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this purpose, time and money have been devoted unstintingly, with the full knowledge that the results would amply justify the investment. At the Lasky studio, under the general management of M. E. Hoffman, there are over 400 craftsmen employed. There are painters, decorators, sculptors, costume designers, archaeologists—hardly an art or trade is unrepresented. All material used in the pictures is made at the studio, under explicit instructions and under the supervision of the director and the art director. Similar methods and ideals hold in the studios of the producers affiliated with Famous Players-Lasky—Thomas H. Ince, Mack Sennett, Roscoe Arbuckle, Cosmopolitan Films, Mayflower Productions, Syd Chaplin, New Art Film Company and Maurice Tourneur. The productions made under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince, starring William S. Hart, Dorothy Dalton, Enid Bennett, Charles Ray and Douglas MacLean and Doris May have been on an equally high level, and will in future continue to be. Mack Sennett, "the king of slapstick," has been releasing his unique comedies through Famous Players-Lasky for two years, one every two weeks, and it is admitted that no similar comedies are comparable to them. Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, who recently re-signed with this company to release his comedies for three years, is another comedy genius who stands alone. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation has at all times secured the very best in motion pictures for its customers. This is easily proved by a recollection of some of the leading directors and stars who have been associated with Gloria Swanson and Elliot Dexter in Cecil DeMille's "For Better, for Worse' Elsie Ferguson in "The Parisian Wife' Robert Harron and Lillian Gish in D. W. Griffith's " The Great Love" Cecil B. DeMille's "The Squaw Man," new version, made in 191 8 'The Squaw Man," Cecil B. DeMille's first picture, made in 191 3 [ '3 ]