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SCREENLAND
Picture-goers are expressing a keen and growing interest in that most vital force in the making of screen entertainment — the director. And here Screenland, quick to respond to the desires of its readers, inaugurates a new and exceptional series of articles telling the-behindihe-screen realities about outstanding directors — as artists and individualists.
Hollywood's Most Versatile
Director
W. S. Van Dyke
peered Man.' The
TWO men stood conversing in low tones, at a Hollywood party. The hostess approached, heading a number of newcomers, and with a note of pride in her voice, announced impressively to her little brood, "May I have the honor of presenting His Majesty, the Sultan of Jahore— and Col. W. S. Van Dyke." "Oh," chorused three of the ladies, while several more intently at the tall, rangy figure, " 'The Thin We just loved it, Colonel Van Dyke!" director of that production, while the Sultan looked on in amusement, flushed a dull maroon. In all his adventurous life this moment was his most embarassing. Not because his work had found praise, or because he was the center of attraction — an old story, these, for him — but because, in the presence of this visiting monarch, he had been singled out by the group on which to lavish their attentions, while the ruler whose word in his particular corner of Asia is law was completely ignored.
This little anecdote may give you an insight into the true character of Col. W. S. Van Dyke, who considers his achievements on the screen, and safaris into the unknown, in the light of every-day toil. Self-effacing in regard to the pictures he makes and the results scored, you can readily understand his uncomfortable feelings as he listened to the remarks directed to him — while beside
You'll realize why Hollywood gave W. S. Van Dyke that title when you read this unusual story
By Whitney Williams
From Equatorial Africa to the Arctic, W. S. Van Dyke has traveled in search of the drama he has
brought screen, you see recting
to the Right, him dia scene
for "Eskimo.
Left, W. S. Van Dyke and Raquel Torres in Tahiti, where he filmed "White Shadows of the South Seas."
Lower left, making the film in which Van Dyke gave new evidence of versatility — "The Thin Man."
him passed unnoticed one of the best-known figures of the Orient, to whom a state reception would be extended in any court in the world.
A man of accomplishment, who has been everywhere and seen everything in all climes, whose list of honors (accorded him all over the world) can scarcely be printed in fine type on a single sheet of paper, Van Dyke is known in Hollywood as the most versatile director in motion pictures.
With his fine hand at the directorial helm, small chance exists that the production will fail to score a bull's-eye at the box-office. Melodrama, adven (Continued on page 71)