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The Ag of Mary
The old family Bible gives one — but you'll have to see e\ery one ot Miss Alden's characterirations to make up your mind.
By
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MARY -ALUE.X is one of screen actresses who has mature woman, the woman tried in joy and love, life and sorrow, a real study; who has forgotten her own age and piled on the years with the grease paint as her parts called for it. That she is a success is perhaps due to the fact that the public knows her as a young woman, off the screen: knows that it is *rtistr> and not maturity which has made her middle-aged characterizations convincing So wlien Mar> Alden says that the dav of the I)h>-sically equipped moving picture actress is «boui over, its rather worth thinking about.
The distmction that can be made in all branches of art between mere phvsical capability and suitability, and that high sen^e of humanity which renders the work produced through this capability an actual and vital presentation of life, is not new. but it has not hitherto been applied to the art of cinema acting.
As a matter of fact, there are few people who have had the opportunitv. inclination and mental wherewith to make as keen and e.\taustive a study of motion picture acting aMar> Alden. It is not strange that she shouL^ tave some bnlliantly developed theories or. the subject. She was a member of the famous Bwgraph company un.ier D. W. Griffith and ance that t-me. m many parts, she has built lor herself a place in the ranks of tho*e who gne worth while screen performance* Xo ooe who has tollowed pictures can remember
?^«;.r-*^'° '-'^^^ ^^'"'^ °f the Sexes,Onffiihs first hve-reeler. her viciou> octoroon in "The Birth of a Xation" or her Lad> Mac Duff without admitVDg the force of her art.
Just at present it is a bit mftaiJt to dissociate her m one's mind from that devastating, conscience■ * * k e n i n e. harrowinglv simple ponr3\-al of the mocber in The Unpardonable Sin • Therefore I was as surprised as most fans would have been to find a small, unusual-looking woman, with a humorous mouth. *y< s of unfathomable •*Pth<. and an exquisitelv proportioned figure, who. as »e herself put it. came ■within the first draft."
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