The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-30
Mss Adelaide Thursf0n'S
 Charm 4 Sa "SOuthern Girl.

The southern tour of Miss Adelaide Thurston is of notable interest every win ter but more especially so this season. since she Is playing the part of southern girl. Every where Miss Thurston has been accorded an ovation, her appearance Tn | the southern cities being both an artistic and social event while the critics have had nothing but the most charming things i to say. Each season seems to have ad- ded to her popularity in the south and l there is no young woman on the Amer ican stage who seems to have quite the magnetic sway over the southern people as Miss Thurston. She holds her south ern audiences from season to season and she has forever endeared the south to her ] by her interpretation of Polly Primrose" in the most charming of southern plays
 How do l like the role of a southern girl2" said Miss Thurston. "Oh how do you think l like it?' She was still in the white be-ruffled gown worn in the last act and the Title high heeled slippers peeped out from under many petticoats. "Pollys" brown rnglets had not been discarded and every thing was just the
 
 Miss Thurston's manager knocked on her dressing room door and inquired what she wanted for supper.
 "A sandwich" said Miss Polly; mind you, now, nothing but sandwish-and little apolinaris water" She was very emphatic. Then the door closed. Although Miss Thurston subsisted on a sandwich l iol,f eha IV herself to so light diet On the con- trary she says that she does much bet ter work after a more substantial meal. and 1t was only because of late lunch con yesterday that she declared she was not lat all hungry"
 Miss Thurston has grown stouter since last season. although after the opening of her season she was so broken down that her physicians advised her to rest the remainder of the winter. She spent the summer abroad and studied very hard in Paris, besides traveling great deal
 Tt was all due to the anxiety of the first night " said Miss Thurston. "One is always over-anxous, and the dread of the first night is very wearing. It is almost worse than the strain of the entire season I have a horror that may forget my lines. or that something may go wrong, but after the ordeal is once over have no further fears.
 While Miss Thurston likes her new plav very much she has her taVorlte scenes.
 "I like the scene when Jack and Polly have their quarrel said Miss Thurston in that charm ing voice of hers. "Then, love that scene when Polly lays her head first upon her mothers shoulder and then upon
 mammy's.' and weeps because Jack gets the best of her in an argument Miss Thurston went through her lines Ihe brown ringlets shook coquettishly Her face assumed its most bewitching eN- nression. She was Polly She was , everything that was appealing.
 l In her new play Miss Thurston wears | orinoIine and fiounces. and does her hair like our grandmothers did when 'hes | called each other Polly and Betty. ! In her stage wardrobe are tibbets, and | dchus and beautiful old 1ewelry sne wears a set of exquisite old bracelets that were once worn by war time belle | and beauty Upon her fair throat rests | a ieweled cross quaint, old fashioned Her little furbelows, her high heeled slip pers. the girlsh simplicity of her gowns l suit her perfectly. Who can wear gown trimmed with pink roses as prettily as Adelaide Thurston?
 Miss Thurston went with her friends who called on her to the stage door The | theatre was In complete darkness. and l light from her dressing room fell on the old mahogany table on the stage. still 1 complete as the interior of Polly's' home. These were the colonial pillars, the scarlet curtains, the brass candle sticks, the little piano in the corner Miss | Thurston ran back to the dressing room.
 Wait she called out until 1 find match" and leading the way with single burning match to guide her. Miss Thurs ton piloted her friends through property rooms and scenery of all descriptions