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

of %ticntt S57 great extent, Simpson turned to inventing. His "Solar screen" is in use in the best film houses all over the country. I recall now that Simpson predicted a decade ago that moving pictures would one day create the greatest song-picture craze the world has ever known. Is that day at hand? Stranger things can happen. H. B. Marinelli, the world's greatest individual booking agent, made his first appearance on the stage as an artiste when he was only twelve years old, and for eighteen years he continued as a performer, creating an entirely new style in this line that was afterwards adopted by the whole world. For two years he traveled in the States on his own account, after which he rested for four years in his country home at Courbevoie, near Paris. The following fifteen years he was active as a manager, creating new productions, and formed the World's International Agency, which is an absolutely unique organization, having branch offices in New York, Berlin and London, with the main office in Paris. This organization expends about $100,000 a year in salaries, maintenance of offices, cables, telegrams, rent, etc. The salaries paid to artistes booked through the World's International Agency during the year 1912 amounted to $2,825,865. During the period of fifteen years the salaries paid to artistes booked through this organization amounted to over $20,000,000. Mr. Marinelli was the exclusive adviser in regard to international attractions for Isola Freres during their management of the Folies Bergere and the Olympia in Paris. Mr. Marinelli managed the Olympia, Paris, with Mr.