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MOVIES ARE CLASSED with GRAND OPERA
t»l<l Eaffland where the Prince passes /
by opera for musical retries. / ' < 'C'' VTWz?m i \ i«iH«i«WK
Give Democracy Credit ’
Airt fiSSy blame R On democracy,-
Or they did at first. Now the critic*
•laoet all agree that, democracy
•hould be praifeed instead of blamed.
The arta with which the ..masses are
familiar hare been raised to a high
lerei, because they were the only
arts that it was profitable to keep
•lire. The energies of genius and tal
ent had to be thrown into them, or be
wasted. The populace ha<i always
Supported opera, and that is the only
reason why it, Ari Well as (he ftmWoa,
continuss to attrjftt a public. Jazz,
vaudeville, rotrt wa human enter
" tainments such as are comprised in
what one critic has named “The Live
* if Arts," were always the particular
*•' possession ot the multitudes. , f
; Beet Artists In Movies
, The wide, (support given to, a form
* • entertalniSdht, and. the fmproVe
!•, Merit in it tbit is impbsha by their
lyuprbviftg tarftfe add knowledge, by
:• taiebes dt Independent democrats, or
V republicans, is illustrated best' in the
United States by the motion, pictures..
- • They have in themselves Sri answer
r . to the question, why even the most
£ cultivated citixens put the cinema
V these nights on the plane with opera,
i„ the dance, the drama, or books, as
t subject tp choice lor an evening’s iin
£ provement or diversion. The best
* creative imagination of the times is
turned towards them, add writers and'
*’ actors who were once easily to be
found elsewhere can frequently be en
joyed only on the silver' screen, Thp
masses ere drawing authors and pro
duce’•a.down to their especial inter
'. as(», and the creative genius of the
authors andjartists is lilting the taste
ol the masses to its own better level.
One consequence' is a raising of the
; motion picture to tire .height of a fine
art. Another is the matter-oMactness
with which discriminating persons
1 who once seoritarf tlip. movies and eT- !
. erything about theta now don their
party clothes and trot along to the
silent show. '. j-v.
tj. Though it is not really a silent
, -
Amazing Transformation Is |
Seen in the South Today.
.Eyctj where frOfti North Carolina to
Florida and from Ix)uiniana to the niorth
'cßn houndary oFvsTenooewo the-South is
undergoing •an amazing transformation,
according to Edward D. Duff eld, presi
dent of the I’rudeutial insurance COm
psigr of America, who has just returned
frpm„s t trip . through seven states, betow
the Mason-i>i.t(.n lino. The entire re
he bold, is losing familiar chdrae-1
tdrietics and assigning instead something
of the air. ami, spirit long iJehfiiied with
Southern Oatifornia audits people.
.11- the South; suffers from the loss of
enormous numbers qf -negro laborers who
have migrated northward, the effects do
npt show, so far r.« Mr. Duffeid could
Ǥe. On the contrary the couritrjj; is
advancing with rapid, assured strides,
building roads, enhancing its natural
tractions and carrying out well-founded
aims for the development cf every rc
urCe tthd advantage.
i -.“From what I wao ab’e to observe,”
he said, “the most reirtarkalile thing tB
that the old South—frequently referred
1» up here as the Good, Old. Slccpj
South—bus developed a most surprising
habit of boosting. I saw down there
n, man . from California who whs as as
tonished as I. "(California,' this man
said to the. ‘is a Way behind the times,
compared to this country’s ability to
. rouse the enthusiasm of its. people.’
. “And the results are becoming every
where aparrent. Ail the pimple down
there have suddenly got the idea that the
South is undeveloped territory (which to
u certain extent undoubtedly is true!
and have undertaken to overcome that
condition. Chambers of Commerce, and
cither civic bodies are directing move
ments, flic result,* of which are showing
id a new concept of civic duty and the
relation of the eittsSen to the community.
“Take N'ortli Carolina and Charlotte-,
for example. The people of the state
huve recognized the advantages, of good
read systems- They «ro shouldering, at
material increase Os taxes without Ooßi-%
plainC-becausc they realise that they have
to spend money to develop, their state,
and they are' .prepared to pay the price.
As for Charlotte I know of no commun-.
ity jn the 804th, that shows a more
, steady, solid ItOwfh.
“There is n, new -Ford plant there
turning out aOB-trakl a du.v, and I Was
told, that it confines distribution exclu
sively to the Carolinas. That in itself
is evidence of a new.- prosperity, and a
-jiefcVipirit in that region.”^
Jacksonville, Mobile, New'Orleans, At*.
1:11 y i'-rijS 1 .
The Irish Question.
Two .Irishmen were engaged in a dis
pute hr a (•eniffery One (My.
said cue. “I don’t like this cemetery at
nil, ot all.”\ ~ ' “
“Writ ’• «rfd the other, ’T think it is
” •••N'.(}’ < "salf Utti6b,w one, “I don’t like
it-all.'at all, and* I’ll never be buried
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BEftNARD SHAW
show. TWi upstart eighth, art has
enfStad the fttftri traditionally fine
oir6B in its dorvfce. A n»ht at the
sSdvics is frequently a feast of mu
aft, ddSctnS, may, tfhd paint
frig; With sculpture and architecture
represented tty tfie, cOnatruction and
adornment ot the theatre. *But that
is ty the €Ek
The motifiti picture has been ad
mitted Into good because it
has grown up and shbwn that It coujd
behave decorously lad according {6
the iidst artistic traditions. Such
pfobf fm* been plenttfni dfiriui the
last twelve or fifteen montha, and
those who are most informed, predict
that it will be as bounteous in the ftt
ture. Producers, who .thought solemn
ly aooiit-the picthrftq Because the pub
lic viewed them lightly, now contem
plate them joyously, because the pub
lic W taking ttaeiii *efi<Wsly. sh their
enthusiasm they are making and plan
ning pictures that- falfllf the cohdi
tions of jjure art. Such pictures are
written ghd photographed wjth an eye
single 16 motion picture teehnlqfnc,
and are designed to express and to
■win emotion in-a way to delfgbt
ifflf beholders.
FroducerS m|y not be making them
because Si an Urge in tSemdolves tor
artistic expression, but because 'ln
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lanta, McrtiphiN, NashviHe arc all alert
to capitalise opi,\tunity, Mr. Duffield
added.. The Southi imna part, he said,
seems now to regain ffie federal reserve
system with any degree of disfavor.
Hank balances are Increasing, and con
ditions, in actuality, warrant the tiiie
w 0 r ri descriptive, “f’urtdrfmentxllj
sound.” 1 ' ’■■■■’ ■■■ ■
Johnson City, Tenn., however, partic
u'.arlyJmprcssed Mr, Duffie(d,
~“1 had never .bieen in Tennessee be
fore. arid when J got- f 6 Johnson City,
in the astern port of the state, I found
there the most peefrisive community
spirit I believe I have ever encountered
anywhere. But there was very little
boasting.
“There they do riot tell of the tre
mendous prospective increase of popula
tion, or the inerea'se already . reniiacd.
though that has been considerable. But
they do impress one vioMf. strongly with
the fact that they ore living, in Amer
ican style in an American community—
a community which, is proud of its rec
opi of having given more men to the.
T nlon army in the Civil War than any
tflrtfilar Community in the North, and
that when the World Wnr came more
trifri enlisted, before conscrififten was put
into effect, than there were voters in
(he eOiVnty.” \ .
In the mountain regaien about John
son City, u hcre North Carolina. , Vir
ginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. inniC to
gether, Mr. Duffield detwied some senti
ment in favor of the creation of a forty
jaintfr state fbr the uriSon, the' State of
Appalachia.
“This,” he explained, “would take in
the region which once romprisrd the first
slate cf Franklin, a forgofteri, eotn'mOn
wealth which had for its capital Jones
boro, where Andrew Jackson presided
ny a judge before the Battle of New
(trlearia.’’ t ,
.: i 3|r t .,.fiW|!l| J;lsitSJ tW .HCrmitige.
Jacksort’s OrM .home near and
found . -it alore interesting hietoticatly
than Mount Vernoh.
.'“Ypu see -there," he said, “not oily,
tire hottie of a gifeitt tnan. tint ff veritable
<•o'nttnuance ofthe times in. which •he
livrid. It is exactly the same house in
which he lived,'.in exactly tfie nairiV state
in which fie left It. even to the, old
dressing goWn thrown ever the back of
a chair in the foOm in which he died:
Outside is the old coach in which, he
drove from Washington in thirty days,
nnd the old log hut in which he lived
before the Hermitage was built.”
cemetery, and if riiy tife Is spared, anre
I’ll be burled in it.”
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T The State Board of 1-lquuliKation is
eomposed at the Commissioner of Rieve-
Bltet .eitainnnti, the of the
tkirpoVation COVninissroti. and the At
torney Genernl sis tfie State. Thin board
henm appeals from tax .valuations and
h subject to the call of the Commissdbn
er of Bov sane. *- -1
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ctlAßtfiS CHAPLIN
this way they; get. better stories from
scenario wrUetß and bigger receipts
from the theatres. The Important
thitg is that .they are making them,
as is more obvious with each major
film that is released. Approval of the
critics, and t,hd scholarly,, and the so
cially proitrineat, Iviwg and is a logical
result: No oiie need any longer hesi
tate t 6 confess * idling for the movies.
Such a predilection proves tgste in
stead of, as formerly,' : lts absence. The
sophisticated nop take their movies 1
where they find them without feeling
at all defiant. The multitude eon
tiaues to go to' them. ><.s formerly,
without feefirfg apologetic or, supertor.
On.ly now and then they will register
a lrid|mem by shunning a title that
fails (6 come up to the standards to
w-hith the^'&re'becoming accu'fitbiued. 1
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nhepely lags are^ famed
JSoßywood jaU for racing her roadster, "fi to iharry Kenneth Fitspatrkdb
msSuS
linc6ln’ s coach
TO BE PRESERVED
Is One In Which He Went (6 Battle
field at Gettysburg.
Baltimore, April. I(s,— The raihxjrtd
coach in which,: Lincoln rode to Gcltys
day on a siding in the ynrds of the
Western Maryland railway,
The historic Bat dilapidated ear was
discovered 'by. a Pennsylvania committee
ttet
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THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
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ADOLP>)f JfUKOR V
Evolhtton, of tiro \govfeo from
a‘ mechuttical nofotty into an
afy has been best ifidlUated dur
ing the last twelve pb fifteen ‘
months by the crystaljtiing of a 'i
coaviction.among those in the bus'l-'
ifess that their medium of .expression
ia dignified and important enough to
absorb of .Writers aßd art
iits working dirCfctlv for expression
through it -Prodttfeers began to ac
la;owled|e * mat thp yrude odapta
tfon of works designSd to be read,
of enacted. On the dpecking stage,
Wfts Illogical and trf>tris< d to the best
development of tiiflr art. It dldf, th
The committee will nek to save the
coach tak*m to. Otftdsbiit* nfid kept ns
an historic memorial.
The car is a wboden ‘ ombinatlon pas
aafeiatea
used by DincOht drid tncmbel-S of the presi
dential party it, was cohaidered one of
the 'road'at fineetipiece- of equipment.
The •'Jitney, ’’ fim cam/
into ffeuwil Use rii 101.1, when vuricue
dries established auto busses giving a
, ride for five cents. ‘
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( WILL HATS '
deny them the right to cAll mp-'
tfon pictqce creation ah art.* Wore
over,, it (Vfjrkffned' thu' “box offleir"ap
pear’ of their products. So they be
gan. toltry out production*-that, t&id
beeft : designed primarily and
sively’-fbr photographic expression and
in pbcdrcijcc jfe> tnoyori picture reqdire-'
ments. Their .experiment proved vfery
successful As a. consequence about
hat's of/the. 'fifms made this year will'
SPECIAL 'wr
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1 H Sizes in Men’s aild Lad- r
/ 4 - >s*2. . ies’ Slippers. 1.
I v / We have all of the latest
V| 7 ' shades and styles-AA-E ,
' Iji RUTH-KESLER SHOE
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> Judgment of.the Courts
. The Pathfinder.
; The first finder of gold in ft#
, wns Oeorge WasliltfgtOn ffihnfck. The'
\Vashmgton state supreme cadet &* B S( y
i deemed.- Tins (tWn ;
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'»£. Atoka who <-l*imed « B haro of Car
s mac** estate oh the tlwrt iv was
jMs d,Vaster by a fbHne? H
/! Pedbral Judge Horton of Boston Ims
< rifled that though an American Woman
■ M«P ttlr "atloiuility of her foreign hns
i brfnd, she reverts to her American <iti
zenship in event of « divorce* Mrs
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Be from what “a#*' called “original”
.scenarios—thatiis, those, written just
for riioving picture production.
Outstanding TKiea
of films th.nt ws,re best lilted
and.mpst in 1924,
Sjr producers, reVfew&g, awti l by the
atre owner* who jchefejteil'-tfp through
their box office’re'caipts, reveal a con
i Tirielug number Vofj; these originals.
Most persona, will rfcthember “The
fcramattc-Ijife of, Abraham Lincoln,”
'‘A Wqjjjan _ja| • “The Iron
“The
“The' Thief of‘..Bagdad,* “America,"
.“Girl, Sby" apit.. the,. P*lpjer Photo
plax ;Corpbratk>u v s
‘Storm.’’. They were gli written direct
ly for the screen, designed to meet its
ffeoullßr requirpmentß Urfd to take ad
vantage of its, special aptitudes for
teaching* > e emctioita of watchers.
Box office iuccess apd their intrinsic
M«ry : : Fitiroy.' wlm‘ Ws refused it pass
port because her divorced husband was a
Brit fell subject instituted : the action.
rffetfeh of cfVhtraet to .complete W War-’
time, v«M*el8 v for the merchant marjne re
suited in Shipbuilding Core
• poritipn. of T which Charles W. Morse
is i)nßskleiit, < Vjngj»'fderidnw J itftgc wad
diii
Howsi'd Hiss, for iMijxKfor alienating.:
berafeetoß*. A: jury awarded him one'
cent drimitgc-
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merit dictated thely inclustonla tie
Hit of the year’s best films. ~
Support Film “Originate’’ I
The expressed opinion fit those 4a
whose hands the active direction of
the nrption picture business lies Is,
naturally, in accord with such ! discov
eries as that Just described. The be
lief of others, outside the business, of
such an exalted person even a*
George Bernard ShaW, makes the
■same trend articulate on purely sensi
ble grounds. Mr. Shaw recently said
that'“movie playa should be invented
expressly for the screen by original
imaginative visualizes.” Adolph'Zti
kor, who established an annual award
of SIO,OOO for the author of the year’s
best film story, did so a» mi additlonii
inducement for authors “to, write for
the screen and to stimulate them te
a study and recognition pf tte motion
picture’s technique.” kb predicted
that just as there are Eugene
O’Neills and Bernard Shaws of the
stage there will be an equally notablA
company of men and women whose
stories will “reach you through thfc
shadows of the screen.”
Jesse L. Lasky reports thfit “We
are training young writers in oar
studio to the end that they; shall knbW
thfe requirements of tb* fecredn and
write their .action accordingly.”
Harry Raps, a, production manager
whose name is widely kiipwn in the
mfition picture business, not long ago
gave his opinion that material would
soon be obtained exclusively from “a
trained corps of men and women writ
ing directly for the B“vin."
• An Individual Art
Others have expressed themselves
as to this primary development of an
art. But what is most convincing is
the production of current films from
“originals”; the Individual treatment,
in practice, of an individual medium
of expression. ~sf fT: •< ’
There are, of course,'* otter evi
dences of artistic?) adVance. In in
creasing, ,demrhe there appear a d(-
reetnlss' and economy hi “fretting
over” a story, a development for
which much credit is to be given to
Charles Chaplin. There is an evolu
tion of photographic devices for ex
plaining unseen action and for shift
ing scenes without the interposition'
of Written titles—the development,
in btter words, of a real “film lan
guage.” These advances, too, are es
sential in making defensible thi
cinema's claim to be an authentic
eighth among the fine arts. !'
They help explain the hesitation,
over whether to go to the opera or 1 ■
to a palatial motion picture theatre
that is experienced by many a modern S
grand dame and her wealthy spouse
in the face of an evening that is to be L
devoted to recreation!
Osh a win convicted of murdering his
Wife claim her eatateV Coma. Mease
Judg!; I*lpllms|at Clwelaud siiy B not. He
ifig t*»: a by/: ISuktiec ’
New York WhW, m*rtes the
y lower efrurt Hurt a .buyer-taaSt*^
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