The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
From the Detroit Free Press.

H AUDE ADAMS will appear at the MI Detroit opera house soon in the A title role of "Chantecler." She will fill that house every night of her stay quite irrespective of what the audi ence thinks of the play. Why?
 Not long since a young actress begin hing her career hopefully was asked to take the leading part in a play unpleas- ant in character, immoral in teaching Her sane reply was: 'T have Maude Adams in mind. She never played a part that her mother or father would not have war.ted to see her play. She is at the head of her profession, and if l ever got there l am going to get there in the same way"
 A woman like Maude Adams, who in- fiuences other women in such fashion, is moral asset in the nation. an honor to her profession. Three qualities are needed in such a personality, qualities easy to state but hard to maintain. The first of these is the power to set up a high standard of life; the second is the ability to maintain that standard in everyday existence; the third is the per- sonality necessary to bring the public into sympathy with that standard.
 To begin with, Miss Adams creed is that all the beauty and light of life comes through devotion to work, regard Nowhere has such faith been better presented than in "Chantecler;' for the symbolism of the piece is obvious. If he cannot make the sun rise, as he used to imagine, at least he can announce it's coming to sleepy eyelids. If his task is not as magnificent as at first he thought, at least it Is his task and worth his every effort to accomplish. In his own words he says
 I may not see the final daylight glow Upon the steeples. but if still l sing
 Sonorously and faithfully and if
 Through many centuries perhaps sonor-
 ously
 And faithfully, each cock in every farm Sings after me. know the time will come When there will be no more night.
 Such a belief is Miss Adams. In the carrying out of this belief she first be- trays her goodness, the goodness that ex- cites admirato and then desire to emulate it. the goodness that exalts womanhood in the eyes of women and what is infinitely more. in the eyes of men. And with her goodness, four or five other traits are stamped upon every thing Miss Adams does
 They are plainness of speech, dress and manner; evenness of temper unf1ag- ging industry and thoroughness; an un- failing sense of humor that rebounds be- fore any catastrophe that welcomes everything that happens to be helpful; an intelligent unrest that drives her on from one interest to another, exhausting persons and subjects and constantly broadening her mental and spiritual horizon; loyalty to -her work, her public and her friends; a brilliantly agile mind that has a singularly uncanny trick of subjects, and courage. For during the years when she was threatened with breakdown only her indomitable will car ried her through; nor has she ever given in to any difficulty that patience, cheer fitness. sweetness and hard work might not be expected to conquer. Her success she owes to no lucky stroke, but to these plain virtues which have developed ner talent step by step. 'sThe best success" she once said, doesn't come to brlliance, but to intelligence and hard work" However. all this may be true, indeed is true of many noble women in this land, and yet there comes no second Maude Adams Another reason must be sought; ana this is it. She has made her great est advance, not only because she has