Life — September 6, 1923 — page 28: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Historical Events HE current month has been set aside “Greater Movie big Get-together Festival for the purpose of pointing out to press and public alike that the silent drama is actually making artistic progress. In celebration of this notable event, it is the duty of everyone to motion picture carefully and in how far it has traveled in the thirty its triumphant er. Consulting Terry Ramsaye’s of the Motion Picture, 1 find the following outstanding dates: 1891—Edison invents the kinetoscope. 1892—Newspaper editorial expresses the opinion that the kinetoscope is still in its infancy. 1893—Mary Pickford is born. First movie is shown in New York. t movie critic coins the phras <hibitor that the costume pictures. Scenario write the sub-title, 1907—Fan_ mag: asa Season"—a scrutinize the ascert. years of “The and my own inadequate memory, Romantic History screen-e announces public is tired of after three weeks’ thought, evolves. “That Night ne conducts first “Fame and contest. Winner is never heard from again. 1908—First one-reel feature picture is produced. 1908—Seven critics screen-epic,” and exhibitors complain of excess footage. 1909—D. W. Griffith becomes a movie director. a terrific earthquake in Sicily. 1909—First two-reel feature picture is produced. 1909—Eighteen critics hail it as a ‘ 1910—Rising Young District Attorney as a movie hero. 1911—Producers, fearing that the public is tired of Rising Young District Attorneys, discover the Royal Northw Mounted Police force. 1912—"“Queen Elizabeth,” first five-reel feature produced by Famous Players. Fortune” describe it as a There is creen-epi makes his d¢but picture, 1912—Forty-seven critics announce that it is a “screen- de Mille, covers the “When T was and you were a Christian slav 1913. reading in Henley’s works, dis- a king in Babylon line, 1913—Cecil B. De Mille decides to go into motion pictures, 1914—“The Birth of a Nation” is produced. ighty-three critics describe it as a “screen-epic.” 1915—Jackie Coogan is born. 1915—Exhibitors complain that there are too many cos- tume pictures. 1916—“Intolerance” is produced. 1916—One hundred and forty: table 1917—Cecil B. De Mille stages his first society drama. 1917—Seventeen prominent society 1918—-U. S. Government reduces army for extras in Hollywood war pictures. 1919—"The Miracle Man” 1919—Five hundred and seventy-three critics label “sereen-epic.” ight critics call it a veri- “screen-epic.” women take the veil. to meet demand is produced. it a 1920—New superlative discovered in the dictionary and press agents declare a half-holiday. 1920—"The Four: Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” “The Three Musketeers,” “The Kid,” ete., are produced 1920—Crit fear ‘that supply of “screen-epics” will be exhausted. 1920—Jack Coogan, Senior, 1921—Charlie Chaplin discovered by the New Republic. 1922—Terrible business slump attributed by exhibitors to number of costume pictures. 1923—“Robin Hood,” “The Covered Wagon,” duced. 1923—Crities call them all over again. 923—Thomas A. on says that the motion picture is still in its infancy. retires from vaudeville career. ete., pro- “epics of the screen,” and. start ROM all of which it will be seen that the silent drama has progressed; so let us all get together and make this “Greater Movie Season” just the biggest and best Festival of Optimism that our dear nation has ever seen. By doing so, we shall assure Adolph Zukor, William Fox. Marcus Loew and the rest a very merry Christmas Robert E. Sherwood. What on vank? What on earth? Lin foing To quit se mM oun fact es Bes wat o ope ay THE MAN WHO REALIZED THE } SITY OF DIRTY LOOKS, THOUGH HE DID NOT LIKE TO GIVE THEM PERSONALLY comicbooks.com