Show WOMAN Will Ift WRITE FAIRBANKS SUBTITlES Anita L Loos os of the Triangle Fine Arts scenario department will henceforth write the subtitles for all screen plays in which Douglas Fairbanks is starred I This arrangement has been made at atI atthe atthe the special request of Fairbanks himself himself himself him him- I self who is convinced that the drawing draw draw- I ing lag power of the features in which he appears can be greatly affected favorably or otherwise by the amount of ingenuity or commonplaces evinced by the writer of the captions Time and again says Fairbanks I I have sat through plays by Miss Loos and have heard the audience applaud applaud ap ap- applaud ap- ap plaud her as heartily as the liveliest scenes There have even been cases I could mention where her comments outshone the scenes them them- selves This has convinced me of the great value of the kind of work she does In spite of what extremists may say regarding an ideal screen play that will be acting from beginning to end without a single subtitle of comment or explanation tion I think that such a performance would be stupid Besides Be Be- sides sides and and the Fairbanks grin peeped out out CIa a fellow cant can't always be rescuing the heroine from a gang of heavy weights or hanging banging to the ledge of the fifteenth story by his finger nails He has Just simply got to sit down once in a while to catch his breath and hold the girls girl's hand and those are the times Umes that my friend Miss Loos is as welcome as water wings are to the man who wants to go beyond his depth without without with with- out bothering to swim Although Miss Loos only stands 4 feet 9 inches 9 in her French heels and tips the beam at eighty-eight eighty and one- one half pounds after a heavy dinner she has written more than fifty picture plays among which the Triangle Fine Arts productions The prOductions The Social Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary Stranded His Picture in the Papers Papers American Aristocracy and anda a forthcoming release The Tile Wharf Rat would Rat would reflect credit on on any writer twice tice lu her r size |