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By DOROTHY SPENSLEY
"Jim became my manager. For my sake, he entered the show business, and let himself in for all the grief of playproducing, but we were together. We took 'HiggledyPiggledy,' a show
that was a ; &
success on Broadway, to England, engaged a theatre, had costumes made up, hired the cast, all without a red cent of money, banking on the success of the thing to pay for itself. In less than a week we found ourselves absolutely broke, the play a flop, and the two of us on the Atlantic, bound for New York. But we took what was handed us, standing side by side, shoulder to shoulder.
"A woman in love always convinces herself that her man is perfect. Jim was perfect, except for one thing. Like all big fellows (he stood taller than I did, and I am five feet,eightinches), he had a corresponding appetite for life. He drank too much for his own good. He was a brilliant attorney at one time in his life. Under Taft he was a district attorney, and until he left the legal profession he had a reco r d of never losing a case.
"But weakness
THE great heart that was Marie Dressler's has finally stopped heating. Although she has passed away, what she symbolizes will live forever. The portrait, above, taken at about the time when she was honor guest at the greatest birthday party in Hollywood history, exemplifies her dauntless courage, nobility, tolerance, and the infinite capacity for maternal love which she showered upon all her friends
in a man, no matter if it is little or big, always makes the woman who loves him love him all the more. It is to her that he turns if he needs help, and because she is the one person in the world who is able to stand up and fight for him, defend him against criticism, work for him, she fights like a wildcat. Maybe it's largely maternal — the love that a mother usually has for her poor, weak, helpless child. But I think it's the love of a woman for her man.
When She Knew Heartache
THE last years of Jim Dalton's life were filled with sadness. He died before I came to Los Angeles to make 'Tillie's Nightmare.' That was before the World War. I was ill, myself. It was from the reaction that followed those long months — years, really — {Continued on page j6)
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