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did exploitation attracts the attention of showmen all over the country — The Eden Musee starts a seventeenyear consecutive vogue of moving pictures — The "Biograph" succeeds the Lumiere invention at Keith's — Creates a furore, yet despite the success the price of service declines from $350 a week to $50 — An epidemic of 'graphs and 'scopes — Vaudeville managers utilize the now magic screen as a "chaser" to create an exodus — Incompetent performers degraded by being relegated to "follow the pictures" more humiliating than to be programmed for the supper show — The story of Reverend Hannibal Goodwin, who is hailed as a genius after twenty-sis years' litigation and years after he had passed on — His widow, now 86, emerges from a condition of near-poverty to one of great affluence — The "Nicolet" movement — Evolution of the "Store" Theatre, on which the prosperity of the film industry was based, and perhaps still depends — What has become of the real fathers of film progress? — Advent of Marcus Loew, Adolph Zukor, William Fox and Sol Brill, all hailing from New York's East Side — Loew and Fox begin to convert erstwhile unsuccessful playhouses into gold-laden temples of science — A tribute to the late "Jack" Fynes, who was the first to seriously present motion pictures in vaudeville theatres.
CHAPTER II.
Pages 22 to 46. The Vitagraph Company of America — The splendid institution created through the harmonious activities of three pioneers who brought into filmdom the qualifications of the artist, the inventive genius and the showman— A triumvirate truly representing what the new art stands for — How the famous "strike" of the "White Rats" first opened the eyes of showmen to the fact that an entire entertainment could be given without an ac