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Show RjnUHIER : , 1 ir Criticisms of Latest Offerings by eading Film Producers ' i i -L. mS Inctlvelj lfs owr-Bofrtf's owr-Bofrtf's rs have been finks' sas mr-ay from that Ell , ..rn tery 5tan-!s K if"; '.. r' K' "Nobody's Mod ey. 1 ' Divorcement." -Robin g wlan." "Ben Hur "P1' .-If Winter Com- HrWf1:'' think of one IB Mm orlyin.nl story J" worth of the general B..'- nnl "Remcmhran Kcrt HuBhes Jlr. ctly for i on original Bsnow on Oo w.iy " f nroken Chain"! " Rj k tfcand "Fun'." but Tn"y KF drops In I ho might'-' Kiu'oid drama En think this decline in KrWnal stores for the I to a lack of supply. Tho K department clone reft, re-ft, saarfoa last year and Karcp-'l Ccc11 Dc rJSnito of r-r oi $1000 i around wnicn a pnoio-MBitrnctcd pnoio-MBitrnctcd it need be only three or four words, obody has submitted an thrf photoplays of Ih j SVn Krdgbthood Was In rente" and "The Old Tbe only motion plc-than plc-than parsing interest dr. an orldnal screen story j 9 - Skin Deep " This (Indicate that the screen HI . d irl jrm. hts to Ethel M. DeJl'i j iTorld." Thomas Hardj a , DTrbervilles" and to tr," a play recently pro- j Ifornia have be( n pu- i imr ethers have purchased , to "Beau Brummel." sfield's hit; Cornered. " , dy's play last vcar and cate a Wife." by Elinor j KIi'.n Hbuchi'.onf of For, tine" and Kli;ht of rjrar.-i 'n I. rir," BU;cr "l h ' ,;'J-Cet-Mcr B Kyn. Wilton Tullv i- preparing I Baits Post In a nc-v i -prllby" whir a was fllnu 1 to vi Kimbal U Wi:ton Lack ye in th rc!f : I K has teen bought and j fait yet la th proe. ss of , ft tht screen but It Is suf-ilcat" suf-ilcat" i h.i tin wi i.e." fifta stories stands wis; his or her ni.iteri;il P: tome tir ' :ue Bit !3 the hope for Mie 1 loping a distinctly ar: t u ' "T ' ' plays an Im- In "Ten Ton Love," the i B aarrln? :i u.- i . :.u,: the is dressed o.s c eo-Bci eo-Bci of tar- scenes of '" r M'- Rlch" v : icli is about I bbsy Bain their foeb'.e way try. W to entertain th..-.-itci little entertainment in jw. Thec attempts arc-Mufflnc arc-Mufflnc t-ecause th pi -Ml b artificial or too much miction of our own ex-Blhe ex-Blhe thrilling e ,i,n, ti;' ic arr- go!u odd corners of th- unl-F' unl-F' arair.Ls ,,r ,.,-,, tv r(, rnukejhllt of man Oe-Wie Oe-Wie cameraman sets hi he can ' ,,np JJJW anunaa ra ls offered in "Wonders ca t yi,lam8' H Myriads of Kiiy strip, ,j B,; ' .fwr" ti ii 'hnple drama of tlu , nt vers-J ln thl, H, f-.v o: lt as th, i,.ai!. I bottom of the. sea like a turtle, safe in Its shell from enemies that swarm ' about It. lie also shows the savage barracuda, barra-cuda, the deadly moray and tho I haunts of the octopus. A swift undertow sweeps the plan'-s that prow on the sea's floor. Tho plc- I ture I.i like that of a forest in a heavy I storm. I Williamson and bis aid jjo below In dhini; BUltl to kill the moray. The cnmoTM shows ou tho shark tielnc caught with bait and hook This 9eeno disproves the theory that a Shark must turn over before ho strikes. Miss Lulu McGrath, a shapely mermaid, mer-maid, dives time and again to pose anion? the fronds for an artist '.o sits in the windowed cell from which the cameraman operates. And one of tho most interesting suois snows Lnis invention or Williamson William-son which permits undersea photography. photog-raphy. The late Alexander Graham Bell is shown going below 1o inspe.. t the contrivance. I If I were to make up a list of tho most intereatlng films of the last few months I would bead the list with "Nanook of the North.," "Man vs. Be ist," "Wonders of the Sea" and tho Pathe "ews picture of the burnimr of Smyrna and the rescue of refugees. refu-gees. Those pictures fleal with nar-ural nar-ural dramas. "Wonders of th. Sea" at the rtlalto and "Man vs Beast" at the Rlvoll ln New York were greeted greet-ed with more applause than the feature fea-ture pictures. We film critics have a hard lirne or it. Listen to this from the review of "The Gypsy Cavalier," starring Georges Carpentler, in the Liverpool Echo. "Right use of adjectives is a nightmare night-mare to V film critic but praise must be given where due. Not onlv I is the general action of the film Bp I. but t'ie action of its individuals individ-uals is crisp and napp " Perhaps some fe-iiow critics In England Eng-land had confided in him their hardships hard-ships with adjectives Says "The Encore En-core of the same film. "The gr-;:t sporting instinct of this flirt alone ii sufficient to appeal gigantically broadcast." And tho Manchester Guardian, "The elegant boxer does not depend on his muscles for his effect His elegance ia genuine He lias the a-- I tlstic sensibility of his race, and j clearly is supple in mind as in bodv." . . "Weight for Me" is the title of tho first of the new Fatty Karr comedies. "Brass Commandments," "William I b arnum s next. ; ' ' "Woman's fear of making lierseir i even momentarily ludicrous is a deep-i deep-i rooted social fear. She doesn't distinguish dis-tinguish between being playfully comic and genuinely ridiculous. She s afraid of losing caste-Men, caste-Men, more sure of themselves (up Ito this generation, at least), havo had almost a monopoly on fun indu.-gence. indu.-gence. S As women become more suro of :' . d s... Ii! station and jjow- ers, as they feel more self-sufficient, they nill more w-l!ling!y poke fun at themselves for wholesome merriment and be less inclined to poke fun at others to bolster their own doubtfui superiority. Walt a minute, girls! Don't throw those bricks' The abov e sentiments j are those of T.oulse Fazenda as ex- pressed to Jack Jungmeyer, the Hol-i lywood liaison officer of this column. ! She is the screeu's only feminine ex- ! iionent Of slapstick comedy. ... Miss Fazenda also told Juncmev-r 'that women are more interested in h r j screen comedies than men. "In my j screen character 1 am only a sexless creature to the men," she said. 'T lack allure. That is probably the rei-son rei-son for woman's reluctance to act ;hi buffoon, It meana a momentary re- 1 taxation of the sex concern. "There are few feminine comedians even in the home because the Amer- i.in woman is so desperately con-cerned con-cerned with beauty and poise. She likes to laugh at others, but bates to be laughed at. She wants to bo dramatic, tragic, heroic, but not even momentarily comic. And too oft?n when she does laugh it is the expression expres-sion of Intolerance, tho verdict of scorn or the chuckle of patronizing superiority." ... Thankful, indeed, am I to Louise-She Louise-She has given me the opportunity and the courage to make an observation obser-vation I have heretofore been too timid or too chivalrous to voice. Woman has no creative sense of humor! There! It's out' There arc exceptions excep-tions to every rule, but few of them ' occur at present to prove the nr. Dorothy Parker, Caroline "Wells, Pay King and Nina Wilcox Putnam ar.i the only ones who come to mind as this is written. There is not one comic cartoon in America which is drawn by a woman. wo-man. Among the outstanding column humorists hu-morists there is not one woman All of the laugh-gcttlng situations in the comedies of Chaplin. Kcaton. ; I Lloyd and Hamilton are evolved wy I men Kva Tanguay Belle Baker and Sophie Tucker are probably the only 1 feminine clowns of the stage. Thov I weren't afraid of their dignity in or-I ! der to appear funny. But none jf I those three had beauty or sex attiav- j tlon in any marked degree. They simply i .'i-offnlzod humor in a condition condi-tion that had been created and made l the best of it. I Out of her character Doulse Fa-lnda Fa-lnda docs possess ".Mure." Jung-meyer Jung-meyer noticed that. So did T when I j J-ouise was in Ne York not long j i a-o Wo Loth had appointments and : v.ere in a hurry; We went to lunch la one of those places where you 6it on a hish s oul at a counter at her pucrgei-tlin. Ilr alluro, or attraction, lay ln tho fact that she could pemh herself on one of those stools without losing her dignity. her poise, anl without being conscious that she was 'doing something unusual for a movie star to do. ln summing up her at-traction at-traction it might be apropos to add that she ins-sled on pay ing her own check. . Another imperfectly forntMl impression impres-sion that I have Is that women Haven": so keenly a developed sense of humor hu-mor ns men because throughout (Ttv generations men have made worry a ( woman's job. Woman has had so much to worry about she hasn't had time to develop a sense of humor. ... Griffith has screened "One Exciting Excit-ing Night'" after the manner of a ator-y teller spinning his tale from! the whole cloth He proceeded to llio-introduction llio-introduction of his characters with some hesitancy as though he were j not sure .lust what part ho would j have each play ln the fanciful story. But once he had sufficient characters char-acters for the story he plunged into , the telling of It, conscious that it would be received somewhat incredu-' incredu-' lously but nevertheless with bated breath. And so he has murders committed and at least half a dozen persons under suspicion and hands reaching out from trick recesses and a constant con-stant pursuit of a bag containing i half a million dollars. When the suspense bc-comos too great and Grlf-tith Grlf-tith is afraid you'll yell right out and stop the narration of the story he Introduces i black-faced servant who is more afraid than you are and after you've bad your laugh tho story-teller gets back to the grisly business of murder and robbery. Thai) just as though It were a SUdden fancy that would allow him to expand hu powers of desi-rlptlon. he introduces a terrific rainstorm i and chases all 1m characters out In' the -wet to make them suffer a bit more before the story is done. jero and heroine catch the villain! I a nu to your (surprise' ii iu: nn out lo( , be just the man ou most logically Jf would have expected to be the villain I.I hut didn't suspect because it. gen-'fi rally spoils a mystery story to haver I j a logical villain. Ergo, a detective i lor a clergyman or a physician is : usually tho villain. Just a whimsy of a master grown 1 1 tired of laboriously putting together, I great spectacle films that is the way I I think of -'One Exciting Night Itjl offered Griffith enough work to keep; I him occupied until he evolves another n great play or staris to film the history I of the world. Griffith presents the film as an, even Dg's ent-rtninment. nothi:.- I more. He eidently saw "The Bat'' I or "The Cat and the Canary" or, I some mystery phiy on the str and E was Impressed by the g:eat diversion I offered by such drama. Anyhow, the I St V. written by Irene Sinclair forjl Griffith' movie ontalns much of the ' I Fame stuff contained In the stage K mystery plays. U But whether Griffith tried for a I masterpiece or just a bit of recrea-l tlon, he has achieved a sr-reen story 1 1 that holds tho attention from begin-iH ning to end and is entertaining in j I every foot of lt. Not much more I could be said for any film. J Carol Dempster is the hcioine of I "One Exciting Nighjt.' She was seen I film sh" is elbse-upped nnd close-1 1 upped until her features make anj unforgettable impression upon -tbo'H rpectator. Evidently Griffith ix point- B Ing her toward a higher pla. c- ln the E Dim firmament unci wants to impress rj the audience With the full vv.-irrht of H her beauty. She ha.; plenty of that IS and she also knows how to act. Henry Hull, one of the most en- gaging youngsleis of the stage, is C I the hero. n tho screen In is remln- 3 itcent of Charlie Raj Porter Strong M i n the black-facod comedian, others H borrowed from the stuge arc Morgan B Wallace, C, II ' r... ker-Klng l'rar.k a I Sheridan and Frank Wunderlee. o The dop in "Oliver Twist" is natui- ffi ally black. Ho was painted white I for his part in the film Eg ... "The Impossible Mrs. Bc-llew" is M the type of photoplay upon which H censorship feeds and grows sleek and j fat. If the 3creen had never had silly pictures like "The Impossible . Sirs. Bellow" there never would have ' been silly censors to work their strlc-! strlc-! tures upon common sense films Movies like this one went out of 'style before Will Hays became a film ; factor. This one evidently escaped him when he made the rounds of Hollywood to size up the product for the coming season. Tho only noteworthy feature of "The Impossible Mrs. Bellew" Is that it has an Immediate and lasting re-action re-action on the spectator. That is the impression that the film isn't going to bo worth sitting through. If a film doesn't entertalv It ought to instruct. Falling In that Its onty excuse for taking up one's tlm--would be some fleeting moment of Inspiration or exaltation gathered from a scene or subtitle If lt hasn't that It has no right to the name of photoplay. Gloria Swanson as an actress day by day In every way is growing poor, r and poorer, to paraphrase Dr. Couo. Her dresses become more elaborate and her manner rnoro artificial with each succeeding film. Her work In "The Impossible Mrs. Bellew" will cause her o lose more followers than she can regain ln half a dozen worth While pictures. The writer once was one of Miss Swanson's most enthusiastic ( hcor leaders. Then she became a star rn 1 quit acting, just as many other players play-ers have done after achieving stardom. star-dom. For a time I blamed her directors di-rectors and producers for the apparent appar-ent decline in her mimetic abilllv. The star couldn't shine through the thick wrappings of elegant duds that w i re put upon her. There are several moments in "The Impossible Mrs. Bellow" when Gloria could have saved tho film from utter banality had she shown the least bit of sympathy with a mother rolo assigned as-signed her The Old "mother" hokum ho-kum might have given the film ono touching moment nad Gloria shown some tenderness toward little Mid-.-Moore But even In those passages she was Gloria Swanson. the star. , and not Mrs. Bellew. a grlef-strlcken ; mother. l if Miss Swanson had arisen to this I occasion, this article would probably ' find me out ln front of the grand-I grand-I stand calling upon a multitude for three cheers and a tlKrr for hei. STUDIO GOSSIP. I A nine-reel pteturlzatlon of "La Tosca," made in Italy, is to be oa-hlbitod oa-hlbitod in America. Shot, slabbed, poisoned, electrocuted, electrocut-ed, drowned, thrown off a cliff, sudden sud-den death from heart failure thne have been the fates of Anders Han-1 d'olph, screen villain For the 'first! time he lives until th. final fade-out in a picture now being mado by Edwin Ed-win Care we. fecil DcMille says he will give $6000 to anyone who can prove thai the raotorcyclo smashup In "Manslaughter" "Man-slaughter" was falced. Screen rights to "Lawful Larceny." the Samuel Ship man play, have been bought for Hope Hampton. The price is reported to be 40.000. Victor Herbert will personally con-t con-t the orchestras playing his as-compannnent as-compannnent to '"When Knighthood Was In Flower" when that film shows -. w TfT'"" aniLJPbston- i Elver hear of a millionaire policeman police-man I That's the role played by William Wil-liam Russell in "The Great Xlght " Eva Novak is his leading lady. Hobart Bosworth ran away from homo 25 years ago to be a sailor on the- "Sovereign of the Seas" and now he Is playing In "Tho Strang.ru Br-1-quet" In which that ship has an important im-portant part. A letter from London tells mr- that Norma Talmadge has the Hiitlh Bm-X' Bm-X' li agoK over her Offfi) to luakc ;i 'screen star of some girl of England. (Ireland. Scotland or Wales picked in a contest More than 100,000 photo-jgraphs photo-jgraphs have been submitted In the; contest which was started only a few weeks ago. Over thvre they think a contest to find a screen star is the most unlQilO thing ever heard of. Norma's idea Is to fit the girl out With a Parisian wardrobe and a role In an American picture and then send her back to England lo star ln an all -British film. From obscurity to fame volla! Yot that is the real romance of the American film industry. its greatest stars leaped from obscurity overnight, as lt were. Anyone with screen qualifications quali-fications may do likewise. But consider those qualifications' H r.- is what Norma demands in the winner of tho English contest ! Will to work, tireless enorglea, tom-jperament, tom-jperament, but a character strong enough to resist the temptations of prosperity. Ambition. Largo nnd well-shaped eyes Bluo ons will hardly do. A straight nose. . Lips well marked, but mouth should not be large. Dower part of face not heavy or broad. Regular teeth. Little under average weight, trim 'ankles, neat wrists, tMl hands and feet. I An Inherent grace of action. I Consider those things. girls, If you've cut out a movie career for youraalf. Maybe tho stars earn their salaries after nil! I I Many girls have all the qualifications qualifica-tions which Norma outlines except the will to work. They think the movies point an easy road to fame. Theso irls usually fail to make good In th-movies, th-movies, just as thy would fall to I make good in any vocation. n- may jump from obscurity to fume over sight in the movies If one Js willing ito work all night long. Norma's other demands disclose Just "what is wrong with the movies." Beauty is placed at too high a premium. prem-ium. I should like to see a film with isome regular girls ln It. girls Ilk. those !ln one of my school classes Not one of them could have won a beauty contest, con-test, yet romance came lo almost ev-Isryone ev-Isryone of them. Beauty plays little part in romance. That's Just a mistaken mis-taken notion of story writr-ra. " BEHIND THE W'KKKX, Julian .Johnson s.-hets tho stories' for Paramount Pictures. in n nuni-! ber of years bo was a dramatic critic I In Lo Angeles. Do left that position jto become press representative for Oli- ver Morosco. Later ho served with ' Comstock A Gcst in a similar capacitv ' BLLi and then bee.-,,,,., editor of Plu.t ,p ' V- I !forSf1v 'v Al "r m,a Umt pSBS Ul.tn - J ' , h" b"' assoclato eaitpi oj rarjous magaslnea and later LLH Paction editor of the rnternatlonal jjH Film corporation. That position led to his lappofntmsnt as editorial ma ager of Famous Players. Through I -Johnson s office passes a flood of fS iLH tion nnd original scenarios, product-. 01 tho gr.-at.-st auth M ; .lM. l-,.- . ...t Sfflt J22ft tnose arc si'd through by his staff f,,r good stories. Tho ht LLH of them are submitted to him. and the SLH Sll r(,s',U;clea by h,,n for Produce tlon at tho Lasky studio. H |