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MANAGERS AND PROJECTIONISTS
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actresses are paid huge sums on the presumption that they can enact a given scene in the most artistic way. Is it not then just plain common sense that the best possible effect will be had if the action of these artists be portrayed on the screen faithfully, exactly as they were in the original?
The theatre manager often excuses over-speeding of projection with the statement that he wants to "put pep" into his show. God in heaven! Imagine the manager of a "store room" theatre in Kalamazoo, Missouri, undertaking to "put pep" into Clara Kimball Young or Mary Pickford, or improving on the portrayal of a scene by Earle Williams or William Hart. Could anything be more ridiculous? Put in another way, when the theatre manager makes a statement of that kind he simply says in effect, "I know more about how that scene ought to be acted than does the artist who acted it and the director who planned it."
PROJECTION HAMPERED.— In all but a comparatively small number of theatres, projection is more or less hampered in various ways. First, there is the iron-bound, unelastic "schedule," from which the projectionist is not permitted to vary. The manager very naturally desires to start his show at a given time, and have it end at a given time. This is, of course, very necessary, but while the average
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