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

0 f ^ c i e n c e 219 resources instead of relying on such illusions as are possible on a playhouse stage. My last stage production was 'The Goddess of Reason' for Julia Marlowe, and as I also was Richard Mansfield's last stage director, my preference for the film studio is not due to lack of opportunity in the older field, but I want to continue to direct under God's blue sky in the hope that the day is near when this new art v/ill provide incentive for the world's greatest literary minds to cooperate with the high aims of those who, like myself, deplore the probably unavoidable present-day tendency to adapt to the screen plays that have had their day. I want to live to direct a photoplay that will represent the entire scope of a highly developed film organization with every scene posed for in the locale conceived by the author, who has embraced his task with a complete grasp on the scope and equipment of a modern film producing organization." Mr. Thompson vfas one of the first of the directors engaged by the "Imp" brand of films. Julius Stern, who v/as the general manager of that organization in the days when its productions were widely copied, must feel a certain sense of pride as he observes the advancement of almost the entire original roster. Mr. Stern is still acting in the same capacity at the big studio at Forty-third Street and Eleventh Avenue, where not a few of the original "Imp" players and directors are still firmly intrenched. Frederick Thompson's association with the Vitagraph organization will have ended before this volume is issued, he joining the Famous Players' Film Company under the direction of his old manager, Daniel Frohman. The latter has assembled for the season of 1914-15 a remarkable group of directors, for, be