Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1913 — Boys’ Plan for a Free Film Show Is Halted [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Boys’ Plan for a Free Film Show Is Halted

CLEVELAND, 0. —Dreams of lon's hours spent in an improvised motion picture theater of their own, with no admission price to pay, and no ushers to request them to "make room" for somebody else, were well on the way toward realization for two West side boys the other day, when officers from the juvenile court interfered and confiscated their outfit, which, it is charged, waß stolen from the Victor theater. The alleged confessions of Walter Krueger and Harry Worrls, each fourteen years old, to Probation Officer Lewis explained why patrons of the theater found the place closed one recent Sunday night The boys, according to the juvenile court officers, said they thought they would like to have a playhouse all thfeir own, and decided it would be easier to have someone else furnish the paraphernalia than it would be to save their pennies and buy the necessary materials. They picked on the manager of the Victor as their Santa Claus, but forgot to tell him they had borrowed his motion picture machine, several films, a

When the theater wtmgar opened his place of entertainment be gasp-, ed in amazement and then rubbed his eyes. Ordinary atmosphere filled the space formerly occupied by tim picture machine. Rolls of film that had been specially advertised were not to be found. The phonograph that diverted audiences in the intervals between slows was gone. A hearty pinch, delivered where it* did the most service, oonvlnced the astonished manager that he was not asleep. Then he went for the police. Probation officers fixed the guilt on the two boys.

graphophone and a basket of records.