Screenland (May-Oct 1930)

for ]une 19 30 127 Evidently, Billie overheard them, took the hint, and began acting before the privacy of her mirror. (Drudgery?) Came a day in 1926 when that oY davil sun came out for the heroine of this scholarly rhapsody. Billie finished a picture called "The Marriage Clause," and almost every company in Hollywood wanted her. Billie blinked her lustrous orbs and signed a contract with First National as a featured player — not a star — and made "An Affair of the Follies." After seeing her fine performance in that picture, the company clapped its hands, tore up the old contract, and made her a star with all of the trimmings. It has been said that this came about through the demand of exhibitors all over the country. And when exhibitors demand things — well, they usually get what they want. Before she knew it, Billie Dove graduated from being a Small-Time Drudge to a Big-Time Drudge. She's been in the big money ever since. When the talking pictures came and caused more consternation in California than did the San Francisco fire, Billie Dove retired to her Yes Room. and went into conference with her vowels, the a-e-i-o-u terrors. And when that was done, she went for the consonants, put them over her knee and gave them what is now known as a Dove Larruping. Today, as history states, things seem to be all right. Billie has made such a careful study of Drudgery and its relation to Dronery, that no one is surprised any more, no matter what happens. Miss Dove has carefully regulated systems which run like clockwork, unless some old meanie at the studio says, "Miss Dove, your company is working until midnight tonight." When that happens, Billie laughs it off with a gesture of gayety, hies herself to a corner and thinks wistfully of that European vacation she has long been promising herself but has not yet enjoyed. Secretly she may have ambitions to become a Drone! The Most Famous Movie Fan in the World Continued from page 19 to the North Country where Eskimos wor technical ideas in it than any picture that ship welcoming the coming of the sun, of has ever been produced. Photographically life, of whatever to them is God! it is terribly good. The camera angles are "In the political aspect of the film we get splendid and its elasticity is amazing. The the same terrifying closeness of every per camera never stands still, neither the ac son in the world. First, we see a Japanese, tion camera nor the sound camera. For giving a political talk on the streets of instance, they will start singing a chorus Tokio. Next, we are switched to Lenin of one of Nelson's popular songs. The grad where a spellbinder hands out a new first three words will be sung by a woman Soviet prophecy. Immediately, we are car in a butcher shop. The next three by a ried to England where in a leafy garden paper hanger, hanging his paper. The Bernard Shaw carries on a political argu next by a milk boy, delivering his milk, ment with a friend. The sound acts as the medium. The "From this we realize how many people sound is the thread that draws everything in the world are heated up over political together. The sound is the element that issues and none of them is getting anywhere makes the picture fourth dimensional, at all. Such things are superb for inter "First we will see the City of Cologne — ■ national release. It gives you a breadth shots showing the modern industry of the of vision which you cannot possibly ob city. Then without regard to time we are tain in university classes. You derive a swung back five centuries, where the camcertain kind of human comedy which you era will be placed before an old baronial can never discover in text books. There castle on the Rhine. Immediately, we see are no comments in the pictures, no ed footmen in the costume of the fifteenth itorials. The world is laid bare before your century. We see a woman sit down and eyes, in its strength, in its weakness. And play a delicate air on an old spinet, obit is impossible for any thinking person not solete these many years. At the same into get a tremendous titillation out of it. stant, almost, we cut back to something "Nor is this true only of what one absolutely modern but the melody ties the might call serious pictures. One of the whole structure together. And instead of most infinitely touching films I ever saw confusion we have a poetic thread of conwas a German two-reel comedy made also tinuity and beauty which is infinitely by Taubus, called 'Wenn Nelson Spielt, ' touching. or 'When Nelson Plays.' Nelson is the "But no matter what good pictures are Irving Berlin of Germany, the most popu made in Europe, they will always love our lar song writer in that country. pictures best. Our pictures have a child' "Now here in America for the same sort like appeal that is very attractive to old of picture we should probably open up civilizations. It's like a tired man of the with an actor sitting in front of a tele world looking at a Christmas tree. The phone singing 'I'm All Alone by the Tele tree has a half-forgotten, childlike appeal phone.' But in Germany, they use the to him — even when he laughs at it. Our sound as the hac\bone of the picture, weav pictures rest the tired brains of Europe, ing around it poetry, love, color, struggle, I think they are marvelous. There is by the use of simile and metaphor. It a strength in their prettiness that is stronger sounds confusing but it isn't. For the sound and more necessary to human nature than centers your interest. The sound gives the morbidity of the Russians and Ger cohesion. 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