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October 27, 1934 THE STATE Page Seven A Mew Venture in Movies PALL GREEN discusses “Tlio Little C inema Move¬ ment." which may lead to radical changes in the ■notion picture industry. And he also gives his im¬ pressions aliont some of the present-day stars and censorships. By PETE IVEY ★ PU'I. GREEN, recently returned to Chapel Hill from Hollywood, where he ha* l>eon writing for the motion picture industry, said there is likelihood of n Little Cinema Move¬ ment being started at the University of North Carolina by the Rockefeller Foundation or some similar organiza¬ tion. Speaking informally before Pro¬ fessor Phillips Russell’s class in crea¬ tive and expository writing last Thurs¬ day night. Green discussed the practi¬ cability of producing amateur movies in Clrnpel TIill by an organization such as tho Carolina Playmakers. nationally known ns pioneers in the Little Theatre Movement. Pointing out the possibilities of the movement. Green said a high type of picture can be made in North Carolina at little cost. Scenes of pictures can be made at Roanoke Island, Southern Pines, Mount Mitchell or any location the people of North Carolina would like to see. North Carolinians and prospec¬ tive tourists could see and hear the inter¬ esting features and beauties of the Old North State. Where the Advantage Comes In “The Little Cinema will have an ad¬ vantage over the Movies," said Green, “because the expense and waste of Holly¬ wood will be eliminated in Chapel Hill. What hampers the motion picture indus¬ try is tho enormous salaries paid stars, directors, camera men, technical advis¬ ers, and hundreds of prop workers and extras — the writer is paid whatever is coming to him. Rut in the Little Cinema.” continued Green, “scenarios can be written ns class work and acting can be done for the love of it just as the Playmakers do now. The only ex¬ penses will be for materials and salary of a director who may he hired as a regular member of the faculty." Harvard University has already be¬ gun a Little Cinema .Association and according to Paul Green, the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina are the other most likolv places fo be elmsen to continue tin1 movement. An Opinion About Stars Answering questions of class mem¬ bers, Green told frankly what he thought of various stars in Hollywood. He was definitely opposed to “such sexy star* ns Joan Harlow and Joan Crawford," hut he was elaborate in his praises of Mickey Mouse and Charlie Chaplin. “Mickey Mouse is one of the most out¬ standing figures in the world today,” said Green. “Пе takes his place among the great, along with Napoleon and George Washington. He is more popu¬ lar than Washington. There are a hundred people in this world who know Mickey Mouse fo one who has heard of Washington.” Green explained why producers of Hollywood cling to sexy stories, avoid¬ ing works of art such as Shakespeare’s plays. “The simple explanation is." said Green, “that if Goldwyn, Lnsky. T)e Mille, or Warner produced anything else, they would lose money. New Y ork might support high class pictures, hut the motion picture industry must also appeal to the people of Lillington, Chapel Hill and Rurlingtnn. The masses must be pleased.” Tn speaking of censorship. Green dr- - - 1' I SHALL GO STRIVING T shall go striving, struggling I down the years. T shall know hard agonies. Hot tears. Rom of defeat. T shall often shed When T lie bruised and beaten. When bright dream after bright dream is dead. When T :nii nearly broken, weak and old. Then T shall silent sit. content to hold Perfect hut one dream, cut from jade. One splendid thing f rom grief T’vo I fashioned. Hold but one dream finished that Г have made. Mfri.f Pttirr. PAUL GREEN, noted author and playwright, who is at present residing again at Chapel Hill. plored the falsity of censor boards, culling them “not protectors of people’s morals but organized businesses to tell the cinema what it cannot exhibit.” “Art” Doesn’t Count Green told of how a producer, with tears in his eyes, begged я censor to pass an under-water swimming scene in which the principle feature was the human body of the female of tho species. The scene had cost in the neighborhood of a hundred thousand dollars — no wonder the producer fell like crying. “It's art,” he told the censor — but the censor wasn’t listening. Paul Green, Pulitzer Prize winner and formerly a professor of philosophy at the University, has produced a nnni- Imt of successful plays, among them “The House of Connelly” which he adapted to the screen with the title “Carolina.” He wrote dialogue for a number of cincmn triumphs, the most popular of which wore “State Fair" and George Arliss’s “Voltaire.” His latest play in New York. "Roll. Sweol Chariot,” is his earlier "Potters Field" set to music. He is a native of eastern North Carolina, his original home being in Lillington; and this winter he plans to write a novel with the scene laid in hi.» home section of the state. Reing tinder contract to write for the movies twenty-six weeks of the year, he will return to Hollywood next Spring.