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WEK* I NOING
1916
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i'lCIURES AND l.!k PICTUREi
THE CHILD — THE WOMAN — AND THE MAN
Edna Flugrath iii characters demanding completely different treatment. The first shows her as the girl in England's Menace, the second as a nun in The Heart of Sinter Ann, and the third as a male in The Two Roads.
EDNA MAY IN FILM-LAND
TO APPEAR ON SCREEN' AS A SALVATION LASSIE.
DRAWING her conclusions from four weeks of experience at the Vitagraph studio, where she is making her initial, likewise her final, appearance in pictures, Edna May confessed to a Picture World reporter that a photo-play actress's hardest work is Waiting to work. "This sitting around hour after hoar is a hit trying to one's nerves.'' she said, " and the lights are fearfully hard on the eyes. Pictures are a fascinating study, to be sure, but if 1 were to return to public life and were looking for something moderately easy 1 should prefer acting on the stage to acting in a studio."
Then Miss May. or rather Mrs. ( >scar Lewisohn. hastened to add that there is not the remotest chance of her reviving the career that she enjoyed before marriage. She has other interest dow. nut the least among them the Btring of racehorses owned by her husband.
But meanwhile the Syracuse girl, who won fame in The Belli , / ,\. ,
ind topped off a successful career by marrying an English millionaire, is erivinsr her undivided attention
to the preparation of a drama being directed by "Wilfred Nortli under the supervision of A. E. Smith. Naturally, she plays a Salvation Army lass, for the public always will associate her with a trim blue uniform and a poke-bonnet, but the story is not modelled after the renowned comic opera.
When met in the Yitagraph studio, the Solvation Army worker impersonated by Miss May evidently had been adopted by fashionable society, for, attired in an evening grown which must have cost the equivalent of several hundred Salvation Army dinners, she was the centre of attraction at a reception in a drawingroom that would not look out of place in Park Lane. Handsorae tapestries adorned the walls; in the deep-set framing of the full-length mirn »rs flowers and greens were artistically arranged. The gilt furniture, the
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heavy rugs and draperies were all in faithful imitation of Louis XV. fashions.
Seated on a lounge, awaiting the summons of Director North. Miss May expressed surprise at the attention paid to each detail in the staging of a scene. "It is all new to me." she continued, '■ for I never visited a studio in England ; in fact, before this year 1 had been to motion-picture houses only four tin once in Paris and three times in England. Since J arranged with Mr. Smith to appear in this production I have spent a large part of my spare time in going to picture-houses and studying lbs work of other players."
Miss May mentioned as an odd coincidence the presence of Billy Cameron and Harry Davenport in the Vitagraph studio, both members of the original Belli qfNctO Yuri, company. Now Mi. Cameron i playing a role in Miss .May's first picture, and Mr. Davenport, as is generally known, is a director. The companj selected lor the support of the famous comic opera star includes Harry Morey, I. Rogers Lyfton, Donald Hall, i hi Kelly, and Bobbv < tonnolly.
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