Judge — May 22, 1920 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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Drawn by Heawss Patwen AST night I saw “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H They said it would be that way. They told me it wa regular rip-snort-hum-doodler of a c. They said hing that while was the sort of came out all over Id, and even your So of course thrills ran up and down your spine, and you, and your hands got hot while your feet va, and you felt azeful. izzards b n to go back on I went Evidently, they told house was all sold out a because the wait veryone else the same t d you had tc or a chance to squeeze in to the second s the picture—and today I can’t sleep, for trying to think up new up in the lobby and w. Then along came word: of ‘em, and moderately punk at that. But to me it’s sa text—as an example. So let s it tick he familiar Stevenson so that Dr, Jekyll le Mr. Hyde repre at will from both halves he end, the ba tere pick it to a specimen: and sce what mak The story, of cou who divided himself in t is in every son of Adam, wt and Jekyll-Hyde could ch instead of havin of the 4 n wed the good that ted only the bad personality to the vund all the time, the half gets the upp othe stronger through being indulged, and refi d, having grow s turn back into Jekyll. Finish: Hyde, the evil Thing, dies the death a hundred mad dogs. It’s a . bright, cheery tale ound on a rainy day Photoplay construction, like All Gaul, is divided into three part First th hen th graph the film comes the arrangement of the f the st these, in languag Caesar said so hin of the continuity writer, who re! of “action photo. ph t the assembling of then comes the work Ils the story in terms of D, that can be photographea. Then being in full charge, . and the elect and havine the came cians who hts on which th i dle the powe Finally, the hu eds of individual scene: may depend together into a single strip, “cut” to the required length, ar into the finished film The you will notice—M nsible for no more than half of the Steve uthor™ of the the entire pre resp Under present conditi (Writers? Monthlies ple ‘The importance of each s ) le step in the € to illustrate f eral hundred scenes that have been closer pection. For exampl bilities of assembling the s photographed into an effective whole: try cutting up a magazine story nging them in the order that Imag © fact that from a total c into the es—then ar le artistry « say fifty: feet of f best sto m 2 graphed in a single all but the most ves a group in one first is cut a foot too . we will be jarred at seeing him ct will be lost. All jazzed e enters anc xt, and the ef Well, to get back to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. zy chance when, in accordan: First off, the e with the scenario writer took a kk motion picture cust ne started in to improve materially on the work of Robert fair Louis Stevenson—an author w t, all 4 Dr. Jekyll, bring se, this was to ake pup” the story—m ou and for me an ne ed America to it more palatab who'd—th But practically, th suble, which the scenari over inal ver writer probably never foresaw. ‘The heme suddenly cc nplicated the story, dividing the of attention that h he” Also, it aking the s Jition of a love erest and destre with giving the S: It th cin, nuch to do de_more » real and nake the nar cony rippin re 1 filming duction that the picto lighting, of individ t brings credit to the (because less real) a less tra} horrible the director high light to the pict in charge ¢ into one phase ve art try, beauty, and effectiveness, w Also, another f the acting of John Barry mediocrity interes: al se hlm— producti e “Lasky Lightin tion, and de man (twe ¢ already’ grc usand a nds (what- It's any wide tor (gettin hundred a week) ever they can get) share the credit for this amon nave yet attained, the only point at wi real excell John Barrymore’ to $. R.O. crowds in the nin the West. As J one feels strc Way's interesting, as a star who draws ¢ attracti yll and Hyde he gives ly, att only moderate atte derful ex! he wants the addition ast, whi we mes, that ce to. ca at the m is shown by the who directed Jekyll and Hyde is no Great Director . and the ctions of their lance of the ca nm that are continually breaking in on the illusion of here is not—at least in any m reat and saving sense of humanness, of ‘The m w how —or care ultale. Why, t-Heht portr {—which Stevenson did. even in a fan i cts the director lets T may be all in securing one of the lig 2 te of Heaven Pictures! comicbooks.com