The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-06-10
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A dast which includes the name Of
a star of the magnitude of Bessie Bar
riscale and such actors as ]. Barney
Sherry, Enid Marley, Charles Ray,
Frank Borzage, Arthur Maude,
Louise Glaum and Jerome Storm lays
particular emphasis on the excellence
of the production given THE Cup
of Life" Mutual Masterpiece in five
parts by Thomas II. Ince, one of the
most celebrated of the motion pic
ture directors in the world today.
This is not Miss Barriscale's debut
on the screen or in Masterpieces, for
she played the leading feminine role
in "The Devil" but her appearance in
this difficult role of the shopgirl who
fell from grace serves to make
doub1y clear how really remarkable
an actress she is.
On the stage tricks of personality
or the voice are sometimes effective
in winning stellar honors for an
otherwise untalented woman, but in
the movies one must act to win.
This makes Miss Barriscale's success
all the more worthy of praise and
demonstrates conclusively her un-
challenged right to the sterling repu
tation she achieved while appearing
on tile speaking stage.
En- d Marley also shows to unusual
advantage as the girl who chose a
husband from the ranks of the labor
ing men and helped him to win in the
struggle for existence. She furnished
with delicate art clearly drawn
characterization of the sort necessary
to afford contrast. When she and
her frivolous sister met, after the
lapse of years, the difference was inn
mediately made clear with dramatic
force.
Two shopgirls, sisters chose their
future open eyed. When the young
Ct dNNSplS d ldDOlllS man lOl nus
band the elder, dismayed at the pros
pect the future holds out pleads with
her sister In the tenement houses
around the elder points out the over
worked, tired women wearing them
selves to the bone for the sake of an
unappreciative husband and an over
supply of children. The younger re-
fuses to listen, and on the day OF the
wedding the elder leaves the cele-
bration that follows the ceremony
and walks dispiritedly into the park.
There a wealthy young man, whose
motorcar the day previous almost ran
her down, scrapes an acquaintance.
Soon we see the weak moraled girl
in an apartment of her own, sur
rounded with all the attributes of
luxury.
She goes from bad to worse, from
wea thy protector to one still more
wealthy In turn they tire of her
The one man who offered her honor
able marriage she laughed at, and six
years later we see her Abandoned by
her last friend" an Englishman.
She decides for home and, once there,
goes to see her sister, whom she finds
happily housed and adored by hus-
band and children.
NJ ade desperate by the wreck of
her life, she tries to win back the one
mar who wanted to marry her, only
to discover him flirting with her maid.
AS she stumbled down the rocky road
that marks the close of her days, COM
torted by drink and tobacco, by ex-
peri photography Mr.. Ince succeeds
in keeping before the audience the
girl as. she was and had become.
Miss Barriscale's makeup in the con-
clue ling scenes is remarkable.
9 The Cup of Life" will be shown
at the Majestic Theatre on Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday of this
week.