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one of whom is lacking the requisites for a prolonged Vitagraph career.
This big body of players represents by no manner of means the final growth of a colossal plan to entertain the world's gross population simultaneously. The number of well-known players who can command a larger compensation than was their's on the stage is surprisingly small, though, of course, the inducements becoming greater as the productions become more important and numerous, the present year will greatly add to the list of accepted screen stars.
But such achievements as those of Bunny and Kent are far fewer than those of photoplayers who came into the new field with either no stage experience or so little that they are entitled to recognition as products of the new art. Charles Kent, from the outset, displayed a keen conception of the art of the photoplay from practically all of its angles. Furthermore, he is held fast in his artistic aspirations through an almost reverent devotion to the three gentlemen he so loyally serves. Elsewhere in the volume the reader will be provided with ample proof of this assertion.
Mr. Kent not only plays the leads in countless photoplays, but not infrequently portrays a minor role with such consummate artistry that one may comprehend the significance of Commodore Blackton's expressed ambition to create within the Vitagraph studio as model a stock organization and with as lofty ideals as have made the name of Augustin Daly immortal in stage history. As Mr. Kent is the author of many photoplays, in not all of which he appears, and as he was for six years also one of the Vitagraph's chief directors, his influence as a whole in the company's development will be apparent.