CHAPTER XX.
THE PROPHET-WIZARD The whirlwind of cowboys and Indians with which the photoplay began, came about because this instrument, in asserting its genius, was feeling its way toward the most primitive forms of life it could find.
Now there is a tendency for even wilder things.

We behold the half-draped figures living in tropical islands or our hairy fore-fathers acting out narratives of the stone age.

The moving picture conventionality permits an abbreviation of drapery.

If the primitive setting is convincing, the figure in the grass-robe or buffalo hide at once has its rights over the healthful imagination.
There is in this nation of moving-picture-goers a hunger for tales of fundamental life that are not yet told.

The cave-man longs with an incurable homesickness for his ancient day.