Arizona republican., 1919-06-29
BY ALDEN SEDGWICK

trivance. He saw, also, that to extend and to build up a patronage, it would be necessary to provide new pictures. And, as he debated this, the idea of the present exchange system was born. He purchased twenty machines, and, placing them in as many towns, switched the pictures in weekly rota- tion. And the idea succeeded.
 What the Wizard Thought
 Toy" the thing was called, but, with his imagination fired, and with the energy of tremendous enthusiasm behind his pioneer york, young Pathe declared that, eventually, there would be millions to be made from the magic box and the things that might develop from it. But, strange to say, that, at the very same time, Edison-the mind, on the other side of the ocean, in which this magical thing was born still working to it's further perfec- tion, declared that he did not believe that there would be much money in it. He deemed the work one largely of sentiment.
 For the great Wizard of Light, the voice of whose phonograph was thrill ing the world with it's marvel, said this of the picture toy, which had come as fairy gift to Pathe, and upon which he was devoting long hours of experiment, with the in tention to bring speech into the silent motion:
 My experiments with the kineto- scope have been directed to this end First, to mount the photographs on glass plates and throw the pictures, by means of a magic lantern, upon screen. Then, instead of looking into a peephole, large number of srccta- tors might watch the moving picture.
 T am prepared to announce that this throwing of a picture upon a screen has actually been accomplished in my laboratory, and we have had the figures in motion there so that the eye could detect no change from one picture to the other.
 "This has been largely a work of sentiment on my part. do not be- lieve there is much money in it. But, l believe it is in the interest of science and history. A great man will never die if his pictures and speeches are saved for posteritv by the kineto- graph and photograph"
 First News Pictures
 In France, Charles Pathe, from the profits of his now fourishing kineto- scope exhibitions, bought one of Lu- miere's motion picture cameras-the beginning of the news cinema. With this camera, Mir. Pathe tells me, he took his first topical pictures-the ar rival of train and the movement of the crowds in the Place de la Repu- blique, Paris. Scenes in the country were good subjects, the poultry, the livestock and the picturesque charac- ters, ten or fifteen feet at time.
 The projecting of these scenes on the screen gave the enterprise amaz- ing new life and lowly popularity. In the initial stages, MT. Pathe was his own camera man, manufacturer, ship ping clerk, salesman and demonstra- tor. And he found joy in the work never once losing faith in the Gen chanted mirror" With the fragmen- tary films in his pockets, he became an inspired evangel, travelling third class to London, Berlin and Rome, tC talk the wonder of the new thing anC make his sales. So, gradually tht business increased and the films be gan to lengthen. And the wonderful dream came true.
 Now Charles Pathe is one oi Frances most distinguished citizens . chevalier of the Legion of Honol