Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1920)

Photoplay Maoazine — AnvicHiisiNT. Skction 117 Parisian Cinema Impressions By RALPH BARTON FRENCH movies are American movies but the French theatre is French — decidedly. After seeing "L'Amour en Foile" at Folies-Bergere I begin to wonder if, after all, it wasn't there that Pussyfoot Johnson lost an eye. * * * Serials are five years old in France and become more and more popular. The house always buzzes when the week's instalment of a serial is flashed on the screen — shouts if it be American. One of them, "Impcria," gives itself quite an American air by calling a character, described as "an American adventurer," Billy Sunday. There is a great deal of gnashing of teeth over the fact that American films monopolize the French screens — but it is the cinhnatographisles and not the public who do the gnashing. With all their natural beauty of scenery and mimetic talent they do not produce pictures as good as ours. The acting falls far short of the standard set by the French stage, the plots are ridiculously thin and as for the technical end — well, they still do interiors with bright sunlight and breezes! If they were shown in America, Photoplay would have to give another fifty pages to the "Whydo-they-do-it?'' department. ^ * * French Aliases for Old Favorites Charlie Chaplin Chariot Mutt and Jeff Dick and Jeff Mary Miles Minter Mary Miles Harold Lloyd Lui (himself) Larry Semon Zigoto Mack Swain Ambroise Paris does not receive its films the day they leave the American studios and as a result one sees combinations that recall other days. Among this month's editions are found, working jn the same picture, Sessue Hayakavva and Lou Tellegen ; Alice Joyce and Harry Morey; Victor Moore and Eugene O'Brien ; Maurice Costello and Norma Talmadge; Theda Bara and George Walsh. ^ ^ ^ The music in even the smallest Parisian cinema is better chosen than in New York. 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