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Show MOVIE NOTES A story la not always adaptable to movie purposes even though It be by a famous author However, that has long been a fallacy of the producer Probably no contemporary writer in America has a wider following than Irvln Cobb. He h-vi a manner of writing that Intrigues the interest even though he ma run around the gooseberry bush several times before he starts out in a Straight line for the point of the story. His writing craftm anshlp and his deft delineation of characters make his writings enjoyable. en-joyable. Thore qualities, however, do not make for photoplay construction. Consider "The Five Dollar Baby " Which rvos as Viola Dana's latest vehicle. r, tory deals with a Rirl who was left as security with a pawnbroker for a lonn of 35 Novel idea Treated humorously It ml-rht bo uade Into good comedy, But the screen destroy" de-stroy" flowers of speech Pevelop-'d j as a st-alght drama, the, story incomes in-comes Insipid on the screen Cobb, like Oscar WUdc. a manipulator manip-ulator of - Five Dollar Baby." HWe A ' -v n o No. Importance." Import-ance." Is un-.Jltr.ijle for ihs screen. Viola Dana h the n-i"ln-l pepn-r-pot of the movies Th- scrcen does not Show 0 more vivacious nctres. Gttvo her .a sprightly story, as "The Fourteenth Lovr," nnd ;ou have a story to Mt her measure. n "The Five Dollar Baby" she has little or-portunltv or-portunltv to display ths ouaMr'es that endear her to the jnibllc A bo"or day looms for "h" movies when 00 intlonnlly 6rKCih.fl civ!"1 bodies pledee th i!r eo-opSrerloii to Will Hiyr In his program 'to establish estab-lish nnd maintain the highest possible moral standard in motion picture production' pro-duction' A cqmmlttoe of three has been np-pojntejl np-pojntejl tO work v.lth Hays In the driif.lr.T of a permanent advisory body Th three ars Mrs Oliver Hal'-rlman, Hal'-rlman, president of the Camp Flro Girls: James E. Wcat. secretary of the Boy Seotiis and Lee F. Hanmer, rec-reatlon rec-reatlon division of the Rusvell Sago Foundation. Such an Organisation mesms knocking knock-ing oul Jli" last l"g rensorshlp has to i stand on t'e orotectlon of the public from "Iramoral" uifluencee of th screen SihjV' I'olinrd Is one comedian who works more ;'or quantity than qualltyi But, like n v.-ea'r -h't i'n hallplnysr he may ma;-t a h;; if he comen to bar often enough Pollard soekrd out home-run when ho mad" "The Stont, Age." That is i clever satire In which i our cavesnen mepsiors are used to lamr'o j.. r' s'-nt-i'.tv u-roms ... j Dignity of dar.clntr Is treated In tho! next Movie chat. One is shown hov to ask a lady to dance, how to embrace em-brace one's purtner and how to take leave of her w n the dan-o Is finished. fin-ished. Th second is unnecessary the third of sliyh'. Interest. Tho fl-st Is most Important Without It tho other two ure of no consoir'on e The most appropriate way ;ir. writer knows to as'-: e. lady to ilance. Is. "May I have thj tl-,js'ire ef stepping on your toes, Miss Fluff?" ... And another thlm? any perfect gentleman gen-tleman shuuld do these days In to ask his partner whothor she objects to him holding enj hand on his fa p pocket whlli. danc'.ng. ... BtFcrmo gossip. Yep, the list of proposed film mel-I lers grows "Back to Homo and Mother," "Asleep at tho Switch " "Child SlaveB of Now York." Th LOVS Bandit" and "The Bov Detective." Detec-tive." . |