Show Christie Comedy Scores at inema Al Christie who has made mado an enviable lable director of ot reputation Deputation as a I producer and comedies and dramas comedy-dramas on the screen tells of a few of the difficulties confronting confronting confronting con con- fronting the tho individual who attempts to adapt this type of play to the silver sheet r Christie was the producer and director di director dl- dl rector of ot So Long Letty the Roberti Robert- Robert i Cole son which Is now showing at the theatre The Th director i- i declares the Ute main ItY encountered Is that of ot preserving the snappiness and pep Mr 1 Christie e ex- ex J that this is not an easy task because be- be the effect of ot the cause j-cause cause the screen loses spoken word ord and therefore something must be bo done to stress the action and make mako up for this lossIn loss In adapting So long Letty Lefty to the thep p f creen says Hr HI Christie I have endeavored endeavored en- en ored to retain the musical comedy I which made It such a great success suc sue I cess ess on the stage The great difficulty In making a motion mo mo- mo- mo tion rilon picture of ot a musical comedy corned Is In retaining the snappiness or pep Many who ho witnessed such productions on the tage and liked them were usually dis- dis In the screen version This 1 I I feel will not be the case with S 'S So Long 1 Letty and I believe that not only will those hose who saw it on the stage find it as cleverly entertaining and refreshing as Las as they they would wish but it will also find fa favor VOl with those who know nothing of Ithe the pIa play Musical comedy though It Is So Long Lefty Letty contains also a deal of t that humanness humanness hu- hu manness which h must ever be associated with the doings of mankind Who has not watched with a a. great deal of ot amusement and fand and not a little mUe wistfulness the many UPS land and downs of ot young housekeepers adjust- adjust Hand ng themselves to the arduous task of ot malting making a home home Although in So Long Letty this is treated in a lighter vein the Ithe humanness remains and there is a personal touch in the development of ot the situations which will find an echoing re reS' reS response re- re S' S In all who see the picture |