Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-05-15
a,iseellaneous Readina.
STORY OF LUCILLE LOVE
Great Movie Serial Said to be Founded
on Facts.

on Facts.
That truth is stronger than fiction"
is truism so trite that it is beginning
to lose it's novelty. But it exactly fits
in the case of Lucille Love, the Won
derful serial film which is now being
released by the Universal Film Manu-
featuring company. For Lucille Love,
the Girl of Mystery, Is founded on
facts, and these facts occurred in the
life Of a girl of sixteen years Of age
with the usual highly developed femi-
nine sense Of the romantic, which had
not been dulled by few years on the
stage. And today this same young wo-
man, whose name is Grace Cunard, is
playing the lead in the film which is
founded on her own experience.
1t Is not often that woman is for
tunate, or unfortunate enough to eX-
perence in her own life a thrilling Sc
ries of events which she can turn to
such good account as Grace Cunard
is doing at the present time. To have
been through nerve racking and soul
trying experience closely affecting the
honor of one near and dear is like ap-
plying the acid test to jewel. In Miss
Cunard's case it made a woman out Of
a care-free but ambitious girl Of 16
summers And now she is turning this
first taste of life and it's meaning into
one Of the most exciting and unusual
moving picture dramas ever planned.
Four years have past since the
events which were so amazing as to
seem unreal; so real as to be appalling.
Time heals many bruises, mental as
we'll as physical and Miss Cunard can
look back with equanimity at the pres
ent time upon a three months vacation
which seemed like a lifetime of pain
anguish, and sickening anxiety.
Very little Of the news In connection
with the events of that terrible sum-
mer ever became public and 1t Is for
that reason that all the characters in
Lucille Love, who are drawn from real
life are in measure disguised. AS
matter Of fact, there are less than
twenty people in the world who could
possibly reconstruct the original story
and call the characters by their right
names from seeing the films which are
exhibited weekly, so we'll has Miss
Cunard done her work. For it was Miss
Cunard herself who wrote the scenario
for the cinematographic representa-
ton, and it was also she who suggest
ed the story to we'll known and clev-
er novelist. In order to protect this
literary man from the possibility Of
annoyance consequent upon possession
of knowledge of the actual circum-
stances, should any question Of them
ever arise, he was permitted to use
nom de plume He called himself 1.-The
Master Pen"
Miss Cunard is one Of the cleverest
scenario writer's in the whole realm Of
moving pictures and she has written
at least one photoplay week for two
years. A great many Of them she has
written for her own use and has been
very successful in her own plays, but
she never had more unusual oppor-
tunity either as an actress or a writer
than is presented by Lucille Love, for
it embodies events which are indelibly
printed on the tablets Of her memory
and scared into her very soul.
Up until the time Of the events
which are now being depicted on the
screen in Lucille Love, Miss Cunard
was very well known on the stage for so
young an actress. She made her first
appearance at the age of thirteen in
Dora Thorne." Then followed stock
work and appearance in prince Of
Patches" and college Days"
The spring of 1910 found little ac-
tress much run down from overwork,
and she determined to take a real va
cation. She was but a sprig of a girl
with her enthusiasms undimmed and
her illusions unimpaired. She ap-
preached her holiday with all the Zest
which her native race possess. She an
ticipated the time Of her young life.
She had it with a vengeance.
Though the little actress has been
brought up and educated in Columbus,
Ohio, in the very center Of Yankeeland,
she was born of French parents and in
Paris. They had removed to America
when their daughter was only one year
old, and all her girlhood associations
are cornered with Columbus, Ohio. But
she is French at heart and so were her
parents, so what should be more nat
ural than that she should spend her
first real holiday in Paris, the center of
the world to Frenchman. And to
Paris she went with a tired body bu
a spirit in which anticipation made the
journey seem as long as it did to Co.
lumbus, when he crossed from the 9TH
er side. Little did she guess what was
before her. For centuries her people
had been prominent in army circles in
France and many of them had attain
ed high rank. The relatives, with
whom Miss Cunard was to spend her
holiday, were army people and her
fathers brother was an officer in
noted French regiment. This regiment
was detailed to service in northern
Africa where France. Germany, Spain
and Italy were all contendng with
each other and with the Arabs, Berbers
and negroes, for territory.
The women of this officers family
were crazy to go to Algiers, where
there was small foreign colony and
where they thought they would be per-
fectly safe. Grace Cunard's uncle was
much opposed to having the women in
Africa at ALL particularly during the
hot season, and he disliked especially
to take the responsibility of having his
American relative in a place where he
could not look out for her safety as he
could were she at home. But Miss Gu
nard herself proved the determining
factor. She was so anxious to go to
Algiers that she swayed the whole
family. She says herself that it was
her own fault that she was one of the
actors in one OF the most daring at
tempts at besmirching the character Of
a responsible person. ever made. She
just would go. So it CHANGED that
Grace Cunard went to Africa and to a