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

of^cience 319 geniously visualized, also synchronizing the pictures with the phonograph records. Aside from this evidently authorized production of an all-compelling masterpiece, I never heard of any one of the many performers utilizing the poem on the stage sending D'Arcy a check. Sam Bernard is what he is to-day greatly through the "hit" he scored with "The Face Upon the Floor." For several years he featured it in his monologue in vaudeville and with burlesque companies. Moreover, it was this same poem that first established the dialect comedian on the Broadway he is now such a part of. William Wright is the publicity head of the Kalem Company. The Kalems, while advertising in the trade issues extensively, have been ultra-conservative as far as exploiting its stars, or even its truly notable productions. While the Kalem's production of "From the Manger to the Cross" was the first to be accorded from one to four pages in the big city Sunday newspapers, there is nothing at hand to indicate that this tribute was not genuine, and it is doubtful if the publicity department of the company took the initiative in this. Many there are who cannot conceive what the motive has been for the failure to present this Biblical masterpiece for prolonged runs in the larger cities. Certain it is that in New York City not the least effort was made to give the public the benefit of an undertaking in which public spirit, combined with ceaseless toil and incalculable expenditure, brought about an achievement over which the majority of mankind would rave far more than it did over "Parsifal" or "Quo Vadis?" But if you would stand on any prominent corner in the metropolis and question the first one hundred men