The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-25
MISS EVELYN WEDDING

If you had gorgeous black brown hair,
with large, lustrous, expressive blue
gray eyes to go with it, and exquisitoly
arched eyebrows and long sweeping
lashes gracefully framing your eyes:
II
In addition to these potent charms you
were the possessor of a svelte, graceful
figure with q carriage. so stately that
were you to don regal robes you'd look
every inch a queen:
IT,
Wait minute, now; just this one more
'if'-
All these things We're yours and you
were given the chance to play Olive
Gate" an appealing sort of part that
everybody applauded and admired or the
role of Virginia" in the very modern
drama, bought and Paid For" a role
which in a way is IDEAL yet unappreciated
by many, especially those who haven't
the courage of their convictions as Vir-
einia lad, which would you choose?
'The Girl at the Gate of course.
No chance for an argument there.
Certainly not
Doesn't that introduction sound "fussy
enough to be topped by hyphenated
name?
And yet
Miss Evelyn WELDING made just The
opposite choice.
She told me all about 1t yesterday when
we chatted for an hour or more about
ideals and ambitions" and ''experi-
ences" and thingsi
Miss WELDING is very attractive.
She has beauty and poise-plus.
she looks at you so straight and so calm
and she has IDEAS.
Her pretty hands and arms show cap
ability and strength and she's very hu-
man, which is very nice
Don't you think so?
On the whole, that's the way she I'M
pressed. me, with her strength and sen
control and capablity.
'.when interviewcrs are men," Miss
WELDING said quietly after our first words
Of greeting. II don't always see them."
.eyhy not?'' / questioned interestedly
"Recsuse once a horrid man misouoted
me-" she said.
"The mean thing I exclaimed, how
dared hep
Quickly veering round and changing the
subieoot. Miss WELDING led me to believe
that she had more confidence in feminine
interviewers--the Lord knows why. l
don't. and said:
.I suppose you would like to know how
I happened to go on the stage and how
l happened to get this part"
.I reckon I do I said delightedly.
.Its so nice and comfortable TO find
somebody who knows what I want. so IL
you dent mind just go ahead and tell
me. | am a grand listener--sometimes.
"Its quite sensational said Miss Wied-
ling. .at least the part about my choosing
the stage as a profession. Good old fash
ioned parents who didn't believe in It and
all that sort Of thing to contend with
..Go on: il there's anything that l adore
it's perfectly good sensation" | sug-
gested.
Capital" che said. The reason l
chose the part in my present play is that
l preferred II to many others that
might have had that were much Shower.
merely because / believed in IT, But to
go back TO my debut,I am Chicaso
girl"
(which isn't anything against you,' 1
interpolated flippantly.
"And made my first appearance on the
stage. Miss welding said, ignoring my
remark, Sat the mature age of-euess
wllat?'
six years" | suggested
''Give you another one she smiled,
"and also. where?'
s'Oh. let's see. In barn. ] guessed
bsavely "You and all the neiShborhood
children charged pins for admission.
ITS a good guess Miss Welding
smiled, ..and bad one at the same time,
for | wasn't an infant prodigy at all,
but went on the stage after ! left High
school. 1t happened rather curiously. |
was studying with Mr.. Hart Conway at
the time, and Miss Viola Aliens olivia
failed her. Her manager sent to Mr.. Con-
way and asked him If he had anybody he
could commend for the part. lie prompt
ly sent me without a moments warning.
and I went on without rehearsal. That's
| the sensation
"But you'd studied the part, Of course,
sometime in your work, hadn't you?" /
asked.