Arizona republican., 1916-03-05
MOVIES REAL, STAGE IS NOT,
 SAYS LAWTON
Popular Screen Actor of Ro- maine Fielding's Cactus Film Company M a k e s Comparison Between "Le- gitimate' and Movie'

The question has been brought be- fore the public many times: Does the commercial value of an actor or actress depreciate when he or she enters the silent drama, and then returns to the legitimate stage?' said Jack LaWton of Romaine Fielding's Cactus Film company, expressed in The Republican yesterday.
 According to Mir. Chapman's view" said LaWton, prestige is lost and as far as the manager and box office are concerned the earning ca pacity and the popularity of the star has suffered.
 Why do such stars as Bernhardt Tree, Farrar, Southern Billie Burke Ethel Barrymore and Maude Adams wilfully jeopardize their positions in the theater world if such were the case? The above are authorities in the matter and their actions should he taken well into consideration
 As to witnessing poor drama rather than the best picture-well, that is rather a matter of taste-one swallow does not make a summer neither does one disgrunted voice in the world express the opinion of the masses.
 Prom the trend of MT. Chapman's prejudiced opinion one could readily imagine that he felt disappointed that Lasky did not engage him to CO., star with Farrar-or else that no one outside of his immediate family had never heard of him.
 The picture business is here to stay, it is the poor mans play ground. Where and what could one get to compete with 1.-two or three hours of good, clean, wholesome amusement for almost nothing? The business itself in the past ten years has taken giant strides and at the present time is the third industry in the United States.
 The man who still clings to the traditions of the stage has not pro gressed and is probably still voting the populist ticket, cause his grand father voted it years ago.
 Tt is a proven fact that more gray matter is needed by the photo player than by the actor. The great est asset of an actor in the legiti- mate is his voice-and down deep in our hearts we are compelled to give our brother, the photo player, all the credit in the world for putting it er'-handicapped as he is.
 The photo players life is so real that he Coes not even call his clothes costumes-they are just clothes.
 With the actOr-he is handed a part he literally 'crams' it and 75 per cent of them read their lines and go through with it not because they are living the part, but because it is their meal ticket. Also in the ma : jority of plays that are used. the situations are absolutely actor stuff, and 16-year- amateur could gC the stage and intellgently read the lines and get away with it just as good, if not better, than some of the professionals who are handicapped by their own ego.
 When a show is UOduced-all the situations that do not come up tC the expectations of the author are removed and new ones put in-anC when the production is three months old all the lines are absolutely, ir 15 per cent of the cases,- sure fire in other words, the Eart should gel the notice, not the actor.
 How can d performer in the le- gitimate really live his part wher all his surroundings are artificial