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

Miss Maud Adams had once 10 play the part
of woman who pretends to be intoxicated
In her autobiography, Miss Adams mother
tells of the incident.
Critics marveled at Maud's Interpretation
remember that they said she the only
actress who had been able to play the part
of a supposedly inebriated woman without APP
pearing vulgar and disgusting to refined audi
tors. That finish due partly to Maud's
innate refinement and partly to the fine line
she drew in the part.
az couldn't get tpsy to do 1t, because am
not supposed to be tipsy,' she said Yet must
act 1t we'll that the audience knowing 1
have not been drinking, must still realize that
my pretense ~ so we'll done that It will con-
vince my husband that l have been drinking;
Il 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 was a difficult part for young, inexperi-
enced girl, but I will say this: IL Maud
were tpsy herself she'd be refined about it,
Miss Adams returned to New York last week
from her home in the Catskis. where she was
resting. and has begun rehearsas 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 ]. NJ. Barrie's THE Legend OF Leo
nora" She will reach San Francisco in time
to give tho play during the Panama Exposition.
Ethel Barrymore tells joke of her fathers.
of the handsomest the stage has ever
known. but who would stay out quite late
at night sometimes He adored his wife. and
liked to tease her. He would go home and ring
the doorbelI.
Is hat NTre ParrN
cali out.
Yes. whom did you expect?" Barrymore
would return.
Miss Barrymore will not devote this season
entirely to vaudeville, but early in December
will appear in a new play, The Shadow" by
Dario Nicodemi and Michael Morton. the auth,
OF "The Prodiga Husband" Miss Barry
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. Reiane. hut the production was called
off account of the war.
Edmund Breese is a chicken fancler. He has
a farm near Westport Conn. and ii he
maintains 800 hens. The other day he logged
over to George Bowles' place and said:
George, l wish you'd take look at my hens
They're all black in the face and they have
quit laying"
Mr.. Bowles went to the Breese poultry estate
and looked several of the hens squarely in the
face.
What have YOU been feeding these hens?" he
asked.
Boiled beets," replied Mr. Breese
"Ah ha' That's the answer" came from
George seuth Rowlcs. They've got beet juice
their countenance."
Well, why don't they lay?" asked Mr.. Breese.
Merely because they're afraid they'll lay
beaten eggs" was the reply
Louise Randolph smiIingly confirmed his tale
of her the other day:
She was in her dressing-goom preparing to go
on when the call boy announced that she was
wanted at the telephone.
81 cant go now" she replied. take the mes
sage"
The boy returned shortly, slightly embar-
rassed,
You had better come Miss Randolph. h.
said, its your daughter and she wants to give
you kiss over the phone"