Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27
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Casual Street Meeting, Mere Incident of Day
Is All There Was to It, She Intimates
But of Course She Denied It
BY II. NJ. YOST, JR.

to buy this show, The Genius, and
with Mr.. Goodwin in it we managed to
get as far west as st Louis before NV
career as a great actress met a sudden
JOLT. Mr.. Goodwin then bought the
show and made me leading woman. and
nave been with him now nearly two
years"
Miss Goodrich was very convincing.
She sat very still in her dainty stage
tlock i lWhateVer that is), and leaned
her chin on her finger tips and looked
straight at me. First 1 wished she
Wouldnt look at me, and then was
glad she did. If you want to experience
the sensation of freezing to death in all
ts sublime deliciousness, just sit down
| IN the front row at the Mason and LET
MISS Goodrich gaze at you once, and
tnen you will blindfold yourself for fear
someone else will get a look in and
spoil the charm.
| The young woman never told how she
had gone to business college and there
peen told she could act after which
she had promptly become a great act
ress. She never related the narrowing
details of starting out as a shop girl
ana being lifted to an exalted position
by pure talent, and she didn't even
blame her start in the theatrical world
on Little Eva in an "Uncle Tom"
snow. And most of all, she spoke in an
intelligent, human sort of voice, and
not with the usual press agent nasal.
Miss Goodricd's rise has been meteor
like, and she has never needed a press
agent.
But to get back to the interview.
About that time some of that lingerie
business took a tumble to the situation
and waited down on the floor, and I
saw some pink things with buckles on
them, and | remembered to ask about
the Thaw case. The press agent had
tod me not TO- and the dramatic critic
mad told me to be sure to, and 1 f1ipped
hgurative quarter and lost.
rs there anythink else Of interest?"
1 began.
Miss Goodrich smiled at me as if she
knew what l had been thinking about.
That absurd Thaw business" she
began. l experienced an ingroWing
smile thinking about how Jerome would
plte pieces out Of the furniture and
chew up the law books if he ever got a
chance like this; and 1 also thought
what Frank Murray might think, but it
was too late then.
About the Thaw Case
Il knew both of them very slightly"
said Miss Goodrich. "Of course. when
the papers began to make such an aw-
tul scare about that alleged introduce
ton, 1 denied having presented them.
Anyone ought to feel sorry for poor
MRS. Thaw' but that wasn't a muddle
that L cared to be identified with, and
since hadn't been identified with 1t, l
didn't intend to take and blame for an
Introduction.
Now, how would 1t be If you knew
anyone slightly and would by chance
Introduce them while you were walking
along the street? You couldn't be
blamed for it, could you?"
l figured out to myself that had 1
known Evelyn l wouldn't have intro
duced her to anyone, but l didn't say
anything.
so you see that was all there was to
the Thaw case, so far as l was con-
cerned. And, just like the girls of the
original 'Florodora' sextet, there have
been about forty actresses alleged to
have made that introduction. So you
see now you know everything about
that question"
First she had told me she didn't and
then she said she did and then she
told me | knew all about II. 1t was q
system of answering that would have
made Jerome glad she wasn't on the
witness stand If he had heard her
So, having told me q don't think), she
stated that we would now get back to
California, and we got back.
LOS Angeles is the greatest city III
the world" said the young woman.
IT'S wonder, and I'm sorry / can't
live here all my life. and I'm sorry L
wasn't born here; and If L ever go
through that experience again l shall
surely select Los Angeles"
I'd heard Nat Goodwin tell that one
before but l laughed anyhow.
"You have the mountains here, and
the ocean, and the western people are
so good and big hearted and so appre-
eiative that 1t is a pleasure to act be-
fore them.
"Now, If you viii tell the people Of
Los Angeles for me that II Is the great
est pleasure l know to be allowed to
play before westerners, and especially
for them, l viii greatly appreciate 1t"
concluded the little woman.
/ bowed myself out backward, and
as 1 saw the small white hand, stained
here anc there with grease paint, close
the door of the dressing room, ! re-
membered the statement that Miss