New-York tribune., 1922-01-01

Immediately, Exactly like cross be
tween Napoleon and Sam Bernard. - and
we cannot possibly think Of any better
way to describe him. If any one else
has better idea let him project It now
or forever hold bis peace And if ever
tho peerless German director decides to
dc film story of the Little Corporal he
must himself play the title role. lie
looks Just like him, even to the recall
citrart lock Of hair.
Words in a
Universal Language
Armed with our three words Of Ger
man which we learned from a song ex-
trcmely popular with tenors in the pre-
way days, we were all ready TO inter
view Luhitsch, or even to make
speech. il necessary. However, Herr
Lu6itsch did nearly all of the speech
making himself. and he did it in Ger
man, too, without The slightest sign Of
embarrassment. 1t requires posc to
set MP IN q strange country and make
n speech III q strange language to p lot
OF strange people. But Mr Lubitsch
did IT, aud it must have been an anus
ing speech, fer all Of the people pres
ont who understood it laughed lot.
Ard it is surprising how pleasant Ger
man can be made to sound
DR. Hugo Riescnfeld translated the
speech, and then the people were in
V'ted to ask questions. Some one asked
Herr 1ubitsch If he was pleased with
his New York reviews, and he rcplied:
'if only they continue TO speak of
'Pharaoh's Wife as they did Of Du
Barry and Carmen and Anne Bolcvn'
shall be perfectly happy This
doesn't seem to be putting Mrs Pha-
rhoh in very good company, but, of
course, every one knew what he meant.
After the luncheon was over every
one crowded about the great little di-
rector-who, by the way, is only TWEEN
ty-eight years old and piled him with
questions. He talked fast and In an
animated fashion, which made you wish
you had taken German instead of Latin
IN high school
Some one asked how much the extras
got day for working in Berlin, and
he said about so cents. But when you
take into consideration the fact that
Herr Lubitsch often uses more than q
hundred extras in making picture you
Will understand why his manager said
That to produce super-picture in Ger
many cost Just about as much as it
Goes 70 produce one in America. And
Herr Lubitsch then told how the extra
people Will strike for moro money in
the midst Of a scene.
In one place in the new picture the
entire army of Pharaoh refused 70 tight
because the enemy was getting more
money than they were Their noon
hour they spend poring over the
papers to FIND out what the rate of cx
change is. Which only Sc rws what q
great director Lubitsch is. for one of
tho wonderful things about his pic
lures is his mob scenes. They arc not
done by mobs of extras, but bv thou
sands Of actors and actresses. each
one doing his part intelligently. at is
Impossible to explain to all Of these
people what you want them to do and
20 have them catch the spirit Of it. so
tel them some simple tale having the
thcms which wish to portray. and
then / get down and act with them.
That is how | manage to get done what
! want" he said.
la "Pharaoh's Wife" Herr Lubitsch
has built an ancient city several miles
iong Pola Negri will not appear in
This picture, and when we bemoane d
the fact Herr Lubitsch said that ve
should see some one just as good. Ee
says he likes to discover new talent
Hut is there another Pola? The male
stars include Emil Jannings, Danton J.:
Paul Wcgener, the Golcm, and Dagnev
Servaes.
Who's Who?
And WHY
herr Lubitsch was born in Poland and
started his business career as a tailor,s
apprentice. Here he dreamed dreams
IS he stitched buttons, and he finally
secured position as super with Max
Reinhardt. Not long after this Lu-
bltsch became popular as character
actor In Jewish roles similar to the
characters played by Alexander Carr,
Barney Bernard and others. Later he
created on the screen the people he
had put on the stage. His first big pic
ture was Carmen shown here as
Gypsy Blood" 1t made him, and it
made Pola Negri in their own country.
though it was not shown here till
lately His first picture shown here
YES Passion" and after that the Amer
lean public was eager for more.
Herr Lubitsch has seen D. w. Grif-
fith's Broken Blossoms" and expressed
himself as fascinated with it, at is so
fortunate" he added, that I shall be
here to see The Two Orphans" Herr
Lubitsch is going back to Germany in
a couple of weeks, and he says he is
al al