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Show Madame Butterfly 4- wjtwiy'J j&i ji ittttfm" w . - ft .'m''&HHKC'MbHHaE-EH Mary Pickford In "Madamo Dutterfly" at tho Lyric Wed. nnd Thurs, 12-13 What Mary Pickford thinks of the production Madamo Butterlly, 9hlch Is to bo shown nt tho Lyric Wedncs' day nnd Thursday of this week: "I don't think that moro pains wero ever taken In tho staging of a photoplay than wero taken with this ono. You see, the public has always heard and read so much of tho beauty beau-ty of Japan, and has seen such delightful de-lightful vlows of the Flower Klnc-dom Klnc-dom In travelogues that It has formed form-ed very1 deflnlto Ideas of what Japa-ncso Japa-ncso settings should be. Then, there aro tho precedents established by Bo-"asco Bo-"asco and the Metropolitan Opera Houso by their magnificent presentations presenta-tions oi tho play and opera. If the moiion picturu pruuueer is Kuuig iu substantiate his claim for perfect re allsm In tho staging of photoplays ho must meet the competition of the itago. In this caso thcro was the jpera as well as tho stago to ovei jhadow. "Of course the great sweep of the 'nmera and tho wldo variety ol cones wlrlch can he used by th hotoplny. Instead ot the threo o, four sets to which tho stage Js Uni Red, gives tho motion plcturo a large advantage at the outset and I hope that tho public will agrco with mo that that advantage has becp.Jmarc than realized by tho Famous Playo'rs. "But tho mere scenic part of tho performance is by no means tho only element which has been given great attention in detail. You remember of courso, that a baby Is .born to Clio Cho San after her husband sails back homoi ' Of courso It is a Japanese-American Japanese-American Infant and would not have tho marked oriental features of n tullblooded Japanese child. So we spent days In finding a real Jap-American baby, which was finally located locat-ed through tho efforts of tho Jnpa-neso Jnpa-neso who was engaged to superintend superin-tend all tho properties and costumes. "So far as I know, that is the first tlmo that this small rolo has ever been filled by an actor who came up to all tho specifications of tho story. And tnougu i nave nanuiea many small bablesln various" motion pictures, pic-tures, that little chap was without exception tho best behaved Infant I havo over seen. Ho was so busy marveling at tho noiso and tho huge lights In tho studio that ho probably forgot to be had for ho was too good to bo true. "As wo did tho scene In which I ulmlnlster a scrubbing to him, 1 nearly burst out laughing as the thought occurred to mo that if he wore to seo that plcturo on the screen twenty years from now, he would bo tho maddest man in the world." |