Like a clever, temperamental woman, whose husband falls to comprehend her gifts, the audible [Screen faces an inescapable des tiny: understanding oF divorce.
This is. the opinion of a young 'American dramatist where associa: tion with Hol coincides, with the era following Warner Brothers' [Sensational initial presentation, In Since that time, Mr. Kline has made four separate trips to Holly-Wood on assignment. to various. companies and has watched the revolution at close range. At the Present time he is on a trip around the world—with "a camera, of, course—and leaves Shanghai' today for south China, coely only, was fashionable for Broadway to shrug when Holly-Wood "was. mentioned. And frequently, after a well-paid but "artistically" fruitless visit to the icher city, the shrug was replaced by a few well-chosen words on the subject of the producers' inability with the ° doll-the leading man whose "only. claim to" histrionic ability was' the savoia-faire with which he carried the ball over the I me, has passed, For example, Kline feels that during the fey, months he, will be absent from hollywood on the present trip, film industry will make progress that, would have taken" an equal number of sears during the old lent regime. tu a word, producers late recoaching an understanding of their mediums He is convinced, also, that eventually a Rew medium only " distantly related to either the production of the inarticulate fr the bodily transplanted plays of the "earlier audible screen—will Through such channel, the gran-dour of the epic "The Good Earth" could be translated into screen term and yet remain essentially fai {o the sprit of the book. ite Kline sugges the story, filmed in China, should be presented in the language of China—but dialogue used 0 briefly, Ringing fon the action, that meaning. woul be obvious, He mentioned the late Murnay, German director whose fragrant tragedy of inexorable convention, "Tabu," proved so conclusively. that, successful picture may be filmed thousands of miles from Hollywood Boulevard, us the type. of artist ideal for such a venture, Kindred volumes to "The Good Earth," Mr. Kline" singled out "Growth of, the Soil," laid in Nor. way, and "Giants in the Eartl sed first of a Minnesota trilogy. All, he contended, belong to the new era of, the screen.
Tt'is possible that the present! trip, which should allow for several months in Europe with a sister.
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