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

c f ^ c i c n c e 347 with achievement; for a long period being the artistic associate of Joseph Coyne. It was the same Frank Evans who was active in the West and later in the East, when the Independents struggled for a place in filmdom in 1906 to 1910. Evans was associated with John Murdock, and it was through the latter's influence he became a vaudeville agent. It would not surprise anyone to see Evans come forth as a vital factor in the U. B. O.'s film operations in the near future. M. S. Bentham, perhaps the most successful man in the vaudeville booking field, and surely the one to produce the best attractions, told the writer that he had found during the past year a source of income so large through unexpected business with the film producers that he proposed to establish a film department of large scope where he would encourage his clients — who represent the cream of stellar vaudevillians — to produce photoplays and also to reproduce vaudeville acts on the screen that have had their day but are at least as likely to attract the public as the present stage play movement. Bentham knows, too, what the outcome was from the filming of the several dancing acts, such as the Castles, Joan Sawyer, and others less known. The Castles made a fortune on their films alone. Joseph Hart has not up to this writing produced for the screen, which is surprising in view of his enthusiasm as expressed at recent premieres of important photoplays. Hart is afflicted with partial deafness to an extent that he no longer can enjoy a spoken play without the aid of an Acousticon. I expect to see Joseph Hart as one of the most prolific film producers of to-morrow. In the entire theatre zone of the Metrop