Motion Picture Classic (May 1921 - Dec 1927)

Classic Considers LADY DIANA MANNERS Not because she is the daughter of the Duke of Rutland, nor because she is a gifted actress, but because she was the first prominent member of England’s titled and territorial aristocracy to rise above prejudices of caste and class and seek to earn her living in the movies. She is a suitable selection for “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall,” inasmuch as that historic house is one of her father's ducal seats — which gives her a sort of preemptive right to the part of her high-spirited ancestress Photograph by Brown Bros. SIR JAMES M. BARRIE, BART., LL.D. For many and important reasons, chief of which is that he bears no apparent animosity against motion picture directors, despite the fact that some of them have treated the exquisite creatures of his brain with ruthless stupidity. But perhaps he felt consoled and recompensed when he raw the admirable screen version of his "Sentimental Tommy” LEJAREN A HILLER In consideration of the fact, that he has turned from “stills,*’ in which he had proyed himself the paramount photographer of interesting and dramatic groups and a master of composition and lighting, to the motion picture, in which he is equally successful. His Triart productions, illustrating the stories of famous paintings, are among the most exquisitely pictorial and artistically educative things to be seen in the motion picture theater of today LEE SIMONSON Because this artistic pillar of the Theatre Guild has recently turned his attention to the motion picture, with results even more gratifying and satisfactory than anything he has previously achieved — which is saying much. Lee Simonson is one of those sincere expressionists who seek to make the scenery an integral and important part of the play Photograph by Marcia Stein ( Fifty-three )