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Show If LITTLE YARNS ABOUT I FILMS, STARS, PLAYS I AND LIFE IN MOVIES H i . - - m M By JAMES W. DEAN. HB NEW YORK, March 11. Who Is EEp thlR fellow Philip E Rosen'' Ktrer ti' hc-ir of him. I lH He directed Wally Reid In The H World's Champion." That's as mch I H ; A3 I know about him, hut for that 8 one Job he should receive some en- S during praise. I lH A bounder built on the archltec- i tural lines of Jess Wlllard knocKs AVally Reid down three times In that H H film. Of course, you know that bc- ) fore the fade-out Wally will hav.- SSi if squared matters with him. Wnlly n-turns after fle years, th i I champion middleweight fighter of the D world The big tellow Invites him 1 outstdV Bji W.illy takes off his ring, sticks il in his waistcoat and goes forth to battle. Thi-ro's where Rosen did the ' heroic thing he didn't show the scene In whl b Wally overwhelmed his heavy ader.-arv OB . Wallv returns, smoothes his hair. f ' -iM replaces his ring and whl-ths a little r ip 1 tune. The heavy weight La -arrled Iti P'ssVj later on a door by six formal at-tendants at-tendants HrH The director leaves it to our JI zr imagination as to whether W ill I wore bra's knurks or belabored the K fellow ith a dray pin BrrH Thai a more Judgment, than hn J been tiscd by the directors who have VHH. bad Wally knocking out i-ontcndcra j to Dempsey's crown In other pie- M J tures M IjIKK KIA.IOT DIATKR. SEr Ht i j Many s re-n players appear In th Sr same ort of character so often that I J their screen charuc;crs become their 9k real characters In the evi-s of the pub- K-asKS 110 I Thua. Elliott Uexter Is regarded by Kfl many of the girls as an ideal "catch." flr for he Is ever the patient, under- 4 standing man, the trusted friend or v the imposed upon hu.sbu.iid fi In his latest film Grand Liifdiy " f he is again the husband forsaken by fljjfl a trusted v. if HHPr As I left the Capitol, v. 1 1 i li Larceny" had 'Its Wv Yurk pi-emler, I heard one trirl nj , "I think Ixwell .Sherman is the nastiest man I ever K saw " Sherman is the wrecker of IiflH the film home He was the villain In I I Molly O" and svas reallstb enouph ; Pfli to create a feeling of enmity among ml , women spectators jl , ' Grand Ijarren" is one of these films which become Intimate with th l audience bv asking a you qtJe-j Ml tion The question is- "If you were if in the position of Kathleen Vaughn PB and had been divorced from two W- l jealous men. to which would you r-- Kf -i turn later on ' r would you return I U either?" POT P It Is doubtful If eiihrr of two hut W VmdR would care for her to return jm W after she had left the first for the Sy p second and after leaving the second Tl j had no ehoi-e us to whom she would choose after her return from a world 3 into which she had gone to make jH something of herself Dexter may have grained the sympathy and Sherman the antagon ism of the feminine fans, but to mascuillne onlookers It appeared that Dexter was a bit of a .-Imp In falling for i such r butterfly and Shermun less of o cad for turning her out. f It may bo that Albert Pnyson Ter- hune, the author, wrote some ennob ling trail Into the woman's character which was lost In its transition to the screen. CRITICS ATTACKED t riUcs of the movies are themselves them-selves ready subject to criticism A. writer in the current lsaue of The Nation' points to the lack of plausibility of some o( Douglas Kalr-hank-i herolc-s In "The Three Muaketeers" and then qualifies the rrltlclsrn by adding, 'But critical strictures like these are in vain when the desire of youth to be bravi- and the best story of romantic adventur vcr written tukes a new- lease of life 1 In a new and vivid medium " i Kew critics like the one here qunimi admit their own estimates may suner through their own limitations of I ie wpolnt. SI IT C,A1NST ( ENSOR8BDP. Pathe hns brought suit to enjoin the New York state board of censor from deleting scenes from news reels This suit seems to get at the very core of the censorship question I The camera tells news, fft'-ts Tin: camera report would hardly lend Itself to distortion as IhVlCh as the written report. Th- me hanlcal -e 1 Is truer than the human eye After all, the vital iiuestlon in ccn-nrshl ccn-nrshl li whether truth if to bn suppri.-:ttd, whether it appears i.i print, celluloid or oji the stage. One of the frequent Inconsistencies of screen censorship in seen tn the recent banning by the Ohio etate cen-s.ir cen-s.ir of "The Sin Flood " The film erslon ends with one of the persons who faced death reforming. The stage version. culled "Tho Deluge.' end: with rrone of the characters having benefited by ha Ing ruhherl elbows with Death. Yet the Ktage play sooner or letter will he played In i.-hio v. ithout dange, of being dcvltallzt d. ANITA'S BROTIfKR. Geoire Stewart, - brother of Anita Stewart, has been signed to star in a new scries of ''hrl.stle ( omedl s to be made for Kducational Chur-lotte Chur-lotte Stevens. winner of a Chicago beauty contest has also contracted with the same company. She niiyj appear opposite Stewart. In thnv event they will probably be the youngest pul of leading players on the screen. Stewart is 21; BCiuj Stevens, 17 " ' " STIIUUKG Cl-IMAA A wall of water, 40 feet high, sweeping sweep-ing and swirlln? down through a narrow nar-row chasm A man ami i wonisn in a prairie schooner, driving the team to their utmost before the onrushlng torrent The torrent overtakes tho wagon, breaks over it and engulfs It in tn mad kwp That's the climax you see In "Wild) Honey" Prlcllla Dean's latest Icreenjl offering, nnd If ou can sit through' It without feeling a bit of gooseflesh or a crinkle in the eple ou prob-l ably can walk barefoot over red cOals.j As If to OKSuro you that you have wlthcmcd no mere tr l-k r.f photography, photog-raphy, you are shown rriwclDa's siartled face In the under eddies of the turbulent water If ther Is any face that can ap-pe.ir ap-pe.ir more startled than that off Prlscllla It has not vet made its appearance ap-pearance on the screen. Dooklng startled is her chief stock In trade, yet It I" almost exhausted in this most mellow of melodrama Here Is a noteworthy film. It makes no pretense at subtlety or plausibility Its mission Is to astound you Villain Number One bites the dust when he traps Prlscllla In a lonely bouse in England. Vllllan Number Two bites the dust when he threatens threat-ens Prlscllla In the wilds of Afrle i An entire crew of lllains are wiped out In their own mad scheme to destroy Prlscllla's friend3 by bloating a dam. KOMK BIG TTLRIDli However, all of this? melodrama-palee melodrama-palee Into Insignificance beside the 1 thrill that follows the bursting of, the dnm. Th early episodes of the play have' nothing to do with the latter except ex-cept to give the film color mostly yellow Slnco the apparent dangers faced by the star probably were effected1 without real danger to her, the palm for meritorious work in this film mufrt go to Wallace Beery, Vllllan Number Two The only exhibitions of facial acting act-ing this year equal to Wallace! Beery's In this film are those of L11-! llan Olsh In "Orphana of the Storm," Eric Von Strohelm In "Foolish Wives anel Paul V'genfri in The ' Doves of Pharoah. " Wesley Ruggles who directed I "Wild Honey, ' beaddled the storv, i but he gae It u background of exquisite ex-quisite settings. Some of tho ex- ' terlors are as beautiful pastoral dec-orations. They are effectl'-o in' lh:it thev set off the players ifi sharp relief against soft backgrounds A RF.ITKRATION Beveral months ago this revi wwt after seeing S'allace Beery as the llllau in Selig-Roj-k two-reel dramas wrote "Vk take ..ff tuir hat to Wallace Wal-lace Beerj as the best heaVy of the screen " After an exploitation man had picked up the phrase, crediting it to the writer and broadcastlnK it.1 the writer was In doubt as to whcth'i the expression had sprung from en-! thusla.sm of the moment or due deliberation de-liberation After seeing the work of Beer In Wild Honey.' let It be here recorded In calculated reiteration reitera-tion -"We take- off our hat to Walla, Wal-la, e Beery a the lies, heavy on the screen " How many ;cwels did tho late royal family of Russia possess0 A pendant which Mia Mi) wears in 'The Mistress Mis-tress of the World " The Germain I chapter play, lb said to have be-longed be-longed to Czar N i . vo i . THOROl GIINF.SS Clifton seems to have overlooked no detail in his preparation for the fiim, "Down to the Sea In Ships." it is to i treat of the early whaling days of New England He has -bartered the oldest whaling schooner afloat. He has arranged ar-ranged to garb his characters In clothing cloth-ing Inherited from past generations The Interior scenes will bo filmed In the old Handy House' at New Bel-ford Bel-ford Mass It is 207 year?1 old if W1NVHH comks It appears that William Fox had a previous claim on the screen rights to A S. M Hutchinspn's "If Winter Comes " Paramount had planned l" film it The Fox announcement states! that a speclul production will be made ' of the stdry. but the director and cast have not been selected. T1IK M IFTTORir.M Emmett Flynn announces that he has .selected the entire caet for the new film version of "A Fool There as " except the vampire How enn he have a fool without a vamp? "THK GOAT" Something Is lacking In Buster Kea-ton's Kea-ton's newest comedy, The Goat," to lift It out of tho rut of ordinary slap-rtlck slap-rtlck comics It replete with funny fun-ny situations In rare moments It appeals ap-peals to the sympathy of the audience Its chief fault lies in the lack of even slender thread f ntory That is esse ntial even to good Blap-ltlck oom-edy oom-edy This comedy 1 dlffen-nt than other Kcaton comedies in that It contains con-tains no mechanical tricks to astound tho audience such as have marked all Keaton comedies and. in particular. "The Haunted House" and "The Playhouse." Play-house." THK I . AT V. I" H M l IN Charlie Chaplin's new comic Is called call-ed 'Fay Day." It is a two-reeler. It was presented without announcement jit Pasadena. Cab, the other day and received a irreat reception. Chaplin wan thore. Contrary to advance reports, re-ports, it Is not slapstick stuff WHAT'S IN a rm h Tonstance Talmadpe s personal rep-renentatlvo rep-renentatlvo announced that a dlvon e between i.'onntance and her husband wax lminln-nt About that time Constance Con-stance started to film a picture entitled entit-led ' The Divorcee." Then It was reported re-ported that Constance would not be In divorce court. Now the title Is chanK- fed to Th" primitive Ixver " The value of the title change anj attend-and attend-and publicity is of dubious value - MORI sin ik SOT I r Edith Hull Jumped from obscurity to fame with her novel, "The Kheik " It proved Itn'riheheUy popular u a movie. I So William Vox wan on the alert for her next story- It Is "The Shadow of jof the East." ) Although Mrs. Hull's last novel has inot been published in the United States H'ox has already purchased screen rlKhts to it. When "The Sheik ' jjroved a success On the screen. Paramount negotiated for a sequel to It called "Burning Sands " That Is by another author. YllAgruph announces u new picture called -Th- Sheik's Wife." WTth all due respect to movie producers, pro-ducers, it appears that Harry Carey jwas rlgnt when he told me that there were a lot of sheep In the movie Industry, In-dustry, that if picture made money, there was Immediately a deluge of the name kind tft films. . Squashes. egRs. chickens, tomatoes, potatoes and Wheat arc accepted In lieu of coin for admission to the Snow-flak" Snow-flak" theatre, Holbiook, Ariz I FILMING M UN SOTUSJEl Arrangements have finally been made for the filming of "Main Street." thi Sinclair LeWle story WhicJ) proved j to bo the best seller of latt year The announcement of the filming states that the movh- will be icady by next si-ason That will make the picture two seasons old. Terms of the deal which gives film riKhts to Warner Hrothera are not made public It was held for sale on a percentage basis by the Shuberts. The appearance of 'Main Street" on tho screen two seasons beyond the peak of Its popularity in book form lessens it value. It will be stall- stuff then. the book and the ' version having sapped Its Interest. In-terest. Then. too. the public point of iew Will have changed . This Is manl-i manl-i o s t -, j in the cycle movements of styles In literature ami drama. Closely following ' Main Street" in point of interest at the time of its greatest popularity were "Moon Palf" by Floyd lell, nnd "Mi IajIu Bett" by Zona GaJo. The small town was the setting of each of these. Interest In "small town" fiction Was on the wane when William Dud-Icy Dud-Icy felly wrote 'The Kog. ' which. Hi the opinion" f this writer, wu-s h far truer dOCtiTnent of small town life than any of the three aforvmen-itloned aforvmen-itloned books. The Pox" was not a "best seller' because the literary geographical center had shifted rom Gopher Prairie to the South Sea islands when it WIXJS published. Tho literature, moved Into a new Cycle WltlVtWrhfeh hvjl.'- as The Growth of the Soil' by Knut Hani-son. Hani-son. "Tho Outline of History," by II (J Wills, an. I "Back to Methuselah" Methuse-lah" by George Ucrnu,rd Shaw. Thf moVles win probably b&Ve' one of this latter group sometime in 19C"f or 19 J6 Half n dozen uio lea Bet in the South Sea Islands have been made, but will not bo relea-J for several months. No matter what technical or dramaturgic dra-maturgic advance Is made by Ihe screen It can not claim recognition with the other .trts until It croates Its own now styles or nt bast keeps kbre&el of literature and stage styles. The stage keeps abread of llteru-ture llteru-ture when it is not setting the pace for the written art. Tho Theatn- Guild is now producing in New York Shaw's "Bftclj to Methuselah." That booii contain too much iri-itcrluJ for one nltfhi h pert ormancn, oo It is being produced In three part. WKAKING TRAINS. I w women know bow to wcjr q train gracefully Few tr' -o wear them W'eartnK ;i tralti Kmceiully 1$ laigel- a jnutttr of exiierieme, It seems like holding u clganH grace-fully grace-fully or l)ejfj.'ltig pardon gracefully. Yt directors put traliij; on youth- ful actresses to show still more youth ful girls who watch the movies how a train should be worn. On" o' the most comical situations 1 have ever soon on the screen was a young lady Wearing a train In Cecil DeMille's Saturday Night." The perfect train-wearer is .dry. Leslie Cartotr. She has done It for years. l OPlT-AUITA . It is taken as a mark of popularity when a stage player is .-. pplaudcd when ho first appears Sometimes It Is a mark of lack of refinement on the part of his friends who embar rass him and others in the cast. Once in a great while the entrance of a film player on the screen 1- ap-p'l ap-p'l ided for the nr.-icae in'm-. in'm-. p.-rl n. -e he.trd apiftause at th announcement of a Him. That was at the Rlvoll. When the title read. "Harold Lloyd In From Hand to Mouth" spectators clapped. An un-usual un-usual tribute B8a . . e H Nigel F.arrie supports Kathenne fl Mat Donald in Friday to Monday." Bag Joseph Swickard and Matt Moor aro in the cast of "Tho Storm." |