Show 4 I r Hollywoods Hollywood's Finest Director Is One I. I of Least Known A tc k t ALFRED GREEN GREENBy By DAN THOMAS HOLLYWOOD NEA NEA-He NEA He Is one of the outstanding directors in the entire motion picture Industry and and yet h ho he is one of ot the l least heist known The man of ot whom wo we are speakIng speaking speak speak- ing big Is Alfred Alired E. E Green who a J. J few weeks ago o was selected as the tha best director of or last year ear in a poll taken among newspaper and magazine critics b by a a. national motion picture trade publication Hollywood Itself was not surprised at Green Gleen winning winnin this honor by quite a I. I largo large majority n However the tho general public probably wonders Wh why hy this man was vas selected over a certain few directors whose hose names are aro far better known t to them The answer Is easy Three of the best films tUms turned out last year ear were wera directed dl- dl by this same Green Glee They were Disraeli Tho The Green Grcen Goddess Goddess Goddess God God- dess and md The Tho Man From Blankle's Blank- Blank leys les the tho former two starring George Georgo Arliss and the latter having John Barrymore in the leading role DIRECTS ARLISS FILM Now Green has come through with Ith another real masterpiece Arl Arliss' Arliss isa third talking film film Old English in which Arliss ArIls gives one of ot tho the most outstanding characterizations ever er seen on the tho screen It Ilis is interesting to glance lance over the lifo and nature of oC this man who apparently has risen so quickly from nowhere As a 3 matter of fact however although young oung in Iii years he ho is one of ot the real timers old of ot the film Hm racket But Green Is naturally nat nat- reticent H He He- talks treel freely on the tho subject of pictures but becomes 1 practically tongue-tied tongue where where- his own accomplishments are concerned con con- That largely largel Is responsible for Cor his present degree degroe of ot obscurity Greens Green's association with dates back to 1912 wh when n ho he started to learn the business by working working- as an ln extra etra toting cameras and do doing doing do- do ing lag odd Jobs in the old Selig studio HAS ENVIABLE RECORD Even in those days he was as backward backward backward back back- ward when It came CLma to talking about himself but the r records cords show that In later year ear he lie directed a host of very ery successful silent films tUm among them b being Mary Pickford's Little Lord Fauntleroy and Through the Back Door Thomas Meighan's Back Home Homo and Broke Woman Proof and Pled Piper Malone and Colleen Moores Moore's Sall Sally Irene and andElla andElla Ella Cinders Quite an enviable ord for COr a a. L man who ho is supposed to have hae lust just come un UD from nothing Isn't It Strangely enough in view of ot the fact that Green has earned his pre present ent da day rating as a director of oC articulate films ho never has had llad the remotest connection with the tho legitimate stage stase And stage training training train train- ing ing- ingIs is considered red by many as a a. necessary requisite for success in inthe I tho the talkies Tho The solution to that thatis I is that Green works on the theory that he still sUB is making making- motion pic plc- I tures To him pantomime still Is all important Ho He does doesn't try to tosea see sea how much he lie can make his players speak but gives them lines only where they are aro necessary |