Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

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They are presented to the public true to life in most cases and an air of understanding mingled with affection is always felt during love scenes, among the audience. I have witnessed many times an arm steal across a shoulder, a gentle squeeze, a knowing look — maybe a sweetheart, maybe a wife — still those tender gestures sometimes mean more than we realize. No ! Indeed they are not demoralizing. They are just what one makes them. If we think clean, so will we see. . Let the players use their own discretion. Let the fans use their better judgment, see things in the light for which they are intended. A movie is not much different from a story — without a little love permeating the scenes, it will leave us feeling blue and very much dissatisfied. In last month's issue of a fan magazine, some girl said "she was tired of happy endings." Isn't that terrible? She must have a muchly warped view of life. It's really pitiful; such a heart must surely be heavy and sad. I am thankful that I am one of the outstanding majority that prefers the inevitable happy ending — regardless. On with the show, let love be unconfined. Barbara Henderson. wheat up here in the Northwest, sometimes we can't sell them, not because the world ever had too much of them, but simply because the world has not yet found the way. The shadow people of the screen are truly international. I regret so many change their names. I should like to see them retain something of their own nationality, or that of their parents, in the screen names under which they act. \\ hy should any .one particular race or nation get most of the credit among the mass of the people (who seldom go below names), when the sons and daughters of so many races and nations are all contributing to the glory of the movies? Theodora Smith. Ten-Dollar Letter All for Glory of the Movies SPOKANE, WASH.— I love the people of the screen. I love their bright, eyes and smiling faces. I regret that there should be such a keen struggle for a living among them, when it seems to me all the capable ones could be used to entertain us. I bate to think of the many good ones that must fail while the few survive. Too many peop 1 e in the movies? No, not for the amount " of entertainment that the world needs. It's like our apples and Prizes for Best Letters Each month Motion Picture Magazine will award cash prizes for the three best letters published. Fifteen dollars will be paid for the best letter, ten dollars for the second best, and five dollars for the third. If more than one letter is considered of equal merit, the full amount of the prize will go to each writer. So, if you've been entertaining any ideas about the movies and the stars, confine yourself to about 200 words or less, and let's know what's on your mind. Anonymous communications will not be considered and no letters will be returned. Sign your full name and address. We will use only initials if requested. Address: Letters to the Editor, Motion Picture Magazine, Paramount Building, 1501 Broadway, New York City. Five-Dollar Letter Youth Predominates AKRON, OHIO.— Emil Jannings is a great character actor, but, given the same opportunities as well as the same excellence in the choice of screen material, and George Bancroft would transplant that concession with a competition too potential for the good of the glamor that is at present attached to the adroit Teuton. John Barrymore, Ronald Colman, etc., names as common as the clatter of culinary wares, but I am sure that Charles Farrell has a remarkable personality that greatly overshadows that of "these (with the emphasis on the these) great actors" — and I don't mean maybe. Clara Bow, Billie Dove, Colleen Moore — all "old-timers" who still whirl with the divine gaiety of youth; but, alas. Time undermines the false sincerity of favoritism, for there is Janet Gaynor . . . there is Dolores del Rio . . . there i s . . . a h , and Time even chuckles grimly at these expressions of favoritism, for they are as insincere and fickle as NewYear 's resolutions. You domithesf wel re Q1