Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

March 2, 1918. MOTOGRAPHY 415 Mystery, Sorrow, Pain, Fear and Happiness, as registered in the Paralta play "Within the Cup," with Bessie Barriscale and George Fisher. Bessie Barriscale Takes a Hard Part Appears in "Within the Cup" as Serious-minded Girl with Great Love, Then as Care-free Bohemian Lost in Gaiety /^vNE OF THE MOST COMPLEX ^-^ PARTS ever played by Bessie Barriscale is that which she portrays in her second Paralta Play, "Within the Cup." In this picture, Miss Barriscale's character as "Thisbe Lorraine," an art student and writer, undergoes a complete change, which taxes the star's versatility to its extreme. At the opening of the story Miss Barriscale presents a serious-minded American girl who is studying art in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Her life is fast becoming a tragedy, yet in the face of starvation, she shuns the care-free, frivolous life of the other artists about her. A young member of the nobility who is studying art merely as a means of idling his time plays a serious tune upon the heart strings of Thisbe, and she believes in him — and offers him her love and life. Then she discovers him to be untrue and she leaves, broken-hearted and disgusted with life, for America. In New York the change in her character occurs. Miss Barriscale transforms herself into the gayest of the gay Bohemians, living the very life she detested in the past in New York's Greenwich Village, the "super-world" of artists and authors. "Within the Cup" is an original story written especially for Miss Barriscale by the Paralta staff author, Monte M. Katterjohn. "Within the Cup" is a seven-reel feature which will follow Miss Barriscale's picture, "Madam Who." It is entirely completed and is practically ready for distribution through the W. W. Hodkinson service. Pathe Busy in West Pathe's west coast producing forces were augmented last week by the arrival of Bessie Love, who will immediately begin work on "A Little Sister to Everybody." She was preceded by Frank Keenan and his director, Ernest Ward, who on Jan. 28 turned the crank on the first Keenan Pathe play to be made on the Pacific coast. She will be followed by Fannie Ward, who has just made the biggest success of her career in Astra's production of A. H. Woods' big hit, "Innocent." "Queen of the Sea" Ready on April 2 1 William Fox Predicts New Annette Kellerman Picture Will Create More Comment Than "A Daughter of the Gods" \yiLLIAM FOX announces that the subsea fantasy, "Queen of the Sea," with Annette Kellerman, will be released as a Standard Picture on April 21. "This production," said Mr. Fox, "undoubtedly will create even greater comment than 'A Daughter of the Gods,' Miss Kellerman's other picture. 'A Daughter of the Gods' was the first $1,000,000 picture ever made and broke all records in every theatre in which it was exhibited. " 'Queen of the Sea' is filled with thrills, including one in which Miss Kellerman walks a wire eighty feet in the air and dives into the ocean. But, it is in the under-sea stunts that Miss Kellerman excels. She gives a marvelous exhibition of swimming and diving and the photography is of the best. "The British National Museum and the United States Fisheries Commission were of great assistance in the making of 'Queen of the Sea' and the wonderful beauties of the ocean depths are revealed in all their splendor and wonder. This will be one of the most spectacular productions of the year and those who have seen it in course of preparation declare it to be a marvel." Much of the picture was taken amid the beautiful natural scenery of Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert Island.