The San Francisco call., 1910-05-08

4 UsS GRACE GEORGE is Mrs.
IN William Brady in her domestic
MI existence. Lady Teazle, Cypri-
enne and little Miss "Fixit'
rolled into one in her theatri-
cal expositions. 4 stage manager by
marriage and precipitation personifled
in her interviews. If she has middle
name il must he CELEBRITY.
The longest interview I ever enjoyed
was with Miss Cahill. whose voice
came ripping over the wires from
somewhere UP in northern Washing
ton to the magnetic receiver at my
ear in san Francisco. That was the
longest talk ever had. and Miss
CahilTs smile thus became, might
say. the most expansive that ever broke
I'D in a laugh. Miss Georges inter
view was the shortest II was so
quick that il was over before I real
ized H. The fact is Miss George
6oeen1 like to be interviewed. She
admits she doesn't. That is, she
4 -oesn't Hke TO be interviewed except
f4 her comedy. Lynch, the city news
man i'm "A Woman's Way is the only
journalist who has welcome access TO
Miss Georges attention, and that only
happens. I presume. because she is not
Miss George At the time, but Mrs
Howard stanton. And besides she
Davs Elwood Cromwell TO be Harry
T.vnch the city news man in "A
yVomsn's way" and the author Of the
comedv makes the staged interview
essential to the embodiment of the
merry plot. But once she has her own
vsv about it, Miss George eludes the
interviewer as much as is consistent
with publicity ends. She viii talk, but
she won't talk much. Which shows
that the essence Of femininity. which
Is what Mrs Howard stanton is in the
comedy, does not prevent Miss George
in her own capacity from contradioting
al traditional accounts of woman
loQuaGity.
asked her whether her avoidance
of interviewers were due to q preJu-
dice inspired by Harry Lynch in her
comedv and whether in her observation
of the way her play newspaperman
acted she was persuaded that the tribe
was dangerous.
Ny comedy, a Woman's Way, she
said. was written by q newspaperman
thompson Buchanan is one of the bright
est Journalists in the country, and as q
rewspaperman he should know what
lis associates are like"
> Harry Lynch in the comedy is
rather importunate SOUL L admitted
cautiously. but clever. No doubt the
playwright ideslized him"
Perhaps" she said, amiably.
Az proposes and woman dispeses
M you know. Manager Doyle men
~ dsciousIy, as any good manager
would have done, said Miss George
would be pleased to see you "wednesday
afternoon and tell you anything yot
want to know"
An opportunity such as that would
naturally appeal 10 any one in search o.
knowledge, and. weary with doubts OF
many subjects, Wednesday Afternoon
was TO be the season of enlightenment
and the day when doubts were going t
Gy like wasps from a beleaguered nest
At the appointed hour 1 was there il
;he theater, impatient, expectant, ye
eonhdent and hopeful 1t was matine'
day. and I should see her between th'
acts How long was / TO have? "Oh
about seven minutes. or eight, per.
haps"
I wouldn't for the world mention The
circumstance, dear reader, only fee
hat you should know that there remain
some things that were not settled, ow'
ing, you will understand. to the limited
time in which to dispose Of them. "a
Why Brady left home was one OF tht
problems I wanted to have her solve
FOR her husband has joined the forces
of the Independents, and fights the syn.
dicste with which he formerly sat and
ate OF the theatrical pie. I wanted tc
discuss th@ relation Of moving picture
Slows TO the legitimate drama OF the
day: 10 discuss the unities of time and
place and action as exploited in Charles
Ram Kennedy's latest drama, The
Winterfeast,s TO achieve fame as the
first one 10 publish the Whereabouts OF