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NAZIMOVA
A WONDER
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play is an adaptation for the screen
from her stage success, "Ception
Shoals" noted for the intensity oil
its dramatic situations.
Madame Nazimova is known az
the woman of thousand moods and
her art is as great in Tight fantastic
or whimsical moments as it is in
the heavy emotional drama. Sha
was born in the Russian Crimea, in
a little town on the shores of the
Black sea, but was educated in Gen.
eva, where she decided on the ca
reer of a violinist and studied &C.
cordingly. She made her first pub.
lie appearance at the age of II at
concert in her native town, but il
was not long after this that she gave
up music for the drama. She studied
under the great Stanislawsky, who
considered her an artist of great
ability even at an early age. As
leading woman in Russian stock
company she played more than 200
parts.
Since coming to America Nazi.
nova has played in both Russian
and English and is known for her
great characterization in the lead.
ing roles of "The Dolls House."
"Hedda Gabler," and Little Eyolf."
Like other noted artists she has
grown to prefer the screen to the
stage and devotes most of her Tins
to the splendid work for which her
name has become famous here and
abroad. Her work in Revelation"
Toys of Fate" and Eye for Eye"
has set higher plane for motion
picture achievement than has hither-
to been reached by any other screen
star, and "Out of the Fog" shows
that her art is infinite.
Albert Capellani, the distinguished
Frenchman who directed this pic
ture, also made the screen adapta-
ton from H. Austin Adams "Cep-
ton Shoals" with the collaboration
of June Mathis.
Fannie Ward, Pathe star, who
has achieved new honors in Com
mon Clay" in which she appears
at the Strand this week, was born in
St. Louis. She is the daughter of
the late John Buchanan. When she
was a child, Miss Ward made her
debut as Cupid" in "Pippine." In
England on vacation, Miss Ward
| became acquainted with George
Edwardes, the manager, and i'm
pressed by her beauty and charm,
he offered her an engagement which
she accepted. Her first appearance
abroad was in The Shop Girl"
produced at the Gaiety in London.
She achieved considerable publicity
by reason of her marriage to
Joseph Lewis, wealthy South
African mine operator. On her re-
turn to America, Miss Ward was
heralded as star of first magni-
tude on the legitimate stage and
attained wide popularity in New
York. Great as was her success on
the speaking stage, even more bril-
liant has been her career on the
screen. More notable, however, has
been her appearance in the produc-
tons OF Innocent" and "The Yellow
Ticket" a Japanese Nightingale"
and The Narrow Path"
Mary Miles Minter, who appears
at the Sun today in "The Intrusion
of Isabel" is one of the champion
players Of tennis on the Pacific
coast. ...
Despite her hard work as a movie
star, Miss Minter finds time daily
to engage in favorite pastime. Not
only is Miss Minter champion ten
mis- player, but she is also a cham
plon kntter of sweaters for bows
over there" having delivered
number of wooden sweaters to the
Red Cross organization.
Movie fans love Mary Miles
Minter on the screen, but many of
them do not know what she does
off the screen. Listen!
She likes to knit for the soldiers.
She likes to read the novels of
Sir Walter Scott
She likes to drive her own car I'D
and down the hills of sunny Cali
fornia.
Pauline Frederick, who appears
on the screen at the Muse today,
in "One Week of Life" is an ON
nivorous reader of detective stories
and narratives of adventure. She
likes Robert Louis Stevenson and
James Fenimore Cooper, as we'll
as their latter-day successors in the
magazines. She is said to have
read Zone Week of Life" in a maya
zine and urged that it be bought for
her use. But it isn't a detective
story.
Salaries paid motion picture stars
may be decidedly out of proportion
to those paid the actors of the dra-
matte stage, but it is equally true
that they are called upon to risk
their careers, and incidentally, their
lives, with great deal of frequency.
William Farnum, who is reported
to have long time contract with
William Fox, at $780,000 a year,
recently had an unusual assignment
in Florida while taking scenes for
The Jungle Trail"
At a spot about IA miles north
of Miami, in Arch Creek, there is
a natural stone bridge crossing the
Brackish river at height of nearly
50 feet. Mr.. Farnum's assignment
consisted of having fight with can.
nlbals on the bank of the river. fee
ing to the bridge, making a 30-fos
dive into the river, and SWIMMING
under water to Safety"
This dive in itself probably would
have been enough to dampen the
ardor of the average actor, but it
was made especially thrilling tor