Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1908 — MOVING PICTURES IN ITALY. [ARTICLE]

MOVING PICTURES IN ITALY.

The Residents in That Land Are Surfeited With Dancing Women. Milan, the centre of Italy for the moving picture Machine trade, has already about forty such theatres. Every available hall Is being turned into a moving picture show, while nearly every second and third rate theatre and “case chantant’’ finishes the evening’s performance with a few cinematograph pictures. During the dull summer season even the larger theatres are used.

Dramatic and tragic scenes, natural scenery of an interesting fiature, and comical farces are pure to fill the hall at any time in Italy. The Italian loves to see living scenery; for instance, a moving picture view of Niagara Falls was a huge success here a short time ago. The Italian also likes to see typical scenes of national life, anch as for instance, bull fights in Spain and winter sports on the snow and ice in Switzerland. Railway scenery is very acceptable, as are views of large towns, pictures of tbe larger towns of tbe United States would be a huge success in Milan. Occasionally typical scenes from American rife have been thrown on the sheeting, stick as cowboy life and train wreckers. The Italian is disgusted, if not already surfeited, with pictures of singing and dancing woo." en, neither does be like fantastical scenery fronai fairy tale?.