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Has "C. B. " really a message in the Ten Commandments, or is he still Posing?
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Mr. De Mille
WE'RE
Waiting!
By Y^atherine Albert
is the matter with Cecil B. De
Mille?
He has been giving us' drivel. He has been giving us rot. His only contributions to the cinema have been along the lines of indirect lingerie and direct plumbing.
He can't believe, down in his heart, that he
is right. Surely, he doesn't .think that real people devote themselves to hiding their telephones in funny disguises. He must know that they do not write with ostrich feather fans. He must realize that the every American home doesn't possess a bathing pool in the dining room. Probably he lias guessed that few women have time to spend half a day in an ornate bath.
These things, of course, are but symbols of the false standards he has set. He has been giving us wrong ideas of life and he apparently hasn't cared. He has been playing at life — with an eye on the box office.
De Mille Wears a Mask
'e Mille has gotten away with it because of his pose of cynicism. De Mille wears a mask. He is a man behind a curtain. We wonder if he has chuckled secretly at his own pictures.
Still . . . maybe not. The fact remains that he has always surrounded his characters with fantastic costumes and expensive sets far from the reality of things. He has deliberately distorted the superficials of life. He succeeded
because lie went to
fLWhy do the De Mille pictures lack a soul? Because the director is surrounded by satellites who thrill over his "marvelous" sets. They destroy De Mille's perspective upon himself.
the skin — and he has failed because he hasn't gone beneath it.
Why do Hies De
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