TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, ' PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 27, 19i6.
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BIRSKY AND ZAPP TALK OF THE MOVIES
"Eve Bodv Has Got Two Businesses Now," Says Birskv ""His Regular Business ,
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and the Moving Picture Business." What Is Art When They Must Cut Down
Expenses Candy Trade Suffers, Says Philosopher Who Studies the Times.
By Montague Class
Illustrations by Briggs
Copyright, 1916 The Tribune Ass'n (The New York Tribune).
CCT MET Sam Pqjongin in the blows in the nickel to see 'Thou Shalt barred out by the management for Grand Forks or Sandusky or wherever to pay," Zapp said, "and furthermore and make marks on an old envelope naturally don't take him to we 'Ham
I subway this morning," Barnett Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Wife," a claiming that the Follies should ought it happens to be, they put on the stage all the moving picture actors gets con- with a pencil, that ain't no sign that he's let Am I right or wrong?"
Zapp. the waist manufacturer. featUre fillum iniive reels." to tc a sta8- The 'heayter managers a real restaurant, with coffee machines Uacis for a year alreacJy trying to figure how it could be he is "You don't take him to a moving
said, as with the aid or his thumb and "Not alone cheap can
a quart of gravy which remained from sa;jt ,ut every business
his portion of gefuellle MUlz mil tar effeci$ 0f the moving-picture
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,et. nc a,.. v-.a.uj, U1 a tew businesscs Mvorawe. lue ine own worst competitors way,
a slice or rye Dreaa.
4" R,rct is kicking something terrible about me ana gas griaaies, ana tney Drou ngnt 'But what U irh rontrart worth?" ovcrarawn Dame iv
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t ! .1 way tne moving pictures IS eaung Jiuo mere in num. ui uic auuicuw cvcjjr uaj p; 1 j luny-iivc wcius. iiu,
is ieeimg uc .... . , t t-c. j 11 i f11-""1- u i j r
ikon- hiieincs 7ann steaks tor ten or ntteen dollars, be- ... .... could make a cood hvins
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business T , ,, - .. . j o i . .l .. Jcucr wnis 10 get na or sucn a con- , . ,, , ,
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"And how is the herring business?
delicatessen and lunchroom business, giy, Jf, uke if all the saloonkeep- "If he puts on a restaurant, it's put
herring business is now a side issue for Kartoffel Salad.
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tract, all he has got to do is to get the
party of the second part to play Ned in
f-ll i xt i r .1
which the nearest some married men ers would become temperance lecturers on right; it don't make no difference eifaPe "om lne
Louis Birsky. the real estateer. asked. has got lo a home-cooked dinner since because they seen a chance to make a what it cosU; aber you take a moving nf 1 'ea j"0" nr.seback trm
"What do you mean the herring lne moving pictures started is half a little money on the side and then com- picture feller, and if be has got a fillum a c 1 ,v un re. eet Ig y unQr
. -t ' j j.j ..-n.. , i lt j.L- tu : .l. v ,11 V. stand and lhe widow can frame the
ousiness -pp aemanaea. 111c pouna or sucea luncneon Doiony mu piainea mere was no muic yium m mc im nu' "
Then there is the liquor business, y understand. F.verv go to a restaurant and ask the teller
.. 1 that runs it he should allow tor a tive-
dollar note the movie actors to carry on
there, and pictures is taken of it with a
camera una1 ferllg. Then when you
go to see the fillum, understand me,
they flash on the screen:
NED DISCOVERS HIS
SISTER IN A FASH
IONABLE BROAD
WAY RESTAURANT.
and afterwards they show the fashion
able Broadway restaurant, and on the
wall is a sign:
CHILI CON CARNE,
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"That's the difference between Mr.
Belasco and moving picture fellers.
What do they care about being artistic Park which I got vacant on my hands
if it's going to cost an extra ten dollars, since 1 9 1 3."
Zapp? AH they want is to keep the "Maybe you think such a thing ain't
expenses down." possible that a waist designer should
. "That's where you make a big mis- get a job as a moving picture actor?"
take," Zapp replied. "Moving picture Birsky said. "Believe me. Zapp, the
fellers is eaten up with expenses. For last thing in the world which is'neces
instance, the wages which moving pic- sary in the moving picture business is
ture fellers pays to their actors is some- experience in particular the actors and
thing terrible. Five hundred a week is ihe people which writes the scenarios,
small already." You remember in the old days, Zapp,
"Well, why not?" Birsky retorted, that everybody thought he could sell
Look what a moving picture actor is clothing. Well, nowadays every Schlc-
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contract and hang it in the front parlor
as a sowveneer of the two weeks when
her husband olav hasholom used to
make five hundred dollars a week." .
Zapp sighed heavily.
"I got a designer which has me un
der a three years' contract since last
Tuesday already," he said, "and if I
could hire Maxine Elliott for a model
and C. M. Schwab for a salesman, I
couldnt get rid of that murderer's de
signs for the cost of the linings alone.
There's big money in it for somebody
who could persuade that Rosher to play
in a fillum where Ned gets locked in a
burning ranch by the Mexican for a
thousand dollars a week. I would pay
two weeks salary out of my own
pocket, and if they ain't got a ranch to
burn I would even schenck the moving
picture concern a house out in Borough
fo dollars and picture, neither," Zapp said.
Zapp. A feller "I know you don t.' Birsky replied.
nowadays col- "Asking a customer to go to a theayter
selling 'em to and then taking him to a moving pic-
people to make memorandums of see- tures, Zapp, is the equivalence of invit-
narios on." ing him to lunch and then blowing him
"Aber how do they do it?" Zapp at a drug store to an egg chocolate
exclaimed. "I could no more write a with malted milk." '
scenario and get away with it as a "At that, there's lots of people
check for a million dollars." makes a luncheon off of chocolate
"That's because you ain't never tried malted milk," Zapp said.
"Maybe the feller that works the camera wasn't looking.
Sam. Him and J. Schlapp, of Katz- spectable business, which while in for- theayter manager has got also a chain
berg & Schlapp, in the pants business, mer times ladies whose husbands made of moving picture houses. They are
has formed the Charoses Fillum Com- 'rom 'hirty dollars a week down used killing the hen that laid the golden got to do to earn his money, we will miet thinks he could be a moving pic
. j nt ft.tf ... to get housemaid's knee from keeping eggs." say, for example, that he goes to work ture actor, and most of them are.' It's
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to release their first fillum by the name
the flat looking as neat as a pin, y'un-
Mlyou see a man stand still on the sidewalk and make marks."
That's all right, too," Birsky re- at nine o'clock. At half past nine he the same way with writing the scena- to write a scenario," Birsky said. "All "They're welcome, for all of me,'
The Fatal Murder "
"The way it
derstand, they have now got to be torted. "but compared with the golden goes up to Central Park and falls out rios. Take any retail drygoods con- you've got to do is to take a play like Birsky said, "but so long as I've got
fitted with classes for eve strain from eczs which movinc Dictures is lavint? of an oitermobile runninz thirty miles r.prn tnrfav anA pvirvhnAv fmm tU ui i. t : i 11 tU rr,p I wnnlrl tirlt tr im must
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looks nowadays, watching moving pictures every after- the old-time theayter was a rooster, an hour. The first time he falls out, cash girls to the store superintendent is u,,l MJ ,J ,u. vr;M M .:,,.. dessert and coffee, and I'm the same
irsky said, everybody has got two noon up t0 five minutes to six or five Zapp. And not only is the moving maybe the feller that works the camera writing scenarios on the side. Also, i ti j- . . .l way about ooing to a show. When I
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businesses his regular business ana tne minutes before whatever time the hus- picture fellers making big money, buj wasn t looking, so he s got to fall out Zapp, if you go into a streetcar and the ojn(s o a steno ra je j . go broke, 'll be a moving picture fan.
moving-picture business." : band comes home." they ain't got to invest not near as again. This time somebody moves the feller opposite to you is talking to him- pmts a seno8raP er an en 'l " 1oq 2app, but as it stands, when I feci
"All except the feller in the cheap "Well, there's oie business moving much capital as a regular theayter man- camera, so he falls out a third time, and 'self, y'understand. you might thinkhe's movmg Plc,ure "ncern w ich was tdj.jRg jn a theayter I want to see
candy business," Zapp said. "There pictures ain't improved none," Birsky ager. Take this here Belasco. for in- one way or another they keep that actor a lunatic, Zapp. but as a matter of fact ormer'y 'n plumbing supply busi- a sj10W wn;cn was written by an author,
ain't nothing in the cheap candy busi- said, "and that's the regular theayter stance, which he specializes on re-elastic falling out of an oitermobile going he ain't crazy by from three to ten dol- ness or children s knee pants, and you're not a truck-driver. Also I like to hear
ress no more. Birsky, on account if a business. Even on first nights nowadays shows with telephone switchboards, res- thirty miles an hour from half past lars, on account he is doping out a see- bound to get away with it, Zapp, be- an actor as well as see him, Zapp."
lady gives her six-year-old boy five the fifty-cent gallery and balcony is taurants and doctors' offices, and sup- nine to lunch time. Supposing he does nario which he would sell for some- cause the only plays them fellers knows "Me, too," Zapp agreed, "and if
cents he should buy himself a taffy on empty excepting the ushers and a cou- posing, for instance, he's got a restau- get five hundred dollars a week. Is wheres around that price to a moving anything about is shows they used to he's got other talents besides falling out
a stick, y'understand. he goes right pie of dozen reporters with false mus- rant in it, y'understand. then every that a life? I ask you." picture concern. Furthermore; if you take their customers to see, and if you of an oitermobile going thirty miles an
away to a moving pictures instead and taches and smoked glasses which was night that show plays in New York or "Just the same, it's a lot of money see a man stand still on the sidewalk are trying to sell a customer goods, you hour. Birsky. so much the better."
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