The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-01-14

music is a delight to the ear; touch
ii a dear friends hand-the scent
Of the wild clover-these, too, are
out emotions. The gourmet's delight
in the feast is but a sensation which
passes and leaves him no richer.
Sight is the divine and immortal
sense; and all that sight can signify
is encompassed by the moving pic
ture.
Once, sacred history tells US, men
built mighty tower to reach almost
to heaven; and for their presump-
ion their forms OF speech were alter
ed SO they could not comprehend each
others talk. Yet moving pictures, II
hey canot build to heaven, still form
he means to glorify the things OF
earth beyond all possibilities of sin
glo human experience. And no WIS.,
ional Babe can arise to bring con-
fusion; they are the living principle
ii universal comprehension.
Across a myriad oil white screens
he whole wide world is drifting as
you read these words. All that there
IS OF art, oil strange and distant
ands of naked human hearts and of
he world called science which lies
beyond our feeble ken, is yours for
he taking. He who can count his
Millions has no greater possession.
His own yacht may take him over
ndless seas; yet it is the blessing of
light which gives him pleasure in his
.dventures. His high-powered car
nay carry him along strange roads;
ct if he could not see them, he would
sain nothing. He may purchase the
ools of science, and delve into the
Mysteries of hidden things; but is
o his sense of sight that they are re-
Vealed.
Is it strange that those theatres of
The world in which man and woman
puppets move and speak upon the
tagc have felt the tremendous power
II moving pictures? How can the
narrow artificiality of the playhouse
hope to hold the admiration of those
who have experienced 1.-THE of the
charm exerted by the great life Illus
traitor? Only the inspired interpreters
Of inspired conceptions-those actors
whose living numbers may be COM
outed on the fingers of ones hand
can bind the popular fancy with the
spell of continued love and rever-
ence. Already the mediocre stage is
cropping in the dregs of human pas
5ions for the vanished appreciation
If the people; and when that hope is
dead and the house is dark, the little
circumscribed drama will have passed
forever, and the magic screen will
reign supreme.
They are indeed shortsighted who
see in moving pictures only special
lied form of entertainment whose
vogue may pass as quickly as it came.
Entertainment is an effect, not
cause; and moving pictures are not
the machinery of entertainment, but
rather the elf-effacing vehicle of the
worlds most ardent desires. The mar
row strip of pictures, the brilliant
beam of light, the screen itself, all
are inSensate, meaningless; we do not
see them. 1t is the soul of life itself
that moves before US. He who would
declare that Aladdin's lamp was of a
style that would speedily pass, taking
note of its magic power, must have
but little wisdom.
So rapidly does the world move that
we cannot follow its gyrations. Ere
we are aware, the wild imaginings
of dreamers have become the COM
monplace practices of everyday life
Man, as unit, can see only his i'm
mediate surroundings. He is locked
in his own infnitesimal portion of the
great world. When we realize that
the only possible key that will re-
lease him-the only remedy for the
tragedy of human limitations the
moving picture screen, we hasten ~
render tribute to the most marvellous
invention of all time.-The Nickledom.
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