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By FRITZ! REMONT
moving on by slow stages — dont laugh. I dont mean tlie sort of stages you’ve seen in the movies for years past,”
“How about ambitions in the direction of writing plays or directing?”
"I just finished co-authoring on a new !>]ay. I like that sort of work very much, bttt T never would assume direction of a play. Tt .seems to me that sooner or later mo.st directors are a bit ‘crazy,’ to put it mildly. It’s no wonder, tho, their responsibilities are so heavy. They receive all the kicks from the head office — except in my ca.se, for I have contracted to do eight ]jiclures yearly, and if we are behind, as we certainly are just now, having finished hut two pictures and partly shot a third, the blame falls on me.
■‘To run off a picture in tw<j weeks, as I have been known to ))roduce one, means hard work.
It cant be done where there are numerous distant locations, hut, fortunately, in the last instance of the kind we had many studio interiors
and city locations, and we worked a few Sundays.
“It’s a strange thing, the way pictures run. Now, I have an ambition along this line. I’d like to do an entirely different sort of picture each time, a radical departure from the last produced. I believe it keeps the fans more interested in a star. But fate interposes and I find myself doing several detective stories in succession, much against my will.
“I had finished and exhibited a detective tale, and immediately my manager and I received endless scripts of detective stories, saying they exactly fitted me. Papers and trade journals stated that I would be welcoming detective plays. The New York office was swamped with detective junk. We waded thru piles of this stuff, reading and rejecting, but the Eastern office finally insisted on keeping a few, which accounts for me having starred in them.
Williams has one ambition— to tour Europe in leisurely around-the-wo rl d-inighteen-months fashion. “Just dallying long,” he says. At the left is a view of the Vitagraph star as a polo player in “The M a n W h o Y'ouldn’t Tell”
(ThirlihS'Vf.n)
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