The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-07-01
"MIGNON' AT
THE BAUGH
This Wonderful Production 10 be Shown
Saturday Evening, July 81

For the benefit of those who will at
tend the celebration at Shoshone we
are publishing the following:
This company's production Of "Sa-
lomy Jane" has made the selection Of
a successor difficult The extending
popularity of the Bret Harte master
piece rendered into fluent, thrilling
pictures. will inevitably encourage the
picture going public to level against
the later presentment of this company's
studio searching criticism invited
by the standard established in the most
beautiful series of filmed episodes ever
hitherto assembled.
Yet it is with serene confidence that
the California Motion Picture corpora
ton invited attention to the second OF
its output, Mrs. wiggs of the Cab
bage Patch" and now presents Mig
non" That this confidence in the
success of the present offering is nei-
taer idle nor vain will be proved by
facts to which, briefly, we beg leave
tc call attention.
Already "Mignon" is established in
its lyrical form on the grand opera
begun nearly half a century ago grows
rather than diminishes, a circumstance
due as much TO the very elements that
are essential to the photo drama sue
cess as to the music with which. in
the opera its action is welded. Pic
turesque and active plot elements are
referred to.
AS literature "Mignon," taken from
Goethe's immortal wilhelm Meister,'
is acknowledged to be one of the
worlds deathless treasures-a classic
as popular with the public for the
thrilling narrative it relates and the
beauty of the scenes it traverses. as
it is popular with the scholar who sees
in it's beautiful episodes and tragic
meek wisdom"
Even the rugged Carlyle renders his
tribute to the power of the story of
"Mignon." Il would rather have writ
ten." he says. "or been able to write
this W. -'-~ :. ,ns
books tas- 1aae appeared siu.e came
into the void"
To sucl work, then. this company
felt it could tu. a -. =. saocesscr to
salon 7f~s. Wigs Of
the Cabbage Patch" and find ii an
equally inspiring challenge to mechani
cal and artistic resources
Confidence to attack the magnifi-
cent task of completing a production
of "Mignon," involving Installation
of the wanderings of the forlorn her
oine and her enfeebled, demented faith
er, was inspired by the continued en-
gagement as star of this company's
actorial forces, Miss Beatriz Michelena,
whose qualifications TO portray the
of imperilled beauty and the
sweet, girlish innocence were suggest
ed in "Salomy Jane' but are com
pietely realized by the still more naive
of Mignon, the gyp-
Systolen maiden. 1t is an interesting
that in her career as an
opera singer Mignon was with Car
men, her most triumphant role-ar-
suing the versatility disclosed in the
present production by this new star
If the screen, the California beauty,
5eatriz Michelena
No mere word picture could even
uggest the beauty of the varied scenes
# "Mignon," embracing a completely
inclusive range of European life from
he camps of gypsy rovers to the pal
ce of Wilhelm Meister and the soil
udes of the trackless forests through
which Mignon and her white haired
ather roam, a duo of picturesque
neliness-wanderers from that far
one home where the orange blossoms
row."
"Mignon' then is offered to the mo-
on picture world with confidence that
ere will be found the inc qua non Of
hoto- dramatic perfection-action. ex-
tement, thrills. beauty and scenery
as background for one OF
,e worlds most poignant stories and
lost tender romances.
AS literature, as story, as dramatic
lot "Mignon' occupies position
hich no other imaginative work en-
ys-a position of popularity with sa
ants and servants, rich and poor, lit
ate and illiteraiA AS motion pic
ire its producers believe they havs
wen it as permanent and prominent
place in the new art OF the photo
rama l|s.