The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-06
Dolly Finds Claire Rochester Young.
 and Wonderfully Talented. !
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

Don't you think people are interest ing?
 mean when you get down .unde
 their skins" as our friend Mir. Kiplin
 put it, and come to find out what the
 really are-not what they appear to be
 You see a drove of folk together an you find yourself wondering how tn women could have married such mer and how the men could go on drudgin, to support such insupportable women and then all at once you get to knoy them and you find that every singl, one of them has a personality-some thing fascinating occa asionally.
 What is personality any way-tha little drop of something in every hu man soul that makes them differen from the others?
 What is it that makes one man ol woman utterly charming and another utterly stupid?
 You can't cultivate a fascinating per. sonality it's like MT. Kitchens made ont of his wonderous characters say:
 'If woman hasn't 1t she might a: well try to cultivate a mustache as g personality
 And I believe it-don't you?
 Everybody has certain kind of per didn't you know you had ft?)-but a charming personality a winsome personality-a magnetic we'll, sthas a different story" again quoting our friend MT. Kipling
 If you want to meet somebody who nas personality, plus. and to burn, Miss Claire Rochester. the pretty young girl round at the Lyric this week, who Is such Init" with the phenom- snal voice, is just the one you are ooking for.
 Really it was quite refreshing to meet Hiss Rochester-shes so young, and uch a beauty and so wonderfully tall nted.
 Her skin is like rose--an "Ameri. an Beauty" if you please-and I lever looked into lovelier eyes-great rown, liquid, "Mazdas," that positively adiate brilliance, and her mouth is like
 rose bud.
 Although Miss Rochester is quite arge--tall and graceful withal, she has he tiniest hands-but such capable ands, always so alert, and her person. lity fairly beams" with a sweetness nd a wholesomeness that is delight ul
 It didn't take us long to become cry good friends, for, as I said before, Hiss Rochester is southern" and that pells cordiality.
 When did you discover that phe- omenal voice of yours?" I asked as she ange of her voice, the baritone-so- rano combination being something uite unusual-almost freak" voice, ou might say.
 "Oh, I've been the happy possessor that voice ever. since l was a child" aid Miss Rochester, prettily. 'In fact, hen I was years old, my voice was ven more remarkable than it is now. suppose you want to know how hap ened to go on the stage and how I ot- my start?" tsr it
 "I guess I do," I answered, smiling. It's quite nice and comforting, I as- lre you. to find somebody like you ho knows so well what I want. So 1
 you don't mind, just go ahead. I'll be ! ne of the best little listeners we have.'
 "I made my first appearance at. the | ature age of-guess what?" she asked | Couldn't" I gasped pathetically
 'Fifteen," she said, "and I ran away om home to do it. Guess where?"
 "In barn, and you charged the children pies to come in"
 said, getting into the spirit of thej tuation.
 Not bit of it," she smiled back. 'Tt as right here in Birmingham, if you ease, in a real theatre. I had been ,sessed with the idea of the stage for
 long time, and my parents like all pod parents, of course, didn't want me
 follow it as a profession, and so when arrived in Birmingham my mother Id long distanced one of our friends ,re to grab me and send me back ,me, and so I didn't have half a ance. as you plainly see" Tableau: Truant child being carried ok home by loving friends. Curtain!
 Well. any way, it didn't take me long
 bust loose again." said Miss Roches- r in her prettiest way" and the next ing knew I was in New York looking r the Great White Way and finding my If poor little, lone orphan. It looked
 if would never land, as it were. but ally I did with the help of a very won- rful man who met me when I was do- 3 some cabaret work there, and of- { red to assist me in getting a position. ,cordingly. he found the much coveted , ace with MT. Lew Fields. and that was y first real experience as full fiedged tress." And the man, what of him?" I asked, 1 riously. , Miss Rochester blushed like dana six l , SC as she said: He's my husband now" What a pretty romance" suggested l All that l am or ever hope to be, l 'e to him." she said Loyalty, .and really
 is the only way anybody can make (