Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1911 — Wife Made Home Moving Picture Show [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Wife Made Home Moving Picture Show

NEW YORK. —Moving pictures, Samuel Denton admits, may be all right when thrown on a'”whlte screen, but when they’re reproduced in one’s home, he feels sure, the thrills become too Intense to be pleasant. Denton Is a - produce merchant of Brook- . lyn, ’And -he lives with his -wife and* their two grown children in that borough. His objections to mixing film dramas into his domestic affairs were explained in detail before Magistrate McGuire in the Flatbush court, whither Denton was called on a summons obtained by his wife, charging brutality to their son. The produce merchant’s small frame fairly quivered with indignation as he told of the trouble caused by moving pictures between himself and Mrs. Denton, who weighs about two hundred pounds and is correspondingly muscular. Since the biograph craze hit her, the husband said, he not only has suffered from lack of proper nourishment, but also has been made the victim of various supposedly comic scenes copied from the picture shows. To the same evil Denton laid his daughter's elopement and his own interest in boxing lessons. It was in teaching the youngster what he knew about the manly art that the father committed the “brutality” com-

z. plained of by Mrs. Denton. It consisted of sending the youth down for the count with a scientific body blow. “Your honor,” Denton said, “I’ve had scarcely a moment’s peace since my wife' began taking the children to moving picture shows. Not only do I have to eat cold or warmed over food because she forgets to get my supper when a new film is being shown, but I also have become the butt of all sorts of comic scenes, in which my wife takes the part of the funny fat woman, who gets a laugh by slapping her husband over the head with a coal scuttle or a rolling pin, or anything else that’s handy. Once when I protested too vigorously she worked in a grand climax by tossing a hot flatiron at my face.’’ The prisoner displayed a scar on his left cheek, which, he said, the hot iron caused. Magistrate McGuire discharged Denton forthwith.