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,'ASHINGTON WILLHAVE ITS MOVIEUNIT AT WORK
4es Cathrin. Curtis Planningts Use Capital and Its Envi-rohs for Screening Purposes.Has One Novel for Film Now.
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MISS CATHRINE CURTIS.
O FF and on for several yearsthere have been spasmodicattempts at organizing a
local motion picture producing or-
ganization, but each in its turnhas seemed fruitless, and one isprompted to wonder why. Thereal reason, doubtless, is that no
organisation strong enough to car-y to its conclusion a real pro-duction with real talent has at-tempted to produce in Washing-en.Now comes the information thatlthrine Curtis, an Arizona girl ofa socially prominent New York farn-Ily, whose first venture in motionpictures was with "The Shepherdof the nis," and whose most suc-
essful recent production was RalphConner's "The Sky Pilot," directedb King Vidor with Colleen Moore.John Bowers. David Butler, Kath-eM -Kirkham and Donald MacDonaldis coming to Washington at thesolicitation of some prominent busi-seo men of the District.Miss Curtis. who, by the way. L
the only woman producer, has pur-chased the rights to several best-sellers,, and has chosen for her nextproduction a famous novel by Eng-land's foremost author-psychologit.She plans to enter upon Immediateproduction for release through Asso-.iattd First National Pictures, Inc.It is said that a prominent NewYork society woman who recentlynade her professional debut on thecroen will appear in the leadingtamale role.Whether this be so or not, a rep-
resentative of Miss Curtis Is now atthe Washington, and has been inconference with a number of Wash-tngtonlans who have been especiallyinterested in bringing a permanenteinema producing unit to the Dis-trict.
Miss Curtis is one of the fewwromen in the history of the movingpicture industry who have activelydirected a picture producing com-.peny. Stars and other women own*their companies, but their connec-tion with ijhe executive affairs issldomn as Intimate as that of MissCurtis. Her big success, "The SkyPilot," which I. still rememberedby those who gasped at the thrill-ing cattle stampede on the screenat Crandall's Metropolitan lastsprtg, grew out of the whim ofthis New York society girl whobeamne Interested--while ranching'it in Arisonar-In the picture busi-nssa. So fond of it has she be-* ems and so convInced is she thatit oaers an unlimited field for theprofessional woman, that she ex-
presses a srious doubt that shewill ever desert It.
Cathrine Curtis," says a oon-temuporary review, "impressec one'sadmirations deeply. She is theideal modern business woman-fresh and breesy of personality,thoroughly enggng and interest-ing, practical and sincere. She iswholesome and genuine, and a dJ-rect ciallenge to those who wouldbar weenen from business.(apability is written -all over her
attractive, smartly gowned self, andthe comfortable feeling with whichone is made to approach her remainsas one talks with her. Miss Curtis'pet aversions are the little incon-sistencies and absurdities which thecareleas producer allows to creepinto features, and it is her determ-indton, she says, teo inate everypossible bit of incon i'uty tu everyproduction. She is profoundly im-.pressed with the advance of theioture industry within the last fewyears and avers that the screen is'the biggest thing In America to-
can only hope that Miss CurtiswMil comne to Washington and takemdvantage of the wonderful photo-giaphie eampesition that it and theeurrnadfing country offers for the4s...l=u=en. of te highest type of
QUO VADIS" IN MOTION
Gainngameovenigt, he hot-drma QuoVadis" will be broughtto ahntnadsonti ekmtne and evenings at the
NatonaThatr.t i baedon he ookofthat name and puts inmotion pictures all the thrills and history which that great work in-corporate..
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(Continued From Page Six) )urgent that they should. However artistic It may be to suggest the in-terrogational ending, this is rarely permitted. Why, therefore, shouldthe dramatic writer sit in the theater, mortifying his flesh and growingstale watching a finale that he positively known, when possibly he hasaccumulated a little enthusiasm during the early acts and can utilize itnicely in his work ? Then to one if he remain, that edhthusiasm will vanishin the banal settlement of the play. I say: Maintain your enthusiasmif you have any, and do not let it evaporate by means of an act themessage of which is: "They lived happily ever after."
In a picture I carefully depart just before the hero takes the heroinein his arms and gazes soulfully down her throat. When I see that Igrow restive. Why spoil my pleasant impressions of restivity?The writer on the theater should not worry hiniself at all about the
story of the play. It in an old story. All stories are old. There in noth-ing new In the way of a story. All depends upon the handling, upon thelines, upon the attitude of mind, upon the outlook, upon the philosophy,and upon the acting.
TARE David Belasco's two productions--both revivals-"The EasiestWay," at the Lyceum, and "The Return of Peter Grimm," at the
Belasco. The stories of these plays are, of course, interesting and per-haps, somewhat unusual (certainly "*The Return of Peter Grimm" isunusual), but the entire point of Mir. Belasco's wonderful work for thetheater is missed if the reviewer concern himself with telling the storyof these plays.He can do no more than tell the story of every trashy production.
The play that opens on a Monday night and closes on the followingSaturday should certainly get other treatment than that of having Itsstory told, if reviewers are to do the same thing by a Belasco production.
It isn't fair.-to tell the story of a play when the production itself isbeautiful, the acting perfect and the stage management flawless. Thetwo. Belasco productions-or revivals-are so compelling fine, so utterlyunlike the rank and file of the season's plays, tht it would be sheerInjustioe to let them go with a mere telling of their stories. It would bea crime.Any reviewer who can go to either the Lyceum or the Belasco
theater and find nothing to do but tell the stories of the plays therewould probably consider the flephone book as literature. When yousee "The Easiest Way" or 'The Return of Peter Grimm" it is not thestory of the plays that strikes you, but it is the masterly handling, theperfection of detail, the warmth and comfort of the atmosphere, theexquisite acting, the sincerity, the deep love of the theater, the psychicsense of sentiment and the general appear to something blow the sur-face. When you appreciate a play with your intuition-that is to say,when yo lIke- a pl a %.with1you sou and can
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(Continued From Page Six)to be "still in their Infancy"-! wasidiot enough to/ask in public print,right here in Washington, why mo-tion picture directors would insiston taking stage plays that dependedfor a greater part of their valueon the limitations of time and placeof the theater and make motion pic-tures of them when the film has nosuch limitations.They have improved since then.
They take a stage play now andcompletely hide it! Or they take a
stage play and amend it like Con-grew frequently amends bills thatare introduced-by striking out allafter the title and substituting inlieu thereof something that has ab-solutely no relation to either thetitle or the play
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6THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL,"for Instance. Schnitsler wrote
a very delightful, if rather free.group of expositions of the wayof a maid with a man andvice versa. The comedy was
delicious, with that particularlyViennese type of naughtiness that isa fair compromise between the broadvulgarity of the German osaedy andthe dainty wickedness of the French.The Viennese is like that-whthrhe is dealing wtih music or plays or
pictures, the pre-war Viennese, thatis.So far as I know, "The Affairs of
Anatol" has not been pro'duced inthis country except semi-profession-ally in a manner of speaking.
WHAT I saw was the title of theSchnitsler "Affairs of Anatol"
flashed on the screen followed by aRobert W. Chambers-Mary RobertsRinehart story of "How to Elini-nate the Appetite for Cake AfterOne Has Become a Pastry Cook."That gave me the first inkling of
what might have become of "TheSheik" as a scenario. And then formental reconstruction, in a manner
of speaking, I dropped in to seeBert Lytell in "A Trip to Paradise."And with the unrolling of the firstscene-well! ! '!l Just a minute:About a year ago an actor by the
name of Joseph Schfldkraut kickeda play by the name or "The Pagan"in the face wtth such enthusiasm andmagnificient abandon that he im-mediately stamped himself as anactor of great power and sent mana-gers scurrying to find somethingthat would give him the opportuni-ties which "The Pagan" distin-guished itself by denying.
SCHILDKRAUT'~ in the rneantimemade friends with the Theater
Guild in New York and this organ-isation unearthed from a pigeonhole where it had long laid a playcalled "Lilliom,." by Franz Molnar,
A5soo eastefrtenof"
Trip toParadise" was unfolded Infilm-and I might may the folds|
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ilonaily in going through the po.o Wnker Dasueseb. Cialeatrection machine-I awoke to a reali- Albert C..ti. Goe CoO&tatlon that I was seeing "Liliom.' SolotatoIot only that, but that I was n'e- MM. IVARASoLTng a remarkably faithful screen PAnL KOCeASyIwroductPon of the Molnar play- Ti aets: $ fh0 T 7.ck .e.. et 0 .S.
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elng a very tragic comedlyor 'a ARTISTS' COURSErery comic tragedy. whic:hev'er way SEASON lost.22Te paucity of the language do- ien a Theater. 4 h.ea
crib. It to you, It was given a con- Oct. 31F-SCOTT1 GRAND OPERA GO.. is1rentional happy ending. ,,La feheme.o22-HULDA LASASA. Se--.I then and there determined to O. 9-Urno. LOUISE HONER. Ceufclbe.
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-she will be sure to find the hidden Only I hope they don't utes amotive of the film. For Polly has Epis opal clergyman of hiri, be.read "The Sheik," too, and wants to ctuse we have leanings towardae It played! Christian Science!
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