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Show Movie , ''Copy-Cats" Cause Slump, Critic Says y JACK JUNOMlVt". ' HOLLYWOOD, Aug. la The IMT-laa IMT-laa fairly purr with atala Imttatlona of tha o py-eala. Dlractora copying thalr confreres; product ra Solas tha lock-atap: lock-atap: aatorolda amulatlng atara; alt but tha law In aach eopy category making1 film tracing of tha ether fel-low'a fel-low'a atuff and srondering why tha publle yawna. Ona example of thla Imltatlvanaaa. almoot aa ahopwora aa tha lata lament la-ment about tha acarclty of a cartala fruit, will aenra to conjura many ota-ara. ota-ara. Soma yaara ago Mao Marah, 1 think It waa. Initiated tha little kick of ocatacy aa aha waa being klaaad. Since than avary Inganua klcka aa aha kleaes. and I' aha doaan't faal Ilka kicking, tha director makaa har. Sweet Una of aaterleka! How rafraahltig than, how like a prtng In tha deeert. tha play of originality orig-inality on tna acraan. All of which la a pertinent If a hit round about Introduction In-troduction to aa Interview with Cretghtoa Hale. Hale la not a copy-eat. Actor alno early boyhood, and eon of a prominent promi-nent Engllah actor, ha had dleeacled and learned to uae with dlecretlon every trick of hie profeeelon long before be-fore aaeee. i U e preeeul movle,-XOP dlacoverad" or adopted them. "I believe few producera and dlractora dlrac-tora realise how deeply the. public ! ha;lnnli4f to raaent monotonoua Imitation Imi-tation In ptcturaa. amountlna; In soma ouartara to poatttva loathinf.' oplnM Ha la, crisp, vanial ptond of tha motlva typo, who at tha ftomant la playtnt ih- youn ha primer in Ooldwyn'a rn- 4lir,n Af falna'ti "lllllir of Man. "It I-. of oouraa. no aaay thlnt to avoid tha sterotypd snanfiar. VV'ha youna meir and women of tho acraan almost dally watch tha performance of thalr atajrs alders and battara. Ua tandency to copy thalr orHrlnatlons is ainvnat Irraslatibla. I ballava ijw Intalllirent younjstar has to fitnt as-alnst It. Kor myself. I otay way from tha movies on that account. And I never o to a play m which thara Is a character or rota similar to ona I'm taking; on. T will not taka A chanca at unconscious influancs. "Tor whlla a great deal of Imitation Imita-tion la deliberate, part of It In tha films, aa In writing nd other pro-feasisna. pro-feasisna. Is subconscious bits of acting, act-ing, tricks of expreaslon. technical details de-tails garnered here and there nd popping out under the mask of originality. orig-inality. . "ot course, tha per-onal man net : must be somewhat guided bv d rani ra-ni at tc requirements. Originality hat rather cloao limitations for tha screen actor. And It Is only when tricks snd mannerisms are obvious ateali from another. Or when a whole school of Imitators parade them through picture after plctur.. that the practise becomes positively nua- ou" a Crelghton Hala will seldom reeo" book from which his role Is taken. "So much of the book." h evplalna. ! usually sliced out In making the picture script that It la simply con- fusing to become familiar witn in original teiL Tou get a fled Idea of what you're to do In certain scenea. and then the director may tell you he's cut those scenes out totally." Hale mother In England wanted him to become a banker, and to thla day Isn't reconciled to his stage career. ca-reer. Crela-hton himself isn't quite satisfied either, although he has a fine collection yt screen laurels. Ha wants to be an electrical engineer, snd swears he's going to be yet. thourh at present he confines tha in-cllnetlon in-cllnetlon to tinkering with his auto. "Man nearer I. but alwave to be VVjiTl 7i'siMihlti ihm wrlk'mm f?tf im |