New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05

Correction: In previous diatripe III
was stated that the stage culls the great
majority Of its stars from the hearth of
agriculture and that IL was useless to aim
at success before the footlights II one had
not prepared for theatrical career by
irst tilling the ancestral acre. Since the
publication of that otherwise authorita-
tive pronunciamento-0h have your own
way about it-protests have poured in 10
point out that converts turn out more
leading ladies than DO farms However
that does not settle the question-r II is
a question Reporters report only the
facts they are able 70 obtain. Reporters
are admitted 70 farmc and until 'hey are
admitted 10 converts the whole blame
thing is going TO bo UP in the air Never
.neless. that condition shouldnt-and
,sIt going to-stard I'm the way OF intro
81 cling
Eeady professor Thank youl
Miss Irene Fcnwick OF ,stop crowdins,
there. you'll hear il soon enough Along
came Ruth. which is showing AT the
Important news must not and will not 6e
suppressed Gaicty Theatre.
And Miss Fenwick pronounced Fen
nick was turned out OF a convent; not
turned out however. in the brutal sense
Of the woro She just went out raised
her blue eyes To the blue sky and eX-
claimed fervidiy:
I'm going on the stage, Please some
body. introduce me 10 George Ade.'
So somebody came right along and in
troduccd her 20 George AIDE and the in
PRODUCING person beins in an Introductory
mood Young Irene was introduced 10
John r. McCutcheon also. Which same
IS speeding along even in Chicago, where
Miss Fenwick was born and where she
remained for sixteen months until she re-
allied the fact was likely to be used
AGAINST her. OF course, the Ade-Mc-
Cutcheon acquaintance was not formed al
this time nor was the convent incident OF
that period ia the mean time Miss Fen
wick had been taken TO England by her
parents and had toured Russia and other
places that get into the newspapers.
Kind sir" she said to AIDE, Il fam
would enter the theatrical profession.
Wouldst advise muh?'
Young Lady" said the inventor of the
capital letter, II nave Never driven \
far tried TC drive Some OF them of. They
irritate my Cerebrum described by long
haired Harvard professors as The front
Section OF the Thought distillery But As
the Notion appears TO be Fixed in Your
mind. and 1 see 1 Can do Nothing to
swerye YOU from Your Course, I would
Advise you TO BE Natural
Miss Fenwick's success dated from that
day. She got a job without any trouble
and became chorus girl. Inspired by
Ade's remarkable encouragement, she did
not have 10 wait long for her chance.
Three weeks after she took her degree as
a chorus girl she was made an under
study and the opportunity she knew was
coming when she left AIDE arrived. She
won out the first night and she has never
ceased thanking AIDE for what he did for
her. Had he not told her 10 be natural
she probably wouldn't have accomplished
a thing. For the information Of the ambi-
tious, Mr.. AIDE lives at Brook, Ind.
The last play of any Importance in
which Miss Fenwick appeared just prior
TO Along Came Ruth" was The Family
Cupboard" and you who remember her
III tndt ana nave seen Hei vi '"S PicSe
show must be amazed at the change in
the nature of rhe roles In the Cup
board Miss Fenwick was everything that
an interested mother would not care her
gentle daughter TO be-unconventional In
her MODE Of life: heartless as spade
flush. In the piece now at the Gaiety. it's
something else again. She has more heart
than a butcher shop Everybody makes
love TO her on the stage, and II every
body knew her, everybody would make -
81 like this part better, much better
than any have ever had she said yes
terday, but the role my heart is is set on
is that OF juliet I've had temperamental
parts and nice, sweet parts, but nothing
like what Juliet offers. The one trouble
I might have with Shakespeare is that
never hold precisely 10 the authors lines.