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 #:
000383
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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220 Cfte Cl)catre sides Mr. Thompson, the list includes Hugh Ford, Frederick Stanhope, Edward Morange, F. Searle Dawley, Francis Powers and that wizard of picturedom, Edwin S. Porter, who has been the technical director of the Zukor-Frohman organization ever since its inception. ^t ^fi^ ^ยป^ "I am not worrying about the spoken drama. The 'pictures' are doing the stage a lot of good, and when things get settled a little I am going to produce for the stage again." These are significant words uttered by Daniel Frohman in the spring of 1914, yet the readers of the previous volumes are aware of the fact that the author has persistently expressed a similar viewpoint. Mr. Frohman, however, has had the opportunity to observe the trend from an angle that best reveals the influence of the photoplay to attract new playgoers into the higher-priced theatres. As the general manager of the Famous Players' Film Company, he has introduced into the newer field such celebrities as Sarah Bernhardt, James K. Hackett, James O'Neill, Henry E. Dixey, Bertha Kalich, and Mrs. Fiske, who have since found their public enlarged when appearing in person on the regular stage. We have the photoplay to thank for the solution of what many believe has been the most difficult problem confronting the play producer, for it has gradually brought about an adjustment of the "too-many-theatres" situation and with the building of new playhouses, checked for the tim.e being and the conversion of a fair proportion of existing theatres into photoplay houses, the time is near when the producers in both