The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1919, Page 6

THURSDAY, DEC. 11, 1919 BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE -Best Seller’Novelist Tells His Fxperiencesin the Mo —__— tion Picture Game-Re-creating Himself in Fiction~The & [How the Movies conceived the Young Irish pie Hecroldl Hox Grath s favohite brain child.cwaaes AnInterview by Harold MacGrath The movies are rapidly finding themselves. A trend of picture mak- ing has begun which, from all I’can gather, will lift photoplays to a high level of art. It seems only yesterday that a surfeit of “Mysteries of the Box Car” and other atrocious things reeled off in the studios made us de- “Shake,” I agreed. “They made me {They tell me_ they have scenario look foolish, too. Nobody who ever | writers in Catifornia who can swipe read The Voice In The Fog would |any plot, and tinker with it so an have recognized it on the screen.” author will not recognize it. Un- The too frequent thing had hap-|fortunately for my piece of mind, I e pened. The director had not begun}seem to have a nose for plagiarism Sal to realize the possibilities of of my work. ae tale, Did you ever notice how often, When I went to see a production naturally I am more than icnerested to see how Dwan will conceive him, Where do writers get their ideas for stories? One day some years ago 1 was in a cinema theatre in Paris.~ movie I watched was entirely unusual and French.’ All of the characters that interest picked up. They told me f, that Allan Dwan had, just formed his ‘own produc- ing» company and that an organiza- ind dollars? Oh,;no, for one hundred lars!’ When the publishers told me they had sold the rights for that price, spair of the movies ever doing any-| when the movies present the draw-|of my The Goose'Girl, I got a shock. Lind suicke eed Heard cae fion called the ene eat was Ait fect aby shoes thing worth while, Today one can ing-room of a wealthy man, they|It was wonderful. piget, Bhotoplay fined thacnenives tor thic hae aa : ie i : “Mayflower Photo- iene poste al ao gumpss Drogatis, see pictures that give keen enjoy-| have it filled with teakwood furni-|had realized everything I had ever charity, but sold fonr more for the | ESsexememmunam gram plays. a new. [i i alohi-and Govemeets of see ment. I have seen many pictures|ture? As soon as a man becomes|dreamed of in the story. That comer, ‘had put same price, I almost became a paralytic, . feet it'was conveyed what their owners’ Twenty-five thousand dollars is the that made me wish for nothing in} rich, does he buy teakwood? quickened my interest in movies. story construction and that—if a she—| almost ‘unlimited’ funds behind him i yal—sui prisi Y - sey ss Wats, > that he|Were doing. The audience played the his will seem to you, for 1 under- Se so | y once, : vork. utterly lovely.’ ‘ S stand it is quite fashionable in liter-|true, very true, The scenery, cus-{they do it every time?” It showed all ony fotures watt books have been eV ERICH Vaca PRO URE? just a° few Pee year, spending ag} that I got the idea of a young Irish American, a pumber, working in a shop below the level of the sidewalk. Every day above his workbench he saw hin- > dreds of passing feet and one day he fell in love with a very neat and very Sensible looking pair of feet: Then; inheriting a fortune from:an out+ rageously wealtty fear: he bone himself an around-the-world trip ticket, had worked at his profession in reniote places before taking up pictures,” it and met -those eet he Hovey on the seemed to me that hete was a man of foe Wee andy os a Oe a tip rough and ready action and of culture, | '¢W ot the ig rd te a ii ‘dea EG, who had somehow acquired a surpyis- Eat the wor! nce tas i a oo / ing mastery of motion picture art— asy, isn’t it, to get a “best selle for I had seen his African picture. plot? Try it—romance, lovable charac- ‘And when they told me that Allan |ters, color, action. | Sometimes they Dwan had made some of the best ask me: “Why don't you write realis- known stars but that he felt the star |tic, novels? whee for? ihe ney system was wrong and that the story, ber cent. go to the movie theatres an ld rather see stirring, ‘clean’ ro4 the author should be the star, plus the | VOU tring, director’s conception of his story, I mance than “problems” and smut. An- 7 other point’ where Dwan and ‘I agree at sues! is one man who is on the on is that and on the “happy ending.” me that the movies. are capable of conveying to an audience all the ro- mantic charm that. comes to the much time as be liked. engaging whem: ever he liked and choosing himeelf whatever stories he liked. That sonnd- ed like common sense... When next they told me Dwan was'a University grad- wate, that in his college days he had specialized in literature, that he had been graduated as a civil engineer and toms and all of foreign countries have been brought right into our theatres. Were a college to use mo- tion pictures, it could educate in the modes and forms of life quicker than by any other way. But there is still a great educational work that the movies have left undone, In the studios, if they would only teach some of the stars and graduated show girls who fill in as guests at “receptions,” if they would only teach them the correct use of the knife and fork! In cl ps! Why, the educational po: ties of the movies are bounds ary circles to scoff at the movies. Not that I htink the movies per- fect—oh, a long, long way from it. For one thing, too many of them intelligence of in done in pictures that I have been asked if I wrote them with one eye reader of a romantic novel, But as/t© Selling the picture rights. Emphat- L watched one play after another, it | ally. no. I never wrote a story for emphasized that such good produc- the movies in my. life. 1 think He tiona-Wwerealliioodntrequent because I like clean romance and action, Th ee that my stories have found the way e thing obsessed me; it was like " crave a crime. The evidence|t© the screen. For after all the movies ass are far more democratic than are piled up to show that the guilt was c ati double, That fearful thing which is books. “And in my writing 1 always called the " requirements of our star” [Sek to entertain. the great ninety per fe Cua ing dood Btories: and the {cents holding that high privilege. Let tas of those persons | “titers who can’ do it better than I ies pi {care for the needs of our highbrows. ‘O press pants and who now = 2 naland to ask Charles Disken Nine out of every ten writers would s ke to have their books done in ., |Pictures—no matter what they tell you. 5 {Of course. the war did away with much of the froth and frivol in Ameri- can writing and undoubtedly, forced many authors to put red blood and punch in their stories. That will help I have in mind two books of my own—A Splendid Hazard and The Luck Of The Irish. One company said that_A Splendid Hazard had no motive. The motive that urged on the man in the story was only to try and restore- the monarchy in France and place himself upon the throne; but, of course, to the average movie maker's eye—zero. And about my The Luck Of The Irish, another company said: “The hero isn’t a swell. Our star likes to wear evening dress. Why the guy in this story’s a plumber.” I thought it better to wait a few years before trying to dispose of the picture rights to theSe books. An undying faith in the movies told me that intelligence was bound to come in. Then to my astonishment from Cali- fornia. last’ spring came word. that a director wanted The Luck Of The underestimate the their audience; too many deal the obvious. “Too many atro are still being committed on t screen. And then I recall with feel- ing having gone to see a production of one of my books, the picture tights to. which I had sold to one of the big companies. The story was The Puppet Crown, a storv T was particularly fond of, for I liked the heroine of it about as wen as any character T ever was a strong character. rT 4 feelings then, when U sat in the th tre and watched my story scree! I could not reco: Back in the studio they had p: into a chopper and ground out hash T have watched the movies_pretty clo: dens filled. making his |too quickly, ture theatres in the hope, of | Be atte cing upon one. I suppose it’s a pictures n. they I wondered wh kind of morbid cur'osit a desire to} ' if fi ‘, F q hi Tha on z gainst the lace ‘i eed i 1 ver he right track movies, add something to the.story|Irish. Incredible—with the hero -a There is no particular art in having a Hiatus) onetthing t have against the see whether murder or merely xs-| Gul evel Set Ou the sight track: ply which seems to show signs of |plumber! Who was the director? SECRETS OF “BEST SELLERS” man blow out his brains at: the close heroine. é ‘ ‘ted dea pe ie has been soe 090 For a poor! heimg quickly bought up. There are|They told me his name was Allan| He. is busy now out in California }of a story or in having a deserted wife Vesiand Phe: Vaiee Ta. Teel caw the hope ele ena tae The motion picture rights to mi many good books that would make |Dwan, and I remembered a recent pic-|making my The Luck Of The Irish |reading a love letter from her husband Fog. ‘That was another hizh crime.|of my stor it eae i rae ee jof my books had been sold by last|eood pictures that the movie peaple|ture I had seen of his. At the time|and I am eager to see it. Here is written during their betrothal., Amter- Donald Brian played the picture ver-| called Rajah’s V: vention Since chen rinter, but there were a few left. And {have passed by. It is easy to under-|ithad impressed me that here was a|where I ‘fess up something. Some|icans ate happy and healthy minded, signvotithatwoneof-my. novels. Ut eee eeen many cortionac or ant hen T think what some of those |stand.. They cry for good stories and|man who had been given a poor spry authors write introspectively. I did|And by the way, the most romantic } vas his first and his last. picture. | stories, although, of course. the titles books went for, a cold chill creeps} most of them wontd not know a good |and asked to make a picture of it;and| it but_once. That was The Luck Of |character today is not the Irishman. = r Tsaw him and he said: were not always the same, nor was [over me. You remeinber The Carper jstory if it bit them. Did yon know in some miraculous way, he had done it,| The Irish, ‘The young plumber in|nor the Frenchman. Hey is the young “T'm through, Never ag. They |T always down as the author; nor|Ftom Baedad? Seven vears ago althat ote of the essential qualifications | creating a thing of beauty, the scene in| that story is a drawing of myself as I |American.” His possibilities from’ a s made me look foolish.” had I always sold my picture rights, | movie comnany bought the rights to jof the average scenario.editor is that | the African desert.and its north coast} am and as I should like to be, Of writing viewpoint are enormous, He “lfm that for—cwhat? Flee ten thon. ! if a he—he shall know nothing about d all in California! My! course. he is my favorite character and lis the quintessence of romance today, way down in their hearts. And men! From the Society of John the Bap- in at trouble, who feel the need of tist, the G. A, R., the Woman's Relief, ‘comfort, don’t turn to Karl Marx or; seb a 7 A to Shakespeare for that comfort.|¢ NEY -Leagttp, Ce Hed 7 ene Cross, the Purple Cr the They go to the Bible. “No man ever commits a crime s and the Double Cross, the without it later bothering his mind. home, the Boy Scouts, the| I know, for I have lived in jails and} Jewish relief, the Belgian reliet and | other places with criminals and have} Very hospital in town. heard them talk. They want to re-| .The government hgs so governed my business that I don’t know who} lieve their mnids, That's why I have as u | established the’ confessional in the |,OWns it. 1 am inspected, pucpected,| examined and re-examined, informed. ! ‘New Church’. Dr. Reitman is head physician at|Teduired and commanded, | lied to, lied about, held up,. hung up,{ only reason I am clinging robbed and nedrly ruined, and the | to see wae dn tetas is comin; _AoAcoTCoToK A OPENS CHURCH. Look at tongue! 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