The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15

| fashions in beauty just as persistently as there are fashions in what beauty wears. 1 To realize that fact all that Is neccs- sary is to watch the stage-the veritable | barometer of feminine influence. | Thus
 l You may perceive that the style of and which was pictorially advertised in
 every magazine and newspaper, gives the
 eternal compensation of woman's variety. | Nor does the latest style of lady de- pend entirely upon masculine whim." | The drama has good deal to do with | 1.-the trend of popular taste dictates considerably.
 | Lady-herself is comparatively helpless | in the matter and she can but submit to | the inevitable.
 | The June-esque, majestic type of obese. 1 imperial, gorgeousness that men gaze at | in rapt awe, and that women envy, as | they envy the unattainable is but a va- | riation in style--a splendid, convincing | type that gives way without explanation | to the cute little helpless slip of a girl with flower face and the sinousness of an eel.
 So-
 I wasn't in the least surprised yester- udy sNHtti itl ptetty NisS ANdtaiic Alt, the Quaker Girl" to find her just what the present day style dictates. | She's as pretty as a picture, with that l beauteous, glowing pink and white skin | that looks like peaches and cream, and | the loveliest blue eyes that look at you so innocently that you believe she is | REALLY a Quaker Girl and has never | had even so much as a glimpse of the world in all her short little life. Think of it.
 Eighteen and STAR! | As a matter of fact, she has seen very | little of the world, for, unlike most Show Girls" she has very little liberty, for she
 is as closely chaperoned by her own dear "Mom-mer' as any girl in a Convent, and believe me. she shows her refinement and elegance and charm, in every word | that she utters and every little gesture | that she makes
 | She's a darling-is this little Quaker | Girl-young and pretty and talented and | clever and then, young again, with al | the freshness and sweetness of youth | dainty, captivating little charmer that | she is--the very latest fashion in Ladies | fragile, petite, wispy and perfectly de | licious to look at, and above all-young! l Theatregoers were familiar with nearly | all of the names on this weeks pro- | gramme at the Jefferson-from Maudt | Adams, whose appealing personality anc | the type of heroine she portrays, which | is cavaire to the average actress, to MT
 Fiske O'Hara the Irish Song Bird, bui here our memories end! What, then, is the surprise to find little Miss Natalie Alt, unheralded and un-
 sung, a star of the first magnitude and
 only 1S-the "hit'' of the season in 9Th, Quaker Girl?"
 What would you say if I were tc
 tell you that my interview with her i.
 the very first that she's ever had?
 Honestly" she confded to me yes.
 terday, "I felt trembly all over when I yon asked me to give you a story for | the paper. Why, I had stage frigh, | worse than the first time I apeared or
 the stage It is awful It felt like | was going to have a terrible operation performed!'
 sat still in the boat and lot her
 talk on.
 She didn't know haw really mucf
 she was telling that was-TRuE.
 You see. I've only been on the stage l such very little while. Last year
 did the role of the Princess in The ] Quaker Girl and understudled Ina Claire
 "Is she really soiug to marry Vim
 cent Astor?" I asked breathless. Miss Alt was very discreet.
 She and Miss Claire have been very
 close friends and if she knows she won't te1l---so there's another requisite l in her make-up-she can keep a se- cret.
 And by the way" she said dimplins | prettily, there's one thing I want to I ask you to do for me" Of course, when pink and white fem lnity asks a favor, mere drab newspa- per people grant it without knowing what 1t may be!
 Won't you please deny the story | that l am to be a daughter of MT
 H. Altman, the big New York Dry Goods merchant?"
 But aren't your" asked eagerly. certainly not" she replied emphat-
 ically. You see, think that got about
 in this way. My name was Altman
 but dropped the man. You did, and why?" I asked. | Because preferred shorter 1 name" Miss Alt replied q reduced it
 to Alt spelling it with an E--but ev-
 erybody pronounced it then as though
 1t were two syllables and so I final | ly had to discard that and just be known as plain Natalie Alt"
 'Not--plain,' I interpolated. "Well-any way" she smiled back, q
 chose that as my stage name.' | And do you never travel without your Nom -mer?" I asked. l Never, said Miss Alt "Mom-nler Is
 the very dearest Mom-mer in the world
 She and I are exactly like sisters-and we have the best sort of times going around together"
 By the way. when I got to Birming-
 ham I recalled that last year when l
 was playing in Chicago I was at the Stratford Hotel one evening after ths !. show. Miss Claire and Miss Elsie Ja- | his and a number of others, and there were some Birmingham men who were there and they sent us the loveliesi roses from their table. Wonder If you'd l happen to know them?" | I'm pretty good detective! Give-me 1 a pointer and maybe We can spot them I suggested.
 They were good looking" she be- 1 gan. and-and-" "Go on.' I begged, that's too in. l definite
 "Oh. dear" she said flushing and smiling again. !" l don't believe ought to give you a description of them, so that by any chance you might find them because they might be mar
 ried-and I couldn't bear to tell on them"
 Now
 Wasn't she nice?