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Photoplay Magazine /5 An Urban setting fur "Huniuroojuc." adapting the technique of the -tage to the motion picture The effect of the sky secured hy carefully worked out coloring and lighting. players against backdrops painted in fantastic flat designs v>i li perhaps a mountain or a castle in silhouette. There was no at- tempt in light these drops so as to imitate reality or to create an atmosphere of vague dreaminess, li was a "stunt," an at- tempt at abstraction. The effect of individual Mines in the case •if "The Blue Bird" was pretty enough, hut the contrast be- tween these and succeeding scenes of three-dimensional realism or stage carpentry was disconcerting. ll would he foolish to condemn this sort of production from a few experiments. Vet the reality of the camera suggests that the ideal artist for the screen is either the architect with a stage training and a brilliant romantic flair—a man like Joseph Urban, the movie's latest recruit—or else a new sort of artist iii light alone. The stage i> 1 place of deliberate self-deception. There \<- .ire always pretending ml •■•■ welcome the opportunity thai "abstract" scenery gives us to voyage far from make-believe actualities into places of the -pith alone. The position of the artist in light—or of the Urban trained to moving picture possibih'tie is assured. He has. first, the solid- est of settings or the gau/.iesi of suggestions, whichever he pleases. Next, he has the marvelous medium of light, controlled as never before. Finally he has the camera ready for any trick*. Nothing is impossible. He may ranee from the blazing beauty of a Greek temple in the summer sunlight, to the dimmest haunt of mist ami monster. He may build an apocalyptic vision out of a Cooper-Hewitt and the night sky. Or he may capture the tortured soul of a murderer with a lamp and a lew yard- of black cheese-cloth. i.fc SURELY you do not wish to put your husband and Mrs. Havilow — both now en route for Europe — in such an embarrassing position?" "Is their position more embarrass' ing than mine?" "At least they cannot marry until there is a divorce." "Ah! Then I still have some power left!" WHICH is essential to a man's success: infatua- tion, or the clean, undying affection of" a wife? " Nonessentials," a fiction story to appear in February Photoplay, answers this question, as well as proves that love can be only as great as its power to forgive. " Nonessentials" is another of those splendid fiction stories, entered in Photoplay's $14,000 Contest which is attracting the host writers in the country. The stories selected for publication arc the standard of any fiction in America's best magazines. Throughout the year. Photoplay will continue to publish two such stories per month twenty-four in all. For details of the contest prizes and regulations, consult page six of this issue.