The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-25
Tomorrow Comes the Woman of Heart and Brain
Wonderful, Beautiful, Complete, Abundant"
A sriin interview ellen Terry.
BY HARRY BURTON.
An Interview Especially for The Times.

HE woman-the great wonderful woman
of the future? All, yes, she is coming.
And she will be SO wonderful. She
won't be militant suffraget, and she wont be the
glttering, icy heroine of Ibsen-she won't be the
NEW woman at all. She's be 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; a woman with depth, but a
woman with the sunshine of life seepng all the
way through her. All, she'll be a REAL woman: "
1t was Ellen Terry who spoke-"beautiful,
complete, abundant" Ellen Terry who has charmed
kings, queens, schoolgirls college men, poets and
artists-the woman who inspired the famous pic
ture of Sir Galahad, painted by her first husband,
the great Watts, and the woman, too whom Sir
Henry Irving said was the ONLY woman who had
the brain and the heart to act opposite to him.
me great actress was asked to talk on the
new woman of the stage-the Ibsen woman, who
feels the struggle for self-dcvelopment going on
in her veins who thinks matrmony an incense
quential thing if it doesn't develop her.
you see, it's this way she began. women
are just beginning to find their brains. and like
any new movement, the pendulum always swings
little too far until it finds the real of its
activity. Ina little while women will remember
that there is the supplemental 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 a woman of heart AND brain. She
will be the woman that Shakespeare, not Ibsen,
pictured.
Beatrice, for instance-the Beatrice of Much Ado
About Nothing. What there! She
had the milk of humanity in her veins. She had
heart She didn't always just reason, reason, real
son, adding up after sum of icily-wrought,
splenddly-null sylogisms. But she makes those
beautifully quick calculations that her heart aids
lovely flashing considerations for others
that all love-"
"Ibsen has his work to perform to show us
the woman opposed to the silly the romantic
cists showed us. He had to prove woman had a
mind entitled to consideration just much as
mans He did his work well. Men see that =
woman is unity, not half.
Past masters proved the existence of woman
heart. Ibsen and the masters of today Lave proved
her head, but it took the flashing mind of genius
like Shakespeare to look down the gallery of the
centuries and show what the REAL woman
would be when she arrived And he showed us
the masterful Beatrice, and the masterful POrtia
and the masterful Rosalnd, bounding with life
AND brain. But he showed too, what the latter
day dramatiss have left out-that after all, wo-
man 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 are not finding men capable of being mates
Iof both heart and brain. The women ready
enough to put the men their OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
pedestals but the men tumble off all the time and
now women clever enough to the fall
After they have picked themselves up eight
times, they get disguised and become militant
suffragets and Ibsenites They think there is no
balm in the Giead of matrimOny.
But when men ready, the women will be
ready-the Beatrices and the Portals and the Rosa
to waiting world that TRUE companonship at
tually be.
81 used to think like Ibsen myself did not
consider men my superior mentally at all
couldn't listen to them with patience when they
tried to influence my acting And then Sir Henry