San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
Everybody Criticizes Mavies.

Everybody Criticizes Mavies.
Brick bats are flying at the movies
faster than at any time since the in
ddtry started.
what's all this shootin' for?
Let's stop and ponder the situa-
ton.
The movie is now one of the coun-
| try's greatest industries-fourth or
fifth.
At least 800 out of every 1000 en-
gagged in any capacity in the game
are in it for the money they can
get. That goes for all, from Will
Hays down to the latest carpenter
hired in Hollywood.
Then why all this yapping at
| Adolpb Zukor, Marcus Lowe, Will
/ liam Fox, Carl Laemmle and other
leaders in the industry, because they
formerly held humble places in the
clothing or fur bushes?
Carnegie, Schwab, Ford and al
most all the leaders in commerce
and finance once were in humble cir
cumstances.
The movie, as now constituted. is
mostly q matter Of commerce and
finance. Whatever art it has, has
been brought about by the public.
When more art has meant more
money, more art has been put into
the movies. -.
If red paint meant more sales, Ford
would paint his machines red.
As long as the movie is consid-
Aezsd. by 800 of every 1000 in it as an
industry, that pays good returns on
1.-THE capital and labor invested in 1t,
II will be only an industry.
And these artists, these altruists,
who would do so much to help the
movies!
Bob Sherwood, movie critic, hands
pat on the back to Peter Il. Kyne
for quitting the movies when he
might have stayed and made big
money.
Kyne wasn't in the movies long,
but he was in long enough to know
just how the camera tells story
and what its storytelling capacity
is. Kyne stayed too long to receive
much credit for passing up the oppor-
.unity to make money.
There was Penrhyn Stanlaws, the
portrait painter, who became a movie
director. When he left, he fired
broadside at them, pointing out that
no film was perfect in its beauty.
You see, he had the artists view
point.
The art of the motion pictures
land it is truly an art - consists in
something more than pictures and
subtitles. 1t has its own idiom OF
expression.
The writer's and painters who
ZONE to the movies primarily be-
cause they can get more money there
than elsewhere, should hold their
Tongues if they are unwilling to contri-
butte. or try to contribute, something
Ito the development Of an art that is
mot their art.
If they can do that, these ex-
pressers ard ex-spongers will pay
them a pretty price, for good art is
good business.
Several weeks ago when / saw
HARRY Depp with Jack Holt in mo
body's Money" l tagged him for fu-
lure stardom. / have seen him again
IN "Kane and Abel, of the leather
pushers series. His work in that
Strengthens my belief that he is head
zFu6nsrd great fame on the screen.
Diminutive, agile, facile in express
ZION, Depp would make an excellent
ro-star for Fatty HERS.
Mildred Harris and Cullen Lands
will have the leading roles in the film
Fersion of William Dudley Pelley's
The Fog" a novel Of small-town life
which told the story of youth and
girl trying to "find themselves.
others in the cast are Louise Fazenda,
Ralph Lewis, Frank Currier. Peggy
Wales, Anna May. David Butler and
Edward Phillips, Paul Powell will di-
Fect for Metro.
Old King Tut is to have more than
IN incidental role in the movies such
Is Cecil DeMille will give him in the
lin story of the Ten Commandments.
Tutankhamen" will be the name of a
lin produced by William p. S. Earle.
lie styles it "A Romance of Ancient
Egypt 5000 Years Ago." He says be
las been preparing for the picture for
IL months and that il will be based
n forthcoming novel.
Ferdinand Pinney Earle, his
rother, will shortly begin to film
Faust" for which he has been pre-
airing for several years.
The proposed censorship law in
Michigan has been killed.
Claude King. English actor who
ppeared with Pola Negri in Bella
bonna,' will be Corinnc Griffith's
eading man in six Days"
Maurice Canonge. Partisan CON-
diah. has come TO America to enter
be films. Max Under, his friend,