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Show I LITTLE YARNS ABOUT FILMS, STARS, PLAYS AND LIE IN MOVIES I By JAMES W DEAN NEW YORK, March IS. The pop-I pop-I ularlty of the motion plcturo Is chal-I chal-I lnged today for tho first time since It 9 gained favor of the public. Its new I competitor is the radiophone. Tho popularity of tho movie has I been greater than that of any other I form of entertainment for a number I of year. In a brief span of yean? It I has become one of the leading industries indus-tries of the world. The popularity of film entertainment entertain-ment is due to Us low cost', to the variety va-riety of Its form and to its informative inform-ative value. The movie chanced the national and domesth scheme of cxlstoncf. Familial Fam-ilial no longer pat her ahout the fireside fire-side to read the newspapers and fiction. fic-tion. As soon us the dishes are done, dad and mother, and the kids go to the movies. One the screen they see drama, comedv ncwu. The great figures of history are visualized. The news ol the dav is told in more graphic Banner Ban-ner than le possible with the written word. Now the radiophone promises to restore re-store the hearth as tho center of the home Herbert Hoover estimates that 250,000 radiophones hive boon installed in-stalled in homes in the last 12 month. ! That means that more than a million people now derive entertainment from the invisible reaches of tho air. Information is the salt of human soul- comfort will permit dad to sit about home In his old .'Uppers, putt i ing his pipe while tho affairs of tho ! world are brought to him. Mother may receive the latest market prices J as ehe awaits the grocery man to come I for her order. Daughter may have danco music by putting on an amplifier. ampli-fier. And the radiophone gives the small i boy something to play with which Is j more than a mere toy. Considering the rate of growth in the use of radio In the past year and the low prices at which receiving sets are now selling, the inroad upon the popularity of the movie can be easily reckoned. RADIO'S ADVANTAGIS People must go to the movies The radio goes tn the people Therein lira the chief advantage of the radio as a means of entertainment. Th" lonely rancher, the farmer's wife, the camper camp-er In the wilderness, men engagea In work which confines them to one place, but does not occupy their entire en-tire attention these are the ones who will be most entertained by the radio. With all its advantages the radio probably will never supersede the motion mo-tion picture as the most popular moans of entertainment. The mOvle brings people together. It sponsors a subtle form of companionship. It takes a rancher, the farmer's wife, the camper and the laborer out of their ordinary existence And above all, the eye Is more comprehensive com-prehensive than tho ear in its capacity capa-city for learning. GKRMW-AMITUCAN I I I.Ms A European correspondent of this column writes that Germans are planning plan-ning to make "American" picture-, t,, compete in the movie theatres of the Knltod States with movli - made here. If that Is so. the Germans will be bat-Ling bat-Ling out of order. The Germans plan to obtain the same atmosphere that prevails In American pictures by using American players. American clothes and American Ameri-can scener The effect of all that I are directed by Americans A few of the German directors are masters of costume spectacle flints, but thero has not yet been made In Europe a present-day photoplay true to traditions and manners of America. Amer-ica. The difference between films made here and those made in Europe, to an American, is the difference between custom-made and ready-to-wear clothes. ST ITT) I O GOSSIP Gareth Hughes plans to quit mo-I mo-I vies for the stage. Cecil DeMillo has gone to a ranch to recuperate from an attack of inflammatory in-flammatory rheumatism. "A Man of Action." Douglas Mac-Lean's Mac-Lean's next. GOOD COMEDY WORK Lloyd Hamilton Is hereby nomlnat-I nomlnat-I ed for a plac in the hall of comic immortals. Chaplin, Lloyd and Kea-ton Kea-ton must crowd up a bit to give him room. Hamilton has made 300 screen comics com-ics ,yet he has claimed little recognl-h recognl-h tion as an artist. He has remained in obscurity because be-cause he has been content to appear in poor stories, poorly directed He lacked tho aggressiveness to demand better story material and better direction. di-rection. In a recent conversation Harold Lloyd told me that he had almost run his course when ho demanded that I he be allowed to discard a quasl-Chaplln quasl-Chaplln make-up and appear In tho ppppj un I iiuuivu onr ia, irs Midi 11 1 e 11UW B his badge of distinction. He would H either make that change, or quit nuk- j ing comedies. Having one started to 1 do the kind of comedy he thought he H could do best, he soon established H himself as a leader In tho profession. B Until recently thero has been noth- H ing distinctive about Hamilton s com- H odloa. They were all alike, liko so 1 many grains of corn. W Then ho made Robinson Crusoe, W Limited." In that ho made a direct fl appeal to the sympathy of the audi- HAMILTON'S LASSESfl B I have just had a preview of his BBJ latest "The Rainmaker." This com- BBB' edy is not the equal of "The Kid," but BBB I believe it 1h better than somo of BBB Chaplin's earlier comedies and the BBBj equal of Lloyd's and Keaton'e latest. BBBj There Is something whimsical, gro- BBB l esq tie In Hamilton's phslque. He B has natural little mannerisms that stir BBBj the risibilities. These uro emphasized BBB to good effect In ' The Rainmaker." BBBj The big laugh in "Tho ltalnmakor" B comes in a ride in a Pullman berth. BBB The woman In tho upper berth is BBB using an electric curling iron. It BBB abort circuits the light In Hamilton's BBBJ BBBj Ham removes the bulb from tho H socket. The curling iron, dangling BBJ from the upper berth, touches rilrn H That completes the circuit. The bulb Bj lights up. The humor of the situation BBB Is increased when the porter has the BBB same experience. He ll galvanized BBBj Into a black Liberty holding uloft the BBBUI torch ol BBB Ham buries his face in a bouquet BBB given to him when he left the old H home town Ants transfer their al- BBBi rjeglance to Ham's person If B Would grasp the humor of this, pic- B ture one of the biggest men you know BBB, I afflicted with ants while traveling in BBBJ coach. BBBj Ham stood on two cakes of ice to BBBj1 deliver a farewell speech at tho old I home town. A pretty girl smiles from a passing train. Red tints show the ' blush In his face The ice melts beneath be-neath his feet MAIN STREET SATIRIZED Hani lued In 0 small town The village quartet still sings ' Goodby. Dolly Gra " The last bulletin on th station boarfl Is "Io Surrenders." Vines that covered it had to be torn away for the new bulletin. "No. 9 n Time. W 1 l.b STi P." A spavined horse, weary at the hitching rack, crosses his front legs to rest. The slow pare of another small tow n 1 1 m.i visits is Indicated by slow-motion photography. The excitement caused by the arrival of a notable Is indicated by fast motion. Ham I the notable. Ho is to cause rain to fall. He sent up a rocket It hits a snow cloud A blizzard eftsuea It snows under a man who had dusted out the bath tub In anticipation of rain. The weakness of the picture Is In its ending. It fails, like most comics, to end with some laugh-provoking incident. inci-dent. MONOTONOUS TRIPLES A new story by Carey Wilson to he filmed by Goldwyn Is "This Way nit." Its theme, according to the advance ad-vance statement, is "the terrible strength of the monotonous trifle in everyday life." That sounds Interesting. Many of our movies are uninteresting because they deal only with the big tragedies, the great moments that seldom occur oc-cur in commonplace experiences. The thing that interests people most is themselves and the things that constitute con-stitute their own experiences. And monotonous trifles bother us all. WM. I). TAYLOR PICTURES The last pictures directed by William Will-iam D. Taylor, who was slain In his Hollywood home, were "Sham" and "Wealth," starring Ethel Clayton; ' Sacred and Profane Love." starring Elsie Ferguson; "Morals." starring May McAvoy. and "The Green Temptation," Temp-tation," starring Petty Compson. Those who like to make bright combinations with titles might conjure con-jure with those. Taylor's, next picture was to have been W. Somerset Maugham's original Paramount picture. "The firdeal." It has been assigned to Paul Powell to direct. Agnes Ayres will star, with Conrad Nage and Clarence Ilurton In leading roles. GERMAN FILM "The Mistress of the World" proves a great disappointment to those who expected a German spectacle film constructed on the sprite lines as those made by Lubitsch and Wegener It in no way measures up to the films of those dire, tors which have or.en exhibited In this country. "The Mistress of the World" was heralded as something new In movies, a film of such story interest that 30o reels must be used In the telling, presented In four Installments Install-ments after the manner of the ' to-be-continued" magaslne story. By this manner of presentation it was to be distinguished from the ordinary serial. In truth. "The Mistress Mis-tress of the World" is no different and no better than those cld-fash-loned serials which for a number of years cast odium upon the name of the movie and helped to create sentiment sen-timent for screen censorship. Installment The next three Installments Install-ments will hae to bo far different to change this estimate. A Danish girl goes to China as a governess in answer to a want ad That, to enable her to locate a hermit her-mit In Manchuria. Her employer takes her to a den. He happens to be king of the be.ggars. A Chinese she had previously met rescues her. Then tho Danish consul con-sul rescues him. The king of the beggars 1h executed and tno consul declares his lov for tho girl. And there the first installment onds Of course, there Is a knife murder mur-der and tho hero kills a young regiment regi-ment With his trusty gat, but there's hardly a thrill In all of that, It Is' so casually done. The camera work is poor, the lighting effects worse. There Is nothing noth-ing artistic, about massive sets. None of the players except Mia May. the heroine, are identified They should be thankful for that their shortcomings short-comings may not bo taken up Individually. Indi-vidually. MIA MAY. Mia May (pronounced Mee-a My) Is a newcomer to tho American screen. Born In Prague, she had her first stage experience In the municipal munici-pal theatre there. She later played In tho Dramatic Art theatre In Warsaw. War-saw. She is the wife of Joseph May, director of "The Mistress of the Anatole France, French author and winner of the 1921 Nobel literary prize, says of her, "Mia May has tho verve, tho insight and the Incomparable Incompar-able flame of genius. She is tho foremost dramatic force of Europe." I think Franco took in too much territory in his claim for her. He might havs confined his remarks to Warsaw. I think Mia May's acting to bo of as negative a quality as I havo ever seen on the screen. Sho In no way compares to Pola Negri or Dagnay Servaes. I believe Rita Jollvet to be a better screen actress ac-tress than Mia May, ulthough 1 thought Rita's work In "Theodora" none too good. Mia May appears to be fat and forty. Her coiffure is untidy. Her clothes fit none too well. If there is a flame of genius about her It was effectively smothered in tho first ln-tallment ln-tallment of "The Mistress of tho World." A LETTER. New York V V.. March 00, 1022. Dear Baby Peggy I love you! Satanic angel, angelic imp, you hao v.on my heart! My allegiance to Jacklo Coogan as the Infant ruler of tho screen I transfer to you. Heretofore I have looked upon you onl as a iitt! child, captivating our audience through baby pranks How- l -i, after seeing you In "Puggy Be-havai' Be-havai' I havo come- to the-cenchislon that you are master of the mimetic art. Your wlnsomeness has become" a matter of deliberation. You seem to .sense Just when i smlle, . a smirk, or a frown will burrow Its way Into the heart of the audience. This Is more than mere response to tho dictates of a director. Tho scene In which you pretend to be .L ining a window whim you nad broken Just, before your aunt appeared, ap-peared, was one of the greatest I hne ever, seen on the screen. Here you exhibit spontaneity, a quality sadly lacking in the actioc ol many adult stars. The 1oy of act- ing of mimicry, appears to be the very Joy of life to you. Thus you attain a high degree of naturalism, and that quality Is the essence of sating sat-ing There Is ahout you a weird, Ul- canny Intelligence, which seems to probe the emotions of tho adult f.oul and comprehending them, cr.es them expression which only long years of limine give the understanding to express. ex-press. And so when I say I love yotl ' know yon will understand that I worship wor-ship al the feet of art and I tfusl yOU Will accept m devotion and MOt betray It b becoming "oamtra wise." as almost all Juvenile actors of the screen do. Most affectionately vours, 3 mi:s W DEAN. p p You may call me Jim. if you like, but please destre t b - note 1 ' might be found and printed In some newspaper J.W. D. HOW TO SELL .SCENARIOS. John Emerson recently told in nj radio talk how to market scenarios. He answered the questions most asked In the past year, in brie.', hit ad Ice was Unpublished stories are more in demand In Hollywood than In New York. It Is most convenient to 111 your Btor! to a magazine first and then market the movie rights. Send storiea to scenario editors In short story synopsis form. Original stories sell from r,oo to $60,000. depending on who you lire and whom you sell to Romantic melodramas and comedies come-dies are most in demand Try to get studio experience In any a parity, from charwoman to extra von can't copyrlgh1 scenarios, as such, but v.'ii . an copyright short stories and retain the movie rights. A synopsis should be 500 to 1000 words long. CHAPLIN'S ' VRMEN Chaplin's burlesque on "Carmen." made in the old Essanny days, is now being revived. Here was a play that took the comedian entirely out of hH character of lopped-over shoes, cane and derby hat. one wonders why Chaplin waa not noticed then as an "artist." It has been only in the last two years th it commentators on motion pictures hae hod the temerity to refer to him as an a rt I st . Another Interesting thing about this old picture is that Ben Turpin appeared in it ns an unnamed player And bla crossed eyes were Just as crossed and Just aa funny then SB they are now. The road to fame Is a long one and a hard pull Mania Manon Is to play the role of Lady Astrupp, the "vamp" In "Tho M asquerader." John Gilbert is to star in ' The Splendid Outcast" by George Glbbs. and Tom Mix In "Alcatrar.," by Max Brand. Charles Ray s first picture under hia . .inirm ! vrith United Artists will probably be ' Tho Ta Ik.i -Mado Man." whleh was originally bought by Mary Plckford from Goldwyn as a vehicle for Jack Plckford. n Many college students appear as extras In "Sonny," Richard Barthel-mess' Barthel-mess' next. Gladys Walton Is filming "Top o' th-- Mornin'." , MABEL XORMAND'S NEXT Mabel Normand's current production, produc-tion, Suzanna" Is about half completed. complet-ed. Mack Sennet expects to have H ready for release next June. Suzanna" Is an adaption of a new-novel new-novel of the same name by Linton Wells. The action Lakes place in the California of l s 3 r. . es, who Is working In close cooperation coop-eration with the producers, tells me that the picture will be historically true to the most minute detail when finally completed. Adance photographs sent to me show Mabel Normand as a hoydenish maid in Indian costume and feather headdress To some this may not se, n. historically correct. Neither Indians nor frontiersmen are credited with a sense of humor or a love of fun In his- tOrlSS Well's version of history promles more veracity than school textbooks. A race without a sense of humor or the lo e of fun could not have faced the hardships of the pioneering To the light-hearted goes the battle. bat-tle. That was why doughboys were compelled to sing on the march. Bravo for Wells' He has written the Joy of life Into history. IRENE CASTLE S CTOTHES Irene Ca6tle in her current release, "French Heels " has more changea of dress than Gloria Swanson had in ' Her Husband's Trademark." That's saying considerable, but there Is some excuso for Irene's changes; she appears ap-pears more nicely. The difference between Irene's fancy fan-cy clothes and those of Gloria aro that Irene's fit the occasion moro nicely And without confining tho comparison compari-son to Gloria alone, It might be safely said that -Irene wears her clothes to better advantage than most of the actresses act-resses of the screen A safety pin or two and a few yards of clothes suffice to make hei look graceful. THE OLD DAYS Carey Wilson, scenario writer for Goldwyn, was recently talking about the old das. Here are some of his observations . Exhibitors used to buy sensational posters and then shop for films to match them. Exhibitors used to pay $2 a week license for the privilege of using a motion mo-tion picture projector. Ten years ago the genius of D. W. Griffith was recognized. Exhibitors would havo a ' Blograph Day" one, e -cry two weeks when four or five onc-reelers onc-reelers directed by Griffith were shown. John Bunny made the first personal appearance with a movie That, In northern New Jersey in 1910. The theatre was partly wrecked and Bunny Bun-ny had to stay until 1 a. m for all to seo and hear him The first stage favorite in the movies mo-vies was Mabel Taliaferro in "Cinder-' ella." That was some time before Ad-olph Ad-olph Zukor and Dan Frohman started tb stage player's policy. Wilson stood on the back of the Strand Theatre, New ork, shortly after af-ter It opened, with the late Mitchell Ing a Sennot comedy. Mark said, "That little fellow with the big pants Is surely funny." Neither of them knew his name then. It was Charlie Chaplin, THE MOVIETORILM Marie Shotwell. stage player, is In the cast of "Shackles of Gold," William Wil-liam Farnum's next picture. William Russell's next film is an adaption of "Mixed Faces." the noel by Koy Norton. i a Bcbe Daniels says sho Isn't going to marry Jack Dempsey or anjono else And that's that Ethel Grey Terry Is leading lady in '"Travelin' On,"' the latest release of Bill Hart's last series of westerns. Henri Tdamant-Berger is on the way from Paris to the United Stats with several of his latest films. Ho recently recent-ly completed "The Three Musketeers" In 30 reels. David Powell, recently returned from ICngland will appear with Gloria hwaneon in ' The Glldfd Cage. ' mm Will Walling and Jack Carlyle will plav with their backs to tho audience until the final reel of "Val of Par.i-dlss." Par.i-dlss." They appear as mstery characters. char-acters. Important statistics juHt published show that if the clears Theodore Ko-lierts Ko-lierts smokes in one year were laid end to end they would reach from Mad-cria, Mad-cria, O,, to the Canary Lslands. V M W TYPE OF im KR. Th American woman is tired of the bright young business man type of lover Kux Lncxaxu. movie direc tor, says that type Is definitely obso-l lete. I That aujrurs 111 for tho millions of youths whoso ambition to get ahead In tho business of th- world l.s fired by the desire to establish a home. Ingram says, ' The American business busi-ness man Is too easily read, too frank, too obvious To the American Ameri-can woman he Is like a book, rather a naive book, whkh shs has read and yawned over several times. "The romantic lover has seized upon her mind, her heart. Sh doesn't want a man who conducts his battles over a desk top with pen and Ink and telephone t)ne wants Instead the duel and fin- and brilliancy in love-making This is tho heyday of thi subtle l"er a j dangerous' day for the American husband." hus-band." I Ingram attributes the present I vogue of costume pictures to Chla new attitude of woman. They revive th romantic age In which there was uncertainty and a dependence on mans greater strength. "Nowadays a woman couldn't be dependent if she wanted to." says Ingram, "so she goes to tho other extreme, achieving an almost masculine mascu-line contempt for the support of men." It was along such lines of logic that Ingram decided to film "The Prisoner of Zenda." He helloes that it proved to ! the most romantic play of the Anx-rlcan tage. considering consid-ering its appeal to feminine hearts That play contrasts Rudolph lias; sendyll, tin- vigorous, honest fighter, and Rupert of Hentzau. who. like his rapier, is keen, pointed, inslnu-ant. inslnu-ant. Ingram hold-; thai a man s cour-ago cour-ago n heightened rather than harmed by gay villainy. It is the scintillant sinner who I today makes the most do-ifid V,, peal to women, ' Ingram declares - 1 ' RICHARD HEADRICK Richard Headrlck, the child actor received a score of 96 60 for physic perfection from Judges of the Moth era' Educational Center LoVan. , Friend, claim for him tSe AP' coast swimming championship for the atfes of 3 months to 4 year hi. Krtll hardly be disputed by InV months-old swimming prodlKies t i " ' screen appearance i. in "ffl -f '""ted by j0nhnTiv: (HE INGRAM THEORY. Some women may protest nl r iBHHHHfl gram's notion that scintillating, jH (Continued on Following Page.) 9RM 4 LITTLE STORIES (Continued From Preceding Page. ners are the most worshiped heroes So may some hard-headed business men and psychologists. However, Jhe Kreater proof seems to rest with 1 npram. InKram's greatest success, and one of the photoplay's greatest successes, was The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." The hero of thai film wa; a philanderer phi-landerer who had his way with women wo-men In Argentine dani-e halls and Paris studios. He was a libertine who violated the sanctity of another man s home. Tha part was played by Rudolph Valentino until then an obscure actor. Today he receives more maf.li note from flappers than any other male star Because of the adoration adora-tion ot women he receives a aulary much greater than he received a year ago and much greater than his talents as an actor entitle him to Ingram believes that the dark Latin is the type of greatest appeal to women. "To arouse the women of todav ' he declares, "the screen Idol mum have an instant, exotlo appeal, stirring feminine Imagination leaving some quality of the unknown for her to ponder upon when she leaves the theatre ." For the pari of Rupert of Hentzau in his new film Ingram chose Ramon SamanUgos. unknown as a serei n a -tor. He was dancer In a small I-os Angeles theatre when he caught t.ie i fancy Of Ingram He may prove to bo another Valentino ON LIAR I N f TRAINS The wearing of trains as a mark of elegance In films has been ridiculed ridi-culed in these columns heretofore The point taken was ihat most film actresses rnnnot wear train! gracefully grace-fully nn.l that they arc shown wearing wear-ing them at improper times A singer, evidently- Inerperienced in public uppearam e, took part in a recent re-cent movie presentation on Broad-Way, Broad-Way, She wore B long iraln nnd an Immense ostrich fan. Bm iiarrured by her equipment she mad- two false starts before she finally began her solo. When she appeared later she had folded her ostrh h fan and carried car-ried her train. She performed ut ease on this occasion. j Man; ' film artre-i.se- might fd better bet-ter if they dressed In better taatc. SEQl 1-71, TO Till SHEIK Now they're goins to have a sequel to 'The Sheik " It Is to be called "Burning Sand? ' The 'Sheik" situation situ-ation Is reerse.1 A woman goes out Into 'he desert lo capture tho man she loves She brings him back Arthur Wrigall, who wrote It. has lived In Egypt and Arabia most of hN life The film will probably be made In California Mary Wynn Is a niece of Eddl" Polo, screen acrobat. She plays in The Man -Yho Smiled" Fred Niblo v. ho directed "The Three Musketeers. is to direct th screen version of "Blood and Sand John S Robertson, who was to have directed It. did not complete "Spanish Jade in time to start the new production. pro-duction. George Fltzmaurlce has completed "The Man From Home " filmed In Italy and London (iHK VI M STER Luhitsch proves again in "The Loves of Pharaoh" that he is the screen's greatest master In the handling of great numbers of actors. There Is hardly any comparison to : bo made between this film and other spectacle films. Tho only one I hae ver seen with such great numbers of players In ' Theodora ' In many shots Luhitsch ha6 posed hundreds of extras in serried rows Motionless, they appear as Inanimate i features of the setting until they begin be-gin to move In one accord. Humans appear as ants in their sand hills in some Jong shots. In other scenes human fle-sh in masses stirs like foliage in a wind-caressed forest. In closw-ups the unity of action of the close-Jammed crowds gives them the effect of a molten mass. Lubltsch has accompll-hed In this film the element that was lacking in "Theodora" a well-sustained romance. ro-mance. Despite the great footage that depicts de-picts mob scenes, battles, and armies' on the march, despite massive sets that catch the eye, interest in the atory never lags Theonls, a slae girl, was stolen from tho entourage of Samlak. Ethiopian king, by Ramphls, a subject sub-ject of Amines pharaoh of Egypt. Ramphio and Theonls seek shelter in the sacred treasure house. That was a capital crlnVe. Theonls pleads with Amenes fori tho life of Ramphls, Amenta, struck by the beauty of Theonls, ret ting her hn his castle and exiles Ramphls to the quarries. But even when Amenes makes Theonls queen of Egypt she will not recognize him as husband. THEY" tO TO WAR Egyptians and Ethiopians go to war because the Egyptian ruler had refused to restore the lavo girl to the Ethiopian king. It seems that even thousands of years ajco men were sacrificed for the capricious whims of rulers. Tho pharaoh was wounded The Egyptians retreat to their fortified olty. Rantphls, freed from the quarry, rallies them to battle and to v-lotory.' Theonls. proclaimed queen when It appears Amenes was killed In battle, chooses Ramphls as pharaoh. Then the old ruler appears. Shorn of his royal robes, unkempt. bedraggled be-draggled he a sorry (Spectacle. Men who had been alavo to him tor- nvent their fallen monarch. He falls (lead U pon hi-" former throne. Em1l Jannlngs. who was Henry VIII In 'Deception. Is Pharaoh niene? Paul Vrrcner. the central figure of The Golem,-' la the Ethiopian Ethi-opian king Dagny Servaes, reputed to be the moat beautiful actress In Europe Is the heroine The hero l Henry Eledtke called the Wally Reld of Europe." There have been 'all-star casts in American pictures, hut no other film w hich 1 hc seen has contained four plavers the equal of those four In mimetic ability. That N probably because Lubltach allowed them to Interpret In-terpret their roles as they themselves aeneed them. A long line Btand3 In front of the Criterion theatre each day waiting :o see the film That long line prom-Isea prom-Isea to hr ther for months to come, fo. The Ixveg of Pharaoh" is one of tne greatest achievements in film history. a a COMPARISONS In praising the directorial ability of Lubitsth In "The I.ovcs of Pharaoh." I am not forgetting the pi n is" I expressed for that of D W Griffith In "Orphans of the Storm. There is little basts of comparison L.ubitsch d'i.s not compare to Srlfflth as a master in human appeal D. W. Griffith tears the masks off the spectators. spec-tators. He make them laugh and ueep with his screen characters. He makes the screen romances, tragedies and comedies things of flcyh and blood. Lubltsch's mastery lies In astonishing astonish-ing his spectators, in giving realism to pages of history that appear napless nap-less In print. In the comprehension of muss movement Lubltsch and Griffith are supreme In separate fields like Burns and Sheakcspeare, like Bernard Shaw and H. VL Wells, like Babo Ruth and I'hrlsty Mathewson. like Dempsey irwl IiMinrl lllrn TTr.r1 nnrl TTVllcrn a e MARY'S AVI) DOUG'S NEW ONE8 "The Spirit of Chivalry" will be Oouir Fairbanks' next. It is based on "Ivanhoe" and "Richard, the Lion -Hearted " After that ho will do The Virginians" and then a sequel to "The Mark of Zirr. 1 nmv belnsr written hv Johnston McCulley After Mary Plckford completes! "Tests of ihe Storm CountryV she! will probably make Dorothy Ver-j non of Haddon Hall " Jack Pick-1 ford is to appear in "Garrison's Finish'' after ho completes A Tailor Made Man." 'The Black Bag" Herbert Raw-linson's Raw-linson's next. Charles Jones le t.i etar in a film erslon of George Goodehlld s new novel, "Trooper O'Xell." English exhibitors are planning to lift the bun against German moviea Maybe the war Ii over, after all. Tom Melghan reads 100 novels a year, also short stories and plavs That to find material for icreen vehicles |