The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-21
(Ezsa1Ey E.uasaet. l

to Florence Hamilton. she is better known and better liked here than any other actress or actor who ever played In the town, and then she is Florence Hamilton while playtng here in Bridgeport, broke down com pieteIy, from a culminat1on of mis- fortunes and Appointments and much over work and spent the suc- ceedtng three and one half years in Isanitariums trying to recover the old self control. the old interest fn life and the old hardy constitution. For a long time her recovery was despair cd of
 To-day she is well and Is continual ly gaining in strength and interest. and is looking forward to the new 1ifeH as she calls it. for having. sworn never to go upon the stage again she has taken up the occupation Of a nurse and Is endeavoTfng in that po- sition to dispense some of the sym pathy which she. herself has found so sadly lacking In life.
 I found her at the home Of friends in North Bridgeport, where she has plans to remain about d week longer. She is exceedingly clever to talk with being full of interest for her new life and Of the interests of the old in ] which she has had q world Of exper- fence, having played for twenty one
 
 or scarcely a rehearsal and never having had an underntudy
 In private lIfe befors her career lon the stage, she was Miss Alice Young, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs lJohn H. Young. Her father was 1ead- While a native of Chicago, she came here when very young making Bridge port her home for a number of year8 l The little home which she bought for her mother and father, to whom she was devoted, was in the Brook lawn district, and one of the saddest funerals which the city has ever wit messed WAS the double one of her mother and father some eight years ago. who had passed away within Q few hours of each other.
 Miss Hamilton, who was a general i favorite wherever she went. spent l some eight or ten years playing in lthe South and another ten in this sec- ton of the country
 <I would never advise a young girl
 who has been gently reared, with much love about her as was, to en- I ter the stage life, as 1t is too hard I It is constant sIaying, and constant meeting with appofntnent.' 's
 fl feel now as though were living lin a different sphere. as though the I old life. the old hard work. and the old, old siaving were something apart l No words can ever tell the suffering that I went through at the sanftar- I fun1ss The 3l6e is terrible and the
 hardness Of the officials, and head 1 nurses the use of opiatee to produce sleep and many other horrible things made me decide that should like to T become a nurse and try in my life as such to give a little more sympathy Ithan had myself found.
 s'I love children z she said as a, tiny tot all pink and white. wandered into the room. and came to her with that I confidence which children always be-
 stow upon those who feel for therns
 land since my illness, have been
 raising q little fellow whose mother Is very poor.
 sI no longer feel the old call of
 the stage she said, revertl-.e II old career, sawhy don't even care to sec performance any more and lI know now that shall never go T back to the old life's
 I Miss Hamilton describes the life of I a stock company player. most en1- phaticalIy. as 'sslave's life. with it's constant studying for new part ant its two daily perfornancee-
 eI always wanted to play higher
 parte,'' she said, 'ard to get out of
 the rut of such plays as The Con-
 fessfons of a Wire and so forth but lit is hard to please the public as
 while a sraalI percentage enjoy the
 higher grade plays. the majority us ! G81tX DElAkl O11s SSNlyg4AAlA AROAAs WAlACA tt is necessary to exercise the brain
 CT always had the reputation cl playing to the women and I used tc
 love to do go, and still am a cham
 pfon of the women" she added sEnil- ing esNhy [ used to get 10 or 1z letters every day from women who
 admired my work, don't believe in
 women becoming naSculines or hard
 ened or too se1f-renaable for you cnn
 win a man by coaxfnR rather than | II prove of a woman's having something to say about the way she should bs l governed when she is a property
 owner women should have their Il own polls when they vote and an eff fort should be made to keep thexr Il s feminine as possible
 sI believe that woman should
 have certain salary as a wife A
 man has to pay a servant for working
 for him, why not his wife? The mot
 to for q happy married life should bs
 share and share alike
 Another subject upon which Miss
 Hamilton expressed her views mosi
 emphaticaIly was the modern dress of women.
 .rwhy.1 she said. .I would never think of wearing as extreme style' on the stage. a few years ago, as set every day on the street The tight thin skirts are abominable and wal amazed when came out of the san
 iIaf1un where naDu been pEsACAASe1A45 45 , shut away from the world for nearly four years. to find the styles whict were prevailing. I was quite horr1 : lied to discover that couldn't pur , chase a skirt which wasn't narrow Miss Hamilton was for ten years { ! leading member of the Corse Pay ton company, and has played hun } dreds of different roles, among whicl
 her favorftes are Du Barry, Sapho . Hazel Kirke and Denise. She wa
 ty line and this was one of the req. sons that she was so ropuJar with tn