My poor little sermon is concerned with a great issue, the clearing of the way for a critical standard, whereby the ultimate photoplay may be judged.

I cannot teach office-boys ways to make "quick money" in the "movies." That seems to be the delicately implied purpose of the mass of books on the photoplay subject.

They are, indeed, a sickening array.

Freeburg's book is one of the noble exceptions.

And I have paid tribute elsewhere to John Emerson and Anita Loos.