New Britain herald., 1926-04-06
PICTURES DEMAND
 GOOD DIRECTORS
And He Is Man Who Has Wide
 Range Of Versatility

'h Inc motion picture business when dlIector could make his name win one Dig film ana then 20 on aimee, ,uaehnitely revamping the old story In varied forms,
 but many of the men who poe carry the megaphone, believe those aays are gone beyond recall. and n director to hold hls place before inc pubic must be able 10 superyise sn,, pot from low comedy 10 weird tragedy, and koep doing it.
 A Dig picture Is forgotten by tbe producers as soon as 1t has ceosed making money at the box office" Allan Dwan said. The public may remember it but the producers wan, lo know what kind of pictures a al. rector is making today A director mas TO learn and progress with every plViute' or he dies-and in this bust. ness when q man dies, he dies plenty and usually stays dead"
 one Of the younger eenaratto =, a'Fector', King vtdor, who hsnd,ea me The Big Parade and La Ro H'ne' led kaleidoscopic existence ,., ,gi"Fs ne bossed the job which b,s friends say made the worIs vpar ,amons' He led the Big paradeG through No Mans Land only sa.u ne mad turned out score ot o.be, llIins that showed virtually no sjn1,1 arity al all 0 ''i''iI
 A contrast to Vidor, at Ieas. ,- years and experience, is M.urLra lourneur He made biz n,cfn,,s ears ago when the movies movsd on the screen with eye-strain,ng ;,s sIss' men graduated to producire u"aer his own name. dropped out for Il %hiIe and now Is back again
 Dlrecting. said Tourneur. J,k. ,hs be" "4a' II used to a Distinctive creation f. nor. s,t. .,cult today than before. because mere are more creators snd thA lleId Tor distinction is narrouir. t, ne added. Not so very long ago ui[e',or ,iII,, could leap into popularity with single picture. Now the pnh,ic "alts each time to be shown. Tho great director of today Is the one "ho can point to a succession A, great stories and then deliver anotb. CT one tomorrow"
 Ahotler Of the old guard is Fred Nlolo, He Is almost unioue in son,e or ms habits, for he dresses n,or. ''No q man Of business out on a po,it, picnic than like a director. and ysr,, 9e4uon uses megaphone. de,nita the fact that he has the renut.tion or oelng one of the best after. din. Aer speakers In the west in or o,,. or screendom. Niblo left his in,nrint on q long list of films, sweet, drama uc' melo-dramatic and funny. before ne undertook to resurrect Ben u,,, Tor the fans Of the silver sheet,
 James Cruze, who in private life IS Betty Compson's husband, dec,ar. eu no director can live on th., glory of one big picture" And Cruze should know, for his "cover. Cd Wagon" ran six months st on. theater in Hollywood.
 ~"llNaE' dholher advocate Of me do something different" school touched two extremes recently h. working off couple Of torrid love themes bearing the Elinor cIv,, Trademark and then jumpinr in.n a modern college story Brown or Harvard" "
 mat three poor pictures will knl the drawing power of any directors name even after he has made so. called big box office successes Is the opinion Of William De Mile. He also believes that good director, like q good baseball pitcher. must have varied delivery, an ability to "n1iA 'em up"
 The curse of the epic picture opined Malcolm st. Clair, "is lis tendency to act as 8 boomerang and take off the directors head unless he can follow it with other re.lly fine plays. The public demands n consistent average Of successful films"
 Rrennon-"A director cannot af- ford 10 try for tremendously big pictures every time he picks up his megaphone. I lG,e to make motion picture fantasies like Peter Pan, vet l cannot make, with success. moro thaA one of this kind a year. agree with whct others have said about the necessity of q directors being versatile. The public stomach de mands a balanced diet"
 Fleming-"It is perfectly possible for director 10 make one big pic tnre and 10 ride on the high tide of that production for years 10 come Y also IS entirely possible for a mo ton picture director 10 film one tyre of photography entirely. Witness Ernest Luhitsch and Dimitri Buchowetzki, who have made the subtle society film famous. I douht very much whether either of them C0NlI m q Ike a rNo5 u~astaro orn