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TYLER DAILY COURIER - TIMES. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 4, 1920.
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POOR WÍLL Madame N'azlmova was 11i>■ i r
— « to a number of her trtends at lier
WiW Rogers la one of the few mi oharininir home on Sunset Houlexat'
not recently. Seine Interesting- views from
tion picture stars whosn nmil i
cluttered with request for autcviaph-
ed photoKraphs, scented notes .mi
other flatteries usually received by
film celebrities. Kor one thing, be
boasts of his love for bis wife and
their four children. And bennies, he
isn't' the matinee idol type of hero
Not long ago. however, a large square
envelope came to hint by special deliv •
ery. He opened it ami read:
"Dear Mr. Rogers:
Tyler Cavalry Troop
To Attend Encamp
Notes From
man in town. They are all pretty good
looking 'oiks. hut I'm a sort of throw-
back that don't aeem to belong. \mv,
they tell mo you've got a reputation
along that line, ho I'm writing you to
send nve a large photogrpah of your-
self to hang next to my shaving mir-
ror for consolation.
"Sincerely yours."
(N'aine deleted to spare writer's feel-
ing .)
* * *-
Rosemary Thoby will leave New
York shortly for her home, according
to word ucoived recom.lw Oi| !v r
return sho will stop off to visit her
parents in St. Louis and Is planning
a visit with friends in Ogden.
* * *
Shirley Mason lias secured as heiT'OWn street l'i a bnthlmr suit as
next vehicle "Merely Mnry Ann." andr" n nf overalls."
will commence work on the story inf)
a few week Her current Fox pla>iw,K' overheard
will be kntfwn as "The TJttle Wan- « * #
, While thoi'sand.s of persons are tak
£ 41 * : Ing the ouijo board quite seriously
it does do, funny things, doesn't it?
still its manufacturers assure us that
her new p^-.ture were screened lor hoi
guests.
* *
Thomas M. I nee has been testing
out the "wings" of his new yacht on
long distance trips. Me is planning
orpin rruise i 111 • > southern waters tins
full a in I he wishes his boat to be in |
perfect trim.
* * *
TiOUise Glaum says she does-u't be-
"All my life I've been the butt of lleve peacock feathers are bad luck.
m> family because I'm the homeliest j as slip uses them in ill of her pic-
tures. and surely she lias had sensa-
tional good luck in "Sahara". "The
Rone Wolf's Daughter" and "s'e\". as
each r,t these productioiis have broken
housi records everywhere
-x- * *
l.oo'v out your girls, who are liunt-
iliig for classy new styles. See the
'Norm,-" frock worn by Norma Ti!
nadf,'" in her next production, an ori-
ginal creation by Madame Kran is.
leclnlh for the popular st;ir.
* * *
T'i Milla I.Van has utterod airrrnst
be ovei ill craze She doi sn't think It
rill last: what's more, sho doesn't
ipprnve of blue denim for girls.
"Persona 11.v." said .Miss Dean, "I
«lion Id just as si ton see a woman walk
O
Tylei
| 5th. Troop !•' will leave -tiWR&rraorjr at
.1:80 p. m.
I There w ill lie several troops to JsM
ment At Mabry the Tyler boys mi thair way to Camp
Mabry.1
U' I «
s local cavalry Troop F will,
leave for two weeks' encampment nt h'Oll SARK Piano that I luive in stor-
camp Mabry via the I. & O. N. at age. Cheap, l'erry Transfer Oompuny..
4:00 o'clock, Thursday afternoon, Aiu I'hone 497. 291
CUTTING DOZEN MILES OF
MONOTONY FROM FILM ONB
OF PICTURE AUTHOR'S TASK
Secret of Fine Cutting Lies in a Resolve to Work With Open Mind and to
Reject Your Pet Scene if the Director has Evolved a Better One, Accord
ing to Emerson and Loos, Who Urge Amateurs to Work Their Imagina-
tion as Hard in Considering the Picture as In Writing the Story.
aus
In j .. A;;U AN ÍÍA LOOS
of the riiotopl.u \\ nt'tu; roiession, Who are How Collaborating
on ill o Conjunct Talmadge pictures)
"I'd sooner," remarked Hoot <"llb*nn,
deter."
hart to leave pictures.
Hove la hard new®, só prepare your
«ett tor a blow. Wfllftia 9. Hart say
he is going to leave the screen for
good and all. Five more pictures and
then all íb over between him and the
public. After that, it's the lone trail.
Jtort was badly Injured In May when
he was thrown from his horse while
ridihkg at breakneck speed past th«
camera.
And Harry ia still thinking about
the answer he ought to have had
ready—but didn'L
* * #
Gloria, Gloria—who has Gloria?
This is one of the leading questions
jn filmdom today. Miss Swanson, who
first became famous for her biaarre
oriental head dresses and costumes in
Cecil DeMille's domestic dramas is
He broke several* ribs and' now in retirement as Mrs. Herbert K.
He broke mt ral rl ^ ^ Somborn wife of tUe President of
was considerably shaken p, 1 ^ulty Pictures. But Paramount-Art
ported to be convalescing rapidly, j ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ up Jn con
... ..irgLT , . .. tnct-" -^January 1, 1923. while
auvlJtt lated*" arfif1"™* 18 "P December 31, 3920. Gloria
a • ..-m was ^ wIk Qt; meanwhile as has been noted before,
" ¡ is in private life awaiting a most in.
teresting domestic event.
1 "a in I * * *
Dad. 9 'n
the' Mis I'Jieanor H. Porter, authot of
liich Mary Pickford Í
lized in celluloid, died at'
her home in Cambridge, Mats., the
last of May.
* * *
-Mobile coaster
automo was
birthday BUl
prompts took 11 n° HoUyWood. I try;
^ r%r-inu- Uter hj-.;
^Umtothcjr«,,what ,,
rUnii" => 4,,imsly, Wl,i" ,,
quired Want to le í.,1 l'<-'lyn"na._ w
,oeed laws, ^ rhniu've lms miinortalizt
He44a Nova entertained a mavm
partV at laguna Beach last Satui
day. The occasion was the Russia
star's) birthday. A clam bake on th
beach, a deep sen fishing trip, sin
bathing, and other seashore spot
were features of the affair. Numerov
members of tho film colony motor«
down from Loa Anuales.
* * *
Cflarke Irvine baB completed euiti;
and titling1 the one-roel personam
picture featVirlng Maurice Maeterlinc
The film which Irvlno directed show
the author of "The Blue Bird" at hon
and around the studio. It also intr<
duces Couverneur Maurice and Mm
Maeterlinck in a strenuous ler.n
Same. This is the first screen appeal
ante of the poet.
* * *
Uaurbara CaHtleten has return*
It was only intended as a toy, and the
name there's nothing mysterious
about that either. It's Jutft the French
oui and the German ja. meaning "yes,
yes."
MATINEE SERIAL-COMEDY
COMBINATION BEGINS
AUGUST 13.
CHAPTER XXI
Cutting the Picture
While a feature photoplay usually
contains from 4,500 to 7,000 feet of
film, the director, in making the pic-
tare, may probably take 70,000 to
100.000 feet by expanding upon ideas
as they occur to him and by taking
his scenes in several different ways
for close-ups, long-áhots, and so iorth.
It is therefor obvious that someone
must condense this fifteen miles or
so of motion pictures back into the
conventional commercial length. Con-
sequently the larger companies have
begun the practice of inviting the
author to cut or assist in cutting his
own story. This is to the advantage
of both author and producer, and
anybody who desires to make a
profession of photoplay writing
should learn the essentials of this
vital operation and try to supervise
the work on his own stories whenever
possible.
The studio that calls you in to cut
i picture will supply you with a hand
Tojector, a mechanical device which
•nables you to grind the film into ani-
mation without the necessity of pro-
jecting^ it on the screen. A laboratory
. ill take your orders as to sequence
and length of scenes.
Film in which the photography has
come out badly must be thrown away.
Also, scenes which show your star at
his or her worst must go into Ihe
basket.
Scenes which you thought would
have a good "punch" often^prove dis-
appointments. The camera did not
grasp your subtleties, or the train
wreck was not as thrilling as you ex-
pected it would be. it is better to cut
out such a scene entirely than to go
on with your original idea of making
it the mainstay of the story. Often
the director will assemble the cast
and make another scene, if the author
suggests such a step as a means of
saving the picture.
taking New Sub-TltlM
Many sub-titles have to be written
during the cutting. Frequently Ihe
wording must be changed with a
view to how it will appear on the
screen, not how it sounds when read
aloud. Illustrated sub-title cards can
be planned in detail at thh stage of
the game. An accurate estimate can
be made of just how many feet of
film the sub-titles will take, and the
cutting of lengthy or unnecessary
sub-titles can then be planned accord-
ingly. . A new sub-title should be in-
serted wherever the pictorial action b
in the least obscure.
The Broadway will start "something
new under the sun." on Friday, Au-
gust 11th. The date, to the supersti-
tious v-iii not sound very auspicious,
it being "Friday, the 13th"- hut what
happens remains to he seen.
The event anticipated is the launch
ing of a matinee only Serial-Comedy
combination. That is, on Friday and ¡
Mm 1 D |h«A weeks' «bopping tbur ¿tatufday afternoons of each week
yij^Bplaories of two different serials and
i
"**£££ lh0 c"""
the
been having.
* * *
M inter
has
In-r
New York
\« L 7 I'HTRITia
a hljr Comedy feature will he screen
ed. while the evenings of the same
Wanda Hawley is work nr on herdays wU1 be giv(,n to b,ff s,)PP|al fea
second Starring vehicle. It W)| he ef,,,,, productions as usual Eddie
stdi\ of ( alitoinia. polo, well known to till seii.il lovers:
* * * as the "whirlwind" stunt man of the
screen . in the international serial
''The Vanishing Dagger." and Ruth
Poland. Ihe much loved serin! queen
Mary Miles *""" loaU Ft'01"
3WU against the m ^Sll„
•*;artr;Vooo M
pan y
was awarueu ^ c0„suit
•while Atnerit an So ¿oed
for $100,00" damage^ ^ ^ pieturL,
to say Mary ¡j]ir nevei. Wotild rnaki
Utile .lule Cruzo entertained witi
a beach party last week. Her dachl'
lames Cruze, sent tho sand artis
Klsie Ferguson will not be seen op • H om rite l.isky studio to the bend -
eithei tin stage or screen foi some I several hours ahead of the kiddle.'
time. She is going to the Orient for
a rest. But on her way home, she
may stop n Los Angeles and make one
She always
insisted that
a picture in
the West as she dislikes the Coast
Colony. lint she apparent h lias
th«
dill ^ li0 w,,yt
r\\{\ anyway
year °,u" k
llaioia weittg
* * *
The fiance of Sylvia Preamer who
oversome of the oui ^ '""^ras ! had been given up for dead, has re-
turned from two years overseas,
is Lieutenant F. C. Lewis, ot
lie
th
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wovaeu ^ JltnWy P«f _ ^ =
Tduarin. the j United States Army Intelligence
last 1 beard o • ^ ^ corps, who was gassed and reported
w\ "last 1 lieal 0 ' I killed. He returned to I^os Angele#
?Tdown in Te*afl', f Jin April.
dead " .. last «
••That's u «aUy * * *
vbody" re Bryant Washburn has left Para.
ir,V mount and it. is rumored he will be a
star under tho management of \. J.
Callahan, who "presents" Bessie
Love. Both actor and manager were
'with the old Essanay company in
Chicago.
* * #
Did you ever hear of the "Wood
family?" Neither did we, until a
Wan^
plenty (
city lit
for salt
WANT
hcuse InH
what vet
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spare time
to wearer.
gippi Valley
Guaranteed
1 o |)esti
-° Taíte GROVE'S
v u destroys all
Slood,; lind ri
GROVE'S T,
Strengthens and
Purifyini atfd En
can soorf' Riel its!
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EVEHVBODV'S pa
AND THE SCULPT
IN
Raw
•'Big BlU" ^ a ,fl
this He rides an ^)||rinfr yidor
#Lmr and drinks
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SATURDAY
1 mid iinon their arrival found ¡1 v> 1
ftahle fairy land of sand castles
forts, ami sn.ndmtMi waiting to lie at
tacked i• y the youthful merry-maker
* * *
H"'' tu ,\li and ^li\s Turn l-'oirnii
on Alay i. • mi. Tom, '"ortnerly a |i .m1
intr man o' hitvh vIsihilHy, turnei
scenario writer and then director fo,
T,asky. To Mr. and Mrs. Kolie>t Me
Kim, also en May 4, n daughter, \Tc
K.'tn is one nf tiie I>«• • or worst, de-
pending upon your viewpoint- -vllln'm
is celluloid, while his V.ll'i;, 1 lore-1 ■
Matthev.'s, is well known ap an actres
* * X-
PLAN YOUR FILM CUTTING WITH CARE
John F.tn?rson and Anita / ■ • discuss will: Constance Tahnadtj? and director
¡ut sernes should be elbunuted from ' The I'erject ll otnan before takxnij
n y action.
Sccret of Fine Cutting
Naturally you must first run all the
ulni through your projector. Then
unes the interminable t;r k 1 f as-
•• milling the picture, selecting the
t ¡naterial, ^nd rewriting tho sub-
Mcs. The secret of fine cutting lies
resolve to work with an o¿;en
F. Fly Paget has just enmnlet
the sconario for the next J. Parkei'n "Ruth of tho Rockies," her newest j
Reed, Jr., production. If deals wiv chapter story yet to lie released, Is
hiph class Knplish society life, Bu ,lH' combination booked to begin on,
who should know better about tho- "Friday tho 13th." One of the best
thing than Vfr. Paget, as he halls fron '"medies on the market will lie shown ¡
the splendid Wnglish family of tha co""*'dion, in order to crowd the,
name. His mother was the daughte bil1 with f'VPry kn,,w" variety of en
of the Marquis of Kly.
wind, to rejcct your pet s> tne if the
director has evolved a belt* r one, and
always to be ready to for.ake an
old idea for a new and bitter one.
Authors who do not cut their own
stories complain that the photoplays
are so altered that the completed pro-
duct does not resemble tin ir u: iginal
plots. This is usually because, the
cutter has found some grin of 11 ex-
pression or some extraordinary bit
of action—filmed by a' cident per-
haps—which enables him to give a
new turn to the story. An example
of this was seen in a recent thriller
when two airplanes collided in mid-
air by the purest accidcnt while the
camera was grinding. The story of
tei talnnicnt. Eddie Polo and his 1 course was changed to include this
party crossed the Atlantic and were |
abroad three months in making some.
riend of ours—a theatregoer—cameL.
nek from England. "Whenever," he' of the thrilling scones In "The V:m
¡slung Dagger." The flr^t chapter
opens at a big house party on th< >
late of an English nobleman M
follows tho daredevil filunts - i<-li ;i
only Eddie ran accompli h. !i lu'l
Id us, "whenever a cinema perform
ce or a legitimate play Isn't a sue |'
SB, they snv It's "playing to the'
.'ood family*—meaning the rows and
wb of empty seats."
* * #
A luncheon reunion of "The Mlra-
e Man" crist was held recently at the
unton studios, where the famous
ture was filmed. Amone thoso at'-
dlntr were Joseph J. Dowllng,
tty Oomp.son. I^on Chaney and
omn 1 Meichnn.
* * * '
s ahf enee in
v VjifkUhis wife. Florence Vldor.
loaned to this Thomas H. Inco com
,v for part In tho all-stnr special
au Revel " Lewis Stone has tho
rtVntr nji|le role.
# # #
lvla Hreamer, who suffered a ner-
s collapse at the completion of
lalia," has recovered. She will
® soon for a six weeks* rest in tho
ntalfl accompanied by her mother.
Coming Events
priceless scene. More often, however,
an author's story Is deliberately
changcd by the director with a good
or bad result exactly in n< cornance
with the dramatic intelligi nee of the
orignal author and director.
Another factor in cutting is
"tempo." T lie author should decide
the 1 :.itive length of srenes. Where
you arc leading up to an exciting
climax, action should' be fast and
scencj short. When you have reach-
ed your crisis, scenes should lengthen
to let the dramatic values take hold
of the audience—just as most music
growl louder and slower in the grand
finals, ¿similarly, where you are en-
deavoring to gorttay physical action
alone—as in a fight or in the ap-
proach of two trains for a head-on
collision—scenes must be short and in
r;:pid succession. But where you
ate emphasizing mental stress, as the
silent agony of the husband deserted
by his wife, make your scenes long
with slow but forceful action such
as rhange of facial expression or a
despairing gesture.
Need for Accuracy
"Accur.-icyl Accuracy I Accuracyl"
That metto of a famous newspaper
applies 111 equal force to the photo-
iy cutter, for he is the proof readei
-AT TUB-
The Elusive Laugh
Frequently an author, viewing his
story through the tiny lens of the
< ed among these are a rth'O of 12fi feet hand p: ijector, will find that where
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BROADWAY
Aug.
Wives.'
7 and
"Frivolous
Aug. 10 and 11—Win. S. Hart
in ^square Deal Man"—a
revival of ono of the best of
the Hart Features.
from a olil'f into flu urf. a leap
;rirom the deck of it, limit int" mid
ocean, n bar '..handed •.•tuuvle with ¡1
wild leopuid and a feuielred :i"d
other similar exploits
In "Ruth tif the Rorkh " :>'ou will
eo the rhnrming Ruth Roland In
some of the most daring airplane
stunts, and riding feat unequalled by
any other serial star.
he expected a laughable situation, he
has a lot of pathos. A change in a
chorarte- s expri sien, dii" to unfor-
• it I "nig or to the actor's own
" f./V- on of the so nc, may
the wh ile meaning of the
On the other hand, the
i:;(tti r u il '!• rover comedy
pi.'
1 :¡es in the most unexpected
I ^''Aug. 12 and
! His Woman."
IS—'"Man and
**<111 Mil |«I| MIIIIIUMI
The Trlcoter.
Tlil> renlly owes 1:
Qlieen of Scots. It
Wiling to tnwilMon l
device to I'ar - tin-
«erit the house of h 1
the dnWfdi'n, the Mu>; -
the red fo" fCÍ'
the roi®' '• ■ .1
Ists In 17 *!
'I.e'f «nvti
!n <m ¿í-T-
If \vf n r
t r> r
fin* '1
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¡Á
;ó
f kI
' it tiu-t work your imagination
j ' ard in cutting the picture as
f%) wt • >'/ thíe) story. GySeize those
. efu-ive 1,-ii.ighs when they turn up in
p a * iiaa e lj¡t yf celluloid and utilise
th'-m. In the same way, wonderful
pathos may he found in ionic scene
which was planned simply . s part of
the routine of the plot, if necessary,
changt ^ your story slightl> in üc-
cordancc with inspiration. ...
oí the motion picture.
The cutter must be ever on the look
out for unintentional inconsistencies,
such as starting the hero downstair*
in whi;e shoes and letting him arrive
at the bottom in spats. He must b<
careful to match his scenes exactljj
when he sh< ws a close-up of a coupll
just shown in a long shot, he muí
be sure the man is kissing the har)
111 both strips of film. To show
man leasing the ingenue's left hat
at a dis anee, and then, in a close-i
showing him kissing the r'ght ha
would confuse the audience and br«
the story's illusion. 0
While there were comparativ
few mistakes in the filming of
latent pictures for Constance '
mmlgc, "In Search of A Sinner"
(¡a "The T.ove Expert,"©yet it too
week to cut each of them.
In those fifteen miles of the s
age f ituru r'f-iure there will he
th'ngi •..•Hilé d|g> not belong C
The merciless camera "'ill r I
every aetof's mistakee éV^v'
ous bit of camouflage in the sc
every error on the part of dij
or cameraman. Tfcoeuí-.utU r ,
eliminate all thia or antatif
studio staff.
"Writing for the Censors" Is the title of tlw next«hapter in the EmJ
T-oos series. In this Instalment, which will appoar^i next Wednesdj
authors will give some Interesting inforniatioif on tho form of stori
will or will not pnss the censorship hoaul0 No prodcer will take a ch;
a story which may bedt.sai>i>rove(l or mangled hy cttiuff.
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