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a tremendous factor — ^Will the successful producers of photoplays offer reprisal and enter the field of the theatre in competition with the gentlemen who have come into their realm?
CHAPTER XIII.
Pages 272 to 290. The influence of "Quo Vadis?" — the first photoplay to be booked in the best theatres in the same manner as a spoken play — George Kleine, who produced it, the type of film magnate on which the future of the industry depends in this country — "Cabiria" unquestionably the best film production and the most artistic up to this period — The remarkable production of "Neptune's Daughter" reveals Annette Kellermann as a real star of the screen — "The Lightning Conductor," the first production by stagefolk presented in true "movie" style — ■ Harry C. Myers, "Lubin's Boy," and his success after a precarious stage career — Frank Powell, Pathe director— Mack Sennett, whose genius as a producer of comedies has brought him an annual income as large as the President of the United States — Los Angeles, the city of films — Seventy-two studios within a few miles of the beautiful California metropolis, and more building.
CHAPTER XIV.
Pages 291 to 306. S. L. Rothapfel, the first to present photoplays with adequate musical accompaniment, and who "rehearsed the films," now hailed as "the impresario" of picturedom — The so-called exhibitor a misnomer for the modem exploiter of moving pictures — Frank T. Montgomery, "the motion picture man" — William Pox, one-time vaudeville performer, now owner of a score of palatial theatres— Tom Moore, also former vaudevilhan, now "Movie King," owns ten theatres in Washington, D. C. — Fehx Isman's activities — F. F. Proctor one of the
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