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What will happen when television brings the theatre into the parlor? Will picture houses grow dark and picture stars sell apples? Or will picture talent combine with broadcasting talent to form new and better artists?
IT seems absurd now to think of life without the motion picture theatres. We have become as accustomed to them as to the corner drug store. They are a part of every American city, town and neighborhood. We take them for granted, like Christmas, mumps and newsreels of Jimmie Walker.
Yet many of us can remember the days when there were no movies and poor mankind was dependent for entertainment on the legitimate stage. In those days people living in small towns went to a road show two or three times a vear, heard Romeo singing to Juliet in a raucous voice under a pasteboard moon, and thought they had seen some
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dwellers had such artists as May Irving, Madame Fisk, John Drew, Williams and Walker, Weber and Fields and Dan Daley. To the smug New Yorker these were enough; he fiercely resented the coming of the movies. But, in spite of opposition, the pictures came, moved and then talked.
The evolution of entertainment is one of the most thrilling stories of the modern age. When we consider that the talkies combine art, science and literature, we are apt to say: "It is the finish; the histrionic ideal has been obtained. Here we have the best plays enacted by the best talent — beauty and brains performing for our benefit, made true to life by Vitaphone and Movietone,
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In a few years we will be able to look into our radio loud-speaker and see the person who is broadcasting.
When the imagination accepts this fact, it is easy to picture what will happen next. Complete dramas and plays of all kind will be enacted in the broadcasting rooms. In your own living room, sitting in your favorite easy chair, you will be able to see your favorite star perform.
The effects which this achievement will have stagger the mind! Nothing that we have known in the past can compare to the upheaval in theatrical circles which television will bring.
The advent of the movies meant disaster for many. There was less demand for legitimate talent. The public went wild over beautiful shadow faces and forgot the old real favorites. Salaries fell, and playhouses closed. Those who could, forsook the stage for the screen, and many who could not pass the photographic tests were relegated to oblivion.
The talkies meant a still greater shakeup. Movie actresses who talked like hashgirls were out of luck. The slump in fan mail was terrific. The decline of box-office receipts on certain favorites looked like a Wall Street riot. Actors sent out an S. O. S. for voice teachers, and directors began to recruit new talent.
and brought to us in mass production at a price we can all afford. What more can one expect?
Much. The progression of entertainment has only begun. A few years ago we thought the silent movies were good enough; we could not understand how talkies might benefit the pictures. But scientists were not content until they had perfected the speaking picture; nor are thev conient now. The next step in theatrical science is' without doubt the visible radio performance. Already television has been achieved; it is only
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