New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
By FIarriette Underhill

Inc unDardOnable SIN IN our eyes is
not remembering people. Before F.
J. A. reminded us that the expression
OF such a thought put you in a class
with Dulcinea we used to say proudly
I'VE can't always remember names, but
We never forget faces" But now we
say it no longer. We just pride our
self on it and it gives the same su-
perior feeling which comes with own
Ing large family tree or wearing fine
silk things underneath. But pride
goeth before fall, as Dulcinea also
would say, and last week we didn't re-
member Major Rupert Hughes.
We made his acquaintance at the
same time that we met Rex Beach, but
that was q long time ago and so many
things have happened, among them the
war, which made Rupert Hughes Major
Rupert Hughes.
But the strange part Of it is that
with the title our whole conception of
Mr.. Hughes changed and when we read
that "The objectionable Sin" was writ
ten by Major Hughes we forgot to
connect him with Rupert Hughes.
So, when we went to have tea with
Major Hughes at the Commodore, we
stepped off the elevator and looked
around for a large man with sandy
mustache, wearing an army coat with
scrolly braid all over the sleeves
something like General Pershing-we
found out afterward was what was
rcposing in our subconscious mind.
And then q pleasant looking man in
dark tweed suit stepped up to US and
said, Miss Underhill? am Mr..
Hughes!"
But" we said, aren't you Major
Hughes, and where is your uniform ?
We never should have known you'll"
"People do not wear their uniforms
indefinitely, you know, and I have been
in multi for some time now"
We were terribly disappointed, for
we do love uniforms, but we were
really quite pleasant about it and
consented to have some cinnamon
toast and tea.
What we really intended to talk
about was how Major Hughes liked
making plays for reproduction on
the screen and particularly what he
thought of "The objectionable Sin" az
screen play.
But 1t is so hard to talk business
when there are so many other things,
and so we let screen plays repose in
the oifing while we talked about Wash
lngton (the city, not George and Rex
Beach and Haywood Broun and Frank
Adams and Blanche Bates and GEORGE
Creel and the war and prohibition;
and then we suddenly discovered that
If one was going to the Griffith OPEN
ing one must dress for dinner, so we
asked Major Hughes without any pre-
amble what he thought of the new
picture. In fact, we jumped from
George Creel to THE objectionable
SIM without so much as a comma.
When one consents TO have his
story made into motion picture" said
Major Hughes, che must expect to see
something quite different from any
thing which he himself conceived. The
people who play the parts are bound
to look quite unlike his characters, and.
as rule, the director does anything
he chooses with the story to make it
suitable for the screen.
But | must say that Marshall Neilan
has followed my story of "The In
pardonable Sin" as closely as it is
possible to have done.
And Blanche Sweets work is moth
ing short of marvellous. do not know
any one who can portray the human
emotions as wildly as Miss Sweet.
have suggested that one of those
analysis og motion pictures where the