The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1924, Page 9

ne FNVTUSEMEN Re Seattle StavTOMO SECOND SECTION HE VAMPS, AND VAMPS, AND VAMPS! “They've cast me as a vamp again,” sighs pretty Evelyn Brent, the lovely brunette who plays the role of the dancer in “The Arizona Express.” And when you Evelyn has to use her exotic beauty. dark-eyed villain hovering around. —_- It wouldn't be a Carter melodrama without ¢ Great Lover Is Lou I Ever since Lou Tellegen, just as well known as “the great lover,” came to this coun- try a8 leading man for Sarah Bernhardt and witnessed a performance of Pauline Fred- erick he has hod the secret longing to play opposite her either on the slage or screen. Strangely enough, a similar ambition has remained the secret of Miss Frederick, who is a great admirer of Tellegen’s work. They play opposite each other in “Let No Man Put Asunder,’ showing now at the Columbia, so now they are satisfied, ¥ + b BILL SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MAY 81, 1924 PAGES 9 TO 16 ‘ey Location “Cures” Co% Pe E MER W: t | M 5 tl > S ry Three Cheers Would-Be Actress | Thomas vig ees d atc ung 1e creen for Jack mn ere VUNS ane BY DAISY HENRY 4 ; t \I or a 8 A N D. W. Griffith had received. an att bs i on soutien the Italia rnment to make film pr company tn en route 19 Al At the time Griffith would not definite! apap ‘ining |the offer enough to go to that call att r , the situatior \ " —=-- — ‘RIPFITH ares, ay Neeye. the warts.” | } and « i and I 7 Bawah Egyptian and Ara a . b aula : : ¥ : ~ Sages = ‘d walk « mile to cn aial “yr : i direc eet avold then camel 4 AS ORIFFITH WON'T DO KOMANS DO IFFITH went to Rome Special: MARY ANN WELLS” POSITIVELY THE FASTEST, MOST EXCITING MOVIE EVER PRODUCED DANCERS in an elaborate program includ- ing bits from the festival consider that Lincoln J. Carter is the author of the photoplay plot you'll realize to what extent | nario-itis,”" I want to say at the out. |embryo writer to create desirable mo-| |tion pleture stories is very remote, |}| | feaps Lubitech did in Germany Seastrom did in Sweden. Henry King did in Italy 0: ‘6 lernHe WHI wa tn Rome « if The Eternal © wan also made had a worth with Fas ht also be wort making * ome they told him the pr ethird, but one ervations, however, ubt very seriously can be carried on cheaper or as cheap: .” says D, W. SECOND of the Heilig “KNOCKOUTS” Hopeless Task for Amateur Script Writers Try Other Fields First, Says Expert t, Holly BY CAREY WILSON Associate Editor, Goldwyn Studios LITHO one of every five persons | seems to be afflicted with ‘‘sce- set that the chance of the average| Thousands of scripts reach every | big studio every year and are reject ed because they are almost invart. ably lacking in the necessary funda mentals of motion picture story structure. Few amatours seem to realize that |}} there is a distinct difference between a story, as such, and a story that may be told on tho screen, H Tho first essential is that motion pictures are told mainly IN PANTO. |}! MIME; that, barring a few descriptive or quote titles, the photoplay must have its plot advanced, its charac. terizations portrayed and climax dis. closed by means of physical action before the camera. Until that point Is thoroly grasped, progress is impos. sible Theme follows understanding of pantomime, as the second funda mental. With the exception of those designed only for tho lightest ente: tainment, pictures must have theme value to justify production—the rela. tion to life, the keynote sounded by story, plot, characters; that somo. thing which identifies it as 2 matter of interest and sympathy to millions of people | ‘Theme differs from plot, the third fundamental, in that the plot is the} manipulation of characters and dra-| ma which depicts the theme. Wh ‘The greatest delusion of embryonic writers is to think of plot as the fore: | Continuous requirement, whe | Gals (th Ente General Admission 2 5° 10c | Loges, "ggyed seats School Children movie characters much humanity, ity and personality as are the people whom you meet in every-day life and feel you know well, Failure to do thig ts fatal And, of course, eternally study mo- | tion pictures with cool detachment to wee how they are constructed and why they have appeal. The murder of the banker by international bandits The greatest prison-break ever put in ‘pictures The race with time to stay an execution The thrilling leap from roaring express to speeding auto The Arizona Express’ fatal plunge into the raging torrent triumph of right over might in the greatest rail- road romance ever written The TODAY and until next Thursday Night ofn| honest Pauline Starke Evelyn Brent and an all-star cast International News TOPICS OF THE DAY Aesop’s Fables BUSTER LORENZO Tenor LEON GREENMAN’S MELODY MAKERS