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

0 f ^ c i e n c e 279 production was evolved alone showed a fine discernment on the part of a half dozen principals, who banded together for a pleasure trip during their vacation period, with the idea that perhaps the outcome of the whole scheme might result in a six weeks' recreation without expense. William Elliott wanted and needed a vacation. So did Dustin Farnum. The latter was already an enthusiast on motion pictures, and associated with the two v/as Walter Hale, a master hand of filmcraft. Helen Bertram was going abroad with a half dozen pupils to place them in conservatories; her daughter Rosina Henley also went along. George C. Tyler was going across, as usual, for an automobile tour of the Continent. All of these ladies and gentlemen were intimate friends. Tyler told Miss Bertram of the ElliottFarnum-Hale entourage, and suggested that there would be a lot of fun — 5,000 miles of motoring and a little spending money as compensation for the bit of camera acting required. Miss Bertram accepted with alacrity; besides her daughter, Rosina, some of the pupils went along to fill out the cast. Well, these lines are being written the day after the Comedy Theatre showing; hence it is not possible at this time to state what measure of success will be meted out to Mr. Elliott and his colleagues in the interesting undertaking, but here was an effort to utilize an automobile romance in order to present a series of remarkable motion pictures, in which the acting of the principals was of a decidedly lesser consequence and here was an audience having the time of its life, fairly reveling in a perfectly bewildering maze of scenic beauty with just enough of the "thriller" to provide