In the speaking drama, make-up and footlights change and hide, but not the least flicker of expression is lost in the picture.

It's a test of real-ness, and it takes a real man or a real woman to stand it.

Art isn't the thing at all, nor do looks count for half as much as people suppose.

It's what's back of the art and the looks that makes the hit, and if they haven't got _something_, the artist and the beauty don't last long.

We picked Douglas Fairbanks as a likely film star, not on account of his stunts, as the majority think, but because of the splendid humanness that fairly oozed out of him." [Illustration: A Close-Up (Lumiere)] When he isn't before the camera, or fooling with an airship or a motor, or playing with children, or "gettin' acquainted" with a tramp or a trapper, or practising stunts with a rope or a horse, young Mr.
Fairbanks fills in his spare time writing scenarios.