El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-08

; messed or mixed in the remembering,
here was blessed reversion 10 magnitl-
cent gesturing that would out the true
I elouuence into what some author meant
without the slightest worry over the
words with which the author would
want to fill your mouth II you were
! talking it. One is bound to be a better
actor. thought Mr.. Farnum, when one
is full OF what one is doing, and not
overful Of what one is having TO say
about it.
What about the New York theatrical
managers threat that they win use no
actors who have appeared in the pic
tures?'
THAT statement has caused me seri-
Gus worry" Farnum answered as he
put a lizard on its back with a green
straw. I am wondering how with
hardly decent actor left, they are go
ing to produce their plays"
rs it true that the 81 a seat theater
audience loses interest in the actor who
is being shown on the screen at an ad-
mission fee Of 25 cents2"
Theaters and Movies.
my own experience disproves It Last
season I opened the Boston Stock the
alter in The Virginisn-' Several months
before I had participated in the filming
OF the play. On my opening night at
the Boston Stock the picture was put
on just two doors from the theater-
For two weeks play and photoplay ran
side by side TO capacity business Ac-
tually the audience would stream out OF
one house and stream into the other
Myself I went over 10 the opposition
with a party one night after ny per-
Torrance. The fortnight began with
the managers OF the two houses bitter
toward each other. it ended with them
friends. They agreed that each show
owed its swollen profits TO the proXlm
ity Of the other
what is the relationship between
acting for the screen and acting on the
stage2"
'sDistant. I was first filmed in Sol
diers Of Fortune in Cuba After seeing
the film projected I couldn't look the
camera in the face for a week. Even
today whenever I find myself dropping
off into the careless. easy ways OF the
stage recall that first experience and
brace up"
Robert Edeson is another who will
not forget the first time he saw his
own back He staggered out OF the
projecting room exclaiming: Now 7
understand what my wife has been try
ing to tell me for years. I guess I
won't ever act again" EdesOn did act
for the screen again and the, intelligence
and care he brought into his work went
far toward overcoming the very defects
that had so offended him at the screen
ing
ANnAAAAAA- u an @-NANAs
ANY actor or actress, unless sinEu-
larly free from mannerisms is likely to
feel humiliation at sight Of his or her
first picture said Phillips Smalley.
''The explanation is simple The screen
is a microscope. II you will contrast
the size OF the head OF the leader OF
the orchestra with the size OF the heads
on the screen you viii get the idea. in
closeup the face an the screen.
measures three or four feet in width
Arms. legs and torso are proportion
arelv enlarged An actor with an aWk-
ward gesture NAV. possess some quality
OF speech that makes YOU forget his
hands when he is before you on the
stage: but on the screen with the voice
gone and the hands magnified four di-
ameters. the defect seems multiplied by
IA. Under expression may prove as
grave a fault as its opposite. The sue
cess Of the actor in the new field is
likely TO depend largely upon his plia-
bility- Stars who have gone from stage
TO screen with unbroken popularity
have been either singularly free OF
mannerisms or else singularly adapta-
BILE"
Objectionable YIannerlsms-
By maunerisms Mr. Smalley meant,
OF course. those that are Objectionable
for he himself had just finished direct
ing Miss Janis in a picture that prom
ised 10 be successful not in spite OF the
of the star, but because OF them Miss
Janis in pictures is never anything
but Miss Janis Because she wishes
her screen plays written around her
own personality. and because she be-
lieves no one knows her as she knows
herself she writes her own scenarios
Miss Marie Dressler is another act
ress who has made a success by trans
ferring the extreme physical express
sion Of her comedy TO the screen with
we NHrra n
match for the quaiat. grOtesque and
popular Charles Chaplin with whom
she was engaged to appear Chaplin,
by the way. has allowed the charging
powers OF the screen TO magnify tai
ents which never lifted him to star
dom on the stage. 1t may be said that
this premier Of the funny men-and
there are precious Few OF them who
are funny through a thousand feet OF /
film-Eaintaius himself in a sphere
that is almost wholly his own. Hes
perfectly silly" is the often repeated
verdict I'm the picture theaters. but his /
Stiffness is so genuinely lauShable and I
so universally appealing that Chaplin
films are in enormous demand and !
Chaplin himself has recently gone from
one company to another at an annual D
sa larry said TO be equal to the combined !
salaries Of about three members OF the I
United states senate
FRITZ Acts Natural.
FRITZ Scheff. coming to Los Angeles :
TO be filmed in her successful comedy. /
Pretty Mrs Smith" remained pretty 4
FRITZ Scheff
Yet the fact remains that the man I
lerism that is not agreeable is the chief I
Trecker Of screen careers.
Mary Picl0Ord needs a birth certifi- i
ate 10 make you believe she is p. To 4
ne she appeared younger in the flesh 4
han on the screen. and was watch
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