Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-16

lashes and eyebrows they'll be nice
and long when | get big and star
on Broadway and then the Littlest
Rebel stopped for breath.
She hasn't been "a rebel very long,
but so far she thinks it's about the
best role a little girl could have. She
is the same Boots Woorster who won
her own place with Newark audiences
when she appeared here last season
In "A Fool There Was"
She has grown a few inches taller
since Their and she proudly announces
that she is now s years old for the
first time" eve are led to wonder
show many times in the curse of
theatrical events she will be just q
for the first time.)
She Tells a Secret.
~ am going to tell you a secret"
she announced, unaware that a news
paper woman is the last person t.
whom one should reveal "the dark
and secret passages of ones life, but
then remember she's only 8.
Boots isn't my own name. You
see when / was a tiny little girl 1
couldn't say Ruth so when the
people said What's your name, my
dear?' | answered Boots Since
Their everyone has called me 'Boots,'
but down in Long Beach where we
live my friends know that I'm Ruth
Dorothy McVine, and that my mother
and father are Mr.. and Mrs. James
McVine, and my sister Olive is play
ing with MIR. Dustin Farnum in The
Littlest Rebel.
Sister plays the darkey Sally Ann,
and in a short time I'm going with
Mr.. Dustin. too. Won't it be fine fol
mother, sister and me to be together"
AT first | had a dreadful time de-
Gliding whether I liked MI. William
of Mr.. Dustin better, but now I've
given it UP for they're both so charm
ing. | know | like theb both the
same" II
And as the tiny actress put the
finishing touches to her toilet half
thour'' sounded dow the corridor.
Half and HALF Make Her Laugh.
That's an awful funny man." she
%laughingly exclaimed. "One perform
ance he says Half hour italian
"a readers) and the next perform
ance he calls Half hour (short az.
Don't you think that's queer?'
Having had a wider experience
than Boots with English as she is
spoken I assured her that the call
boy does not possess a monopoly of
that popularity.
Boots is now getting fixed up"
for the road, and on the day of the
interview the dentist had been the
Mr.. Fix-it.
IF | get all fixed up now | won't
have to stop playing when I'm trav-
cling because l have a toothache or
an earache. And now love to travel
Sister and | sleep IN the upper berth
and we do have such fun. Sister used
to put a pillow in the hammock and
swing me away out over the aisle,
One night the porter told mother and
she wouldn't let us do 1t n more,
because she was afraid | would fall
and hurt myself
Actress at Eighteen Months.
Boots began her stage career at
the age of Is months, when she was
carried on in Joan of Arc" in the
Fifth Avenue stock company. Since
then, besides playing with Mr.. Hill
lard, she has appeared with Mrs.
Fiske in "a Doll House," Mr.. JEFF"
ferson in rip Van Wrinkle Wilton
Lackaye in THE Battle and Dustin
Farnum in The Squaw Man."
'And when l was a little girl l used
TO pose, too. l was generally Cupid
coming out of a valentine envelope.
But one day 1 told mother that no one
was going to catch me coming out of
envelopes again, and no one ever did.
81 just. love to act. l guess It's
natural. because mother was an
actress. Father isn't ar actor, but