Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1920)

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Mind the Little Things Y By DORIS DELVIGNE 7A >U must build up your hero so that every young man in the audience pictures himself as that hero. You must build up your heroine so that every young girl will feel herself the heroine, wish herself the heroine — or understand the heroine's feelings. Unless you can do this." and Jeanie Mac Pherson smiled whimsically, "you are not in sympathy with your public." There's nothing masculine about this little Frenchtch girl who has interested the dramatic world with her craftsmanship. She's not a blue-stocking with emancipated ideas, nor has her contact with the biggest men in the motion picture ^^^^^^^^ world g i v e n her that swaggering independence which is supposed to adhere to begoggled authors. She is the most utterly feminine thing you ever beheld. She loves pretty clothe" — her taste is fastidious. "So many pet la dont succeed in wri..ng because their motive is all wrong." she continued. "It is not a question of evolving a new plot," smiled little Jeanie MacPherson. "We are using the same plots and dramatic situations over and over again. It is the way the little things are worked out." Above and below, two portraits in "flying regalia," and, center, at work out-of-doors take of all is to wait for not evolved in that way. "Theirs is a desire to gather in some of the huge sums purported to he paid for scree n dramas. Xo one can hope to become a great writer who begins with that false motive. All of us have to work — work again and then again. "And the biggest misthc great idea ! Stories are And if there's one point I'd like to drive home more than anything else, it is mind the little things. It is not a question of evolving a new plot. We are using the same plots and dramatic situations over and over again. It is the way the little things are worked out. A motion picture script used to read, 'John and Mary love each other. Thcv '-tand by a table and he declares his love.' Today I would show John looking furtively, then extracting a rose from his pocket — the rose she had worn and lover], and in bis very expression and the fondling of the rose the audience knows thai John loves Mary. In everything one must find the symbol. That i the of the picture art finding the symbol for a thought." (Continued on page 9-4) 73 PA6 -L~— .