TRIANGLE SMILES.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1916, Page 6

TRIANGLE SMILES.

GRIFFITH PUTS COMEDY IX DRAMA. D. W. firiiTith. since joining the Triangle organisation, has been engaged on a number of dramas which show a rare comedy (dement, lie has advi-ed ail the directors under him to introduce lighter moments into their films, and lie liedone so hinisclf in his productions. Criiliih regards the days when he is supervising comedy scenes in the Fine Art Studios as days of mental relaxation. "You would hardly credit what a relief it is to producers to get away from the deep, serious themes ol phuto-phus for awhile," he says. "We get as mr.cb fun.out of it as the players, and as the public does when the pictures go on to the screen. And. any-how, people would get morbid if they were compelled to iook at. the shuddersomc sort of photo play all the time, luce and I are making' a rule that .there must be a smile in'evcrv Triangle drama; Sejinett sees to that'in the straight-out comedies." -The Lily and the Rose." to be shown at the Theatre Royal next Monday is the first of the tiriilith-siiperviscd Triangles to lie screene 1 in Xew Plymouth.