The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-07
BILLIE BURKE, 28
 TO-DAY, IS SUFBRAGIST / AND HUMANITARIAN

Billie Burke, the popular young ac- tress of the. lovely face, the delicate features, the blue eyes, the baby stare, the tremu1ous chin. and the slender girlish figure, has achieved. fame be- cause Of her woman1iness. but for all
 that she is a serious young lady and of late she has attempteds somewhat serious roles. Miss Burke who was born in Washington twenty eight years ago to-day, was educated in France, made her stage debut in Scotland, and achieved her first real success in London, has during the last seven years won a place among the foremost actresses of her native land
 Miss Burke, for all her girIish' charms, her chffons and her appar- lent frivo1ity, is a staunch suffragist. i She is also interested in a number of 1 sober and earnest humanitarian movements, and is very act1vesin the League Her father, a clown, had a,
 wonderful trick mule, and Miss 1 Burke's early love for that remark able beast has. since extended to all I the dumb animals.
 s.t was fin a. hospital that I first I said Miss Burke Rapidly passing 1 through a corridor, sickened by the
 awful presence of smiling, wistful ba- I by faces, over whom death duttered |so closely, there came to me long, Iagonized vail It sent shivers of ter
 TOT through me. and the sick clnil- I dren, lying in ttheir tiny cots, shriv- eI1ed up, with a mighty fear.
 What WAS thaf?' I asked the I nurse who accompanied me. Its only dog,'' was the reply. si ssThe surgeons are experimenting on
 him.
 gro the vdviseetors,''' continued the indignant actress, human beings and animals are only so much raw mater I iaI for experiments-I test tubes. l lgerns, with things most dangerous, I and then, with eyes al lust, watch as
 the chemicals of life mix with the
 acids. that may spell death:
 Miss Burke win pay scant attention Ito her birth day.
 zl zl.sa9stsOf1,'' she says "I never think
 about the passing years. The. Irish t peopleA have the right idea. Ask any siancient4 IrishsSWoHian how old she is 1 and |the chances are she can't tel I yot-ss1ae real gcansf, for she doesn't i keep tra cksssofz her Birthday and she I can only tell how old she is by how
 old she feels. She counts ageaby the
 heart, and as the heart is am; going
 to count my life, too.''
 The role Miss Burke likes best is
 that ofs.as young wifes
 r It affords the appportunfty for se
 many intimate home scenes.'' she ex. E pIained T found more pleasure 1T playing Lily ParradelI in sThes Mint the Paint .ezirI,s than in any other par lI have ever essayed. Lily, yo1 know, was a. real. human being. Pin l , gro probably sketched her. from life I always enjoy making an audtenc, s laugh, but. I MEantS to do-sonae reaIl. serious work on the sta age. Often take little holidays and read seriou books and think about serfou lthings. II hope to be able to Iaugl for many years tos come. but fin, 2 I can enjoy Inirth all the more afte : an soecasiona4s meditation over tn solemn problems that confront hu a nanity. Probably sI'Il1 never nak a reputation As philosopher, bu T if I can induce the public to beitev that am really a serious soul 1t wi make me#yery happy. T would hk to play Ann in Man and sSuperrnan IF met Bernard Shaw once for a fe7 U minutes, and he<seenaed quite cordia -st butf-I was afraid of hii11--he was s X wild and. woolly looking So man 2 intellectual plays send people ava s3 Unhappy, but Shay makes his appes A to the funny-bone as wellsas to tn II fntellect.''