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Picture Show Annual 21 DAREDEVIL WHEN Dorothy Mackaill was young, she shocked all the neighbourhood by a tomboyishness that went far beyond the limits which " nice " girls' tom- boyishness was allowed. She played with boys because girls weren't daring enough, and she frequently played truant from school. Then she ran away from home and joined the chorus of the London Hippodrome. That really saw the end of her tomboy days. It marked the beginning of a sophisticated young lady with a supreme confidence in herself, who crossed the Atlantic and walked into Florenz Ziegfeld's office and coolly demanded a job with his Follies. And what was more, she got it. Jacqueline Logan had just left the show for the screen, and it was her clothes that Dorothy Mackaill inherited. She did not think then that she would follow in Jacqueline's path, for she had just had her first film experience—making a film in France—and she did not want to repeat it. Then came the screen. It was Edwin Carewe, who dis- covered Dolores Del ,Rio, who gave her her chance. At this time, she had an intense admiration for Lillian Gish, and would have given worlds to be like her, so when her first big part was given to her, she played it as Dorothy Mackaill thought Lillian Gish would have played it—not as she herself would have done so. The part was that of the blind girl violinist in " Mighty Lak a Rose." For some time Dorothy wore this peculiar veneer of Gish and sophistication. Her own tomboy self would occasionally come to the surface and surprise people, if not shock them. Once was when she proposed to Lothar Mendes, the director. Seventeen months later she had regretted it, and it was she again who proposed the perfectly friendly divorce that followed. Those seventeen months, however, had shown Dorothy that she was making a big mistake. She had " gone Hollywood," slightly, but found that making the effort to be popular and a society success was too much on top of her screen acting. An incident where she bluffed herself into tearing up her contract, and then found herself work- less for two months, brought her to earth again. So Holly- wood knew Dorothy as she really was—candid, somewhat caustic of wit, honest, unsentimental, and with an apprecia- tion of the value of hard work that comes from a triumphant battle with heartaches and disappointments. Many were astounded, but at least one was glad—her mother, who had scolded and forgiven the tomboy of twenty years ago, and now had found her again.