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Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section
Personalities of "Paramount
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A Qreat Pioneer of the Art of the Motion Picture
There is a point in the life of every great artist when, if he is free from cares, he can produce his greatest works.
Everything before, however distinguished, serves as preparation.
Some critics feel they can pick out the place where Shakespeare's art reached its richest period.
So it is with that master director, David Wark Griffith, who is at work on a series of Paramount Pictutes.
In freedom from all worry and with the resources of the world's foremost him organization at his disposal, D.W. Griffith is now in the golden age of
Every photoplay he makes will find more thaneleven thousand Paramount audiences in the United States alone
every civilized country.
Art and organization once more combine to produce "the best show
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The Foundations of Paramount's Leadership
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation is the vast underlying organization which affords a world-stage for the world-leaders of the screen art.
It functions on a basis of honorable and efficient business. Its mere existence guarantees the safety of millions of dollars invested in exhibitors' theatres in every state, because it guarantees a permanent supply of the kind of entertainment demanded.
It supports and facilitates the creative work of all those temperaments of genius
and art whose names are painted large in the bright sky of fame.
It guarantees that every penny necessary to the functioning of Production will be forthcoming.
It guarantees a distribution of Paramount Pictures to more theatres than any other pictures reach.
Today Famous Players-Lasky Corporation with Paramount Pictures is the leader by any test of an industry which represents an investment of fifteen hundred millions of dollars in the United States and Canada alone.
"If it's a Paramount Picture it's the best shotv in toiim!'