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Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West

I believe it would prove an interesting sight."

"Let us go, by all means," replied Arthur. "I am greatly interested in

this new industry, which seems to me to be still in its infancy. The

development of the moving picture is bound to lead to some remarkable

things in the future, I firmly believe."

"So do I," said Uncle John. "They'll combine the phonograph with the

pictures, for one thing, so that the players, instead of being silent,

will speak as clearly as in real life. Then we'll have the grand operas,

by all the most famous singers, elaborately staged; and we'll be able to

see and hear them for ten cents, instead of ten dollars. It will be the

same with the plays of the greatest actors."

"That would open up a curious complication," asserted Louise. "The operas

would only be given once, before the camera and the recorder. Then what

would happen to all the high-priced opera singers?"

"They would draw royalties on all their productions, instead of

salaries," replied Arthur.

"Rather easy for the great artists!" observed Patsy. "One

performance--and the money rolling in for all time to come."

"Well, they deserve it," declared Beth. "And think of what the public

would gain! Instead of having to suffer during the performances of

incompetent actors and singers, as we do to-day, the whole world would be

able to see and hear the best talent of the ages for an insignificant

fee. I hope your prediction will come true, Uncle John."

"It's bound to," he replied, with confidence. "I've read somewhere that

Edison and others have been working on these lines for years, and

although they haven't succeeded yet, anything possible in mechanics is

bound to be produced in time."

CHAPTER IV

AUNT JANE'S NIECES

The picture, which was entitled "The Sacrifice," proved--to use Patsy's

words--"a howling success." On Monday afternoons the little theatres are

seldom crowded, so Mr. Merrick's party secured choice seats where they

could observe every detail of the photography. The girls could not wait

for a later performance, so eager were they to see themselves in a motion

picture, nor were they disappointed to find they were a mere incident in

the long roll of film.

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