The Washington times., 1914-08-22
THE BEST
Photopk1y Department in
WASHINGTON
heaters NO1O Exhibit
Pictures and the
Picture Houses
ShoW Plays

With every theater in the city
ave one running full blast next
eek Washington faces the unique
ituation of having but one theater
utside of its burlesque house, show
.ng a purely motion picture pro-
ram, The conditions of things at
me beginning of the season of 1914
> offers the most emphatic profit of
the success and the lasting qualities
{ the motion picture business. And
if this were not enough, the an
nouncements made for the season
Iy the various amusement enter
yrises-especially for the first two or
tlree weeks of the season lend the
emphasis needed. At the same time
these announcements offer curious
reversal Of theatrical conditions. We
; md the Paul Rainey hunt pictures
md the Lyman Howe travel films
occupying the stages Of the two houses
that in the ordinary course of events
would be producing legitimate thea
trical attractions. These two sets
Of films are among the most impor-
tant from an educational standpoint
that have ever been made and repre-
sent what was the beginning of the
film business. OF course in both
instances the films are the very best
that are made, the photography is
even more perfect than a majority
of the picture plays and the sub
subjects are of an intensely interest
ing and thrilling character. But
they are educational pictures, pure
l. I'D simple, and il was with eouca-
rlonal pictures that the films first
gained their popularity.
In the moving picture houses the
a lnouncemenIS show a very SuonS
resemblance to the kind of matter
that is supposed to be issued by the
rrgular theaters at this time OF he
yyar. Thus We have purely photo
Ray houses charging 10 cents ad-
H. ssion announcing the early ENGAGE
nent of fins showing Herbert Kel-
cey, Effie Shannon, William Faver-
Siam, James K. Hackett, Elita
Proctor Otis, H B. Warner, Rob-
en- Edeson, Raymond Hitchcock,
lred Terry. Evelyn sNesbit Thaw,
} Inn Barrymore, Jacob Asler'
I -.stin Farnum, Thomas Ross, Maud
J. aley. Andrew Mack, David Hig-
yus. Max F'igrlan. Jane Grey, Ed
n Arden, William Elliott, Sarah
I.rnharcit, etc, etc.
IF course, there are to be the big
moving picture stars like Mary Pick
ford, Arthur Johnson. Alice Joyce,
francis Bushman, Gertrude Mccoy,
King Baggot, Mary Fuller, Gilbert
Anderson Ormi Hawley, James
Young, Clara Kimbal Young, etc,
etc. And all of these people, the
Stage stars and the photoplayers, are
beng advertised to appear in plays.
The legitimate theaters are run
n.ng moving pictures purely as PIC
lures, and the moving picture houses
are running photoplays as theatrical
attractions
These announcements are more elo-
,iouent than anything that could be
written or said about the change
that has come over the moving pic.
I re industry. The legitimatizing OF
tie photoplay business, the develop
mont of the photoplay art, has been
ereater in the past year, probably,
II N ever before. And the fact that
H. ere is no competition between the
a. ge and the screen but that they
a. compliments Of each other, is
q so being emphasized. The only un-
|fortunate feature of the situation Is
IL at few of the theatrical managers
|or moving picture producers nave