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w FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1924 NEW EVANSTON Early Phone Uaen Had Trouble Fm"dina Ears BUYSHOYBURN irst Run Pictures Ia Elliott Policy Control of the Hoyburn Theatre company, Evanston, Monday of this "'ce k. passed into the hands of the Xew Evanstc>n Theatre company of th at city in one of the largest business transactions reported on the north shore this year when the building and theater of the Davis street amusement company was sold to the Ch·de E. Elliott interests for an indicated $111,000. The Hoyburn theatre is to be recll'corated and minor . alterations will he made in the near ·future , it was annc.unced by the purchasers . . Improvemrnts arc also planned for the offices of the four sftny building. The purchase of the theater makes it possible for the permanent adoption of a new policy, Clyde E. Elliott who will manage both show house; stated. Both theaters will show only hig features, the best obtainable on the market. he said. In lin e with this new policy the New Evanston opened the week with "The Courtship of Miles Standish ." At the Hoyburn was Blanche Sweet in "Anna Christie." Other first run pictures are booked to immediately follow these two productions. They include such films as "Birth of a NatiOn" and "A Woman of Paris." Prices of admission will not be hoosted in either of the theaters, movie fans were assured by the manag-ement. The personnel of the theaters will remain intact. Mr. Elliott, who has had many year's experience in the theatrical and motion picture industries, came to Evanston nearly .t wo years ago to become managing director of the New Evanston . He is now president of the corporation controlling both picture houses. Rhvs G. Thackwell is Yice president and Ralph R. Obenchain is secretary of the company. Mr. Thackwell is a magazine writer and Mr. Obenchain is a practicing attorney in Chicago. Both are alumni of Northwestern uniYersity and are well known in Evanston . · One ?f the_ most important and difficult JObs I!'J introducing the telephone,_ back tn 1877, was teaching the subscnbers the correct way to use theodm. One of the pioneers who intr uced the telephone into Delaware, tells of an amusing experience which use it. suggests that anatomy lessons shou'ld "The people did not know, it seemed, have been given the early users. where their ears were. In fact an "In 1877 and 1878 very few people editor said to me one day: 'You should had seen a telephone," he says "and have someone instruct Mr. So-and-So fewer still had used it, so that ~fter a how to use that telephone you have subscriber had been secured it re- put in for him. 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