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Show 00 BE WOLF HOPPER Ji "M QUIXOTE" AT THE DGDEfll The photoplay dramatization of the old Spanish classic, "Don Quixote" presented" peculiar difficulties, and tho way in which these problems were solved In the version plcturized at the Triangle-Fine Arts studio program throws an instructive light on present-day present-day photoplay technique, at its best. Don Quixote is to the modern world more the embodiment of an Idea than a living character of fiction. When we call a man quixotic we mean ) that ho is an idealist who is too impractical im-practical to achieve his aim. We most of us remember that the muddle-minded old Don tried to defeat a windmill with his lance, and came a cropper, and wo know that It had something to do with riding about tho word to redress re-dress wrongs, as tho knlghta had done In the bravo days of chlvalrj'i but that Is about the limit of our knowledge. Cervantes, in satirizing this knight-errantry, knight-errantry, not only poked, bitter fun at the Impractical Idealists of all ages, but he created a pathetic and appealing appeal-ing charactor of lmortal fame and a rough-and-tumble humorous narrative that is virtually without plot, being really a string of short stories strung together in a sort of running account of Quixote's adventures. To weld all these elements Into a play; to keep them in key and in due proportion, and preserve the atmosphere atmos-phere and charm of the old book was no light task. On this foundation the picture of old Spain and the satire upon impracticability impractica-bility are sustained, an earnest effort being made to weld all these different elments into a whole that would do reverence to a world classic of literature litera-ture and yet meet the exacting requirements re-quirements of the modorn photoplay. It has been an exceedingly interesting task. "Don Quixote" will be shown at the Ogden Theater on Sunday and Monday. |
