Moving pictures

It cannot be put out of view that the exhibition of moving pictures is a business, pure and simple, originated and conducted for profit, like other spectacles, not to be regarded, nor intended to be regarded by the Ohio Constitution, we think, as part of the press of the country, or as organs of public opinion. They are mere representations of events, of ideas and sentiments published and known; vivid, useful, and entertaining, no doubt, but, as we have said, capable of evil, having power for it, the greater because of their attractiveness and manner of exhibition.

A moving picture consuls and the like. It Is obsolete in the and vaudeville show, including comedy sing- 'latter sense, and but seldom used in the ers and dancers, etc., Is not a theatrical en- former. tertainment; Com. V. Donnelly, 21 Pa. Dlst. MULE. A reward offered for the appre- R. 21; moving picture shows are not theatri- hension of a mare, horse, or gelding does not cal performances; 15 Can. Cr. Cas. 241; nor apply to a mule; Com. v. Davidson, 4 Pa. public shows; Edwards v. Mc Clellan, 118 N. Diet. R. 172. Y. Supp. 181; State v. Chamberlain, 112 Minn. 52, 127 N. W. 444, 30 L. R. A. (N. S.) MULIER. Anciently mulier was taken for 336, 21 Ann. Cas. 679; exhibition of moving a wife, as it is commonly used for a woman, pictures in a hotel, with no charge for admis- and sometimes for a widow; but It has been sion, is not the conducting a common show held that a virgin is included under the name without a license; People v. Wacke, 77 Mlsc. mulier. Co. Litt 170, 253; 2 Bla. Com. 248. 196, 137 N. Y. Supp. 652. An ordinance im- The term U used always In contradistinction to posing a license fee on kinetoscopes, pano- a bastard, mu Uer being always legitimate, Co. Litt. 243, and seems to be a word corrupted from me HoTj, ramas, etc., covers moving pictures; Laurelle or the French meilleur, signifying lawful issue born V. Bush, 17 Cal. App. 409, 119 Pac. 953; but in wedlock. But by Olanville, lawful issue are said not one prohibiting the opening of billiard to be mulier, not from melior, but because begotten rooms, baseball grounds and other places of e tnu Here, and not ex concubina, for he calls such issue fllioa mu Ueratoa, opposing them to bastards. amusement on Sunday; Clinton v. Wilson, Glanvllle, lib. 7, c. 1. If the said lands “should, ac- 267 III. 580, 101 N. B. 192. cording to the Queen’s lawes, deseed to the right The regulation of moving picture shows Is heire, then in right It ought to descend to him, as a proper exercise of the police power; In re next Ifelre being mu Uer Ue borne, and the other not so borne.” Hollnshed, Chron. of Ireland, an. 1668. Whitten, 152 App. Div. 606, 137 N. Y. Supp.