Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 149, 4 May 1921 — Page 9

TH RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, 1ND., WEDNESDAY, MAY. 4, 1921.

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RETAILERS DIVIDE ON THURSDAY CLOSING; MAY EXCEPT JUNE Retailers present t the meeting of members of the retail division of the

Chamber of Commerce, held In the K. of P. building Tuesday nifht, were divided on the "closing at 12 o'clock each Thursday during June, July and August" motion. It appeared, how ever, that the majority were in favor of such a plan. It has been the custom each year for a number of retail stores to close at noon on Thursdays during July and August, but several members present Tuesday night were opposed to Including June In the motion. They contended that June was one of their best business months, and that they would not consider losing a half day in each week during that month. Others cited the policy followed in many large cities where working hours were shortened for the benefit of store help, and just as much business was realized as though they had remained open, because people became accustomed to the closing hour and. purchased their goods within the opening hours. Circulate Petition. A petition was circulated in the group td be signed by persons favorable to tho closing hour on Thursday for the three summer months. Fifteen retailers signed. - Some remained

opposed to the plan. Those who sign

ed the agreement are to take petitions to other retailers for signing. Should the majority of the city's retailers

favor the closing movement, it will go

into effect with the first Thursday in June. Much amusement was caused the

group by one retailer recalling the long hours of years ago. "We used t

stay open three nights a week and on Saturday until mid-night." he said. "Those were the good old days. We had plenty of business." In answer to this sentiment, one retailer suggested that store keys could be thrown

away and an all night vigil be main

tained for the benefit .of stray business. Discussion of the daylight saving plan met the approval insofar as personal wishes were concerned, but all

agreed that it would be poor business judgment. The farmer and his de

sires played an important part in this decision. George Brehm was appointed chairman of a comimttee to appear at the next city council meeting to urge a more drastic carnival ordinance. It is hoped that the committee will in

clude at least 100 men and 50 women

from the Chamber of Commerce, when the time for their appearance arrives. Expression that the present carnival Ordinance was unsatisfactory was current.

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I Bronze Tablet Will -Announce

First Movies Were 'Shown Here

A bronze tablet on the building oc-, drawn down for a brief bit

The Theatres

MURRETTE

In "The Passion Flower" Norma Talmud era -will be seen at the Murrette

Theatre Wednesday in what is de

clared to be the most interesting star

ring vehicle that has yet been given

her. The story is tne wont or jacuuo Benavente, who is acclaimed as the greatest living dramatist of Spain today. "The Passion Flower" was tremendously popular in New York last season with Nance O'Neil in the role of "Raimunda," the mother. Norma Talmadge, however, will be seen as "Acacia," the daughter, in the picture version. She is said to have created one of the finest roles of her screen career. MURRAY Alice Calhoun, the Vitagraph star, is an actress of unusual ability. In "The Charming Deceiver." which is now showing at the Murray Theatre, Miss Calhoun does a remarkable bit of emotional acting. As Edith Marsden. granddaughter of a proud old English aristocrat, she realizes what her marriage to Marsden will mean if it becomes known to her grandfather an end of her world of happiness. The grandfather assumes that Edith is unmarried. The girl struggles with the impulse to speak. Over Miss Calhoun's features play numerous emotions. During the brief space in which this scene is flashed upon the screen a whole story is told by Miss Calhoun's facial expression. It is one of the most remarkable pieces of acting ver portrayed upon the screen. Thousands Thank Dr. Leonhardt who discovered Hem-Roid, the commonsense Pile remedy. No cutting no greasy salves but a harmless tablet that pivos quick, safe and lasting relief. Money back if it fails, says Quifclcy's Drug Store Advertisement. Tues.-Wed.-Thurs.-Fri.

Art Borelle Art Borello, pictured above, is one of the 50 funny fellows who will be here Saturday with the Sells-Floto circus. All the wonders of the circus are included in the big Sells-Floto top. Among the favorite attractions is the big elephant herd. Kas and Mo and Floto and Mama are performing elephants, and they have constituted themselves a board of censorship over all the other elephants with the Sells-Floto circus. Because of their superior education they are very "up-stage" with the pachyderm actors less clever than they, and, as for the elephants which can not perform well, one should see Kas and company slip them the scornful razz. Kas, it was, who found a name for the quarter. Being a well traveled elephant, he has picked up a fad of reading signs on box cars. "We shall be 'The Big 4'," he whispered behind his trunk to Mo, and Mo passed the word to Floto and Mama. That led to other things. Soon, "The Big 4" v began to tell the other "bulls" how to carry their trunks in parade. The patient, kindly members of the five Sells-Floto herds have allowed themselves to be imposed upon to the extent that now they yield the centers of the three rings to Kas and his pals in the performances and copy their table manners. So, if in the big menagerie tent of the circus, you find meek ele

phants that are slow to reach out for peanuts, do npt pass them by, but offer the goobers to them twice. You won't have to wait long, for Kas and Mo have a tough time restraining their humble understudies' eagerness for peanuts. Of course, it is hard for the trainers to put "The Big Four" in their places, for they really are clever actors. Most circus men concede that Floto and Mama are the cleverest pachyderms that ever performed. They are all of them great lovers of children, and it is almost impossible to be harsh with elephants that care for children as do the Sells-Floto herds. In the opening spectacle "The Birth of the Rainbow," Mama, Floto and twelve other elephants carry Maypoles and ballet girls dance at the ends of dozens of rainbow streamers which radiate from the peaks. All of the Sells-Floto performing herds are presented in the rings and on the track by girl trainers Blanche Wells. Stella Rowland, Ethel Hamilton, Idah Deino and Marcia Raleigh.

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cupied by the Jenkins' Jewelry com

pany may soon announce that the first motion picture machine gave an exhibition - in that store on June 6, 1894. C. Francis Jenkins, a Richmond boy, was the inventor of the apparatus. He sold his interest in' the invention for $2,500. William Rindt of the ffenkins company is contemplating the erection ot the tablet. An article in a current issue of The Literary Digest gives the appended realistic description of the first "movie show" inRichmond: "Most of the important people in the movies, have their press-agents, but the ma who invented them has fcothing ofthe sort. "And it's a sate bet," writes Homer Croy. one of the best known of movie chronicler, "that the movie fans never heard of him." Almost any day he may be seen walking down Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, and yet nobody knows -him. Mr. Croy goes on in the New York Tribune: "All the attention people pay to him is to push him out of the way. He goes jostling on dow.n the street, but if some movie queen comes along she blocks traffic. Thus life runs away. Don't Know Inventor. "Ten million people a day go to the movies in the United States, but how many of them know, who made the first movie? The noes have it. The man who made the first motion-picture, as we know it today, is C. Fiancis Jenkins. Many girls who have not been "in pictures" a month are better known. C. Francis is too much given to hiding his light under a bushel. If any motion-picture actress endeavors to hide her light under any kind of protection her address at present is unknown. Instead, she crawls up on top of the measure and calls for the spotlight man. If he does not give it to her quick she will kick the

four pecks to Kingdom Come! C. Francis Jenkins was a clerk in the life-saving diyicion of the treasury department at Washington, but he was not content with putting on his sleeve-protectors of a morning, and taking them off at five minutes of five. He did not want to spend his life beating the clock of a morning and of an evening watching to se? if the boss had yet gone home. He was hipped on photography, and in the back-yard of his boarding-house made many experiment. He was working with a magic-lantern,, which was then considered about the furthest north of human jngenuity. Young Jenkins was seized with the extravagant idea of making pictures move by means of the lantern, and to work he set. In he called a vaudeville dancer named Annabelle, whose particular bit of entertainment was a so-called butterfly dance. Of her Jen kins made pictures Many men in the United States and Europe had been working on the idea of "animal locomotion," as it was then called, but as glass plates had to be used the result was not any bewildering success. The heavy, cumbersome plates could not be progressed in front of a light source fast enough to

mane any animal jook Dut wnat it was in its last mortal struggle. Then the celluloid film was announced. It was light and flexible. The inventors were off. It was a race. Rides to Richmond "The summer vacation came along after a while, as it always does, and C. Francis asked for an extra week. On ahead he sent a mysterious box by express, and then, mounting, his bicycle, rode the whole distance 720 miles to Richmond, Ind., his home. When he got there he was a hero. "To a local jewelry-store run by his cousin he took the mysterious box and asked if the curtains might be

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was never bo onsa in jticnmona tnai

the sacrifice would be absolutely disastrous. The only electricity was a trolly wire passing the door, and, using a pail of water as a rheostat, C. Francis made his connections. Invited in were his father and mother, the editor of the local paper, and a few

others. "Not a word had the young man said of what they were to see. To them it was just another of Francis' time-killers. The room was darkened; there were a sputtering, a grinding, and a groaning of moving machinery, and out on the wall before the astonished eyes of the good citizens stept a young and more or less beautiful girl. They gasped there wag some trick to it, because there wasn't any trap-door in the wall. People was getting so slick with them shadowgraphs, anyway! Just the other night there had been a fellow down at the Opry-house who could wrap a handkerchief around his hands and make pictures of almost any animal, especially rabbit. And he could make them move! Especially the ears. "They looked at C. Frances, but his handkerchief was in his pocket. Nor

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did he have his sleeves rolled up. He was not the most Important part of the show, says Mr. Croy, and soon Watch the Girl "They no longer turned to watch C. Francis, for the girl was trying to imitate a butterfly.. In her hands she held sticks and to these were fastened the draperies of heT gown. Higher and higher she began, to lift her skirts, while around she flapped her sticks in imitation of a butterfly that suddenly feels itself called on to dance. Higher and higher the skirts went as the contortions of the lepidopetral creature grew more perfervid. "The men loet all interest in C. Francis, while the good women turned to look at each other. What had C. Francis been doing all this time In the wicked city of Washington? That came from letting boys get away from home. But the men did not care. C.

Francis could go to where Talmage said they wanted to see the rest of that dance. "The skirts went higher "And then two or three of the good' women, nddging each other significantly, got up and marched out thus leaving the first motion-picture show in the history of the world. The date was June 6, 1834. "Pictures had been projected on a wall before from lantern-slid, but never from a strip of .intermittently moving film. The machine which projected the picture is on exhibition at the National Museium in Washington. It is the foreiunner of all present-day projectors. Suspect Trick. "Nobody paid much attention to the show. It was just another of them illusion tricks. But it was sure wonderful ridin all that 720 miles. That boy would amount to something some

day. , It most 'atoe ;ktpt,-frtt, especially. alqrig in, th, evening f j ;rj "The first time 'admission -was charged wa nt Aftta CaUaa The show -was a failure. '.PeOpift could not believe that, you could show pictures of people caoving about, and would not surrender their raoney on any more of them catchpennies. The term motion-picture. had not been invented. There was nothing to describe what was to be seen. The project was abandoned antf the "young " inventor caJue home pretty down In the mouth. Later he sold his interest in the" invention for $2,500. That is all he got for the second most wonderful invention in the world. The' first was printing. The total sum he got wouldn't pay Babe Twoknees's salary for a' month. And, again, thus Iffe runs away."

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TODAY AND TOMORROW

He had never seen her before. When he chanced upon her, wading soon they were over their heads in love. Then he discovered she was the woman he'd been paying alimony ! ! I

THOMAS H. INC presents . . ENID BENNETT

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'oming Friday and Saturday

FLORENCE V1D0R, the star of "Lyhig Lips", in "BEAU REVEL":

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Attend the Matinee and Avoid the Evening. Crowds

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URRAY

Vaudeville BETTER COME EARLY Pipe Organ-Concert Orchestra Last Times Today Silber and North in "Bashfoolery", a clever man and woman team in a chatalogic skit with song. A deluge of laughter. Wasteeka and Understudy "The seal wiHi almost human intelligence", Great novelty animal act. Featured with all the leading circuses.

Carletta and Lewis in "A Comedy Diversion", "A Sure Cure for the Blues" or "It Happened at the Belmont Mus-icale".

Ina Kuhn A beautiful girl with a wealth of gorgeous wardrobe who offers songs and stories.

ALICE CALHOUN In "THE CHARMING DECEIVER" A Five-Reel Vitagraph Feature The lie that raised a girl from poverty to affluence. Coming Thursday Mile. Viva Ethelia-.Kashner Sisters ; Williams and Howard ; Tom Mills.

PI Tl FI Wednesday H I H Thursday SSII JLJ JL JL JL-i Friday

JJ "Where the Stars Twinkle First" Saturday

. l v ,,fv,,f.v To the People of Richmond: vS&CSs. NORMA TALMADGE is the national favor- J$3'" fctCs, ite and we assure you that the picture is IpM J&Js. g breaking all records elsewhere. It's her best Wltfil PipftllBflimlli and latest production. 'fffPHk i JOSEPH MI SCHENCK PRESENTS T I NORMA 'p,' pas s i ?'SLi w Adapted from the Remarkable Play fm nl If M by JACINTO BENAVENTE f (j 1 j ' " Dirce

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"Call him Father!" the mother urged. And Acacia, - th-3 Passion Flower, went slowly -to her stepfather. ''Call him -Father," Raimunda repeated. ?i Acacia looked into the man's -f ace. A sudden r gasp-and Raimunda threw La frantic ; arm across her eyes!

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TOM MIX in 'THE ROAD DEMON?