Screenland (May–Oct 1927)

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Illinois SU, Chicago. Send me, postage paid, one Lotion Face Bleach. On arrival. I will pay postman only SI. 50. If not delighted after six d2ys' use I will return it and you will at once refund my money. Name • ■ Address OOKS for CHjVS C[ Harry Pollard, the director, as\s that a cast be sug' g e st e d for "Show Boat" which will be commenced in September. Edna Ferber's "SHOW BOAT" is an inspiration to me. By Harry Vollard T V )( ^HE eyes of the world are turned upon that mysterious, beautiful, en' vious mistress of the Middle West — the Mississippi River. "Show Boat", a fascinating story of that river can now be filmed with a clearer understanding of the possibilities and a better appreciation of its universal appeal. A few fiction writers have taken the Mississippi as their locale, but it took Edna Ferber to put it over in all its picturesque beauty. The majority of people now are wont to think of the river region as a drab, dull, uninteresting place. Once it was a recreation ground for fashion and the beauties of the day. Upon its smiling bosom it nursed the revelry of the period and with equal prodigality nourished the land for miles around. We hear of its restless fury only, but its moods are many and varied and those living upon its bounty watch, lest while it is still smiling its fury breaks. In "Show Boat" the river, in reality, is the heroine. Behind everything the charac ters, do the river guides them, exhalts them, chastens them, destroys them. Courting the favor of their mistress, the river Captain and his family shape their lives according to her smile or her frown. And when a sudden whim that could not be foreseen lashes her into a rage, upsetting their plans, all that the little family can do is to cling together and make the best of it — and the best of it is to have barely saved the life of Magnolia Ravanel. Only Magnolia, mysterious and magnifi cent as the river that had cradled her, could see humor in the situation. As her husband bent low he heard the words breathed through white, pain-twisted lips, "She fooled 'em!" And Ravanel knew that his young wife was not referring to their new born infant, but to the river. Everyone knows of the majesty of Niagara Falls; comparatively few know the lure of the Mississippi, and that is what I want to feature in "Show Boat"; that and the gripping, vital love story that it holds. It is my good fortune to be selected to transfer, as clearly as possible, this lovely story to the screen when I have completed "Uncle Tom's Cabin". When a quarter of a million people have purchased copies of this book, it is conservative to estimate that it will have been read by several million people by the time the picture is ready for public showing. The least that can be done for those who have lived and loved the characters, even for so short a time as it requires to read a book, is to make them live again. Being distinctly drawn this might, at first, seem an easy task. It is not. When we in the motion picture profession read a book we consciously, or possibly subconsciously, picture in our minds the players with whose performances we are familiar, occupying the parts of the various characters. This probably is true of those outside of the business but I am not in a position to vouch for that. If it is true — then I would certanily appreciate suggestions from those who have read the book.