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" And So I Am a Comedienne ", an article published in Ladies Home Journal in July 1925, gave Dorothy a chance to recall her public persona: “ And so I am a comedienne, though I, too, once wanted to do heroic and tragic things.

Today my objection to playing comedy is that it is so often misunderstood by the audiences, both in the theater and in the picture houses.

It is so often thought to be a lesser art and something which comes to one naturally, a haphazard talent like the amateur clowning of some cut-up who is so often thought to be ‘ the life of the party ’.

In the eyes of so many persons comedy is not only the absence of studied effect and acting, but it is not considered an art .”