The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20
K xAuDE ADAMS the dauntless-

K TAUDB ADAMS the dauntless- M the changeless-the tireless- ! V the "eternal child"-"Queen of Attitude"-Princess of gesture and of grace-"Star" that has dropped from the sky of the Thousand and One Nights"-despair of "Interviewers' and -Adjectives-has come and gone the past week. and Birmingham audiences, two of the most tremendous that have filled the Jefferson. are still singing paeans of praise to this wonderful, matchless, fascinating actress!
 How many years have crept by since this incredibly thin, scared little girl wrote her autograph upon the big reg ister of Charles Frohman's pages which heralded the entrance of Maude Adams upon her dramatic career unknown then to fortune and to fame.
 How many red red Autumns have seen the golden leaves drift across the horizon, and how many palpitating, pull satlng glorious Springs have come and gone since first this mere mite of a woman burst upon the theatrical vis- ionl
 The secret of her grip upon life-up- on the stage-upon people-her mastery Of word, gesture and song-whatever it Is, is many faced
 Will-power above all is pre-eminent with her!
 She has an almost electric brain
 Maude Adams would have been 'great" in any setting!
 She is the most tireless and indefati gable worker on the stage today!
 Rest is death to her!
 She lives in her work and for her work. and having conquered worlds with her art, and with the plaudits of mankind still ringing in her ears and the homage of nations at her feet withal she is the loneliest figure on the stage today!
 But in spite of that she still holds eternal youth in her right hand. and with her left scatters good deeds of kindness here and there to the strug gling novice working his way to the top of the rugged and treacherous road niarked-SUCCESSi
 Maude Adams. to many who saw her in her inimitable role of Peter Pan last Wednesday, recalled visions of years ago when they saw her in the same part. and they declare that she Is the Little Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up." and that today she looks not day old CT than she did the first time she ap peared in MT. J. NJ. Barrie's beautiful, fantastic Fairy Tale.
 Maude Adams is best described by the lines which Tall to her in Peter Pan when the boy answerd trippingly, when asked who he was:
 I'm youth, se
 I'm the Sun rising, Pm poets singing, I'm the new world, I'm a little bird That has broken out of the egg, sm joy joy, joy
 Maude Adams Is Joy-she is color she is light, she is brightness, she is loveliness personified. and after all is said and we have dubbed her whimsi- cal, plaintive, pathetic winsome dainty what you will-Maude Adams is just Maude Adams-uppretentio unknown except by her art--yet withal Ameri- ca's best loved actress,
 What Every Woman who is enga ged in the deadly game of Interview knows. is that one of the easiest things in life Is to get 'Interyiews" that would fill columns with the near great, n other words the vast horde known as "Climbers."
 They hang upon the words of tho "Interyiewer' like the bee upons the bonaveor,h and if any one noor st ril Q . eling scribe were 10 try to write ALL that that type wants the public to know about themselves, every interviewer n the land would have 10 own a news apcr or his own, and fill it up with People 1 have known who wanted to
 Tnterviewed.'
 M have said before, the truly .srsat"-the "big bugs" in any pro-