Show BERTHA KALICH SAYS ACTING FOR SCREEN HAS BIG ACLES It HIt is undoubtedly much more difficult for a tragedienne to act in the cinemas than on the legitimate legitimate legitimate mate stage That is one reason my work in motion pictures is so fascinating to me said Madame Bertha Bertha Bertha Ber Ber- tha Kalich the peerless emotional ac actress actress actress ac- ac tress recently I think I 1 may be Justly proud of my achievements in Mr Foxs Fox's photoplays photoplays photo photo- plays when one considers the obstacles art must overcome Remember first the omnipresent handicap in the lack of the audience The actress has net nei the sympathetic spectator to help InspIre in inspire inspire In- In spire her She has not the theatre with the Illusions it fosters so that she can forget torget absolutely that her emotions emotion are real not forced She has not the applause at the end of the scene to prove that her interpretation of the therole therole therole role has been a success What does doE's she have One or two cameras grinding away constantly to remind her that she is acting not acting not liv liv- ing Bare rocks or an open field or a a. dozen trees to distract her when she succeeds in forgetting the tile click click click cUck of the machine Lenses which see every false move however small Then one rises to the very height of emotion and drops wearily in ft It chair for a moments moment's rest only to hear the director say Now well we'll have that scene over again Some one has not done quite right right perhaps perhaps an extra has taken a step too far or has not come far enough And the emotional actress has to repeat the tile scene and act as naturally as ever Once one oner falls into R acting Ung the automaton art has fled r Madame Kalich paused an instant then continued reflectively O Consider n lder too that there is no such sustained acting in the moving picture as there Is on the legitimate stage Things of necessity must be done done- after a piecemeal fashion There 1 is no continuity in screening a photoplay which resembles the preparation for forthe forthe the tile climax In a drama On the stage tage act two follows act one and act three follows act two In the film work worl one rarely begins a new picture by acting the first scenes CEnes first One may start in the tile middle middle and and I 1 remember one place where we began almost at the rend fend Madame l Kalich KaUch who has been enjoying enjoying enjoy enjoy- ing big a vacation at Lakewood will soon commence on a new William Fox photoplay photoplay pho pho- which will give her superb emotional emotional emo emo- intensity greater scope than ever r |