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You Can Begin Almost Anywhere in the Movie Business
A MAN came Into this office the other day, nnd ns is the habit of visitors,
started tossing about one of the piles of photographs which arc always on
the table of n movie editor. The fact that they have been carefully sorted Into
these piles means nothing In the joung lives of visitors. Pictures arc pictures
to them, and they toss 'em about as though they were Just for tho entertainment
of casual droppcrs-ln.
So, having got that off our chests, let's resume.
This man came In and, ns he glanced at one photograph after another, he
topped with an exclamation. "Well, well!" he sold. "Why, that's little Ucnnfo
Zeldman, isn't it? And Mary Pickford with him?"
It was. It was tho photngraph you see reproduced herewith. You'll recog
nize Miss Pickford. Hut we might have made n guesting contest of the identity
of the oung man. and not many readers would have won it.
This visitor, however, had been in n business that brought him In frequent
contact with tho old Lubln studio up at Twenty-first Ktrcet and Indiana avenue.
It was there he met Uennlc Zeldman. Everybody who went there met llcnulo.
They had to. That was Uonnie'a job to be met by visitors first nnd find out
who they were and why they wanted to sec somebody and think up quick reasons
why they couldn't see 'em.
In other words, Uennle Zeldman was a combination office boy-telephone
operator-handy man about the place.
Today Ilennic Zeldman, twenty-six years old, Is general manager for Mary
Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, and 13 one of the ruling spirits in tho combina
tion known as United Artists, which Is familiarly t.pokcn of In the trade as "The
Hlg Four." The other two are Charlie Chaplin and D. W. Griffith. George
Arliss Is now making a fifth.
TWELVE years ago Eenme teas making $3 a week. Nobody know)
what he ts making today, but it isn't probable that his income has
fallen off very much from the old Philadelphia standard.
THE visitor to this office sat down with the photograph in his hand and began
to get reminiscent.
"I remember that kid very well," he said. "First few times I met him I
thought he was just fresh. Uut I realize now he had more brains then than
I had."
He smiled a little ruefully, nnd I nsked him why.
"Well," ho said, "I'm thinking of one day I went up there to sec old 'Pop'
Lubln. He was expected In almost any minute so I sat down to wait and I
got talking to Bcnnle.
"I thought I was doing pretty well in business then you know, the twenty
five or thlrty-dollar-a-wek kind of satisfaction that a lot of us had before the
II. 0. of L. went up bo far. And it amused me to hear thrce-dollar-a-wcek
Bennle give me advice.
" 'You ought to get into this business,' he told mc thnt day. 'Of course,
you'd have to start at less than you're making now, but there Is nothing ahead
of you in what you're doing. This game's just beginning. It's going to be
one of the biggest things in the country in n few years. It's going to be so big
that everybody in it is going to have a chance. Won't matter what department
they're In ; there will be a fortune for them if they're wise. Why don't you try
It? I can get you a chance here if you want me to.' "
BEyNIE, mind you, teas an office boy and answered the telephone.
Nobody but a visionary could have considered that a chance worth
boasting about. So we'll say that liennie teas a visionary. He prob
ably is yet. lie can afford to be now.
HE STAYED with Lubln until, office-boy-like, he had managed to edge his
wa Into every department of the game. And all the time his young eyes
were observing and his young mind was sorting and sifting nnd storing up the
things that his ejes observed.
Then he made a jump. With nothing definite in sight, he quit his $3 job
and went to New York. lie knew that there were more studios there, and con
sequently more chanct'H. And he had made friends with many of tho Lubln
actors and executives who had gone to bigger things over there.
So Benny went, too. He did all sorts of odd jobs as they turned up. Then
he gave the publicity end of It a fling and made good.
lie met Douglas Fairbanks, who was just beginning to be famous, and
Benny became publicity agent for Doug. They got to be great friends.
Then Benny decided to take a chance as his own boss. He tried to start
a company, but something happened and he got a set-back. But he came up
smiling and asking for more.
He tried publicity again, all the while attracted by the business end of the
growing Industry.
When Doug and Mary came East to sail on their honeymoon, Benny went to
the dock to see them off. But they wouldn't have It that way. Somehow or other
they got him a passport at the latt moment and he sailed with them.
He was their chaperone, or bomethlng like that, on their honejmoon tour of
the Continent. He enme back with them. He went West with them. And his
shrewd, business Ideas proved so good that he is still with them, just as important
a part, in his way, of the Big Four ns they are.
There isn't one movie fan In a million who has ever heard of Benny Zeldman.
BENNY ZEIDMAN AND MAItY PICKFORD
They don't know hlra. But he knows them. And It Is very largely because of
Benny's knowledge of the fans that the affairs of the Big Four are run as they
re and the Plckford-Fairbanks pictures are as good as they are.
I
REMEMBER Rcnny myself in
of the old friends at Lubin's who
paper business and join them. Hut I couldn't see it. I thought it was
just a cheap, catch-penny name.
Out I often see these old friends now. Usually they go rolling past
my boarding house in their limouainei while I stt at my hallroom window,
pounding the brains out of my typewriter.
Answers to Questions by Movie Fans
Z&jila You "just love the movies
and want an opportunity to make
good." Yes, indeed, there are thou
rands who voice your sentiments. Years
ago when tho film industry was In its
beginning, thero was more chnnce for
your ambition to bo realised. Now it
requires trained' experts for every detail
Pt a production, and ttio specially
trained are not difficult to find.
Yn ma
la rallrd
Anita Stewart's latest picture
"A Question of Honor.' The
Htpnort ns cast included Edward Ileum,
irnmr Mtaurt mill, Auele farrington.
Frank Ileal, Walt Whitman (not our
m friend, the poet, however), Bert
fcBfoti EU IJrady and alary Lnnd.
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mm tin W, II U at present dl-
Zie Daily Movie Magazine
MOVIE GAME
M. NEEIA.'
the old days. And I remember a lot
kept advising me to quit the news
rcctlng for I.nsky. He is married to
a profcbslonnl, also of the legitimate
stage, who besides being an adrtss,
has made a name for herself as nn
Ulterior decorator.
Hannah TDarrcll Foks Is supporting
Tom Moore In his new picture "From
the Ground Up." You ask If he is mar
ried. Well, not quite, although he nd
mlts tha,t he intends to be the future
Mrs, Foss husband rather won.
I)nllr No. ' William S. Hart Is not
married. Although "they do say" that
lie nnd Eva Novak are engaged. At
least Charlie Chaplin and May Collins
have let tho fans in on thpir wri
yiVr 'agreement was jrisprcted nnd re-
1 some time &; but oily ro-
IUBB it VVVU UinJUUUWCU
EVENING PUBLIC
SHOWING STUDIO
GARRY TELLS US
FAIRE BINNEY IS
SUCCESS ON STAGE
By
HEUJN KLUaVPII
tho pluyers won't have to
rciWELL
YV be nil.
be silent as in movies any more,"
Garry announced with an air of final
ity os tic tried first one scat and then
another in an effort to get in the path
of the breeze from tho electric fan.
'Ture Binncy's gone and done it."
"Done what?" I neked sharply, dis
tracted with tho cfToTt of gilng the
tcrccn my eyes and Garry my cars at
the some time.
"Succeeded on tho spenking stage,"
she answered crisply. "Why do you
watch the screen now ! That's no way
to sec a picture. You should keep from
looking at it unless you gut in at the
start wait until you can see it from
the beginning."
"And talk, I suppose while ou're
wnltlni;, no matter what other people
think."
"Tlmt never bothers me," Garry of
fered, her temper unruflled. "People
nhvnjs like to listen to mu. Just look
at those women in Iront of us now. 1
bet if I mentioned Iludolph Valentino
in a lo'id voice they'd o.mie buik and
beg me to tell about hliu. A perfect
stranger stopped me just I ho other day
on my way out of a theatre to nsk mc
If he's married, and I had to tefer her
to the divorce notes and tell her 'not
exactly'."
"But what about Fnire?" I begged.
"Aren't you ever gmg to tell mu .ibout
her?"
"Just give mc time," Garry nn
swercd. "And I'll tell you about any
(lira star, past, present or future no,
on second thought, let's cut out the
paBts. Their futures mc much more
interesting. Well, I'nlre o ened in "The
Teaser' Wednesday night und the nudi
enco was almost a 'Who's Who In Pic
tures in the East.' Constanco was
there, of course, nnd Doris Kcnynn mid
Anita Loos nnd John Emcison nnd
loads of others. They ull nppl.uitled
ber wildly nnd s'ho dc-ered it because
she gives a benutiful performance. She
plays n tricky little flapper who hides
behind a mnsk of innocence and a fliinsj
curtain of lies. Ite.illy, jou'd linidly
believe it wns nice, quiet little Fnlre up
there piny lug havoc with all tho men
in the cast. And she looks so grown-up
and so awfully pretty, she secnis more
like Conrftnnco than tho little girl Falre.
Constance has to leuve for ('.iliforuln
pretty soon, bhe's going to mnko pic
tures tliere now. Isn't that n shunii'
just when Fnlre is going to have a sea
son on Broadwn ?
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"Af
NIT A LOOS and John Emerson
liavo finished Constance Tal-
madce's r.turo 'Good for Nothing' and
thev'ro cutting It now, but not nt the
studio. Anita says thnt there's no use
In having n country home If ou never
live in it, so she's hud a projection inn
dilnc and a cutting apparatus installed
down home, nnd every morning n bus
Mings tin1 flitters und splicers down to
work. All their friends go down to see
them nnd bother them as Hicy'd never
dare to If thev were working In a busi
nessllko studio. But somehow Anltn
In n Chinese mandarin lounging suit
isn't nearly so dignified nnd dlctntnrlal
as she enn bo in the Paris creations she
usually wears to work in. Of course,
eveiy one wants to see tho scenes tliut
were taken up nt the New Amsterdam
roof.
"After tho roof show was closedXJon
6tnn.ee hired tho whole cast to aq&at
one night in her picture, you kfiow.
Then she let her mends come nnd play
app
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SCENES OF NEW BARTHELMESS MOVIE
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Succeeds on Stage
FAIIUr BINNEY
audience In the scenes she took there.
I den't wonder that they uie all curi
ous to go down to Anitu s to see them
selves." "Where on enrth are you going?"
I asked hrr n moment later us I noticed
her reaching for her hat.
"It just occurred to mo that they
might be cutting out the part where I
showed in tho audience," Gnrry an
swered excitedly. "And I'm going
down to Anita's projection room to pro
tect myself."
Here's a Red-Headed Leading Man
Truman Van D.vlto is the onlv red
headed juvenile leading man in pic
tures, nnd furthermore, he is proud of
it. He does not worry either, for "red
photographs black," he claims, and on
the screen nobody knou.s the difference.
"Van" just finished a new picture with
Charles Bay for First National.
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These pictures show the making of
"Tol'nblc David." Itichard Barthcl
mess nnd Hie cast which is supporting
Mm in "Tol'nblc David," which will be
his initial starring vehicle, hnvc re
turned from the mountains of Virginia,
where tho exteriors were taken in the
sams locality that the author, Joseph
Hcrgcshclmor, obtained the mntcrlnl for
the story. The interiors are being made
in the Biograph Studio. The picture will
be finished in about three weeks. The
nuthor Is the central figure in the group
in the circle nt the top. Tho other two
arc Bnrthelmess and Director Henry
King.
WIFE WITH HUMOR
CAN DEFEAT VAMPS,
SAYS-PLAYWRIGHT
"A:
NY wife with n sense of humor
enn defeat the wiliest vnmn ti,m
ever lived and keep her husband for
herself," declares Thomnsnn Ttn,.t,n-
nn, noted playwright, who is supervis
ing wic production oi "lixit tllO VnmD."
starring Ethel Clnyton.
"The situation in 'Exit the Vamp ' "
says Mr. Buchanan, "exists in mnny
homes. In the story, which wns written
by Clnra Bcrnnger, n husband and wife
are nlmost estranged by the machina
tions of n vamp who poses ns n friend
o,' the wife.
"The wife, however, hns n sense of
humor, nnd she circumvents her rival.
"That's the trouble with most mari
tal misadventures the wife lncks n
sense of humor. Given one, she can
handle the husband like putty."
Took a Year to Make Picture
"The Hon of Wnlllngford." by Georgo
iwiiiiiuiii .m.-nii-r, uiih uiiiiergono thor
ough titling nnd editing except for the
iury iiiini luucurs, nnu will ho seen on
the screens or the country within the
nexi iew wcchb. unis picture, written,
niiapted and directed liy the creator of
the famed "Gct-Wch-Qulek Wnlllng
ford" characters, is tho biggest produc
Hon ever put out by the Vltngraph
Company, or perhaps nny other, with
one or two possible exceptions. It wns
a year in the ranking, required engineer
ing fents which have helped fo make
film history, nnd thousands of nctors
ii ml nctresses appear in some of the
srencs.
Director's First Vacation In 5 Yeata
Jack White, director of Educntional
Mcrmnid Comedies, has suffered a
nervous breakdown after an unusual
amount of strenuous work on the latest
comedy being produced nt the Hamll-tnn-'Whlte
studio, and hns been ordered
by his physician to his mmintoln camp
outside of Los Angeles for his first
vocation in five years. Del I,ord, former
director of Sunshine Comedies, is con
tinuing Mr. White's work during his
absence.
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' The
LOVE STORY
MOVIE STAR
This Is How the Story Begins:
JJELLA MORELAXD, most famous
' of screen stars, hears that a
young girl, .AnncHe inifcftt. has
fallen in love with Roland Utile,
nn idol of the screen. Miss Montana,
to save Annette, writes the story of
her own tragic- love affair t wtth
Welles, intending to send it to
Annette so she may know tho kind
of man ho is,
She tells how, while a pianist in
o ntoWo theatre in a IPeWcrn Penn
sylvania town, she met Welles when
he made a "personal appearance
there, how he invited her to come to
Ncwt York and said he would place
her in the movies, how she came and
the chilly reception which he gave
her in the studio. Then, becoming
interested in her, he gets her a job,
makes love to her, proposes and she
is deliriously happy until another
woman reveals Welles' perfidy. Then
she quits him and the company.
Later, when she has achieved fame,
Welles reappears and tries to renew
his love-making, but she knows he
wants her for her valuo as a film
favorite in his pictures, and she
repulses him. Desperate, she writes
a photoplay full of dangerous
"stunts," and she and 11 , her
director, who has stood by her in
all her troubles, prepare tn film it.
Here the Story Continues
THE rest of tho series were purposely
made less elaborate, and touched
upon the chief events In the Queen's
stormy life, concluding with the finnl
picture of her being led io execution.
You may imagine how hard wc both
worked. I pored over every volume
that I could lay my hands on that could
aid mc in gaining n knowiedgo of tho
period. But I never begrudged n mo
ment thus spent. Aside from the pleas
ure nnd pride I took in tho result, there
wns tho comfort of knowing thnt in
fitting myself to play the part of the
Ill-fated Scottish queen, I wns adding
a little at least to my small store of
knowledge.
But with nil my study and research,
I was n little humiliated to discover
that there was nothing I could tclt
H that he did not nlrcady know.
His mind Is n perfect storehouse. And
what Is downright exasperating, he
never seems to forget the smallest thing
he rends ! No wonder that he is con
sidered by nil who know anything of the
business, the most scholarly ns well ns
resourceful producer In the country.
And In "Mary. Queen of Scots," he
more than outdid himself. And when
I told him of the lavish praise I had
heard and rend on nil sides, he only
smiled nnd said :
"We'll show them thnt we still hnve
n few tricks up our sleeves when we
come to do the next."
And I run confident thnt he will keen
his word. For I place no limit to the
possibilities of pictures. In the first
place, the Intimacy nnd accuracy of the
camera, which catches the faintest
change of expression of the face, and
later registers It, greatly magnified on
tho screen, will eventually demand a
new type of nctor; one who will be
nblc to express the most delicate shades
of emotion nnd thought, not only with
his face, but with his body, and by his
lightest gesture. A type that, having
mastered the almost lost art ot panto
mime, will be nblc to convey more subtle
changes than would be possible by the
peaklng voice alone. The stage will
be stripped of everything but the drnma
of poetry nnd discussion; of plays fol
lowing the lines of bhaKcspcarc and
Ibsen. When that day arrives, what
marvels we sholl sec!
Already the movies show certain ml
vantages over tho older stage. The
actors arc able, in the very nature of
things, to live n more normnl life, even
shall I say? a more moral life. For
the great thing from the point of view
of the welfare of the actor, is that it
permits of living in one place; of mak
ing a real home, nnd choosing your own
friends, thus building up n little social
life a thing which some of the best
of the older actors seldom knew.
One Is not thrown back on the lone
liness of "life on the road," where one
is often compelled to choose between
n close companionship with unpleasant
nnd uncongenial companions," or utter
solitude. A most charming nnd elderly
woman once told me, speaking of the
"horrors of the road," that many nnd
many a time when stopping nt some
wretched second-class hotel, she would
l'HOTOFI.AYH
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OrAMtRICA
APOLLO
BSD & THOMPSON STS.
MATINKU DAILY
I'OI.A NKOKI In
"GYPSY BLOOD"
A DPAni A OHUHTNUT lli-l. 10T1I
AKCAU1A 10 A. M. to 11115 P. M.
COSMOPOLITAN I-IIOIHTTION
"A WILD GOOSE"
ACTOR KIIANKUIN 4 aiUAUO S.VE.
AOlvJrv. MATiNnn daily
WILLIAM RUSSELL
In "t'OI.OKAI0 l'l.DCK"
BALTIMORE i$?K SojSHJa
I'OLA NIIKI e.n.l SPKOIAI. CAST In
"GYPSY BLOOD"
nPVlM OITIl AND V0oUIM AVli.
BLlNlN .MATiNiin uaii.y
ELSIE FERGUSON
In "HACUKII AND l'K01"AMl: I.OVK"
BLUEBIRD
llroad & Huniuehannn
Comlnuoun II until 11
WALLACE REID
In "TOO MICH Hl'KKIl"
CArllUL, 10 a m. to ins r. m.
AUCE BRADY
In "UTTI.r. ITALY"
--l MNIIAl Otn. Mnplxwood Av.
VULUlNlALi 2'3o 7 ni b i. jr.
THOMAH II. INCFH PH0IlICTI0N
'THE BRONZE BELL"
DARBY THEATRE
ItuBBtll Hlmpmin nnil 1lrlrni Thndnlck
"GODLESS MEN"
In
rnviDnrrcQ. main st.. manayunk
b.lVlrln-Jj matinbi: daily
SYDNEY CHAPLIN
In "KINO. UUKKS ANI JOKKR"
IA1M V THKATHK 1811 Market St.
rAlVllLil N A M. TO MIDNIGHT
LOUISE GLAUM
In "I AM (IUILTY"
56TH ST. ,luSATI,,ill??!!!iVJ? &?
PAUUNE FREDERICK
In "HLVA(IB"
FRANKFORD 4T,S an0"1'
HOBART BOSWORTH
In "HIS OWN LAW"
PI HRP 5U01 MAIIKKT BT.
VjawWan, 230 and 80 tn 11
CONSTANCE TALMADGE
In "DANBICHOITH ilPHlNEHB"
GRANT ,Stf,vD"i,r.T
1IUOH FOHri'J PKODlJCTIOh
m-B PKODUOTION
"A GKEAT DAY"
Dally Tabloid Talks to
on Breaking Into the Mooiet
By JOHN EMBKSON nnd ANITA LOOS
Producers Need New
The authors of this scries are the
famous Emerson and Loos, who hayo
written some of tho most successful
photoplays. They, now havo full
charge of all scenarios for Constance
Talmadgc.
w
EBE the nvcrnge man suddenly
called upon to nssemble nil tno
women in his town who looked like
Norma Talmadgc, he might find himself
nt a loss ns to how to commence. In
fact, he might even doubt that there
were sufficient persons nnswering this
description to warrant such a cam
paign. Wc know n way to get them nil to
gether on twenty -four hours' notice.
Just insert n small advertisement in the
locnl newspaper, reading:
"Wanted, for motion picture a girl
who looks like Norma Talmadgc ap
ply nt such-and-such a studio tomor
row morning."
We guarantee that not only will every
woman who looks like Norma Talmadgc
be on the snot nt minrlsc, but that a
large prcnondernnco of the femalo popu
lation without nny rcsemblnnco to the
star, will drop In during the morning.
For it is a puzzling but lndispiitnblo
fact that nearly everybody wants to
break into motion pictures.
The curious part of It nil is thnt tho
motion pictures really need many of
these people.
On the one hand arc countless men
nnd women besieging the studio doors in
the hone of starting a career in any one
of n thousand capacities, from actress
to scenario writer, from director to
cameraman.
And on the other hand arc the men
who manage the motion pictures send
ing out nil manner of exhortations, ap
peals nnd supplications to Just such
people to come nnd work in their stu
dios. They drown each others' voices, tho
one shouting for new talent nnd new
types, the rest for a chance to demon-
Player Now a Star
SSISSkiissjsMssissss
Vivacious Doris aiay Is a full-fledged
star nt last. Under the terms of the
deal by which she nchlcvcs stardom her
scries of subjects will bo known ns
Hunt Strombcrg productions, nnd they
will signalize the introduction of Mr.
Stromberg into the ranks of the pro
ducers. Associated with him in the
enterprise will be Willlnm A. Scltcr,
well-known director, who for n number
of years supervised productions In
which Douglas MacLcan was featured.
spend the days in her room, ringing
often ns many ns half n dozen times for
ice-water, which she would pour down
the basin as soon as it was brought to
her. But every few hours she just had
to spcaJc to some one, even If that
"some one" were only a "bellhop."
Another thing: one works in the day
time, and often out of doors. One's
business associates arc seen in the
blessed light of today, without the glam
our of thcatrc-dnrk, orchestra music
nnd fever lanterns. Then, too, the
stogc-door "Johnnies" arc done nwny
with.
It would be a courageous one, In
deed, that would dare wait outside the
door of a movlng-plcture studio! And
there is always tho greater health and
l-IIOTOI'I.AVS
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The following theatres obtain their pictures through the
STANLEY Company of America, which is a guarantee of
early showing of the finest productions. Ask for the theatre
in your locality obtaining pictures through the Stanley
Company of America.
GREAT NORTHERN 5 Wii'M
MARY MILES MINTER
in "MonM.innT and lioNKVsrfitr.B"
IMPERIAL
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CHARLES RAY
In "Tin: 0U bWIMMIN' 1101.12"
Lehigh Palace 0crmT-h."
Ays. and
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"DECEPTION"
OVERBROOKwu Vm,u
TUB SUPKIUSPKCIAT. PUODUCTION
"DECEPTION"
PALACE
1214 M'AUKBT HTIIBKT
10 A. M. to 11-1.1 P. M.
ROSCOE (Fatty) ARBUCKLE
In "CKA'.V TO MAUUY"
PRINCESS
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11AHIIY L'AKKY AND HI'KOIAI. CAST In
"DESPERATE TRAILS"
RRr.KMT MAItKBT ST. Uelnw 17TH
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P. M.
DOUGLAS MacLEAN
In "ONB A MINUTK"
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strnto that they are Just the talent .3
types thnt are so In demand "t
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millft neonntrtln niM.t ., .
rtirtteT1111"8 -
ahe first to be in the wrone -the
producers. Thcv hulls .l ! .
dustry which, in its
Vitally denenilpnt' imn
n lt n.i :.: "u '
wiijr uavii. . .
sonnlitles. A pcture; accord UgUton
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naturally they were loath' tol-hS
the fate of a hundred-thousind liu
Investment to untried hands "
Producers preferred to 'pay tws,
t mes the price to experienced profr?
slonnls, no matter how mediocrity'
work might have been in the past. ftS
to take a chance on a promli ng bt"ija
J5!. T&7 ?"tu"!?.' . Industry
wt
loiiviiioiuiB lllf lius Situation, nnj
n large extent. It U n nn.m? " ,ui.
still prevails In a majority of the Zn.
er ntiullns. Tim . ....". suwi
cr studios. Tho greatest obstacle hH
-..v ""'7 ",""i8 mm the nrW.
chSnre' dlnB h'S flf8t P'Ctu"-;
The larrrcr comnnntni, ,
the last year or so hnvJ ...i.. :a
the fact that by excluding begnn.
thcr have thcmsclvna rnt.i n.." ."i
mctlon picture production many tlm
They have found themselves with a v
limited number of stars nnd dlrettai
and writers and technical men to chZ
from, nil of whom, for this very reaioi!
could demand enormous salaries
One by one theso compnnics a"r la,
stitutlng vnrlous systems for the ti.
couragement of embryonic talent
(These "Tabloid Talks" are en.
denscd from tho material for a Jool'
vAr.rl Em,cron and Miss Loos to U
published by the James A. McCail
Company, New York.)
i,n.nlhycObancOeU.td0r t0 be W"'W
Then, thho outlet for one's crtttt
ability is ono of the chief chES? ?.
tho work. Mr M. ;", r."ona .
expression. My" Vesource &
seem to be inexhaustible. Besides, pl.
ing a new role each week kceoi on'.
mind continually on tho qui vive M
don t know just why it is so different
from doing the Enme thing in "stock"
but it is. Somehow, wc never mL'
to be hurried. There nwf S
departments, nil managed by cawMi
people. Everything seems to move oi
wheels, as the phrase goes. One hi
only one s own work to consider or
worrv over. Ah mw T . m '
ganizntlon is the secret. There is hardlj
a stock company ,ln the world-cer- 1
mini jionc in tins country that dm.
scsses such nn organization.
I am not Judging solely from my
own experience. I perfectly realize th
my apprenticeship with Bcavcr-Fei
was no criterion for forming so sweeo
ing a judgment. But I have talked
to nctors and nctrewma i. i...
graduated" to the movies after long
and
.....vu l-AWUlil-ul'CH IVltll Itriif.rlAaB
mock companies. And they all bar
witness to the fact that the work is not
nearly so hard, and that there is bo
iimiimwBuii m mo results obtained.
Not that there is not enough work
to keep one fully occupied, what with'
learning the part, studying the period,
nnd planning the costumes if it be i
"costume piny," particularly. For with
us. they must always be both corrett
and accurate. When I think of somi
of the makeshifts wc were forced,
through ignornnce nnd necessity, to em
ploy nt the Henry Irving Theatre, I
could both laugh and cry. It was both
pathetic and ridiculous!
There is another thing that the fu
ture will bring. Indeed, already then
is a change. A higher class of acton
will become interested in our work.
For n long time, tho legitimate acton
regnrded the movies with the same son
of contemptuous toleration with which,
years ago, they used to look at vudl
vlllc.
Driven by necessity, they would con
descend to "take a fly at it" occasion
ally. But nny ono can remember the hl
nnd cry thnt was raised in the the
atrical world when the great Bern
hardt made her plunge.
Now no one thinks anything of It.
And so it will bo with the movies. Al
1 say, the change is already beginning.
I wijl never forget my rage and indlj
nation when I first heard us spoken of
as "Screen Lice!"
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