Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-25

Enas Drake writes--''I am quite
peevcd at you this time for letting the
remarks of Ada Tier go unchallcnged.
She says it's time for Douglas Fair
banks to retire, he's too old. What
otter rot Do not all things improve
with age? And would she put young
actors in old mems parts? How about
Frank Losse and Keenan, and Kirk
wood and Stone and Roberts and Gill
linswater and Winter Hall and Her
bert Standing and Ogle and Burton
and Geldart and so on and on!
"Why, Fairbanks is just coming into
his own. l don't believe he'll ever
grow old in spirit. You see like him.
's.And here Is one reader who quite
asrees with IS. c. about the foreign
Alms that we have seen. Of course.
they don't send over their ordinary
every day program pictures: they send
eeded them. They don't end happily,
n Il isn't consistent with the story.
And our American directors think that
Necessary and it often spoils an other
wise splendid production.
II saw Bert Lytell in n Trip to
Paradise The program said screen
version Of 'Liliom. Bert was his
usual debonnir self. I wonder If either
he or his director saw 'Liliom' before
Or SINCE tne screen Nersion - ;,
4 leased. why II u,,ios. .,i,' ."v, 80 W
compare them ;.nan Senaohraui a,,ia "h dn iii.
!ect; WISH LupitsHn Lu.,s Mou,u H W. n,rr
tOm anu put .,'.,,Id r,;ss ,he
spoker word, but not the facial cx-
pressions and by y-play. You reserved
your opinions regarding IS. C.'s letter.
Went you give them now!'
IAN u,.,. Tbo ovsra,c foreign film
shn,,,n -, L,uroneon Aim ho,Ises is
sssi"ss,. had comno rod to the average
Xer;ooT Sin, Rut ftbat Rut is i'm.
~~...n,I tmrono bos nroduced one or
- nm,sta andiny veniuses like Lubitsch
srS Wesaner ana Wiene kwho made
lon, are bigger artists than most OF our
own directors. Mechanically anu tech-
ntcally, they have something 10 learn
from us. but they have the mastertui
ability to put, their great artistic con
csptions on the screen IN way tnat
We have not vet learned TO 40.
DO not 6elieve tnat any AmeriGam
director could have mi made Caiisarl, M
- Ceceptioh OF Inc roiein' my
~ showed seriousness oi art,siiS s;a
v.jon hae a E u'sasasa no, asa,, AHA "a cnn,s
s 'na. We w ",ino.i"n Nv. go ~ amI
.hn int n
vho Hno ;,nh !e JiYn"sSinn as this
~ . two- ~ hy sfonr conccution Of what
-. means sMs t9 tTe a' world p''Th There is no
nationaijty in true art.
np..sior, oor,;dorod , vary Gno
.,..,,.a"bm. not Srsater tbop Anericn
,,rol,,oo RI ho SANE onas (or
sGrrspp RIond,, and "one Ar,bian
Hs.ht, d.. ,binL ..Decention,' nnI
sSei;..r;,i and "c.nIep," sand alone
Srhasa Csrnoo, d;ractor. are ire.
~rsntiw onrnrnraJ tn Criffith con.
Sd.r Erifitb rho world's master mech.
:n;cian and tecbnician of tho films.
INF I do not consider Inn nm artist
There: is that definite enough:j
fs
Mary Haberl writes: have greatly
enjoyed rending your i.etteTbox ana
had intended to- De merely spectator;
but after reading VI. NJ. episiic, l
cannot hep but JON the parade FIRST
Ia like to know: why does he tor she)
take slam at the Germans: thought
the war had been over for some time.
know nothing OF Pola Nesri looks
Or acting, never having seen any OF
the photoplays she Is in.
s'As to foreign ii ms. ] consider The
Golem' a wonderful picture 40 different
from some of the 'sObby' pictures we've
lad in Philadelphia lately: ] also saw
"As I indicated | have not seen
Y sstsnn wi,L Ic.rmsn hut I:cr. dine