Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1920)

q&w OTlON PICTUR] MAOAZINE the audience in suspense .intil tlie happy finale is reached with the second generation. Edward Le Saint ia„ directed th whole with a true, keen and artistic eye. Eva Novak is a new and pleasing screen acquaintance in my sight SCARLET PAYS — GRIFFITH lo the unbiased reviewer, D. W. Griffith's productions are either wonderful or irritating-. "Scarlet Days" has a little of both qu 'lities. Carol Dempster is the irritating personality with her exaggerated jumping about. She is annoying to me on the screen, lust the reverse may be said of Clarine Seymour, who seems brimming over with electrical fascination. She seems co be fashioned of a thousand magnets. I am not competent to judge the merit of the story, it being on of the oldeu days in the West before I was. born, but I did find the plot interesting in spite of the usual Griffith hammering down of doors that a man may devour a woman. Dick Barthelmess is harnpered in ai* portrayal of a bandit by his height. Ralph Graves is splendid in a too slender part. THE BELOVED CHEATER — GASNIER I think every follower and lover of the movies will agree with me when I say that I adored 'The Beloved Cheater.'" Seldom has the screen been blessed with, such a lovable sinner, such a delightful male flirt ■who just cant help it. At last we have a hero who possesses faults as welL as virtues. Lew Cody dresses the part perfectly. Doris Pawn, Eileen Percy and the whole production are good for bored eye? Alice Lake, me Mai2y-S:.:ieQ (Continued from page 43) "It must he that the dramatic strain is stronger in you than the comic," we ventured. "And yet you make them laugh in comedy." "Yes, and I enjoyed it," answered Alice frankly. "It was lots of fun, of course. But something kept calling me to the drama._ I wanted to portray the serious side of life as well as its frivolous moments— but I hardly dared to dream that dd be as successful as my friends are generous enough to tell me I have been. "It was all quite a surprise. After an apprenticeship of two years with Yitagraph I graduated to leading parts in comedy. Then I got the chance to play site Herbert Rawlin~r,n in his crook drama, 'Come Through.' That whetted my appetite for drama. Following that, howthe fact that I had to meet the high •f living took me back to fun-making until the day I received word from the ro studios that Maxwell Karger. (liberal, wanted to ^ee me. nt to the studios and Mr. Karger bluntly informed me that I could have the part of Mary in 'Blackie's Redemption,' as Bert Lytell's leading woman. My heart jumped at the chance, but my proonal instinct told me not to a; nxious. I think I did more real acting then, in the few minutes of that interview with Mr. Karger, than I have ever n the screen. • hard to seem dis-'-■-ted. But I managed to conceal my . >c elation, and took the part." Tli motion picture history. Lake proved to be a Metro "di-y" from the moment she played her fir-t scene in that picture. Bert Lytell, altho a young man in year-, i n in point perience. Starti: seventeen, he had spent more than ten npanies before he became a screen "Alice is a trouper," he remarked. Millions of People Can Write Stories and Photoplays and Don't Know It/ I HH Copyright, Luroicre Mis9 Heteno Chadwick, versatile screen star, now leading !ady for Tom Moore of GoldwyD Film Company, Bays: "Any wan or woman who will learn this New Method of Writing oitoht to sell Btoriett and vlautt with cane." THIS is the startling assertion recently made by E. B. Davison of New York, one of the highest paid writers in the world. Is his astonishing statement true? Can it be possible there are countless thousands of people yearning to write, who really can and simply haven't found it out? Well, come to think of it most anybody can tell a story. Why can't most anybody it/rite a story? Why is writing supposed to be a rare gift that few possess? Isn't this only another ot the Mistaken Ideas the past lias handed down to us? Yesterday nobody dreamed man could fly. To-day he dives like a swallow ten thousand feet above the earth and laughs down at the tiny mortal atoms 01 his fellow-men below ; So Yesterday's 'impossibility" is a reality to-day. "The time will come,'' writes the same authority, "when millions of people will be writers — there will be countless thousands of playwrights, novelists, scenario, magazine and newspaper writers — they are coming, coming — a whole new world of them !" And do you know what these writers-to-be are doing now? Why, they are the men — armies of them — young and ij j • I'll tlio principles there, but they really Irani to write from old, now doing mere clerical work, in the great; wide, open, boundless Book ot Humanity! offices, keeping books, Selling merchan Vt>s. seething all around you, every day. every hour. ,. ' 7 . . i • , every minute, in tlio whirling vortex — the flotsam and dise, or even driving trucks, running e-le jetsam of Life— even In your mm home, at work or play, vatriru strppr rars waitino nn tiKlpc are endless incidents for stories and plays — a wealth \ators, street cars, waiting on _ taDies, of maU,rial> a world of lning3 happening. Every one of working at barber Chairs, following the these has the seed of a story or play ill it. Think I If nlnw nr tp-irliino sr-hnnU in flip ruril S'ou "'cnt t0 a flro or sa,v !ul accident, you could come pio\\; or teacning scnoois in tne rural ]mme ^ u]] lhl, fnlkj all about it unconsciously you districts ; and Women, young and Old, bv would describe it all very realistically. 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