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FEBRUARY 1925
Pictures and PichureVoer
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Mary H6y declares she isn't pretty enough to do very much on the screen. Remembering her work in " Way Down East" we beg to contradict the lady.
strenuous career of picture-hanging, gave his version of this matter :
He said that there was some controversy about* the advisability of their playing together from the fan point of view, but he also said that everyone knows he is married and that he believes they will be interested in seeing what Mrs. Richard Barthelmess looks like, and .how they look together.
" Now if it were Valentino or Novarro," said Mary Hay, " it wouldn't be the thing to ^do, probably. It's different with Dick."
" Mary," said Dick, " is really a dancer. A very fine dancer. But she .has never had the opportunity to show it. She hasn't much of a singing voice, just enough to get a number across. Therefore, what is it that has put her over in her shows? Her personality If her personality has put her over on the stage, there is no reason why it shouldn't do the same for her on the screen. I believe that it will. This picture will prove a lot, of course. It is but idle prophecy to talk
about it now. But I do believe that Mary win make good "
" If I don't in this," said Mary, " I never will in anything on the screen. The story is so absolutely the vehicle for nre."
" I've often thought," Dick said, " that I would be better off if I had struck some sort of a pose."
I laughed and told Dick that I thought a pose was only necessary to fill the vacuum created by the lack of any true ability. In his own case his success. . .
" But I'm not successful," Dick said, " not yet."
" Oh, well," I said, " that is a matter of opinion, but most opinions would be against you. After all, what is success?"
" It's always," said Dick, " just around the corner."
After which I departed, leaving Mary to h«r polishing, Dick to his pictures and both of them to motor back to Westchester later on to dinner and the baby. Gladys Hall.