Universal Weekly (1914-1915)

THE UNIVERSAL WEEKLY 7 Mary Fuller as Mistress of Fox Hounds AKY FULLER appears in fresh guise in "My Lady High and .Mighty", a two-reel light comedydrama, which will be released under the Victor brand on Monday, Janu' Lovely Mary", "Divine Mary", Leading women come just Mary, as they ary 11 eall Miss Fuller what you will, she deserves every bit of praise bestowed upon her. Perhaps, however, her beauty and the wonderful expression of her brown eyes have attracted more than their proper share of attention, to the neglect of her really remarkable genius as an actress, and go in studios these days, but "Mary" call her around the Universal studios, is here to stay. "There's a reason". And the answer is that Mary Fuller is not only a wonderful portrayer of "straight" parts, but possesses the added qualification of being able to adapt herself to any role and to play it as if she were the original itself. In Mary's acting there is not the slightest trace of camera consciousness . She seems to forget, once the eye of the lens is upon her, that she is an jctress. Taking advantage of this feature of Miss Fuller's work, Miss Elaine Sterne, the author of the scenario of "My Lady High and Mighty", has written a photodrama around Miss Fuller's personality. And Mary actually lives the part. As a cave-wife, to quote a woman spectator of the cave scene taken along the wild coasts of Long Island, she is a "dear". Winsomeness marks Miss Fuller's work, together with a restraint which is found generally only on the legitimate stage. Mary has made her way to the top of the screen world not by reason of her mere beauty, not because of any cloak-model saccharinity, but because, in addition to her beauty and personal charm, she can act! "My Lady High and Mighty" gives her an excellent opportunity to display her ability in this last, most essential requisite for a screen star's success. The comedy-drama tells the story of a petulant English noblewoman who wants a cave man for a husband, one who can make her respect him. No carpet knights for this high and mighty young lady ; she wants a Jack I/ondon hero. The first scenes in the drama shows Lady Mary at a meet of a fox-hunt country club. Off they go over field and dale the fox in the lead, the hounds on the scent, and up in the front ranks, first over the hedges, riding like men in the party, comes Lady Mary, the daughter of the Earl of Dreadwood. No hedge is too big 1. no chase too long for the mannish, petted, spoiled daughter of the old Earl Poor Sir Harvey proposes to her almost daily, but. despite In "My Lady High and Mighty" charming Universal star plays role of spoiled, petted English noblewoman, who seeks a cave-man husband. She finds one, most unexpectedly. Charles Ogle ably supports "The Divine Mary" in two-reel Victor light comedy-drama. Scenario by Elaine Sterne. Released Monday, January 11 Tjciihj Mary (Mary Fuller) Returns to the Banquet flail After a Day's Hunt With -The Hoys". his excellent social position and vast estate, Lady Mary gives him but scant encouragement. Lady Mary has been reading modern novels, and tells Sir Harvey that what she wants is a man who will i.ot fawn at her feet, but will command her in cave man fashion. Saddened by her persistent refusals of his offer of marriage, Sir Harvey goes to an island near his estate, where he camps out with his dogs, trying to forget his troubles. Meanwhile an aged old usurer has proposed to Lady Mary. He likes her untamed ways, and threatens to oust the Earl of Dreadwood if that gentleman will not consent to his marriage to the Earl's daughter. The Earl, hard-pressed for money, unwillingly gives .his consent to the marriage. He has not reckoned with his daughter, Lady Mary, however . When the senile old usurer proposes to her Mary throws a hot cup of tea in his haggard face, and flees from her father's estate to the island, where Sir Harvey is camping out in solitary gloom. Sir Harvey sees her coming across the sands and determines to play cavebaf man, now that he the opportunity. Accordingly he seizes her roughly, much to Lady Mary's surprise, forces her to wash his linen, to cook and to clean his dugout in the hillside. Then he compels her to wash his dogs and to split wood. At the end of her hard day's work he seizes her by the hair and, in true cave-man fashion, throws her in a corner of the cave and goes to sleep himself in the opposite corner. Lady Mary, who has been petted and spoiled all her life, rather likes the treatment, just for a change. However, she hopes that Sir Harvey will wake up in the morning more kindly disposed than he has been on the first day of her visit. Meanwhile the old Earl is in a towering rage. He discovers from the butler that Lady Mary has gone to the island, and he comes upon them at daybreak. He is about to murder Sir Har vey in his wrath until Lady Mary interposes and displays a wedding ring, her mother's, which she had brought to the island. Mollified, the Earl consents to an immediate marriage, and that night, in the castle hall, Sir Harvey signs the papers which frees the Dreadwood estates of debt. Lady Mary's proud spirit has been quite conquered by her experience on the island, and she is quite willing to obey, thereafter, her "lord and master". The old usurer is called to the baronial hall and Lady Mary has the satisfaction of receiving back from him all the receipted notes which her father had given the old rogue. Lady Mary tears the notes up and throws them in the usurer's face as Sir Harvey takes her in his arms and the Earl of Dreadwood, surrounded by his dogs, beams approval on the young couple.