Picture Show (Nov 1919-Apr 1920)

Page scan 000145 from Picture Show

Record Details:

Title:
Picture Show
Date:
Nov 1919-Apr 1920
Publisher:
London
Volume:
Picture Show (Nov 1919-Apr 1920)
Leaf #:
000145
Language:
English
Collection:
Fan Magazines, United Kingdom, Early Cinema, and Global Cinema
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
June 20, 2024
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15 . ; < THE SIREN OF THE SCREEN. THEDA BARA, the Fox Film star, has on the screen portrayed many characters famous in history, and classical novel. She has lived on the film as Cleopatra, the illfated Madame ! Du Barry, as " Camille," and " Cigarette " in Ouida's " Under Two Flags." Some of her many parts are pictured here. Off the screen, Miss Bara has a secluded life, for she is a real home lover, and her holidays this year have been spent at her palatial mansion in Southern California. The grounds surrounding the mansion are many acres in extent, but even so beautiful a home, however, has not kept the noted star from taking frequent motor trips through the surrounding country. Her car is always followed by a smaller car, which carries a motion picture camera and operator. The purpose of carrying this attendant is to make a series of Theda Bara travelogues for filing in the private library of the emotional player. A private projection room has been arranged in one room of Miss Bara's home, and her own travelogues are run off there. Then they are filed away until Miss Bara returns to New York, when she will bring them back with her and use them in showings to her friends. Thus far Miss Bara has collected about 100,000 feet of film showing her trips through beautiful California, Hf.H.W'.'l v I' kujla, I BH ' In " UNDER TWO FLAGS.' In " HER GREATEST LOVE." /AS. In "GOLD AND THE WOMAN.'