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

256 Cf)e Cfjeatre is issued with clock-like regularity and has found its way to the thousands of news-stands. Moreover, gradually the distinctly "western" character, which at the outset the publication assumed, has given v>^ay to a more national one, and now the magazine is quite as popular in the East as in the West. "Moving Picture Stories," a weekly magazine appearing first as it did following the more or less disastrous career of a similar effort published in connection with "The Moving Picture News," was not hailed at the outset as likely to supply any great need in the industry, but the name of Frank Tousey, its publisher, was calculated to inspire confidence in the stability of the enterprise, and time has proved that this confidence was wholly justified. Starting on January 3, 1913, its four issues a month have appeared with clock-like regularity and its circulation has steadily increased, until now its handsome cover pages are displayed wherever periodicals are on sale. Interest in photoplays is so intense that it is not surprising that thousands are impatiently awaiting the appearance of those publications which fictionize the screen stories, hence "Motion Picture Stories," being a weekly, was bound to find a vogue, particularly in view of the steady improvement in its subject matter, for which no little credit is due to L. Senarens, the editor. It is a remarkable fact, nevertheless true, that the almost general capitulation of magazines and newspapers, the majority of which now present fiction stories simultaneously vdth their release from the studios, has not affected the motion picture magazines