New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-04

what a bum place it was. PRETTY ....
along come the Indian pictures. wiz
picture wasn't much shucks in thnss
days unless there was prairie schoonsss
and little innocent children goin' vsss
with their fathers and mothers. D.
tore they got very far the Ind;sn,
commenced ridin' around 'em In c;r.ios
and pickin' off all the good shots s~S
powder kept gettin, lower and love-
and then just as the palefsces VA
about to surrender along come a troon
of cavalry from q convenient army nostp
That was when the fun commenced ss
peclally on Saturday afternoons Or -.
night; all the kids in the galledy yellin'
n whoopin' like wild indians.
There was comedies, too, in tbos.
days. You remember how they useS
to chase one Teller all over the lot. and
apill everybody's peanut stand snS
fruit stand. and spill fresh paint. and
finally all end up in the river? Thers
was always a chase, and they used N
speed up the horses and trains and
wagons. because in those days we vera
all green and didn't know beans abons
trick photography. My wife and / Ara
wise to all that stuff now; we read
al the picture magazines We can ret
hold of. l know about all there ia "a
know about the stars" he announces
proudly.
You know" he went on in his
ramoilng way" suppose there movies
was just like a kid. Thep used to cali
'em an infant industry, and the India
pictures and the chases was like
rleasules and mumps to a kid. Some.
times they had the blind staggers. and
shooting stars would 60 all over thu
picture, and everything looked like tina
hero was SEEM 'em all over the place.
But they got better right along. and
they began to give US more love stories.
Some pictures with foreign names re.
member SEEM a short time after the
movies begun, but l don't care Off
those foreign actors. They swing their
hands around too much for me.
these foreign pictures come and
they Co." he venturcd. "but serials
just seem to go on forever. used
to go when they first started. and see
how much the hero or the heroine
could hirt with death and get away
with 1t. But l don't go now to see
q serial, because l know, no matter
what the hero has got to put UP with.
in the end he'll have all his enemie,
killed. and he'll get the girl and the
sacred jewels and everything else. Be.
SIDES, there's only Il certain number
of ways Of fallin' off freight trains
n dodgin' a bullet and jumpin' off
nigh b~ulldings-I've seen 'em all, and
you can't fool me now. I know that
the hero can't be killed with cold
poison or elephant guns. So what's
the use?
Mostly now" he went on, 81 like
70 Spo cnroothi,t fJr~- 49,, - Az.
the custard pie stuff, bat stuff like
what is funny in real life. | know
when I see my kind Of picture on the
screen when | see son. Teller do some
thin that's just like old Hargis doe,
down to the Office. a love story in it,
perhaps, but it has 10 have twists in il
like life has. Vampires | don't 20 much
on"
"The people who make the ~picture,
be glad to hear what you are
we suggested. "Thev are al.
ways talking about giving the people
what they want, and you're a real
movie fan all right"
Il don't like that idea of givin' the
people what they want" he complaint.
because it always seems to turn GU.
that what they think we want is what
we think they don't want around the
house: II they just go ahead and sat-
ls1E themselves and get over the idea
that they are doing somethin' beneath
they'll get better results. If they
turn out a picture that satisfies every
body that made it they ought 20 please
folks. And how do they know
wat We want? They must sneak along
under our open windows"
He paused TO take his filed pipe be-
tween his teeth. I've got TO be hikin'
or III get the sack. Well, so long"
He ambled off. and the American
and international champion in motion
picture attendance was gone before his
name cOuld be sncnrnH