The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-02
or INTEREST TO WOMEN
Mary MacL anel Nov Vamping
in Cinema Story Of Life

Mary MacLAne's curious gray green
eyes were heavily penciled. The neces-
sary articles OF screen makeup had
wrought a curious change in her. She
sat at ease, between scenes, in her
dressing room at the moving picture
studio. Her dress, black in the mailn
was slasfed with white and Of pat
tern to be identified with her famous
whims In attire. She appeared beau
tiful. ana one who had seen her when
she was less stunning might have been
mildly surprised.
you are a. vampire now" she was
asked. accusingly.
The author of Il. Mary McLane,"
smiled wearily. The strange glints of
animation that made her eyes shine
beneath the beaded lashes died away.
The old retrospective film returned.
i suppose So" she said. II am a
different vampire, however. I have
more of the usual articles of the con-
ventional type. They are not neces-
sary. Men come to dash themselves
upon women impetuously and impor-
tunately. seeking destruction as the
ocean pillows seek destruction on n
reef"
~. Women Her Enemies.
Mary Mcr4ane. the strange psychic
essayist from Butte. had concluded
her first two or three scenes of Men
Who Have Made Love to Me-" thai
curious half naive, half cynical history
of her various suitors. AS an essay
1t created a furore. Women--WomenI
have always been avid enemies of
Mary Misunderstanding that shel
was bartering the secret psychology!
Of her sex for pieces of silver
But the masculine sex might have
writhed utterly-for it was their stock
shams and stereotyped protestations!
that she paraded. heartlessly perhaps,
or merely dispassionately. !!
And now. as a"film feature. a photo
play firm has assembled an efficient
cast 10 support her in the re-enactng
OF those scenes that are pnrported to,
have been the foundation and inspir
alton for MEN Who Have Made Love
to Me-" After fame came to Mary
McIane and entree to gilded and
multi phased New York. many men
sought her, it is said, questing males
baffled by her strange, piquantly elu-
sive moods. her Grecian features. and
smoldering eyes.
Out Of the hundreds who burned in |
cense at the altar Of feminine differ
ence" she found six worthy of special
treatment in her story and in the
screen version of her inventory Of
hearts and passions. The half dozen
aspirants are: THE Callow YOUTH
the Literary Man." "the Bank Clerk,
''the Prize Fighter" 1.-The younger
Son." and "the Husband of Another"
Bored in Three Weeks.
Mary McLane played the game
adroitly. She is. on her own admis- |
sion. a liar. a trifler, and a cheat in
the game of hearts. Her writing re- |
fleets her. curious maJleability of
mood. The callow youth she roamed
with callowly. and his heroics she met
with the mechanical tricks that u girl
less sophisticated might have believed
very real. Twas three weeks she
admits, before he bored me-
They all appear in appointed time.
like eclpses and taxes and the mare.
of the seasons and all of them recede
again into the oblivion of the don't
care from which they emerged brief .
ly to parade before Mary McLane.s
cynical attention. 1t is an interesting
film, startlingly distinct from tie old
dynamic" style of .'vamping.' Miss
McIAnes superb egotism triumEhel
over the unfamiIiarity of the thing.