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MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE
JAMES CRUZE DEPICTING FEAR
Some players are noted for their religious attention to detail. They study their "business" and are careful that it tends to give color to the character they are portraying. The lighting of a cigaret, or the taking of a pinch of snuff, at a critical moment in a serious case, is terribly expressive of a cold, heartless indifference, but, at the same time, it may go to show an assumed indifference that the character does not really feel, and he may be on the point of breaking down with grief or terror.
There is expression in the walk, in the swing of the arms, in the poise of the head, and in hundreds of little mannerisms, and often we have a character whose face must be always in rigid repose, who never frowns or laughs or smiles, and whose emotions are expressed everywhere except in his face.
It must be remembered that the far greater number of the movements of expression, and all of the more important ones, are innate or inherited. But certain other gestures, which seem to us so natural that we might
easily imagine that they are innate, have apparently been learnt like the words of a language. For example, the joining of the uplifted hands and the turning of the eyes upward in prayer. Most of the expressions of emotion were first performed by our ancestors for some definite object, such as to escape some danger, to relieve some distress, or to gratify some desire, which comes under Darwin's first principle, noted in a previous article. Thus, those animals that fight with their teeth have acquired the habit of drawing back their ears closely to their heads, when feeling savage, from their progenitors having voluntarily acted in a similar manner in order to protect their ears from being torn by their antagonists, and it will be noted that those animals that do not fight with their teeth do not thus express a savage state of mind. Many similar habits of the human species may be traced directly to our brute ancestors, and these habits become what we now call expression of the emotions.
The reason that some players cannot successfully portray certain types of character is because they are physically or anatomically disqualified.
MARY FULLER
BENJAMIN WILSON
CHARACTERISTIC EXPRESSIONS