The Detroit times., 1911-01-20
" 7omoyyosv Comes the Womas of Heaysand Bran
WondertuL Beaattta, Complete, Abandant!''
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A STRIKING INTERVIEW '
BY HARRY BURTON.
An Interview Especially for This Newsps


"The womsn--the great. wonderful woman OF the
future? All. yes. she is coming. And she will be SO
wonderful She won't be the glittering Icy heroine OF
Ibsen-she won't be the NEW woman at all She'll De
the only kind of woman that God planned. She'll be
the great complete. ABUNDANT woman--a woman OF
brain but of heart as well; woman with DEPTH but
with sunshine of life seeping all the way
through her. All. she'll be REAL woman!"
1t Ellen Terry who spoke-"beautiful. CON-
piete abundant" Ellen Terry. who has charmed kings
queens schoolgirls college poets and artiss-the
who inspired the famous picture Of Sir Galahad
painted by husband great Watts, and the
woman. too. whom Sir Henry Irving said the ONLY
who had the brain and the heart to act opposite
to him
The great actress was asked to talk the new
woman" OF the stagethe Ibsen woman, who feels the
struggle sefdevelopmen going her veins who
thinks matrimony nconsequentia thing IL II doesn't
develop her
Just beginning to find their brains. and like new
movement. the pendulum always swings little too far
while women will remember that there is the supple,
mental half OF the whole arc-the heart side. And
then for the first time history will have her
brain She will be the woman that Shakespeare. not
Shakespeare saw the true woman He Beatrice
for nsance-the Beatrice OF Much Ado About Nothing
What a woman was there! She had the milk of HUI
mainly in her veins She had heart She didn't always
just reason reason reason, adding up after OF
those beautifully quick calculations that her heart aids
nhose lovely flashing considerations for others that
woman opposed to the silly the romanticsts showed
us He had to prove woman had mind entitled to con-
sderaton just as much as mans H5 did his work we'll
Men see that woman Is a unity not half
Past masters proved the existence OF woman's
heart Ibsen and the masters of today proved her
head but Ii took the flashing mind of a genius like
Shakespeare to look down the gallery of the
and show what the REAL woman would be when she
arrived And he showed the erful Beatrice. and
the masterfu Porta and the masterfu Psalind bound
ing with life AND brain But he showed. what the
latterday dramatsts have left out-that, after all,
woman cannot get away from her greatest and God
given characteristic, her love for mastering
ut Is in woman to wish to look up to the mate of
her heart and brain. But the trouble is have
been growing much Of late that they finding
capable of being mates OF both heart AND brain
The women ready enough to put them their
Providence-designed pedestals but the tumble
all the time. and now women clever enough to
the fall After they have picked them up eight
times. they get disguised and become militant suragets
and Ibsenites They think there is no balm in the
Gilead of matrimony.
But when men are ready, the women will be ready
the Beatrices and the Portals Rosalinds who
give heart AND brain and show a waiting world
what TRUE companionshp actually be.
II used to think like Ibsen myself did not con-
slider superior mentally at all couldn't listen
to them with patience when they tried influence my
acting. And then Sir Henry Irving sent for me.
recognized MY master mind at once. 1 did anything
artistcally that he asked of me. We made for