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is to be seen in the Orient. We hope each time to make the appeal wider and stronger.
"As for myself, I am fascinated with the work. I reach twenty million people now, whereas with books my audience was perhaps seventy thousand. In Chicago they have 'Kathlyn' hats, bon-bons and cocktails.
"All I am waiting for is our friend Edison to invent a motionless camera; after that there will be nothing left."
Mr. MacGrath's views are particularly apropos at a time when the greatest problem confronting the larger producers has to do with the source of supply which is to follow the present-day custom of adapting old stage plays to the screen. The success attending the operations of the Bosworth Film Company, which has specialized with Jack London's stories, such as "The Sea Wolf," indicates clearly the part that the great novelists are due to play in the future of the photoplay.
Charles M. Seay, of the Edison Company, is another one of those experienced stage workers who have made a conquest in the motion picture field. In my vaudeville days I made many contracts for Mr. Seay, in which he was always accorded "headline" honors. After five years in the "two-a-day," Mr. Seay, like so many other present-day photoplay stars, joined the Proctor Stock Company, where for four years he played the principal comedy roles.
And then Seay lost all his savings with a moving picture show, but he was reconciled for his losses through the idea that the new style of entertainment was bound to find a large appeal and he had learned, with his own show, the technical side of picture play