Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-11-13 | Page 8 | Lives Uncanny Parts She Acts on Screen

LIVES UNCANNY PARTS SHE ACTS ON SCREEN. One of the mastering impulses in the mental bearing of Theda Bara, who has renewed the earlier sensation she created by her extraordinary por-tiayal por-tiayal of "Carmen" in William "Rx's masterpiece, is her passionate love of tho mysterious, the weird. Yet the fact that she is of French and Italian descent explains this in part For the wealth of emotional expression, hers by birthright, together with her natural nat-ural physical vigor, fiery ambition to excel and an uncanny ewe of almost living the part sho sets to pla corn-bin corn-bin to place her squat ely between the realms of tho uiiexploied mystic and the , sternly practical commercialism, of hpr , -calling. Swayed though ahc may be by her; half belief in strange gods, she refuses their mastery. ' Theda Bara is the daughter of tlic famous Giuseppe Bara, one of thd foremost sculptors of the modern School. IlKr mntliPi- i Thnfl.i 1 Lys.le. ono- of tho best known or the French emotional actresses. As a young girl Mile. Bara Studied painting Willi her father as preceptor. Laler sho joined her mtfther .In .classic drama Later sho phoed .ingenue roles with Jane, Hading in Paris. Her strange nature Wl her quite naturally to tho heavy roles, and-while Hlill a young wqmau she became the loader at the Theater Grand Gulgnol, famous for its onc-aot sensational dramas. From tho Grand Guignol .she became leading woman in roles of the vampire typo at tho Theater Antoine. It was In this theater that sho was seen by a member of tho William Fox producing forces. A few years later, while vainly vain-ly scclting a type to portray tho vam pire in "A Fool There "Was." he remembered re-membered Miss Bara's- acting. Mr. Fox cabled to her and she came to America to accept the richest offering ever- made a film actress. oo