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THE BUYER’S PROBLEMS
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Othello has a lovely wife, with whom another member of the company is secretly in love. As the story develops, the husband eventually discovers this situation. His wife is playing the part of Desdemona. As they come to the act where Othello seizes Desdemona by the throat, the husband, insane with jealousy, actually strangles his wife. The audience thinks it is simply remarkably fine acting and applauds wildly. The curtain is rung up, and Othello takes his bow, while his wife lies dead on the stage.
As this story is written, it is a very powerful drama. In one company it was rejected simply because it is so terribly grim. Few motion picture fans like anything as horrible as this. Most of us go to the movies for entertainment and relaxation. This story offers neither. It is a fine piece of work, but misconceived as a commercial venture.
Some editors might reasonably object to the story for still another reason. It lacks essential originality, in spite of its rugged dramatic ending. One of the oldest tricks in the dramatic game is that of placing real-life drama in a parallel situation on the stage, and solving both the dramatic and the real-life complication in the action of the play.
Our next story is a magnificent picture of old Spain. It is a fairly original variation of the Carmen story, with two magnificent scenes at a bull fight. Everybody who read the story liked it immensely. But a previous estimate of the cost of producing it brought out the fact that more than $500,000 would have to be put into it in order to screen it properly. It contained many musical passages which could be appropriately rendered only by a