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

Record Details:

Title:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Date:
1914
Publisher:
New York, London [etc.] Broadway publishing company
Volume:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Leaf #:
000367
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
"Edition of 3000 copies ... Autographed edition."
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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210 Cf)g Cfteatrc During her stage career. Miss Turner appeared in the vaudeville theatres, and though the writer was long intimately associated with that field, he has no recollection of any upheaval created by her efforts in those days, hence it is interesting to observe that after six years posing before the camera in an effort to convert her fame as the Vitagraph Girl into coin of the realm. Miss Turner v/as granted as high as $500 a week in this country to appear in a monologue which she "put over" so successfully that return engagements were not uncommon. English managers and booking agents representing the "Halls" abroad, saw her performance here, and prodded her with offers, while foreign film producers negotiated with the view of evolving a Florence Turner brand of films written, staged, and acted by her. These offers finally decided Miss Turner to enter the field on a large scale as a manufacturer of films, and to better accomplish her aims she entered into a partnership with Lawrence Trimble (one of the numerous "Larrys" who direct photoplays with distinction), under whose direction Miss Turner appeared for years in Vitagraph portrayals. The two sailed for England, where Miss Turner made her music hall debut on May 26, 1913, at the PaviHon Theatre in Piccadilly Circus, featured on a par with Wilkie Bard and Neil Kenyon. It is but an amazing truth to state that the now celebrated film star who seven years ago was wont to do her "turn" in vaudeville for little more than a chorister's salary, scored so emphatically in the big London hall that offers for five years' practically consecutive booking to "top the bill" in all instances were made.