Motion picture acting; how to prepare for photoplaying, what qualifications are necessary, how to secure an engagement, salaries paid to photoplayers ([c1913])

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Title:
Motion picture acting; how to prepare for photoplaying, what qualifications are necessary, how to secure an engagement, salaries paid to photoplayers
Date:
[c1913]
Publisher:
New York City : Reliance Newspaper Syndicate
Volume:
Motion picture acting; how to prepare for photoplaying, what qualifications are necessary, how to secure an engagement, salaries paid to photoplayers
Leaf #:
00069
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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MOVING PICTURE ACTING the majority of them are located on THE Broad- way in New York City—the real center of all amusement interests. In times past theatrical agencies had nothing to do with picture work. However much they may have desired the commissions, yet, following the ex- ample then set by the legitimate managers, they scoffed at the idea of placing "artists" with a film company. They became haughtily indignant when- ever a "hard-up" actor, with poor prospects, even suggested such a step. The players were, there- fore, engaged by the picture producers direct, fre- quently through newspaper ads. Now, however, with the complete change which public opinion has undergone in its attitude toward motion pictures in general, there has come a similar change in the stand taken by the legitimate managers of first rank and by their near neighbors in the business, the agencies. Managers are no longer averse to engag- ing actors and actresses who have taken a plunge into picture work and agencies are likewise ready and willing to accept the business and furnish the players from their seemingly infinite list. A splendid evidence of this is the recent con- tract made by Mr. David Belasco, the world-famous dramatic manager, with Miss Mary Pickford, lov- ingly known -all over the country as "Little Mary," formerly star with the Biograph and the Imp Com- panies—by which Miss Pickford was to leave the pictures for a time at least and appear as "Juliet," 46