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Hollywood — First Days on the ZMovie Lot
taboos. Some one suggested that Feuchtwanger's remarkable novel, Jew Siiss> was excellent material for a moving picture. But he was answered :
"We deny your premise. Jewish pictures are off. Look at the failure of Abie's Irish Rose."
Von Sternberg turned again to his hobos. "Now, you boys," he said, " the music is better. Don't you forget. Plug each other properly.' '
With no high reputations to lose, nor special publics to betray, seeing that they were but supers at seven dollars a day, the boys plugged one another with a will, while the violinist, screaming with proper battle spirit, plied his bow more and more ferociously, until we wondered that the strings did not snap in his face. In the resultant picture the whole of this lusty fight, the most sincere part of the scene, came out as no more than a dimly seen and confused movement reflected in a fly-blown mirror behind the heads of the two principals.
The director turned back to his seat.
" Music ! " bellowed the megaphone.
Of course, he was well aware of the stars' reservations. With narrowed eyes, he estimated that he had pushed them down as low as they would permit.
" That's good," he said. " Cameras."
As the operators turned the handles the cameras gave out a thin whirring sound, vying with the sizzle of the big arclamps. The stars sprang again into action, the boys plugged one another heartily, the violin wailed, and the harmonium grunted like a missionary meeting gone mad. The whole action did not take a minute.
" Cut ! " shouted the director.
11 N.G.," he said.
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