Show I I W antto Get Into th ES JUST SMILE SMILE- r a JEw enry WR Wo lQ ll dI come o B aP A S Sh o S dl y o RY of o F Who ore orea a Good G 4 9 Ul D a B Ti Tn o o the h e Coast Il Jo Ul Jt I lIl 1 dl dl Il l dl ha e G Got o i r Z Y t k r is Yr 1 0 a CC O j dr f Y t t e r Ar rt tr a r I r tr By LO LOUELLA U E LLA O. O PARSONS r 1 4 h f y OROTHY IY DALTON DALTOV lays the blame of her screen career at the door of f v Billie Burke It was Billie Billic Burke who first put into Dorothys Dorothy's pretty f f y y head the idea that moving moving- n pictures held more of a future for foe he hethe her r t than I is n e appealing the speaking n stage stage not not by any words or by any apy promises but b by appealing to this young woman in Peggy the first moving picture Miss Burke ever ef made w r r r 4 w Billie Burke probably doesn't even cven know the Thomas Ince star She has lugs t Y Y v t A Amade never said in in so many words The screen is is the place for you Dottie why don dont don't t you forget your our stage aspiration But the message she carried to this c 4 C AR t I I t girl was much more potent than any idle spoken words x V i r rV xA s l jk Dorothy was playing leads with the Keith Stock Company Compan in in Portland i J Y A t W Me hIe Ie For the first time in in man many weeks sh had an afternoon to herself there herself there was no rehearsal no dress to be fitted and no alteration required in in her wardrobe ward ward- r robe bc stock actresses spend most of their leisure h hours ours creating nc new frocks 9 I f 4 tI out of old ones ones ones- or making some old bit of wearing apparel look like lilac a Parisian u J. J ll O eS cre creation tion k Tr 11 So Doroth Dorothy wandered into a motion picture theater Here she saw her hervery I Jl cew IL 11 t very first moving picture picture Billie Billie Burke as Pe Peggy g She d the actress actress' f movements critical critically l 3 careful carefully Y and with ith an absorbing interest which u made B By MARY CAROLYN D DAVIES her forget everything else I can nn do that said the stock actress to herself herself herself her her- self and I am nm going to do it A telegram ram went whizzing over O the wires to s H. H Inco Ince containing the We uninteresting information in iii- t formation that one Doroth Dorothy Dalton actress in the Keith Stock Company needed and wanted a Job as a moving picture actress The Thc answer not answer not in ina a 3 telegram but in the UlC usual letter form we form we reI regret regret re re- I gret etc eta came with the discomforting news that there was no yn vacancy mcf Did Dorothy sit down own and weep and gnash her ber I teeth She did not not tb there not re is no clement of the Ule slacker in this young oun woman She sat down and find andI I tent sent a n message saIn saying I uI am going to pay myown my ray own fare fire to California and in return I want you to give me a n trial TA Leave ye Saturday night Thomas Ince didn't even tape tale the trouble to answer answer In in all likelihood one of his secretaries received the wire and chucked it aside forgetting all about it I I r I o r Well Dorothy made her promise good and in about ten n days the late leading lad lady y of the Keith Stock Company arrived at Culver Cit City She refused refused refused re re- re- re fused to talk with anyone but the man she had traveled across the Ole country to see Thomas Ince lace amused at her insistence at length gave her an nn Interview lew and cast her in The Disciple with W W. S. S Hart I I Did this give her an immediate boost to the top pinnacle of picture fame It did not DOt After she finished The Thc Disciple she walked into M Mr r. r Inces Ince's I office and said What am I to do next nest I I II Tom rom Ince Inee looked at nt her shook his head and s said d I dont don't know frankly there is absolute absolutely y nothing for you You said you ou wanted a chance i to prove pro what you could do before the Ule ca camera mere I gaye gage you that opportunity opportunity but but but there Is nothing more now no Give me your jour telephone number and grid if it i we wc n need d you we will let you know i i There was Miss Dorothy Dalton many mans miles fr from m home with a n 1 good Job in III the past and i nothing in tn the future Most girls would bayci have i snit sat down and cried or beg begged ed on bended beaded knees j for tor something to keep the tho v wolf lt from prowling i around the door Dorothy reI me-reI merely smiled d taking good care to bring the Dalton dimples into full play pIny and said slid pleasantly i iVery Very well I shall come conic again tomorrow per per- chaps ps something will unexpectedly develop i 1 Ir r i E x s sy y Y S k kY kf Y L' L tf Y t f U. U Vr Y rf t W 1 li t I Less courageous people than Dorothy Dalton would have lease been discouraged no no Job no to prospects of pf r one and her ber money getting distressingly low But Doroth Dorothy gritted her teeth clinched her hands bands and forced herself to smile She never walked Into the be presence of or Tom lace Ince without a n smile It was that smile and those dimples that won out ont in the end The Jungle Chil Child was rend ready for production production but but there was no lace Ince player pIner of ot Just the type the author had in mind Mr Inca Inco sat at athis athis his hl desk knitted his hl brow and pondered Without Without With With- out a star The Jungle Child would be a 11 flivver lv Where is that dimple girl the one that hangs bangs 4 47 7 dam trW x r 4 a t A q e tsA r a r 3 r 1 I If J v 1 t. t r f J r r aroun around here bere waiting Phone her ber and tell her to tobe tobe tobe be here in the morning See here Miss Dimples Dimple or whatever your name is said Mr Ir Ince on the morrow I am casting casting cast cast- ing lug you ou in the lead I w want nt a live performance full fun of color and md action I know 3 you ou can act net and Just how llo well you rou act net In this picture hangs your our future If It you OU get your our smile personality across and give dive a n performance that Is unique you ou get a contract It contract if you ou dont don't you ou might ns as well pack your our little bag and take the first train cast east Dorothy listened She not Ol l oily listened but she remembered and nud when the picture came out she had taken Mr Ices luce's wor words s so 80 well to heart The Tun Jungle IQ Chil Child was an immediate success It settled the cinema fate of one Dorothy Dalton an and gave her ber the coveted contract nIl and the opportunity to make good as a n screen actress Then followed The Flame of the Yul Yukon n and other features in which Miss Dimples starred It was easier to smile when success was so near neur nn and Dorothy continued the way she had started to dimple dimple dimple Just when she had bad reached an nn enviable place in the picture world Thomas luce Ince resigned from the Triangle Triangle resigned resigned and ond sol sold his Ws interest This left Miss Dalton wondering what would be her lIer fate tate for tor she was the tIle Inco and she know after Mr Ince departed there wouldn't be bc much chance for tOL the Ince stars Before she had time to look around Paramount offered to release the thc Ince pictures and ond Mr Ince with that loyalty that has always distinguished his every net act took tool Charles Ray Rny W. W S S. S Hart Enid Bennett Dennett and Dorothy Dalton along with him It was a n great feather In Miss aliss Daltons Dalton's cap cap cap- the little girl who had bad waited so long for tor Just a n chance at the end of ot eighteen months' months work to be elected as ns one of ot the In the new nen Ince lace tion She is very happy in her new lien work work and and if It nn anyone one asks her who ought to b be our next Pre President l- l dent she answers without a n flicker of ot the eyelash Why Thomas Ince of ot course Copyright 1918 by J. J r Two Vo rae merry poses of Dorothy Dalton and one showing her herin herin 1 in a pensive mood Miss Dalton is extremely fond of horseback riding p J as any actress starred with William S. S Hart has hasto hasto to be She is is is shown below mounted on Cinema which means the horse is some movie on the mountain trails 1 X OU YOU OU give me home the pepper trees tree 1 Shaking a little in the breeze And rows of swaying palms alms I close Y j My eyes before I 1 I look at those Like praying b before fore food The high Great palms like swords against the sky The drooping ones that curve and bend Arc Are each in this strange land a friend J The great brown hills of home homeI I see t Before me lie alluringly And sunny towns like those I I know Familiar buildings row on row a t i A house in shining cool concrete Like one that stands across the street From ours at home The acacia stirred The old way then My eyes are blurred f ti tiThe I do know know- The tale talc not care or What girl and lover come and go l Beneath those trees upon those hills What kiss enthralls what murder thrills These folk to grieving or delight For I am home home home-am am am home tonight I |