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TWO MEN BUT ONLY ONE MANN
small part of Rothschild HoffmeUter la
The Passing Regiment.' It was a
decidedly minor role. I objected vehe
mently to playing It. I didn't want the
thing at all. But they Anally persuaded
me to take it Then I decided I would
fool them. Day and night I worked on
Hoffmeister. I even sat up half the
night devising expression and business.
I took no one into my secret. It was an
absolute revelation when the piece was
put on."
Mann made the big hit of the show and
American audiences persisted In demand
ing him ever after hi these favorite dia
lect comedy roles. His big first national
success was scored as Herr von Moser. in
"The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown."
Then came Hans "It's to laugh" la
"The Girt From Parts." Then Inspector
Nix. In "The Telephone Glrv looking lor
trouble with the "vires," and Hochstuhl.
In "All on Account of Eliza." French dia
lect superseded the German for a. while
in such characters as the milllonarle, Le
bardl. In "The Girl In the Barracks, and
the gay old Parisian boulevardier, Jean
Poujol. In "Julie Bon Bon." But there
was the favorite German coloring to his
young von Waiden. in "The Second Fid
dle" and to his later creations of Krauss,
in "The Man That Stood Still." and
Plittersdorf, In "The Cheater." His Oom
Piet Prinsloo in Paul Potter's South
African war drama, "The Red K-oof,"
was a Boer creation in true Boer dialect.
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Louis, of that ilk, gives his old German two personalities in "The
Bubble." From the humble proprietor of a delicatessen shop he
develops into a dabbler in stocks and bonds.
HOW Louis Mann, who has won
fame in Just such a dialect comedy
character as he plays In "The Bubble,"
came to play a broken-German part lor
the first time before the footlights is an
Interesting story illustrating how chance
brings opportunity Into the lives of actors
as well as ordinary sort people any
where. Mr. Mann's original hit in this
type of character, with which he has
since been so peculiarly Identified, re
calls. In fact, the manner in which E. H.
Sothcrn's father, E. A. Sothern. stumbled
by accident upon his famous character of
Lord Dundreary in "Our American
Cousin" the part that made him famous
in two hemispheres. The elder Sothern
at first indignantly refused' in San
Francisco, the first "silly ass" part ever
offered him to play.
"It was when I was connected with
George "W. Lederefs stock company in
the City of the Golden Gate," remarks
Mr. Mann or this critical circumstance
in his career, "that fortune came to me
in the guise which I did not recognize,
and which caused me almost to turn
away for good and au. I was offered the
JAPAN OR JERSEY, IT MUST BE TRUE TO LIFE
By ADOLIH ZUKOR.
(President of the Famous Players)
THE importance of obtaining the
proper atmosphere for every produc
tion has never failed to impress me since
the days when a sombrero and "chaps"
were considered sufficient to transfer a
grocery clerk into a perfect cowboy. At
that time the Jersey wood3 served for
every setting in the category, from dark
est Africa to "India's sunny climes"
not to mention the Arctic regions.
That was in the days, when the mere
fact that shadowy figures could be ir.ade
to move across a screen or a sheet was
all that the public needed to know about
moving pictures. "They moved!" as the
barker might say and that was sufficient.
And with a few notable exceptions, the
manufacturers of these moving pictures,
knowirg that the novelty of the Idea
would assure them a, good market,
turned out their product as rapidly and
as cheaply as possible. That wa3 what
might be termed the Stone Ago of
motion pictures, and I havo no doubt
that many discriminating persons who
had the misfortune to attend those early
shows might never have entered a photo
play house again. If they did. however,
they would find that vastly different con
ditions obtain today.
Firmly convinced that the proper at
mosphere wa3 positively essential to the
success of the adaptation of well-known
plays to the screen, I have always In
sisted that the directors go to any means
within their power and ingenuity to ob
tain the right setting.
"Atmosphere" is frequently an ex
pensive luxury, if one reckons first coat,
but in tho long run it Is a most profit
able Investment. For Instance. In pro
ducing The Eternal City we sent
Pauline Frederick and her company to
England and Italy for several weeks.
The expense bills might have been con
sidered high but the realism which re
sulted from that Journey made the pic
ture a masterpiece, and added greatly to
the popular Interest in the production.
More recently we have faced the prob
lem of obtaining proper settings for wide
ly different pictures, each of which de
pended to a great extent upon the ac
curacy of detail In tho presentation.
When the war prevented the carrying
out of our original plan of sending Miss
Frederick to Egypt to photograph our
adaptation of Robert Hlchens "Bella Don
na" we spent many weeks in search of
a proper substitute. Finally we decided
upon Florida as the only available place.
The singularly strong tributes which were
paid to the atmosphere of the production
by tho reviewers show that our efforts
and expense were amply repaid.
In "Madame Butterfly" and "The White
Pearl" we had to obtain Japanese atmos
phere, but distinctly different, for the lat
ter was a sea story. Hence, Marie Doro
and her company went to one of the rock
iest portions of the coast of Maine, and
Miss Plckford wa3 dispatched to Some
where in Jersey," where there are the
most beautiful Japanese gardens in this
country. I am not at liberty to disclose
the name of the place, because It is a
private residence and the owner does not
wish his name to be used.
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