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

of^cicnce i63 ture, music and automobiling. A dainty little farm in Jersey also occupies much of her time in the summer months. She is an Ohio girl by birth. Miss Leonard's views as to the obligation the screen favorite owes to the producer by confining her appearance before the camera are interesting, indeed, for if there is one star in filmdom who could command "big money" in vaudeville, she surely is that one. Ethically Miss Leonard is wholly correct in the views she expresses, but the tremendous popularity of the screen stars offers no little temptation to convert into cash ; moreover, this popularity is of the kind not easily eliminated. Stanner E. V. Taylor, playwright and producer of the Marion Leonard films, first entered the motion picture business as playwright to the Biograph Company. During the four years he was with this company Mr. Taylor wrote eighty per cent, of the plays produced b]? that company and was the first playwright in the motion picture business ever to be regularly retained by a producing company in that capacity. Mr. Taylor left the Biograph to become playwright to the Reliance Company, and shortly after was induced by Messrs. Kessel and Baumann to take charge of their productions, since v/hich time he has been producing as well as writing all of his own plays. After leaving the Biograph, Mr. Taylor was connected in turn with the Reliance, Rex and Monopol Companies, and is now identified with Miss Leonard in the Marion Leonard Studio, where all the Marion Leonard productions are produced. Prior to entering the motion picture business Mr. Taylor was in turn newspaper man, actor and then playwright. He is a member of the Friars, but finds his princi