Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-21
BABY ACTRESS
TELLS OF PLAYING

The youngest actress on the stage
was interviewed by q representative
Of the Evening star last night in her
crossing room at Keeney's Theatre,
and when itgwas all over the inter-
viewer wondered whether he had not
been the interviewed with the young
est actress as the interviewer.
The youngest actress is Katherine
Luce Rutan, seven years old, who
with her brother William Burrows
Rutan, ten years, and her rather ana
| uncle make up Rutan's Song Birds,
an act that has scored a big hit at
X eeney's the latter part OF this week.
Little Miss Katherine, more gem
orally called "Cutey" by her grand
mother. who travels with her. was
found in her dressing-room busily en-
gagged in making up.
Yep; / mean it. Making up, for
the seventy ar-old actress is her own
makeup artist with the exception of
the lining of her eyelashes In black,
which her father does for her.
whats your name?" was the first
and about the only question the inter-
viewer got in.
MY name is Katherine Luce Rutan.
I'm seven years old and l live on f
street, Washington, when I'm home,
but | amt home much because l have
to travel with papa, grandma. 'Brud'
Bill and Uncle Ellis all the time, you
know.
Say, Mr.. ell Ell, what did you say
your name was, do you like to travel!
I do; It's Just great, I've been clear
to Chicago. That's a great big dirty
city. It amt clean like Washington
and New Ark. New Ark! Amt that
funny name for a town. got a
Noah's ark at the hotel. Is that any
relation to New Ark?
well, but tell me something about
yourself" managed to break in the
interviewer. do you like being on
the stage or would you rather be at
home playing with your dolls ~
"Sure thing | like being on the
stage, and | don't have to be home
playing with my dolls. See, | have
lot of them here" and she dove down
off the chair on which she was stand
ing before q mirror larger than her
self, busily engaged in putting on
makeup paints, and dragged q nan
dozen dolls out of a trunk. Ihat
Bill. he's q boy doll; that's Margue-
rite, and that's all I've got time to
tell you about now. | got to get my
paint on" and she turned toward the
mirror. which "Brud' Bill had
pre-empted.
"Honk. honk," squeaked little Kath-
crime, and Bill promptly jumped one
side. He knew that was his signal TO
get away from in front of the mirror
so the star of the act could finish
putting on her paints as she calls
her makeup.
And back she went to putting paint
on her pretty little doll-like face,
chattering away all the time like
magpie
Little Katherine has been travelling
with her father in the Song Bird 8
act for lust three months, and both
on and off the stage Is just IL plain
unaffected baby. She is chuck full of
quaint sayings, and at last night $
performance broke up her father S
part of the act for several moments
by use of a new expression that she
had never used in the act before.
"Brud'' Bill Rutan is just as good
an actor as his little sister is an act
ress. and he thinks there Is no one on
earth like "Cutey." "Brud" Bill has
n splendid soprano voice, which he
knows how to use. He also shines to
real advantage in the tango in mini
allure" that he does with "Cutey."
oh, yes, the interviewer did man
age to get one final question in. i
was What do you intend to be when
YOU gov up?" and the answer re-
ceived was just characteristic one
of the seven year-old tot, who, even
at that age, is a real coincidence. II
was, "Why, l am just going to be q
big actress, of course.