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

Record Details:

Title:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Date:
1914
Publisher:
New York, London [etc.] Broadway publishing company
Volume:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Leaf #:
000550
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
"Edition of 3000 copies ... Autographed edition."
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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0 f ^ c i e n c e 343 CHAPTER XVII The city in this country to most completely change its theatrical aspect, as a result of the moving picture encroachment, is surely the ¥/estern metropolis. As recently as eight years ago Chicago was yet the Mecca for the barnstormer and its influence in shaping the destiny of the theatre was not a tithe of what it is to-day. Even the pioneer work of Chicago's important vaudeville magnates, the first to establish discipline in bookings for the artist, was entirely dependent on New York interests for a source of supply. But when the motion picture craze created what is called the neighborhood theatre the theatrical map of the Windy City began to alter itself, and Chicago is to-day a film centre second to none in the world, a condition mostly due to the enterprise of one of those triumvirates with which the film industry now abounds. The firm of Jones, Linick and Schaefer, aided and abetted by Frank Queen Doyle, began to operate about the same time that Marcus Loew and William Fox started to make theatrical history in New York, and its development has been characterized with the same expansion which has caused half of New York's