Director Genius.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 359, 13 February 1937, Page 2

Director Genius.

H. B. Warner is a wholehearted ! ! ra fan. “If he asked for me urgently, I’d leave anything tjo work : for him,” he said recently. “Frank is' a true genius—the finest director ■ ’ have ever worked for. I have never heard him raise his voice or pr k a cross word. Everything goes smoothly on the set. He has a cul-■nd-dried script which he has worked on for months beforehand. He does not direct you. You never hear him calling out instructions. He simply leaves you to get on With your work. He discusses the role with you very quietly, without any heavy explanations'. I know directors ■who explain he p-rts so ponderously and at such length that the actor feels a mental dumbness by the tim they have fin;shed. There is nothing like that' about Capra. He suggests and -c’des. He has a talent for drawing something from you without effqrV .Naturalness is the keynote of cveryilring hr- does. He makes you feei ■ omplf fly at ease. Everybody loves working for him. Somehow, you get • p in the morning With a burning i’sii'e io get to the studio as soon *• possible. The last two or three 'lays of production are the worst. You hate them, because you know • hat. tho company is soon going to b? split up. There is real sadness in the thought.”