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In the most difficult rdle she has yet undertaken, J Miss Swanson shows the girl Sunya in four j different phases. Above, she is revealed inalove scene with John Boles.
GLORIA SWANSON, whose screen personality has touched off almost every human emotion in the hearts | of millions, slips nebulously, but with a clear purposefulness, through as difficult and ambitious a moving picture as has ever been attempted by a film actress.
In "Sunya," her first independent production, the illimitable Gloria presents no fewer than four interpretations of the same character. Her plastic film self, mercurial in its transitions from mood to mood, is finely chiseled in each phase. Gloria hopes that this film will be the means of showing her as an actress to a world which, she fears, knows her only as a woman who wears clothes well.
Up in the vast recesses of the Cosmopolitan studio in New York, where most
Gloria's Fate Hangs
She stakes her future on the outcome of If successful, she will take her place ing henceforth as her own pilot. But if
By Kenneth
of "Sunya" was filmed, men whose technical ingenuity is exceeded only by their unquenchable faith in the possibility of making of moving pictures a mode of artistic expression, piloted the personality of Gloria through one of the most complex characterization stories ever attempted on the screen. The film will show that they dared much.
They set about with scientific care to show the transition of the astral body of Sunya, the heroine, through centuries of reincarnation and vision. Filming astral bodies is new enough even in a film world where fourth-dimensional tricks are as common to-day as were the canvas ice cakes in the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" of other times.
Sunya is a Sanskrit word meaning "illusion." The basic theme of the story is taken from Max Marcin's stage plav. "The Eyes of Youth." The changes have been so many, however, that the present version bears little resemblance to the play which served Marjorie Rambeau as one of her first great stage vehicles and later gave Clara Kimball Young scope for her emotions in a film version bearing the same name as the play.
The story of the present version is briefly this : A young Indian chela, or religious novice, learns from his religious superiors that he cannot become a full-fledged Yogi until he has expiated a wrong which he did to a beautiful young Egyptian woman centuries before in a previous incarnation. His masters give him a crystal ball such as they use to see visions of the past and future and tell him to search the Western world until he finds the woman in her present incarnation and rights the wrong.
After many wanderings he finds her in a small city near New York. She is a daughter of a factory owner who has
Sunya, with four paths in life open to her, is offered a crystal with which to look into the future. Hugh Miller plays the role of the Indian chela who thus comes to her aid.