Motion Picture News (Apr - Jun 1927)

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What I Think of Antonio G. Quattrini, on right, with General Umberto Nobile, Commander of the "Norge", and his famous dog Titina, tvho accompanied Qeneral 'Nobile on his sticcess' ful flight over the North Pole. y..»j<4 J|pf^iGOUnALm Fiqhting Lave »♦ ViaOR VARCONI* HENRY B.WALTHALL AoAPTLDOY BEULAH MARIE OIX FrvoMTMtNOVEL"IF THE CODS LAUGH" by ftOSITA FORBES Supervised by BERTRAM MILLHAUSER NILS OLAF CHRISANDER Produced Bv DE MILLE PICTURES CORPORATION PKODUCEKS DISTKIBUTINC COKPORATION by Antonio G» Quattrini Antonio G. Quattrini is one of the best known writers and journalists of Italy. He is the author of fifty'six noveb of adventures which have all been translated into French find Spanish. He recently took part in the great ^ight of the "Norge" from Rome to Spit^enberg as correspondent' His interesting and glowing comments on "Fighting Love" are authoritative and convincing. IT is always with an instinctive feeling of suspense that one attends the showing of a motion picture produced by artists unfamiliar with the surroundings which they are trying to portray. Even though the scenic effects reach a high artistic value, the reality of the background is not enough, es' pecially where the drama is the result of a conflict of passions. And since each and every nation feels its own individual passions in its own individual man ner andhasitsown way of displaying them, it is to be supposed that the perfect representation of such feelings may not be possible, except to those whose blood is fired Jetta Qoudai with the fervor of those same passions. It is with this idea that I set myself to the task of viewing this drama of Italian locale, presented by artists who are not Italian. And now 1 must confess that had I not known previously that other than Italian artists would pass before me on the screen, if from their names I had not guessed their nationality, I could have very easily declared that "Fighting Love" was an Italian picture, executed by Italian artists