The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-12


 Evening Post.
 \ VIRGINIA HARMED was an actress
 N who rose to fame at the old Ly
 ceum theatre and has since be- come a star. I had seen her in travel ing company at the Fourteenth Street theatre and engaged her to support MT. Southern, first in 'The Maister of Wood barrow and next in "The Dancing Girl;" and in both plays she gave a char acter and quality to the roles that were found effective and convincing. Effie Shannon, now also a star, appeared to- great advantage in the ingenue roles.
 The Lyceum also sheltered one of the early achievements of Ethel Barrymore, who, in an English comedy, His Excel ency the Governor" produced there by her manager, Charles Frohman, played the leading comedy role with such re- splendent promise that she soon emerged from the ranks as a star. On the same stage her mother, Georgie Drew Barry more, sister of John Drew, appeared In 1885: and Richard Mansfield and Mrs. Fiske in their first important starring days won applause in the little play house-althougr Mrs Fiske had been a popular star since childhood Ethel Barrymore's mother was a capital come dienne and a woman of much wit and humor-a quality not lacking In her dis t;nguished daughter. In an engagement in San Francisco she was asked to take part In special performance. She wired her manager in New York for permission His reply was as follows: NO" Her answer to this was equally brief It was, "Oh."
 This was more laconic. than Artemus wards reply to the San 'F'rancisco man ager. Thomas Mcguire, who telegraphed Ward:
 "What will you take for forty nights | in California;"
 "Whisky and water,' was the re- | sponse.
 One of the most promising of the younger actresses was Margaret Anglin. She had acquired her dramatic training at one of the local schools, ana en- gagged her as a member of the company supporting Sothern. Her first part was that of the slavey in Lord Chumley, and. though the role had been previously nlaved by several skillful actresses, she gave the part such effectiveness, natural ness and humor that I made her the urderstudy for Virginia Harmed, the ,eading woman. Miss Harmed became i'll during the week of "The Adventure of r,dv I1rsula." in the West, and Miss
 5.lin played the part so well that MT. sothern wired me:
 l | answered: Have had both eyes on liner for months
 l Miss Anglin's accumulations of success f,l interpretations is still recent history. Miss Mannering, whom, as have said, engaged from an English provincial com pany. made her greatest Lyceum success as Rose in Pinero's remarkable play of
 "Trelawnev of the Wells" one of the most unusual performances ever given by the Lyceum company. In this play Hilda Suong. the English actress, made hei first appearance in America, and quite d.
 vided honors with Miss Mannering for hel
 breezy and buoyant assumption of Imo-
 gen. These two women's parts were ir
 admirable contrast in play that was SC
 full of happily contrasted characters.
 Before her starring days Julia Marlowe
 called upon me. She was slender, young
 and pretty girl, with very expressive
 face, who besought my interest in hel
 stage ambition. immediately offeerd hel
 the juvenile business" in my company
 for the following season, but she re
 fused it.
 } "Tnen what do you want?" I asked ) feeling I had offered her splendid op ) portunity.
 CT want to go out as a star in Shakes peare," she answered.
 !, Knowing that it took time and man, patient years in those days to qualify al star, declined. But in the samf sea , son she gave a special matinee perform ance of "Ingomar' at the Bijou theatr