The Motion Picture Director (Sep 1925 - Feb 1926)

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18 THE MOTION PICTURE DIRECTOR Februa, wuury fy FRED APPLEGATE VIDOR may have done the most touching, Webb the most powerful, Von Stroheim the most artistic, and Niblo the most spectacular moving pictures of the season, but J. Stuart Blackton has done the most unusual. To the habitual picture-goer sated with “Northwoods stuff,” “flapper stuff,” “epic stuff,” “costume stuff,” and other “stuff,” his production of “Bride of the Storm” for Warner Brothers will come like a cool sea breeze on a suffocating midsummer night. It is as strange and intriguing as a lost city. “The Bride of the Storm” was cleverly adapted to the screen by Marian Constance from “Maryland, My Maryland,” a short story by James Francis Dwyer, which at the time of its publication in Collier’s weekly attracted considerable attention and comment because of the originality of its setting and the freshness of its theme. It is said to have been inspired by the song “Maryland, My Maryland” and although the entire story hinges as much on the song as did Ernst Lubitsch’s “Lady Windermere’s Fan” on the fan, it does it in an entirely novel and unexpected manner. Pictures pivoting upon or inspired by famous songs have of late enjoyed an astonishing popularity and success. Two of the most noteworthy of recent release counted among the top-notchers of the last season are “Little Annie Rooney” directed by William Beaudine, and “Kiss Mg Again” directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Commodore Blackton explains this prominence of music as the theme and inspiration of picture successes by the important part which music has played and the increasingly important part it is now playing in the affairs of the human race. An art which has the human emotions as its medium could hardly ignore the most elemental, universal, and emotional of all the arts, Tyrone Power as Jacob Kroom music. It could not represent life without representing the profound effect of music on it. As usual Blackton has assembled a wellbalanced cast of extraordinary strength. Many years ago he began and sponsored