Paramount Press Books (1918)

ADVANCE PRESS STORIES To Be Sent by Exhibitors to the Newspapers Daily for One Week Prior to the Showing of “Fedora” A Paramount Picture. PAULINE FREDERICK IN SARDOU’S “FEDORA” HAS ROLE OF GREAT POWER Notable Paramount Star Will be Seen to Great Advantage in Picturization of Play by Famous French Playwright THE famous plays of Victorien Sardou, the great French playwright, served as starring vehicles for such talented players as Sarah Bernhardt and the late Fanny Davenport for many years. The picturization of several of the more notable of these plays by the Famous PlayersLasky Corporation with Pauline Frederick as the star, has attracted much attention everywhere, and chief among these in point of beauty and effectiveness, is ’‘Fedora,” which will be shown at the Theatre, next This is an unusually strong photoplay, and the story affords Miss Frederick one of the finest portrayals of her career in the silent drama. It is a story of Russian love and political intrigue, and, like most of Sardou’s creations, the theme is intensely tragic. The story concerns a Russian princess whose fiance, Count Vladimir Androvitch, is slain by Loris Ipanoff, a jealous husband, and she pursues the supposed murderer to Paris, where she obtains a confession from him, or rather, a complete justification. She finds herself in love with Ipanoff, whom she had sworn to bring to justice, only after she had placed the police on his track, and after she had caused the arrest of his brother in Russia as an accomplice. She weds Ipanoff, but later he learns of the part she had taken in the tragedy of his life, and when his brother is drowned in his dungeon and his mother dies from the shock, he attempts to strangle’ his wife. She eludes him and swallowing poison, dies at his feet. The picture was produced by Director Edouard Jose and a highly capable cast of supporting players was provided. These include Alfred Hickman, Jere Austin, W L Abingdon, and Wilmuth Merkyll. PAULINE FREDERICK RISES TO GREATER HEIGHTS IN “FEDORA” Beautiful Paramount Star Has Intensely Dramatic Role in Superb Picturization of Sardou’s Famous Play ' I 'HE success achieved by Pauline Frederick in A her recent Paramount pictures, notably “Tosca” and “Resurrection,” was phenomenal. Her artistic portrayals of the exacting roles in these two great photoplays raised her upon a high pedestal in the estimation of her admirers, and in "Fedora,” her forthcoming photoplay, based upon the masterpiece of Victorien Sardou, which will be displayed at the Theatre next she rises to greater heights than ever. Miss Frederick gives an extremely vivid portrayal of the arduous role of “Fedora," a Russian princess of beauty and wealth, whose fiance, Count Vladimir Androvitch, is mysteriously slain on the eve of their wedding, and whose murder she firmly resolves to avenge. She traces the supposed assassin to Paris, where she poses as a Russian exile seeking a pardon from the Czar, and there meets Loris Ipanoff, whom she suspects as the murderer of her fiance, and by the practice of her wiles, induces him to fall madly in love with her, her purpose being to wring a confession from him and then turn him over to the Russian police. Ipanoff goes to Fedora’s house and reveals to her the truth of her fiance’s death. He informs her that he had discovered Vladimir in a shooting gallery with Mme. Ipanoff, his wife, and that on the discovery of the intrigue he had shot and fatally wounded him. When Fedora learns the full story of her fiance’s perfidy, her hatred for his slayer is transformed into a consuming passion of love, and screening him from the police she assists him to escape to Russia, where after Ipanoff’s pardon had been signed by the Czar, j they are finally married. (Continued on Page 13)