Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
IN JAIL
SOME JOKE

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n MAHA friends OF Margarita
Fisher will remember her love
~ of good joke-be it on herself
or on the other fellow, and here's one
that was all on the former Omaha
actress. 1t happened during the
filming of her latest screen play
Pair Enough" in which she APP
pears at the Sun today until Tues
day.
When the cell scenes from the
police station episide of Fair
Enough" were taken, she was play
fully locked in by Jack Mower, her
leading man. The police had per-
mitted the American company to
use one of the new lock-ups in a
police station under construction at
Santa Barbara. Mr.. Mower did not
know that this particular style of
cell door lock takes two Keystone
to close and one to open--when he
turned the key, which was in the
lock. The work on the picture sud-
denly had to cease. The only man
having the other key was only
known by name and the contractors
were rather hazy as to his address.
Four hours elapsed before the pos
SCISSOR of the key finally was found
playing a sociable three-cushion bill
lard game in a Santa Barbara re-
sort.
When not busy before the camera
Miss Fisher spends much of her
time making sketches for her own
wardrobe; and also for the fashion
publications, who eagerly accept her
drawings. Many of the dainty
creations seen in her late picture
were made after her own designs
and in Fair Enough" she wears
some Of them. ..
ALA Nazimova, who will be seen
in Eye for Eye" at the Rialto the
alter this week, has become the SUI
preme screen star of the day.
Born in Talta, a little Crimean
town on the shores of the Black
Sea, she showed an aptitude for
music and became violinist at the
age of IL. She gave up music as
a profession, however, and devoted
herself to the study of dramatic art
Soon after this she moved to Petro-
grad, where she appeared in the lead
ing theaters in all prominent roles
including "Zaza" Camille" Mag
da," "Hedda Gabler," "Trilby" and
"The Second Mrs. Tanqueray." She
attempted to make a production of
"The Chosen People" revolution
airy play, but was stopped by the
Russian censors. 1t was in this play,
however, that she made her first APP
pearance in America, which was pro-
duced at the Criterion theater. Dur
ing this time she appeared in the
Russian language, but at the sugges-
ton of Henry Miller she began to
study English and after four short
months appeared as "Hedda Gabler,"
in this language.
Since War Brides" all her APP
pearances on the silver sheet have
been in Nazimova productions,
where she appeared in Revelation"
which has been called a classic by
the most notable critics of the day,
and Toys of Fate" another super
screen production. In Eye for
Eye" which is perhaps her greatest
achievement and in which she plays
the part Of Hassouna, beautiful and
frey Arabian girl, she has added
new laurels to her wreath of fame.
To me there is no such term as
makeup" 1t is a technical asset
and ! refuse to play technically. If
/ cannot register emotions any other
way won't through a mask of
makeup, for, if that should be
necessary, would realize that act
ing was not my forte.
To act at all it is necessary to feel
the part. No amount of grease
paint, no matter how artistically ap-
piled, could serve as a substitute for
the feeling. 1t is the same in real
life. Haven't you sometimes seen a
woman, laboring under a strain,
hastily powder her nose, battle her
eyes with lavendar water and dab
some rouge on her cheeks? Does
she deceive anybody BY doing so?
Not at all. On the other hand, a
person with sorrow equally great,
wanting to hide it from the eyes
Of che curious, will make himself
look as if nothing had happened by
just pretending to himself that
nothing actually had happened. He
will make himself feel a certain
way and as q result will so appear
TO others as we'll.
The only makeup that is really a
necessity is the dark coloring to
change the complexion or, at times,
crepe hair to supply quickly what
nature cannot produce quickly
enough, but character lies not in
cold cream, nor in grease paint and
crepe hair. A man may be master
with the makeup box, but does that
prove he is an actor? l think most
people will agree with my assertion
that it does not, -Monrose Sails
bury.