The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
"BLANCFIE O. MY HEART" TELLS DOLLY
HOW SHE LOVES PEG AND "ARGUFIES
WITH "MICFAEL'S" UNDERSTUDY
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

By DOLLY DALRYMPLE
when first 1 Sweet Peggy" twas
| in the merry month of the early spring
time of last year. when all New York $
| gay throng was talking about how the
triple hit-the actress, Laurette Taylor
the theatre, THE Cort," and the play,
| Peg o. Ny Heart" had resolved itself
into one glorious individual triumph.
| Another Peggy came to town yester-
eve.
The name?
Blanche o My Heart I've called her,
for the moment | met her she somehow
just cuddled up and found her way into
my inmost self as if she'd belonged
there all her life even though she was
just now finding her place!
One look out of her frank Irish blue
eyes-one smile from her pretty Irish lips,
and I ween you'll say. you've never
seen so winsome miss, SO delightful a
girl-as little Blanche Hall, who for all
the world loops as If she were Peg her.
self and just stepped across the waters,
TO capture the grouchy old household that
Mr.. Hartley Manners has written so
charmingly about in his English-IrIsh
play.
The star of Peg o. My Heart" is that
Irish that visions of Castle Blarney come
to your minds eye at the sight of her,
And yet
She never was on the "other side" at
all;
Never rode In a "low back carr"
Nor
Did she he of L llay ,axrf
Not she:
But when she does;
Glory be,
Like Peg o the play. little Blanche
Hall is going 10 England this summer
and from London she means to go over
to view the land, by St Patrick well
blessed!
If people could only keep secrets" %
| which are printed in the newspapers,
| might tell you that Miss Blanche Hall is
wonderful blending of southern charm
and beauteous grace, and Irish wit for
| way back in the long ago, her grand
fathers mother was as Irish as any col
leen the sun ever shone upon in that green
lsle-and proud of it--mercy. You should
hear little Blanche talk about it,
With her radiant smile and irresistible
hnmor, my new found friend of yester-
day said, by way of starting the con-
versation:
"shure, and you won't be asking me
where I was born. will ye?"
The same" I said while merry
twinkle came into her eye: Are you GO
ing to tell?"
I'm not afraid" she said quickly. MY
mother was a Georgian and my father
was from Kentucky
"A rare combination" | interrupted
II was born in st. Louis. Now then.
It's out! she said. I've lived in the
west. is far away as California, making
my first appearance on the stage in Los
Angeles where | remained for a long
time"
And your delightful accent-why sure
ly you are more Irish than southern"
said
MY accent" she repeated. "And in
deed YOU must be dreaming to be after
saying such thing to me. l was just
| thinking what an accent YOU had
oh you couldn't mistake me for any
thing but Simon pure southerner,"
said smiling. But yourse"
TITS family heir loom, this brogue OF
mine,' she said greetly. 1T wasn't a bit
| hard for me to acquire it in the role of
Peg. because don't you see it was all
ways there? just needed a bit of cultj-
yation, that was all Somehow langua ges
have always come easy to me. When I
was a kiddie at school | could speak any
sort of dialect and since I've been On
the stage most of the parts I've PLAYED
have been dialect parts"
How did YOU come to get the role
| of Peg?" I asked.
We'll, it's not a story" she said. II