South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-31
LEW CODY, MOVIE
STAR, TO APPEAR
IN PERSON HERE
Handsome Man" Tours States
TO Learn Public's Screen
Likes"

4 lot OF things we are apt 20
think about motion picture players
are held for naught when you meet
stars like Lew Cody. debonnaire idol
OF many fans. who "a 10 appear in
person at the Blackstone theater on
Saturday. Sunday and Monday.
In his tour he Is making an ear
nest effort % nc himself even better
for the business Of entertaining the
masses Cody has an am bition and
he IS touring the country % fortify
10 and make 10 bear the fruit OF
success. He Is striving 20 learn what
the public wants from Lew Cody and
is even prepared 20 change his en-
tire course and the type OF pictures
he has made in the past
Likes Photographs.
The star Is a four-square six-foot-
er who agrees with the belief that
there IS no better work <or a regu-
lar fellow than bringing happiness
10 the world through the medium
Of the silver sheet incidentally. ne
has come odd recipes for keeping
himself happy. For instance. he con-
fesses a failing for Photographs. and
in addition 20 carting one all over
the country with him he rents one
wherever he goes and most times
has both OF them going. At home
he has saven and there never is any
danger OF running out Of mIsic-
Cody Is death 20 many of the pet
notions about picture makers and
emphamcally protests az the mis-
branding Of actors ano actresses for
Their matrimonial shortcomings.
Look into any set Of people about
you and you will find the divorce
records overwhelmingly greater than
in the motion picture colony. where
exist come Of the mos pretty ro-
mances in the world. But our peo-
pie attract public attention and our
troubles are magnided by repetition
Says Looks" Not All.
Another evil I would like TO wipe
out Is that Of these motion picture
schools which never produce results
and which gain money from limo
Gently ambitious young people un-
der the worst OF false pretenses- Sue
cess on the screen cannot be bought
IN a school. yet these schools are
misleading scores of poverty -striclI-
en- girls and boys, who are sCrimp-
ing and scraping to pay for their
courses
Don't say looks-it isn't looks
that does IL. Some Of the prettiest
girls in the world do not screen we'll.
While some OF the most ordinary
looking girls are wonderful on the
a. p
er thing than looks nowadays and
that is screen personality - that
something that will attract your au-
d9ence and make them ask. What
IS that new face?
About censors. The great evil OF
today is the censor, that is. in GER
tain localities. How can we point out
an evil or a moral II we are not 10
have a triangle and some bad points
as a contrast? Give the picture the
ssme Jury trial that you give any
one else In our courts today and
have every walk of nfe represented.
No one makes a picture without
thinking OF the censor. and that IS
holding back some gems Of art and
liter1ture For example. 1 was en-
gagged 20 play the role % Mephls-
tophoIes in W. d. Griffith's personal
picturizatiOn Of Faust" the classic.
He had TO give # up. fearing the
immortal story might not stand the
test OF the various censor boards. Do
not nisunderstand, they are not all
that way. but just a few are doing
the damage
And there you have Lew Cody
actor. writer and a well-known fig-
ure IN all the theatrical world. who
is coming TO say hello. Mr. Cody is
expected in South Bend today from
St Joseph. Mich. where he is rest