The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-24
BLANCHE RING AT 38

Blanche Ring was born in Boston and she will be thirty-eight years old to-day, but if you judge from these statistics that she wears spectacles and is bowed down by culture and years you must think. think again. Miss gal lon and off and the passing
 years have not robbed her of one wee iota, title or 5ot of her cheerful dis position. During the wear and tear of stage life and the more or less tempo
 rary possession Of three husbands, late a philosophy of life. Work" she
 insists "is the main ingredient in the
 recipe for a happy existence. When was younger I used to envy the abundant leisure Of society girls. used to think that if I had the time
 could do so many things I wanted to do that would make me supremsly happy. have since changed suny views. have discovered that the society women who have no resp6n- abilities and no work. are not really happy nor even contented with their lot. As for me. I'm with the joy riders every time
 Miss Rings father was James F. Ring. a prominent actor. She was a
 little girl when she made her stage | lsbow, and in her teens played engage nents with Nat Goodwin and James A. Herne. Like Anna Held who att tained success overnight by singing I Wont You Come and Play Wiz Me ?;' in a London music hall, Miss Ring I was boosted into the lineIfEf1t by a when, after tour of vaudeville lnous- i es, Miss Ring was engaged for s'The Defender,' a musical comedy. II Twas in that production that Miss Ring introduced 'In the Good old Sum I Imertims.% The song was an ifnne- "A nd ! instantly fanous.
 Since then Miss Ring has appear. ed in numerous musical comedies and frevfaws. burlesdues and farces among them Tommy Rot" stThe Jewel o1
 Asia" The Jersey Lily ssVivian'l lPapas,s' Saergeant Brue, His Honor
 thp Mayor sIt Happened in NOrd
 land" Miss Dolly Dollars ss' "Aboui ITown,'' .Tshe Great Devfde,'' ssThs Great White Way, The Yanlxes Il 9fr1,'' s"The Wall Street Girl = aut .d When Claudia Smiles
 During her stage career Miss Rin;
 has made at least three trips to tn.
 altar James Walker, Jr., of Bostol
 was No l. He got a divorce, ant
 Miss Ring became the bride of Fred
 erick Edward Mckay, dranatf
 critic. A couple of years ago or sl Miss Ring divorced MT. Mckay anl | was married to Charles I Winntnger q member of her company. who play -I ed the role Of Charles D. Hoffman fl Miss Rings recent production 0 EssWhen Claudia Smiles.'' Miss Rim declaEes that it is impossible fo stage people to be happy though mar l ried if they do not breathe the sam q artistic atmosphere, preferably a
 members of the same company
 Many changes have come to pas in Miss Rings time, ana one of then | she has pointed out, is the disappear } ance of that once prevalent aniina called the stage-door Johnny. Tn -I Johnny is as extinct as the buffa1o Q ; the dodos according to Miss Ring, wh
 accounts for his disapp pearance fron 2 his accustomed haunts by the caba : ret route. The wicked, naught5 ' devilish Johnny, she says, has trans
 ferred his quest for the gay life t Z the cabarets, where he can meet tn . sort of girls he seeks without runnfn i. the risk of catching his death of col while waiting in a damp, dark alley
 Miss Ring declares that real actresse
 have shed no tears over the defect1o ! of Johnny. She admits that stag people live gay and merry lives, bp she says it's because busy people ar always happier than idle ones