Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-22
German Movies
Were Saved By
81 Allied Blockade
Production Unhampered BY
Foreign Competition Doomed
Pretty Girls Scarce
Unions Great Enemy.
By SIGRID SCHULTZ.
,hicaxo Tribune Foreign News Service.

Chicago Tribune Foreign News Service.
Berling, May 2l.-The German film
makers ought to be very grateful to
the allies for the blockade. 1t was
the blockade which kept American
films and American competition
away from Germany, and since no
twentieth century nation can live
without movies, the German film
industry had to get busy and try
to develop.
"We haven't as many pretty girls
as America says Prof. DR.. Max
Glass, director of one company,
"but we try to make up with the
beauty or the historical value of
the surroundings. Castles and homes
of all styles are at our choice, re-
naissance, baroque, empire, and so
on, and what our stars are lacking in
personal beauty they replace with
dramatic art. We are not aiming at
a1beautiful Show display; we are
trying to find the key to the heart
through feelings"
The German film industry is try
ing all styles and all lines; they even
tried futurism in the film "Caligari,"
which was their first big success. II
was followed closely by Mime. Du-
barry" who was the first to sneak
over to America.
You would not believe it, but
Nine. Dutarry was very shy and
afraid of the American public, and
so she made her first appearance i'll
a small place in New Jersey under
the, name of Passion" There she
proved successful and then she
walked boldly into New York. In
LGkfS.this film. Passion" earned
more money than the whole film
hadsapstasr
sdernO Trick Films Safe.
ioThe movie companies are work
inc, bard and they are trying to bring
out films which would particularly
suit .AmeEiean taste. American trick
fiims will l,always be better than ours
slpGe the, highest jump a man can
takNi isy csix bstaries in Germany, "a
mere nothing compared to American
heigbts@ says cone producer. "We
want tarbrH9g put things with much
soak sandE eelingj,qTherc are numel-
GUS detailsliwsM baye TO learn-for
instance, ther international film kiss
iaGs rules and etiquette rules. But
wslarHj hopsfpl urMPoto now the ufa
haasspld a. films ia, America. We
hANe oprdeEk, from South America,
SsaiRo oItslVo1ya Japan; I'VE have even
KnAjlIrs to Eraree, which sent us
films in returr,"ps teem
Statistics shoawa-itaha thai, Berlin, city
with ovhs i3pQl, ,eq0 sinhabitants, has
264 MOVIES, WITH tl7,0O0 seats, while
NAaJ " tiftatsrs1 With 44,OoO seats. |
nsT-.lyOnsb Great, Enemy.
tnsMn hayefiore great enemy" said
as!gm dTectoJu6"the unions. They
XIII x,Sl 2~hsnbWsitry to break away
MoN 1theE. bnThere is a special big |
e9ffie hppse in Berlin, where the film
agtlsta meet Xpu just walk through |
this Esehsaas$ land choose the per-
spS yNspHesdx IN,
I But if YOU fail to find the pretty |
gkJs yaa are looEng for in this coffee
ht0psf, and 1i5iBeu go out and find
tb4M. somewhere else, the unions
usHehoAp and, fine you. We needed |
raArgoqd hprsemen, SO we asked the
reichswehr, TO lend us some men with
hvfsssFhey came and we got fine
picNH6sp Hdtf9he unions came, too,
and nearly Killed us for not finding
the equestrian art of their members
qfhSSs up to1'date." -
Screen Fans Nervous.
ssoeThss days of marvellous incomes
seems to be over for the German
stars,.s toos A decision of the unions
says that no star is to receive more
than 1000 marks per day.
Thas scfeen fans are nervous.
:aeAs ngood social republicans, they
think that everybody must obey the
unions orders-but on the other
hand. they do admit that star who
usedDtO get 10000 or 10000 marks
= day will find 1000 rather shabby
and might feel induced to follow the
fashion Of the day and go out on a
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