CHAPTER V.
THE PICTURE OF CROWD SPLENDOR Henceforth the reader will use his discretion as to when he will read the chapter and when he will go to the picture show to verify it.
The shoddiest silent drama may contain noble views of the sea.

This part is almost sure to be good.

It is a fundamental resource.
A special development of this aptitude in the hands of an expert gives the sea of humanity, not metaphorically but literally: the whirling of dancers in ballrooms, handkerchief-waving masses of people in balconies, hat-waving political ratification meetings, ragged glowering strikers, and gossiping, dickering people in the marketplace.

Only Griffith and his close disciples can do these as well as almost any manager can reproduce the ocean.

Yet the sea of humanity is dramatically blood-brother to the Pacific, Atlantic, or Mediterranean.