Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1916)

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NEW YORK The Spoken Drama A New Department for Playgoers of the Speaking Stage By ROBERT GRAU As recently as two years ago, the stage producers who produce spoken plays were so befogged in their perspective that, with rare exceptions, they predicted that the disastrous conditions on the speakingstage were wholly due to the maelstrom of influences which created and eventually perpetuated the vogue of the photoplay. It is now conceded that, instead of ultimately operating destructively, the Motion Picture play has helped immeasurably, not only to vastly extend the vogue of the silent drama, but all the time that the millions of photoplay patrons were creating an overwhelming new public for the screen, slowly, but surely, this public was getting acquainted with the drama on stage and screen alike. In a volume published by the writer three years ago appears the following as a foreword: “The gentlemen who produce for the stage and who have as an entity been so reluctant to recognize that an allcompelling new art is no longer lying dormant, will awaken perhaps too late to a realization that the most constructive influence of the Motion Picture is the part it is already playing in creating a nation of playgoers, for while the photoplay public is constantly increasing, the number of spoken playgoers as yet is small, but that it is perceptible requires no scrutiny.” With this viewpoint, not one in a thousand would agree. Daniel Frohman was one to not only see the light a year later, but the latter’s influence in creating new playgoers for the spoken play is evidenced by his own words on the very day he began to produce photoplays. Said Mr. Frohman: “Some day I am going to produce for the stage again. On the horizon I see a new public to whom photoplays alone have appealed. This public once acquainted with our drama will one day not far off find its way to the fourwalled playhouse in a desire to see the actor and hear him as well.” It is in the belief that photoplays are gradually enticing all the people to their realm, and that the spoken play may one day attract the masses to only a lesser extent, that the writer has urged the Editor of the Motion Picture Magazine and the Motion Picture Classic to undertake the unusual, namely, to inaugurate a spoken-play Be a Doctor of CHIROPRACTIC FOUR INTRODUCTORY LESSONS These books take you completely through this wonderful science of spinal adjustment. Read like fiction, yet absolutely true. 30,000,000 Americans support Chiropractic. Thousands being cured of long standing diseases by it. Resident and Home Study Courses. BIG OPPORTUNITY FOR AMBITIOUS MEN AND WOMEN Profession not crowded. Large demand for practitioners— $2000 to $5000 yearly. Small expense. Easy payments. We fit you forall State Board Requirements. 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Sothern, Willie Collier, Blanche Bates, Rose Stahl, Blanche Ring, Frank Daniels, Anna Held, Grace George, James O'Neill, Ellen Terry, Henrietta Crosman, Frances Starr, Margaret Anglin, Eddie Foy, Mrs. Fiske, Harry Woodruff, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Cissy Loftus, Tyrone Powers, Henry E. Dixey, Elsie Janis, William Faversham, Dustin Farnum, Louis James, Louis Mann, Maxine Elliott, Herbert Kelcey, Henry Miller and Effie Shannon. Most of these great players, and most of the others, have already made their appearance on the screen, and every one of them has made stage history, as many of them are now making Motion Picture history. Why not take advantage of this opportunity to make a collection of the portraits of these great stars, even if you do not want to use the cards to play with? (Please note that this set of cards has no connection with the set of Motion Picture cards in our new game called “Cast.") 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