The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-09
the Movies Ac-
.tress Cannot
Hide Her Years
with the Make
Up Those on the
Stage Use.

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n oRoTHY GIsH, the younger Of the two
famous Glsh sisters. made use Of the
phrase. Our camera days" in talking to an
interviewer the other dag. When questioned
about the term she replied:
''our camera days are what Shakespeare
called our salad days. the days when we are
green and tender. when we are young. Inn
II, my sister Lillian is 10 aui Loretta Blake,
another Of the stars in our company Is H.
Most Of the D. W. Grifita stars are young.
The eye OF the camera is not to be cheated;
the camera is the eye Of the public millions.
HenN we cannot offer up to the great god
camera mere illusion Of youth, for youth
itself. as they do on the regular stage. We
must give them actual youth. therefore, we are
all young"
AFTER youth-what them" asked the inter-
viewer.
character leads, and some Of US Will stay pc
fore the camera and do odds and ends All OF
which reminds me OF my great ambition. It
is TO cheat the camera. don't mean that shall
ALWAYS stay young; mountains Of cold cream are
used daily in that vain fen:rine hope But
wish and aspire in each succeeding period OF
my agony Ife-to attain to the height OF
my art in that period.
THAT is to say. wist before leave my
girlhood behind, to play young girl parts as
they have never been played before, so that
my creations will live in cold film That Is
our immortality, cold film. Then when am
young woman, want to derelop my art SO
that will play young womanhood to che iull
Of M possibilities. And chen, when middle
age comes, desire to appear on the screen as
the kind of a middle-aged woman that every
enc will want to see as the heroine. and SO
with old ladies. when that time arrives
"1 believe 1t possible thus to round out an
artistic oareu. through tho various ages OF
woman, ANA then, too, by that time the photo
play will hav, so highly educated the public
that there will be much Grs for arts SAKE
and youth will not necessarily mean every
thing to the audience
There. is ruch truth in what this player
says truth and tragedy, for It is tragic to
think that Of all tho beautiful yourg girls now
working before the camera, In a. Few SNORT
years Will have passed. nitny IT them into OBJ
srurity, and their places taken by others who
shall strut before tho camera for short sea-
son and also pass.
1t is pathetic to think o. this young girl,
scarcely more than child. planning for the
dav when cruel time will lay his marringi
fingers OF, her face-planning braveiy that she
may pass from glrlhood to middle age and on
to the last. always playing her parts in the
manner best suited to her age and condition.
youth will be served" Never before has
the, application Of this term been Drought
home so much as in the motion pictures.
Youth-youth and beauty. is the constant
cry Of the picture makers. Youth--youth and
beantv. is the constant cry Of the picture
patrons
The Great God Camera that this young ac-
tress speaks Of in talking Of the Tragedy OF
tinc Is nothing but the publlc--you ana your
neist,bor, around the corner and in the next
block
The Great God Camera is q rayenous crea.-
ture. yeritable Moloch Of the movies. always.
hungry for young faces to feed on And It IS
A most thankless and unappreciative creature,
for. as soon as youth has had its brief fling, 1t
IL, thrown aside, dumped into the discard-for-
gotten by the public that worshiped IL for
new faces and new forms.
on the regular stage the performer is not
always haunted with the fear Of age. He Is
not speeded up with the thought that. today !
must win, for tomorrow Time will be on his
round, passing out the wrinkles that will relies
gate me to 'has.been.' and odds and bits Of
character work."
IN fact, the actors on the regular stage gain
as much in experience and the ability to do fn-
ished work as the years go on as they losesin
pcrsoral appearance. and with the aid Of the
friendly, makeup box to supply the deficiencies
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