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THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY
May 14, 1921
Human Story of Immigrant
Portrayed by CARMEL MYERS
Carmel Myers when not acting before the camera, wearing a gown of brown canton crepe.
THE Same Race from which sprang Sarah Bernhardt, Eleanor Duse, Rachel, Alia Nazimova and Bertha Kalich, gave to the screen Carmel Myers, whose youth, beauty and splendid dramatic talents have been seen to advantage in a series of Universal film dramas.
Nikolas Muray ,the famous painter and sculptor, who recently has made some fine camera studies, claims that Carmel Myers is the most beautiful woman he has ever photographed. The Universal star, he says, has an extraordinary beautiful mouth and eyes.
Carmel Myers was bom in San Francisco and is the daughter of Rabbi Isadore Myers, one of the most brilliant scholars in America. Her mother had studied for dramatic roles for the operatic stage, but gave up her professional ambitions when she married. So Miss Myers inherits the brilliant talents of her father and the dramatic instincts of her mother.
Educated in the schools of Los Angeles, Miss Myers did not show any inclination for the movies as a school girl. It was David Griffith who noticed her large, wistful eyes and the whimsical, half mysterious expression in her smile on one of her visits to his studio, and he advised her parents to let her act, either on the stage or for the screen. When they finally agreed, the great director gave her a part in "Intolerance" in which she proved that his estimate of her ability had been correct. She appeared in several other Griffith pictures, and after being featured by another producer, she was engaged by Universal to star in a series of specially written dramas.
Two years ago Miss Myers decided to try her talents on the stage and went to New York. Without any previous training of this sort she was enabled to secure a prominent role in "The Magic Melody," which ran for a year on Broadway.
Returning to Universal City after her stage success, she has been on the screen ever since, and has just scored her biggest success in the role of the little ghetto heroine, Sonya Shoneman, in "Cheated Love," a human document directed by King Baggot.
The story concerns a little immigrant girl who arrives from Russia. Her love problems, her selfsacrifice for the man she loves and her triumph over seemingly unsurmountable obstacles have been woven into a romantic story and filmed with thrilling realism for Carmel Myer's latest picture.
Lucien Hubbard, scenario editor at Universal
City, wrote the story in Carmel Myers, as Sonya, the Russian collaboration with Dons immigrant in "Cheated Love," makes Schroeder. her debut at Ellis Island.
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