mmmmmma&mmmmimm&i&immmmitiimmmmmm "iSr.xTuflolaOljtils-iUSaWSTiSlsav.STlnrHeJirnK. rctjh-nHi'jrj'.fifc''" v.r3tl . Jmqi x.i mmutmiiint 'SetMamtMtm0OMfjlsyx- -& i rJV. . .V " -" ;-Wrft";1?v"-7.'; "t v.r,i--.?W "'.i t - wj JLAigHiMt ' SING SntfGGONWGT WINS1 -PHOTCPIiAr 'CONTEST: -'- v o a i in . . m r h l. . i Actor,. Fresh Fromjthe . .. r.i---.- v - . , . A - Apart ' r- - - . TnllyjMarsha&unlikemany stage stars, really knows'' a great deal about motion pictures and had some Interesting things to say to present methods and conditions' which he has observed In ios Angeles. When ..an interviewer assailed him.- he was In the- costume of the character of the alfbreed Chinese In "The Sable Lorchia." a Triangle play which will be produced at the" Chestnut Street Opera House next -week. "Po you - think the drama of- thought can ever be' put over on the screen?" he was asked. "Tea, when the producers stop sending their sceneric writers to work with their dinner palls so many reels this morn ing, so many reels this afternoon and give the photodramatist .a chance to learn iiis business. And when the big fiction writers sow writing for Xhe screen stop 'adapting their old. stud to the screen, .and-put Xhe same brains into their scen ario writing that they did into their books:' - Then Mr. Marshall put In a dig on be-half-of.the playwright. Tt.has .been the custom .for the man ager, and .the. actor to snub the., poorj ptaywngsi grow you can i oo mat, wiuj screen productions. The photodramatist, the .actor, the director anS the camera man "muat.be as on.e." ' . . . Qn.th present cutting room methods, .Mr. -Marshall iias no mercy, " "When 'they stop letting the Ura-week girt "cut the pictures, .and . the director -does -his own J - ! obta sk Tt Vaw a(lffAn -W-kl suits. The cutting room Js u. sore point with every screen actor and director In the 'world, and I'm in favor of an open . season on the present-cay cutters with the destruction of their young, wherever found." Mr. Marshall puffed hard on his second cigarette. "What do you think fthe present man ner ' of finning subtitles? Bad, very bad. They should fade In and out of the picture. -The time will come- when the subtiUes-wOl always be- written by the photodramatist. hlmsNf. not by -the-office boy. ..I saw a subtitle the other day which read: He Will Try .Not to Jeopardize -Himself. Imagine such a line spoken on the stage! And -the voice In pictures?. Tea, It will surely come when the combination of phonograph and pic ture 1 perfected." . Then, he. took a .whirl at the. actors. "A. new method of screen acting Is com ing in. rm happy to say. Scenery chew ing has gone out. and th old-fashioned stage pantomine is being relegated to limbo. A more natural method Is replac ing the,o)d way. Of -course stage 'natural ness is merely the "height of .art, and is a' combination of thoroughly grounded technique, judgment and Imagination. Why must the screen actor be even' mote natural than the stage actor? Because of the- realism surrounding him, especially in the'ou'Uoor work. Take actors who cannot act amid natural scenery and see how badly they show up. -Isrealism of surroundings ever a help HOW Trustees- - n HKHI JI7,'w"i As&'V'3!EEKl iSBsV TMsWrsssCasr 1 sv i fSu r jy!T2l-i " 'SBN -' JstH -WBTsJT- Wg-tqTjg &MW UGlfiG8-AVOwS flCUCNe FOR. OUPf- ,Ziikw-5-5-3& Vms. iw4lf wtlllsV - - "' ''" -'' ' '. VAC' fc isBBBBBBHEBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBW - - - In-ihe- right hand picture, Oscar Cartaya, inmate, of Sinp Sinjj, receives -his $50 prize from General. Manager Brandt, of the Universal Company, for the title of a nameless photoplay. In the left he fjets the equally welcome congratulations of Warden Osborne. Thomas Mott Osborne; Warden of Sing. Sing; Prison, recently presented Oscar Cartaya, an: inmate.. of -the prison with a. check for Sfor suggesting the best title for the ''Photoplay- Without a -Name," which was. produced by the- Universal Film: Manufacturing Company several months, ago. The'Unlversal received about HUKtt eug-4 gt Ions -for., titles from, all parts -ot America, Europe, South Africa, -and even such- .a. far country as Australia. The scenario was written, bytuart Patonand was a stpry( In two reels, of an ex-convict's .attempt to regain .his position in society, wlUi.Hobart Henley and Dorothy Phillips playing the .leads. A committee, composed of Paul Gullck, publicity manager of the Universal; to the actor? To bis Imagination In get ting Into a part, yes. But sometimes mechanically, no. For Instance in my present picture, I do a scene on. a "yacht, where I- .have- to run down a slippery plank, meanwhile doing some strenuous acting. Deportment Is one of the things an actor must always remember. If I lose my balance and act like a drunken sailor on that slippery plank, my poise Is, of course, lost; my tragedy is turned into farce. "Lt me say .right here the. big actor of the future will be the actor who is trained both for &r stage and for pictures. "And do I think the. screen Trtll fur nish great character actors, who, alter all. are the only great actors? Yes, I do. There's no better training In the world for a character actor than the screen, where no defects of acting or facial ex pression can- be covered by the- voice;" "Weil, to thoroughly clean up the whole subject, what do you think of the direct tors r the interviewer 'asked. "Well, we ought fo have somebody di recting who. can at least keep the actors from stepping on each other's feet, which Isn't always the case. now. In the old days I've had' people whom I had dis charged as incompetents actors and as "DADDY LONG LEGS" Eleanor "Fried, and Adele" Elsowltx, were kept, busy for weeks " considering the thousands of titles submitted, audit Is interesting to note the large number of -people who chose the same- title.. For example,-, there were -WOO. -persons who 'chose "It's' Never Too Late to Mend:': Z100 people-sent in the title "The Curse-of Drink"' J500 seat Irr the title "The -Hand of. Fate.'i.j ' The-letter, received, from Oscar Cartaya was as iouows: 354 HunterSC-Osslnlng, N.-.Y.. February. 13, 1915. Universal Film Company, 1699, Broadway. New York City. Gentlemen The following. Is submitted in competition for the prize of fifty, dollars offered for the best suggestion for sistant directors go into picture work and return to Broadway jingling a bag of gold. They had been directing pictures. But that state of things is rapidly pass ing, and many of. the present directors are' well-seasoned actors." Then we veered round to the combina tion of the spoken and filmed drama. -Mr. Marshall declare-" be thought the play of the future would involve" the use of motion pictures. "It was 'tried In a play of Augustus Thomas' last year and was a "failure," said Mr. Marshall,- "but it can be done. I believe a. motion picture containing scenes from tbe play" which It is not possible. to stage, or which fur nishes some sidelights on the play or the characters in It, should open, the. evening's entertainment; and the real play should follow when the late diners come In, say at 9 o'clock." "Coming back to yourself, Mr. Marshall, how did you. feel when you first saw yourself on the screen?" "Well, my advice would-be to any actor who hasn't yet beheld his own ghost on the screen, don't begin three-cheering yourself until you have. You'll learn a lot of things about, yourself. You'll find you don't quite live up to your own prospectus of yourself." LOOKS TO THE ARTIST a name to be given .to the picture which was. shown at Sing Sing Prison on Lincoln's Birthday," February 12, 1915, and for which, the above amount is to. be awarded to -the person suggesting the title-which you consider to be the most acceptable; "Folly's" Crucible" This Is the story- of -a. brilliant, popular and .wealthy surgeon who yielded to the -habits of drinking, gambling- and fast company. His skljl and. good heart composed the gold, and "his sinful-habits the dross. Through the .fire of .poverty,, dissipation and imprison ment the precious metal Is not destroyed, -but purified,' and thus refined he starts afresh In new lands. Sing Sing No. 65295, OSCAR CAKTAYA. "It's a Long Way . to .Ti-porlieh-li Montgomery and Stone are "singing "Tipperary" in Chinese in "Chin-Chin." The war song has reached China, where The native newspapers print their own version of.it. Try. thls on. your .piano when , the Chinese laundryman comes to collect: Shleh ko yoan lu Uo Ti-po-llh-U, Pi yao ti plh hslng tsou. Shlh Vo yuan lu Uo TJ-po-lleh-11. Yao rhien wo ngal txu, su, Tsai bul.Pl-ko-tl-li; w --.. TniI chlrn Ijel-ssn-Kwrl-rti, Bhlh ko yuan lu Uo Tl -po-Uch-li, Tan wo hsln tsai na-rh. This is the literal translation:. This road is far from Tl-po-Ueh-ll, .Wr-moit walk for many day. .- .This road Is far from Tl-po-Ilh-ll, -I "want to' mr lovrly (in, To met aealn Pl-Votl-ll. To see- again Li-30-KweI-rb. This road Js far from Tl-polleh-lI. But my heart Is already In that place. The happy actress is not the one with th best" part, bot the n who m lies tbe best" of a part. Suuuino Jackson
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