Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1922)

^X:^il 1 'ir^WJ' >w r>:: ':-. iX^( fr> West is East A Few Impressions By DELIGHT EVANS BILL HART was in TownThree Times. You Know, he was Staying At the Waldorf, and then he was At the Rivoli Twice, In "Three Word Brand." I Hadn't Seen Bill For Three Years, and he Looked Pretty Good to Me. He's the Same Old Bill Except that he Wasn't Wearing His Cowboy Clothes. You'd Know him Anywhere. He is Writing A Big Story about Revolutionary Days, with himself As Patrick Henry. He Played that Part On the Stage. He writes a Lot, you know : Stories for Boys that Other People" Read. He had Some New Photographs, and He Asked me Which Ones he Should Take. This is One of them. If you Dont Like it, you can Blame me. He Made A Few Personal Appearances And Visited his Farm In Westport, Connecticut ; and Then he Went Home. I Like Bill. He Never Disappoints You He is Just the Same As he Is on the Screen. Western, but Not Rough. THEN Elliott Dexter Called Me Up. He Wanted Me To Go to Lunch With him. Imagine. Well, I Went. And We Went to The Gotham, and That's a Very Grand Hotel, and There are Lots of Ladies — Dowagers, you Know — And they all Looked at Elliott And they All Recognized him. He's High-brow, But He's Nice. He doesn't Look Like An Actor, or Talk Like One. I Told You, Once Before About him : That He Wouldn't Talk About himself? But he was Going to Europe 50 To be Gone a Long Time, so He Finally Told me What he was Going to Do. "I'm Going To Visit All the Countries Over There. It Makes it Exciting for Me: I have Sailed On Every boat In the Last Two Weeks — In the Newspapers. I've been Booked. And Mary and Doug Wanted Me to Go Over When they Went; True; but Now W.ll.am S. Hart I'm Reallv going. To Live At the Big Hotels. I'm Going To Put Up At the Small Interesting Places so that I can Study the Country, and The Languages, and The People. I've Never Been Abroad Before. I Know — Everybody Thinks I Have, because I'm Supposed to Be An English Actor. They Say I Have an Accent. Well— I'm Going to Find Out What Kind of an Accent I Have. I'm Taking a Camera — so 111 Send You Some Pictures of Me — " "What?" Could this be Elliott Dexter? "In the London Fog," He Finished. I Hope he Wont Stay Away Too Long. If there is One Actor I'd Rather See Than Another, it's Elliott Dexter. There — The Secret's Out. T WENT with 1 Dorothy Gish To See Her Husband's Play, "Pot Luck." It's a Peach of a Play, And James Rennie Is Great in it. A Woman Next to Dorothy Kept Saying, "That Leading Man Is Dorothy Gish's Husband. Dorothy Gish Is in the Audience Somewhere." And she looked Right at Dorothy — And Didn't Recognize her. Dorothy Looks like A Debutante, and she's Prettier Even Than she Looks on the Screen; but She sits Way Down In her Second-row Seat Every Evening, And Nobody Knows she is There. Just two Nights after I went with her, The Leading Woman Was 111, and Dorothy Got up on the Stage — She knows The Play, Backward and Forward — And Played the Part. The Last Line in The Play is "My Wife— God Bless her"— and The Audience Went Wild. Maybe Dorothy is Going on the Stage As her Own Star Soon. If she Does — Don't Miss Her.