But now, to speak in an Irish way, the crowd takes the platform, and looking down, sees itself swaying.

The slums are an astonishing assembly of cave-men crawling out of their shelters to exhibit for the first time in history a common interest on a tremendous scale in an art form.

Below the cliff caves were bar rooms in endless lines.

There are almost as many bar rooms to-day, yet this new thing breaks the lines as nothing else ever did.

Often when a moving picture house is set up, the saloon on the right hand or the left declares bankruptcy.
Why do men prefer the photoplay to the drinking place?
For no pious reason, surely.