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

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anPet to Contentg 6p Cl)aptcrg liailcd him as a serious factor in the Hfe of the people — The first to capitulate — AfSliation between the film studio and the editorial sanctum now complete — The Edison-Z.a<ii^«' World collaboration for "What Happened to Mary" starts a new era — ^W. N. Selig's production of the "Kathlyn" series with two hundred newspapers publisliing the fiction chapters in instalments — Charles J. Hitc induces Harold MacGrath, creator of "Kathlyn," to write another serial photoplay from the scenario of Lloyd Lonergan ; two hundred newspapers to present the fiction chapters. CHAPTER XII. Pages 247 to 271 The "trade" issues of a great industry — The late J. P. Chalmers established an organ of the industry which now requires one hundred and fifty pages and still growing — The Motion Picture News, under a new regime, forges ahead — The Morning Telegraph in 1909 starts a film department — Now the source of its greatest financial income — Billboard the first to represent the infant industry — The theatrical weeklies all establish departments long before the "trade" issues appear — The Dramatic Mirror's influence — The amazingly quick growth of The Motion Picture Magazine, The Photoplay Magazine, and Moving Picture Stories — All enjoy prosperity — The "Larrys" of Filmdom — Four former Proctor stage directors achieve fame in the studios — J. Searle Dawley's definition of the Drama of Silence — Harold MacGrath's faith in the future of the new art — Charles M. Seay, Edison director, author, and star, deplores the onrush into filmdom of the theatrical producers — Will they create an upheaval? — The Edison visuahzation of Robertson's "Caste" a genuine treat — Ethel Clayton, Lubin star — John E. Ince, the last of the Brothers Ince to enter the new field, already