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authoritative critics; that the motion
picture owes its strange lure to the
fact that 1t Is what its name implies,
that the people and objects photo
graphed are not stationary but in
action.
You know yourself that you have
been happier than you otherwise
would have been with some ordinary
boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy
gets-girl just because he has met
her, lost her and got her at fast
clip. And some of those adventures
of the Lone Ranger" have been a
lot more exciting than many more
expensive photoplays, just because
the Lone Ranger kept moving.
This is no desertion Of the psyche
logical drama or the comedy Of brit
tie dialogue for an espousal of the
cause Of physical action. "Rebecca," :"
for instance, is psychological drama,
but Director Alfred Hitchcock saw
to 1t that it Is q motion picture
which moves. Rather this sudden
attention to movement in the cine
ma has been inspired by a sudden at
tention on the part Of the hlm pro-
ducers to movement-to films roar
ing with action.
Warner Bros, Of course, have
never been without action 50 long
as there has been room on the lot
to erect a prison set and q street
for game of cops-and-robbers.
But the more expensive films are
turning back to those old days Of
action and more action, too. Those
same Warmers gave us just recently
Virginia City, and about the same
time Spencer Tracy and the Indians
were battling furiously in M-G-M's
Northwest Passage"
Metro has another important
affair in the process of shooting
which is going to be in the fast-snd-
furious category when 1t emerges.
This is Boom Town." which prom
ises: Five fights involving Spencer
Tracy and Clark Gable, q scrap be-
tween two dance hall girls. blazing
oil fire, shooting in the streets, and
sundry other moments devoted to
deeds, not talk.
Mr.. Cecil B. De Mile is readying
North West Mounted Police" Enrol
Flynn is swashbuckling again in
"The Sea Hawk" Columbia is ex-
amining the Wild West in a picture
called Arizona" And there are
more. so 1t appears as though any
number of our future Aims are going
to move, whatever else remains to
be said of them.
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Outdoor action dramas require an
outdoor setting and that brings us
around to Gov. Bob Jones of Arizona,
Arizona being one of the cinema s
favorite outdoor settings. Gov.
Jones is protesting, according to the
Associated Press, at Secretary Ickes'
imposition Of special fees on studios
filming motion pictures in territories
under the Jurisdiction of the De-
partment Of Interior.
The fee schedule announced by
Secretary Ickes calls for payment
of $50 a day for q cast of less than
5 persons, $3.50 day for a cast of
5 to Is persons, and $500 for a cast
of more than Is persons. Gov.
Jones plans to protest to Washing
ton. He fears the special fee busi-
ness will drive the movie makers to
other locales and that Arizona will
lose at least part of $4,000, 900 he
estimates the studios would spend
there in the next two years.
Shooting from the Gun
Harry Anger is planning another
edition of Gentleman Be Seated,
the Earle's second annual stream
lined minstrel show. It Is scheduled
for the week Of April 26, with Gu
Van and Charles "5tm" Timbiin q