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

of^cience 299 bery." From this he made enough money to enter the exhibition side of the industry with his own theatre at Chesapeake Beach. His wife sold the tickets and Moore himself "Bally hoced." He ran the machine. Between reels he sang while his wife played the piano, and later, having kept his eye on the audience while Mrs. Moore was absent from the door, he collected the nickels from those who had entered. Later, having convinced himself he was "in right," and having in the meantime scored with "Love, I Dream of You," Moore retired from vaudeville and returned to Washington with $5,000 saved, bent upon conquest of the Capital City. To-day the one time vaudevillian is one of the big men operating on the exhibition side of the industry. One of his theatres cost $225,000. It is called "The Red Mill" and seats 2,200 persons. Moore converted the old Academy of Music, which had known so many ups and downs, into a veritable gold mine. He did the same thing with the Imperial, built for vaudeville, but he lost $6,000 before he solved the problem. Now the place is called the Garden Theatre and is a big dividend payer. It is fair here to credit Mrs. Moore with no little share of the achievements to date. Madame has been his co-worker from the outset eight years ago, when as Irene Martin she cast her fate with the industrious showm.an and became his wife about the same time. Felix Isman is a name one may seldom see in the public press and it is rare indeed that the man himself is a conspicuous figure in the localities where theatrical folk most congregate. To this day I have never met Mr. Isman. Moreover, I had considerable difficulty to secure his portrait. However, Mr. Isman has been one