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SEPTEMBER 1925
Picture s and Picture O oer
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SviAcI Palestine
JOSIE P. LEDECEI?
all about Betty Blythe's new film, or a reincarnation of her.
interiors and a few exteriors for what promises to be a film sensation.
Titled Jacob's Well, and based upon the novel by Pierre Benoit (author of Atlantide), it is the story of "Agar" a child of the ghetto; an ambitious wench, who becomes a famous cabaret dancing girl in Haifa, Constantinople, and other places in the East.
" Agar " is what movie-land's vocabulary would describe as a Good-badgirl. Later, she marries a crippled
Oval : Betty was " Kid " -napped at Smyrna. Below : the eternal triangle in "Jacob's Well." played by Betty Bl Malcolm
Above : A beautiful location in
" Jacob's Well "; the principals are just
going to work.
Jew to free herself from a distasteful profession, and later still, meets a man she truly loves.
That, I think, is all you need know of the story — yet.
When I went across to France, to see Betty Blythe work, I found that the busiest of all the busy people engaged on this £10,000 production was the star.
When she wasn't learning a new dance, she was seeing American pressmen. When she wasn't being photographed for newspapers she was designing a new gown, or what is more difficult, personally seeing to it that her design was carried out.
/^\ne of her few spare mornings was ^^spent with me. This was on Sunday, for on week days she is in the studios from nine-thirty to six unless the director gives her leave of absence.
Work at Belleville Studio (Belleville is in the apache quarter of Paris and truly thrilling) goes on till any old hour if the scene is an important one, for they are all enthusiasts out there, and to them " the film's the thing," and the clock less than nothing.
The principal roles are played by Betty Blythe (" Agar "), Andre Nox (The Thinker), Malcolm Tod, and Leon Mathot (Monte Cristo). Mathot, who plays the villain, I found an extremely pleasant albeit somewhat shy individual. His English is neither as bad nor as limited as he makes ou: (neither is my French !) but he seemed pleased when I informed him that English fans knew and liked him. .especially in Monte Cristo.