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

'SiG Cl)c C!)eatre tically since he became "the wonder boy" of the theatrical rialto. It was Casey who manipulated the deal by which Klaw and Erlanger and their allies affiliated with the American Biograph Company, thus releasing at least a hundred old-time plays for the screen, and the Pat Casey Agency is now as much a motion picture bureau as a vaudeville agency, if not more so. H. B. Marinelli claims that if he has lost anything at all through his friction with the vaudeville powers in control of the U. B. O., he has more than made the loss good by his new outlet created through the international demand for foreign films and the statement is borne out by a knowledge of almost unbelievable transactions in this line in recent months, while scarcely a day goes by that some one of the better known booking agents is not credited with having contracted for American feature films abroad. The success of the Lasky Film Company, at the head of which is the well-known vaudeville producing agent of that name, has already been effective in inducing other vaudeville producing firms to capitulate. Edward S. Kellar has interests in photoplayhouses, and is reported as about to produce feature films. The U. B. O. (known as the vaudeville syndicate) is vastly extending its film activities, maintaining in the Putnam Building an entire floor with a well-organized staff of experts under the personal supervision of John J. Murdock, a man who has had no little part in the motion-picture evolution. The dissolution of the firm of Weber & Evans interested many persons familiar with the earlier careers of its individual members. Frank Evans, though best known as one of the larger booking agents, is an old-time actor whose career in vaudeville was replete