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MUSINGS OF A PHOTOPLAY PHILOSOPHER 145
Suggestions for future lexicographers: Photoplay — A Motion Picture play; a story told upon the screen by means
of Moving Pictures. Photoshow — A series of Motion Pictures ; an abbreviation of Moving Picture
Show. Photoplay er — An actor or actress who performs for Motion Pictures. Pictureplayer — Same as above.
Picture Theater — A theater where Motion Pictures are largely shown. Photoplay House — Same as above. Picture Fan — A Motion Picture enthusiast. Moving fotos — Motion Pictures.
Gentle reader, do you fully appreciate the pictures in this magazine? Do you appreciate the novelty of reading illustrated stories in a magazine? Draughtsmen may draw, and artists may paint pictures to illustrate the stories that appear elsewhere, but how many? Rarely do you find more than two pictures to a story, and you know that these pictures are but creatures of the imagination. In this magazine you see pictures of real, living persons, and usually the scenery is real. A magazine that publishes in each issue from fifteen to twenty illustrated stories should be appreciated, and I think that it is.
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Determined villains display the desperation of vice rather than the energy of virtue. Is it not a remarkable and hopeful fact that all audiences, however depraved, applaud the good and deplore the bad? The most wretched rascal witnessing a play will involuntarily cheer the hero and hiss the villain. Children intuitively recognize the good from the bad, and it is this fact that makes it almost impossible to produce a play that contains too much villainy, particularly since no play ever allows the villain to escape his just deserts.
Lawyer J. B. Churan, of Chicago, has sent me these interesting verses, which are dedicated to Miss Alice Joyce:
The Photoplays are all the rage;
They're classier far than any stage,
Where scenery always will be fake,
But photo scenes are God's own make.
There're many companies, you say,
Who turn out pictures every day,
But there is one (and it's no treason)
That I like best, and here's the reason:
Who is she that with face so fair,
And smile, a rippling treat so rare,
And mouth, a very Cupid's bow,
She acts in "Kalem's," do you know?
She's not alive to you or me;
It's just her image that we see,
And yet we sit in spellbound trance
To watch each movement, gesture, glance.
In tragic situations pending,
In life's long romance never ending,
She moves with grace and makes us feel
This picture surely must be real.
And now if they should ask but me
Who may your favorite actress be?
I'd say — yes, indeed, I'd shout, without a
moment's choice, "I love you, Sarah Bernhardt, but oh, you
Alice Joyce!"