When the movies were young (1925)

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256 When the Movies were Young ginning to see that dream come true. The two-dollar movie was launched; tickets were obtainable at the box office for what future dates one pleased; there were surroundings that made the wearing of an evening dress look quite inconspicuous; serious criticism and sober attention were to be had from the high-minded — these were the first stages of the dream's fulfillment. But little we then dreamed that to-day's picture world was to be like an Arabian Night's tale ! Kings and Queens and Presidents interested! A University proposed for the study of the motion picture alone ! James M. Barrie consenting to "Peter Pan" in the movies and selecting the Peter himself ! — Any one who had made such suggestions then would have been put where he could have harmed no one! The wildest flights of fancy hardly visioned a salary of one thousand dollars a day for an actor. But it came, as every one now knows, and with the approach of dizzy salaries departed the simple happinesses and contentment, and the fun of the old days, when thirty or fifty dollars weekly looked like a small fortune. We had to grow up. It was so written. I, for one, am glad I served my novitiate in a day when we could afford to be good fellows, and our hearts were young enough and happy enough to enjoy the gypsy ing way of things. the end