The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09

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 I've always thought that the meanest thing in the warld Is to speak of a man as Mrs. so-and-Sos husband" or all Jude to a woman as Miss so-and-So's sister but for want of a better mode of introduction | must resort to this method, in presenting Miss Julie Ring (who paid her first visit to Birming- ham yesterday as Blanche Rings sister
 If you like Blanche though as much as 1 do, you'll agree with me that in this case I'm quite justifiable in dwell ling upon the subject. and that it's real lly something to be known as "Blanches sister"
 Julie is Blanche in miniature, only she's prettier, and tfor Heavens sake don't ever breathe that I said it) much younger, which is a beautiful defect that we are all willing to forgive- Blanche included l feel sure. I've seen all the Ring girls-Blanche, Julie and Frances, and there's some thing about them that I've designated as the Ring personality. It goes through the whole family. And believe me, 'personality' counts for more than half the game in theat- ricals, many of the critics to the con- trary notwithstanding.
 | 1t was more than a casual thing which, Mary Gardens advisers re- quired of her when they told her at the beginning of her career that the secondary matters of education and training could easily be taken care of, l if she would provide the voice and the personality
 | They asked of her nothing less than the very substance itself of success. Their question was the question which the age asks of every person who would succeed in any calling de- tpending upon the impression which she shall make upon other persons. This plainly includes all eallings ex- cept perhaps that of hermit, and more particularly does it emphasize those eallings which bring one into the | whitening focus of scrutinization of a critical public.
 | Whatever personality" is, and it's lplainly a kind of "snark," the Rings | have it-every one of them, Julie es- pecially, and with that rollicking, good natured whoop-la, make-every- body have a. good time sort of effect, that | Blanche has upon you, Julie captivates the moment you meet her. | It must have been 90 in the shade yesterday afternoon just about 5:so, but you'd never have thought so when Julie Ring stepped out of a taxi in front | of the Hotel Hilman wearing a stun ming dark blue frock with a touch o1 real Irish green, and the darlingest sort of taupe bonnet with long trailing feather on it, looking as cool as cucumber, she's good enough to eat" which l facetiousiy remarked upon, and to which the dear lady-still more facetiously replied Well I DO eat"
 | Which fairly fiabergasted me, and be- fore I could tell her that I'd come to sec her more out of curiosity to find out whether she was as attractive as Blanche than anything else, she said very l quickly:
 What DO you think about the Red Sox winning from the Giants?'
 .,Ah, ha,' i exclaimed, a la Sherlock ! Holmes, "a fam We'll so am l. She hasn't got anything on mel. ] Wasn't it dandy when Tesreau went out in the Sixth? Don't you just love Wood?'
 Being perfectly good rooter for the | Giants l was excused for my lack or enthusiasin, whereupon l asked Miss Ring WHY she happened to be such Red Sox trailer?
 aIm d REAL Yankee Girl born and bred in Boston, why not?" she made re- ply,
 II accept your apology l said with promptness.
 Last year, just at this time. l was in Boston seeing the Worlds Series, and hushi Don't tell anybody, l bet on the | Athletics and wonl Wasn't that dandy? Miss Ring interrogated-
 l q always take my hat off to a winner, l I said, meeting her enthusiasm quickly l Baseball is my hobby. It nearly de I stroyed me when 1 had to come Soutf and miss the games this year. When I'm in the East l never miss a game Art the Southern women as fond of Baseball as the Northern women? she asked | turning ''Interview" herself
 Quite. 1 think." was my reply. "Ir fact. they are as enthusiastic, many oi
 them, as the men s4
 Being a perfectly good Bromide.
 couldn't get away from re1narkng agaf
 upon the striking resemblance betweer
 Miss Ring and Blanche, which prompted
 her to tell me that recently as she wa
 passing through the foyer of big New
 YorZ Hotel, a prirn little old lady O
 thf real New England Spinster' type
 remarked as she passed her:
 'Oh, there goes Blanche Ring; or |
 it her sister,?
 SO Miss Ring said. you see I can
 get away from being Blanche's sister
 no matter where I go. It's pretty hart
 trying to live up to her, l can tell you
 too"