Screenland (Oct 1923-Mar 1924)

SCMEENLANB band and a wife who writes scenarios is hard to beat. As soon as a director, who happens to be unmarried, finds a scenario writer, who also happens to be unmarried, he generally rushes her to the altar to clinch her services for life. Anita Loss (Mrs. John Emerson), Josephine Lovett (Mrs. John Robertson), and Ouida Bergere (Mrs. George Fitzmaurice) might resent being called hidden hands or master minds because they are willing to let their husbands have the glory. But when an important decision confronts any of these directors, the Little Woman usually has a few well-chosen words to say on the subject. 103 band, Captain H. H. Caldwell, are another capable business concern. The Caldwells specialize in upholstering and dry cleaning foreign-made productions for American audiences. As you know foreign directors seldom worry about the fine feelings of censors and it is the job of the Caldwells to make such pictures as Passion and Mad Lore safe for our democracy. They were the hidden hands behind some of the success of the first German pictures. But the most muscular and closefisted hidden hands in all the glorious movie business are those that rocked the cradles of the stars. In other words, the most efficient business management is controlled by the Movie Mother. If you don't believe it, ask the star who Katharine Hilliker and her hus owns one. d, Harriette Underbill Tells Her Experiences — From Page 21 Why 111 Never Title Another Film form only to find that they "didn't jell" properly. They have called them vandals. But they have gone right on selling their slaves down the river for a few — in a manner of speaking — paltry dollars. Others have written large epistles saying how delighted they were and still others have' been delighted. But they are rare. "Did you see what they did to my story?" these authors wail to us. "Why the heroine is a Belgian instead of a German, she is twenty instead of thirtyfive, she marries the man she loves instead of having him killed in the war, her child is legitimatized and the thing is a sweet comedy drama instead of a tragedy. It's terrible — it's an outrage and the picture has my name on it." "Why don't you make them take it off then ?" we asked mildly. For having become liberated oneself we can't get very much worked up over the wrongs of those who choose to remain in bondage. "When you sell your story you sell your name." "Well, you knew that before ; so why do you sell your stories to them if you don't like their methods ?" "I needed the money. You know one can't throw away $30,000." 16 Came a Sunny April Day Is that so? Well, $30,000 isn't any n.are to you than $1,000 is to us and do you know that we have voluntarily decided never to title another picture." Listen and you shall hear a brief synopsis of our tale of woe. Came a day, a sunny April day, when hearts throb with that age-old emotion — there do you see how we're getting. We're talking like a movie title and we were just about to tell you of the wonder girl with the pure eyes. But, as we were saying, came a day when we found our self sitting in a nice cozy projection room watching the picture which we had just titled. Our opening title had read, "Helen finds New York a city of flats, also flat car wheels and flat pocketbooks." But were we allowed to get away with any such flippancy as this ? Rather not. The title finally read, "Helen found New York a city of shattered ideals and lost dreams." In the dark of the projection room we blushed. How cruel and unimaginative we had been; and so it went on and on. Once in a while we recognized a title but not often. The story was about a girl who disliked children and then one night shot one by mistake, thinking that she heard a burglar. 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