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JULY 1922
THE PICTU PEGO&r?
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Mary Carr with her six children.
for a lifeless doll ! So the whole business had to be held up till the next day, when a real baby was procured — and then I wept all that was required ! "
Of all the pre-Hunwresque mothers, Kate Bruce is perhaps one of the best known. She is always the simple, forgiving, patient mother prematurely aged by the worries of family life. She has always kept to these tender, gentle roles, such as she played in Way Down East — typically maternal, but without the modern robustness of Vera Gordon's " Mamma Kantor."
A similar type is generally associated with the name of Edythe Chapman. She, too, is the gentle, tender mother, essentially feminine, but somewhat sentimental There is an aroma of lavender generally about her mother parts, suggestive of a restful " old-worldliness." The kind of mother is she to whom the son or daughter, tired with " city life," can come home to be soothed and comforted, without any need to embark on a rigmarole of the cares that cause the tiredness !
Sylvia Ashton cleverly depicts the kind of mother of which, fortunately, there are few in the world. She is generally selected for the haughty Society mother to whom all children and domesticity are a terrible bore. She is often an aggressive mother-in-law, as in the role she played with Gloria Swanson in Why Change Your Wife ? In these characterisations she shows a great histrionic talent, and convincingly proves, by comparison, how truly wonderful most mothers are ! She has played the lovable mother ">n one or two occasions, however. Perhaps the best of these was in A Girl \' anted Mary. In this film she just doried in making " Mary's " favourite linners ready for the little typist — )layed by Marguerite Clark — when ihe returned from her hard day's work. ; The films which feature Mary Canaid Mary Alden in mother parts show nstances of directorial feeling of the >ulse of the public. Simple homely 'ales of mother-love appeal strongly 'o the kinemagoer, and mothers are rrowing almost as important on the creen as in real life ! As poor " Ma 5enton " in Over (he Hill, Mary Carr lives one of the finest, most pathetic personations ever filmed. It is a lomely tale of plain humble folk in rhich the little worn-out mother ! goes over the hill to the poor-house " 'ither than be a burden on any of her Ihiklren. It is left for the scapegoat in — so-called by his pious brothers ! —
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Left : Edythe Chapman, a pathetic " motri* ma."