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Elliott Dexter Has Come Back
By MAUDE YORKE
IT was a red letter day at the Lasky studio in Hollywood— Elliott Dexter had come back !
For six months he had been ill, at times perilously near the border-line, and great was the rejoicing among friends and associates to have him among them once more, well and strong.
After the camera man had celebrated the event by taking several pictures of him with Cecil De Mille and Tommy Meighan, we found a quiet little nook to talk it all over.
Mr. Dexter is thinner, both in face and body, but this merelv adds a new distinction to his ^ood looks and he is handsomer than ever, while the quiet dig;nity, ever one of his chief charms, is perhaps, intensified. His dark eyes are clear, his cheeks bronzed, for he has spent many of the recuperating days at the beach and he declares that he possesses more vigor and strength than ever be.fore.
"Queer thing." he remarked, reflectively, after asking permission to light his pipe. "But it seems as if we must all have a good, hard bump of some kind to wake us up. This is the first illness I have ever had and I assure you I went thru every possible mental state during those long months.
"There was a time, at the very first, when I didn't care if I recovered, and all my old interests seemed to drift away. I didn't want to think of pictures or my career, in fact, nothing seemed worth while, but now," and he squared his broad shoulders and laughed, "I can hardly wait to begin my new picture.
"Everything interests me, I feel thoroly fit, and I want to plunge in and make up for all this lost time. I guess a little introspection
and retrospection does one good. My whole viewpoint seems changed, I have learnt much during the months while I have been absent from the world and I am sure I shall do better work than ever before."
"As a star, too !" I exclaimed.
"Yes." he laughed, boyishly, "as a star! My illness came just as I had reached the goal for which I had been working during these three and a half j^ears in motion pictures. I was to have played m Cecil De Mille's 'Male and Female,' then be starred, but— I took to my bed instead. Seems years since I had to
give up. , . , • L ■ ^
"I am quite mad about my first picture which is to be 'The Prince Chap.'
"Any part that is consistent and human, I enjoy playing," replied Mr. Dexter to my questipn as to his favorite role. "I found much satisfaction in the {Continued on page 108)
Photograph above bjr Evani, L. A.
Two KlUnptes of Elliott Dexter upon his return to the Liiky ■tudio after hit teriou* Ulneii. The camerk ^owf Dexter being
Seeted by Thomat eighan, CecU De MiUe, Wallie Reid and Wanda Hawlejr
Photograiih by W. R. Scolt
(One h^inired and four)