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Anna with the
With her lovely golden hair shorn for store of frank, arresting observations Nilsson made a vivid impres
By Gordon
Many a beautiful girl has proclaimed that she wanted to play character parts that were different but few of them have gone to such lengths to accomplish it as Anna Q. Nilsson has done for "Ponjola."
young so far as the development of any tried-and-true favorites such as the stage has produced in its Leslie Carters, Ethel Barrymores and Grace Georges.
Some players have to give our screen a background1 — a feeling of stability. Mary Pickford promises to last through the coming years, and Norma Talmadge. Can you name any others ? When all is said and done, and the pillars of the movies are labeled — watch for that of Miss Nilsson.
When any young woman allows a strange gentleman to see her with her hair cut short — not bobbed — and her face greased, then you can bet there is something real about that young woman. She can have very little to conceal.
Anna Q. Nilsson is the realest young woman I have met in a long succession of interviews. She is also the most frank. It was while she was playing in "Adam's Rib" that I saw her first, some months ago. At that time her hair was coiffed an inch of its life, and she was inch of her 'life — and
HERE would the Ethel Barrymores and Blanche Bateses of the screen come from if it were not for our Anna O. Nilssons ?
We are watching the process of a great screen actress in the making. You can choose your embryo Sarah Bernhardts of the present-day screen, and you can press-agent 'em to the skies — but after all, when the years pass,
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gowned within an of her waistline. But oh, what a
actresses — our
Nilsson — hands
a girl, almost, created nine —
who are to be our "grand' standbys ?
I pick Anna Querentia down".
Here is a young woman, who in eleven months has count 'em — outstanding parts in as many pictures. She is the leadingest leading lady the screen has ever seen.
And despite the fact that she is very 'beautiful she will not hesitate to enter into a catdh-as-catch-can wrestling match with any role, providing it is big enough, and meaty enough — let the chips -of beauty fall where they may.
She is the one leading woman on the screen whom directors of Hollywood claim has never fallen down on a part.
Toward what is she headed? And how did she get where she is?
Say what you have a mind to about the screen being in its infancy, and all the other smart cracks that go with it, the screen is very, very
difference just a few months, and another part make! Her eleventh role, and the occasion of our meeting for this expose of her career, was the making of "Ponjola" — the Cynthia Stockley tale which Anna herself picked.
Gone was the golden glory of her hair and gone was the elaborate gown. She didn't even have her street make-up on. She was just a boyish young woman who makes a living by acting in motion pictures. Even her eyebrows were back-combed to look mannish and her features glistened with grease which she applies in her dressing room before putting on the professional paint. It was as if she said, which she didn't, heaven be praised: "Here I am with nothing to deceive you about.
Around the studio they introduce Anna Q. Nilsson as "Mr. Desmond" when she is in this make-up for "Ponjola." And she gets away with it!