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 1081–1085. THE DREAM OF AN OPIUM FIEND. Length, 346 feet. Listed price, $41.52.

The Opium Fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks for something to drink and he is given wine, which he does not care for, and he is finally given some bottled beer and a glass, but he complains that the glass is too small and he gets a very large sized glass receptacle, into which his wife and maid servant pour the contents of two bottles. As he is about to drink, the glass passes from his hand mysteriously through the room, and out to the Moon, which drinks the beer and the empty glass is returned to its owner by Diana who rides below on her crescent moon. The Opium Fiend tries many times to embrace her without avail. Once, when he almost gets her, she changes to an ugly creature, at which he hurls many things. The fiend awakes and cudgels the Chinaman attendant. Very good comical subject.

1086–1090. A NIGHT WITH MASQUERADERS IN PARIS. Length, 363 feet. Price, $44.56.

Some jubilant young men have decided to end their evening of pleasure by taking supper in a restaurant after having passed a few hours at a Masquerade ball.

When they have regaled themselves, they order a Hungarian orchestra to come and play for them so that they may continue the joys of the dance. Unfortunately, one of the men conceives the idea of speaking to the serving woman at the counter. In his excitement, he seizes the counter and shoves it over, sending to the floor everything on it, including the glasses, plates, cups and saucers. They all fall and break with a terrific noise. The police, summoned by the proprietor, arrest the ring leaders and carry them off to the police station.

During the hearing of their complaints, the two prisoners escape, one by the window, the other through the door. The police dart into the street during a snowstorm in pursuit, but suddenly the other Masqueraders appear and block the chase of the officers, bombarding them with snowballs.—A good and very comical subject.

1091–1095. LONG DISTANCE WIRELESS PHOTOGRAPHY. Length, 366 feet. Price, $44.92.

An aged couple enter the workshop of an inventor where the truly wonderful contrivance for wireless photography is explained and demonstrated to them. A photograph of three ladies is first transmitted to a large screen. The inventor finally persuades the old lady in her poke bonnet to sit by the transmitter and have her likeness thrown upon the curtain. Her face, in exaggerated proportions, and somewhat comically altered, is cleverly duplicated. The animation which her emotions engender in her features as she sits in her chair is faithfully imitated. Then her husband, eccentric in his whiskers and his coiffure, puts his face before the transmitter. But to the amazement of the beholders, a hideous monkey's face appears at the other end of the apparatus, but resembling in general outline the sitter's physiognomy.

The old couple in a rage strive to wreck the machinery but the wife is most ludicrously caught in the big flywheel of the engine. The old woman is rescued by her faithful spouse and the two beat a retreat.