Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1919)

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Dorothy Phillips Is Married and Proud of It knotty at the joints. The palm is proportionately broad at the base of the fingers, the thumb quite long and stiff, and all of the fingers are inclined to bend outward. Taken as a whole, the hand is small and expressive. One fancies that it belongs to an idealist, who is at the same time very practical ; an impulsive person who also thinks. It was about eight o'clock when I came to interview her, and Gwen had just gone to bed. Mr. Holubar came in for a few moments to get his coat, which was hanging over the back of a chair, and to say a few words before leaving for the studio. His big picture had reached the cutting stage, and nothing could be done without his presence. "I've shot enough film on this," he remarked, 'to reach from here to the beach. Dorothy Phillips is versatile and plays widely varied characters with equal success Whereupon he reckoned up the footage and found that in its then present state his picture was exactly twenty miles long. "And it has to be cut to a mile and a half !" "A star has some rest," remarked his wife, "but a director has to work all the time !" When he had left she told me something of the picture in order to explain the extraordinary amount of film used. "Mr. Holubar and I have both become interested in this wave of spiritualism which is sweeping the country," she said. "There must be something in it when such minds as Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Conan Doyle and Maurice Maeterlinck announce themselves convinced. And so my husband decided to make a spiritualistic picture. The subject is a difficult one to handle. He wanted to show a ghost which would ring true. Not a bizarre, unnatural 'spook,' but a spirit which Would still be human without loss of spirituality. (Continued on page 106) n 39 ■' PA6 Li Dorothy Phillips depicts a dramatical moment in "Till We Meet Again" 1