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Crocella Mullen created a reverberating sensation with her poetic tribute to Barry Norton's nostrils and was so razzed that she retired from "What the Fans Think."
Clark Gable has always been the subject of controversy among the fans, Frank Tully, one of his defenders, going so far as to celebrate his "honeyand-hemlock smile."
At one time Jean Harlow's beauty spot was the subject of bitter criticism. She was warned to discard it because it was old-fashioned.
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BY RICHARD GRIFFITH
Letters from readers of film magazines provide a truer understanding of the movies than anything else that is written. This article discusses the contents of "What the Fans Think" sincel920.
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FTER carefully reading your correspondence forum for several months, I am moved to suggest that its title be changed to 'Do the Fans Think?' Or, rather, can they?"
Thus superciliously a superior young woman expressed herself in Picture Play a few years ago. Her letter continued, no less vehemently, to denounce the "vapid fans" who clutter up the pages of the magazine with wild and meaningless praise and blame for players who are important for a day and then forgotten. ' 'What the Fans Think' — ha! They can't think. Instead of offering constructive criticism to players and directors, all they do is pour out reams of adoring rot about some babyfaced ingenue, or condemn to mother roles all stars who are over thirty."
Such was the burden of this damsel's wail. And she is not alone. For years the highbrows have been laughing at the printed opinions of fans. The movies themselves are bad enough — tasteless, trivial, wretchedly done — but movie audiences and their ideas! Well!
Away with Garbo — she isn't cute. Down with Harlow — her beauty spot is old-fashioned. Madge Evans is the ideal American girl and therefore the greatest actress. Such, according to H. L. Mencken and other literary lights, are the typica! "criticisms" of the movies by those who attend them. Morons just morons.