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The stars of "The Marriage Circle," which Lubitsch is making for Warner Brothers. They are: Marie Prevost, Adolphe Menjou, Ernst Lubitsch, Monte Blue, Creighton Hale, and Florence Vidor
When
Lubitsch
Directs
By HARRY CARR
WHEN Lubitsch is directing a picture, he has an odd way of entertaining a visitor. At the end of the scene, he comes over to where you sit and gives you a little character sketch of the actor who has been performing.
For instance, when Florence Vidor finished her scene and the camera stopped clicking, he came over and painted her psychic picture: "She haf beauty; but she got distinction ; she got good family. It show on the screen."
Which made us all wonder what he was going to say about Marie Prevost. Marie has many ardent admirers, but I think that even Marie herse.lf gulped a little with astonishment when Lubitsch picked her as one of the finest actresses he has seen in America and gave her the big part in bis new picture, "The Marriage Circle," upon which he is staking his
career.
Marie Prevost says of Lubitsch: "To act even one scene under Jiis direction is not only an education but a revelation." Lubitsch says of Marie Prevost: "She is a goot actress — she haf life und animation und she got emotion. But she got boomer too. No actress is goot in a heavy role unless she haf got also a sense of hoomer."
"When 1 first came to America," said Herr Lubitsch, "my position was a very difficult one. The war was just over. I didn't know a soul. I arrived in Hollywood one drizzling cold foggy night when it seemed that even the climate was against me. As a matter of fact, I was treated everywhere with kindness and sympathetic cordiality ; but, of course, I couldn't know that was going to happen. Consequently, in my first picture, I had to make all kinds of concessions to what they told me the American people wanted. I made my first one that way. This one I am going to make to please Lubitsch."
So, just as he tossed away all the other stale ideas that movie convention had built, so he airily ignored the actresses whom Hollywood had stamped "great" and picked out a graduate bathing young' lady for his great acting part.
At the end of one of her
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