The drama is concerned with the slow, inevitable approaches to these intensities.

On the other hand, the motion picture, though often appearing to deal with these things, as a matter of fact uses substitutes, many of which have been listed.

But to review: its first substitute is the excitement of speed-mania stretched on the framework of an obvious plot.

Or it deals with delicate informal anecdote as the short story does, or fairy legerdemain, or patriotic banners, or great surging mobs of the proletariat, or big scenic outlooks, or miraculous beings made visible.

And the further it gets from Euripides, Ibsen, Shakespeare, or Moliere--the more it becomes like a mural painting from which flashes of lightning come--the more it realizes its genius.
Men like Gordon Craig and Granville Barker are almost wasting their genius on the theatre.