Show m FROM M HISSES TO HAH S 'S lor p r o Ulas rn In Motion Pictures Undergoing Changes oi 01 iBy i- i By Hy S. S E Es 01 o io nowadays on one With eyes eye skirts becoming becom becom- becoming and ml short tb the e kne ne aps obvious difference dif dlf ing bro ar cr theres there's no ference Between granma and her 30 competition You can nger year eur only f t tl I by bV test So o I it with ith our long established screen cn Your erstwhile hero thin mustached develops develop's ino into in in- to o a Wain the flapper i iI is bleached I bleached amp vamp and th the hea heavy gee s ee the heavy y with withe f i e merry ho ho-ho ho ho and ha ha-ha discloses el 1 heroic and comic atti atti- I tudes lodes Our Jur Jr i is IJ 1 t citizens of Villainy have I turned tinned almost piously good good of times good d nn and funny Theres There's Wallie Bee Beery f for fill an outstanding example j Think I 1 1 the he dirty dog of so many manyI I hectic s tos t-tos with mat celled heroes f the would would-be traducer of fair womanhood womanhood woman woman- hood hood in Ill the films heroically serring serving ser- ser ring ving th nation as ns sailor sanor soldier fireman fire fire- man ano and aviator a Ascending into I Heaven George GeorgI Bancroft Ernest Torrence Alan Man Hac HaI there are many more moie So its it's no longer a real surprise to toI tolee I see lee Mathew Betz Detz developing the wit v t wit snot creeks wit as Milt Gross has hal it Long I before Wore this even en before Beery Decry Bancroft Bancroft Ban Dan croft nn and others went in for the fast tempo and the laugh horse-laugh Betz Detz was wasa a laugh in My ly Old Kentucky Home Slim SUm S' S with Irene Castle The S fe alers aIels and others These he made matte m on n New cw York where at that time it gems the producers had a keener sense of humor It was be fore the days of the cut and the I Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences But Dut when Betz Detz came to toI I Hollywood all bets were off and puns barred Bets Beti tuned timed heavy terribly heavy y la Ia 1 a p il ii of hiss votes Betz Detz in 1920 I Continued on Pa Page Pape e 8 nm FROM J HISSES TO S 'S 10 Io Continued From Page 3 led all the field by br brome some ome C J i hisses with Slovakia Czecho-Slovakia Greece the Steamship Lines and other lemote remote remote re- re mote places like the Bronx unheard ard from Then Al AI and Al Santell chose Betz Letz to pla play the prize prize- fight pal manager-pal of Dick Da Barthel- Barthel Barthelmess mess in The Leather Kl Kid and told him to go forth and bring in the laughs The combination n of menace and maker laugh seems to b be the tha ogue vogue that promises to become permanent per per- per 1 marent manent for fot after the first previews lews I of The Patent Leather 1 Kid id before its sensational success in New York Albert Kogell Rogell chose him for fOl Wash Wah Gibbs in The Shepherd herd of the Hill Hills Betz netz is a student n psychologist So is Chaplin So are Lloyd Lord the s 's and md other ether great eat successes S S of the most popular ilk ill of today He lie went over o the role lole of Wash Wah with Director for fot many hours many days prior to the making of the Harold Bell Dell ht novel and end a character albeit humorous and heroic proportions was developed eloped III Bc ilita lairs has such a I rol Pole I too in Von on Str heims heim's Tho Th WI ding Iding March It Jt all nil comes conics down clown to this tM said Bit Betz Bitin in di zing discussing his hll role ole 1 while hill on fin I location in Utah The Th public refuses to tu accept a character on the screen today that dues dot not reflect true human characteristics and emotions The terrible of the Bertha ertha the Sew Sewing I in ing Machine Girl type of I play are ridiculed That's II why h the mr picture production of or the work was Has a sl ce successful ful Cul comedy omed that's h why I Nellie the Beautiful Ik Cloak Clolk Model scored so happily The public wants its characters like life not in the realms of morbid It ity however howe but in its Its Its' brighter blighter as One of the most enjoyable performances of the season and clear atmosphere all nil these thee and a is that of oC Bancroft in Underworld Bancroft isn't exactly a hem heavy nor a heto hero but but he has all the human qualities qualities that a man placed in his environment environment environment en en- would possess The popular popular pop pop- ular reaction naturally is terrific I am ant happy happ that the new order older of matters cinematic is permitting me methe methe methe the necessary latitude for such im im- In this attitude lies the great hope of the motion picture in the future |