Camera - April 14, 1923 to February 16, 1924 (April 1923-February 1924)

CaiilfSr induding 0:()c film CEribnwf ^^^^Vf f ^ B V^V'* THE WORLD'S GBCATPST Hollywood, California THE WORLD'S GREATEST FILMPAPER Established 1918 S. W. LAWSON, Publisher GEORGE HIVELY, Studio Representative PAULINE THOMPSON, Auxiliary Edit GENE WOOLWAY, Studio Representor Volume VI. SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1924 Number THE WHITE ESCUTCHEON [Keeping Faith With Yesterday ] mm By Fred W. Fox "We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow. Loved, and were loved . . ." ". . . to you. from failing hands, we throw The torch; he yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep . . ." — McCrae. '"If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep." The Beauty must be untarnished; the Traditions must be held inviolate; the Greatness of the Motion Picture must not be belittled. It is not alone for Today that we fight. It is for Yesterday . . . and To-morrow. We have come, from all corners of the earth; from every walk of life; from the low places and the high places; from the canyons and the hilltops, from the meadows and the glaciers; and we have been made into one great fraternity thru the melting pot of the Cinema. Brothers and sisters, not by blood ties, perhaps, but greater ties, ties that reach out and above mortal bounds. We have come together to give the world better entertainment; a better method of education and universal understanding through the allpowerful medium of the silent stage. In the midst of our labors, our hopes and plans for To-morrow we are rudely awakened by a terrific pounding on the door. This same pounding has been heard at the same door many a time ere this but we have been satisfied to ignore it heretofore. Child's play, perhaps. But lo, what is that ungoldly racket at the gate now? It sounds like the hammerings of a street ruffian. Ah, 'tis kav it I t* tail ik it:: F tint n the incarnation of Narrow-Minded "Reform" at the ga of Filmdom! It is Sir Shuler who pounds and wouldst j us at the board. He thinks we drink and make met a We plan and labor. We have no time for such rou> i necks. Avast with him guards! Chase him hen "Camera I'' and Filmograph! To the streets with \ where he belongs! And the struggle is on; he tries drag the folk of Filmdom to the gutter from whence* has sprung but he was waned in power and the gua wax strong. The hosts of the city gather and watch combat. These are strange doings, indeed. Never fore has the intruder at the gates been thrown out. strange; 'tis strange. Yet here this ungainly < boisterous mountebank is hurled bodily from the of Filmdom. 'Twas thought that the inmates were dn with wine and gaiety, yet here they appear and fif* k In the midst of their plannings for To-morrow; t\ labors of To-day and their fond reminiscences of Yes' day they stride forth to keep the escutcheon unblack J»tii Verily, things have changed ! In the midst of the gigantic labors of the motion ] ture industry Bob Shuler has knocked. He would ei and reform. And what, may we ask, can this man kr. about "reform." Reform what? The Motion Picture is not on the road to Greatn It is Great! It has been proclaimed as such by the I lions of people who seek diversion and entertainmen r Edited by Fred W Fox "CAMERA I" The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry, including THE FILM TRIBUNE, The World's Greatest Filmpaper, issued Saturday morning of each week at 6318 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California. Entered as second-class matter August 1 1th, 1918, at post-office at Los Angeles, California, under the provisions of the Act of March 3rd, 1879. Published by the Camera-Tribune Publishing Conoi with executive and editorial offices at 6318 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California. National advertising representatives H. H. Conger ( pany, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Subscription Rates: $3.50 per year in Los Angeles County; $4.00 per year in outside zone; $+.5C year to Canada; $5.00 per year to foreign points. Address all communications to the company. All unsolicited manuscripts are sent at the < er's risk.