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type, supported the star. The picture is magnificently presented, without the glitter of expensive sets, which Henry Roussell achieved by means of expert lighting, artistic sets and clever costuming. Raquel Meller is one of the few who gets her stage appeal over on the screen, it seems to me.
Sarah Bernhardt' s Last Work
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A.he Clairvoyant, Sarah Bernhardt's final picture which she was filming at the time of her death, is the achievement of an American producer, Leon Abrams. This picture tells a simple story in an effective manner without any blare or bunkum, . and it does the extraordinary feat of presenting Sarah Bernhardt as an old woman without stripping her of the appeal her stage genius made for so many decades.
There is a power to the portrayal of that paralytic old fortune teller which gives the Divine One a final grip on our imagination and emotions. The sets are realistic and have a powerful simplicity, which the director has made the keynote to his story. With an appealing aggregation of stage and movie personages, he has produced acting [Continued on page 94]
0 Another scene from Violettes, with Raquel Meller in the leading role, bidding farewell to the children.
ported by Ivy Close, imported from London for the role. This picture reveals a story containing a sentimental melodramatic plot, with a psycho-analytic analysis of its chief character, who finds himself in love with his foster daughter, plighted to his son.
Severin Mars as the father, an old railroad engineer, and Abel Gance, the producer, give the picture a power far beyond the merits of the story. It contributes nothing particularly new to the screen, but the straightforward telling of the tale, and the superb acting make it an event in French film production.
In Violettes, produced by Henry Roussell, little Raquel Meller, the Spanish girl from Barcelona, who captured the fancy of Paris theatre goers, is starred. M. Roussell used a story of the Griffith variety of homely appeal, contrasted with the artificiality of Paris fashionable life to display his star. Andre Roanne, a French "great lover"
! Pearl White, American serial idol, has been busily engaged in making a picture, Terror, in Paris. Above and at the left Q/re glimpses of the film in the making.