the canvas yelling out,--"Let me at the blackguard and I'll murder
him."

Though but fifteen years old the moving picture industry has sent out
its branches into all civilized lands and is giving employment to an
army of thousands. It would be hard to tell how many mimic actors and
actresses make a living by posing for the camera; their name is legion.
Among them are many professionals who receive as good a salary as on
the stage.

Some of the large concerns both in Europe and America at times employ
from one hundred to two hundred hands and even more to illustrate some
of the productions. They send their photographers and actors all over
the world for settings. Most of the business, however, is done near
home. With trapping and other paraphernalia a stage setting can be
effected to simulate almost any scene.

Almost anything under the sun can be enacted in a moving picture studio,
from the drowning of a cat to the hanging of a man; a horse race or
fire alarm is not outside the possible and the aviator has been depicted
"flying" high in the heavens.

The places where the pictures are prepared must be adapted for the
purpose. They are called studios and have glass roofs and in most of
them a good section of the walls are also glass. The floor space is
divided into sections for the setting or staging of different
productions, therefore several representations can take place at the
same time before the eyes of the cameras. There are "properties" of
all kinds from the ragged garments of the beggar to kingly ermine and
queenly silks. Paste diamonds sparkle in necklaces, crowns and tiaras,