Picture Show (Oct 1920 - Apr 1921)

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Dorothy Mtnto W TELL, folks, I've put it on record a few times that I " found Miss So-and-So in her dressing-room at the Dash Theatre," or words to that effect, so it's rather a change to relate that for once in a way / was the person found, the seeker being Miss Dorothy Minto. Xow that stars have started coming in search of me instead of' t'other DOROTHY MINTO. wav round, I'm (Photo : Claude Harris.) mighty in danger of get ting a swelled head, I can tell you. But, in case I leave the impression on your mind that Miss Minto is in the habit of running about seeking to be interviewed, I must add the prosaic footnote that I had already arrived at the Little Theatre when the young lady in question came running down the stairs in search of me — her fair hair rioting (as those novelist fellows are so fond of saying) about her — and that it was simply due to the call-boy's — or my — blunder that the little star came out of her haven to find me, the humble suppliant at stage doors, instead of my finding her. Still, this is a proud day for me. But to get to the real business in hand. (You eee, I'm neglecting my work already.) A Wonderful Picture. TO commence with, I will humble myself in the dust by confessing that Miss Minto has done more film* work than I had ever dreamed she had, and that in consequence of my ignorance I was somehow labouring under the delusion that she might not be interested — really interested, you know — in pictures. But I was wrong. (I often am. It is a fault to which the best of us are prone.) • " I am interested in everything," remarked Miss Minto at the commencement of the proceedings— thereby opening a wide field to me — and I can quite believe it. She strikes one just that way, radiating as she does the very joy and thrill of living. " Well, then, films " I began, feeling decidedly cheered. " I Love Them." FILMS ? " she echoed. "I love them ! Let me see — I appeared in my first in 1916. Can't remember the name— just a little comedy thing. Since then I've played in ' Once Upon a Time,' 'The Glad Eye,' ' I will,' 'A Little Bit of Fluff,' and " — here she paused for breath— " I've just finished ' The Came of Life,' for Samuelson." Wonderful"! AS this film has not yet (at least at time of writing) been shown to the trade, Miss Minto did not feel at liberty to divulge more than a few details, but from what she said it must be one of the biggest pictures ever done in England. Her enthusiasm for it was infectious and unbounded. The one word which seemed to her to fit it above all others was " wonderful." The chief roles were " the most wonderful one could have." Tom Reynolds, her co-star, was " a wonderful actor — I owe more than I can say to his assistance," and Mr. Samuelson (for whom Miss Minto has the greatest admiration) was a " wonderful producer." So the whole thing must be wonderful indeed, especially, as Dorothy said, it contains something of every emotion. on a Crying Need. A Coster Girl. THE period it covers is from 1837 to 1887, and Miss Minto portrays a coster giri throughout. And " wonderfully " sho does so if the character portrait she showed ma is anything to go by. " The role is quite different to anything I have ever played in my life," she said, " and is a mixture of broad comedy and pathos. It has certainly afforded me richer opportunities than I have been given in film work hitherto, and I enjoyed it immensely, although never again could I do film and stage work simultaneously as I did in this case. I do not believo anyone can satisfactorily. That is why I am making no plans for further film work "while I am playing at this theatre. Contrary to some opinions, film acting i3 very trying' and very difficult, and I think it demands one's undivided time and energies. I think it is a great pity and a great mistake that stage people — at least. Dome of them — are prone to treat film acting as a side issue, that they do not take it more seriously, wliereas, after "all, it is closely allied to their own special branch of dramatic art. Indeed. I cannot see how you can separate the screen from the stage, for what, really, is film acting but the old art of miming ? " " The Producer's the Thing." WITH a great many other celebrities, Miss Minto holds the opinion that in filmland " the producer's the thing " — that in Britain especially there is an urgent need for more and more men of directorial genius ; men of stage as well as of screen experience, who not only have the technicalities of their art at their finger-tips but possess the faculty of knowing their players through and through. " You must work with your producer and he with you," said Miss Minto. " A man who knows your temperament practically to the flicker of an eyelash. A really good." producer can make an artiste do anything. At least I have found so." As an instance of the pitfalls into which producers of inexperience are apt to fall, Miss Minto mentioned a certain " costume " picture she had recently seen, in which the crowd work was magnificently handled and correctly dressed, while a close-up revealed two littlo pages attired in costumes of quite another period. The Fatal Re-fake. SHE also instanced the habit of retaking scenes (which so much prevails in this country), as a mistake fatal to the attainment of tho best artistic effects, remarking that by the time an actress has been forced to summon tears nine or ten times in succession, without tho stimulus of an audience, and with a property man directing a spot light on her face throughout the proceedings, she is incapable of giving of her best when the critical moment for tho final " shot " arrives. " In America they don't shoot a scene until the director is absolutely certain of tho effects he wishes to achieve," she said. 8 She also expressed the opinion that close-ups are utilised far too little in British pictures. " A Film Maniac." FOR the rest. Miss Minto is, as sho expressively puts it, a " film maniac," and like most of us, has her particular screen favourites. These are Wallace Reid, Mary Pickford, Sessue Hayakawa, and Charlie Chaplin, whom, she considers, almost tor. great, too wonderful to talk about in tho same breath with other film stars. She also much admires Paulino Frederick, while the confesses that, despite her own reputation for comedy, the roles she would like to portray on the screen are such as some Gl'xdyr Brockwell has given us. May Herschei, Clarkt. NAME THE STAR BEHIND THE GOGGLES. Next Week, £250 in Prizes-Grand New Competition.