Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Aug 1919)

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7 y, SHE jumped into instant fame thru her success in ‘‘Hell Morgan’s Girl.” The play was so vivid and so well suited to Miss Phillips’ personality that every one remembers her girl of the Barbary Coast. Not’ning she did subsequently quite touched it — until her recent heroine of “The Heart of Humanity,” Motion picture acting is but an incident to Dorothy Phillips. It is a means to a very important end. She loves to act, but her love is selfless. I'rue greatness is said to arise from unselfish piotives. Miss Phillips’ whole soul is thrown into her work because, you see, she’s not earning a big salary just to buy motors and .stunning clothes, but because ‘‘Gwendolyn is really a beautiful child,” came a soft, sweet voice from a dark corner in the set. A big English hall — lovely upholstered settees, a fireplace. dusky corners tliat suggested romantic love-making — qnd there you have the background for the Madonna of the Movies. “They say all mothers make that remark,” went on the voice, with the soft Baltimore accent, “but really you must believe me, because I’m not citing my own opinion— everybody says she is beautiful. She has real chestnut hair — something I always wanted myself. You know that chestnut which .shows glints of burnished gold in the satiny brown? She would make you think of the shiny nuts we used to love to roast at this season of the year back East. And her coloring is perfect, and she is so full of vivacity and life — I think perhaps that is her real charm. “I am glad I can act, gla4 I can give her an easy future. Isn’t it Doroth}' Phillips’ wedding to Alan Holiibar was romantic. “I was Modesty in ‘Everywoman’ and Mr. Holubar had been playing King Love," she says. “And he really did fall i n love with Modesty and I fell in love with Love” tragic to think of the poor little unwanted tenement babies — unwanted because there’s so much poverty in the world, so much misunderstanding between the parents? You see, even my wedding was romantic. I was Modesty in ‘Everywoman’ and Mr. Holubar had been engaged for King Love. And he really did fall in love with Modesty and I fell in love with — Love ! Then later we went West, and our baby came after I had been in pictures quite a while. Now I’m continuing in pictures, not only because I enjoy acti n g , but because I Dorothy, A\e and Gwen (Thirty-four)