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achievements present interesting facts not externsively related in the public press.
The space devoted to individuals does not necessarily indicate their status as representative figures in a particular field. Frequently the views of such individuals have been presented at length because of confirming the theories of the author, or else hecause they touch on vital phases of the Motion Picture art.
The prominence in text and illustrations of particular subjects also is without relative significance ■ — often portraits tcere unavailable until too late; not a few made such unsatisfactory engravings as to render omission advisable. It is a strange truth that several gentlemen who have solved the greater problems in picturedom have never posed before the camera themselves.
As confirmatory of my statement, attention is called to the group picture revealing W. N. Selig, Harry Lauder and William Mcyrris in the Selig studio at Los Angeles. It was necessary to reproduce the illustration from an issue of the "Moving Picture World," yet this is the only picture of Mr. Selig available. There are not a few celebrities in film-land averse from publicity. Others have figured auspiciously in previous volumes, or their part in the developmet of the new art is so well known as to render lengthy description at this time superfluous.
The author has been impressed with the importance of the present-day motion picture production from the standpoint of its influence on the spoken play. This phase of the unique theatrical situation, together with the belief that stage productions nam