ABSTRACT

https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315855820/71384f26-5846-4544-b83c-87c4e14bded0/content/ufig18_1_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>one day discussing cinematography with a very well-known and accomplished actor, who declared to me that he was not impressed to any great extent by the actors and actresses of tragedy, or with the comedians of either sex, or with the daring cowboys and Indians and the stirring life of the Wild West, however excellent they all might be, which he had witnessed while attending cinematograph exhibitions. But what did excite his astonishment in no small degree, he confessed, was the wonderful acting of the children engaged in photo-plays, and upon this point one cannot help but cordially agree with him.