The Detroit times., 1911-01-19
" TOMORROW Comes the Womas of Hear and BRAIN
Wonderful, Beautiful Complete, 4Aband1nt! y
STRIKING
by HARRY BURTON.
An interview Especially for Til. Newspaper

An Interview Especially Tor This Newspaper
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 giitering Icy heroine OF
Ibsen--she won't be the NEW woman at all She'll be
the only kind OF woman that God planned. She'll be
the great. complete ABUNDANT woman-a woman of
brain but OF heart well; woman with depth. but
with the sunshine OF life seepng all the way
through her. All she'll be REAL woman
1t was Ellen Terry who spoke-"beautful, COM
plete abundant" Ellen Terry who has charmed kings
queens. schoolgirls. college men, poets and artststhe
who inspired the famous picture of Sir Galahad
painted by her first husband the 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 on the new
woman OF the stage-the lbsen woman, who feels the
struggle acknowledgment going in her veins
thinks matrmony inconsequental thing IL IL doesn't
develop her.
Just beginning to find their brains and like any
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 in history woman will have her
full allotted sway She will be woman of heart AND
brain. She will be the woman that Shakespeare. not
Ibsen, pictured.
for instancethe Beatrice of Much Ado About Nothing
What a woman was there! She had the milk of hui
manity in her veins She had heart She didn't always
just reason, reason adding up after
wrought splendidiynu syogsms But she makes
inthose lovely flashing considerations for others that
we all love.
woman opposed to the silly the romancists showed
us He had to prove woman had mind entitled
sideration just as much as mans. He did his work we'll
Men see that woman is a unity, not half
Past masters proved the existence OF woman's
heart lbsen and the masters of today have proved
head. but IL took the flashing mind Of 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 masterfu Beatrice and
the masterful Portia and the masterful Rosand
ing with life AND brain. But he showed too the
latter-day dramatiss have left out-that after all
woman cannot get away from her greatest and God
given characteristic her love for mastering man.
1t Is In woman to wish to look up to the mate of
her heart and brain But the trouble is women have
been growing much OF late that they not finding
men capable of being mates of both heart AND brain.
The women are ready enough to put them their
Providence designed pedestals. but the tumble of
all the time. and now women clever enough to see
the fall After they have picked them up or eight
times they get disguised and become militant suragets
and lbsentes. They think there is balm In the
Giead of matrimony.
But when men are ready, the women will be ready
the Bearices and the Portals and the Rosalnds who
can give heart AND brain and show to a waiting world
what TRUE companionship actually can be-
Il used to think like Ibsen myself | did not con-
slider men my superior mentally at ALL couldn't listen
to- them with patience when they tried influence my
acting. And then Sir Henry Irving for me. /
recognized MY master mind at / did anything
artistically that he asked of me We made for