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Show THE CITIZEN here, rewrite there, retouch, rewrite, revamp; until the star of stars, and then the Test of the cast is well measured, tailored and fitted. Artistic Design. Theres the director. A good director perforce must be a creative artist with rare imagination and a soul for beauty. He must visualize in his script and players, beauties and truths which he must interpret into concrete actualities on the stage, to stir the pulse and quicken the sensibilities of his audience. As a painter sees grandeur in a threatening sky, which to a layman only means a storm, and then makes that layman realize that grandeur, when he puts it on canvas, so must a director, using his artistic conceptions, take a script and a cast and with them as tools, create a picture, in the broad sense of the word; in precisely the same manner as a painter using a model, a piece of canvas, a collection of paints and brushes, plus imagination and artistry makes his picture. Then theres the scenery, and the props. If theyre not in harmony with the atmosphere, the play doesnt just play right. The audience isnt en rapport. The cast cant hold its undivided attention. As for the lightings, the less said the better. Its the bane of every- ones existence. Lighting for the stage is an art and a science and a puzzle and a torment. The less said about it, the better. Morale Cast. Again theres the morale of the cast. That must be maintained. Then theres the unions. The actors have one, so have the musicians, so have the bill posters, so have the stage hands. None of them bashful or diffident in their demands. Unions never request; they demand. This one wants a guarantee of that; that one wants a guarantee of this. Assuring them of this, that and the other all comes under the heading of putting on a play. The Then theres the booking. terms must be carefully chosen. Certain towns have certain well defined likes and dislikes. Then theres the theatres. Especially in the larger cities where there are a number. They must be of a certain size. They must be in a certain location. Then we have the subject of competition. There may be a play of somewhat similar subject, or in some manner akin; or they may be nothing but dramatic plays in town, all catering to the same clientele. All these things and many, many more have to be reckoned with, and they all come under the phrase, putting on a play. Sweet Will of Avon was alright in his day and so was his quotation, but then the Messrs. Jake and Lee Shubert had not come within his ken. Organizations the thing today. : As a drawing card Paderewski is hard to beat. The demand is so great for his concerts that he is unable to fill half the demand and houses are sold out at every place he is sched- uled to appear.' SOULS FOR SALE FILMED FOR AMERICAN PATRONS Barbara La Marr Is Kind Hearted But Always Takes Opposite Role In Her Plays. Hughes new photoplay, Souls for Sale, which he picturized from his own novel of movie life in Hollywood for Goldwyn is the Show Shop of filmdom. What James Forbes play did for the stage, Mr. Souls for Sale does for Hughes motion pictures. This film will be the of the program that super-featuopens at the American theatre next Sunday. Mr. Hughes is responsible for the statement that most of incidents which he pictures in his novel and in the screen version of it are taken from happenings which he has seen at the studio and on location. Incidents. A lot of the incidents in this picture really have happened either to my company or that of other directors, says Mr. Hughes. For instance, take the accident with the which happens in this story: That really happened to Patsy Ruth Miller in Remembrance, when night scenes were being taken at 4:30 in the morning, when everybody was dead tired and shivering with cold, and somebody had moved the wind machine slightly, so that Miss Miller was within two feet of being struck by the thing which would inevitably have killed her had she taken two steps more in the dark. Four people have lately been killed by those things, by the way, in the making of pictures. The dangers to the picture actors have never been exaggerated in fiction in fact, they have never been really told. Characters. My characters do not represent any certain persons; but I have been around the , stage all my life, and these are composite types. I hope I have made my screen people true to life. They are just lik$ other folks, kindness, except that for charity, I think they are maybe a little superior to the general run of mankind. I have known all classes of men soldiers, writers, lawyers, storekeepers and I think that for real nobility the actor beats them all. I have my screen vampire, Barbara La Marr, the kindest hearted character in my play, and on the other hand Mae Busch, who plays the sweet little ingenue all the time in my story, finds it necessary to find at night an outlet for natural suppressed emotions by being a little bit catty. Kind La Marr. Lew Cody is the only really wicked person in the story and he isnt a picture actor in the tale! Youll find all my characters pretty human, I think, and I have cast them all as nearly as possible true to experience. Eleanor Boardmans picture experience in my story is pretty true to actual happenings in her own life. You see I picked her out of an extra group being used in another picture to play a bit in one of my own pic- Rupert P tures. She rapidly went ahead, until she is the ingenue lead in this story of mine. I want to tell you something there isnt a girl in the picture business who is more kind to all the extra girls than Barbara La Marr. She practically lets them help themselves from her wardrobe and she does other equally kind things all the time. Yet on the screen she is constantly a home wrecker, a triple-vamlurer of men and pire. Thats the sort of girl she is in my story. X high-pow- er re wind-propell- er DOWN ON THE FARM PLAYED BY HIRAMS MUSICAL REVUE Four Vaudeville and Hungry Hearts Film Support Big Play at the Orpheum. A real musical comedy, vaudeville and film treat is promised the Or- pheum theatre patrons the coming week by Hiram Clair and his Runway Charmers. i aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHimiiiHiiiiiiUiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii I GHOSTS.. ORPMEUPZ ACKERMAN & HARRIS I of the mysterious future. He will lecture at the Tabernacle next Friday and his subject will be Recent Psychic Evidence, under the auspices of the extension department of the University of Utah. He believes in spiritualism and says he has talked with his departed son which gives him great happiness and he is confident that mankind is on the threshold of some new and daring revelation which will ultimately banish all doubt, sorrow and fear. During the year 1922 over 600,000 stations were added to the Bell system. This was a larger increase than in any preceding year. Beil-owne- 3 i New Show Every Monday 1 P. M. to 11 P. M. HIRAM And His Charmers Run-wa- y S 3 s 4 Acts So Different 4 t5 Acts VAUDEVILLE Helen Ferguson -i-n5 i HUNGRY HEARTS 3 3 General Admission MATINEE NIGHT d i 30c 50c Children 10c siniiiiiiniiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiii? DAREDEVIL MENDOZA BERT WALTON on, MS VIRGINIA BELLES AND BEAUX ROGERS, ROY AND ROGERS LA DORA AND BECKMAN 5 3 Direction All those who are interested in ghosts and the life beyond the grave will be given a treat when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will endeavor to answer many heretofore unsolved questions I |