The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-02

my company new in his part. How
could 1 do or think of anything except
rehearsals? Yes. / met a number OF
people socially. somehow in spite of
work, and interviewers. Your women
were charming to me. They are lighter
than we English women. They are not
serious" This with such quaint
inflection.) They are not quite so rest
full as the English woman. And they
theater at night, two, three, or more,
together, without escorts. Their liber-
ty is amazing. The matinee girl?
have not had time to study her yet,
though my following is always larger
among women than men.
Your audiences, may say it?-are
cold. They are not sympathetic. As l
said before, you are not a serious peo-
pie. l am here for twenty weeks this
time. 1 hope you will like my art, and
then l may come again. But if you do
not like it-then-"
Such an expressive shrug! II seemed
to say: Get In line, America, for the
box office. or never again shall you see
the great and only Mrs. Tanquery."
your hotels? oh, please do not ask
me about them. 1t is not where wish
to go, but where they will take me,
and all because of Pinkey- Pankey-P Poo.
And what harm can that dear little
dog do in a great hotel like this? And
with two maids to care for him? Any
one might think he was a wild animal
escaped from the circus. Now, in Eng
land they might charge me ten shill-
ings a week for him. But ask me to
either Danish him or leave the house?
They would never be so rude!
IF you must know, the thing that
has astopished me most in your coun-
try is this custom of interviewing. 1t
is barbarous! Outrageous Insulting!
The day / landed, don't you know,
thirty-five of them waiting for me in
the hotel parlor. Every one of them
men-before I had chance to see my
managerial meet my personal friends
70 realize that / was actually on land.
And every one of the thirty-flve want
Ing a separate interview For what?
To ask me exactly the same question
how l liked America! Do your people
live in and on the papers? They haunt
me wherever | go-do these newspaper
reporters. They ask me questions
which l would discuss only with my
intimate friends. They expect me to
discuss off hand sociological questions
which should reveal the very soul of
the speaker, matters connected with
my family, too. Why, feel as IL had
been stripped naked II Is indescrib-
able. There Is no privacy for the ac-
tress here. In England we would not
tolerate II. The American people see
me act. They study my art. Is not
that enough7 Must they still know my
private opinion on all things-on all
questions?"
When informed that the average
actress regarded a column In a reput-
able paper as valuable advertising,
Mrs Campbell gasped.
THE vulgarity OF ~ No, we would
not endure that I'm England. The pub
lie may admire us-our ART, but they
do not follow us 10 our homes-pry into
our private life, ask us what we think
on that subject or this. They love
the ART that h In Us.
There IL but one excuse for your
custom 81 interviewing artintes II Is
the impudence 81 youth. Write that
down. please. "a is 20 very true You
are a young nation. sou lack rev
erence. There A. no reverence here
even for ART. Yes, that b. it, the
! impudenos Of youth, have seen