Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1925)

mT9 Odt Keen Comment by Tamar Lane Illustrated by Harry Taskey Is "Scaramouche" the Years Best Film f SABATINI'S novel, Scaramouche, has been awarded the $10,000 prize offered by Adolph Zukor for the story which made the best motion picture of the 1923-24 season. The writer thoroly disagrees with the judges' decision, if it means anything to anybody. Scaramouche was an Now that ring champions are becoming movie actors, it should be made a foul to hit a man above the neck entertaining film, but it cannot possibly be rated as a particularly good example of silent drama. Even Rex Ingram, we wager, will be surprised at the award. There are a number of photoplays which should have received premiere honors over Scaramouche. We would like to hear from readers in regard to what they think of the Zukor award, and as to what film, in their estimation, should have been given the $10,000 prize. Remember, an award of this character should not be given to a film which was merely the most entertaining, but to the film which is the finest example of the sort of silent drama that producers should seek to emulate for the advancement of the photoplay art. Now, send in your selections ! ship prize-fights in the future will be held under the rules of a new Moving Picture Manufacturers Association, which will make it a foul to hit a man above the neck. Now that ring champions are becoming movie actors, the film producers cant be -too strict in safeguarding the good looks of their fighter-stars. As Glass writes it thru his character, Morris Perlmutter : "Take this here Jack Dempsey, for instance,. I seen him in a picture the other day where there must have been as many as forty or fifty close-ups of him measuring at the least thirty square feet. If that feller got even so much as a split lip in a prize-fight, it would bust his movingpicture contract." Everything in Its Proper Place A young fellow from the East arrived in Hollywood ■** recently and tried to get an extra job in some drawing-room scenes in the films merely because he had the proper wardrobe and had mingled with New York's Four Hundred. The casting directors quickly told him where to get off at and cast him as a lumberjack in a story of the Northwest. The Movie Credo All Wall Street brokers have a line of at least fifteen J~* girls from the Follies. He will throw champagne parties for them every night and a trick dancer will come out of the center of the table and everyone will try to pull her off. The engineer always sits on his horse at the top of a hill and overlooks the new dam. It invariably turns out that he has put cheap concrete in it and it bursts and we have the old reliable flood scene. (Continued on page 96) I New Rules for PrizeFighters According to Montague Glass, whom we consider America's foremost humorist, all champion 58 GS. Tpske/ In the movies, all Wall Street brdkers have a line of at least fifteen girls from the "Follies"