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Photograph Hartsook, L. A
Dorothy Gish looks fearlessly out upon the future. Her whimsical smile, sensitive mouth and serious tho roguish eyes make one wonder if when the years have stirred the depths of her nature, she will not develop into a great emotional actress
A SWISH of skirts, soft patter of footsteps on the stairs, and Dorothy Gish breezed in ! ^ Her coming had the effect of a sudden flash of sunshine, and instantly the quiet room was charged with the vivid personality of this youthful comedienne of the screen who has climbed to stardom by leaps and bounds.
It isn't always safe to size up a star's character
from the roles she creates in her pictures, but when
ou first meet Dorothy you feel as if you are greet
,ig a jolly little friend whom you know very well,
!■> you recall the many hearty laughs you have (ared with her. We were in the Gish home in Los Angeles, a real ome!
The cheerful, livable rooms, the sunny verandas, he fluffy kitten asleep in the deep window seat, the anary's happy song echoing from the patio beyond he breakfast-room, combined in presenting an old;me sense of home so seldom found these days. "It's mother," said Dorothy, reading my thoughts.
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Dorothy Is a Fiery Young Person
"She is Southern, and home means everything to her. Lillian and I had no childhood home, for we were stage children and spent our time in boarding-houses or traveling on the road, so just as soon as we were settled in pictures, mother insisted that we girls should know the value of a home, and we do love it.
"I am so glad that pictures came just in time for us," she went on, "for I like everything about them except when I have to step out of the film and make 'personal appearances !' While I was East last winter I made several of these appearances where 'Hearts of the World' was being shown, and I nearly died of stagefright, really I did, and I lost fifteen pounds while on that trip ! "Funny," said Dorothy, "that it took a picture of the war's tragedy to show me that I wanted to play comedy, but it's true. The Little Disturber was the turning point with me, for I became so interested in her that I suddenly discovered that I loved comedy. It is such fun to make the world laugh.
"As a child on the stage I played a few comedy roles, but I had forgotten all about them. Motion pictures were at a very serious stage when we first started, and tho I was only fourteen, I played nuns, cast-off daughters, wronged sisters, and even mothers! How I did revel in all the black, hopeless sorrow I could put into those roles! You see, I was passing thru the suffering age. Oh, I was crazy to suffer ! I read Omar Khayyam, had my pictures taken with my eyes cast pensively down or tragically up, and I yearned to look sad and wistful and interesting. Isn't that a joke?"
There is a frank, boyish directness in her speech and nianner that is all the more pronounced, because Dorothy ,