The soft lights are lost and the mental eye becomes adjusted to glaring flashes.

This undeniable defect is felt with the American actors still more than with the European, especially with the French and Italian ones with whom excited gestures and highly accentuated expressions of the face are natural.

A New England temperament forced into Neapolitan expressions of hatred or jealousy or adoration too easily appears a caricature.

It is not by chance that so many strong actors of the stage are such more or less decided failures on the screen.

They have been dragged into an art which is foreign to them, and their achievement has not seldom remained far below that of the specializing photoactor.