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Show George Beban Tells What He Meant by It CHICAGO. Oct. f Ry A. P. George liehan has expressed smase. ment at beinr quoted aa saying 80 per cent of the motion picture actresses ac-tresses are beautiful but dumb. Writing to the Chicago Tribune, which published the Interview. Relmn sld he did not Intend to convey any Impression reflecting on the Intelligence Intelli-gence of film player. The letter was written from St. Iula. I "I distinctly recollect that Tour In- tervlewer asked me whether I be-j Moved that this nrw idea of combining i the silent and siwiken drama as pre- ' sented by myself and company in 'In j the Klgn of the Kose' would become universal," lieban wrote. My reply waa that in my opinion only about 20 per cent of the motion I picture stam of today were, hy virtue! of previous stage experience, qualified to appear In a. play combining both the screen and the atage. I did not say that the remaining; 80 per -cent were too dumb to do so. "Ijiek of stage experience Joes not presuppose dumbness on the part of the screen artist. There are many Instances In-stances of men and women, recognised leaders of the dramatic stage, proved unsuccessful when called upon to act! before the camera.' The Tribune published Beban'a letter let-ter In full In Its columns devoted to communications without comment other than the head customarily placed over published communications. Over Beban's letter was printed: "He didn't know what Viola Dana was going to call him." . When told In Los Angeles of the Beban Interview, Miss Imna was quoted aa saying: "(leorge Beban Is a big piece oC cheese." j |