The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15

m8t9 vhe cueuco or unotuB povorty or any spsctne reason for the last and knew Clara Blcod6ood beet writes Of her siIniIArity to Der own part in ''rhs 0irl With the 0fesn Eyes" If ever m actress was fitted with . role Mrs. B1codgood was htted by clyde Fitch when he wrote The Girl with the Green Eyes. for this actress was the type of Jtmmy She was seif-centered, suspicious. charming. and very proud; and. conscfous of possession of talents far above the ordinary. she fought with almost an insane earnestness to give them convincing expression. To an extraordinary degree she succeeded, but such success was no balm to her ard ent nature Baked. embittered. and rasped, she lost her hssd and made |
 when Richard Mansffeid frst felt himssK in the grip 0f the .fasped" nerves that afRect the stage people ho analysed hie en1ofions and wrote n strange and fefvid little word picture of the tortures cf his ina gina tion-but hs wrcte ft calmly. half whimsicaliy, From another mood. When Clara Bloodgocd. who could also pass lightly from comedy to tlrs desolation of an- guish. reached the Jumping of place. she won't in from . jolly little luncheon and did 1t with as little fuss as pos- sibles and lined up to her artistic creed.
 Naturally one does not talk about those things"
 Always ciara Bloodsood had found ssr;slf in ssr .rssEhs , tS n intense pitch her climaxes inspffationaI and with less of techridue than full flowing fofces of emotion. She would go thfeugh one season vivffed with this burning fre and sometfmet the next would be dramatically limp ana rfe-
 less. unsbIe fo act--unhappily land Tn the short tinss she hsd been on fthe stage she had had an unusually
 large number of p9rts. Her first ap- pearance was as Bloide fn the Con- querors." Then thoeo were parts with Annie Russeii's company iY Gather
 inc" and in ..rhroso." Tn 1893 she was Mrs. Percival Etngseaffe. in r'Iriss Hobbs." and Julia ooldshy in s-rhe
 osss in The way lcf the world" and again in 1903 she was even more sue
 cessfui in "The Girl with tii6 Green Eyes" In 1904 she appeared fn ssrhe C0ronet of the Duchess't and How He
 Lied to Her Husbafid She also did
 the role of Violet in Man and super
 man. and this year she was playing
 in Truth" -
 Even in say litt1e comedy pafts, as
 in the fairy liehtness Of Nam Seffe Mo
 diste. Frftzf Scheff goes into her dress ing room and weeps for q full ten tnin- utes just because she has said good bye l to her gay eonfferes of the hat shop
 Margaret Ellington as q little efrf ai the Chicago Dramatic School, when she l first played the part Of the mother S, i Pinero's The Weaker Sex" used to gc of the stage and cry ana sob as if her
 heart would break when shs had got
 ten through with the scefe of her re- nVnciation of her daughter. From the l tine when she came into she college as the little school girl. Maude Light l whom no one distinguished at frsl from less talented iassies. ft was eoor found that she was teerniuH over witt eFnotionaiisnl. It was the work of the instructor. Hart Conway. to keep hen
 in check or as little uftried girl shs would reach her clfmaxes before the, were due. I-
 l It was when she was enduring thu
 pent up wrongs of the wife in srIfl
 House in Order" that she was beinl
 interviewed about the potency and-mor. than speaking part played in the piec, by c vivid pink lgown. She quicixl,
 disposed of the frock and began ts talk about her part and vert into ai tenthusiastic discussion of the feeiingl