Let the rope be the humorist.

Let the stick be the outstanding hero, the D'Artagnan of the group, full of queer gestures and hoppings about.

Let him be both polite and obdurate.

Finally let him beat the dog most heroically.
* * * * * Then, after the purely trick-picture is disciplined till it has fewer tricks, and those more human and yet more fanciful, the producer can move on up into the higher realms of the fairy-tale, carrying with him this riper workmanship.
Mabel Taliaferro's Cinderella, seen long ago, is the best film fairy-tale the present writer remembers.

It has more of the fireside wonder-spirit and Hallowe'en-witch-spirit than the Cinderella of Mary Pickford.
There is a Japanese actor, Sessue Hayakawa, who takes the leading part with Blanche Sweet in The Clew, and is the hero in the film version of The Typhoon.