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For The First Time, Dorothy And Lillian And Their Mother Go In Different Paths
By BEATRICE WILSON
THE famous Gish combination no longer exists. The famih' motto, "Three for one and one for three," for these good many years has refused to break under the attacks of producers. directors and movie magnates, has been shattered at last. For the first time in the history of the Gish family, each member is on her own.
Quite recently, D o r o t h \ Gish startled the
Dorothy — above — has proved the more adventurous of the two Gish sisters; and successfully so, for her stage debut in Love" — wherein she appears as at the left — won her a generous wreath of laurels. But Lillian, in the two lower pictures, continues within the shelter of the studios
film world and the people in general by declaring that she was going on the stage. Not since she had been a very little girl, about ten, when her stage career ended by her being sent to school, had she shown the faintest symptom of being stage-struck. Notwithstanding a highly ; successful and ludicrously profitable engagement ' with an English film concern, she all at oiice decided that she'd like to go behind the footlights. Perhaps being happily married to James Rennie, one of the very few talented young males on the stage, had something to do with it. Whatever it was. Dorothy read some two or three hundred plays, worked hard on getting her voice fit for theatrical acoustics, and finally appeared before the New York public.
BETTER THAN HER PLAY
FOR all a somewhat indifferent play, she gave an unusually fine performance, and showed not a single trace of her long
and faithful screen career. Not one of the dramatic critics
the morning after her opening referred to her "movie technique.'' That in itself showed the uncommon talent Dorothy possesses as a dramatic actress, because, according to her own statement, her motion picture knowledge helped her infinitely. Her gestures were more easily and eloquently made, she could rely on her film experience to make every bit of stage business count and, whenever necessary, long training provided a sure method of putting over any facial expression required by her part.
She's done something that few, if any, screen stars have succeeded in doing. There has been more than one famous Hollywood name flash across the legitimate theater. But only momentarily and nearly always accompanied by the advice of the press to go back to the films.
Lillian, Number Tvi^o of the Gish combine, has returned to
California to make a new picture for United Artists; and the
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