The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-12-02
PAULINE
FREDERICK
IN ''zAzA"
Analyses the Remarkable Character
Which She lnterprets for Silent
Drama Lovers

is just big hearted, impulsive WON.
an with many lofty traits of charac.
ter" said Pauline Frederick, whose
Interpretation of the title role in
the Famous Players Film Company's
Paramount Perturbation of the char
acteristic sensation was declared by
the leading dramatic critics of the
New York press to be superior to that
of the famous Mrs Leslie Carter who
scored her greatest success in the
part several years ago.
Somewhat at a loss to explain the
| attitude of fascinated scorn which Is
adopted by many toward Zaza, Miss
J Frederick was moved to analyze ner
character in the light Of the develop
ments which she saw in the making
of the motion picture adaptation.
The broader scope of the treatment
of the character in the film version
of the play, which carries us back to
laza's childhood and shows clearly
the early influences which moulded
the woman, throws new light upon
Zaza and makes Miss Frederick's
views more comprehensive than any
which could be based upon stage
version of the drama.
I'VE fail to realize perhaps, that
zaza is a child of the gutter who was
brought up with only tipster of an
4 10 I, Il. n !,
continued Miss Frederick. "She was
a girl of wonderful dynamic force
whose whole nature was allowed to
run riot-she was a healthy weed a
child of Impulse with no one to dis.
tinguish for her between the good
and the bad
Thrust into the life OF the music
nall, she came into contact with the
least desirable Of influences, where
there was absolutely no restraint of
any kind. Small wonder then that
this great potential force, when II
took the form of deep end lasting
passion, should have carried the girl
out of herself and made her the slave
OF Henri. And remember that Zaza's
love was an honest one as she be
lieved implicitly in Henri's protest OF
devotion to her, never dreaming that
he was really married.
"You know, our ability to love Is
the measure of our ability to hate
. So when the girl suddenly saw hel
little paradise being wrecked by the
man about whom her dream web was
woven, her elemental nature knew
,, but one reaction-an Overwhelming
cry for revenge.
with the deadliest of intuition
she seizes upon the one most crush
! ing method OF attack possible. In the
blindness of her rage, Henri's wife
appears ID her in the guise of sue
cessful rival who has robbed Ter Of
the man she loves. There is just
one way to wreak vengeance upor
the man who betrayed her and The
woman who, to her distorted mind
was the instrument of his duplicity-
and that is, to denounce Henri tC
his wife,
"She gloats over the picture of her
self appearing before the smugl!
complacent wife and announcing her
self as the mistress OF Henri thu
fnultless husband. Then, the dam
age done, she win watch the suffer
ing of these two who have wrough
such havoc in her life
& "Then comes the great climax o
: zazas life in the meeting betwee
& herself and the little daughter o
\ Henri, and in that meeting we fin
n the key to Zaza's real nature. 1t
II the overwhelming mother instinct
n 1.-THE sight OF Henri's beautiful Iii
q tie child OF which the other woma
4 and not sine, Is the mother, is
4 shock almost equal In its intensit
to the discovery OF her lovers duI
lcity But the effect is exactly tn
reverse, for it brings out the hes
- that Is in the woman.
n "When the little girl puts her arm
around Za2a's neck and asks her
q she has a little girl at nome like he
s. all desire for vengeance fades frol
a the tortured woman's heart and he
one great thought is to shield the II
n nocent little soul from the eterni
q disgrace which the revelation of nC
q fathers guilt would bring upon hel
"a "Zaza's final remuneration of He
q ri and her dedication of her life
e the theater are the final cuminatio
n Of this stormy career which is to N
one of tine most absorbing and or
Of the most thoroughly human doc
N ments that I have ever had the pie
IA sure Of studying,