Word: sti
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...your Jan. 25 issue I read in the article entitled "Painleve Fils," "Mon cher Jean! You have a movie face." Can you put me in touch with M. Sti? I think I too have a movie face; I would like to know what M. Sti may think about it. Thanking you for your courtesy and with my highest expressions of regard for TIME...
Histologist Jean Painleve had been experimenting with the lower forms of plant and animal life. As they grew and unfolded in his test tubes, their unscientific intrinsic beauty seemed to him, to merit reproduction by the cinema. He called up a friend, the French cinema director, Rene Sti. M. Sti at once despatched a cameraman. The cameraman cranked, Jean Painleve fussed in and out of the pictures with his test tubes, then the extraordinary occurred...
When the trial footage was run off, Director Sti declared that the test tube shots of low and supposedly interesting forms of life, had flopped: "Tiresome! As my friend Douglas Fairbanks says, 'a dud!' Positively sickening...
...enthusiastic over the shots in which M. Jean Painleve was seen shepherding his cultures before the lens: "Mon cher Jean! You have a 'movie face'! A fig for your science! Mais le cinema! Ah le cinemast to reporters: "I certainly accepted the offer of my friend M. Sti.... Why not? My father has found time to lead two or three men's lives in the last few years.... Why should I not act for the cinemas, and yet continue my histological research...