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is, as in that case, a despot who is disposed to sacrifice his whole fortune for the sake of theatrical art. A structural copy of the Scena had been built, adorned, after the celebrated theatre of Aspendoo, with niches and classical statues; on the podium of the theatre the actors, dressed in white and gold and wearing masks , looked like living crisoelephantine statues and recited in a dead language, in Greek. Although I was unable to understand the text, I knew perfectly well the plot of Oedipus King and appreciated the complete harmony of an artistic production that belonged to an age gone by for ever.
It is possible that the talking film may again perform the miracle, completing it in all its decorative elements, and that it may aptly stage before the cathedrals in the surviving piazzas the sacred representations of the Middle Ages, the humanistic performances of the Rome of the 16th century, the first Italian tragedies, the first melodramas, the compositions of Gliick and Mozart in their original version, the representations of Bayreuth. And it may, if no longer with the voice of Malibran and Patti, or the acting and modulations of Talma and Duse, succeed in recording the present historical conditions of the stage .
The talking-film will be a sudden and unforeseen addition to the real theatrical art, the art of the stage, and is about to go back into the framewrork of that dramatic art which it threatened to supplant.
In spite of so many revolutions the arts are destined to remain what they are; within their limits, as Lessing affirmed. And, as in the case of the plastic arts which, after the rage of realism, impressionism, futurism and many other --isms, remain what they were, the theatrical art, through the evolution of the « silent Art », is being brought back to its proper limits.
What are then, one may ask, the destinies of the (^silent Art » ? The reply is easy : it will become the great « silent Art », the incomparable « silent Art ».
We have seen really good films on the screen. In spite of many aberrations, we have admired excellent chiaroscuri, sublime visions of fantastic things which have taken the place of that
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