Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1926)

The Alice Terry I Know A girl who is just beginning pays tribute to the actress whose unselfish interest made her path pleasant By Dorothy Sebastian WE were dancing at the Biltmore soon after my arrival in Hollywood. The music stopped and someone was saying, "Oh, you must meet Miss Terry." All I saw there in the middle of the crowded dance floor was a head of fluffy auburn hair, becomingly bobbed, and a cute little face looking up at me. Then the orchestra began playing and we were off again. The following Sunday George Fitzmaurice gave a party. A lady entered, and I said to myself, "very dignified." Then she smiled, and I realized that she was the Alice Terry I had paid admission seven times to see in "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." "I met your sister the other night," I said to her. "Yes, I have a sister," she answered. "Of course, I know you have a sister. I met her at the Biltmore Thursday night," I retorted. "But that wasn't my sister That was me." W ell, we be g a n laughing about my mistake and we have been laughing together ever since. "Vo u s e e it's that 1 blonde wig that is responsible for her dual personality. When she wears it, she is hardly on speaking terms with the Alice of the auburn hair. As much as 1 admire the day I never feel quite at ease in hei have her depart from the lovely, d on the screen for worlds ; but it Alice that I have come to know loyal friend. Perhaps it was because we wen "Sackcloth and Scarlet," the first appeared ; but 1 do not believe it. I .-Tv would have become just as close Eri f 58 "Loyal, unspoiled a words that Dorothy Sebasti describing Alice Terry. Alice and Dorothy in cloth and Scarlet" the formed the basis of thi blonde Alice, to this presence. 1 wouldn't istinct type she playis the auburn-haired as my faithful and thrown together in picture in which 1 m quite sure that we :nds under any other conditions in whatever profession we were engaged. Despite the good luck I had in getting a part so soon after reaching Hollywood, these first days were difficult in more ways than you can imagine ; but Alice encouraged, stimulated and inspired me to an amazing degree. While she is very young in years, she is wise in the ways of experience : for she has traveled over all the hard paths that lead to fame. She worked as an extra : she struggled along for years until Rex Ingram discovered her and they were married. And now in the security of her happiness her success and her luxury, she is unspoiled, unselfish and. above all, natural. YY/h i l e we were ** working together, she asked me to come out to her house one evening to teach her the in turn taught me some new chords on the ukulele. We played around so late that it was decided I might as well sleep there. Gradually. I began b r i i over a dress or two until I had carried all my clothes to her house. The n. w h e n Rex went to southern France make some pictures. I spent four happy months with Alice at their little Spanish home on Irving Street. We had such good times, reading, sketching, d Alice has the most marvelous sense of humor of any woman 1 ever knew and it's a joy to be with her at any time. She could never be called the lite of a party in hilarious gaiety, but you will always find her surrounded by a group who are eager to catch her scintilla:: marks on every subject and situation. . S4}