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THE CARD TEM- PERAMENT.

PLAYERS PLEASANT AND

THE REVERSE.

SKILL NO TEST OF ENJOYMENT,

[BY HUGH ELLIOT.]

CINEMA OFFER TO H. G. WELLS.

ASKED FOR STORIES BY DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS,

THE STAR'S NEXT PICTURE.

P

Faxis, May 3rd. "I do not see how you can ex- pect to make films in England that will compare with oura," Mr. Daily Express correspondent when Douglas Fairbanks said to the

he revealed the fact that he has asked Mr. H. G. Wells to write stories for the cinema.

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You might make just as good" pictures as we do it Hollywood was purely American colony, with ex- clusively Americaa. actors, dites- tors, and viewpoints, but we are not that at all

It is often said that certain people are born card-players, while others never will succeed by any amount of effort in playing cards well. There is a certain amount of truth in this, but not so much truth as there was in the days of whist In auction bridge (and perhaps even more in contract bridge) technical card aptitude is only one of the elements We are an international colony. of success. They are games ad- We employ the beet artists, direc mirably suited for the ordinary tors, and scenario writers that are person, as against the technically to be found in the whole world, good card-player. It is quite com- regardless of their nationality. mon to see an ordinary intelligent Austriana, German, Italians, and Britons, Frenchmes, Hungarians. person hold his own among others Foles are almost driving the Ameri- who are better card-players than

cans from the studios. „ himself

The mest såccessful artists and directors in the world are packed small area together there in a There is

a great competition be- tween them. You cannot meet a single man or woman there, at any time, place, or pression, who is not

"Passion For Pictures." It is no less common to s50 a

"An even greater reason for really good card-player beaten by others who have no pretence to card. Hollywood's success is that the technique. One of the best tech- atmosphere there is

iztensely nical card-players that I ever knew charged with the passion for mak was singularly unsuccessful at hue-ing great pictures. tion bridge. When a very difficult hand turned up, he would probably make more of it than anyone else but really difficult hands only turn ap now and again, and all the rest of the time he had no particular advantage against his opponents, but in some respects grave disad-thinking, talking, and dreaming of vantages. He found himself by no pictures. It is tremendously in- means certain of being a winner at piring, and it literally drives one the end of a year's play. Being a

to do his best."

Mr. Fairbanks, who has just ar- good card-player, therefore, is not quite the same as being a good nuc-rived in Paris with Mary Pickford, tion bridge player: and outside he wife, explained, as an illustra critics are often wrong in apprais- tion of the trouble he goes to to ing the merits or demerits of parti- make a picture as perfect as pos cular players.

aible, that when he begua to make **The Thief of Bagdad" he brought painters and poets from all over the East, including Arabia, India, and China, to Hollywood to advise him about the imagery.

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"I am making less than one" film a year now because I cannot find enough satisfactory scenarios," he said. "In fact, I cahoot find any one to provide me with the sort of stories I want. I have often thought of asking some of the great English writers to try. their hand at it, but the difficulty is that the average author does not understand enough about how pictures are

By merely looking on, it is often hard to say who are the best players and who are not. The role of critic is easier than that of performer; as an outsider, one may watch a player bungle a dificult hand: but oa sit ting down to play against him, one discovers that he is not at all easy to beat. Some players play better than others; some bid better than others; some make fewer mistakes; some size up their opponents better, etc., etc. Moreover, the same player varies on different occasions. One day he may play well; and an-made, other day badly. There are many players who can play well if they are in the vein for it, but who sometimes play extremely badly that he should come to Hollywood

Card temperament is one of those vague expressions which have and watch me at work for several several different meanings. It may months before he began to work. mean a liking for cards, which is He made me a half promine, but quite independent of any parti- he had not had time to come yet. cular capacity for them. There are I am looking forward to his visit many for whom cards are almost with much pleasure."

their sole recreation.

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When 1 was in England. two years ago I called on . H. G. Wells sad asked him to write some stories for me, but I had to inajst

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CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

Jus laz, 1928.

Do London,136 com.

Douglas Fairbank's next picture

LONDON, May 4th. bridge, they would be lost. They will be a continuation of "The

Crowds in Oxford-street sur- may win, or they may lose'; it does Three Musketeers," but instead of rounded the new Lyons' Corner K. Bank $1,280/7+ *** not matter much. The most devoted called Twenty Year After," it new building, the biggest restau-Chartered Bank..........l way.

it being Dumas' own continuation, House this afternoon, when this card-players include both categories. They resemble each other only in will be a story made up by the star

rant in England, was opened.

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Many of them, by constant prae- not. But skill is no test of enjoy ment. The bad players get as much fun out of the actual game as the good players. They have every right to do so, and carping criticism is not only unfair to them, but is completely opposed to the true spirit of cards.

himself

"I don't feel that I am stealing Dumas' own ideas in writing an other Three Musketeers' story,"

use stole nearly all the material for this famous romance from a book written by Cortil de Sandras,

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1961 buy. panelling that Burrounded the HK Steamboats ....Stöt sal, Commenting upon this interview, gigantic restaurant on

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Flayers Pleasant And Unpleasant.

This brings me to another mean- ing of the card temperament, which is the most important of all It be- longs to the person who, good or bed, is always pleasant to play with. We may divide card-players, accord- ing to their skill, into the aristo- cracy, the middle-classes, and the proletariat. The proletariat are usually pleasant to play with (unless they are very slow); the aristocracy are nearly always pleasant. The worst offenders are the upper middle classes those who are somewhat above the average, and are desirous of being considered really first-class. They criticisà others to establish their own reputation for discern- ment. Were they really good, the fact would be recognised without any arrogant assumptions of super-. iority. As in social life, it is the person of dubious stutus who is most anxious to assert himself.

The sell-appointed critic, more- over, is very often wrong. This is particularly the case with bystand- ers, who can see the hands of both siden. They are nearly always biased judges: for the player has | to deal in probabilities, whereas the bystander can see actualities. The best player is the player who takes the best chance that is to say, the chance that succeeds, most often.

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A continuation of of the new corner house into a Musketeers "not Moorish court. Some two million the continuation which Dumas | bricks, with 5,000 tons of concrete, to the world in 3,000 tons of cement, and over 2,000 himself gave

Twenty Years After," but a tons of steel, had gone to the mak slap-up, original Hollywoodish ing of this newest Corner House, sequel of his own devising. He which stands on the historic site is quite right-merely British of the old Oxford Music Hall and conrage falls far short of that. of innumerable taverns that pre- And also Mr. Fairbanks tells how ceded it. before commissioning Mr. H. G.

The dining-rooms are the largest Wells to write some scenarice he in. Great Britain, probably the had to insist on the English largest in the world. author first coming to California. and watching Mr. Fairbanke at work for several months on end.

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