Show STARS DIFFER IN 1 IN MIRACLE iI i I In Drama Act Same Part In Nuns Nun's Role Role i iBy D By ANI ANITA BLOCK Copyright 1924 l by the Con Consoli Consolidated oll- oll dated Press Association NEW CW YORK Feb B 9 Ho should a Madonna act when sho peSos peSos- pedestal step stopS a down from her hor marble tal and becomes become a living breathing nun taking the place of an erring t slator until the latter shall ahall return penitent to her cloister That perhaps has lies been the most ot of t thO tl B A debated ot of nil all the problems ht land of make believe since Morr Nor y yGe Ge I Gost Gest t noted theatrical I solved the problem that threat threat- threatened threat threat-ened cued ened to split hl his stupendous pro pro- production pro production of ot The The Miracle wIde open by by alternating In the lead lead- lead leading lag InK role of ot the madonna two titled actresses ot of the old world whom ho he had Inadvertently got signed up simultaneously Should she bo be or brunette And mol And 0 should hould she the bring brine her divine and supernatural character character- characteristicS down pedestal wIth her or should she como come do n humble and humah These are the all Important ques qUes- qUes questions thInS For the two titled madon madon- nas are as different as a day day- l and night not only In appearance but butIn butin butIn In their Interpretations they divide The Princess tor for In- In Instance instance in instance stance her stage stalo name clams Is Maria Marla ml might Carmi-might might ht bo be a portrait ot of night with lIh her raven hair her glorious dark Italian eye eyes and her majestic figure and Lady DI Diana lna herI I Manners with her fair English beauty golden haired and blue blue- I eyed is Is as sunny 11 as the day TWO RIVAL HIVAL S IDEIS IDE S Everybody E that matters having having fought fought the question out to a draw the the writer determined to seek F out out the two to principals themselves 1 j and obtain from each a defense of or J n her own interpretation and a F of ot her rivals the So-the So the Princess cosmopolitan Intellectual a bril- bril bril brilliant woman oman of ot the world orl 1 received the writer while resting In the dressing room which both bolli madon madon- nas use usa alternately Madonna must roust never seem sem liu- liu hu human she man man she must mut be bo always alas divinely different from Crom the rest reat of the nuns E NI XU NUN different Yes Yes Yea I 1 know this Is entirely lit dif brent ferent from Lady L Diana madonna She becomes become an or ordinary ordinary nary nun almost from Crom the rest willing willing- willingto to hand out children Christmas packages to poor chil dren But such realism does not ot conform to my conception of ot the even even while she aho Is 11 sup sup- sup Up- Up supposed po posed d to be a nun And that Is why I had th the s scene cut CUI cutout out for for of ot course courso It was I 1 who created the pin pirt rt of ot the tho madonna In London In 1915 I t wint the poor people to Como Coma Into the tho chu church cl cland and kneel about me 1 while I pra pray with ith Ith them a as I do dl bending 0 over oer er them with Ith Q a o gesture or of divIne divino pity I is tIso wh instead ot of It just liP mp on the I l and becomIng first a n O J reach out my arm arms anti and ff antis r s- s my lIly head symbolizing the death death on the cross before 1 I from the the physical ph Ical life lite ot of tho Wi V tv J even evon my statue conception of o tin thu s a appearance o Is is different t lint lant my donna m to look like of ot the tho one on lovely with wax Images of Ha a real jewelled jp Clown Clon and real a brocaded led cloak like the stone atone rather Ih this Diana statue effect of ot Lad Latt On the next night In the self selfsame me spot the writer talked Lady Dlan Diani soft slim lIm lovely and gIrlish I simple e- e ant nUfo ItU f SlOP Oh Oh I 1 ant my madonna seem always I to she Bhe human hUmble purpose explained In almo almost t h shIl J for hn hi taking laking the lieS as nuns nun's place just to sen eerie e t 11 its kno this len Isn t Carrel Carml r I She s 5 Idea at alt thinks she sho Wo It was seems hOI to me When should the tho virgin seem nut ci- ci I steps down clown the tho madonna she Rhe jut just behInd a statue ble sel vice herself to 1 the th nun nuns rest Qt of the why hy I mas ma scene loved the Chr I Is now It cut out seen seemed to me that thaI the Madonna perfectly happy to 10 give should 4 and ond that she sho presents to the tho a ka poor im oman should tenderly t tt k t II a I can t see why baby In her a Carml Carmi madonna thInks a And I don t t gie ge what Carmi understand either stands ith Ith her means when she he jut just before beCore becomIng arms Stretched out agaIn I think the tho a tun s just climb Sadly madonn madonn 1 and into Inlo her place again humbly bark back So donna there ou Ore Which Will YOU 01 nim- nim and the hae-the or the Iho and 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