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146 HOW TO WRITE PHOTO PLAYS
and also present a sort of finished effect which will make the audiences feel they have seen a real play, there can be no doubt but that the end of the rough-and-tumble picture's life is very near.
Much of the success of the plan will depend on the actors and upon Mr. Sennett and his directors at first, but if this style of comedy becomes popular there will be a splendid market opened to the writer of really humorous plots — a market which has been closed to most writers for a long time.
THE METAMORPHOSIS.
Speaking of the gradual "settling down" of the motion-picture industry, a thing which is being watched with interest by millions, William Lord Wright, through his department in the Dramatic Mirror, said :
"If there is any limit to what the motion pictures can do and do do, it is yet undiscovered by the general public. Possibly even the producers of the films have not found it. The law of gravitation appears to have been suspended as a special mark of favor to the photo-play writers and producers. Motion-picture actors leap from speeding trains and pick themselves up from the right of way with only a bit of dust on their garments. They descend from exploding dirigibles, drop from the skys'l yardarms of square-rigged ships, descend into mines and caves on frayed ropes, and hang on the rear axles of jumping motor cars. The animal kingdom affrights them no more than the basic laws of nature. For the artists are to be held in the cages of savage lions and