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Show Pauline Frederick At The Lyric Wed. and.Thurs. Gives Great Characterizations In the Famous Players Production "The 8plder" It is no violation ot screen secrets to tell tho fact that the scenes in tho Famous Players production, The Spider, In which Pauline Frederick Is starred at the Lyric theater, were not taken In tho sequence in which they appear in the play. Nor is it an aspersion upon tho superb ability ot Miss Frederick to say that tho photographic pho-tographic arrangement was due to tho star's own request. Tho solution of tho fact lies in Miss Frederick's Playing two totally different roles in the production, tho ono a notorious Parisian beauty, the other her Innocent Uttlo daughter whom she deserted when a mere babe, in order to sliar etho fortunes of a dissolute nobleman. So great is tho sincerity and tho power which Miss Frederick puts Into, her acting, nnd so lasting is tho spell' of her own Imagination upon the star that, when she worked herself up to tho psychological psycho-logical point at which sho portrays the cynical, heart sore woman of tho world, it is hours beforo sho can assume as-sume tho happy, light hearted Ingenuousness Ingen-uousness of the younger and less sophisticated so-phisticated girl. Conversely, If sho Ib playing Joan, the girl, sho cannot Instantly chango to Valerie, the woman, So It was that when sho .read tho script ot Tho Spider, Miss Frederick declared that sho cold do her best work it sho were permitted to concentrate upon first tho ono character and then the other, nnd sinco tho two never meet upon tho scrco ntho suggestion was easily agreed to by her director. There Is little doubt thnt tho wisdom wis-dom ot tho director In making this concession to Miss Frederick will be apparent nt onco to ovcryono who sees this Paramount Picture at tho Lyric theator for in it tho star performs per-forms mlrncles of character Interpretation Interpre-tation and of dramatic portrayal. When she was declared by tho critics to havo surpassed Mrs. Leslie Carter Cart-er in Zaza, and to havo outshone Na-zlmova Na-zlmova In Bella Donna, It seemed that thero was little left for this gifted woman to accomplish, but Tho Spider stands as a monument to her versatile genius. In Tho Spider, Valeric St. Cyr Is living in comparative pcaco with Count Du Polssy, having abandoned her Infant daughter to run away with tho nobleman. In order to avongo a rebuff which sho receives at tho hands of an artist, cho unwittingly assists In placing her own daughter In tho hands of tho profligate count. Who nsho discovers tho Identity of Joan nnd attempts to save her, Valerie Va-lerie llnds that her daughter has stabbed stab-bed and killed Du Polssy. As shn hears tho gendarmes coming she makes her momentous decision and, solzlng the dagger sho declares that she committed tho crlms. It Is tho only reparation that sho can mako to Iter abandoned daughter and Vn-lerio Vn-lerio finds In this great sacrlflco n Bolnco for all tho heartache that she has endured over Blnco tho siren call of tho count's gold lured hor from tho helpless babo Bho loved. Tho cast, which has been gathered In Biipport of MI33 Frederick includes Frank Loseo, Thomas Holding nnd other distinguished playors. Miss Frederick will bo seen In Tho Spider, at tho Lyric Theator, Wednesday Wed-nesday and Thursday, March 29 nnd 30. |