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Show "Lying Lip" Coming Sunday Producing motloa victor spectacles requiring re-quiring flv full month la film, and employing em-ploying many of ta screen's higheek salaried sal-aried artists, haa Ha latrteat days and momenta, which accounts for tha announcement an-nouncement from the lao atudloa on th Paciflo roaat thai Tbomaa H. lac "In person1 directed a aueceealoa f th hi accn for Ma second Associated Producer Produc-er production, "Lying Una.- which la scheduled for th d Ijm presentation at tha American theatre, beginning next Sunday. la th Thsma H. In production mad and released during th past several sev-eral yeara. tha producer haa eaerelaed hia poraonal supervision, which embodies, among other thing, tho selection of tha scenarios, th final decision on tha en- SHg-emeni or any star or player, ths approval ap-proval of the. d'-aigna and blue-prints for m.I rM'ttliiKa, and the actual contact and supervision cut the set, during; the photographing of the scenes. The auperviautnal- policy also constitutes consti-tutes a dairy review of the "rushes." i meaning- scene shot by directors the previous day) at which lnce either okehs the scenes, or orders the "retakes," so-cordiiisj so-cordiiisj to his ideas of what should embrace em-brace the drama or comedy demanded by the 'script or hy his own creative mentally. men-tally. But in the production of "Lylnc Up." Thomas H. lnce forsook thee super-visional super-visional methods in favor of active direction direc-tion behind the camera. Many of the s1wci',h.r"s'el,'.i nrs .-. uations hi the compelling' drama, which la described-ax -uum. a U i... ViviUaaUun, thu "Th Plume uf tTTi Yukon." 'The Coward" and other classics Of early cinema history, occur on a reg-u reg-u la lion battleship en route lor Kng-land on a aturm-swept high sea. To gain the utmost realism and accuracy ac-curacy for these particular sequences, lnce arranged with the government for the loan of tho United Htsten battleship Minneapolis, which was stationed at the 1'nited tales naval base at Kan Pedro, California. ' Accompanied by a brigade of cameramen, camera-men, technionl specialists, property and grip men, and the usual staff which accompanies ac-companies a company on location, the producer joined Captain Cook, aboard the "Minneapolis' and in a period of time covering three days and night, Thomas If. Inoe with the masterful are n I us that is his- directed his principals. House peters ; snd Florence Yldor. through scenes which ; are aa coiorful aa they are dramatic and daring:. The direction of the starsfbf th picture pic-ture was not nearly so thrilling; as the active rehearsal and direction of some four or five hundred regular -American "Jackiee" who comprised the big- crew of the man-o'-wsr, A director with loss understanding; un-derstanding; and patience than lnce prob ably would hae tossed up th sponge and called for studio "estra" to perform the heaardous itek of lowering; the Iff cheats and effecting a sensation! "rescue" at aea, hut lnce, with characteristic good nature and perwverance, soon won his ay Inlt 1MB fn.-e (it Ilia Willuis and bsd in Jumping to and fro, climbing to the dlasy heights of the masts, revolving; th gmnt sia-inon guna, giarppedins; the main decks and . ting nuuiy other "crowd" Incidents while nary a one of m smiled at the camera. The sailors had the time of theil lives under the personal direction of lnce. And the dramatic scenes which Involved the days of work, when revealed upon ths screen, will prove a lasting record of the thespiun efficiency of Uncle gain's sailor stalwarts. The appearance of "Ltylng- Lips" at the American theatre also will disclose many other significant scenes which bear the indelible marks of a roaster director-producer, for Thomas H. lnce ban a way all his own. with a meaning In every move ment ai d a certain aubtle power of perception per-ception and expression which brings to ( the flickersheet that rich abundance of nrtlstlc drama comparable only with the Helascoian standard of the spoken stage. The new Associated Producers production produc-tion In remarkable for Its mental processes, pro-cesses, the conflict of Indomitable wills which form the nucleus for what is said to be ths meet vivid drama yet made at the Inee studios. The range of th play switches from the elite social circles of ariatooratic Kngiand to the great open stretches of the Canadian prairies, then back to Kngland for the conclusion, which, according to critic who have previewed the product ions, offers Intensity and orlainaiity of remarkabla degree. |