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NO The Educational Screen a democratic and literal-minded middle class. "Yes," said Mr. Bern, "if you can call it a limitation. For the motion picture in the last analysis, is an industry, de- pending upon the support of the middle class." "But," I demanded, "what are you go- ing to say to the 'high brows' who insist that motion pictures appeal chiefly to a child's intelligence, and clamor for some- thing intellectually on a higher plane?" "It is not correct," was the answer, "to say that motion pictures appeal to a low order of intelligence. They appeal to the primitive in us all. Pictures were the first means of communication between savage peoples; the appeal of the picture is something that reaches back half a million years, and that appeal reaches in more or less degree any order of intelli- gence." In illustration of his point he cited his experience on the opening night of "Or- phans of the Storm" in New York. The audience, composed largely of writers, artists, and professional people, presum- ably represented a high intellectual level. And when in the picture, Danton at the end of his thrilling ride, pushed through the crowd with the pardon for Henriette, that audience actually stood up and shouted in a frenzy of relief. Yet from the very first, Lillian Gish who played the heroine, sat in the theatre, where the audience could see her and could know that she was safe! Production Notes METRO is to produce Ben Ames Williams' sea story. "All the Brothers Were Valiant," which Irvin V. Willat will direct. LOUIS B. MAYER has obtained the film rights to "Captain Apple- jack" and "The Famous Mrs. Fair," both of which will be directed by Fred Niblo. CHARLES RAY is at work on Jarm Whitcomb Riley's poem, "The (J I Loved." His chief concern at presJ is whether the ending shall be convei tionally happy or logically sad. "t: 'HE WHITE FLOWER" is tl title of a story now in productic by Lasky. The author is Julia Crawfoi Ivers, and the star, Betty Compson. J MYRA KELLEY'S "Emmy Lou"-; to come to the screen under tl title "Miss Emmy Lou." Viola Dana wi play the name part. <<npHE LEGEND OF SLEEP; 1 HOLLOW" is being filmed wil Will Rogers as Ichabod Crane. HARRY LEON WILSON'S clev satire on motion pictures, "Merton the Movies," may reach the screen so^ It is rumored that Glenn Hunter w: play "Merton." 4<nPOILERS OF THE SEA," a ^ nounced as Rex Ingram's fort! coming production, will be made latij In the meantime he is at work on "'■ Passion Vine," by John Russell. MADGE KENNEDY will start woi soon in "Dorothy Vernon of Ha< don Hall." F SCOTT FITZGERALD'S "Tl # Beautiful and Damned," Sincla Lewis' "Main Street," and Charles No ris' "Brass" will be produced this fall I Warner Productions. itf-nUE GARDEN OF ALL^i X will be Norma Talmadge's ne picture, to be filmed in Africa. GOLDWYN will film a new version "Vanity Fair," but no cast has be selected as yet.