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The French Revolution has proved a fertile field for Motion Pictures, and the lessons that such pictures have taught are incalculable. The other evening I saw a Photoplay taken from an incident of the French Revolution, and immediately following was one taken from an incident of the American Revolution. I then recalled that both these revolutions sprang from the same identical seed, that was first sown by Rousseau, and re-sown later by Tom Paine. The birth of liberty, as of all else useful, is slow and painful. Tearing down the work of ages, and building up anew, cannot be accomplished without tremendous shock, Robespierre, Danton and Marat, of the French Revolution, tore down, and Napoleon — the child of that revolution — built up. That shock, which split Europe wide open, and shook the world, was the greater because that was accomplished in two decades which would, ordinarily, require two centuries. Washington and his compatriots tore down, but they also built up. So did Lincoln. Progress is always preceded by calamity, but that which appears to be calamity is often a blessing in disguise.
What we see or read with inclination makes the strongest impression. That is why children so love the Photoplay, and that is why the Photoplay should never teach or suggest anything that children should not know.
We are indebted to Mr. Frank A. White, of 608 East 67th Street, Chicago, for his kind offer of a $5 prize to draw out answers to the proposition that the name of the scenario writer should appear at the head of every story, as well as the name of the writer of the story. We think that no prize is necessary. We are convinced that the scenario writer's name should appear, and we are always only too glad to print it when we know it.
A reader sends in a suggestion for which I am thankful. She says that she keeps all of The Motion Picture Story Magazines on her reading table, and when she returns from the Photoshow where she has seen a film, the story of which has appeared in a magazine, she sits down and reads that story. "I like to read the stories first,' ' she continues, "but a second reading after I have seen the Photoplav has proven a fascinating luxury."
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