Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

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BeThelVIan Beh i nd the Camera The wedding group at Hollywood's latest largest wedding: left to right, Mae Sunday, Adela Hyland, Lila Lee, EHane Maunse, Louella Parsons, the bride — Bebe Daniels, the groom — -Ben Lyon, Rita Kaufman, Constance Talmadge, Marie Mosquini and Betty Compson Black and White, Read and Write {Continued from page 6) impossible. Radical changes from the original story do not help, they usually make it worse. Endings are not always happy in our everyday life stories — and it is often better that they are not, so why make them all that way in the movies? And parts of the story do not affect us much when we know it will be fixed up all right — in the end. R. G. Muse artist. He enchants with his gay humor, baffles by his candor, and packs into this whole single characterization enough "IT" to supply a whole army. In other words, "ENCORE," if you please. Messieurs Lubitsch and Chevalier! Florence Cobb Too Doggone Clever St. I.ouis, Mo. I like dogs, love them. I enjoy seeing them in the movies— those clever trained dogs. I do not like them, however, in such impossible roles. I want them as I have always known them, jolly companions and trusting friends. In our dog melodramas, the dogs do everything but lly airplanes — they foil master minds — far surpass the human hero in deeds of bravery and cunning — or, in other words, simply insult our intelligences. I want to ask you, fellow fans, if you would not rather see your canine friends as you know dogs ought to be. If you would not like to see them about a happy fireside, as a companion for a child, or a friend, but not the sufjerior of the hero. Do you like to sec dogs as you know they could never be, anywhere but in the movies? .A good showis a show that is real, that is like life. We're all dog lovers. We've all had one or more of them. Let's get together and see them on the screen, as they really are. Edward Mead, Jr. Why A'ot A J'estibule Or A Halhcay? Berlin, Germany Lovers are often too sweetish. When a loving couple falls in love and kisses for the first time, why are there always blooming trees, falling flowers in the flowering season, twittering birds and mostly the full moon in the heaven? For instance, in "Sally" we saw such scenes of exaggerated sweetness, so that this picture has not had the success expected in Germany. Why is love in other seasons than Spring and at other places than at the bottom of blooming trees imp>ossiblc on the screen? Otto Behrens Encore, Encore Birmingham, .-Mabama With admirable finesse and Continental subtlety, Ernst Lubitsch guides that irresistible Frenchman, Maurice Chevalier, through a piquant plot set to music, and just racy enough to please sophisticated movie-goers. Maurice Che\'alier's acting is conspicuous for its sp»ontaneity, grace, and sustained perfection of artistic balance. The most captious critic could hardly fail to respond to this charming aiul ingenuous Tt liaVs in a name? A person in a library choosing a book is guided by what? The name, of course. The same holds true to a ver>' great extent wheT one is selecting the motion picture which is going to furnish the evening's entertainment. What I cannot comprehend is why movi; producers will spend a lot of time, talent and money, turn out a really fine, intelligent production, and then tie a title on to it which has absolutely nothing in common with the picture. Right now, I have in mind "Ladies Love Brutes" with C»eorge Bancroft. A superb actor, a brilliant cast, a picture interesting and entertaining from beginning to end. But what a title! It gives one the impression that they are going to see a silly comedy drama, whereas it is as far from that as the north pole is from the south. Come on, you movie pictures! Thanks to science, you can talk now. Protest against these silly names they are calling you, and demand titles that will give you your rightful place in (-incm.i history. S.E. 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