CINEMA VERSUS PLAYS
The last London theatrical season saw the failure of a number of carefully rehearsed plays. Eeferring to the usually assigned cause (competition), the Daily Telegraph remarks that this is not a new argument. "First, it was the musical comedies, then it was the music-hall, now it is, the kinomatograph exhibition. It ia said that even the music-halls, as well as the musical comedies, are suffering because of the popularity of the^kinema Bhow, and a^very brief survey of the streets of London, especially in that quarter which is dedicated to entertainments, proves that the success of the 'film' is one of the outstanding facts of our time. "But as long as it remains true that a good play, well acted, will fill "the theatres, it cannot be complained that the drama itself is in a bad way. Over and over again in the course of its variegated h&ftory drama has been said to be perishing."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 89, 11 October 1913, Page 13
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157CINEMA VERSUS PLAYS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 89, 11 October 1913, Page 13
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