No. Not just now. I am humble at times. But let us say that you are the great antagonist of the movies, and I the protagonist. I want very much to understand what you mean when you attack them. I remember you said that my spectacle, The Birth of a Nation, was violently unfair because it was wordless. Am I not right?
W. P. E.
I said some such thing.
D. G.
And you are a defender of the theatre. May I assume that The Clansman, which was a spoken drama, was more fair than my spectacle?
W. P. E.
At least, in the play, there was a reply in kind to every attack. The dumb-show for which you are responsible showed only one side.
D. G.
Then you are attacking the movie for being a propaganda, and are displeased with the propaganda because it is one-sided. May I say that possibly the movie was made as an artistic spectacle, and had no such object? And do I not recall the surprise with which such a play as Strife was received because it did show two sides? After all, I did not make it impossible for you to put on Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a reply to me.
W. P. E.