The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-28

Don't leave TriXie Friganza out" l begged; she's my favorite."
 Watch out or you'll give me the swell head" she smiled back at me, and that's something I've never had, because I've been too busy earning Bread and butter. But Honest Injun my dear. do you think my flesh could prejudice anybody agin me, as the darkeys say?p
 I've learned to tell" I quickly re- sponded, by the expression of the nice man out in the Box Office whether an actress is thin or fat. If he sends an embassy In with a long explanation asking her to give me an Interview KNOW she Is thin and dyspeptic and doesn't sleep well nights, but if he mods genially and says: Go right along back of the stage; knock on the first door to your left follow his advice and know there's a good natured, fat even tempered star waiting for me with smile and cordial handshake."
 In the course of our conversation somehow we drifted toward censors and censorship, and Miss Friganza said. pubbling over with joy, that she had never played In any play since she had been on the. stage that a girl couldn't invite her mother to go to or that a mother couldn't, with impunity, take her daughter to see.
 Things are kinder humming up though" she said. presently, in many cities. Remember good old Boston and The Easiest Way, Maybe it will get so fore long, that company playing camille will have to carry a Little Red Rdinghood caste, too. and ask each city they go to which they prefer. How would I look as Cinderella? And speaking of censors, I don't know why, but that makes me think of Woman Suffrage. Do you know the difference between Suffragist and Suffrag- ette?"
 Never was good at guessing coifln- drums l said, but I've always thought one was male and the other a fe- male"
 No" she laughed. "A Suffragette is woman who can afford to wear picture mats and Paris gowns because she's got husband who is amiable enough to allow her to have them charged to him. While Suffragist is woman who is working so hard for living, she doesn't even have time to get off to 20 to tho Legislature when the suffragettes go to make their calls on these august bodies NoW, m Sunragist. I haven't had a day off in eight months. Why, if there was ever a single blessed night I didn't nave to appear before the footlights, I'd well, I'd just go on making up my face and pinning on my dead lady's puffs just the same, from sheer force of n.bit'' Are you for Suffrage?" asked. T m rabid on the subject of woman's rights said she, as she lifted her lovely plump, dimpled arms and fastened a pie ture hat on her pretty head, "but I don't want to have to fight the men to get what's coming to us. As for the vote. well, the vote Is just like a piece of Jewelry we want, and keep working for until we get it, then we throw it away after the new wears off, and we begin to want something else. But I'm suffra- glst, and I'm with all the women who are demanding what is ours by rights When the men give us the vote why well hand it right back to them, I suppose. like the angels we are"
 Miss Friganza stood in the wings await | ing her cue.
 "Go out in front" she turned and said
 to me cordially, "and hear me sing the | song of my life, about being FAT' | And before I knew 1t I WAS "out in
 front" and Miss Trixie Friganza, in bril- | liant Emerald Green. sparkling and vivid,
 stood in the flashing white light that
 beats down on popular "Star." sing
 ing in her amusing way:
 | "Gee' But it's great to be fat. You never know where you are at; | My avoirdupois
 I Scares away all the boys 1 Gee! But it's great to be FAT"