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

202 Cf)e C&eatre first-class circuits, and which placed the theatrical business on a sound basis. Far-reaching negotiations have been entered into for a market in the West Indies, Central and South America, and agencies established in London, Berlin, Paris, and Sydney. The part that woman is to play on the artistic and business side of the film industry is a subject well worthy of consideration in this volume. Recently the revelations of John C. Freund, editor of "Musical America," wherein he proclaimed that the annual expenditure for m.usic in this country was $600,000,000, uncovered an amazing development in business procedure in the conduct of musical undertakings directly due to the woman impressario — and a vigorous figure is she. There are more women than m_en to-day directing the m.usical events of the nation, and the majority of the great singers and instrumentalists are represented by v/omen, while at least half of the musical bureaus now controlled by them have inaugurated an era of business rectitude in a field that has been immune from the disastrous conditions prevailing in the theatrical business generally. The writer has dealt with this subject extensively in magazines, and it is referred to now merely to indicate the probability of a similar influence exerted in the motion-picture field by not a few women who have already shown their calibre in the producing and exhibiting sides of the industry. The achievements (following a period of disappointments and repulses) of Helen Gardner, now producing the highest-grade features in her own studio at Tappan-on-the-Hudson, have been acknowledged as stim