Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-17
Dalton
THE CRESCENT
"The Homebreaker" Attraction
for Today and Tomorrow

Dorothy Dalton, the star in THE
| Homebreaker," has this to say in ar
interview of Ideal Man and the
Vampire"
The ideal mar fortunately is be-
| coming extinct. L say fortunately
| because, were men perfect, this
would be indeed a duh and stupid
world. Stories would have no plot
theatres would close their doors for
want of material for plays-and
worst of all we women would prop
ably pine away for want of gossip.
There is another side to h ideal
man. question, too, which has been
found too late by many a woman.
That is. tina one is never really sure.
A husband is like a cake-one would
not want to keep on eating arter
having enough-and too often too,
the cake proves to be quite indiSestl-
BILE.
Too often the cake with the pink
Icing still resting on the cake dish
seems more delectable than the one
with the green icing you have chos-
EN-. 1t is like getting a
"bargain" marked with the tag AS
is. That means that you take 1T as
YOU find it, and unless you are an
experienced shopper you are liable
to find when you get your bargain
home thai it Is marred or defective
in some way-and when you remem-
Der the terms of your purchase, you
will know that it was the mar or de-
feet which brought it within your
| purchasing capacity.
OF course, looking only at the SUI
perficial side of the ideal man
! question the fact remains that there
is, in each country, a certain type of
| man who most nearly represents the
best in hat country and is, there
| fore. a universal favorite. This type
of man is well represented in the
, many screen stars, and a study OF
the most popular leading man shows
that the ideal American is about as
follows:
He is usually tall, well built and
very athletic. He is quick in an
and most important of
all, has a strong sense of humor. AS
to looks-well, a straight nose, wei
set eyes and firm chin would about
describe this ideal man" of ours
while the fact thai he is we'll groom
ed, per looking and entertain
ing, will sum UP the requisites.
Every once in a while there comes
from some actress, whose slnuoSlty
has led her to play vampirish roles
upon the fstage, an announcement
that she no longer intends to perform
DIS d. "IShSu IA WILL oNtOtS NAN
footlights, and hat she will here
after play the sweetly simple and
delightfully."- sympathetic heroine. In
the cas- of motion picture actresses,
however, the diversity of roles which
any one actress is called upon to play
during the course of a year, makes
it almost impossible-with one or
two notable exceptions-for the pro-
ducers to supply the player with a
sufficient number of these deep, dark
roles.
One of these exceptions has been
Since my first appearance
the screen 1 have played a sue
cession of screen villainesses, whose
desire was to lure the unfortunate
idol from the straight n
narrow path. 1 have decided that
the vampire role Is flat, stale and I'M
profitable and am determined to for
eschew all forms of screen wick
l caught the ''vamp' fever myself
and vamped my way through several
photoplays, but 1 soon found that
his sort of character was firing to
public as to myself. If you can
gain the sympathy of the audi
you are not doing yourself or
public justice. And who will
5ympathize with a wicked woman
unless she reforms. And even then
is always regarded with more or
less suspicion.
So, 1 repeat, no more vampires.
There are plenty of good in
world; plenty of charming young
who may have trying expert
ences, but whose hearts at least are
steeled to every I fine emotion,
and who sometimes think of other
than Turing unfortunate men
to picture doom.
La vamp est mort, viva la vamp!
is my slogan henceforth. She
has served her purpose if she had
one hat was worth while. She is
done, tiniahed-not only so far as I
am concerned but, L really believe,
with the screen ITSELF"