South Bend News-Times, Volume 39, Number 306, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 2 November 1922 — Page 9

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4j . 1 r..'., ljPi .... ; j Mrs. Lillian Kölker, Who Accuses Her Husband of Undue Friendliness with the Beautiful Swede." Mrs. Kölker Is Twenty Years Her Husband's Junior, and Also Known as a Reality. THEY called her "The Girl of Crowding Emotions" tack in the days of 1912, when she be pan to portray, from behind the footlight,, the drama of Human Heart. But now that she has played leads for 10 years in the melodrama of Actual Life, that title has been changed. Anna Quercntia Nilsson of Dresden China luvc:ne?s, of wilfulness like April sunshine, of vivaciousness like rippling water, of charm that is all her own in short, Anna Querrr.tia Nil??on, wh, is a wonderful pirl now may l e called "The Figure of Fate." For not to one person in a larpe one thousand does there com the opportunities, radical char.pcs, vivid adventuro. climaxes a:id thrills that have beset the still brief life of th"n screen and stae star. Those are titles that mipht bo written at the hea of a few adventures of Anna: "Child star acclaimed in Stockholm's Royal Theatre; marvellous future predicted." "Exquisite model creates sensation iu Cotham society us she poses for Ben Ali Hapgin's masterpiece." "Girl paid $20.000 for starring in series of film plays." "Successful actress plays fiiry princess

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a Calamitous Turn That Interrupted Her

"She Distinctly Saw the ftilsson Automobile Stopping Just Before It Reached the Street Corner to Allow Kölker to Alight: ' J to a??ecl parents in Sweden; whole town turns out in her honor." "Beautiful star named in ?uit for separation; Mrs. Henry Kölker is the wife in the triangle." "Darinc: actress battles forest fire throughout day; her beauty threatened by burns.' Now while rich in supcstion of possibilities, thc?c lines are indeed but poor things as compared with fact; mere straws Henrv Kolker, ' Who, His Wife' VS. Avers, is Very Suscep tible to a "Baby Stare. pointing the way the wind of adventure blows. And strangely enough it always has blown kindly until it putted the Xolkcr incident in the way f the lovely little Swede. Still her part as "hypothenuse" in the sinister geJinttric fipure is earned on in a manrer worthy of the "cleverest actress." To begin with, Mrs. Kölker is neither middleaged nor unattractive of appearance, as you might expect of a wife wh,- mentions the beauty of another woman as one of the reasons why the friendship betwce.i that woman and the wife's husband isn't all that it might be. Lillian B. Kölker runs to quiet poise, and there is pleasing contrast between the deep blue of her eyes and her naturally ash blond hair and creamy complexion.

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Henry Kölker, star of the stage and director of screen celebrities, however, cares less for the charm of dignity than for a babv stare. At least, thh is the theory expressed hv his wife after making a study of him for 1C years. He does think so much of that baby stare that when it is turnod on full strength and a wistful smile thrown in for meagre, he fal's like a pushedover building and takes whatever the owner of the c'arp wants crahinp alone: with him! Such being sr, what's easier than for fascinating Anna to lure him? "Tawdry tricks of youth, is the way she puts it into words. "Something soot and young meets him and th's is the ?t formica for the monologue that follows: 'Oh, Mr. Kölker, I am so glad to meet you! Fvervone says you have the true eye for artistic ta'ent. T've lone thoutrht I would screen well. Wouldn't it be possible for you to test me?' All of this w'th a poicnant, personal appeal and a look from the applicant's eyes lifted in adoration and in amazement, too, that such infinite intelligence all could be htld in the head of mortal man! An Auto and Three Evenings "Does he fall? lie does! lie begins right away to see traces of talent!" To all of which, when she views herself as the mnnologist, Anna airily remarks "Shucks!" "Our relations were on a business basis only," she adds. dismis?ing the matter then and there. Still Mrs. Ko'.ker claims to remember certain little details of this next to the last experience jn the colorful career of Anna. There was, for instance, the evening three evenings, in fact when she distinctly saw the Nilsson automobile drive toward her Hollywood home, stopping just before it reached the street corner to allow Kölker to aijrht. And while the car glided away, he would come in, forgetting to mention that he'd had a lift Then there was another time upon an occasion of their leaving Los Anpeles for a trip East They just boarded the train; Mr. Kölker had left her for something and she walked out to the observation platform. And what did she see but her husband rushing to meet the screen star, to greet her with affection and help with her baps! Despite the frantic declaration of Kölker, who is 52, and, according to his wife, oupht to know better than to try to deceive herj that her charges nre "Wholly false and gratuitous insults to Mis3 Xilsson,"' Mrs. Kölker has every intention of standing by her allegations. So, of course, it is possible that in the end the wind of adventure which blew this experience her way, may prove a wind of adversity after all! The very last of her romance? threatened to rob her of beauty and even of life itself ! She was plunged into it willy-nilly when with her company she was making a picture in British Columbia. Forest fires were raging through the droughtseared forests and Anna created great popularity fcr herself with forest rangers by supplying them with hot coffee while they fought the flames. It is said that she erven went so far as to prepare them flap-jacks, mixing the batter and foppinp them with her own fair hands! That being as it may, somebody developed the idea that n really good forest fire should be allowed to go to waste unfilmed. Accordingly the necessary continuity was arranged, and the f ragile-seercing little star set out to drive a locomotive straight through a stretch where there would be smoke and blaze and altogether a perfectly gorgeous background for the scenes.

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J -V. . ' 'V , v Anna Querentia Mlnn. 4,hp r.irl of ' w Crowding Emotions,' f Tiose Thrillin? Experiences in a Forest Fire Form the Climax to a Whole Hook of Adventure. Now the idea was all very fir.e. F.ut whoever oiTered it did not know that the locomotive with Anna, her leading man who appeared .v fireman, and the cameran:an wou'd run iito a trap surrounded or all sides by raging tlami throughout an entire day! When the rancor? finally fought their way to the rescue of their little friend, they found her so badly burned about the face, shoulders, and arm- that they rushed her to the hospital. Trey feared her delicate beauty was ruined and rcrta'n members of the film world held their breath till word went out that she was on the mend. This is the last of htr adventures: the first was a lonpr, continuous one; a sort of wandering in fairyland. For not many children at about the time they begin to walk have the thrill of appearing on the stage ard beincr .admired and talked of from one end of the lard to the other! This is what happened ts Anna, however, She was considered a permanent member of the stock company that played at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm and toward tile end of her long engagement there was looked upon as cr.e of the foremost of the younger itars of Europe. A Stroke of Fortune . Directly upn coming to America she was rushed into adventure, through means of Bon Ali Haggin's mastcrpim En Costume." This was one of the most-talked-of paintincs of its time for the very simple reason that Society note the capital 'S," the old Knickerbocker crowd to be exact suspected oie of its younger members of having posed for the lithe and Icsely young figure portrayed in gren silk tights and a green velvet doublet. Haggin was known to be painting the young society lady's picture and Mrs. Grundy declared thr.t she easily might have worn tight fcr her sittings, and promptly held up her hands in horror over the canvas going on exhibition. When the young woman's father heard the story there followed s. much flying of fur that everybody felt called upon to make explanations, and it was established thit Anna Nilsson, then a mod--l, was the original. Soon afterw, ard she began to bloom In the den. Success followed succt.?. " offered an opportunity she acted Broadway ganici When "pictures' a series of adventures for the tritling remunera tion of $20,000. Her s-jecess on the speakin-s-age reached its high point lat January when s.ie was starred in "Three- Live Ghosts." Perhaps the one of all her adventures that she loves the mos: is that which took her to Sweden, back to the old home, to visit her aged parents. Klippan, the littl; town where she wr.s born, turned out to welcore her. She showered the old folks with a regular fjdry rain of gifts, among t.iera the handsomest house in the whole town.

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