Pueblo chieftain., 1921-06-13
THE PUEBLO CH1EFTA1N
WHO CAN RESIST MOVIES NOW?

Everybody's either going into the
In, it seems
carpenters. plasterers, electricians,
writer's, actors, photographers and
pretty girls.
Twenty years ago there was no mo-
tion picture industry. Today only three
industries in 'America-railroads, meat
packing and clothing manufacturing
have more money invested in them
than motion pictures. Today the fourth
industry in America, and not yet of
age. That is certainly coming up from
nowhere.
This most remarkable of American
business growths has gathered to it in
it's development recruits from every
where. And as 1t continues to expand
men and women will keep getting into
motion pictures.
1t used to be fashionable to sneer at
the movies. Where Is the person who
now can look down on motion pictures
when they have been embraced by
such literary lights as Sir James M.
Barrie, Sir Gilbert Parker. Joseph Con-
rad, Arnold Bennett. Elinor Glyn.
Robert Hichens. e. Phillips oppenheim,
Edward Knoblock, Samuel Merwin. W.
Somerset Maugham. Avery Hopwood,
Henry Arthur Jones?
At the Paramount studios at Holly
wood is Paul Chalfin. who designed the
New York City decorations for the well
signer of the famous Fete des Allees in
New York, and one of the architects of
"Vizcaya," the paiatial horne of James
Deering at Miami, Fla.
Paul Tribe. the famous French artist
who set the fashions for the world
when he was connected with Poiret
and Paquin In Paris. is now on the art
staff of Cecil B. DeMille. Many of the
costumes used at the Paramount Long
Island studios. are designed by H. NJ.
X. Smith. former manager for Lu-
cille's.
Among those who design and write
titles for Paramount pictures are Give
Weed. former cartoonist of The Even
ing Sun. The Tribune and The Phila-
delphia Public Ledger. Tom McNa-
mara, creator of the Skinny Shaner
cartoons and formerly connected with
Herald. is also in the Paramount en-
ploy.' The Art Director of the Famous
Players -Lasky British Producers. Ltd.
is Leslie Dawson, a member Of the
Royal Academy.
Penrhyn Stanlaws. whose fame as a
magazine illustrator and cover artist
was second to none In America. has
deserted his palette to become a di-
rector of pictures for Paramount, di-
recting Betty Compson in AT the End
OF the WOflQ.'
A sensational entrance into moving
pictures was that OF DIR. James A. d.
Scherer. former president OF the Cali
fornia Institute Of Technology, who
signed with Paramount to write origi-
nal stories. DIR. George Burbank Shat
tuck resigned from a professorship of
Geology at NaSsar to head the research
work at the Paramount studio on Long
Island. Miss Frances Harmer former
ly a teacher in preparatory schools in
the South, Is a scenarioist at Holly
wood
Fred b. Alexander. once tennis
singles champion of America, and a
member OF the Davis Cup Team. is now
personal manager for William de Mile.
Kid Broad. who has fought Dixon. Nc
Govern. and others now does his puRi-
lism for the movies. Norman Sclby.
clcverest middlcweights of the ring, is
an actor. Frederick stanton. a capable
actor. was formerly pitcher on the
Newark team of the International
League. ''BiIr' Montana. profess
sional wrestler. Is the screens prize
''rouGhneck."
Many newspaper men have turned to
tho films. Robert f. MacAlaruey
former city editor Of the New York
Tribune and former professor in the
Pulitzer School OF Journalism at Col
umbia University. is the production
head of Paramounts London studIoS
William c. Rulli,t. noted journalist.
who was a member of the peace dele
cation and whose revelations before
the Senate Committee on Foreign AZ
fairs played an important part in the
fate OF the Treaty of Versailles. Ia now
managing editor of the Paramount
scenario department.
Paul Powell. ono of tho Paramount
director. was a Los Angeles newspaper
man Thomas Geraghfy. supervising di-
rector at the Long Island studio. was
n reporter on both Tho New York Her