But at least the theater is not forced to be satisfied with such degrading comedies and pseudotragedies.

The world literature of the stage contains an abundance of works of eternal value.
It is a purely social and not an esthetic question, why the theaters around the "White Way" yield to the vulgar taste instead of using the truly beautiful drama for the raising of the public mind.

The moving picture theaters face an entirely different situation.

Their managers may have the best intentions to give better plays; and yet they are unable to do so because the scenario literature has so far nothing which can be compared with the master works of the drama; and nothing of this higher type can be expected or hoped for until the creation of photoplays is recognized as worthy of the highest ideal endeavor.
Nobody denies that the photoplay shares the characteristic features of the drama.

Both depend upon the conflict of interests and of acts.