Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-10-08
Attic Movies
Alice Brady Plays Role Of Gree lE.
.knickerboeker 3-Part Drama at
the Ornhe UNI Tonioht.

The beautiful, winsome Alice Braey
a favorite Broadway star and one WHO
has proven by the quality of her wori
that she is worthy of the enviaple
name she mas won, appears in the
next release Of Knickerbocker Sta1
Features, a three-part drama, "Tns
Cup of Chance" written expressly .oi
her by the Rev. Clarence J. Harris, Z
lStegy which represents an entirely new
line OF work by this author.
Miss Bradley has added new lus,re
to an ALREADY hrilliant career as she
i%nterprets VITA s1ca remarkable skill
the life Of a girl who has never had
a chance in life. Her roae as Hope ?;
n of great difficulty which involves
an interplay of all kinds OF emotion
from simple, innocent childlikeness
to the extreme of waywarcness.
During the filming of this drama
Miss Brady won the esteem and gooc
will of all connected with the studio
She was called there a "jolly goot
fellow" and she was rightly named
for she made everyone happy as sne
worked, from the little child in the
drama and visiting children TO fellow
artists and directors.
In the range Of emotion which Miss
Brady is obliged to interpret in 'The
Cup of Chance" we see her a young
girl whose nome influence has always
been the worst, a home in Wihic:
motherhood was unknown, and where
liberty and license reigned.' Here we
see innocence in the environment OF
wrongdoing,t the girl so raised that the
wrong looked right to her. Hopes
sale to a whiteslaver, which results
in immediate reribution to the SLAYER,
leads to her accepting a position IN
an opera, "Circe," while the tragic
death Of her mother gives her a
chance in life for which she is utterly
unified.
In the role Of Gree, Miss Brady in.
terprets the enhancing spirit of Gree
from Homer's odyssey" Interpret.
ed by Matthew Arnold ana others,
Gree il looked upon as a goddess OF
sensuality, and according to Homer,
she gathered admiring men ABOUT her,
only to turn them into swine at her
pleasure. Until the arrival Of Ulysses,
she plays we'll her part.
While acting the part Of Circe in the
opera, Hope, impersonated by. Miss
Brady, lives the part of the stage.
At last, however, Hope pays the pr.ce
for her folly, collapses and fees from
society and the stage, only to meet
and marry a rich bachelor. Here she
meets her first great chance in life
but is unable to grasp it, and the mar
rage ends in tragedy.
The story is not a preachment. How
ever, It mas for its basic principle the
fact that on account of the degraded
motherhood in many instances, Chi;
dren are reared with false standards
Of morality, degrading ideals and
weakened constitutions, all Of which
must end in wreckage of character.
More than this, untrue motherhood
not only blasts the destiny Of the child
it has far-reacling influence in the
lives OF others, for no one falls by
himself.
Miss Brady has outdone herself in
her work: she holds one to the last
fash Of the picture and handles deli
cate subjects VITA great genius and
skill. "The Cup of Chance" will prove
a strong attraction on the Genera.
Film program, and Miss Brady will
prove in this Offering that che Is N
the front rank Of flmdom, equal to
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