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

0 f ^ c i e n c e i4i Pearl Sindelar has established a record as a photoplayer so unusual that wholly apart from her two years with the Biograph and Pathe organizations — replete as they were with noteworthy achievement — this lady has the unique reputation of being the first screen star who not only has come to Broadway from the film studio to assume an important role on the stage, but she is still playing the "leads" for the Pathe organization in the days when there are no matinees at George Cohan's theatre, where Miss Sindelar has replaced Louise Dresser in that overwhelming success, "Potash and Perlmutter." Miss Sindelar has been on the stage since she was ten years old. For several seasons she was a "headliner" in the vaudevilles ; but her success as a film star has been far greater than her dramatic and vaudeville efforts. That she was engaged by so astute a manager as Al. H. Woods to play an almost star role is proof that the excursion from the Broadway playhouse to the film studio and vice versa can be conducted by real artists with grace, dignity, and profit. Mary Pickford had an experience quite similar to Miss Sindelar's, save that while Little Mary has gone from the stage to pictures and back again to the stage, there is no information available that she posed before the camera during the greater part of the run of "The Good Little Devil." At no time did Miss Pickford prefer the stage, however. In four years "Little Mary" has not only become a veritable queen of the photoplay world with her earnings increased tenfold, but she had the distinction of creating the leading role in a Belasco production because of her success in photoplays. It was with Mr. Belasco that Miss Pickford became proficient as an