The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-02
ACTORS AND ACTRESSES
 ARE EASY ID APPROACH
Mrs. Schraeder, Brilliant Woman, Is Visiting Birmingham-NatiVe
 Alabamlan-She Spends Summers South.
BY ANNIE KEHoRIcK WALKER.


 Mrs Marie B. schraeder, the well. known dramatic interviewer on the Washington Post, and whose name Is as familiar to newspaper readers as are Chose celebrities of whom she writes, is spending a few days in Birmingham en route from Montgomery to the na- tional capital. She is the niece of the late United States Consul Robert A. Nosely of Birmingham, and is the guest Of Mrs Mosely.
 Mrs Schraeder, although she has lived in Washington so many years, remains quite loyal to Alabama. her native state, and has passed the summer with mem bers of her family in the southern part of the state. The Mosely family, dis tingushed both in South Carolina and Alabama, is closely allied to the early history of this state, and for this reason, as well as for other ties, Mrs. Schraeder takes keen interest in all that concerns Alabama
 Mrs. Schraeder, in her newspaper work. is possibly the best known of any south ern woman. For several years she has been the dramatic interviewer on the Post, and her brilliant work has received many tributes from the prominent men end women in the theatrical world. Nat urally she has a wealth of "reminiscences and constitutes In herself a ready sym posium upon the charming people she has known
 MT. Jefferson, MT. Belasco, Miss Barry more, Anna Held, May Erwin, the most briI ba into na f. est favorites in tragedy and comedy these are Mrs. Sehraeder's friends, be- cause unlike some interviewers, she can be trusted
 q do not seek to find foibles," she said yesterday in a little chat that I had with her.
 T am not an Allan Dale. I prefer to find out the good in people.
 fThen l have what Is called the artistic temperament. understand artistic people and l have only to see an actor on the stage to know if shall be able to inter- view him successfully.
 Some are quite wholesome, while oth- CTS are delightful. There Is Anna Held. She is the easiest person in the world to interview, and I do not exaggerate her English either. Every one else, she says. makes her say 'ees' I beg her to throw In her French. but I think that everything she says is delightful.
 Now, Miss Barrymore, T was hopeless,' she said when I entered her dressing room. Then, she began talking, and it was one of the best interviews l ever had. Mrs. Langtry is another ever agreea- ble woman to interview.
 MT. Jefferson? Yes he is very approach ble and I have had several interviews with him.
 Mrs. Schraeder has charming recollec- Hons of MT. Jefferson. But she had most to say of MT. Belasco-David Belasco, the playwright.
 He is a poet" she exclaimed. 'He Is the most striking figure in the theatri- cal world today, and yet he is not an actor He is not doing things for the love of gold. He is working for arts salxe."
 Mrs. Schraeder's admiration of MT. Belasco is based upon an intimate knowl- edge of his work and her own intelligent Ideals of the American stage, and she declared him to be the dom lnant figure in the stage annals of today. Mrs. Schraeder. while ranking so high as a writer Is accounted one of the beauties by Washington society She is the wife of one of the brightest and most popular of the Washington correspond ants.