Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1924-Jan 1925)

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Grandmother De la PlazaDaniels is alive, and when she and Bebe are together they talk Spanish. It's too late to wish that Bebe had used the sonorous De la Plaza as her stage name. But I can always greet her with the Iberian accolade: Ole! Ole! The Man Who Made The Iron Horse John Ford is the first director I have interviewed for this department. I went to him because he is the man who directed The Iron Horse, for the Fox Film Corporation, one of the finest of recent spectacular productions. It tells the story of the building of the first transcontinental railroad. The picture sweeps along with a splendid unity of appeal. The eternal love interest is there, of course, but it is soft-pedaled. The work of the pioneers is made to count as the supreme romance. And that is no small achievement. It could only have been due to a director with talents quite out of the ordinary. So I looked up Ford. "You have gone The Covered Wagon one better," T told him. "How did you do it?" He was modest about it. But bit by bit he gave me a fascinating account of how he had planned great scenes on the prairie and in the mountains, of how he had handled thousands of men and women, including the several hundred redskins that figure in the Indian fighting. It's too long a story to tell here, but I touch upon it in order to arouse the interest of readers in the debt they owe to a good director. I have been told that movie fans want to hear only about the stars, that they refuse to get excited over the fellow who stages the show. If so, I want them to think again. Many of the films they most enjoy would have been impossible without the imagination of the director. Ford remarked that if one point were to be emphasized more than the others, it should be this : He refused to allow his people to act. In big realistic spectacles, acting is deadly. The cast must be imbued with the idea that it is reproducing a pageant that was once lived ; it must never try to interpret. Ford's spike-drivers on the U. P. and the C. P. railroads drive spikes, and when they fight — believe me, they fight! A great show, any way you take it. Menjou Says He's No Actor 'This interesting slant on acting, in the old sense of the term, being out of place in motion pictures was carried still further by Adolphe Menjou, in a chat I had with him at Famous Players studio. Every one knows Menjou as the delightful Frenchman of many recent pictures, including Open All Night, in which he and Jetta Goudal scored the finest sort of artistic success. At first thought, it would seem that his method is decidedly histrionic. One remembers him as a suave person with a technique that if it had to be described in a hurry, one would say came straight from the best traditions of the Paris stage. Yet Menjou made it clear to me that he avoids acting like the plague. He must feel a character before he will consent to play it. Then he goes before the camera, and just naturally is that character. 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