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

0 f ^ c I e n c e 193 the possibilities for providing patrons of Mr. Loew's Western theatres with the world's best photoplays. He will book and route big-feature pictures over the Western circuit the way he is now doing in the East. The great number of theatres and the length of time which he could use pictures will enable him to secure som-C of the greatest photoplays ever produced. Mr. Bernstein has a wide acquaintance among the film men in New York. It is authoritatively stated that Mr. Bernstein now earns $50,000 a year, a statement which reflects some idea of the way Marcus Loew appreciates good service. Numbered amongst the foremost of history makers in the motion-picture field is the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, v/hose real birth dates back to the time when pioneering in the film business was just as arduous as was pioneering in the early history of our country. Hov/ever, two of these pioneers — George K. Spoor and G. M. Anderson — thoroughly believing in their own convictions, and whose convictions meant the fulfilment of their belief regardless of the opinions of others or of the seeming impossible barriers that lay along their course, struggled forward meeting reverses, set-backs, and discouraging situations, that would have caused ordinary men to seek other fields of activity. These two, however, were imbued with the business in which they had launched, every moment of their existence was wrapped around it. It was a baby they were fostering and mothering, and with the unerring judgment that can only be associated with such spirits and broad minds, they slowly crossed the initial wastes and seemingly impossible pass until they achieved what they had set out to accomplish — a firm whose name was synonmous with the best there is in motion