Moreover those happenings on the stage, just like the events in life, are independent of our subjective attention and memory and imagination.

They go their objective course.

Thus the theater comes so near to its purpose of imitating the world of men that the comparison with the photoplay suggests almost a disastrous failure of the art of the film.

The color of the world has disappeared, the persons are dumb, no sound reaches our ear.

The depth of the scene appears unreal, the motion has lost its natural character.