Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1919 — The Public Is Starving for Filins Worth While, But It Gets Very Few Indeed [ARTICLE]

The Public Is Starving for Filins Worth While, But It Gets Very Few Indeed

, Los Angeles Theater Owner

By J. A QUINN,

Motion picture stardom should be ma.de “safe for democracy.” Most films today are trash. One reasoh is that there are too many so-called movie stars-—who aren’t—while others who might become real artists are unable to break in. In America today there are only three feminine film stars who are really stars. The rest are merely keeping out girls who have a right to be there. A number who are advertised as stars might fill second parts very well. \ But in all the United States there are only three stars worthy of the name. The producers are to blame. They make so-called stars overnight—create them by force of advertising. Instead of selecting them from among girls who are potential artists, it is the producer’s pet who breaks into the movies today, not the .girl with the real art in her. The public is the goat. The motion picture today is the biggest joke on earth. The public is starving for films worth while. They get very few.