The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (1914)

Inntit to Contentg 6g Cftapterg exceeds $100,000 yearly — Mary Fuller and Marc MacDermott, Edison stars — George W. Terwilliger, a director of photoplays, who had no previous connection with the theatre — The importance of the director — Experience on the speaking stage not the greater requisite — D. W. Griffith's opinion of the present-day stage productions on the screen : "When their vogue is ended, then will the moving pictures come into their own" — William J. Burns, the great detective, voices a protest in connection with the crime photoplays — The photoplay author — Few successful photoplaywrights are "free lancers" — Those not engaged exclusively with the producers are invariably actors, plajrwrights, or writers for magazines and the press — Some exceptions — The Dramatic Mirror sends from its editorial staff four of the most successful scenario writers of to-day — Roy L. McCardell, the pioneer scenario writer, who wrote for "The Mutoscope" in 1899 — Bannister Merwin, Emmett Campbell Hall, and Marc Edmund Jones, prolific writers for the screen — The Photoplay Authors' League, its scope and puirpose. CHAPTER V. Pages 100 to 117. The moving pictures of to-morrow— The realities of life destined to provide a greater portion of the productivity— Stage plays but a temporary resort due to the epidemic of theatrical producers in filmdom — How the films of Harry Thaw shaped public sentiment in the slayer's favor — The gratitude of the photoplayer for his improved environment illustrated by the intrepid adventures undertaken by staid and timid stagefolk — Charles Kent enters a lions' den emboldened by no other incentive than appreciation of the "dear Vitagraph Company" — The General Film Company — Will theatrical booking methods affect the influence of a mighty