Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-23
FLASHES FROM STARS

MISS Maud ADAMS had once TO play the part
OF woman who pretends to be intoxicated.
In her autobiography Miss Adams mother
tells OF the incident
Critics maryeed at Maud's Interpretation.
remember that they said she was the only
actress who had been able to play the part
of supposedly lnebrated woman without ap-
pearing vulgar and disgusting to refined audi
tors. That finish due partly to Maud's
innate refinement and partly to the ine line
she drew in the part
I couldn't get tipsy to do It, because am
not supposed to be tipsy,' she said Yet must
act it we'll that the audience knowing
have not been drinking, must still realize that
my pretense is so we'll done that II will con1
vince my husband that I have been drinking,
it is betwixt and between
That's what she worked to gain. She prac-
ticed hours before her mirror in her room un-
til she had perfected it so that It alone would
have carried the scene through
1T difficult part for a young inexperi-
enced girl, but will say this even II Maud
were tipsy herself she'd be refined about it,
Miss Adams returned to New York last week
from her home in the Catskills where she was
resting, and has begun reheareals for her COM
ing season. which will be one of the longest she
has ever undertaken in point of time consumed
and cities visited. In Philadelphia Miss Adams
will present j. NJ. Barrie's THE Legend Of Ieo-
nora" She will reach San Francisco in time
to give tho play during the Panama Exposition.
Ethel Barrymore tells joke of her fathers.
one Of the handsomest men the stage has ever
known, but one who would stay out quite late
at night sometimes He adored his wife, and
liked to tease her. He would go homo and rtnr
the doorbell.
rs that RarrV?p
call out
Yes. whom did you expectr' Barrvmors
would return
Miss Barrymore will not devote this season
entirely to vaudeville but early in Decernber
will appear in new play, The Shadow" by
Dario INCIDENT and Michael Morton the auth
ors OF "The Prodigal Husband" Miss Barry
more will give the play for the first time ON
any stage under the direction of Charles Froh.
man The Shadow" is in three acts. It was to
have been presented in Paris this month by
Nine. Rejane, but the production was called
of account of the war
Edmund Breese is chicken fancier. He has
a farm near Westport Conn. and on IL he
800 hens. The other day he logged
over to George Bowles' place and said:
George, wish you'd take look at my hens.
They're all black in the face and they have
lull laying,
Mr.. Bowles went TO the Breese poultry estats
and looked several of the hens squarely in the
'ace
What have you been feeding these hens?" he
asked.
'Soied beets." replied Mr.. Breese
"Ah ha! That's the answer" came tror,
george Sleuth Bowles. They've got beet Juice
N their countenance"
We'll why don't they lay?" asked Mr.. Breess
Merely because they're afraid they'll Law
eaten eggs" was the reply
Louise Randolph smilingIy confirmed his tail.
+ her the other day:
She was i'll her dressing-roor preparing to go
n when the call boy announced that she was
'anted at the telephone.
! can't go now" she replied, take the mes
age"
The boy returned shortly, slightly embar-
used.
You had better come, Miss Randolph. h.
nd ITS your daughter, and she wants to civ.
ou kiss over the phone"