The Washington times., 1932-09-03
me-, Too
Even befOr,

GILBERT sELDEs produced-but long after it was a
stage and had cost the movie producers large
sum of noney-half dozen other pictures, funda-
mentally the same idea were produced When Walter
Wanger bought washington Merry Go-Round for pic
ture most people hootedbut the producers rushed lot
of other political pictures to the screen We are now
living in the cycle of movie sares and political exposures
And this suggests that presently we shall see dozen
pictures which the inner thoughts of characters repre-
sented by Clara Bow Tom Mix and Rln-I1n-llns grand
son will be made audible from the screen The prospect
hardly bears contemplation beg the movies to give the
idea to only limited number of producers and players to
Mack Sennett for comedy, to the Marx Brothers and
Jimmie Durante and w. c. Fields for tragedy.
More Advice
And while am offering advice I would like Jimmie
Durante to be taken out of Buster Keaon pictures and
Harpo Marx to be forced to talk. In Speak Easily"
(Which has some of the funniest moments in spite
of being longdrawn-out and dulish picture) Jimmie
Durante is obviously being played down. In "Horse
Feathers (Which is closer to the Marx Brothers top
than most people think Harpo is unfunH chiefly because
he has to 60 to such efforts to avoid talking, and MS
exquisite harp playing is tlresome
And Opinions
And reverting to "Strange Interlude, it must be
better movie than play because doesn't take long
as the play, which windy and overbown and puted
up and pretentous and made virtue of its great defect
that Mr.. O'Neill could not suggest what his people
meant except by sooques, and which great in only
one scene-which direct as lbsen or George s.
Kaufman If anyone fails to like it, let him remember
thas as play it was intellectual phoney, not one
tenth as fine as ONeills Mourning Becomes Electra
and let the movemen remember that they have already
had too much talk IN their pictures while Iney were
least trying keep action going; to suspend ac-
ton altogether in favor of talk is suicidal.
Tin Can Society
Now that jokes about motor out it may be
reported that in America we use thirty billion tin
year-at least that is the figure heard at a recent
lecture Obviously something must happen to those
the speaker suggested that in the uness of time they
would all disappear in the beds of rivers and and
return to the abysmal slime from which all life
Yet in the process the level of the should rse and
if we exhausted tin faster than the could
absorb them would all be inundated by salt water,
and so our civilization would perish.
Shaws Idea
It makes think of Shaws fantasy of the future in
which all England is dominated by Breakages Ltd the
company which reduces old cars, used DESKS worn-out
filing cabinets bottles and tin to sort of pup
and charges heavily for the service standing meanwhile
in the way of any technical improvement which will pre-
and cabinets from being too soon discarded
Breakages, Ltd, is the symbol of waste implying that
the entire purpose of all factories and advertising
is to make buy things which easily destroyed
Profit in that view, comes not from building house
which lasts forever but in selling ten houses which
crumble in two years.
The economists and the moralsts both aghast and
we, looking around in the year of bad debts 1892
not pleased But while we had it waste wasn't
such bad idea And in this great great boom of pros
perity may slip right back to it again.