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Show LITTLE YARNS ABOUT FILMS, STARS, PLAYS AND LIFE IN MOVES (BY JAMES W. TH j v. NEW YORK, July x. Too much , footase ruins men) otherwise eplen- . did photoplays. The excess Is usual- ly bunk, called atmosphere. This v bunk costs th rxhihltor extra money and consume more time in projec- tlon. As a Result tli audience sees a iea diversified progrStrn. 'V'j Pome reviewers, this mie among tnem, ha 'e been cuinpalKnlnK ir y months for the elimination of this 'N excess footage In feature pictures. Now Frank F,. Wood, chief supervisor super-visor of th I.asky studio, says: "The day is past when on author And director di-rector feel it necessary to waste a reel or two fit the start of a picture establishing such vague things as atmosphere at-mosphere and character environment. Our Instructions are like those given in; 1 uri in fiujuiu.r union. iei your story going and keep It going." Wood recites how the now order of thinjrs h.i been effected in these, i om-mr om-mr Paramount pictures. Here s the way "On Hlph Sms" starts. Stateroom on ocean liner. Young society girl. Irritated Maid has forgotten to sew button on a slipper. slip-per. In the hold rats leaving :h shin, men pumplnp water to slny a fin- n dfek passengers flerlncr to life boats. The girl refuses to belb-ve sho In danger. The ship goes down Slio finds herself in a leaky rowboal wrh two stokers. And in "The Tnnnc Rajah": sitting room of old New Borland home Stormy night. K:irmiT and his wife interrupted by two Basl Indian, who bring with them a dark-klnned boy whom they treat with deference. They lay great sums of money on the tabjc and many jewels. "Will you takr the boy and these?" they ask Opening scene of The Ghost Breaker': New Yorker lsltn old Kentucky home. Arrives In Llmi to dodge feudists" bullets. Fights w.iy out. Followed to New York by man who has sworn to kill him. They meet in hotel elevator. New Xorkov shoots first. Escapes into first room lie finds. Spanish princess In bed. She - 1 ' saves him from police 1 1 o agrees to go to Spain with nor to fleiht ghosts that fill her ancestral castle. - Those three photoplays promise to contain the om element '-hit ill good photoplays contain, actioi. hen the action of a feature film moves with SUch rapidity It generilly can be told in five reels. That allows tho exhibitor to build i I balanced program Tho ncWsreels, the comedy and such short subjects as the Bruce and Tost sconlos, i ., ho Review, I'rbnn Movie Chat, Prisma color pictures and nport reviews have become an essential feature of the theatre program. Long fturs do not permit their showing. George Bernard Shaw announces that an American company has of-fered of-fered him $100. oon a year for five HIM f,.r Din ..i,-nrr., f 1 I mm I ,ui nil IMJHIVdC VI milling lW of his stories -1 year. Shaw Is one of the few great authors au-thors who hf e refused to have their stories filmed. Many who oner, frowned frown-ed upon tho movies condeacerdod to the filming of their stsricn when the price offered -?ould not be resisted. Shaw's price may be 9100,000 s veir REFLOGR APHS A course in "Motion Pictures and Education" Is being given nt the summer sum-mer session of the University of Ten-i neuee A 1ng will again be the central j in u jiciuen i.. tsruoe picture. This film will ), -ailed 'Jenkins and th" Mutt " Jackie Coogan"8 nxt picture will be directon by E Mason Hopper. 9 Jun Blvjdge is to play an Important Import-ant part In The- impossible Mrs Bel-lew." Bel-lew." Arthur Rankin, who plays in "To Have and To Hold." Is a brother of Doris Rankin, who Is Mrs Lionel Bar-rymore Bar-rymore off -state. ' When the director hunts Milton Sills he usually can find him back of I mo greens reauinR a seed catalog or I florlcultural paper. " - Ernest Luhitsoh will not produce any more of the historical films or great I mass action which made him famous, accordlnK to Milton Bronner who v.rit'-s me from London. "Films featured by great numbers of extras were a novelty when I first made them," Lubt.ch "told Bronner. i "Now everybyidy Is making them and i the public is weary of them. My ncx' pli lures will have 3rnall casts arid will not be historical." When Lubltsch was In America ho told me he believed American films ,far superior to others In technique of photography and la attention to .detail He tells Bronner he believes 'European films excel those of America Amer-ica In the grouping of actors before ;the camera His own pictures uphold up-hold that contention. Now that Lubltsch is devoting himself him-self to pictures with smaller caats and nppHinir the American Idea of atten- tlon to decorative detail, his next films should prove to be models of pictorial composition tea Lubltsch is making some films especially es-pecially for American exhibition, j "I shall not attempt to do a .story of American life; I am not so silly " Lubltsch told Bronner. "I am a Ger- man and understand German ways and German life. It take an American Amer-ican to understand America. If I attempted at-tempted to produce an American storv II probably should bungle it. I "There are a thousand little differences differ-ences in the ereryda life of two ! people They differ in the way they enter room, shake hands, bow to the : ladles, eat and drink and so forth "The best thing i can do for America Amer-ica Is to produce some story whose Immoral, pns.slon. tragedy or feeling Is so universal that Americans will ap- predate It in the- same way as Germans." Ger-mans." Lubltsch thus has given Insight Into tho two virtue? that make him a great director. hLs readiness to ehnnue from a type of picture that ha brought him I fame and his discernment of his own I limitations due to difference in na-1 na-1 1 lonal customs. The fault of many American directors direc-tors is that having once produce,) a meritorious picture they fashion all subsequent plcinres from the wame patterp. The fault of many European directors direc-tors Is that they have been too deeply deep-ly Impressed with their own reactions reac-tions to their work. Having no sense Of humor they do not strive to appeal ;to those who do have a senso of humor. Thus the serious tragedy of their films is laid on so thick that It pre-1 Isenti a ludicrous surface to the Am-! erican who would rather see the comic I side of life than the tragic. 4 The complete ra.st and technical 1 ,crow will be taken to the Island of: I Tahiti ny R A Walsh, director of! "Captain Blackbird." Tho outfit will said from Ban Francisco July 7 with; full llghrtnc and development equip-j ment. The story is an original photo-drama photo-drama of the South Fea written by Carey Wilson . With the picture pho- i t'-isrrnphed In th actual locale of the i action there will be no criticism ofi the 'atmosphere.1 a CIXEMAGRAM8 Myrtle Btedman will be seen In The Dangerous Age." The Tudor rose was emorolderod on every costume worn In the Henr VIII court scene of "When Knighthood Was In Flower." a ' a Sidney Dean has been added to the cast of "Missing Millions" starring Alice Brady. 4 William DeMUls has started the filming of Clarence," by Booth Tar-klngton. Tar-klngton. The cast includes Wallace Reld, Agnes Ayres. Theodore Roberts. Rob-erts. May McAvoy and Kathlyn Williams. Wil-liams. Georg VBnen. son of the San Francisco police chief, appears as a Royal Northwest Mounted policeman in a picture with Betty Compson and as a traffic cop in ' Manslaughter." Maybe heredity counts, after all. The success of many a photopla; has been made by the crv or th laugh of a child. Probably no arti floe of the screen has so quick am definite n reaction on the audlenco a I '-loie-up of a crying hahe. FOnooth, B child cannot be beaten 0 tortured to make It cry Just to give ( dlroctor a tender moment In his film so many an Ingenious device must b resorted to Little Josephine Adair refused tc simulate grief for an episode In "Ii the Name, of the Law." Her mothe COld her th tragic story of the Mf I. xirl whom she was Impersonating Ii the play, but the child semod. to sens, the make-believe jn it all. Then Emory Johnson, the director quietly secured her p-t. doll and, go Ing behind the scenes, tore Its drev: to pieces Then he told Josephine , big dog had destroyed the doll. Th( deslrod effect was obtalned Tin tragedy was real to the tot. m m Some may hold that mental tor ture of a child Is more cruel than phv slca! mlstrentment The loss of a do through the eyr of ;l chlM may np Dear ns great os the loss of a child t a mother. m,j, the director restored osephlne Adalr'b doll to her ami '-ought a new dres,s for It h t"lliHlcyd ,h" child and compensated compen-sated her for her fears. After all. th depth or tragedy Is proportionate to ltf enduj mce Adult players of the creer "; tten led to tear through reminder re-minder Of :rne-,.,1v l v,i .ii men own llvSS. ofSnCiT ?t a Doplay la also ?hl enrtent Pn the reaction of he child spectator. That Is especially 'rue of eorr&rdlcs. 1 nThV,nUlal 8uon-'cfl of Chaplin and Arbuehta and John Bunm were due ihiM r ?wnl 10 children when children In the audience laugh the contagion spreads to their elders IoTk succesa r many a photoplay ; has been made by the cry or the IsluS My no artin'e n K Mr! it " ,th0 "dlence as a close, 'ip of a crying babe Forsooth a child cannot be beaten a director a tender moment In "is film SO many an Ingenious fevtee must be rr-Rorted to co Liltle Josephine AdaJr refused to tragedy was rei to the tot. 'of RnT hoUl ha" mental torture hltd i more i rue! than Dhvdei mistreutment vhe Iom f "S bougl,, a w ,,ro. for II Thej tolOal successes of Chaplin and Arbuckle and John Bunny were duo to thel, appi tochlldren, When cnid-" cnid-" in Ihe audience laugh, the con-tagfon con-tagfon spreads to their eiders. by "Oh rwSfPl.f 0t that ls rniahed o Uh, Daddy," a recent Alack Sen neM comedy. It deals u-ith the tSSul utlons incurred In papering a home I taking care of children and other little domestic affairs i- M-roe,! u, , umeJv for a(Ju , to v h !'.', . " a,mSt "V"ry Parri.-u or atBthe,22 h: iP'" w'as .hown 1 "ic Strand, ,Ne York, it creatert ' many Periods of mirth, each or wh fwas started bv a rhl'd LriKiP-rt. Huhea leU how hie wife collaborates with him In the writing of scenarios .She lells me what to pui down and I put it down." he explains. ex-plains. "She reads It over and tHl, me what to take oul and I take it out" I r CAMERA! OAAfSatA! j Wanda Hawlcy. Bertram Oraaabv and -harles Ogle will support Bo-dcjph Bo-dcjph Valentino In The Young p. A hOO In wh., a .voman teacher Dirda to sing Is shown in a cnmtnx Mo IS hat. Harriel Hammond is playing oppo. sue Herbert Kawllnson in "The Kaln-b Kaln-b v. Cha3er." "The Long Chance" will be refilm-ed refilm-ed with Marjorle Daw In a leading role. Hoot Gibson 1? making "Musf It Turns Chaperon. ' Kdna Murphy la hi.- 'coding woman. Marion Fairfax and Lloyd Sheldon are writing scenario tor Blllie DOVe 5 |