Evening star., 1932-01-24
Has a Message to Spread
Fulton R. Gordon Says He Will Write, Produce and
Act in a "Super-epic" Drama That WI
"Reyolutionize Civilization"

l. Il unhappy marriages, poverty,
war. insanity and other evils,
Fulton r. Gordon, well known Wash
| ington realty promoter, plans to give
| his secret to the world through the
medium of stage and screen, with him
self as leading man, and at cost of
production estimated at from 100000
| to $350,000.
In a colorful interview yesterday at
his unpretentious real estate Office in
a building at Fourteenth and H streets
Mr.. Gordon revealed details of his am
bilious histrionic effort, tentatively
dubbed "The Dawn of a New Civiliza-
ton"
Mr.. Gordon will be the author, pro-
ducer and chief actor in the super
| epic" which will be not only enter
tanning, amusing and educational, but
| possessed of a moral that he hopes,
to use his own words, will revolution
| iZe civilization"
Commissions Producer.
The veteran real estate man has
commissioned John Frederick, listed as
a writer and producer from Holly
wood" to shape Mr.. Gordon's original
story into stage production form and
thereafter to prepare a scenario for a
motion picture calculated, according to
both, to create lot of attention.
Mr. Frederick Is planning an ex-
tensive publicity campaign to arouse
interest in the forthcoming enterprise.
He said Mr. Gordon would go on the
air over a local radio station every
week or so and that he (Mr. Frederick
would obtain statements from such
men as President Hoover" containing
their prediction of what the world will
be like SO years from now.
He declared these statements would
not be hard for him to get. The Dawn
of a New Civilization" would not be
mentioned until the very end of the
statement, he pointed out, but the pub
licity value of even this brief mention
would be tremendous.
Mr.. Gordon disclosed he has been
considering for some time the best
method of getting his civilization plan
over to the public in the biggest way,
and that Mr. Frederick, who says he
helped D. w Griffith put over some of
his best productions, convinced him the
stage and screen could reach "a hun
dred million people In all corners Of the
globe"
Found Wickersham Busy.
at took my crime cure plan to the
Wickersham Commission" Mr. Gordon
explained, but Mr.. Wickersham's Sec
retary said he was busy and asked me
to make an appointment. I never went
back to make the appointment. how
ever, as the commissions days were
Just about over, and I believe in doing
things in my own way. Then I de-
cided to write about the plan in news
papers and magazines. In fact, the
editor of one of the big newspaper
chains asked me to prepare my edi-
torials, and I was just starting to do
that when Mr. Frederick came along
and changed me over to the stage
idea"
Mfr Frederick, who was sitting along
side, nodded assent
What was it you told me about the
merit of my story from the theatrical
standpoint" Mr.. Gordon asked Mr..
Frederick
II told you that I believe it to be
the most promising material for the
theater that has ever come to my at
tention," Mr.. Frederick answered.
MIR. Gordon was asked about the
financial aspects of the undertaking
He said the movie production would
cost about 100000 and the stage play
much less. Mr.. Frederick previously
had estimated to the reporter that the
motion picture would cost $500 900 and
! the stage play about $4,000.
Who's going to put up the money!"
the reporter asked.
That's all arranged for and while I
had no intention originally of making
any money out of the thing, Mr.. Fred
erick has told me there is fortune in
| it," Mr.. Gordon replied.
VIII Use Greatest Actors"
Mr.. Frederick had informed the re-
| porter earlier that the funds were be-
| ing put up by Mr.. Gordon, the people
| in Hollywood" and myself" The play
| will be in seven acts, and the greatest
actors in the business" will be imported
here for the stage offering, Mr.. Fred
erick declared. 1t is planned to obtain
| the Washington Auditorium or the Be-
laSco Theater for six or eight week
run, starting about March 10.
When the local run has been COM
pleted, the screen production will be
started In Hollywood, with the best"
| talent available as stars, headed, of
course, by Mr.. Gordon in the principal
role
In reply to question as to whether
! he had ever had any stage or screen
1
| had not, but that didn't matter, be-
cause he has had remarkable success
as a speaker and lecturer.
Cried All the Way Home.
"I spoke to 5000 people once at a
mass meeting In 1911, in behalf OF
! Government clerks, and 5000 of them
were crying when I got through and
cried all the way home" he commented
| The gist of Mr.. Gordon's idea re-
garding crime and its cause and cure
is that people are either crazy or not
crazy.
There are just two classes OF
people," he explained. "One class has
a sound brain and Is able to have sound
premises and sound conclusions. The
other class has an unSound brain ano
has false premises and false conclusions
The criminal element is the product OF
the latter class. My solution of the
crime problem is to build up new
civilization of sound minds by banning
marriages of umsCund minds and thus
eliminating defective offspring. BY
eliminating the mentally defective We
eliminate crime, miSmating, poverty
war, iails, insane asylumS.
Fifty years from now we will have
a new race of sane, healthy people and
crime and other troubles will be things
of the past. I am working all these
ideas into the play. Yet I am making
the production interesting and enter
tanning from start to finish. There Will
be romance, thrills-everything."
Won Via Milk Route.
The play, according to the "thire
treatment synopsis" on which Mr.
Frederick is now working, will open witt
a Springtime scene in old Virginia, witt
young farmer lad. who turns out to b,
Mr. Gordon, holding a. calf with
broken leg.
) THE young man stood feet tall, clae
" in overalls, boots and a colored sof
shirt, with straw hat placed on th'
back Of his head" the third treatment