Show TO MAKE NEW TYPE OF FILM Belasko Plans Many Changes in Movies a ET fly JIMES Juns W DE DEAN Nt IW YORK Many YORK Many Many ha have hae iaO e bo- bo be believed lIe ed that David ld Delasco's new flew connection with the thc movies mo wo ld mean he would 1 simply look oer o films limo ot Of his hlo make a few minor changes and approve e them Till This writer until now nov belonged Screen rights righta to to that group stage successes arc are worth 0 much that It seemed they ot- ot offered of offered II a con conen convenient en lent shortcut to o the wizard of ot the stage slag Hon eHr e Information O d dl- dl t lU 1 to put hl his 0 own n original Ideas Into the screen sereen versions erstone of ot his hia play No He leaves s tor for Holly Hollywood within a 1 aIe lev Ie dOl dais dao s to 0 attend the ot of r noe Itoe in which thich Irle will star r O EW 1 W nELl I 1 am om exploring a 0 now new field H I tt lasco sa s a I J 1 I 1 thaI tha the thein voice olce upon I 1 hn e so 20 much on the biage 1 III 11 be lie absent and ond that racial facial ex- ex ex expression must portray emotIon But perhaps facial e expressions alone will III not saUty fy me There are so BO many ways ays In which emo- emo emotion emo emotion tion ma mat be Ile portrayed was wo 0 s that I shall have Ila Ilae hae e not been used new lightIng effects new subjects many new DeW things thing's Belasco attitude Is worthy orthy orthy ot of emulatIon by a 0 great greot host of ot au ou au- au authors authors thors end artists who have Ia e conic come Into the Ule cinema told fold with 1 Ith the tho intention of ot helping the movie moIe mo Ie Tho The chief fault tault or of I these Utter latter Is they It hue have e not un Un- Un un as Belasco understands that they are working with Ith new I I material and antI new Implements Writers have base tried to make the screen literary lIteral Stage ors have liaa tried to make mako it only araI ora 1 I Artists J hav hai e 0 tried to makeI make I I it pictorial Belasco be- be bc 1 beI Heves I that ho he can i bring Improve e- e et ement t ment to motion pictures by de- de de developing eloping new now things things that are oro peculiarly of and for tor the screen Ho lie is willing to discard the tho methods that th were ere effective he In I his Jib past experience In I and which he belle believes es will not wor work In his ils new craft USE OWN METHOD It n t would be ba useless tor for me to togo togo togo go Into pictures unless I felt that I 1 could bring to the screen something some some- somethIng something thing which no one else elso s It brought to It Belasco sass saS sa s My method will be my own I will not try to copy anything that has lIns been done Though few fow ma may know It I ha e ae been studying the technique ot of picture maUn making for some aoma time Belasco refuses tu to tell just jus t what hIs exact plans piano arc are but a 0 digest ot of general statements shows hOS thit t Ho will ill produce photoplays s with withas withas as 58 few tew subtitles as s possible lie Ho Homay Homay may not use them at all He will III a ill seek perfection a a of ot the tho colored film He lie will dv dwell ell on the note of seeking ng to carry that pie pie- element ele element ment tUI ther than th he ho e has on the tho ff Ha Ho will not direct the actual photographing of ot action In all he will hold confer conferences with players and technicIans and direct rehearsals of ot the pia plays s before camera work begins L IJ PLAYS PLAY He lie will probably take up a series aerie ot of historical photoplays photoplay when he ie completes the ot of his bis stage successes He believes that motion pictures will win be de- de de developed loped to the point herO they will be he the tho one ono great art of ot crea crea- creation crea- crea creation creation tion and that the drama of ot Ome Ome- Omelean Ome-Ican Ome lean Ican men and Incidents should be b preserved to posterity Speaking ot of Belasco's Deluco's intention to dwell on realism reminds me that Georges Tiger ot of France Is Ia now nov producing a 0 mo le called The Veil VeU of s written by him So Insistent was waslo 10 lo on realism that fiat he engaged II a Chinese girl student In the Uni- Uni Uni University of ot Paris to play piny a s an part rather than caper exper eXI experienced er- er actress make mako up to look the part Clemenceau knows more about movies than some Borne American directors 00 00 |