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Just Viola Dana
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'stage experience.' I told them frankly that I wanted to play small parts, and that if I didn't like the work, I was only going to remain a week or so. I liked it, and remained, and here I am, still working in the same studio, and for the same company."
That was all she said about her picture work, and by this time I realized it was, perhaps, all she would say about it, for another of her very likable traits is her absolute disregard of her achievements. Picture-play fans throughout the country who saw Miss Dana in ''The Stoning," however, will long remember her work as being as realistic, appealing, and clever as anything which has ever been presented on the screen.
But she didn't mention any of these things. Instead, she cleverly shifted the conversation from herself to her sister, who is known on the screen as Leonie Flugrath, and who is also . an Edison star. When she told of her sister's talent, and of the many fine parts
she had played, she was far more enthusiastic than when talking of herself. Leonie's work in "The Poor Little Rich Girl," playing the part which she herself had outgrown, especially drew praise from Miss Dana, and she spent some time in telling me how much she had enjoyed seeing her sister play the character over and over again.
At this point, John Collins, under whose direction Miss Dana produces all her pictures, came up and informed her that she would not be needed for any more scenes that day. We walked together to the bottom of the steps that lead up to the dressing rooms, and she left me, but not before she had made perfectly clear to me the reason that she captivates the hearts of all those who see her on the screen, for when she ran up the steps, I found myself standing at the bottom watching until her little form disappeared around the corner of the landing.
TRIED OUT
ALAS, I'm not a "screen success,"
For, in the hero's strife, I bow my head and must confess I cannot save his life.
And when they burn a Western town,
And I am told to shoot, I hold my weapon upside down,
While all the "cowboys" hoot !
I'm full of vim and vigor, too !
But managers just laugh And say, "Your eyes are too light blue,
And will not photograph !"
So here I am — rejected — blue!
Less actress than a fan ! There's one thing, though, that I can do :
That's love the leading man !
Dorothy Harpur O'Neill.