The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20

imagine (when he's nice) and then he said
 "If I had given my permission for you to come back of the scenes and 1t had ever gotten to MT. F'rohman I would have lost my job immediately. It's a Frohman law-nobody is ever allowed behind the scenes It's as ironclad as the law of the Modes and Persians and absolutely en- forced by every one in the Frohman em- ploy.'
 But I'm here. I interrupted. That's the main point now. I'm here and noth- ing but a perfectly good Policeman could possibly put me out, and know the little boy that belongs to the Chief of Police he works at our office-and he and l are awfully good friends, and I know HE wouldn't let his Papa, let anybody put me out. So there, Now-WIY Is it that Miss Adams won't be interviewed? How is it that she has defied successfully that Boil Weevil of human privacy known | to the public as the Newspaper Person, and with resolution that is almost a religion repulsed the nematode of the species, the incorrigible Interviewer? Is it a pose, or perhaps she doesn't think that she needs it."
 1 "Neither" said MT. Manager quickly Miss Adams is the most sincere woman have ever known in everything she does. She does it out of mere humility She submits her work and not her char acter and private life to the public for inspection, and if a single word in tho Interviewer's quotation marks has ever appeared in a newspaper as coming from Miss Adams it is falsehood. The only authentic interview with the late Jay Gould was one which was attributed to 1 the great fnancler, when he said:
 "1t looks like rain.
 Miss Adams has never even comment ed upon the weather-for publication
 "Stlngy thing" I said soto voce, while aloud my voice was carrying the ques' tion straight from the shoulder to MT Manager:
 Are you sure 1t isn't Frohman ruler asked, and then I relented, because recalled my interviews with MT. Joni Drew and Miss Ethel Barrymore-botf of whom are Frohman stars.
 This aloofness is approved entirely b, I MT. Frohman.', said MT Manager, "bu it's inception may be traced entirely tt Miss Adams dislike of notoriety, as fal as her personal attributes are concerned She much prefers greatness In the dark to mediocrity in the limelight."
 .R,t Miss Adams practices this schem, of self-erasure to an extent that is al most pathetic l suggested.
 Ut has certainly done one thing" saic MT. Manager. Tt has made her the lone Hest woman on the American stage today | Night after night as she looks out upoi the thousands and thousands of upturne' faces in her audiences she never see one that is familiar. Other actresse have friends in nearly every town Mis- Adams hasn't even an acquants--=.'
 Has she never had er-er-sweetheart?' asked. curously.
 ..She has never been married" MT
 Manager sldestepped. "She is too bus.
 to get married. She is the most inde
 fatigable worker that I have ever known | Sne IS WOrkiHS anu Ridiiiiiie idHS HI productions two years in advance of thei
 presentation, and that means untirin
 energy and everlasting perseverance,. Sc
 after all. the question of WHY Mis-
 Adams avoids the interviewers. in fac why she has created the Footlights as barrier between her and them, whic
 makes a self imposed privacy less easil
 invaded than convent walls. is easil understood. She doesn't have the tint She is too busy"
 How do the members of Miss Adami company feel about herr I asked. Al ' they fond of her or does this impassab barrier exist in her relations wit them?"
 l Judged by the Standard of Thesp lhauteur each of her associates migi { more readily be proclaimed star tha : she.1 was the answer. "she is the mol