The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-17

If there is one thing you are bound to meet in the course of a day, it is a statistician--he will tell you in a news paper or via billboard that the cig-s arettes you smoke day by day will, in eighteen years and three months, stretch from Woodrow Wilson to The old saying is that figures don't lie, but liars figure; but despite this, I beg you to believe that in every community-this is the truth, and the hundred people, ninety-n1ne poten- tial screen actors or actresses. The one-hundredth, by the way, is the village idiot, and some people deny that he is ineligible, but that is a matter of opinion.
 PLENTY OF MATERIAL-THE WRONG KIND
 And yet, despite this undeniable cretly considers himself or herself as the coming Pauline Frederick or Will Rogers-there is a dearth- of good screen artists! This is one Of those paradoxes to which the human race has been trying to reconcile it. self, without much success, during the past six thousand years and perhaps even before that, in the pa1ezoic, 0, material, and so little used intelli- | gently! That, says Clifford Robert son, who as the casting director for | the Go1dwyn studios at Culver City, | tal11Orn1a-Ine largest SIuulOS 1h the world-ought to know, is the trouble with furnishing adequate casts for | the silver sheet.
 T am talking only of the west coast, where my troubles are local- ized,'' said MT. Robertson. ''Take l Los Angeles. the center of motion 1 picture production. There are ap- proxinlately two hundred and fifty producing companies working all the time and each on the lookout for good performers. Do you wonder that it's a job to find cofmpetent actors for all the roles to be played
 W0RTH 45O PER CENT. MORE.
 There are, of course, hundreds of players in Los Angeles, attracted there by the lure of the camera, Many of them are excellent players; many are not The intelligent DOT: ton may be said almost to command their own prce, because of the keer competition for their service. I am reminded of a little incident whicE took place the other day. A young lady who, a year ago, was working for Goldwyn for $200 a week wa: summoned to the studios and asked
 to play in a new picture. She said she would-for $500 per week. pointed out that her estimate of hel own value '-ad decidedly increased
 to which sil pointedly replied tha , the present-day sum for her service:
 was one which she could get. And very likely she could.
 
 . because of such conditions. A cast ing-director must keep abreast of tn
 times and particularly, of the Ria1t, , times. What new actor or actress ha-
 come to the front? Who is doing fin work? We have lot of big pie . lures in prospect and naturally I an
 interested in seeing that the inter pretations aren't put into uninspire faces and hands. The artistic an,
 commercial possibilities of man
 stories have been ruined by charac
 ter portrayals,' and not always be cause of fault in the players talent
 Frequently, players are miscast; tn
 personality of the roles assigned diff
 fers from that if the performer. Tn camera sees with more fidelity to tn fact than does the eye; the camer; is ruthless.
 AUDIENCE SEES so MUCH ''That is why the personality of tn player, and the agreement with tn
 personality of the character to be DOT trayed, is so much more essential il