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Show Letting' George Do It He Does m 'm - m m m . m m m How George B. Sietz Once Did Everything '"Highbrow" I Down in Greenwich Village; Now Prosperous George M. Cohan of the Movies nonnced. would have as He lUr Mr. Sella himself, and it waa so ordered. Thla next serial, called "Bound and Gagged." made a real star of Selts al-moat al-moat overnight. Unknown to those wRo bad never Men him Join anything any-thing more strenuous than stand at the transmitting end of a director's megaphone, mega-phone, George B. waa a trained athlete ath-lete and gymnast. Ht screen performances per-formances were; marked by an almost Inhuman disregard for hie own personal per-sonal safety, and he haa become the "stunt atar" par excellence. In thla midat of hie first starring expedition, during which he directed himself and personally looked out for all the details of production while mapping out his next story, George B. found that for a few minutes every day he had nothing to do. That waa sheer waste, according to his way of looking at It. so he filled In the gap by backing and producing Kred Jackson's Jack-son's musical farce, "La, Ia. Lucille." which had a long and suceessul run in New York and on the road. This little lit-tle venture was so satisfactory that he repeated It a year ago by "angeling" "angel-ing" Mr. Jackson mystery drama, "The Hole In, the Wall." while starring- In the aerial "Velvet Fingers, and supervising the production of an-another an-another aerial. "The Yellow Arm." which was being- directed by Bertram Millhauser, a Kelts director. But it was during: the past eummer that Mr. Kelts gave real evidence of his multiplicity, so to speak. While finishing "Velvet Fingers" he was writing a five-reel feature. "Rogues and Romance." which was to star himself him-self again. When all was ready he took a enmpanv of eight persons, including includ-ing hfniMelf.amI Hailed uwy to Ppaln, iwher hm mail all the exteriors. 1 (jS III' Gwrgi B. Saitz, from hi latMt . -' photo, and soma of tho oconos and (AJD-T ("Ji5 haractora which hava won famo for - J him on tho acraon. Elr It'a a far cry from Greenwich VII-1a VII-1a ire atudlo anil lunch for threw provided pro-vided by tha aale of a pair of old trona-era trona-era to a, place at tho top of Iho motion picture producing ladder, but eome II. Selta haa realiaed It. and even now he la barely 35 yeara old. lie ia the head and ' mainaprlnit of Georajo B. Seits, Inc, which produeea I'alhe a-riala a-riala and auch other acreen offerlna aa tha Initiatlva fit Ua founder can ujTKest. lie owno a couple of limou- I alnea. a Lone Inland aummer home and a New York City wintef home. In . addition to thla, he haa a wife and two children, with all of whom he Uvea when he Isn't piloting one of hia com- panlea through the maaea of a "thrll- ,er" ( Complaint, are heard now and then about tha hlh price of theatre ticket,, but when a mananer offera the public a bargain, a lot ot people think there iiiuii be aomethln tha matter with hla Wh'en "Bab." with Helen Hayea. waa presented recently In Buffalo. George , Tvler tried the experiment of mak-j tnr the price for Monday night 6 . centa lea than waa charged for the other performance, of the week, ina the Buffaloniane crowd to get Monday night aeat.T They did not. lnatead. mwiy of the people who came to buy eata for that lilght. when thev learned that the price had been lowered, neal-tated neal-tated and wanted to know what waa wrong with tha ahow. lirry Semon has Jut completed "The Hick." a new Vltagraph comedy, and alreadv haa begun another. He la aald to be the busiest movie alar on the West Coast. The new comedy Involved the construction of several trick Beta and these were built while the comedy king waa atlll at work on "The Hick, eo that there waa no delay. 'The Hick carries tha spectator from a r ot of fun In a farm yard to more laugha to a city a By George Arthur Gray THE man who pulled that line, Let George do It," aa expressive ex-pressive of a sort of general a dealre on the part of everybody to hand the work and worry and responsibility re-sponsibility over to aomebody else, certainly waa reasonably well .acquainted .ac-quainted with human nature. Some-bow Some-bow or other, George alwaya atanda at the end of the line ao that when the buck finally reaches him, there ia nobody no-body for him to pass It to, and he baa to keep it himself. There'a a funny thing; about names. They seem to run In cycles like the eoven-year locuat. Once upon a time it waa all the rage for a musical gen-lua gen-lua to be named Jan to wit, Jan Ku-belik Ku-belik and Ignace Jan Paderewskl. Now no one would think of attempting to be a violin virtuoso nnleaa he had a name like Mlscfia or Saacha or Toacha or Jascfaa or something like that. On the other hand, the grand old Sname of George haa always been associated asso-ciated with doing big things In a big wav. (No neraonal publicity la Intend- I noted thta he personally directed the famoua Tear! White in her best known serials. It waa during the filming of the aerial. "The Black Secret," based on Robert W. Chamber'a novel, 'In Secret," that Mr. Melts made hla debut de-but aa a acreen actor. "The Black Secret" was the first serial se-rial to be made with no larger caat than wottld be required to Interpret an Ibsen drama, thia being, one of count-lesa count-lesa Selta Innovations In the broducmg field. In each episode or chapter the action centered around Miss White, Walter MoGrail, Major Wallace Mr-Cutcheon Mr-Cutcheon and a fourth character ot leaa importance. The fourth character, alwaya a "villain." waa different in each episode. By the time the eleventh episode waa reached the frieit in-) genuity waa severely tuxed to create a new type of "villain" and none of the actora engaged for the part aeemed to fit. In desperation George B. dabbed a bit of make-up on -his face, and played the part himself. This wss the beginning of a new phase in the Scitz career. The next serial Mr. reltn made, he calmly an- ed here). Iook over the pant for a moment. "When a ceruln drairon. rot rough and s threatened to wreck the party and had to be killed to make him behave. St. George was the man who killed him. When England became diasatisfied with the manner In which a certain set of her colonies waa carry car-ry in on. King George the Third hung up- hl crown back of the pantry door and took remedial measure... You all know what happened to those colonies. When it became incumbent upon somebody some-body to cross the Delaware, George I Washington crossed It. When In the coarse of literary events it was con- : Idcred meet and just for the novel j "Silas Warner" to be written, George fcliot wrote it. Coming down to our own time, there ! is one shining example that must not! be overlooked. When the American stage waa looking around for a man to I write the worda and music, create all the good lines, design the costumes, build the sets, produce the piece, enact the leading role and wave the fUg, (ieorge M. Cohan applied for the job and got It. George M. still has It and It is to be hoped that he will continue to have It for many years to come. The cinema haa Its George Just aa all the big world activities have. He Is George B. Helta, and in case you don't know who George B. Seitz is. put Ir down In your ready reference book that he is the George M. Cohan of the tnovies. Ton yars ago the public hsd never heard of Oconee H. Sitx. A great many magazine publishers wrro familiar fa-miliar with the name as one affixed to letters accompanying short atory manuscripts. man-uscripts. They also knew hie home address for it waa to this address that they returned most of the manuscripts so submitted. George B. lived in Greenwich Village, New York's so-called so-called Iatln quarter, and he does not consider It necessary to conceal the fact that during those days he was ex-curlingly ex-curlingly hard pressed and close to the ruMhton. If it im true that the leopard rannot change his spots, it was equally equal-ly true that George ft. could not spot his change. Hut Thos days are all ovr now. Prosperity and success have grabbed him by the collar of the i oat and are hustling him along the lighted way at such high speed that nothing legs than a six-cylinder, non-slop, non-slop, antiskid wolf could even keep him in sight. Don't ever let anyone tell you that a rolling stone gathers no moss or that a Jack of ail trades is a muster of none. Mr. Heitx disproves these bromides. In the first place, he started his career by studying painting for three years, and for one year he made hit living as an illustrator. Then he decided to be a writer, contrary to the tlecinion of certain publUherg who were positive that he would be nothing noth-ing of the kind, and It took him several sev-eral ears to prove that he was right. Tor a time he was an actor on the spoken stage, notably with the John .Craig Stock company in Boston and later "doubling in brass" as actor and stage man a A- with a road company of The Awakening of Helena Kuchie." All during this period he retained the Idea that be waa a writer, and numerous numer-ous vaudeville acts of more or less success suc-cess bear him out. The one really big stage effort that emanated from Author Au-thor 8eitx was "The King's Game in which James K. Hackett was seen for two seasons. For the last eight years he has ben associated with the cinema unor the banner of Pa the Krctiange, Inc., and it is this period that stamps him as the 7 George U. Cohan of the screen. For Pat he he has written literally miles and miles of aerial films and in this connection it ia to be particularly |