New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
BY Harriette Underhill

Dorothy Green sat opposite US at
table at the Kpickerbocker. She wore
a black velvet gown, heavily trimmed
with Russian sable. On her fingers
sparkled large white gems. Around her
were waited waves Of POrigan, our own
favorite perfume, now soaring beyond
our reach. She wore q small, red vel
vet hat with a strange Russian trim
ming; her black hair was waved, her
white skin was dazzling. and alto
gether she appeared to be perfect
example Of the ambitious young person
who has been able to capitalize her
beauty and win fortune from the
screen, and then she spoke:
81 don't care a rap about money.
Pm going to marry for love. The only
thing worth having is happiness, an
money doesn't bring it. l shouldn't
care if a man had only SO week, if
loved him. Making both ends meet is
such funl"
"Yes," we murmured. "Such fun!"
"And I love to keep house. Scram-
bling eggs at a. m. is much more in
teresting, as somebody says, than mix
ing rarebit at II p m, and you ought
to taste my chocolate cake!'
"How old are you, Miss Green?" we
asked, with apparent irrelevance.
"Twenty- two, going on" she an
swered. "Why?"
"And you can make chocolate cake!
Think of i'll"
ooh, but that isn't all. can make
bread and doughnuts and pie and
everything, and l like to dust and ar
range the rooms and"--
"Stop," we said Then why all this?
Why these furs and these diamonds
and why the motion pictures? If you
could love man without any income,
such as writer or an artist, for in
stance, and il you would be happy in
d fiat in The Bronx and if you like to
make both ends meet, why do you live
in Seventy-second Street and keep a
maid and a japanese butler and car?
And you ought to be perfectly miser
able with those priceless furs on and
those rings and that hat! Why don't
you marry your man without an in
because he hasn't asked me yet, but
as soon as he does l shall. But I do
like my motion pictures And I like
the money because it buys SO many
beautiful things; but that is all. ]
think a girl who marries for money
gets considerably less than she ex-
poets"
This certainly was not the way we
expected to hear Dorothy Green talk
IN the first place, every time we had
seen her on the screen she was por-
traying one Of those creatures which
Klpllng describes as rag, bone and
hank Of hair and every time we
had seen her off the screen she was
wearing clothes which would tax the
income of any one save movie star
or a bank president
And she always has been at the
Montmartre or the Ritz or the Plaza
dancing with some gorgeous looking
officers in navy blue, so how could we
possibly guess that she liked to sit
home and darn stockings or read at
night, and that she considered lack of
fortune in sutton rather an asset
than liability?
We expressed our establishment to
Miss Green in a few we'll chosen words.
ior 1t isn't diplomatic to be too sur
prlsed when you learn that girl has
& lot of nice ideals.
And then she astonshed US still
more. She leaned forward and whis-
pered, "And I don't believe in woman's
rights, nor the single standard, nor di-
vorce, nor any of those things should
believe in. And ! believe in being in
love with your husband and staying in
Love with him, and having sons and
daughters maybe. I M all tired Of this
sort OF thing"-waving her hands to
Indicate Broadway from Fortv-second
Street to the Circle and Fifth Avenue
for the same distance.
Then how did You happen to go on
the stage?"
Il went because had to earn nv
living: 1t wasn't much at first. Just
one OF those girly shows, and I danced
and sang little, and then / had an
offer to go in pictures. | started in
small way. oh, no, l was not one Of
those stars which are made while you |
walt! | had to work hard, but was
never really started until my last six
pictures which | made for the World"
Are you Irish 2" we asked at last.
Tor Miss Green's nationality had been /
hotnerlng US all the time. We couldn't 7
place her
"No. indeed-Russian.'
with that hair and those eyes and
that skim
"Oh, yes. Russian women mostly
have white skin and black hair and .
green eyes. And have d Russian soul (
l suppose that accounts for m. sirnn.-o