"THREE WEEKS."

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1916, Page 8

"THREE WEEKS."

AN INTERVIEW WITH EUXOR GLYN. In connection with the film, "Three Weeks," to be screened at the Theatre Royal to-night, the following interview with Ulinor (ilyn will prove of interest: F«r me "The Lady" was a deep study, the analysis of a strange Slav nature, who from circumstance and education and her general view of life was beyond the ordinary laws of morality. If I v.ere making the .study of a tiger I would not givee it the attribute of a spaniel because the public, and 1 myielf, might prefer a spaniel! I would still seek to portray accurately every miniite instinct of that tiger to make a' living picture. Thus as you read, I want you to think of her as such a study—a great splendid nature, full of the passionate realisation of primitive instincts, immensely cultivated, polished, blase. You must see her at Lucerne obsessed with the knowledge of her horrible life with her brutal, vicious husband, to whom she had been sacrificed for political reasons when almost a child. She suddenly sees this young Englishman, who comes as an echo of something straight and true in manheod, which, in outward appearance, at all events, she has met In iier youth in the person of his uncle Hjikert. She perceives in him at once the s»ul sleeping there: and it produces in her a str»ng emotion. Then I want yeu to understand the effect of lot. on both of ihew. In her it rose from'caprice to intense devotion, until the day at the farm when it reached the higli- . est point—a desire to reproduce his likeness. How with the most passionate physical emotion her mental influence upon Paul was ever to raise Vim to vast aiais and noble desires for future greatness. In him love opened the windows of his soul so that he saw the fine in everything. ■The immense rush of passion in Venice came fro® her knowledge that they soon must part. Notice the effort of the twn griefs on Paul—first, with its undefined hope, making him do well in all things, even his prowess as a hunter, to raise 'himself to he more worthy in her eves;the second and paralysing one of death, turning him into adamant, until his •soul awakens again with the returning spring of. her spirit in his heart, and. the consolation of the living essence ot their love in the child. The minds of some human beings arc as moles, grubbing in the earth for worms. They have no eyes to sec God's sky with the stars in it. To sucli "Three Weeks" will be but a sensual record of passion. But those who do look up beyond the material will understand the deep, pure love, and the soul in it all, and they will realise that to sucli I a nature ag "the Lady's'' passion would i never have run riot until it was sated—she would have daily grown noble in her i desire to make her loved one's son a 1 splendid mas.