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THE CHINA MAIL.

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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS

*STRANGLEHOLD OF MR. MAUGHAM AND

"THE CIRCLE.”

U.S. FILMS.

95 Per Cent. of World's Supply,

the spot and then work it out at a later date. I have found that it is a mistake to write at once. It is better to get an impression of a place and then deal with it after-

It is no use letting, characters speak weds. Otherwise, all kinds of as they do in real life. The talk irrelevancies get into the atory.: must be succinct. It must give an "I have been nearly all over the Impression, of reality, not a copy.. world; in fact, practically every- Theatre-goers have been educat-where except South America. I

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DREISER ATTACKS HOLLYWOOD.

Trade's Unwillingness to Face Realism.

Fallacy of "Natural" ed by the cinema, to a state of quick visited Central America onda in who recently slapped Mr. Sinclair Mr. Theodore Dreiser, the author, Dialogue.

er. comprehension, and they do not search of material, thinking the Lewis, has mado a violent attack on want long explanations. The great country had probably changed since Hollywood, whence he has returned BRITISH AT FAULT.`

HOW PLAYS ARE MADE.

difference between the old and the Q. Henry's day. I found it was still to New York after seeing what the modern play is that nowadaye It is exactly like his short stories and film producers have done with his not necessary to spend three or four that there was no material left for book, "An American Tragedy." He Remarkable figures disclosing the If this interview is disjointed it almost complete stranglehold which is because my talk with Mr. Samer-minutes to explain a situation. You mal" the American film industry has upon set Maugham took place in the can-got-to-it-in three or four senThe revival of "The Circle" open-double doors to meat generalissimos, said he had been "led through the cinema world have just been Vaudeville Theatre during what la tences."

ed at the Vaudeville published in the yearly statement of technically known as a photo-chil" Maugham's plays have been made mance Mr. Maugham returned to covered they had drastically altered Although moet of Mr. Somerset, and directly after the first perfor and talked like children," but dis- Theatre who jumped around like monkeys the Association of. Motion Pictura At every crucial point. In the con- into Alms he has never Producers of America,, anys the versation a flash and a bang on the direct for the pictures. I asked him G.WB. in The Observer.

written his home in the South of France. his book until "It" pletures me as London Morning Post.

stage lifted us both off our seats, if he thought of doing ao. ́ ́.

writing something I never in the According to this statement, although the actors and actresses,

world could have written." The estimated capital invested in used to being photographed, carried the world cinenia industry is on quite composedly, Mr. Maugham £500,000,000, of which the "ap- told me that he was seeing "The proximate capital · in Amèrica is Circle" for the first time. He was £400,000,000,

in Java when the comedy was or ginally staged at the Haymarket."

I asked him if the actors added much to the play:

The United States produces per cent. of the world's supply pictures.

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of

The picture industry is the fourth largest of all the industries in the United States...

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"I have just accepted an offer to write a talking picture because it was such a tempting idea to cater for an audience of twenty million people. No, I shall not go to Holly wood. I am quite content to supply the dialogue and leave the rest to the producer."

As he is a great traveller I asked Mr. Maugham if he went abroad chiefly to And material for his plays and stories.

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Pittsburgh, a big industrial town, may be dirty, but "Lysistrata," the

Mr. Dreiser declares that he will comedy from the ancient Greek by bring an action in the federal courts Aristophanes, is a great deal too to restrain the showing of the alm. dirty, in the opinion of Mr. James He argues, that the film industry is M. Clark, Director of Public Safety, unwilling to face realism. of Pittsburgh.

Emphasis on sex, Mr. Dreiser In- "Lysistrata" has been playing insists, is smelling the doom of Holly- Pittsburgh and Mr. Clark attended wood, and he predicts that the a performance. Conferring with | American publfe will demand good the producer afterwards, Mr. Clark foreign pictures - rather than the waxed eloquent on the Indecency of Hollywood drivel.. He states "the the play, saying it is vulgar to the bankers will get control of the film He had now announced that industry and force them to give up Estimated. American production audience. The actora add their material. Wherever I am themes only if the "dirt and vulgarity" are selling sex at so much, a seat. No-

personalities, and I discover there thrust themselves at me. I get an removed will be permit the play to body objects to sex, not even are jokes in the dialogue that I did idea and make elaborate notes on continue.

but there are other things in life." not know existed. I can sit in the theatre in a quite detached way. and laugh at them myself. I have heard Ethel Barrymore put so much meaning into a single word that

Captial in Coast (Hollywood and district) Studio Properties is £16,000,000,

schedule for the current year, £40,000,000.

"A very great deal," he said, "and so do the audience. An author really doesn't know his play until it is put on the stage.

The whole thing is a collaboration between the "I travel for pleasure,” he replied, dramatist, the actors, and

"but I have a natural nose for core. the

The number of people employed in the industry in America, 375,000.

Six billion lineal feet of film are manufactured and used annually.

'About 25,000 miles of film pass through the American film, ex-what I imagined was an ordinary changes each day.

phrase, became something exceed- ingly witty."

15.000 picture advertisements are placed daily in various media, and the annual cost of motion picture. publicity is £20,000,000.

The weekly picture attendance in the United States is 115,000,000, out of a world total of 250,000,000.

Gross takings in American cine- mas yearly arę £312,000,000.

Lessons of Rehearsal. "Have you usually attended the rehearsals of your playa?

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This is the problem that the Bri-after we had recovered from an- tish film industry has to face. other flash on the stage. ". "I Moreover, it must be borne. in mind still learning.

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that American, filmas imported here er at work the dramatist sees what have usually not only paid off their situations carry and the sort of cost of production in their native dialogue that is effective. country, but have also returned a most surprising things happen, substantial dividend. Further Some years ago I brought out a play more, there are various ways and called "The Unknown,' When I was means whereby income tax or any writing. it I thought it was a drama

other tax is not paid on such films of situation: it had not struck me in this country, so that every penny that the argument of the play was they earn in our cinemas goes to the really dramatic thing about the assist, American producers to make piece. At the rehearsals I dis- large and better films, to beat pro-covered: that: the drama lay not in ducers on this side of the Atlantic. the emotion stituation at all, but

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in the argument; that on the stage it became a diferent play, it is al most impossible to visualise this on paper."

"Very little," Mr. Maugham said,

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