Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Aug 1919)

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This information spoils my title, because she will play old lady parts no longer. She has made a circle ; she is back to the place she started from; she is once more herself — and young! Her latest character work is in “Common Clay,” with Clara Kimball Young; “Marcine,” under the direction of Maurice Tourneur; “The Unpardonable Sin,” with Blanche Sweet; and “Rose Marie,” with Billie Rhodes. We are what we imagine, as well as what our philosophy makes us. Mary Alden impresses one as being the incarnate Spirit of Adventure ; one could never tire of rooking at her, because she never looks exactly the same. And, with i her adventurous spirit, she has a sincere ‘ belief that the world is moving onward toward goodness. Not the negative goodness of those who have never known temptation, but the positive goodness of those who, thru experience, have gained wisdom and understanding. Tempered Steel {Continued from page 70) love is not the far bigger side? Of course, that doesn’t offer much substantiality for the happiness of marriage. And yet I believe absolutely in marriage. There is nothing else for a protective basis — and the young must have protection. The sane part of the whole thing is, that there are a great number of perfectly unimaginative people. People who would be content to live in one spot all their lives thru, never hungering for wider fields, who read the same books over and over, who never vary their routine, who have never felt the wanderlust in any sort of sense at all. These people are the same about love. They fasten their affections upon one man or one woman and there is an end to it. Which is fortunate for the balance — balance again — of the world at large.” I left Vernon Steel with the symbolical impression of a very slender, very aristocratic figure bearing a scales in his hands, weighing the world and accepting it, without undue consternation, enthusiasm or regret at its own valuation and the valuation he made of it. “Tempered Steel” — without self-congratulation, it is aptly put. Dorothy Dalton, Hot Weather and Emotionalism (Continued from page 43) She simply shrugged her shoulders and said it couldn’t be done. “The Lord — and the camera — can only tell that,” she laughed. It was a hot day. A .sultry breeze drifted thru the Hotel Algonquin windows. Rut Miss Dalton did not seem in the least disturbed by the weather. “I love heat — love it thoroly,” she said. “That is why, when it was decided to send me on to New York to make at least one picture this .summer, that I gave a shriek of joy. Do you really think we'll have a hot summer?” “We dont think we will — we are!” we gasped, mopping our brow. “I do like New York in the summer,” continued Miss Dalton. “The tang of the hot pavement in the air ” But we changed the .subject. Miss Dalton related her experiences in getting a screen foothold. Unlike most stars, the way for Miss Dalton was comparatively easy. “I had been playing in stock at Keith’s in Portland, Me., when a chance came to play the leading role of Jen in the all-star film production of Edgar Selwyn’s ‘Pierre of the Plains.’ You will recall that this play was re-done comparatively recently by Elsie Ferguson. But I was the original screen Jen.” “Soon after I went to California for a rest. There I met Thomas H. Ince socially. He had seen my work in ‘Pierre of the Plains’ and he offered me a role with William S. Hart in ‘The Disciple.’ Immediately after that I played with Henry B. Warner and William H. Thompson. Then Mr. Ince advanced me to stardom at old Triangle — and I’ve been a star ever since. Not a very interesting tale, is it?” “Recently, when I did one or two lighter pictures, fans seemed to wonder if I intended to change my style of vehicle. Let me set any doubts upon that score at rest. I am going right on doing emotional dramas. I like that sort of play best of all — and I think I am best suited to it. Right now I am seeking the best emotional material. It isn’t easy to find, you may be sure.” “Submitted manuscripts take odd twists. For instance, this last week I received three good stories, all worth buying, but all providing dual roles. Of course, I couldn’t do three dual role plays in succession, or anywhere near together, so I shall have to select just one of the three.” Miss Dalton’s personality is rather hard to analyze. Her interests seem to wholly lie in the studio. She has no hobbies ; at least she admits of none. She is too busy to read anything but scenarios extensively. “I’m just a hard-working actress,” she described herself and sighed. “I wish the thousand-and-one young girl fans who envy our luxurious existence could only live one whole day with me.” “That would cure them.” f Seventy two)