. Popular science monthly. Back Views in Twelve Positions. graph is far from being perfected, itmay be that before long such copies ofplays and operas by leading actors andsingers with the best possible stage set-tings may be more effective than theaverage performance, as the photo-graphic reproduction of a great paint-ing may have more artistic value thanan inferior original. As much as$150,000 has been spent on the pro-duction of a single set of films, andleading actors, such as Madame Bern- hardt and Sir H. Beerbohn Tree haveacted before the film camera. At pres-ent most of the shows exhibi
. Popular science monthly. Back Views in Twelve Positions. graph is far from being perfected, itmay be that before long such copies ofplays and operas by leading actors andsingers with the best possible stage set-tings may be more effective than theaverage performance, as the photo-graphic reproduction of a great paint-ing may have more artistic value thanan inferior original. As much as$150,000 has been spent on the pro-duction of a single set of films, andleading actors, such as Madame Bern- hardt and Sir H. Beerbohn Tree haveacted before the film camera. At pres-ent most of the shows exhibit crudefarces and melodramas, and it may notbe altogether satisfactory that a thirdas much money is spent .on them as onour entire public school system. We, may hope, however, that the moving-picture show will make possible a dem-ocratic development of art and becomean educational institution of the great- i est possible consequence. 5i8 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. Athlete Making Standing High Jump. LEGAL LIMITATIONS OF MAB-BIAGE A Pennsylvania law became opera-tive in August, requiring those wishingto marry to appear at the license bu-reau and answer under oath some fiftyquestions. It is rather absurd to swearthat one is not an imbecile, and aphysicians certificate, as required by alaw passed by the last Colorado legis-lature, is a better guard against com-municable disease than a statement ofthe patient. Still such a law may be ofuse, though not so much in punishmentfollowing its violation as in the reflec-tions and precautions which it may oc-casion in those who propose to laws of the different states limit-ing marriage relations have recentlybeen summarized in a bulletin pre-pared by Dr. Charles B. Davenport andissued by the Eugenics Eecord are more numerous and compli-cated than most people suppose. Marriages of idiots and the insaneare illegal in about half the states andthese marriages are presumably in-valid everywh
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