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The Camera Is Cruel to Her!
WHY isn't Seena Owen a star? If it is true that to be great is to be misunderstood, then Seena — or Signe, to call her by her correct and national name — the "Princess Beloved" of ''Intolerance," is, to put it vulgarly, a comer. For of all the women, the pretty and talented women of the screen, Seena Owen has the strongest k-'ck coming against the camera. Here's how, as we would have said a year ago;
Seena, personal, is a vigorous, athletic, clear-skinned and clear-eyed baby Viking. She has blue-gray eyes that look at you frankly from under her .curly lashes; she has finely arched eyebrows; she has blond hair which was long and beautiful until Clarine Seymour cut it — but that is anothe" story. Her smile — well, any cameraman could focus his lens on it and the white teeth it shows.
At the left — scene from "Miss BoBeep, her last starring vehicle for Triangle before they passed.
How anything on earth could fail to flatter Seena Owen is beyond us.
By DELIGHT
EVANS
As the Princess Beloved in Griffith s "Intolerance. "
Seena, on the screen: a languorous pensive blonde who always seems to be absolutely wasting away because the hero didn't call her up when she expected, or something; a typical film heroine with no sense of humor —
Perhaps it's the parts. Her "Princess Beloved," born again from the old ages, was certainly not a dead one. Her Triangle pictures revealed a lovable tomboy with a flashing smile and a straightforward personality. And that's Seena.
She was on her first trip to New York. She likes New York but, as she says, "I tried to find my way downtown to Fulton Street on the subway and believe me I'd rather buck a broncho than that subway thing." She came east to make a picture and then dashed back to the coast — because she likes it better, and she can work better out there.
On the screen she looks so frail and shy that a ride in a limousine would be torture to her. Off the screen, she likes to ride wild horses. She doesn't remember when she learned to ride; she always knew — but it was not until she had to do what she calls fancy stuff that she went to a riding school and learned about posting and all that. She doesn't seem to have any ner\-e, in pictures; those parts she plays call merely for a pathetic expression and several good-looking gowns. Seena
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