The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (1914)

0 f ^ c I e n c c i83 fers above all things except films. He would follow it as a business if he had the time. All of the blueprints of his various works were made from tracings of his own creation. His biggest piece of luck was in missing the "Titanic" upon which he had reservation. He missed the ill-fated boat and followed on the Savoia twelve hours later. It will be remembered that the Savoia assisted in the search for those who met with disaster. M. Jourjon was bom at Espernay, France, December 25, 1876. His father was a pharmaceutical chemist. Espernay is the center of the great French champagne-making district, but its influence on Jourjon is without a trace. Histrionic genius has found at last, thanks to the moving pictures, the one thing it has always sighed for in vain — immortality. Long years after the great actor and actress have passed out of this life, their art will live and be revealed by motion pictures to future generations. A century hence this world will know and realize the genius of Sarah Bernhardt just as we who have seen her in the flesh do to-day. Sothern and Marlowe's magnificent portrayals of Shakespearean roles may afford delight for lovers of noble acting in all the generations to come. Indeed, the very thought of the number of these future audiences staggers the imagination. The idea of embalming the art of the actor, making it available for all time and enduring as the marbles of Phidias, was first conceived by a modest little man nam.ed Adolph Zukor. It is a big idea, a great, bold, daring plan ; but big ideas and daring plans come naturally to Mr. Zukor, and no one who knows him is surprised that he should have first conceived the purpose