Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27

Miss Edna Goodrich, one of the clev-
crest little women in the country, and
the only one of all the victims for
whom Jerome angled who succeeded in
leaving the eastern attorney in the
lurch and giving him cards and spades
only to beat him at his own game, is in
Los Angeles as leading woman for the
Nat Goodwin company.
Like many another prominent act
ress, Miss Goodrich was threatened
with a subpoena in the Thaw case,
She was just about to leave for a trip
of the middle states, and to be held
over for the Thaw trial would have
spoiled the entire season; so she didn't
stay. While Jerome was anticipating
keen pleasure in getting the petite
young actress on the grill, she left word
at her apartments that she would be in
New York for some time to come, and
while the subpoena servers were taking
things slowly in her direction about
that time, thinking they could get her
when they wanted her, she packed her
things and left the metropolis and
came west. Whether she originally in
tended to come this far west will never
be known, but at any rate she is here,
and will probably not go back to New
York until the Thaw case is matter
of history.
For Miss Goodrich is alleged to have
introduced Stanford White to Evylen
Nesbit. Just three score actresses have
had that allegation thrust upon them,
and none of them is proud of 1t. Miss
Goodrich recently denied that she had
presented the couple, but that is still a
matter of conjecture.
At any rate, she has been so annoyed
by newspaper men who attempted to
secure interviews on the subject that
she refuses TO talk about it any more
She also has an ogre. a smiling, happy
sort of ogre. named Frank Murray,
general representative of the show, and
he hovers around the stage entrance to
keep reporters at a distance.
He made me promise l wouldn't men,
ton the Thaw subject, and then he let
me in, and 1 found myself suffering
out humble apologies for living before
the little woman and her mother.
On Pile of Lingerie
The dressing room of the leading
woman at the Mason has one chair in
it. 1t is one of those chairs that some
times you have and sometimes ii has
you, and l declined with thanks and
took a seat on one of the trunks. There
was a group of that indescribable stuff
gathered and properly styled under the
collective noun lingerie (whateVer that
is), piled up on the trunk, and 1 couldn't
tell which was "ln" and which was
"gerie," but 1 didn't ask.
l began to fiddle for some place to
begin. The patter of rain on the roof
gave me an inspiration, but Miss Good
rich beat me to it.
mo, it isn't beastly weather." she
anticipated, with little trick of hold
ing her head on one side. IT'S just
L. L. nc
and its climate and all its people"
For once in my life 1 forgot to re-
member that 1 had once lived in Mis-
souri, for seventeen years or more, and
/ put on a Native Son smile and con-
sidered myself in on that generous di-
vision of affection.
Incidentally 1 wished that the wealth
er might have been warmer, so some
thing or the other might suggest the
Thaw case but l kept still and waited.
If Miss Goodrich had ever been ac-
cused of really knowing anything about
the Thaw case 1t must have been a
great mistake, for she doesn't thaW a
bit while she's talking to you; and
when she was told she was to be
one of the fifty-seVen varieties at the
Thaw trial, she simply wouldn't
stamford" (joke). and that settled it.
So Miss Goodrich sat on that wiggly
on the belingeried trunk and was glad.
"You see, / had to be my own angel"
continued this remarkable girl, who has
become one of the best known actresses
of the American stage before she has
reached her twenty-fourth birthday. q
thought about asking her real age, but
II she had said twenty-three it would
have been heartless and she couldn't
have said otherwise and been truthful)
~ spent a few years when l was very
young studying music and drama In
Europe, and then returned and started
I'm musical work in New York. But the
drama appealed to me as nothing else
could. / loved 1t. l felt every action l
put into the drama, and l tried to get
a position as leading woman with some
company. The managers laughed at
me and said all the leading lady Jobs
were filled, and that l might be em-
ployed as a character student to say,
mi lawd, youah pipe is in the rack"
II / studied real hard, but declined to
start that way
80, having little money, / managed