The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-18
Tt Wasn't What Ray Sanuels Said But the Way
 She Said IL Just Made Me Lo0e Her, Says Dolly
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE
Now then, ladies and gentlemen

| iiS S bAc fciS GullOi lfdI ever lived (but of course you know thaD and in bringing up us newspaper persons hanging round the office in the way we should go he has told us time and time again that there must be some absolutely striking characteristic about the sub ject of a story to permit it to break into print" in the pages he guards so carefully | Now
 This is to laugh, Angelfaces. ] For , Here's a story" about a girl who l hasn't, according to her own modest con fession, got single unusual feature to 1 1t, or to her. Of course. you understand. l don't think that way And you won't, once you've seen her and heard her sing | But I'm telling you what 'she" thinks Or, rather What she said
 And
 That's the reason for this sort of a story" about her.
 It's fairly well accepted fact that a Biography doesn't "biog' to any alarming extent unless there's been something in ~.-O AiAO oA iHc 5uDJeCt lneTeOf that Hits It above the common run of folk so to speak.
 It doesn't make much difference what it is-
 Good or bad
 Scandalous or praiseworthy-
 Little or big
 Something must have happened that sldetracks the person about whom it's written from the main line of human un- derstanding.
 Else
 There wouldn't be anything for the poor Interviewer" to explain
 Absolutely nothing to tell.
 Ray Samuels ''The Blue Streak of Rag Time round at the Lyric, is absolutely the incest, sanest sweetest, most unpre- tentious sort of a girl that you ever saw
 She's not in the least of the stage, "stage-y."
 She says very little.
 And
 Its not what she says, but the way she says 1t. just makes you love her.
 The sad, sad story of your life," I pleaded as Miss samuels looked at me out of the depths of her big brown eyes and smiled that irresistible smile that catches her audience from the topmost shelf of the peanut gallery to the old bald-headed grouch in the front row of the orchestra. Wont you tell 1t to me?"
 There's never been anything sad in my life," said Miss samuels and then she rapped on wood
 And
 You sec
 Sherlock Holmes like found a clue
 She's superstitious." soliloquized and was about to ask her if wasn't so. when she said quite modestly but appealingly and seriously those big brown eyes again gluing me to the spot:
 I've never had anything at all to hap pen to me out of the ordinary run of thinges. I'm just a plain, unpretentious ambitious girl who wants to do things"
 Coming from a young person whose name is displayed in large type" on a programme this week which includes some of the biggest names in vaudeville this statement rather took my breath away.
 must confess I was surprised.
 In fact
 I was surprised twice in the same place
 I wes surprised at what she said,
 And
 I was surprised at myself for being surprised.
 For against the last named, thought was immune.
 You see
 Once I heard of a "newspa per person" whot got raise in salary without ask ing for it.
 And
 After that
 We'll
 I didn't think anything could surprise me.
 But
 You see
 I was mistaken:
 The best of us at times must be, you know
 1T came from Youngstown, o." Miss Samuels said after a pause. "and was a wee bit of a tot when I begas to sing popular music and I was often invited to sing at the different Elks concerts and big conventions and so everybody began to take notice of me"