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And So the Great
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Max Reinhardt fully believes Shakespeare should be on the screen, and he's going to put him there, for Warners. His first will be "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and here he is signing his contract for the merry Bardof-Avon Comedy
( ROSS the desk in his office at Warner Brothers, he looks, in his plain brown business suit, modest tie and equally modest linen, more like a successful merchant or a banker than what he world's preeminent theatrical maestro — Max Rein
is — the hardt.
Also, this smallish man with the quiet eyes and hair looks like a man of forty instead of the sixty that he is And there is an enthusiasm that rings through his voice which sounds like twenty rather than forty.
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To Hollywood, Reinhardt is the man of promise.
To Reinhardt, Hollywood is the Land of Promise.
"Hollywood," he said, "is a natural garden for genius. Here is beauty all around — color and movement — nature at its richest. Nowhere else in the world is there such an artist's paradise. Nowhere is there such an easy, delightful place in which to live and work. And Hollywood is a community entirely populated by artists striving to express themselves. Here is a town where art and expression are the most important thing. And it is attracting — with many here now— the artists of the world."
Coming from anyone else, it might well sound over-enthusiastic, but not from Max Reinhardt. He can rightly say what's what. He is the man who is making Shakespeare tasty and appealing to the masses. He is bringing the Bardof-Avon onto the screen. That is something no man has ever dared think possible before. But he knows his stuff. And Hollywood knows he does and takes his opinion.
A few years ago Reinhardt brought "The Miracle" to America and this nation hailed him as the master of spectacles. But he's much more than that. Thirty years ago he modernized and humanized the theater. For three decades he has been the master producer and teacher of Europe.
For fifteen of those thirty years he has resisted Hollywood's lure, being discernible on the screen only through his pupils — all of whom have done him proud. He has considered the screen not ready for him and himself not ready for the screen.
But now in Max Reinhardt lies Hollywood's newest hope and greatest inspiration
Reinhardt's dramatic school in Berlin was the alma mater
of practically every important actor on the Continent.
In fact, it was the proudest boast an actor could make,
"I've studied with Reinhardt." Lil Dagover was one