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conspicuous figures in the established film organizations. Though his fame as a director is perhaps the greatest of the triple service he renders, nevertheless, unlike many authors and directors, who gave up acting before the camera, Myers still plays the leads in many of his own productions.
It is said of Myers that there is never a production of his lying dormant, the demand being insistent from the exhibitors, and it is this large demand for releases directed by the Myers' grade director that has justified the writer to assume that the established producers of photoplays have little to fear from any of the newcomers in the field. The impress of the Lubin productivity, with its Arthur Johnstons, its Harry C. Myers and their kind will be found deservedly lasting.
"The Drug Terror" is Myers' most important production up to this writing. Wholly apart from any diversion of opinion as to the power for good or evil of such releases, the presentation surely marked a pace for realism that will not easily be maintained.
The work of Mr. Frank Powell, director of Pathe Freres' Special Features has created a wide interest. Not only is it a combination of unique artistry and truthfulness of historical detail, but it bespeaks the vast experience Mr. Powell has had in the motionpicture industry.
In years Mr. Powell is young; in directing experience he is ripe and aged. Starting as a stage director for Augustus Thomas, he later joined Kirk la Shelle, and afterwards for some years directed productions in Europe for Miss Ellen Terry. He then returned to America and made his debut in the motion-picture field by directing comedies for the Biograph Company. With this firm he was connected for some two years.