| Show M ' h a ttvp! sFmnv THE RAMP CAKE HEBAUJ-RBPBBIJCA- ir eiTT 'BJ'AH SUNDAY ATTCTTJST CTAITAZmB UIXTIIU IS 1917 9 g' for i&recritest Marry Turner andfMow P ayf Restored Star s I!''' h - f isby Gifted Actresses Recalled When Film Company Picks Girl for Noted Part in - w Within the Law1 O PARSONS By LOUELLA 't v t : V ARY TURNER of "Within the Law” fame has been a Bountiful Lady in several ways She has made several women famous added new laurels to the crown of other favorites and netted something like $3000000 for her producers More brilliant stars have played Mary Turner on the stage than any single character in modern stage lore There were nine Mary Turners at one time because that many "Within the Law companies were playing here and abroad 'V Now despite all the Mary Turners on the stage there can be only one In films After all of these ' big stars have played the shop girl heroine and made thousands weep at her misery their perform- -' ances pass on into theatrical history Quite differ-ent is the fate of Alice Joyce to whom has fallen the enviable position of perpetuating darling Mary on the screen When Vita graph purchased the film rights to "Within the Law a great problem confronted them The most beautiful and best known stars in the country had played Mary Turner on the stage and to give this picture the proper background it was necessary to find a star who possessed a combination of all the merits of the many stage Mary : 'Turners' nature There was perhaps less womanly appeal in Helen Ware's work but she won- - a great personal triumph and subsequently headed a com- pany of her own to make an tensive tour of the West Margaret Illington the most spectacular and magnificent of the Mary Turners brought “Within the Law to the West again and made theatrical history with her phenomenal success For weeks and weeks was- a constant demand for seated Miss ' therej Illington even played three performances a day including Sundays one in the morning one in the afternoon and the final one at night Clara Joel’s artistic Mary Turner also V scored a big success Each actress put her own personality into Mary Turner Emily Stevens was perhaps the most unique Jane Cowl the most beautiful Helen Ware the most striking Clara Joel the most appealing and Margaret Illlington the most artistic Alice Joyce made a composite interpretation of all of these Mary Turners with' the result that she achieved the best Mary Turner of them alL 7 Alice Joyce's radiance seemed to wane slightly after the birth of her little daughter Her screen personality was untouched but something of her one time spirit was subdued and her beauty was less striking “Within the Law has done this for Alice Joyce It has restored her until now she is like she was in the Kalem days when artists raved over her beauty and magazines begged her to pose for their covers So she too owes a big debt to her Mary Turner Alice Joyce was chosen as the last of the Mary Turners Miss Joyce had played other Vitagraph’ dramas and when it came time for a selection of an ideal type for Bayard Veiller’s melodrama the mantle by unanimous consent was placed upon the graceful shoulders of the actress partly because of her exceptional talent and partly because of the love and esteem in which she is held by her thou' ':: j' sands of admirers 'v The legitimate actresses to score individual hits In “Within the Law are all different in type First’: there was Emily Stevens' Nervous and high strung she breathed into her Mary Turner some of Mrs FIske's own personality - A rather ihys terical Mary she gave us tempered with her own ' fine emotions and splendidly picturesque even for a shop girl d Jane Cowl wistful and made the most beautiful of the Mary Turners She was the to-lection of the Selwyn company who gave Miss Cowl “Within the Law as a vehicle for opening the Eltinge Theater in New York Jane's Mary stayed right in the Eltinge Theater for eighty weeks and many of the Cowl following declare her responsible for the lovely Jane's entrance into stardom After eighty weeks of constant emotionalism and nightly suffering for Mary's' hardships Jane Cowl began to feel the strain of her continuous performances Helen Ware' who had previously scored a great triumph In “The Third Degree was asked to substitute so that Miss Cowl might rest Helen Ware's Mary Turner was distinguished by a strength and bigness not seen in the other two conceptions of the little shop glrL She gave Bayard Velller8 famous character a most virile' - -- - -- sad-eye- - f 4 - Copyright 1917 by J Emily Stevens was the most original stage Mary Turner says noted photoplay critic Jane Cowl the most beautiful T Clara Joel the most x appealing Helen Ware the most striking and Margaret Illington the most spectacular and magnificent but ‘Alice Joyce has made a composite interpretation of all these Mary Turners and w achieved the greatest triumph of any player for the r permanent record of the picture camera Keeley j Wants to Wear Hawaii Clothes on Her LUTHER’S idea of a vacation is a popu She wants 'to get away from dvlllza dress-up Miss Luther has allion and things ways had to be well dressed in pictures and she thinks if she could live close to nature and wear the scant attire permissible in the Hawaiian Islands she would be a happy lady This is what Anna now 'when about to start off on j a three weeks vacation to a land where clothes are supposed to worry people not at all 'Iam solving the problem for myself however by taking only a few ? dresses and these very simple ones It has been my misfortune that my directors have always counted upon my wearing wonderful clothes In pictures they never seem to think I would look well in rags And It is the ambition of my life to do a picture in rags! ' I she herself tells about vacationing In Adam: and ::v " Eve fashion:' t i should lovs to get my' will be ' YOUR approval face and hands all dirty when sure am I and forget whether tight I tell you where I expect or full ones low skirts three to spend a happy or waists summer 7 For high ones were weeks this in ' the vlure of the When I came vogue! months back frqm New York place has had me in its a after month there just grasp and one day I recently the first quesfound my way Into a tion everybody ' asked steamship office in Los me was “Oh did you Angeles and found out bring back loads of all about it My destina- clothes?" Of course I Hato be the tion is had to admit that I had walian Islands for therefwasn't a day It Is foolish for one I ' ' hadn't that I shopped think to get as far west something on' Fifth avsv as Los Angeles and then nue ' not to plan on seeing the So I'm looking forwonderful islands which ward famade ukulele has pleasure 7 the bo too to with much want doesn’t to who Anna Luther the eight or ten days mous While I don’t sup' in weather hot warm on the waiter bright of diversion pose the a and languid days with some V wearing grass skirt books and or that mine wish will I be no shoes good magazines and soft early-to-byet stockings be: to followed by the real treat of all ' were evenings 7' it oh the time spent the island among the Aren't there times when after your having had Hawaiians This I think will constito think of clothes wardrobe and more and other tute a real vacation I hope yours Is as happy as changes of clothes you wish that Adam and Eye for costume trust mine will be Sincerely I leaf the national made the had fig 7" ANNA LUTHER : feel Well is about that I the way riy'“ keeps? : - 'A ? Louella O Parsons’ Replies to the Picture Fans ? - : - J -- ’ ‘ J " ed soft-foot- soft-voic- r ed ed ' T HANK YOU— David W Griffith's address is “somewhere in the war zone" I am unable to say just where' a letter will reach him at the present time —Eddie Lyons Is 31 years old and married his pal Lee Moran is 30 years of age AK and not married -- Both are products of Illinois — Louella is my honest and BOB the truly name ' It selection of my parents and I cannot help it Sorry you don't like it I would love Imogene Geraldine or Genevieve myself impossible for me to find time to read it Norma Talmadge is married to Joseph Schenck - : You ' : - are welcome -- Thank you dear child for your GERTRUDE— appreciation like yours that makes life worth living If I give you happiness each week in the moving picture department I am stage My glad No I have never been on the and-yoknow age? You are a woman Gertrude TI that qhetoioa isn't fair 'V 7 : - ' - AND WAITING —Constance Talmadge READY the Selznlck Pictures Corporation starring independently right now Eileen Percy is a Douglas Fairbanks find Doris Kenyon is as you saybeauty Pearl White? I wouldn’t express myself that way if I were you She is with Pathe and one of Pathe’s most valuable assets ' f' f f -- -- IL— Every one who knows Rose Tapley her ' Send her a letter and I have no doubt but that she will answer your questions She is with Yitagfaph Seena Owen so rumor says has signed with Fox Send me a stamped envelope and I shall be delighted to an-swer your questions self-address-ed u : ' ' - an age of will outgrow all of those foolish ways I see no harm in writing to such a man as Douglas Fairbanks Mr Fairbanks is a gentleof courteous replies to man and writes thousands ' 'his admiring friends MOTHER - S - kOLLY — Please do not send me your scenario —Every girl has — No trouble In the least Mary Miles renewed her contract with Mutual Oul friend Charlie Chaplin will work for the National Exhibitors Circuit this winter He will also work for himself with the modest compensation ol $1075000 BEE - M —Glad to have yon come again One’f is always gauged by one's friends of you to want to come and zee me but I am sure you will find letters more satisfactory than the real live person I do not believe you need to send 25 cents jo Douglas Fairbanks He sent you his picture because he wants you to have one lie is Indeed grand Eugene O'Brien Is In his late twenties and has blue eyes light brown hair and weighs 160 pounds Bessie Barriscale is with the Bessie Barriscale Film Corporation 729 Seventh avenue New York City and her productions are to be released on the Paralta program Harold Lockwood’s letter will probably come along soon Creighton Hale can be reached by addressing him care of the rathe Company X Congress street Jersey City N J No Indeed 1 am not disgusted with you Come again RUTH It is nice |
