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298 SOUND MOTION PICTURES
Howard, George Jessel, Charles Hackett, Leo Carillo, Florence Moore, Blossom Seeley, Lynn Cowan, Weber and Fields, Sally Fields, Richard Carle, Daphne Pollard, the Brock Sisters, Al Herman, Robert Benchley, and many others.
Radio, too, has contributed such performers as the Happiness Boys and Jack Smith; and sound short subjects have been made with motion picture personalities such as Edward Everett Horton, Mitchell Lewis, Hobart Bosworth, Bessie Love, May McAvoy, Johnny Arthur, Lois Wilson, Polly Moran, and Henry B. Walthall.
Whether motion picture audiences will be entirely satisfied to accept vaudeville acts for the screen is a question for debate, but for the present it does seem that more varied entertainment is made available in theatres that heretofore were limited to the silent shorts. It is conceded that with sound they will help to enhance and diversify the programme, and it may be reasonably expected that greater effort will continue to be made to recruit artists and players who will have box office value. Even if this should not be the case, the short subject in sound has a greater entertainment value than the silent short subject.
In the larger cities, the first run theatres have for years embellished their programmes with stage entertainment consisting of either prologues or presentations in which actual performers appeared. The cost of these has made them prohibitive for most motion picture houses. Because of their expense they necessarily can be introduced only in theatres of large seating capacity in large cities, and they have thus become a stable and important part of the socalled de luxe motion picture programme. It has been argued that because of the sound short subject, so-called de luxe theatres will eventually eliminate the stage attractions which embellish their programmes. This is not likely, however, because the managements of such theatres