WHEN THE MISSISSIPPI FLOWED IN INDIANA 159 THE FAIRY FROM THE APPLE-SEED 161 A HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN 163 THE DREAM OF ALL OF THE SPRINGFIELD WRITERS 166 THE SPRINGFIELD OF THE FAR FUTURE 168 AFTER READING THE SAD STORY OF THE FALL OF BABYLON 170 ALEXANDER CAMPBELL 172 A WORD ON CALIFORNIA, PHOTOPLAYS, AND SAINT FRANCIS In _The Art of the Moving Picture_, in the chapter on California and America, I said, in part: “The moving picture captains of industry, like the California gold finders of 1849, making colossal fortunes in two or three years, have the same glorious irresponsibility and occasional need of the sheriff. They are Californians more literally than this. Around Los Angeles the greatest and most characteristic moving picture colonies are built. Each photoplay magazine has its California letter, telling of the putting up of new studios, and the transfer of actors with much slap-you-on-the-back personal gossip. “... Every type of the photoplay but the intimate is founded on some phase of the out-of doors. Being thus dependent, the plant can best be set up where there is no winter. Besides this, the Los Angeles region has the sea, the mountains, the desert, and many kinds of grove and field.... “If the photoplay is the consistent utterance of its scenes, if the actors are incarnations of the land they walk upon, as they should be, California indeed stands a chance to achieve through the films an utterance of her own. Will this land, furthest west, be the first to capture the inner spirit of this newest and most curious of the arts?... “People who revere the Pilgrim Fathers of 1620 have often wished those gentlemen had moored their bark in the region of Los Angeles, rather than Plymouth Rock, that Boston had been founded there. At last that landing is achieved.