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writers, who have recently became producers of screen versions of classics. With Messrs. Towne and Baker, Mr. Ferris reviewed the history of the period of Swiss Family Robinson and made an interesting discovery. The book was written when Napoleon was attempting to subdue all Europe; in England, society was superficial and decadent— not an attractive world in which to bring up a family. But unlike our day, there were vast pioneering lands to the west where a new life could be made. So the scenarists made William Robinson a wealthy Swiss living in England, an idealist who sees his family growing away from him. His wife, Elizabeth, caught in the social whirl, has little time or respect for him. His eldest son, Fritz, a cadet at
Sandhurst, places fighting above all else. Jack, the second son, is a dandy who hopes to marry a millionairess — for her money. Ernest is a priggish little scholar, interested only in books. Francis, the baby, does not yet speak. Heartily disapproving of the ideals shaping his sons' lives, hoping that a pioneer's life will make men of them, he sells his possessions and sails with them for Australia. This prologue, not in the book, launches the contest of wills so necessary to a successful film plot.
With the shipwreck, the desertion of the crew, and the Robinsons' safe escape to the island begins the conflict of man with nature. Here the destruction of the tree house by a terrific lightning storm was introduced; but, for want of time,
Abandoning the ship.