Show PEARSON TALKS ON MOVIE GRIEF Fox Star Tells of Difficulties in Emotional Work forthe for forthe forthe the Screen By VIRGINIA PEARSON I Motion picture producers all say eay that It lt t Is much harder to make the audience laugh than to weep This may be so but looking at the matter from the subjective rather than the objective standpoint I want to go goon goon goI I ion on record as saying that it Is la a a. great deal v deal more difficult for tor the screen actress actress ac- ac i tress to portray grief than joy oy 01 oyOn On the stage when we depict grief we have our facial expressions supplemented supplemented supplemented supple supple- by the voice That last word really should be capitalized You dont don't realize Its Importance until you begin acting before the camera Much can be said Just by a choked back sob Repressed grief whether It Jt be real of ot simulated is the kind that 1 affects the audience most The eloquent emotional break In Caruso's Carusos Car Ca- ruso's voice In Is a a. splendid splendid splendid did example of the effectiveness of reStrained restrained re- re Strained grief Dut But the screen robs us of voice We I register grief solely by face distortion and a certain Instinctive system of gesticulation That Is why it Is so tremendously tremendously tremendously tre tre- difficult to prevent screen grief from becoming grotesque In comedy situations the predicament predicament predicament ment itself furnishes a a. large part of the humor The audience believes that ItIs it itIs itis Is laughing at the cleverness of ot the actor when it really ready is deriving the fun I from the situation itself |