Opera House Reporter, The (Newspaper) - March 2, 1917, Estherville, Iowa PAGE TWO THE OPERA HOUSE OPERA HOUSE REPORTER DEVOTED TO of MANAGERS AND THE PROFESSION Owners and Publishers Entered at the postoffice at Des as second slass Published every Friday in the interest of opera house and traveling managers and the amusement interest of the Midwest Address all communications for the Editorial and Business departments to THE OPERA HOUSE Subscription per year for six 10 cents at ail news Advertising cents per agate line 60 cents per single column per page per half page per quarter last forma of the Reporter at noon on of each All re ports and advertising must reach this no later than Tuesday evening of each weak to Insure Insertion In the current weeks THE OPERA HOUSE REPORTER may be found on sale week at the following named news stands Revere House News Stand The Crilly News 35 Dearborn St Saratoga Hotel News Antonio 493 Marie Cigar News 96 East Fifth Street 215 14th Ewing Supply 103 18th Meyer 14U Farnum Des Jacobs News 309 6th Cedar Cigar Sioux Marshall Mondamin News News Stands at Martin Chicago House and National The Magazine Man 60 3rd St The Globe News Washington and News Agency 28 4th Kansas Magazine 12th and Main New News Stand New San 948 Market Pabst Council News 608 2nd O The Cataract Book Sioux In Our New Home The Kenyon Building at Third and Grand Des has been a scene of methodic activity for the past ten days as the employees of The Reporter have been faith fully adhering to their duties so that all our equipment would be properly placed in order that the current issue would be in the mails on The gas company did not abide by their promise to install connections for gas burners and melting pots which caused us to be somewhat behind with our composition by working into the late hours of the night we caught up for the time lost and while the current issue is not our idea of what The Reporter should be from a readable point of we are sure that our readers will be pleased with the improvement in the By the use of type we will be able to take care of much more corres then With the pres ent price of book paper at seven and a quar ter cents a pound we are forced to continue for the present with a sixteen page edition so as to be in the safety zone from a publishers with the reduction of the price of book and the increase of advertising space it will be necessary to print more pages but with the present paper crisis we want our readers to have patience with us until conditions enable us to add more pages to handle the increased reading The curtailing of and correspondence will enable us to getting along nicely with a sixteen page edition for the We are indeed flattered with the many kind telegrams and personal expres sions wishing us success in our new home The removal of our establishment from Bs therville to Des which means the ex of a large sum of has been made for the sole purpose of giving our readers a better paper and better service We know that our efforts will be appreciated as in the We cannot start at once to put into effect the plans that we have out lined for the improvement of The We have to work along in a conservative man ner and make improvements as we have the While we are adding new de our circulation department will be actively engaged in a circulation building campaign that will add several thousand new subscribers to our We are always open to so if our readers have any suggestions to make at any dont be backward in conveying them to In response to a recent editorial urging our readers to make for mutual betterment of our we re letters from Frank mana ger of the Grand and Frank Thompson of the Thompson suggesting that we start a Barter and Exchange Column at one cent a We informed these parties that we thought the suggestion very and advised them that as soon as we had our linotype machine in that we would be glad to con sider the The need of space for correspondence hindered us in such a so commencing with our first issue in April we will devote a column for the sale and exchange of at the exceedingly low rate of one cent a column will enable our advertisers to dispose of articles at a very reasonable advertising whereas heretofore they had to pay the regular space rates in offering such goods for or when in the market for the purchase of In making this low rate for the new advertising we desire to impress on our readers that the Barter aad Exchange column will be run on a strictly cash in advance We hope that the new department Suggested by Messrs Holecek and Thompson will be a boon to our Those who have goods to dis pose or are in the market for the pur chase of goods should be represented in our first Barter Exchange column which will be inaugurated with the issue bearing date of April Our the last two weeks to those owing us accounts of long standing has brought many satisfactory returns and we take this means of thanking those who so generously responded to the suggestion to Kick In with a check to apply to their in to However we still have several chronic accounts on our books that aggregate into a large These accounts are due from people who are in a position to take care of them and we hope their conscience will demand that they get right on our Dont always shoulder the responsibility on to the little as he usually is burdened enough Its the big fellow who usually seeks and while more able to take care of their ac counts they are usually slow in doing so whereas the little fellow is always liberal as conditions and he usually pays for what he The little fellows have been loyal in shouldering their share of the expense incurred in our removal to Des so we hope that the big fellows whose accounts on our books are about the driest reading that we will mail us a check for their indebtedness and thus aid us in our efforts to give them a better paper at all The payment of honest bills is the proper spirit of so heres hoping that we will soon have the pleasure of thanking our debtors for payment of accounts long overdue i Lip Movements On The Screen There is a point in screen that may have nothing to do with E but that ought to interest evert who has any wider curiosity about the a The question is How much lip ment is it advisable to put on the screen The effort of producers today is all to ward a scrupulous realism in everything They want to make their screen storie look like bits of real They want th illusion of actuality to be Bu to do this is it not necessarily to play scenes exactly as they would be enacted in life fo screen art is as is stage Actors do not act on the stage as would in That would often falsify the They artificialize speech and business so that it will SEEM Now in real life or on the stage tin characters might be in continual conversa but on the screen the constant moving of the lips in with no coordinated sounds and only a few of the more im portant speeches used in has g different Besides being irritating and taking our attention from the more ex pressive pantomimic it often looks convincingly So the effort of progressive producers is to tell as much of the story as possible by using lip movement only when it seems And some radicals that it is almost never The pres ent custom is to show the character speak ing just before his speech is flashed on the screen as a title then to flash back to bin v still moving the If no important action takes place in this interval only the begin ing and end of the speech may be shown iir It may easily be that the producers will go still farther than By degrees the technique is likely to evolve toward less and less lip so that the making ot a r speech may be merely implied by other action before and Thus will be creat ed step by step a special screen that will have the full realistic effect and wt will simplify and e the tw of a And the educated step by will find the new method more convincingly real than we realism of The Pardon The In moving our no bearing changes ot changes of advertising copy it in the crating of the numerous boxes m took to convey our BO B errors have been we trust that subscribers and advertisers will as it was an easy matter i the way our office has two If any errors have kindly call our attention to ana will see that they are DONT FORGET OUR POST OFFICE j BOX NUMBER 1415
