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THE EVENING LEDGER PHOTOPLAY SECTION, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1915.
David Belasco Amazed
By Wonders of Camera
David Belasco, roaster craftsman of all,
playwrights, had Just witnessed, at a pri
vate view at the main offices of the "Wil
liam Fox Productions Extraordinary, a
"run" of the screen version of his great
est succes3, the glowing military drama,
"The Girl I Left Behind Me," a play of
army life and Indian warfare as blood-
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CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG
The talented World Films star.
stirring as a trumpet calL He drew a
long breath and settled back In his chair
as the last stirring scenes in the relief
of the beleaguered garrison were flashed.
"Wonderful," he exclaimed, "and not
the least extraordinary part of it all is
that when I wrote 'The Gbrl I Left Be
hind Me. which has always been and still
is my favorite bit of work, the cinema
had never been thought of. It would
have been a wild dream indeed if I had
ever thought for an Instant that some
day my play would be presented not on
tho boards of a theatre, with artificial
lights and painted . scenery,, but on the
actual ground where Its action takes
place, with a living background and every
device possible to bring out Its life and
color."
"Acting for the screen, as I take It," ho
said, "Is more or less a matter of con
verting the complex emotions swaying the
characters of the drama to the audience,
or, perhaps more properly, the spectators.
But after an almost life-long study of
lighting and stage effects I have come to
regard them as almost as important. The
creation of an 'atmosphere' Is all Impor
tant. "When you' look at the frontier
scenes In this production you can say to
yourself This is Montana. Tou feel the
sweep of the western winds and the mag
nificent distances and spaces of the bor
derland. I don't think that I was ever as
deeply Impressed by the possibilities of the
screen drama as I was while watching
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this production of the 'Girt I Lett Behind
Mo.' This utilization of such an immense
company, a. small army in fact, and real
troopers of the "United States cavalry en
chances the effects I tried to gain In writ
in? this play. It serves to quicken and re
fresh our pride in our soldiers and I am
sure will be a valuable object-lesson in
patriotism at a particularly trying time."
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