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

of^cience 247 photoplay house, its influence soon became national while its circulation grew by leaps and bounds, later doubling its size and absorbing "The Film Index" and "Exhibitor's Guide." In 1913 it required 100 pages for its text and advertising, the latter representing as a whole every phase of activity in filmdom. To-day the "Moving Picture World" is a 150-page publication, with not an inkling of having reached the limit of its expansion. On the editorial staff are writers who, by reason of their knowledge of the technical side of the art, are enabled to greatly aid in the uplift for which the "World" is constantly aiming. These gentlemen are capable of writing for the screen, hence the incongruities of criticisms of plays by men incapable of providing remedies so much in evidence with the critics of the spoken play are never revealed in the columns of the "World." Louis Reeves Harrison, W. Stephen Bush and Epes Winthrop Sargent (the last named being referred to at length in another chapter) are names to conjure with in picturedom. Each has been accorded high honors due to actual achievement in the studios, while Mr. Bush's lectures prepared for various high grade productions have served to render a m.ore concrete understanding of educational and historical releases. The business direction of the "World" is in the hands of John Wylie, who has shown no little discernment in this capacity, endeavoring to maintain the principles of Founder Chalmers, yet fully awake to the needs of progress and expansion. The "Motion Picture News" is a consolidation of the "Moving Picture News," founded in 1908, and "The Exhibitors' Times," established in 1913. The consolidation was effected in September, 1913, at which time