The Film Spectator (Mar-Dec 1928)

July 7, 1928 THE FILM SPECTATOR Page Three Ithe film spectator EVERY OTHER SATURDAY Published by FILM SPECTATOR, INCORPORATED Welford Beaton, President and Editor 411 Palmer Building GLADSTONE 5506 Subscription price, $5.00 per year; foreign, $6.00. Single copy, 20 cents. He that wrestles zvith us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. — Burke. HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, JULY 7, 1928 Spectator Circulation WE receive many requests from prospective advertisers for information regarding the circulation of The Film Spectator. We have one hundred per cent. 2ircuIation among the most prominent picture people in Bollywood, Beverly Hills, and adjacent territory. There are more financial institutions and public libraries among the paid subscribers to The Spectator than we believe there are among the subscribers to any other screen paper published in America. The Spectator is the most widely :iuoted screen paper published anywhere. Only one American publication has a greater paid exhibitor circulation than The Spectator. In the local field The Spectator has a greater bona fide paid circulation than the combined circulation of the Filmograph and the Film Mercury. A Holiday — and a Brook DURING these two summer months there is going to be a little less of my stuff in The Spectator, and in two issues I will have nothing whatever. I'm going away somewhere to look at a brook. I don't know whether to blame the calendar or my labors, but I'm getting tired. Perhaps a fishing rod which hangs on the wall of my bedroom, has something to do with it. Anyway, I'm going, even though I could not advance one good reason why I should. The first of the two Spectators that will be issued while I am looking at the brook will be edited by my brother, K. C. B., and the second will be edited by Tom Miranda. God, alone, knows what kind of issues they will be. The K. C. B issue will be a Contributors' Number, for which a lot of kind people have written articles. Tom will preside over an Advice Number, in which will be published brief messages from several hundred screen people telling me how to run The Spectator for the following year. In this connection, I would urge all those who have not done so yet, to get their messages of advice into the mail at once. You can get a lot of fun out of this number if you provide it. Undoubtedly I will ignore ROMANCING By GEORGE F. MAGOFFIN This is gonna be a motion picture pome What I mean is it'll be about motion pictures without havin' to add a post script or a "prologue", as the picture people say, to explain what it's all about. The picture part wall come in natural. It won't be drug in by a leg like comedy-relief just a get a laugh and keep you from forgettin' it's a movie you're lookin' at. You may even forget it's a pome, for if your mind goes galivantin' off on a little adventure of its own, like it does sometimes in pictures, it won't hit you in the eye with a close-up. "Hell!" you say, "that ain't my girl" at all." Why you couldn't make love to a girl like that if she was tied — you bein' just from the sticks and maybe needin' a shave. She ought to be in a glass case, for the label on her reads "hands off." When she was away back in the distance j^ou could sort of imagine the freckles on her nose and her hair done up careless like and a look in her eyes — ^well, anyvvay, you know what I mean — if you've ever felt that way, a sort of upliftin' feelin' like you was somethin' more than just part of the scenery. Well, that's the way with this pome. It aims to sort of suggest the idea and leave you to make th( poetry to suit yourself, and not do nothin' to spoil the romance. The girl you're thinkin' about maybe wouldn't take a prize in a bathin' suit, but when you've been imaginin' yourself as the hero riskin' your life and endurin' hardships all for her it shorely does disillusion you to find out she ain't the girl you thought she was. Now for the pome. "One crowded hour of glorious life is worth a world without a name." Close-up, close-up, close-up, Cuddle up. Sweet. For a sentimental close-up We've got the screen beat. Your lips are crimson berries. There's powder on my coat. Still, this sentimental close-up Don't get my goat. "One crowded hour". Sweetheart . . • The joys that lovers know . . . And every sequence meaning, O, I love you so! Then come, the Dark Archangel My sinful soul to shrive: For life is not mere living. But feeling all alive. In glamorous romancing. Alone with you. Where fortune showers favors, And dreams come true — 0, I'm a handsome hero; You are a hero-een. And all the world's our oyster — Upon the silver screen. all the advice, consequently you need not be worried about its practicability when you proffer it. I am going where there are no motion pictures, and where the trees differ from ours, where the breeze comes laden with the virile perfume of the north, and where my brook will be a turbulent thing of vast importance to itself, leaping from