The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-26
IN STUDIO LAND
Facts and Fancies About the Folks
Who Make the Films

have received number Of inquiries |
success, and having been connected |
with that branch of the amusement |
field with the different leading com
panies, / have found that too much adj |
vice, so many warnings, have been sol |
emily issued to sereen-struck folks, es !
pecially to the feminine element, that |
always hesitate about offering any
more. Yet there is one point / always
try to impress upon girls who ask me
questions about becoming screen ac
tresses. Each and every one seems to
believe that actresses are born-not
made. This. | believe, is why so many
of them fail
They do not realize that because they
happen to have curls like Mary Pick
ford, or eyes like Pauline Frederick.
they offer no absolute assurance that
they can act. They must have the
charm, the magnetism of Mary Pick
ford or the polished art and wisdom of
Miss Frederick together with physical
charms which are often only the sur
face indications of genius. And it
takes years of work and study to bring
to any girl the wide vision, the imagin-
alton, that must form the basic part
of each screen player $ character How
can an actor portray part thoroughly
unless she has studied infinitely a char
aeter similar to the one she wishes to
act2 How can she realize the emotions
of her heroines unless she is able to
place herself in the same position and
feel as they would feel, the grief, the
JOY or the apathy they must depict.
From observance | can truthfully say
that being a screen actress, calls for
even more hard work and study than
acting for the stage. So far | have
only spoken on the side of an actresses
life that deals with her preparation
for individual play or photoplay. There
| is another very important side, of
course-the problem of personality. For
long time, it was thought that per
sonality could not be photographed on
the screen, but that impression has
been disproved time and time again.
know a number of splendid actors and
actresses whose technique, the result of
their study, is splendid and absolutely
at their finger ends. Their work, how
! ever, is colorless, because they lack
! the personal magnetism. You viii of
| ten notice in a group of players, how
one person seems to stand out from
the others, centering all the attention
on himself or herself. This is, of course
/ on the screen as we'll as off because
their charm draws everyone's atten-
lion to them, and therefore make them
a center of attraction. As / have said
already, too, every picture builds up the
next and furnishes experience on which
to build still better characterization
next time. Every day the public is de
manding better actors and every day
adds some new recruit from the spoken
drama TO the silent or from small
part in the silent TO a larger one. To
sum up, | would simply say that essen
tials for screen success are: first, hare
: work; second, study; third, personality
fourth, experience and last versatility
The announcement of ''The Eleventh
Commandment "a late picture cause,
,, as to turn to our well-worn Bible, think
ing we had overlooked bet. Only tel
: are mentioned III our copy. We hav,
concluded that Mr.. Inee has a later cd
ition.
: Here one that Webster never hear,
. of. It's brand new and original to sa,
] the least. Pronounce it slowly and witt
y great care, .mabeleseent - 1t. DIES
!. cribes anything particularly like Mabe
n Normand and means merry and mad
d eappish.
Douglas Fairbanks's next to be RI
leased May Sth is called "The KnieF
i erbocker Buekaroo.''
/ Pauline Frederick 5 next is entitled
! 1.-The Fear Woman
George Beban has returned to tn
). screen in his first production made b
, his own organization, the feature ha
) been titled ''Hearts of Men. -
g That league of nations idea seems I
l. work in the making of good films. Coz
h slider those now engaged in screenin
'Hrhe Red Lantern" Nazimova, stal
Capellani, director; Gaudio, Gamer
man; and Edith Wherry, the Englis
: novelist, wrote the story.
70 Shirley Mason has completed her frs
: Western picture, 1.-THE Winning Girl
, adapted from Saturday Evening Pos
: story by George Weston. Niles Welcl
II that handsome leading man, is playin
!. opposite this charming star in TIL
= photoplay.
%
II The latest of proposed film adoption
- from well known novels by promine1
authors includes the works from pract
s cally every modern writer of not
e among them are: 1.-THE Dark STAR b
N Robert w. Chambers; "In the Dark
r by Arthur Somers Roche; .Beckonin
t, Roads, by Jeanne Hudson. starriH
ID Bessie Barricale; "Burkes' Amy" b
a Julie Lippman. starring Mary Picl
&c ford; "The Bishops Emeralds, /
ID Houghton Townley, with Virginia Pea
Up son; Cowardice Court, - by Geors
Id Barr MeCutcheon, produced by WI
Fox: Nv Little Sister, hy Elizabet