Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1912 — Drew the Crowd. [ARTICLE]

Drew the Crowd.

It was the ambition of the proprietor of the moving picture show to get a record house that week. The first two nights he failed to get It On the third night his unparalleled attractions were advertised thus through a megaphone at the hall door: “Ladies and gentlemen: Every picture I shall show you tonight has cost the life of a film actor. In the bridge wrecking scene two men were drowned, in the railroad collision one man was crushed to death, and the jungle scene three men were fearfully mangled by wild beasts. “Reprehensible tactics to mention those harrowing details,” said the proprietors of other shows; nevertheless they achieved the manager's purpose, for the next day the hooae was packed at every performance.