Screenland (May–Oct 1927)

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1 eldom have I enjoyed an afternoon's gOS' sip more than one recently with Karl Brown, one time Jim Cruze's cameraman, but more recently di' rector of "Stark Love", a simple story of the Tennessee mountains, acted by the m o u n t a ineers themselves. Naturally Brown's achievement is no longer stop press news, for his picture has been hailed in East and West, G[ Irene Rich finds beauty everywhere because she ta\es it with her. C[ Virginia Gray as Little Eva, the first part played by many great actresses. but there are many interesting angles to it which seem to me worth repeating. First was the incongruous spectacle presented by five men from Hollywood with several cameras, reflectors and make-shift lights, penetrating to the base of The Big Smokies on the borderline of North Carolina and Tennessee, in the hope By Martin Martin of persuading the natives to appear in a motion picture. To understand the irony of this you must visualize the country; a backwoods land, nearly as savage as it was two centuries ago, inhabited by a suspicious folk many of whom had never heard of a motion picture or of Hollywood, and most of whom were connected with the manufacture and sale of corn whiskey; a country of three products, corn, pork and whiskey; a country where ordinary laws are reversed — where hogs ran wild and vegetables were fenced in; where the women cultivated fields of C[ Gary Cooper as panion picture to Beau Sabreur "Beau Geste' a com 68