Claire Kroell — Real Tales About Reel Folk (1914) 🇺🇸

Claire Kroell, new leading woman with the Thanhouser Company, does strong work in the eighteenth episode of The Million Dollar Mystery. She is an exceptionally talented actress of strikingly handsome appearance.

Although she plays the part of the Russian Princess Parlova, she is seen costumed as an Egyptian lady of royal blood, attired for the masqued ball which she gives in the film. The photograph here reproduced shows her about to recline in her palanquin, cushioned and hung with gorgeous embroideries of the Far East. Her Moorish servant stands waiting to deliver to her a huge bouquet of roses and orchids, the gift of a diplomat much in her thrall. Then, borne by three other servants in the same picturesque garb, Parlova in her litter will be carried into the ball-room where her guests already are assembling.

It is at this ball that the Countess Olga (Marguerite Snow) and Braine, chief of the conspirators (Frank Farrington) by duplicating the fancy dress of Florence Gray (Flo LaBadie) [Florence La Badie] and James Norton (James Cruze) succeed in trapping the heiress. The Princess, a former member of the Black Hundred, has been intimidated into inviting the conspirators to her house, but is unaware what outrage they are plotting to perpetrate. No more thrilling chapter of the great serial yet has been produced. And the gorgeousness of the costuming and settings, with Claire Kroell as the brilliant and fascinating hostess, is an excellent example of Thanhouser’s high artistic standard.

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Claire Kroell As the Princess Parlova in The Million Dollar Mystery

Collection: Reel Life Magazine, October 1914

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