Yet it would profit any photoplay man to study to think like the Egyptians, the great picture-writing people.

There is as much reason for this course as for the Bible student's apprenticeship in Hebrew.
Hieroglyphics can prove their worth, even without the help of an Egyptian history.

Humorous and startling analogies can be pointed out by opening the Standard Dictionary, page fifty-nine.

Look under the word _alphabet_.
There is the diagram of the evolution of inscriptions from the Egyptian and Phoenician idea of what letters should be, on through the Greek and Roman systems.
In the Egyptian row is the picture of a throne, [Illustration] that has its equivalent in the Roman letter C.And a throne has as much place in what might be called the moving-picture alphabet as the letter C has in ours.

There are sometimes three thrones in this small town of Springfield in an evening.