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

Record Details:

Title:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Date:
1914
Publisher:
New York, London [etc.] Broadway publishing company
Volume:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Leaf #:
000227
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
"Edition of 3000 copies ... Autographed edition."
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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118 Cl)e CJ)eatte CHAPTER VI As recently as four years ago, as far as this country is concerned, players of reputation on the regular stage were so reluctant to become affiliated with moving pictures that the producers were forced to rely on what then was a rather narrow source of supply, namely, the provincial stock companies; yet the selections were, indeed, creditable, and to this day some of these young men and women have not only maintained their lead as photoplayers, but not a few of the real stars of the screen of to-day are the same individuals who in the early years of the 20th century entered the studios bent upon conquest in what to them was, indeed, a difficult yet new and interesting art. One must comprehend that even John Bunny has been a photoplayer but a little over three years. He came to the Vitagraph Company at a time when the stage calling was in such a precarious condition that the man who is now famous all over the world was quick to accept a weekly honorarium of $40. Bunny had been an actor for twenty-six years. His average salary was about $100 a week. He had been often promised more than this, but so unstable was the business procedure and often the engagements