Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-15 | Page 15 | Film 'Executioner' Finds Cutting Faces like Operating Guillotine

Film Executioner Finds Cutting Faces Like Operating Guillotine HOLLYWOOD Cal Faces AP that fall on the floor of a film cutting cutting cut cut- I ting room Instead ot of flashing I on the screen are not snipped snipped i o out t ruthlessly by the cutters cutter's Shears Like tile the executioner who ha has no personal grudge ag the wretch whom It Is his duty to guillotine guil- guil tile the cutter often often heaves a aIh Ih of oreal real sympathy for the player whom he amputates from a picture In order to bring the film down to toa a 11 required length or to strengthen the story by simplifying it ft William Shea who has been cutting cut cut- ting log pictures for about twenty years and has chopped literally hundreds of celluloid heads in his day says fIaS he tI silI Ul feels a twinge of regret when a length of flint containing con con- some sone ambitious newcomers newcomer's first fiat contribution to the Ellent dr drama ma 1118 to be eliminated In the Interest of the picture as a whole Often Otten the whose first mm film opportunity Is at stake will beg the cutter to spare that one little Scene that's the first rea real break Ive I've had In years Vh When n the hed film Is shown and the SUII linda fInds his scene missing anyway the gloom resembles that which follows the governors governor's finai refusal to Issue Issue Is- Is sue a stay ot of execution Later tile the disappointed player nay may pay Jay another another an- an other vIsit to the cutter to ask with sorrow Could you let me have the fifty feet teet you cut out that had me In It And tien says sas Sh Shea It Is particularly par par- hard to have to tell the I b one that his film face tace along with bout a ton ot of other castoff cuttings has already gone to a salvage plant to be burned In a refining furnace for the auver silver sil- sil ver It m Tile The bright side of these cUtting room tragedies however Is I he fact act that often otten the Very player who was wall laid out In cold celluloId i an-i sent to the incinerator gets another chance and comes comes to life again as asa asa a really successful screen I presence Shea recalls for example having snipped Richard Ichard Dix out of a picture pie pie- tune ture back In 1918 only to liae hao hIm bob UI again later as a star lIe He also had to delete deleto Alma face and Constance Talmadge's before before be- be fore either of these actresses won recognItion And I 1 remember cutting Adolphe Adoiphe clear out ot of a picture lie He was cast as a crook vintage of 1870 and lie he was sO terrible In the part that We weeded out all the scenes In which he ap appeared eared Later in A Woman oman of ParIs lie he demonstrated d what he could do when properlY cast and after that It was stardom for him Shea began begaii his career as a cutter cutterback cutterback back In 1908 1905 when he we went t to work for tor the tho old lId ut Fort Lee N. N 1 J. J After Arter he migrated to Hollywood he was head cutter for Mary Iary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Fairbanks Fair Fair- banks for s sen en years and there thee Is scarcely any star whose tee face has not been within range ot of hi his scissors ads ads- sors at one time or another Just lIe be Is assembling the dally daily takes of Ir Clara Bows Bow's tj-Ir- tj rent picture