The Academy Award for ten outstanding pictures went in a lari majority to films which were adapt ror pur est of the ten might Town" and as a doubtful quantity "The Adventures of Robin Hood.'
Ballin and His Stooge The most popular artist to have appeared locally recently is Hahn, ventriloquist at Farrens, plus Charlie, Producing companies spend a tremendous amount of time in examining the possibility of likely novels and enormous sums of money in securing film rights. A large quantity of this money is completely wasted in buying rights which are never used.
No doubt there is an assumed argument that a successful book or a be, how illustrative of the bravura or the realistic style, how indicative of the changing dramatic art, But this, alas, cannot be done by the Film Library, any more than it could attempt—under its present regulations—to trace back he manifold uses of the custard pie, the chase, the confused identity theme, the reporter-heiress plot, the one about the unwed couple being mistaken for honejmooners and assigned the one bedroom and—well, your list of standby should be as good as ours It isn't so much that people want to see them all again, as that it might be interesting to see where they began, how they developed—if they did—and where one can expect them to lead us. If the Film Library only could put such things on its programme one should feel that a truly living history of the screen was being created. But even the fragments it is assembling now are worth study, for art's sake and fun's sake. There's no perisphere, naturally, at the movie fair.
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