Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1923 - Feb 1924)

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Griffith better'n all them other directors put together, an' I'm gettin' durn sick hearin' 'bout his faults. Ain't none of us humans faultless even at our best, an' it 'pears like the writers and critics spends more time pickin' on pore ole David then on any one else. S'matter with him? I reckon his style might be what some mean ole critter of a critic would call a bit florid, but it's so peculiarly his own, an', anyway, D. W.'s a poet an' you've gotta forgive a poet mos' anything, now, haven't you? I thought his "One Exciting Night" wuz a durn good picture. 'Course 'twas impossible all them goin's on in one night never could have happened in real life, but most of us people don't want real life when we go to the movies. What we want is thrills — great go'bs of 'em ! We got 'em sho' nuff in "One Exciting Night." Gee, I got shivers up an' down my spinal column an' my bobbed hair stood on ends when that ghastly hand wuz pawing over the Fairfax mansion Gee whiz!! The show wuz packed with kids, an' they had a scrumptious time — me, too. I forgot I wuz growed up and mos' perched myself on my neighbor's lap I wuz that excited. That pore skeered stiff nigger an' his brown-skin flapper tickled me plumb to my gizzards. The house wuz in an uproar. Ole David shore can make us people laugh an' cry, an' after all, that's the supreme test in the movies. Now ain't it? Speaking of those sort of things, I ain't overfond of critics. What I mean is the real sho nuff dyed-in-ink critics. Them an' me never do agree 'bout pictures. They're so full of style an' they make me madder'n a hatter. That's a low-down job, too, gettin' paid to pick on other folks, but I reckon some one's gotta do the dirty work. Speakin' of sich, there's a lady what wuz in September's magazine. Me an' she don't agree 'bout Douglas Fairbanks. I'm one gal that gets all thrilled up over Doug's wide grin, an' I ain't a Babe Ruth fan, either. I shore do hate baseball, but I shore do like Douglas. An' I shore do think "Robin Hood" wuz one of the best pictures of this year of our Lord. I wuz up in the pit of my home town's mos' exclusive show when I saw it. The pit wuz filled with kids in knee breeches. It wuz more fun than a box seat. Even the cop wuz friendly. He plumb forgot he wuz a cop an' let the kids whistle softly them gay liltin' tunes that went with "Robin Hood." _ Gee, we all got so interested in the picture we almos' thought we wuz living in them glowin' darin' days of Robin Fitz Hugh. I wish we wuz, anyway. Lady, how can you deny the blithe bonny grace of him — Doug, I mean? It's clear cut, too. Shucks ! some of us people are gettin' durn tired of them slick-lookin' critturs that are beginning to crawl all over the screen. An' speakin' of heroes an' sich, I think Mister Griffith has durn good taste in pickin' leadin' ladies — ladies is right, they look it — emptyheaded — humph, none of us folks know what's in the other fellow's head. An' what's more, Mister Griffith ladies have brains enough to look girlish an' sweet and what's more, plenty of us people are gettin' durn sick of flappers an' flippers, an' vamps, an' sheiks, therefore I contend Mister Griffith ladies are smart. Now Carol Dempster is a mighty pretty little body, an' Lillian Gish reminds me of Lancelot's Elaine, an' I shore do wish Mister Griffith would put Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" on the screen. Some of us people would like to see Lillian Gish as the fair Elaine under D. W. direction. I sorter like ole-time stuff, an' them Idylls are mighty romantic, powerfully so, an' plenty of us people still want romance, so there you are. There ain't no pleasin' all of us, an' some of us are jus' bohn cranks anyway, and at our best the general cussedness of us is enough to turn a director green. Lan's, how we do growl ! 'Nuff sed. May G. Nelson. 129 South Dupre Street, New Orleans, La. What a Fan Learned by Playing as an Extra. So many, many people who write to your department pick motion-picture actors and actresses all to pieces when, I dare say, they don't know a single thing about dramatic art. If some of the fans knew what hardships are endured by film actors, I am sure they would not criticize each minor fault so ruthlessly. Last summer it was my fortune to play as an extra for a short time in "The Headless Horseman." In a very short time it became evident to me that Will Rogers was not only a fine impersonator but also a fine man. Whenever any one needed assistance Will Rogers was ready to give it. He was generous and kind to all the admiring small boys who clustered about him, and he never made a fuss about anvthing. M. P. H. White. Plains, N. Y. A Word About Books. May we discuss books in this column, provided the books are being — or about to be — filmed? All right? Here goes. I am wondering if it was necessary to change Charles Norris' novel, "Brass," as much as was done? I went to see it after reading the 'book, and coming in at the end, discovered, to my amazement, Mrs. G., alive and happy — she who had died (in the book) long before the finish— giving Phil a chance to marry some one else. And there was his son Paul, never passed beyond the boyhood stage, an innocent child of about eight, while in the book he grew up and became a convict. Of course, I admit that the story wasn't nearly as pretty as .the picture, but it was a slice of life, such as a lot of folks find their lot. And in real life things aren't always pretty. There are, to bo sure, rbsy places, but if we didn't get a bump and a dark cloud now and then, how could we appreciate the good things when they arrive? Taking it all in all, the picture disappointed me greatly. I hope that "If Winter Comes," which I have not yet seen, did not suffer a similar fate at the hands of the Fox Company. At least, I have hopes 'because Percy Marmont is, I feel sure, ideally cast as Mark Sabre. To me the joke of the season is Kenneth Harlan being cast in the title role of "The Virginian." Dustin Farnum did it once and was great. I am sure that many of us will await with great interest the release of "Black Oxen." There is a story with possibilities if handled right. Now that Warner Brothers have done "Main Street," I wonder whom they will cast for George Babbitt, as I believe they are to do Sinclair Lewis' book about the famous "realtor." I hope it won't be necessary to change it the way they did "Brass." I am mighty fond of reading, and also of pictures, but it so often spoils a story to read the book first and later see it on the screen. Old-Timer. Mt. Kisco, N. Y.