The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-12
From the Savannah News.

From the Savannah News.
 IA q 1sS CLARA MORRIS with the all- M star production of "The Two Or phans,e which was seen here re- gently, is interesting to talk to, and chat ted pleasantly before she went on the stage.
 A sufferer from many physical ailments and 55 years old, she still retains all the fire and brllliancy of her younger days, and even in private conversation is able to move one strangely and play on every emotion just as she did in the height of her stage career.
 An interview with Clara Morris is an in- terview in title only. It is really brief record of a running fire of animated con versation-all one-sded-all full of humor and pathos and happy memories. And her manner remains as charming as her speech. Both are absolutely natural and aull of sincerity.
 She was asked which among all her great parts was the one she loved best to think about.
 Alike, Alike Alike" she said "All my most tender memories are clustered IL. used to stay awake nights with soul full of dread and think that the public was getting to believe l could play nothing but adventuresses-that I had become second Jeffreys Lewis. Then MT. Daily gave me the chance to play Alixe-the young girl fresh from the conVent-and' l turned to 1t and gave all my heart to the part-and the public helped me
 I'm q firm believer in the law of com pensation, All my life have been willing to do for others, and 1 find abundant re- turn My greatest successes have come through my labors for charity l first played "Camillen for charity-indeed, l never would have acted the part for any other purpose, but after the beginning l could not get away from 1t.
 ''I drifted into my literary work by writing short story for paper pub sheo at a charity bazaar, and I some times think that my labors in this direc- tion have been more sincere satisfac- tion to me than anything in my stage ca reer 1 know it makes me as happy to make people feel through written words as 1t never did to move them by spoken words.
 But all this brings me to my original proposition. l have cast few crumbs on the waters and and oh how many loaves of bread have come back!'
 No actress ever struggled harder than Miss Morris through bitter humiliation and years of hateful drudgery to success. She laughs with tears In her eyes today as she tells about those times when at 50 cents night she struggled with every sort of part as understudy to mediocre stars who would leave the theatre in nouff on the slightest provocation. 'e~dvl lordyl' she said, what days they NeIc. The carriage waits; or, My iady, the each is at the door Heavensl I have ordered up more hacks in my time than stand today in all the livery stables of America put together I was a poor little undersized thing when they threw me, at minutes notice, into the part of the flying messenger in Julius Caesar and gave me a Roman dress. tunic and all that a six-foot man had been playing it in.
 But whatever I did. I did with all my heart I have lived my parts and been fined a hundred times for changing the business of scene just on impulse-and ordered immediately after the fine to re- tain the new gestures or the new speech because the public would have nothing else"
 Miss Morris thought for a while when asked what she considered the most try. ing piece of actirg she ever attempted.
 ''It was undoubtedly that awful scene of Coras in L'Article 47, she said. "Cora holds the stage, entirely alone, for seventeen minutes. don't believe harder piece of sustained emotional work was ever written And she added with a determined nod. ''I believe 1t isfthe only one of all my roles that I would hesitate to play again today--and that not because of the heavy emotional work, but be- cause of the great physical strain, the falls and the necessary rapidity of move ment"
 How many thousands of your old friends. and thousands. too, of gener- ation that has never been able to see your great parts. would be happy over the chance to have them back again?" was asked
 Miss Morris hesitated a bit. Then she said: "I don't know, I am sure. I've often thought about it. especially since have come before the public again, and realize that I chafe under the limitations of such a small part as this of the sister superior. know that out there on the stage the old days come back to me, and wish that suddenly I might find myself again a Mercy Merrick or Camille, and