Show I Timely Topics I AMERICAS AMERICA'S GIFT TO TH THE MOVIES Americans who want foreign films to improve native movie standards are barking balking on the wrong scent ac accordIng according according ac- ac cording to M M. Faure the French critic When a new newart newart newart art comes down to earth it seeks virgin soil in which to develop As a new people without a personal art Americans Amer Amer- leans seem destined to develop the movie For the Americans says M itt I. I Faure are primitive and barbarous barbarous barbarous bar bar- barous which accounts for tor the strength and vitality they infuse into the cinema Only in America has the movie mo grown by leaps and bounds because only America could breed a Douglas i Fairbanks M. M I. I Faure sees one more reason why the movie star Is rising in the west The movie movI is a mechanical art and Americans besides being barbarians ns are handy tools The mechanical Ingenuity of Thomas Edison combines combines com corn bines with the barbaric yawp of Walt Whitman and the red-blooded red vitality of ot Jack London to produce the movie genius a magnificent a-magnificent savage swinging a wicked monkey wren wrench ch Americans doubtless will accept M M. Faures Faure's somewhat too diagnosis with at a least one mild reservation reser reser- Sick though he is of Aristotle and the dramatic unities M. M Faure Fauro insists on clapping a Greek handle to the new American art by calling it Obviously Obviously Ob Ob- Ob- Ob then the movie producer must be a which to a barbarian barbarI n ear sounds far from flattering Chicago News Fine motto If you ar are no dont don't opportunity don't dont kno knock k HarrIsburg Patriot Wonder Vonder if Sir Oliver Lodge ever hear hears from ri-om any of the prewar prices Detroit Detroit News tt The world without the Irish question is as lonesome me mes as as s a house when the children have all gone gOlle to to school Great Falls M Mont mt Leader |