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Pichjres and P/chjrepuer
JANUARY 1925
empasts
SP**
Tragedies
There's a storm waiting every time somebody leaves home in the Movies.
« ^"V ut of my house you go ! You I 1 are no longer a son of mine," ^^ says Father. Mother ventures a gentle remonstrance,
Father never heeds her,
strides to the door
and flings it open.
Enter snow flakes or
rain drops as the case
may be. Exit, after
a short, dramatic
pause and a longer,
less dramatic close-up,
the disinherited heir,
sans hat, sans mac,
sans goloshes, sans
everything. You've all seen it.
No one, or hardly
anyone, in films has
ever left a house in
the throes of some
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Tfl« gentleman in "Arabella" repented at leisure in a snowdrift
Reading
downwards : Rod La Rocque has had many battles with the elements. Anna Q. Nilsson as a tempest tossed heroine; and Gladys Leslie ready to go out \i \ into the cold,
cold world.
great emotion without being drenched to the skin, buried in a snow-drift, stunned by hail-stones or struck by lightning. There seems to be a storm waiting every time someone leaves home. Mother shows son the door — rain — The Ten Commandments. Burr Mackintosh sends Lillian Gish away — snow — Way Down East. Girl rejects a lover — long walk in the rain for the unhappy wight — Daddy Long Legs. Hero saves heroine from unwelcome marriage — thunder and lightning — Dozen to the Sea in Ships. The list can be lengthened to suit individual requirements.
[ ct us classify storms. One — the Storm Emotional. This is used as a means of showing by the elements the mental state of the mortals, as rage — thunder and lightning; sorrow — rain; turbulent indecision — wind. Then there is the Storm Interventive. This variety comes to the aid of heroes at critical moments. The villain draws a knife and rushes at the defenceless hero — by the way, did I mention that the scene of the combat is a lonely heath