Show THE POOR MANS SHOW wonderful growth of the moving picture business which has not yet reached zenith of achievement in the march ch number of the review of reviews robert grau has a very interesting article on the moving picture show and the living drama to read it gives one an idea of the mar veloas growth of the motion picture business inthe the immense sums hums of money expended in getting photo plays bys and cie alie great future possibilities for this form of popular entertainment tai tain ment ament the hirt article icle states s that itt at present there are moving mo ving picture il houses ous eb jn in pie h e country tr and this 1 great number increasing every eve ry dij day from november 1910 to November were feet of lim placed on th u e aia american rl an market in new york alone wi with alth its picture show places tle the 1 most conservative estimate places ce s the daily attendance at flood of humanity that visits the moving picture houses is said to be six times time s greater in iii volume than tle the coming patronage of all tile the regular theaters in concluding ciudin the article tile the terin the for following lowing language tells of the marvels of the future looming up on the file horizon a still greater menace to the ali e old time stage slid its people there appeals tile the so called t talking alciie picture re a of i the cinematograph anil and the phon og raphin which electrical science plays an important pa part i rt already in london aid paris the talking pictures are a craze so promising irive hive been these reproductions of plays and operas that th at two of our oar mot inot mo t prominent producers charles fr freliman oliman ind and henry W V savage competed for tile the anier american rights quo vadis his has been photo played with the apol spoken ren parts taken by the graph while Pinafore The mikado and the lie chin es of also been produced on the screen their tuneful strains proceeding from the canned orchestra A I 1 wore more ambitious and promising seems to be that undertaken by the newyork philharmonic society ivi with ith the collaboration of president J stuart blackton of th the vita graph comery Com Coi pry lipary this will be no less than the production of the famous opens the actions and scenes appearing in in moving mg pic tures tares while vie me classic music of the composers is rende redby good orchestra this will be tried out in some of the large cities first and it if successful may well lead to tile the popularization of the best works of f tile the masters and tile the general enjoyment of ol 01 what is now for inana thousands an unattainable tai luxury thomas alva edison has also turned his inventive genius gelcius in tile the direction of i mcc mechanical hanica theater the wizard of menlo park has announced simultaneously with completion of tile 41 edion speaking speak ingi pictures very recently too mr jr edison ut ter edthe prophecy that b within I 1 a very short tle time the workingman wor will willbe be able by laying down his jime dime at all e 1110 modern aern theater of cinematography to enjoy grand opera and dramatic productions with sound dialogue color and action all I 1 produced produce a comp complesi leti conquest apparently by science of the art of musical aca 1 and dramatic entertainment can anyon wonder that hat tho the theatrical maD managers agers regard they their business situation seriously or that new methods must be found to coni compete pete successfully with the prosperous pr proprietors of picture show houses these gentle for awhile consoled them selves with tile the hope that like other crazes and fads the vogue of photo plays would be short but tile the mo ing picture business is now in ill the seventeenth year and the development in the last three years lias bas been far greater than in tile the fourteen preceding Moreover there is no in indication di Cation of a recessional move in ill the near bear future on the contrary tile the next two years should re record r 1 I tile the zenith of achievement in this most lucrative field of public en pertaining ter taming while the elder cider and more dignified of tile the public amusement caterers cateress cater ers are reducing prices for seats and resorting to strategy t ti induce cudlic patronage by the 8 lie ile of their seats en bloc to cut rate agencies the photoplay photo play operators are improving their product on ons 9 ani raising the their ir prices of admission how high the amov are aspiring is is ing picture men evidenced by tile the fact that on t tie e i ery cry lay day the abandonment of tie te new lew theater in new york city was anno announced a motion picture magnate ignate lut offered to take tue building tit at a rental of yea dearani ye arani ratia another expressed to tile the writer his hia willingness to purchase the property properly outright without loso it ft the original backers while sueh such offers way may at the time be declined it is not pro much to say that it will be in just such magnificent playhouses that the photoplay photo play oi of the future anvill willbe be presented reproducing for foi the masses all the latest inventions and the refinements of c science all the did art of tile the Bern bernhardtz hardts and the th e salvines Sal Saly vinis inis |