twenty-four pages. PRICE TEN CENTS DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO THE- THE PROFESSION OF ENTERTAINMENT WARREN A.PATRICK GENERAL DIRECTOR. CHICAGO THE TIME, THE PLACEIAND THE GIRL, THE BIG CHICAGO SUCCESS. THE SHOW WORLD August 29, 1908. CANDIDLY SPEAKING EDISON FILMS DeipsliaM we are as full of crow New Feature Subject: as an egg is of meat Ready for Shipment August 26, 1908 over the advantages we have to offer in Romance of a War Nurse The deeper you look 1 THRILLING MILITARY DRAMA. into the NATIONAL FILM RE NTINQ ^ PREFACE—Amid shrieking sh COMPANY’S Record, the more you realize MOVING 6 ONCTHE1 ^AT^TLEFUBLD—-T how much “National THE^FIELD HOSPITAL—Lady j Quality” means. ck—Fire from hospital—Pander PICTURE crasJi^Uirough **ppaM We have all our irently dead—Dis- ssume her place— Competitors up ■J ROUTE SOUTH—Be a tree. We are S MEANTIME—At field h idy—She revives— MONEY THE SOUTHERN HOME—Disgu going to keep 11 “ALL'S FAIR1 IN LOVE AND°V them there. 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FREE CARNIVAL SWANSON Write today for prices. 2 WEEKS—SEPT. 7 TO 20 & CO. 160-162-164 LAKE ST. CHICAGO ADVERTISE IN THE SHOW WORLD The lShoxit TUorliD THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMUSEMENT WEEKLY Published at 87 South Clark Street, Chicago, by The iShozu HIorld Publishing Entered as Second-Class Matter WARREN A. PATRICK , OeNERAlV/RECTOR., at the Post-Office at Cl June25,19QF_under the Act of Congress. Volume 111—No. 10 CHICAGO August 29, 1908 THREE MORRIS DEATPAST0R’S CAREER FILM BATTLE THEATERS HERE -=ae-~- TREATY NEAR Controversy Happily Approaching Settlement—Re¬ ported Edison and Biograph Patents to Be Con- Conditions Foreshadowed AND STAR IN COURT. (Kum„, a “ »Trr,r1rrc as RATS OBTAIN ELMIRA menPt many °f .the eVils that haVe 1’e*St me“bePr« of the pilm Service forming tto^ise^uy’sketoh^fo/any 11 iS said. that the aim °f the. manu' of eaoh- and n must folIow as a conse- fer°in him fr°m app?arlns business. W ' . vUe^Iegal^proceedings under such condi- The 4 THE SHOW WORLD August 29, 1908, THEATRICALS IN SOUTH AMERICA CARBONS Siemens Arc Light Carbons dis-J Harry Reichenbach Writes Graphically of Amusement Conditions Below ^ $*w s.. T.lbut e an even white light and do not ^ deposit dust on the projector. They have the the Equator—Musicians Refused Passes, Strike—Jumps 1,000 .V / least ash deposit and do not scratch the film with Miles Long—Transportation Rates Exorbitant—Offi¬ carbon dust. Siemens Carbons consume the least cur--J cial Grafters—Political Autocrats Rule Press— GpTV rent in proportion to candle power produced. Many Natal Like Youngstown, Ohio, But "T other carbons are good, but their quality and structure is 1 Different—Many Stranded ^ not always the same, while Siemens Carbons never lack uni- Players at Para. formity. Write for samples and prices, specifying A. C ora D. C. current. The glorious tropical sun is just lower¬ KLEINE OPTICAL CO., CHICAGO FILM EXCHANGE, Agents. ing over the dim jagged outlines of the parison and^he way they eat here is a Rio Grande Do Norte mountains, quaintly caution; half their ailments are from costumed soldiers and civilians are slowly wending their way homeward, or other¬ woman ’or child woufd think1" of" bating wise, two naked, half-breed children are without the bottle of inferior wine, sup¬ playing under my room window, the pro¬ posed to be imported from France or (£nifral (ElrdrirCmttpaui). prietor of the “Dispensaria de Natal," California, and which is undoubtedly the (local store) is hanging up his shutters, third pressure stuff of the cheaper wine the Cathedral bell chimes out the hour of makers. Ice is a luxury here, probably 264=270 Fifth Avenue, CHICAGO six and again a Friarly feeling en¬ one town in six can boast of an ice compasses my being. Oh! for an hour on plant, then the price is away above the 45th street, or as a compromise, one de¬ proper and can only be afforded by the lightful hour with a current SHOW very wealthy. Natal, from where I am WORLD spread across my knee, drinking writing this, is in the throes of a rainy in its delightful information, or as a last season and it is indeed keeping up to its resource, five minutes on Broadway, if season. For twenty days it has been pour¬ it were but 5 a. m. ing down and hardly five minutes a day The show business as conducted in Bra¬ does the sun peep through, but little do zil, is indeed a peculiar thing. Directly they care here for rain, for they walk opposite from the methods pursued in around just as if it were a perfect day. the states and so different, from every Natal is about equal in size to Youngs¬ Tickets! Tickets! Tickets! standpoint, that one has to begin learning town, Ohio, but (pardon the expression), all over again when he starts in this not quite as lively, but why should it be “Land of Tomorrow.” when it is considered that during the The first stand I made with The Great years of 1876-7-8 it was caught in the The Largest Wholesale and Retail Ravmond was Ceara. Brazil, where Mr. awful drought of Ceara; not a drop of DeFrieta, president of one of the George¬ rain fell for three years, yellow fever and Establishment in the World; Prompt town, B. G., banks acted as agent for Mr. bubonic plague became rampant; not one Raymond, and a good agent he was, for means of transportation except the the house was sold out long before the steamers, which would not make the Shipments—Best Quality Always. company arrived from Barbadoes, and not port, but would give it a wide berth in¬ only did the company play to a packed stead and with hundreds of its people dying in the streets, poor, naked, starved, 10,000 TICKETS - $2.00 diseased beings murdering each other for a grain of wheat. Men are living here 20,000 TICKETS - 3.00 the police (of which t yet who stuck to the town all through 50,000 TICKETS - 7.00 the awful drought and stories of suffering PRICES axe manifold. 100,000 TICKETS 13.00 retsfor* in real money, In Times of Drought. 500,000 TICKETS - 60.00 $980. They tell of the starving men, follow¬ 1,000,000 TICKETS - 100.00 •ackeil ing grain carts through the streets, hop¬ The country is all right; the people ing to catch a falling grain, of others here always ready to oblige, but they are actually eating their dead and of still years behind the times and are the most others killing themselves by dashing their babyfied; in fact one is led to believe that brains out, or jumping in the ocean, in they are in Slumberland with Nemo. At Ceara, the orchestra leader tried to bring diately attacked by sharks, of which there THEATORIUM CONSTRUCTION COMPANY his whole family into the theater with¬ out tickets, of course I stopped him and merous they could not be decently buried, immediately the —'■*“ ~musicians still they stick here with an indom' RANDOLPH & DEARBORN ST., CHICACO, ILLINOIS THE SHOW WORLD MORE PICTURES- COHAN & HARRIS FEWER ACTS HAVE RETIRED National Vaudeville Managers Association Determines to Devote One- Fear Not Gentle Reader the Firm Has Merely Relinquished the Manage- fourthof Bills to Motion Films.—Big Circuit Guarantees ment of the Weller Theatre, at Zanesville, O., According to the fj Sun Bookings.