AN IDEA FOR THE CINEMATOGRAPH

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1714, 4 January 1905, Page 35 (Supplement)

AN IDEA FOR THE CINEMATOGRAPH

m one of the New lork papers a short time since (says the "Manchester Guardian”) an advertisement appeared setting forth that a young trench nobleman was anxious to make the acquaintance of a rich and oeautiful American girl with a view to a marriage. It added that on a certain day he would at ten in the morning take up a position near Grant’s Tomb wearing a bunch of violets in his button-hole. Any lady who was disposed to take city on his loneliness was requested to meet him there and to wear a similar nosegay that they might recognise each other. At the appointed hom- more than fifty women, of varied ages and conditions, put in an appearance, much to the surprise of the custodian of the monument. But the young nobleman did not turn up. As subsequently appeared, there was an excellent reason for this. The advertisement had been inserted by a photographer who wished to obtain a novel ■subject for the cinematograph. And now the American music-halls are tumbling over each other to obtain such a “sure draw” in the way of “turns.”