'SATURDAY EVENING POST' STORY

Evening Star, Issue 20140, 3 April 1929, Page 7

'SATURDAY EVENING POST ' STORY

‘ME, GANGSTER,' COMING TO EVERYBODY’S Those who plan short-cuts to fame by taking up scenario-writing had best look around for something else. If the results obtained by Raoul Walsh, ace of Fox Film directors, in his outstanding productions have been due to his plan of discarding scripts the chances are it is going to ho copied. Walsh makes a production synopsis, usually doing it himself to familiarise himself with the story and all its details and possibilities, then ho discards tho printed word entirely and makes the picture as he goes along. Ho never uses a scenario once lie starts a production. Thus tho big scenes in ‘What Price Glory,’ to mention ono of his outstanding successes, virtually were created on tho spot. He follows the same plan in every picture ho makes. The method gives him absolute freedom in meeting emergencies and adapting himself and the ones under his direction to any new conditions which develop, at the same time keeping thoroughly within the spirit of the story. He has followed the same plan in his latest production, ‘Me, Gangster,’ taken from a ‘ Saturday Evening Post’ story by Charles Francis Coe. whielx will be shown at Everybody’s Theatre for a week begging on Friday. Many unusual twists in picture production will bo revealed when it is flashed on tho screen. ‘ Me, Gangster ’ is tho twenty-fourth Fox production Mr Walsh lias made. He made it entirely with incandescent lighting, a departure from custom, and it has been shown to be an eminently practicable plan.