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

364 C&e Cijeatre Drums of Doom." There came a desire to settle down and live at home with his mother, and he went into pictures and was under Thomas Ricketts, of the Nestor Company for one year, playing leads. He next joined the Selig Polyscope Company in California, and played a variety of parts with that company for two years, and he also directed his first picture there. He is now a member of the American Film Company, at Santa Barbara, Cal. He writes most of his productions. "A Will o' the Wisp," written and produced by Otto during the flood disaster at Long Beach in 1914, as a four-reel feature for the Balboa Company, created a sensation at the recent exposition in New York. Carlyle Blackwell is probably the youngest motion picture male star in the moving picture field, for he is still in his twenties and has managed to crowd a wealth of experience into a few years. His birthplace is Syracuse, N. Y., and he got the "stage bug" while studying at Cornell, making his entry into a dramatic career at Elitch's Gardens, Denver. From Denver, he joined the Keith & Proctor stock company in New York, playing juveniles. Then followed several seasons in and out of New York in the "Gay White Way," "Brown of Harvard," and "Right of Way." His work attracted attention and he received a flattering offer from the Vitagraph Company, which led him to adopt the moving pictures as a profession. After some months he joined the Kalem Company, with whom he acted and directed for upwards of three years. Of the photoplays he has acted in he prefers "The Redemption," "The Invaders," "The Honor System," "Intemperance," "Fate's Caprice," and "The Wayward Son." Blackwell is a favorite with the public and numbers his professional friends by the hundred, for he