The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-19
SAME MARY ANDERSON
Actor Who Has Not Seen Her Since 1880 Cannot Detect in Her
 Sign of Age.
New York Sun,


 < When Mary Anderson (Mrs. Antonio .rde Navarro) appeared on the roof oi the Century Theatre yesterday morn ! ing one of the group of players wait ing to rehearse 'aThe Garden of Al 1: laf" rushed impetuously forward to meet her, and then stopped abruptly and stared.
 You're too wonderful to be real. 2
 he said as she held out both hands ! to him with radiant smile. Why. you're just as young as you were 20 one said you had gray hairs, but it was a base lie And your eyes are the same heavenly blue that made the part of Romeo so easy in the old days. Why Mary T-''
 And then the man couldn't say any more, but he shook hands all over again. He was Arthur Lewis, who Mary Anderson in Washington on the might of March 6. 1889, when the ac- txeeg fainted on the stage.
 T have never seen her from that day until now he explained after ward, .and I expected to see great change In her. But it isn't there. Of course she has matured, but only in a
 way that makes her more lovely than |-ever. Time has just strengthened the lines Of character in her face without snatching the roses. from her cheeks. Her smile is just as girlish as lts ever was and her voice hasn't lost a bit of it's rich velvet quality. For six years was in the cast Ipf every play in which Mary Ander- son appeared and I saw her in a great many different moods. No one js better qualine6 than I to say how
 much she has changed, and I tell you I just couldn't believe my eyes when saw her. It seems strange that should have a part in this play, Df which she is part author \ Mne. de Navarro looked even more fit than when she came off the Baltic on Friday afternoon. She wore a black oloth tailored suit, relieved with |white revers braided in black, and a Eblack velvet picture hat with long white plume. She was intensely en- thusiastic over the play, for which she is largely responsible, since Rob- 'ert Kitchens wouldn't even have thought of dramatizing his book if she hadn't suggested the idea to him; wouldn't follow the rehearsal, which was just beginning.
 T think I will wait until Monday when they have the first dress re-. .hearsa1," she said. 'T can get so much better an impression of the whole lDlIlk. nave Deen lOiQ that the scenic effects are simply marvellous, and of course they make the play seem bigger. more vital"
 And it is true that you have no desire to play Domini," she was ask ed
 Quite true" she responded with a broadening of the smile she had been wearing all through the interview. ''Do1nini has for me a tremendous psychological appeal, but my interest lin her is rather an intense human in- |terest in the development of her char acter and the outcome of her strug- gle than the personal interest of an actress who yearns to depict the emo- tions she feels. It seems to me that the problem which confronts Domini possesses many of the characteristics of those conceived by the Greek trage- dians. Her religious convictions are lpitted against her love for her husband and her duty to her child I do not know whether in her case should have decided as she did Nevertl1e- less, I admire and respect her decis- jon. Her dilemma was surely a mo- |ble one. and I think no woman can fail to sympathize with her in her de- termination to sacrifice everything she held most dear.
 T am so glad, she added, that was the one to discover the song in the 1ark's egg. I an sure the public will appreciate this play; it simply must have a stronger appeal than the trfangle.".