The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03
GRACE DREW USES
 QUAINT DIALECT
Actress Born in Southern Missouri Can Be Distinguished in Her
 Conversation

Miss Grace Drew, who will be seen here in the leading role of Alma, Where Do You Liver" halls from southern Mis- rouri, where everybody says, "Darin' ' and you all' just like the mammies of old plantation days. She says "Darin just like the rest of them and if one shuts their eyes and hears her say, You alr' and Bless yo' heart, honey 1t can be pictured in ones minds eye the planta. ton with all the trimmings and ths darkies.
 Graee's grandfather was the owner of a big plantation and little Grace, littla blonde, brown eyed, cherub Grace, was her granddaddys delight Then her moth CT and father went to St. Louis and little Grace was no longer little but had grown Up to be a big girl.
 Her father died when she was young and it was then that she had to begin to take life seriously. Il was as old at 1e as 1 am now" she said, my thoughts vera serious and after that never was real child. 1 was sent to Monticello to school and all I did was study. I didnt en- joy the company of boys and girls at all. 1 wanted to be with men and women and think big things just as they do,
 q never had a boy beau-they were all much older than I. didn't know the world and the people at all. l was noth-
 
 "I guess I must have lived from the wrong end of my life. When l was young l was old and now that I've grown up m young. sort of that what ought to have been wasn't and that what was oughtn { to have been
 Did I want to go on the stAge? Never dreamed of 1t until three years ago. ] | was 23 them. At home l sang at musl- caies, receptions and concerts and things like that4-that what kept me alive. I'm one of those creatures with tempera- l ment, I guess, for I love to do every 1 thing that nobody else likes. l love all sorts of athletics. I like to drive my car as fast as possible. The excitement thrills me.
 T have to be always doing something and my family couldn't understand that, They can't understand me at all They couldn't see why I wanted to go to Paris to study.
 But l did go and studied with the idea of going on the stage. When I came home l was offered prima donna roles in light operas and since then Eve been singing. The funny part of it is that | have never played anything else than the leading part fin any play that I have been in.
 Some people say that I am cynic but that isn't true.
 Anyway, I know that I am happy in my work with my books and my friends '
 Miss Drew did her earlier public sing ing in Los Angeles and San Francisco. She got her inspiration to go on the stage when she was chosen from q large num- Der of California girls as the model for the central figure on the ornamental drop curtain of the Valencia theatre, San Fran cisco She was pupil of Jean de Reszke for year and then with Mme. Petit Damange, also of Paris, for another year. Her first appearance was in 'grhe Land of Nod then she sang the leading fem mine role in "The Chocolate Soldier" and now the title part in Alma, Where Do You Liver Miss Drew thinks ,nat the part of Alma is one of the best that she has yet had entrusted 10 her and she is enthusiastic over the possibility of the character.