Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1921)

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Her beauty is spiritually satisfying and artistically amazing. The GIRL on the COVER A close-up of that illusive young star, Lillian Gish By DELIGHT EVANS LILLIAN GISH has won contemporary immortality as the heroine of David Wark Griffith's best pictures. She is one of the symbols of the screen. Mary Pickford is eternal youth. Chaplin, comedy incarnate and incomparable. Fairbanks, athletic America. Hart, the West. And Lillian Gish — the Madonna of the Shadows. She is the fair, frail, persecuted child. The lovely, languorous lily. She is frail and sweetly sad and imposed upon. She has a 38 moonlight beauty; a soft and serious calm. She is the virgin queen of the screen. Most of you believe that Lillian— like most lovely illusory things— just grew. That she has always drifted through things with the superb ease that she displays in her film close-ups. In fact, it may be that many of you decline to give her screen credit for her own fame, her unique and enviable position in the silversheet firmament.