The "Daily Mail" yesterday printed a strip of some of those characters (wherever did it resurrect them?) 5 of the Stórm Country," "Jerusha Abbott, Stella Maris, in which she doubled the parts, as she did in "Fauntleroy"—they give one an indescribable thrill.
There was, in particular, one scene in "Tess" which showed her supreme power. Many, no doubt, will remember how Tess has been persuaded to take charge of the illegitimate baby of a society girl, promising not to disclose who the real mother is. Her lover, filled with suspicion, parts from her; then the baby falls ill and Tess, fearing he will die, takes him to church on Christmas Day to be christened and carries him up the aisle to the clergyman, with her lover and the baby's real mother sitting in the front pew-Sentiment of the worst and most sugary kind, you may say. In most actresses' hands it would have been. But played by Mary Pickford with the most exquisite restraint and feeling, it was beyond praise.
Those better acquainted with modern films will be able to say when ther there is any actress now who so dominates the film world as Mary Pickford did once. Just as 50 years ago a new Gilbert and Sullivan opera was an event of national importance, so it was with a new picture of Mary Pickford's, and perhaps it was only because the cinema was not discussed so respectfully then as it is now, that her art did not receive the quality of admiration which it deserved
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