Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1919 - Feb 1920)

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While in the "good old days" only the cultured few were permitted to see the best in art, now even the lowliest prowling terriat can enjoy the superb art of a Nazimova. But how about Theda Bara? I knew you would ask that. Well, how about her? It is true that Theda enjoys depicting sweet sin, but remember this : Theda never makes sin attractive, and the sinner either reforms or gets it in the beads. The musical comedy, the follies shows, and the revues, on the other hand, make sin and light living most alluring. In its last analysis, Theda's art is hopelessly moral. Also remember this. A great many ladies — married ones mostly, who have missed romance or drawn matrimonial prunes — would dearly love to sin a little bit themselves, only they don't dare dast, and so they go to see Theda and enjoy their sinning vicariously. There is no telling how much virtue has been thus conserved by our vampires. And Chaplin ! Vulgar little Charlie Chaplin ! What about him ? Well, isn't life itself vulgar? Certainly no one has so classically satirized its vulgarity as has this Harlequin of the films. It is admittedly vulgar to kick the kaiser in the pants. Such social lapses are frowned upon in the best royalist circles, but isn't it funny? If the collapse of dignity is not humorous to the ultranice, then the ultranice are not well, that's all. Nevertheless, I would urge upon these perturbed parents to inquire why their little angel-faced offspring so dearly love Chariot, And the truth is, Chaplin is the greatest artist that the screen has produced, proclaimed so even by his compatriots. Have not Sarah Bernhardt, Beerbohm Tree, Mrs. Fisk, Rostand, and Yvette Guilbert acknowledged him the master pantomimist of the age? No second-rater ever became a world's champion, and when such a champion arises the intelligent thing to do is to seek the reasons for his greatness rather than deplore his Olympian achievement. If the deplorers see only slapstick and vulgarity in Chaplin, how can they stand Shakespeare, for he was even gross at times? What the superficial critic does not see is that Chaplin understands the human heart with a sensitiveness such as only genius attains. Neither do they see what the greatest dramatic figures of the age have detected — his amazing dramatic values. And being professional deplorers, therefore lacking in a fine sense of humor, they cannot see his subtlest comedy which transcends all local boundaries and makes him the symbol of fun the world over. When the world's foremost statesman, on the eve of the greatest event in history takes time before he sails from affairs of state to request a preview of "Shoulder Arms," it suggests that President Wilson's taste is deplorable or that the deplorers are possibly missing something too fine for their perception. I suggest as a subject for the next meeting of the drama club that the members discuss the question: Why do presidents and plumbers desert their work for a Chaplin film ? Or, better still : Why do the people of Tibet laugh at Charlie ? There is real profundity in that question. "My dear," said my wife when I had read her this defense of our screen heroes, "your own sense of humor is in extreme jeopardy, for here you are deploring the deplorers." And there is always something in what my wife says. N A O star is a hero to his director. PROFIT is never without honor anywhere in the movies. 5SP "^1/HEN lovely woman stoops to Follies — she goes straight from Ziegfeld into the movies. When writing to advertisers please mention Picture-Plat Magazine.