. Film flashes : the wit and humor of a nation in pictures. thing but run away withthe part. When she appeared for the first scene, with herbraids and her five-cent straw sailor, the old jacket that she hadbought right off the back of a Swedish dish washer, sheliterally made the part. She didnt want to be an ordinary servant maid. BessieLove couldnt be an ordinary comedy character if she wantedtc. She invariably instills into it her famous wink, her sly little smile, and her demure manner of blundering sinceritythat is the funniest thing she does. Bessie doesnt strive muchfor effect; but watch
. Film flashes : the wit and humor of a nation in pictures. thing but run away withthe part. When she appeared for the first scene, with herbraids and her five-cent straw sailor, the old jacket that she hadbought right off the back of a Swedish dish washer, sheliterally made the part. She didnt want to be an ordinary servant maid. BessieLove couldnt be an ordinary comedy character if she wantedtc. She invariably instills into it her famous wink, her sly little smile, and her demure manner of blundering sinceritythat is the funniest thing she does. Bessie doesnt strive muchfor effect; but watch her work in The Flying Torpedo, espe-cially this scene, in which she plays for time to keep the apothe-cary busy and give the author Emerson, who writes the thrill-ing love tales in which her soul delights, plenty of time toinvestigate the crooks den behind the apothecary shop. Noteher ingratiating smile and winning dumbness, and rememberour prophecy to the effect that Bessie Love is going to make hermark on the screens as the best comedienne of her JA81ES iiidisrY%^ Copyright^ Judge. New York, Ijir. REEL LOVERS .;>%^ .J mt
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