Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

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I wanted to take you by surprise so that you would not know I was making a test. I heard you perfectly from the back of the orchestra, despite all this racket. Whe>n can you come to my office and sign vour contract?' "That is the story of my engagement." And a darn good story too. A typical Gest anecdote. He's a shrewd one, is Morris. We considered the subject of work — and how much more work a body could stand. Miss Dorothy had arrived at the studio at 10:30 o'clock that morning. She had gone to her dressing room, arrayed herself in the make-up of the part she was playing in Barrie's "Half an Hour," had posed for two or three dozen scenes and gone to her dressing room lunch. At one o'clock she would return to the studio, caper before the camera until five o'clock, return to her apartment, eat her dinner, and leave for the Century Theatre. At eight she would have adjusted the few clothes that the heroine of "Aphrodite" is permitted to wear, and from eight o'clock until eleven, she would lend pictorial and dramatic interest to the story of that spectacular -drama. By twelve midnight she would be home again, and after a light supper, would be tucked in bed by her anxious maid, with nothing to do but dream of her newer triumphs until nine o'clock next morning. "It's a hard life," she said, "but it's worth while. No one will ever know how eager I was to get back to the stage. I know the impression is general that I had never acted in the spoken drama before being trusted with this part, but as a matter of fact, I had two years' experience in stock — work that carried me through a range of parts of all descriptions." She paused and I knew instinctively that this was the time to put the familiar query, as to which Miss Dorothy had rather do — act or pose, and I put it and got it over with. "If I could afford it," said she, "I would do nothing but act. I am devoted to the theater and always have been. I love it — hard work, stuffy dressing rooms, smelly stages and all. I am almost as eager to get to the theater to-night after playing Chrysis as I was that wonderful opening night when my success or failure meant everything to me, and I am crazy, literally crazy, to play another part next year, if I do not go on with this one. But, alas, I cannot afford to give up the pictures. Neither, for the matter of that, do I want to give them up. But if I were forced to make my choice between the screen and the stage, other things being equal, I would unhesitatingly choose the stage." "It's the applause?" I ventured. "It's the fascination," said she, "and the satisfaction. It is the inspiration the actress in the theater gets from her audience, that the actress before the camera never feels. It is the lights, the stage, the voice, the human contact. It is — " "It is the theater," I said, and she agreed. We drifted back to pictures. "There was a rumor, so I've heard, that at one time you thought seriously of giving up the movies." "There was a time," said she, "when the pictures thought seriously of giving me up." "Why?" "Fat." "Fat?" "Just plain, ordinary, fat. Not flesh. Fat. And, ye gods, how I worked to conquer it. I walked miles and miles. I rode horseback until I couldn't move. I took enough steam baths to vaporize an ordinary body. I starved for days and days — and added flesh by the minute. I became so weakened under this vigorous treatment that I had not the strength to fight any longer. Then, just as I was about to give up, one of the numerous remedies, or all of them in combination, began working in my favor and I have had no trouble since. I am not, I grant you, the airy, fairy Dorothy I should like to be, even now, but neither am I as I threatened to become." We talked of her early pictures. "Which of them," I asked her, "do you think formed the foundation on which all your success has been builded?" "I have always thought," she said, "that the work I did in 'The Disciple' was most responsible." "That was the picture in which your beauty was first discovered?" Her make-up hid most of her modest blushes as she answered. "No, that was the picture in which I worked hardest to conceal such beauty as the Lord has given me. That is why I attracted attention. "At that time, you may recall, every actress in the movies was struggling to be beautiful. Nothing but a screen star's face and figure — and principally her face — were talked about. Every girl who applied for a position, unless she was an eccentric comedienne, and realized it (which few did), considered it her duty to smile and smirk and look as much like Mary Pickford as possible. The part they gave me in 'The Disciple' was that of a mad girl. She had many scenes in which she wandered, a wild thing, through the forest. I never had seen a mad girl or read of one who was not disheveled. I determined to play the part as true to my conception of such a character as I could. I wore old, torn clothes. I wet my hair and let it string about my face. I gave my face a drawn, pinched look. My director accepted it as an evidence of my willingness to make a great sacrifice in the name of art, and I acted that part for all I was worth. "As a result, my appearance was in such marked contrast to that of the other women in the case that I attracted attention and from that time on I have had no difficulty at all in securing positions." "But," I said, "it is Dorothy Dalton, the beauty, we hear most about " "I do not mean," she hurried on, "that I went on playing ugly roles. There are not many of them written in the scenarios. I was soon playing ingenues and heroines who were supposed to be beautiful. But if I had not been given that chance in 'The Disciple' to prove that I could act, I probably would have been in competition with all the other good looking girls of the screen for years and might never — " "Might never have been working sixteen hours a day and worrying about the income tax," I ventured. "Right," said she. Anna took the luncheon things away. "Don't you want to rest?" I asked, being a considerate party. "I never rest," said she, "except on Sunday. Then all I have to do is to turn myself over to a masseuse, a manicurist and a hairdresser, take a few 'setting up' exercises, go for a long walk, or a long ride, if the weather dosen't permit walking, read a half dozen scenarios, talk to a few directors, producers and such, and visit with the friends who call. The rest of the day I have to myself." "What kind of parts would vou rather play?" "\'amps. But they won't let me. Vamps Every advertisement la PHOTOPL.W JI.VGAZIXE is guaranteed.