Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1911)

THE COMING OF COLUMBUS. 119 weary voyagers a welcome scene of tropical beauty. A long, low island lay before them, covered with luxuriant foliage and flowers. Multitudes of dark-skinned natives ran excitedly along the shore. Fruits of many forms and colors hung from the trees, and the songs of brilliant, unknown birds, filled the air. Columbus, richly dressed in scarlet, robes, bearing the banner of the Green Cross, stepped upon the shore and fell reverently upon his knees. The sea men followed his example, and the imitative savages, with awed faces, knelt also. Thus ended the greatest voyage of history, epoch-making in the civilization of the world. The spark of progress was kindled; the trail was blazed which should bind all nations of the globe into one great human family. Later explorers, discoverers, scientists, inventors, stand with bared heads before this daring pioneer of progress, the Genoese dreamer. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ME. ALLEN'S CONGRATULATIONS. THE following is part of an interesting and valued letter lately received by the editor of The Motion Picture Story Magazine from the managing editor of Tlie Tourist Magazine "Will you allow me to compliment you on what I believe to be an exceedingly interesting and bright idea. I wish I had thought of it, for it covers an exceedingly interesting and, I believe, profitable ground. I confess that during a somewhat trying period in our experience, the motion picture was a source of relief to mental strain and a recreation to both my wife and myself, the full extent of which we are quite able to appreciate. I was a firm believer in art — not art to be hidden in monumental mausoleums called "Picture Galleries," but art given to the people in ways which they can understand, being both interesting and elevating. Education is not telling a man something which he does not know; it is making a man something which he was not, and I define a picture to be a revelation to man of what he should be if the picture is true. A true picture is a silent poem; a poem is an articulate picture, and properly constructed and presented, art is, after all, the most powerful means of culture which we possess. I am pleased with your magazine, and hope that it will find its way to my table every month. Believe me to be Yours very respectfully, Fred Henry Allen. FROM RENO, NEVADA. Dear Sir: — I have just finished reading the second edition of The Motion Picture Story Magazine, and I cannot refrain from congratulating you. I will never forget the pleasure I had in watching a series of motion pictures depicting Victor Hugo's great story, Les Miserables. Having carefully read several translations of this masterpiece, I was well acquainted with the details of the novel and was therefore in a position to understand and appreciate every situation, every gesture, every climax shown. I thought then what an additional pleasure it would be if the public had read the original text of the dramas produced at the Motion Picture shows. The typography of your publication is not surpassed by any monthly I have seen, and the excellence of your short stories is deserving of a vast army of readers, who will soon appreciate the suggestion conveyed above. ^ on have my sincere wishes for a prosperous voyage in your new craft freighted with so much human interest. Very truly yours, Wm! T. Butler. ("Elms North.")