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instinct for staging powerful dramatic scenes than he possesses.
The rare gift of staging great melodramatic situations so that they contain an abundance of the action so necessary to a story told in pictures, and yet show the artistic touch which puts them in the class of the refined and the legitimate, is without doubt largely responsible for his success as a producer, and has won him the respect and admiration of theatre managers and theatre patrons throughout the civilized world.
The Canadian Bioscope Company, Ltd., of Halifax, N. S., was incorporaed under he laws of the Nova Scotia Companies Act, 21st day of November, 1912, with a capital of $50,000, since increased to $150,000. The president, Captain H. H. B. Holland, late managing director of the British A. A. Film Company, Limited, of London, England. Vice-president and General Manager, H. T. Oliver, New York City. John Strachan, Stephen B. Kelly, J. Frank Crowe, and John H. Trueman, directors. An up-to-date plant has been erected in the south end of the city, on spacious grounds facing the beautiful harbor of Halifax, and within easy reach of the woods, hills, forts, and shores of the harbor.
The Canadian Bioscope Company have set a high standard in their first feature production of Longfellow's immortal poem, "Evangeline," a photoplay in two epochs and five parts, released in February, 1914, and put on the market, pronounced by press and public a classic in the moving-picture world. The aim and policy of this company will be the taking of films dealing with historic, romantic, classic, pastoral, educational, and instructive subjects. Prominence will be given to Canadian, historic, and romantic incidents.