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

236 Ci)e Cfteatre the syndicates supplies over one hundred newspapers with a full page of text and illustrations once a week. Arthur Leslie is the publisher. New York City was the last of the large cities to capitulate to the influence of the camera man, at least as far as inaugurating ample departments in the newspapers. In fact, not until 1914 did any of the dailies start regular film pages. The "New York Herald" in the morning and the "Evening Globe" in the afternoon present quite an elaborate daily description of all that is doing in the film_ world. The "Globe's" page has attracted widespread interest, and one may safely venture the prediction that by the time this volume is issued the other newspapers will fall into line. It is, however, necessary to qualify the statement as to precedence in New York City in that the "Evening Journal," while not up to this writing establishing a regular daily departm.ent, was one of the very first newspapers in the country to emphatically endorse the new art and its productivity. In fact, to this day no more helpful contribution to film progress may be pointed to than the editorials which appeared in all of Mr. Hearst's newspapers in 1913. The "Nev7 York Evening Journal" has for over a year reviewed photoplays with as much seriousness as the spoken play, and as its theatrical department is presided over by Charles F. Zittel, a young man who has had an am_azingly meteoric career greatly due to a unique method of reviewing the programs in the vaudeville theatres, it was natural that "Zit" would see the wisdom of including photoplays and kindred film subjects in his department. It is said that Marcus Loew gives credit to "Zit" for much of the success that he has achieved in New