Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-24

than any other actress who has ever
come to Los Angeles, and the instant
her arrival in town was known the
influx of callers commenced. She will
speak before at least one and possibly
more of the women's clubs during her
stay in town, and since the least asso-
citation with her is attractive to the
mind and appealing to the heart she
will probably add many new names
to the list of those who find in her
inspiration and friendliness.
These little informal speeches. ad-
dresses or what you will, always re-
solve themselves into talks so per-
sonal and intimate in their bearing
that whether there be six people pres
ent or six hundred every member of
the audience carries away the impress
sion that the hour was spent in con-
versation a deux.
The Woman, Not the Actress
1t is always the strong personality of
the woman which makes itself felt, and
when Miss Shaw addressed the stu
dents of the University of Minnesota
at Minneapolis recently President
Northrup introduced her with these
words: "In asking the representative
of any profession to speak to the body
of students assembled in this chapel
it is always the personality and not
the profession which is considered, and
so it is Mary Shaw the woman and not
Mary Shaw the actress TO whom we
will listen this morning.
There are many former Minnesotans
among the readers of The Herald who
will appreciate the wisdom of the man
who thus cleverly avoided any COM
plaint from those who might caVil that
an artist who went upon the stake at
night and played Mrs. Warren should
speak about the drama to several hun
dred young man and young woman stu
dents of the state university in the
morning.
"The most wonderful thing about
California" said Miss Shaw yesterday
"is your California women. ] have met
clubwomen from Maine to California,
but never before have l met any with
the spontaneity, the vitality and the
freedom in the true sense of freedom
which your California clubwomen have.
Should Not FIatter Women
"Women should not be flattered; they
should be prodded. Usually / have
TO say to them Wake up But the
women of this glorious state seem to
have been reached first by the great
wave of energy which is sweeping over
the country. They have long ago de-
cided that they did not want to bear
children to have them poisoned by an
impure milk supply, to have them
grow up TO be the victims of political
and social evils and so with commend
able perseverance they have set about
to remedy as many of these conditions
as possible"
Since the plays which Miss Shaw pre-
sents are all closely allied to the very
things in which clubWomen are inter-
ested it follows that they invariably
want IN hear from her own liDS con-
cerning the subjects.
why" she said yesterday, "some
one here asked me just to tell the truth.
Now if California women are so brave
that they want the truth told to them,
certainly they are many, many degrees
ahead of their less progressive eastern
sisters.
THAT all just goes to show" con-
tinued Miss Shaw, that women have
gone on and ahead i'm spite of them
selves. They cant go back and be
harem women; they can't be frontier
women again. they may think 'Oh, how
heavenly it was when we didn't have
souls, didn't have to think and could
be lust women but they wouldn't like
il No nor the men wouldn't like it,
either, although sometimes they think
that these professional Women-being
a clubwoman is almost a profession
nowadays-are nuisance with their
continually prying into and improving
everything.
"I lust want to say this: Individual
women everywhere have been friendly
interested and advanced in their COM
prehension of what life in all it's full
ness means, but the California club
women have a deeper, stronger, finer
feeling, which is magnificent in its po-
tentiality."