Show Carol Dempster F Forsakes 5 I L Dancing ain Career for r Screen Carol ChO th the heroine of E DW D. D V. W Griffith productions occupies a unique position In the ranka of ot the screens screen's foremost players From tho beginning of ot her bar career when U Uan as asan asan an unknown girl her teens teon she was given an Important part In The Girl Who Stayed At Home to the present time when she has achieved an enviable following Miss Demp- Demp Mt ater r nis nus In pie plc- ca her Ji Ina to motion pIctures pictures pic pie tures W was wan not nt made madl through tho iho usual 11 c channels of ot extra work and the fie tf flees of ot casting directors In Instead In- In steal stead It caMe cane about during the Le Lob An Angeles ele showing of ot one or of Mr Griffith's Griffiths Grit Grif productions at the leading mo motion tion rl ric Tle e r re theatre Miss 1 Dempster Demp Demp- acer ster was ono one of a group of d. tI from the n e hw t school go f In California Call Cali I fornia who had been employed emploY d to appear In a II prologue In connection with the film presentation When Then the curtain rose on the dancers the tho master directors director's an anxiety x- x over the reception to be accorded accorded ac ad- corded his new picture gave ga wa way before his almost instantaneous en enthusiasm enthusiasm en en- over O a new screen discovery er cry ery After Atter the performance he was presented to a II slen slender ler elfin girl with red-brown red hair and luminous brown eyes that looked too large for for- such a small like child face tace She was Carol Dempster the daughter daugh daugh- ter of Captain and Mrs rs J. J YV V. V. V Dempster Dempster Dempster Demp Demp- ster of or Los An Angeles eles born and educated edu eiju- in that city an and anc for a year and a half halt a pupil in the dancing school of or Ruth St 51 Denis QUIT SCHOOL She agreed to forego her career as an exponent of ot the school of dancing for an opportunity opportunity opportunity to work In pictures under D. D W. W Griffiths Griffith's direction The wisdom wisdom wisdom wis wis- dom of ot her choice has been confirmed conS con firmed by her steady progress to her present prominence on the screen Since The Girl Who Stayed At Home iris l Dempster has en enacted enacted enacted en- en acted principal roles In the following fol Col- fol- fol lowing pictures Scarlet Rays The Love Flower Dream Street One exciting Night The White t Rose with witha Mat Mae a Marsh l America Life Lite Wonderful for which she journeyed to Germany where the company spent several months during the tragic days that followed the fall taU of ot German mark and andIn andIn andin In the recently exhibited Sally of ot the Sawdust In th last named film Miss Dempster divided the honors honors honors hon hon- ors with crith W W. C. C Fields and together they provided d a comedy that established established new standards for tor character comedies Carol Dempster and W. W C Fields w were re in Griffiths Griffith's first Paramount Paramount Par Par- amount picture That Royle Girl which featured also Harrison Ford and James Janes Kirkwood In a story of ot Chicago's underworld Rn and 1 jazz dis dis- dis In this this' new picture Miss 2 S 'S 4 S 5 nOL CAROL Dempster was vas vas seen as a cabaret dancer A dressmakers dressmaker's mannequin a shabby newsgirl and a a. devoted daughter to her no account father tather the part played by Fields she has appeared in only ten motion notion pictures during her entire career Miss Mias Dempster has displayed marked versatility In a a wide variety of ot roles each of or which she he has Imbued with a distinctive sparkling quality She Rhe Is ic n a graceful accomplished dancer and a with an unusually sensitive face She If ii 5 feet 4 2 1 Inches tall tail and weighs pounds She She- can cnn swim ride fence e play the ukulele and drive a acal car cal |