The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.
From Ivor Novello
The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!
Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.
It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.
The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.
The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.
We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.
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