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Majestic Theatre
Theda Bara, Star of the Clemenceau
Case, Gives Remarkable Talk on
liza" at the Majestic Monday
and Tuesday

Theda Bara, the beautiful and brill
liantly talented leading woman o the
Playhouse OF Thrills, the Theatre An
tome, Paris, has never been seen, not
even in her famous role Of The YAM
pire Woman in the celebrated Will
liam Fox production, A Fool There
Was" to better advantage than in
the Fox Film Corporations, William
Fox, president picture-play based on
Alexandra Dumas novel, "The Glenn
enceau Case" The Clemenceau Case"
is, in fact film drama peculiarly
suited to the display of Miss Bara's
great genius at its superb best The
character of LA, the beautiful woman
with the basilisk soul, whose diversion
is Turing men on to love and TO ruin,
affords her an opportunity to give
rendition Of this most remarkable
part ever written that will scorch
the memories of her spectators like
living fame. Mile Bara studied the
role of LA in Paris and when selected
to play it for the William Fox pro-
duction of 1.-The Clemenceua Case"
once more delved deep into the psy-
Geological aspects of the seductive
siren. who is beautiful with the SIMS
ter beauty of the serpent that liza
has made her pet.
liza is one of those women born
incapable of love, but with a feverish
desire for admiration" declares Miss
Bara. Her treatment first OF the un-
fortunate Pierre, at whose hands she
meets her end, and later of Ritz Con-
stantin, and long line of other VIC
tins, is merely the logical outcome
of her nature. She differs radically
from the Vampire Woman, who was
utterly devoid of soul and possessed
only of vicious lust to destroy. LA
likes dimly lit rooms, the soft swish
of oriental draperies, bizarre music
and ultra-futuristic art My study
Oh Iildl d1NCl NOllNiilNN5' ltlN NAAeAN 4f-o
was not essentially evil. 1t was her
love of the beautiful, paradoxical as
that may appear, that made her q
Vampire of vastly superior intellect
81 think of liza as an analyst, a
woman who sedulously studied all
her love affairs and the character:
of the men whom she made victims
How otherwise account for her sud
den strange return of affection for
Pierre after she had blasted his life
and ruined his career? In the studio
scenes, where Pierre first experiences
her fatal fascination, LA has not, sc
to speak, yet tasted blood. She has
all the instincts of vampire smold-
ing latent within her but she has moi
yet allowed them to get the better
of her Once they do, however, they
burn like a consuming fame scorch-
ing all with whom they come in con.
tact with the swift, deep currents Of
life and love. At her worst she is
appalling, capable of anything a crea-
ture to make the blood run cold. En-.
dowed as she is with a superhumanly
acute brain her restless soul drives
her irresistibly to audacity after au-
dacitv. She deies every decent con
vention. Even in the decorations Of
her rooms, the sort. heavy scent of in
cense that hangs over them the dis
torted idols grinning out of the pur-
pie shadows. the monstrous pythot
that she cherishes as a pet and en-
braces as if it we're not the most evi
Of reptiles, reflect LAS character. Hei
end is what the end of an la II
real life would have been-may have
been. in fact-the Quick striking o
vengeance of one of her infatuated
victims"
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