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...ultimate disappearance of footlights before the glare of motion-pictures has seemed at times probable. Thousands of smaller American communities once used to boast some sort of true stage--if it were only for an occasional appearance of little Eva and two cocker-spaniel blood-hounds -- where now a "Palace" of the "Silver Screen" throws its bright lights upon Main Street. And the advent of life like color into the "movies" is already tending to make their hold the more secure. But even the best created picture, as long as it cannot reproduce the human voice, must fall short...
...current Argonaut contains an engraved portrait of B. F. Cocker, late professor of mental and moral philosophy in University of Michigan...