving Picture Company for the opening of a theater.
Ralph Ward, identified with this company, has had the matter in charge. About $2,000 will be spent on the interior. Opera chairs will be put into the building, and the best kind of pictures will be shown.
It is to be called "The Bijou." It will be a "nickel" show after the style of these houses in other cities. *** Before long Des Moines will be seeing moving pictures of the Thaw trial. Fred Buchanan has received word that pictures of the famous trial are now in preparation and will soon be sent out all over the country. They will show the entire tragic story from the time Evelyn Nesbit was a young girl to the thrilling episodes in the court room. The Lubens Picture Company is getting up pictures and they have scoured the country for models as nearly like the real actors in the tragedy as possible.
[Surely there is enough rubbish on the market, without inflicting the public with such nauseous films. We hope the better element of the public will express their disapproval, and that legal steps will be taken to prevent such exhibitions.—Ed.] *** We learn that Dr. Henry R. Rose of Newark, N. J., has prepared a special lecture for Y. M. C. A. meetings, which is something entirely new, in the way of an illustrated story of the life of Christ. The slides used were secured in a most interesting manner. Dr. Rose went to Europe and photographed every great painting, both ancient and modern, bearing on the life of Jesus. He thus secured reproductions of every noted masterpiece on this subject in Europe. Then he had his artist, the slide maker for the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, sit before the originals in the galleries of Italy, Belgium, Germany, France and England and paint on each slide the colors exactly as they appear in the originals. The outcome was 125 stereopticon slides, said to be the finest of the kind ever produced. *** Ernest Harold Baynes, the well-known naturalist, of Newport, N. H., was highly entertaining in his lecture on "The Blue Mountain Forest," the largest fenced game preserve in the world, at High School Assembly Hall, Stoneham, Mass. Many stereopticon views were shown of interesting topics touched upon.
Mr Baynes' home is on the very borders of Austin Corbin's game preserve, which contains forty square miles of wild mountainous country in New Hampshire, and he is devoting much of his time in a careful study of the buffalo, bears, wild boars, moose, deer, elk and other smaller animals, with which the reservation has been stocked.
The lecturer spoke very entertainingly of his various experiences with these animals, and his description of their habits, appearance, and mode of life, proved him an authority on the subject.
Mr. Baynes is one of the leaders in the movement to preserve the buffalo from extinction, and told of the progress made toward that end.
MOVING PICTURES HELP DETECTIVES
Rudolph Blumenthal, said to be one of the cleverest criminals in the country, has been captured between Long Beach and Los Angeles through the agency of the moving pictures taken of the training quarters of Tommy Burns at Long Beach three months ago.
To show as a preliminary to the main fight, Miles Brothers photographed the eager crowd which gathered around the out-door training stand of Tommy Burns.
Rudolph Blumenthal was in this crowd, and when the pictures were shown in Chicago three detectives who had Blumenthal's features stamped upon their memory recognized him. They immediately set out for Long Beach and captured the man at a house ten miles north of there.
HOWE'S MOVING PICTURES.
The most weird and spectacular mountain peaks in the world were conquered a few months ago for the first time. They are the Dolomites in the northern Italian Tyrol. How they were conquered forms one of the most interesting features of Lyman H. Howe's lifeorama, now touring the States. Switzerland seems time in comparison with the great shattered mountains of solid rock shown in this feature. In shape they violate all ideas of what mountains should be. They seem as though part of another world, or like some colossal castles nature has built above the clouds. It has always been regarded as utterly impossible to ascend them, even though climbers had nothing to look after but themselves.
But to secure these scenes the climbers had to care for the equipment necessary to reproduce them, as well as caring for themselves while facing the same great perils that defied and defeated all others. To succeed, handicapped as they were, where all others, without such disadvantages, had failed, intensifies the amazement of the triumph. The pluck, courage and ingenuity displayed is thrilling and sensational in the extreme. At times they are shown fairly hanging over vast depths. Again they are seen clinging to perpendicular walls of solid rock with only a few precarious inches between them and instant death below. A misstep, dizziness, or a false hold would be fatal at every moment of the hazardous venture. The fearful risks taken hold the spectator with breathless interest, and the wild grandeur of the scenery bewilders the mind.
MOVING PICTURES THAT TALK
The "chronomegaphone" is the scientific name given to a new apparatus invented by M. Leon Gaumont, of Paris. A moving picture is thrown on the screen, and as the figures move the chronomegaphone gives them a speech. We thus get a combination of cinematograph and phonograph.
