The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-09
PULL AN ASSET
IN STAGE CAREER
Best Talent Is on 1.-THE Road"
Declares Miss Reynolds,
Aborn Co. Songbird.
BY LOUISE HARDY.

1t isn't what o do. but the way
you do 1t, that counts and make for
originality and individuality" was the
truism expressed by Miss Carrie Revn-
ODDS, playing in "Babettei In Olympic
Park this week. Now. when you
dance and, by the way, anyone who
has missed seeing the fleet, flying
touches of her feet twinkling through
the productions of the Aborn Opera
Company this summer has missed a
motion poem-"you dance not only with
your feet, but with your arms, your
head INTERNALLY and externally. your
eyes and every bit of you. And 1t is
the way that you manipulate each and
every part that makes the old thing
newt"
All this was volunteered by the little
soubrette with the wise, IL laughing,
brown eyes, yesterday afternoon, be-
tween the acts of "Babette."
Where did I learn to dance? Why,
1 never took a dancing lesson in my
life, and what l have learned has been
from observation"
Miss Reynolds obviously Is an icono-
elast. You will find the cleverest
stage people upon the road, rather than
on Broadway" she said. Pull works
overtime on the stage. just as in any
other profession. or calling, and with IL
one can land in the coveted land of
milk and honey, plus or minus any
great amount of just plain ability. On
the road. however, everyone is strug-
Cling to win a place for himself or her
self. and oftentimes a remarkable per-
Torrance is lost on an unappreciative
audience"
Miss Reynolds is engaged by Klaw
& Erlanger and will appear a week
from Monday al the Circle Theatre in
New York in the subrette role in Nc
Intyre and Heath's new production,
I'm Hayti.' She will play for sixteen
weeks In New York. and will go to
Boston for ten weeks, then to Chicago.
1T all means work, work, work" she
went on, and there are so many things
to think of. One of the many things
which so many musical comedy people
forget is the speaking voice. They
think that If they can sing well that
is all that is needed. They do not
realize the Importance of the spoken
lines and the voice with which they
are delivered. 1t is the truest truth in
the world-a low voice is an excellent
thing in women. and especially is it
appreciated by an audience after hav-
ing listened to a period of music
d | think that young girls are as
anxious as ever for the stage career?
Indeed | do. I receive heaps of letters
from aspiring young girls. whose sole
ambition is to dress In beautiful
clothes and sing beautiful songs and
speak lofty thoughts to an admiring
multitude, and they expect to accom-
plish all this right away. In spite of
the frequently appearing articles In
papers and magazines, they think the
same thoughts that possessed the minds
of girls ten or fifteen years ago, and
they will probably continue to do so
until the end of time. They ought to
sec some of our rehearsals-from 10
in the morning until 6 o'clock at night.
1t would cure many a stage-struck
maiden"
For three years Miss Reynolds has
been with the Aborn company. 1--WE
are just like n big family" she said,
land il we work hard we are only too
glad to do it for our splendid
ment, and the effort is a real pleasure.
Indeed l am coming back next sum-
mer, and l will see you then. So long,
And a white Louis XIV. wig was
whisked into place and disappeared
with the wearer as the curtain rang
up.