Show Directors Now But They Used to Perform f 4 t These four directors of movies weren't born with gold spoons In their mouths They are Edwin Edwin Carewe and D W. W Griffith above and Cecil B. B De Dc Mule Mille and James Cruze By DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD Cat Cal Feb 5 ThIs story deals with the lives U of four foul men whose great pictures h have ve carried them beyond the heights ot of their actors and ac- ac tresses They are the directors Dean of all is D. D W. W under whose banner many have risen from ity Griffith spent his early years tourIng with a a. ch cheap ap stock corn com pany For several years his company corn com pany played oneS one or two two- night stands and were lucky lucky- to eat at regular meals Later he appeared on Br BrOadway BrOad BrOad- adway ad- ad way always an actors actor's oal It Was Vas then that he wrote his Idea of a scenario for th old company compan They T paid 25 lIe wrote other scenarios and then then started to direct beIng one ot the pIoneers to found hollywood las as a Um film center He recently returned re- re turned home hom after spending seven years in the east AN IDEA ICEA AT LUNCH One day in 1913 Cecil B. B Do- Do and Jesse Lasley Lasky went to lunch together They decided to form forma a partnership for a venture Into the motion picture industry then a mere babe I PrIor to that day De had b en an act r rand and not a very good one often tramping the streets or of Manhattan Manhat- Manhat tan for weeks In search of Ie leMille came caine west in in 1913 rented an old barn and started production on his first picture The Squaw Man lIe He was tire first to a feature length picture James Cruze literally stepped from a fishing scow to the stage In San Francisco some years ago Cruze wanted to be an actor but buthe lie he couldn't get wor work because h he had had no experience So he worked as a walter waiter and on a salmon boat for three years Then with the money he had saved he enrolled In a school JOINED TENT SHOW Two days later he quIt because toe he didn't like Uke the Instructors Instructor's methods and got a a. job as leading man In n a tent show Through a period of years he rose to a Broadway actor In 1908 Cruze Croze cast casl lila hIs lot with the movIes as a leading leading lead lead- ing man for Pathe Eight years later lie he induced Jesse y Lasky to sign him as a a Fifteen years cars ago Edwin Carewe Ca- Ca ewe rewe was a a. hobo It was wha bummIng through Kansas that lie he met Jim TullY now a noted aU- aU Uror One rainy night the two of them caught a a. westbound freight out ot of a. a a Kansas sIding That ride under box long Jong cars was though unknown to him to start him on his career as a motion picture director The two vagabonds landed In Los Angeles les without a be- be V tv en them Care Vo had had some stage experience so he went to HoH wod and talked the Blaney Bla- Bla nay ney brothers into signing hIm as asa asa a director Then he drew some salary In advance So the tha two of them could cat |