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December, 191-1.
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Mabel Taliaferro as Cinderella
By C. Wirt Adams
INTO the motion picture firmament has come a new star and one of the first magnitude. Out of the fulness of continuous and brilliant success on the legitimate stage, Mabel Taliaferro has stepped lightly into the daintiest, sweetest and lovliest of pictures.
"Cinderella" — why, everybody knows Cinderella. You heard the beautiful little story when you were a baby. Your mother read it or told it to you over and over again, until you could see it all whenever you closed your eyes. Then, almost before you knew it, you had grown up, and now you are telling it to your own children and wondering at the sweetness of a story that has power to _ interest you today almost as much as it did twenty or thirty or fifty years ago. And if you think about such things at all, it strikes you as a pity, that the simple tale was never elaborated and turned into one of those modern "six best sellers."
Now Mabel Taliaferro realized all these splendid features about Cinderella and, being a talented actress, she saw many other points of value in the story that would escape the ordinary mortal. And she expended much thought upon the subject long before she ever dreamed of the possibility of appearing in pictures. Indeed, she has been searching for many years for a dramatic production of this popular fairy legend, so dear to
the heart of the younger generation. The dainty little actress has always been associated with efforts to preserve fairy tales and mythologies of past generations. While yet a girl of fourteen, following her triumphant success as a child star in "The Land of Hearts Desire," she accepted the urgent invitation of Lady Gregory to visit her at her estate in Ireland. A warm friendship developed between Lady Gregory and the ambitious little star, and Miss Taliaferro's visit was prolonged to five months. Lady Gregory was at the time engaged in the task of translating the old Gaelic mythology into simple English so that the lovers of fairy-lore might become better acquainted with these tales. Miss Taliaferro became so enamored with this subject and so much impressed with the great work which Lady Gregory was accomplishing that she decided, then and there, to devote practically her whole future career to the development and preservation of these fairy legends.
With that end in view, she has always sought plays that would appeal not only to grown people, but, as she expresses it, "to that coming generation that I love so dearly." Her success was instantaneous, and today she is the veritable idol of the theater going public the world over. Probably no other actress of modern times has attained the unique position in the hearts of young people
Cinderella Bids Her Father Goodbye and He Leaves Her to the Mer cies of Her Cruel Stepmother and Stepsisters