Show Chang U Earns Praise of New York World It Is not often chat metropolitan editors stop to praise a motion pic plc- picture ture Therefore the following edito edito- editorial editorial editorial rial which appeared in the New York World a few days after Merian C. C C Cooper and Ernest B B. Paramount production Chang which reaches the Paramount next Sunday had opened should be of Interest to film fans fansTo fansTo fansTo To many of ot us the new moving picture Chang will be worth more than a dozen which rest cost For this picture has hu one me ne quality which most pictures lack nd that Is reality The trouble with he average movie more than the J trivial question of art Is the hating artificiality that hangs over overt t t. t no matter how ingenious the story T r r how beautiful the photography an person finds it hard to be- be beeve belIeve beeve eve lIeve the events which transpire on he screen But no such weakness Inheres In this picture You can no nomore nomore nomore more doubt it than you can doubt your our eyes And this is because those who made it went straight to Nature for their material Like the picture Grass In which Merian C Cooper also had a hand It deals with the struggle of primitive people against elemental things In Grass Gross It was the laborious Journey of Asiatic nomads to follow the grass which fed ted their herds In Chang it itis ItIs itIs is the dangerous battle of Siamese savages against the Jungle And this Jungle with the leopards monkeys constrictors bears tigers and ele ele- plants which Inhabit It could not be faked It had to be stalked honestly patiently and often at great hazard and the result is one of the greatest documents that has ever been made Perhaps the greatest thrill of all Is where a II herd of ele ele- plants numbering many score stam stam- stampede stampede stampede pede right into the cameras camera's eye ee What a feeling when the field goes dark and those great legs pound right over you youIt OU It Is magnificent stuff May the movies mo give gi us more like It It it |