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Baby LeRoy and Dorothea in "Miss Fane's Baby is Stolen." In "Cradle Song'' Miss Wieck was delightful in a mother-like role.
Dorothea Wieck is different, and is well Iked in Hollywood.
SHE sleeps with her script under her arm every night when she's working. Ordinarily she's an avid reader, but when she's working you can't get her to read the most interesting book.
Between pictures she indulges herself in the maddest combinations of food. Avocados, oranges, cottage cheese and bananas mixed together, and liberally sprinkled with salt and pepper, constitute one of her pet dishes. But when she's on a picture she doesn't know from one week to the next whether she's had a square meal or not. And doesn't care.
She's a sweet-tempered, gracious personexcept when she's working on a picture. And then, beware! She'll fly off the handle at the slightest provocation. A story went the rounds of Hollywood, immediately after she started her first picture in this country, which nearly did her great harm. It seems she was getting ready for the first scene of her first American picture and was intensely nervous. She shrieked
at the hairdresser, who was a bit slow in answering her call, "Why you not run when I speak? In Germany when I call, they run!"
She's always abjectly sorry after she's lost her temper and she apologized profusely later. Before the picture was over she and the hairdresser were seen arm in arm, and the latter had asked for an autographed picture which she received with a grand inscription.
You see she's like that— Dorothea Wieck. She has a terrific intensity over her work which makes her resent anything which distracts or interferes.
It even made her leave a husband, whom she adores, after three brief months of marriage. A husband, Baron Karl von der Dechen, who is a novelist and editor in Berlin, and of whom she is extremely proud.
Dorothea Wieck pronounces her name as if it were spelled DORAKAYA VEEK.
Before she started "Cradle Song," during the five months when she was perfecting her English, she wrote to him nightlytwenty and thirty page letters in longhand. When shooting began she still cabled him daily— but those lengthy letters ceased. Like everything else they had to give place to career.
It's small wonder that Dorothea Wieck has this passionate single-mindedness when working— this ability to concentrate utterly on the job in hand. Surrounded from early childhood by artists; great great granddaughter of Schumann and Clara Schumann Wieck, great pianist of her day; daughter of a painter father and musician mother; niece of a noted actor; protege, during her adolescent 'teens, of the famous poet, Klabund, it is natural that she should have this fevered devotion to her own particular art. Born of artists, nurtured by artists, the concentration which is an essential part of genius is deeply ingrained in her. [Continued on page 57]
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