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Paton is popular with his players, and that is probably one reason why he has proved himself such a| success as a serial director. Probably no director in the business has a more original method of getting tears from his players, when the script' calls for them, than this Scotchman. Picture directors have been accused, before now, of deliberate brutality of speech toward their unfortunate companies in order to produce the desired emotional effect. But Paton's method is the direct opposite of this. He makes his players laugh till they cry. Having been blessed with the same heaven-given faculty of inducing laughter as his fellow countryman, Harry Lauder, Paton makes the most of it in his picture work. When he wants the members of his company to produce signs of woe, he begins to tell them funny stories, and he never stops until they are all dissolved in tears of mirth. This method is to be recommended to all motion picture producers; but the only trouble (Continued on page 34)
iio cameraman, and assistant director Mike Murphy.
Paton caught in the act.