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MAURICE TOURNEUR
A l' R I CE TOU RNEUR. French. Artist. Student of Rodin s. Co-worker of Puvis de Chavannes. Helped with celebrated mural paintings of Boston Public Library. Designer — fabrics, laces, theatrical scenes. Actor. Director for Eclair. Came to United States. Did "Treasure Island." "The Blue Bird," "The Whip." "The Last of the Mohicans," "Lorna Doom-." "The Christian." Last picture, "The Isle o f Losl Ships.*' Now working on "The Brass Bottle." for four years a London stage success, "Maurice Tourneur Productions, M. C. Levee, General Manager." release through First National.
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There is probably all the reader wants to know, for what a director is is told by his pictures. Tourneur's are as distinctive as the man himself. Many of them stand out in the history of motion-picture production as the Battle of Gettysburg, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the landing of the Pilgrims do in American history. A breaker of traditions, an adept in the unusual, he has set a pace for the industry to follow, and in doing so has made a box-office name for himself, a name that draws patronage as surely as does that of the few really great actors of Greenland. With Rex Ingram. D. W. Griffith, Marshall Neilan, Ernst Lubitsch, Eric von Stroheim, he is one of the men who have brought the director into the spotlight of public esteem during the past year or two.
An inveterate reader, a rapid reader, interested in literature from his youth, he is thoroughly familiar with the great stories
Mr. Tourneur has the finest yroup o) German police doys in California.
of several languages. Constantly on the search for the novel, the dramatic, the fantastic in situations and themes, he trundles home great heaps of books from his office at the L'nited Studios — books which have been suggested to him by his reader, by the typist down the hall, by the office boy, the camera man, the horde of correspondents with whom he is in constant touch.
Quick in speech and action, known throughout Filmland as "temperamental," he is nevertheless always the genial gentleman.
That tells more about Maurice Tourneur than the bare fact that he. was born in Paris in 1878 and attended the Lycee Condorcet.
Or take this from an interview by Ted Le Berthon in the Los Angeles Record: "I don't like novels by Elinor Glyn or Harold Bell Wright; and business men, like chambermaids and children, why, they weep bitter tears over them. They say: 'Oo, Oo, this is the real life.' And me? I shudder."
Wind, rain, fog, flickering shadows, fantastic themes, primitive drama, are the things with which Tourneur works best.
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