Show Authors Author's Brother Loud in I I Ii i Pra Praise By CH CHARLES of L Greed G. G NORRIS Filming i I It U Is a J mooted question whether a great book can be adequately I adapted to the screen screen but In my opinion Mr Ir von Stroh Stroheim elm has come nearer accomplishing It with his ver version lon brothers brother's than any anYone one has ever done Robbed of the tho beauty of its language language lan lan- guage a story depleted depicted In motion I pictures becomes a a. plot a connected con con- series of or events culminating I In a 0 final denouement That Is what general generally y happens But Mr vIr vIron von on Stroheim has clothed his Greed coming to the Pantages theatre on Wednesday with that Intangible something that has made a great novel With I an Infinite amount of thought he I has presented has presented not only a true transcription tran tran- tranI I of or the story Itself but he i has lias accomplished the Impossible I In transplanting the actual characters characters charac charac- from the pages of th the book on en to the screen WORK OF AN ARTIST I Greed is the work of or an artist primarily and it Is also the work of a man who was In lovo love with hl hi his Job No one could have achieved achieve the effects in this picture no one could have taken the pains that are to me so evident unless this were werD so Mr von yon Stroheim delighted In his task he reveled In portraying the most Insignificant of or d details They are not particularly noticeable noticeable noticeable notice notice- able in the picture but the they are there There are no studio shots no fake rake effects on the lot The scenes I 1 the dentist office were taken in a real dentists dentist's of office rice on Polk street How many of our Hollywood directors wound would go to so much trouble It doesn't pay they say a motion picture audience will wll never get it it 11 Perhaps it is to this attitude that we who suffer from the banalities that are Inflicted upon us so often otten In our motion pICture pic- pic ture theatres can lay our dissatisfaction faction with the usual screen ori of- of f fering i Pantomime was ever a noble art I and one of the most difficult until movies came along And In spite of or the balderdash that is dished up to us us pantomime still It always was and always will be Mr von Stroheim in Greed proves j It Lest my enthusiasm be misunderstood I stood let lett me say right here and now that I am In n. n no way financially Interested Interested- In the success of this picture No penny of the price which was wae paid for the motion picture picture pic pic- ture ve version of this story found foun 1 Its way Into my pocket Its It's a a. matter of indifference to me from a pe pe- pe pe j standpoint whether Greed remains at the Cosmopolitan Cosmopoli Cosmopoli- tan theatre a week or a a. year But It does dOle matter to me that his ad admirable admirable ad- ad mirable presentation of my brothers brother's brothers brother's brothers brother's broth broth- ers er's story finds public approval and that the the- th work of the theartist artist who di directed dl- dl re ted It Is appreciated A GREAT PICTURE The novel l was as tho the thoI work of a very young man My brother began to write it when he I was still sUlI an undergraduate at the University of or California He was not yet 23 years of or age and he worked In desultory fashion at It for tor several years It was wae still uncompleted uncompleted uncompleted un un- II completed when he took a a. post postgraduate postgraduate graduate e year at Harvard and It ItIn was In Professor Gates GateJ of or that Institution institution in- in that he first found enI encouragement en- en I cour gement In 1896 It was finished finished fin fin- but It was four years ears later before a publisher was found for it Frank himself died at t the age of 32 in 1902 That this this' work of his has survived these two twenty-two years ears speaks of itself as to Its merits I have been asked by many people peo pIe since the first showing of or Greed what I think of It It and andI what my brother 1 If he were alive e today would think of or it And in I answer answer I believe bellee I can truthfully say that with me me he w would uld consider con con- sider alder that Mr von on Stroh Stroheim elm has m made de a great picture |