New-York tribune., 1922-02-05
Beauty Alone
Cannot Make
Picture Star
They Must Fear Nothing in
the Heavens Above or
Waters u.n13er the Earth
BY liarfiettc Underhill
never ~ss an actress,
tNc set I never SEQ ore
Hut t].S 7 .erl. ! must confess.
- rather sec than be one


comparatively. But what is $1,000 a
~eJ, or even $1,000. if you set killed
c.ay ming IT,
Crlcas VIC are much mistaken it was
ihc irterpost.d train wreck which so
aroused Fannie Hurst's ire at show
ing Of Star Dust" with Hope Hamp-
ton in the first half Of the title role
No doubt there were other things to
which Miss Hurst objected, but dc
cidedly she did not like that part. SO
Il seems that the spectators arc the
only ones who cnjoY il. for Miss Hamp-
'or is not exactly ANXIOUS to do an
other one just like it. Fortunately. she
can swim, but probably if she couldn't
she would have done the thing Just the
same, because she is like that-amb-
tous ard fearless. As for US, VIC do
rot yet know whether we agree with
Miss Hurst. nho wrote the story. or
Nth Anthony Pxu Kelly. who wrote
the screen version. Soon our doubts
"'lll be set al. rcst. however. for at
O'Clock NC Iall visit thc Strand
lheater AND 'sce Star Dust" its train
wreck and everything. However. this
rou may hr sure of--thc train wreck is
real. as real a. it looks. and Miss
Hsmrcrr Is in it. She told US so her
SELF
AVID Lillian Cish really foatcd
around on cake Of icc VIC made a
special trip to find this out when "Wsy
Down East was sho.n. It pAs made
IN mid winter and She hung suspended
Oh the odre of a falls twelve feet high,
Dick Barthelmcss really crossed the
ice. almost as deftly as Eliza, to res
cue her. too.
Betty Blythe actually drove in the
chariot race in "Thc Queen of Shcba."
and Tire foolish wife really jumped
seveAtyhvc feet into fire net in
volish Wives.' These things we
s'nw to be true because the people
0S'o ought to know best said so.
One day, i'll an unguardcd moment.
onc of the officials OF the Universal
company confidcd to US that Miss Du-
points front name vas Margaret. snd
after that it vas easier to write about
her. He even added that she oas called
peggy Her publicity director calls
her the most beautiful blonde since
Venus, but when We proved to him
that we had once called Rubye de
Rerner that he changed it TO "the most
beautiful blonde since Rubyc de
Remer But this is long and rather
suited for general use
Last week Miss Dupont arrived from,
LOS Angeles and few favored scribes
and Phsrisees were invited to luncheon
% meet her. Tho thing which ne we're
inpatiertiN waiting to ask here was
Did you really jumr from the tower %
and Did YOU nearly get drowned in the
axe The thing which the other
7crlbes were waiting to ask was her
hrst name. for. Of course, NC had not
told II ls really & perfectly hon
orac!e thing to hold back any ilnpor-
'ant information # you have a scoor.
fos your o"n rapcr. "I'm sure its
"ehitable. SAID an Unfortunate youtl,
rom The Evening Sun" 81 think
s Hezekiah, broke in "Ihe Times"
But even this could not sting Miss
nupont into retcrt. She only smilcd.
and there was the look Of the Mon.
Lisa ~ her eyes
The had been in New lorh for only
rent minutes, and already every one
= the big dining room At the Ritz
Knew she vas there All eyes we're
furned toward her. perhaps because
'neF recoc1i7od her and perhaps be-
reuse she WAS the handsomcst young
woman IN the room. Miss Dupont is
nsely to be that anywhere. and right
nov let me- say that she is far. far
iove!ler IN real life THAN on the screen.
". looked at her and wondered how
any director could ever have had the
1eart TO ask her to risk that face in
ire end water.
In answer to our question Miss Du-
pont replied: Put not YOUR trust in
directors. M von Sttoheim intimated
that should have 10 jump only few
feet. 30 didn't worry And when the
time came had to climb over that rail
1ng and jump INTO that net or be burned
up. He vent FIRST. so there vas no one
% argue with.
But it wasn't 20 bad as being in the
boat. for can't swim and the water
rame IN and covered M face. and when
Mr. ven Stroheim lifted me he stepped
n hole and We both went down four
seen feet 20 the bottom" Some one
Interrupted here 'to ask if very many
rchcarsalS vcro necessary for these
things. As Miss Dupon; talked all Of
us sat back. more and more satisfied
With our JOB Of being mere scribes.
And then sno told Of something watch
for sheer brutality has seldom been
coualled. II sounded much worse thsn
All that had sonc before. "To get the
proper cloud effects we had TO get up
al 4 o'clock and work before the sun
vas up This. then, IS What is known
"a being shot 81 sant,,e.' Surely it's
trco ~otse thar Il o,unjs.
-ie.-IG Jn- nar1rc
New York's idle actor colony is