Arthur Edmund Carewe — He Refuses to be Labeled (1925) 🇺🇸

They’re trying to classify Arthur Edmund Carewe, but just when he seems to be nicely labeled he steps forth in some new screen guise.

We shuddered at his spidery machinations as Svengali in Trilby. Then he beguiled us as the romantic sheik in The Song of Love. He added a sinister note of mystery as the suave and effete Persian in The Phantom of the Opera, and hurriedly changed his make-up to amuse us as the highly entertaining Poulet in “The Boomerang.”

Carewe’s experiences are more than interesting ones. A talented musician, he put that aside to enter the Sargent School of Acting and in his first year won the Belasco prize. Upon graduating he was offered a part in a Belasco company, and left that to join a road show, playing rôles which John Barrymore had created.

Although he has never appeared in any of William de Mille’s [William C. de Mille] picture, it was at that director’s insistence that Carewe left a Broadway success and attempted his first screen rôle, one with Constance Talmadge. That was six years ago. Carewe has never returned to the stage, though he has had several offers which his screen engagements prevented him from accepting. Now it is rumored that he is considering a rôle in a new play to be produced next fall. But in all probability there will be plenty of producers or directors to make him change his mind before then.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, July 1925