New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-31
ANNA HELD IN SERIOUS MOOD
Year Of Work in French Hospitals
Brings Change.

Anna Held has been through hre.
War and Anna may seem an impos-
sible combination, but over in France
the two have been working side by
side since August a year ago. Now
Miss Held Is back in a peaceful coun-
try, but her experiences have left their
mark on her. Eighteen months ago,
when she sailed for Europe, she was
the gay and irresponsible Coincidence;
to-day, although the same spirit OF
comedy turks just beneath the surface
there is unmistakable evidence tnat
Anna Held has seen how the other nail
lives-and dies.
The vivacious Anna reached New
York on Thursday on the st. Louis
and plunged Immediately into the Voi-
tex. There have been so many people
IN az. and SO much 10 do in that time
that she is almost inclined to welcome
a return to the battle line, hoping that
there she can find comparative quiet
But in her apartment AT the hotei ga
voy. while Ting des Tourelles twho Is
a fuzzy little dog rolled at her feet,
she found a few moments 70 talk about
herself and the war.
T-I could hardly believe my eyes
when got back here" simultaneously
the said eyes rolled Just as they used
TO in that can't-make-my-e eyes behave
song. "A whole city at peace and peo-
pie going about their business Just IN
the usual wsyl And then at night
the light. on Broadway and every
where. Il seemed as though ! was see
ing them for the first time. | found
il hard work 70 keep from crying Put
out the lights! The Zeppelins will get
you,'"
zeppelin Is one word outside her
own language that Miss Held can pro-
nounce perfectly. II begins with n
and 1t is Miss Held's Partisan
tendency to begin all words with rs.
"Oh, what | have seen and the things
| | have been through In those months
in France! This Is the first time since
the beginning Of the war that | have
been away from there. Hospitals full
of mutilated men-two thousand IN a
building, perhaps. and not one whole
one among them! Oh, It Is terrible'
| | do not care how great they tell you
are the suffering and misery over there
they are greater than that
al would like so much TO do some
thing for my country while | am over
here. Nv home in Fauborg 81. Honore
| am already using no, not as hos
initial; merely as a place where women
come 20 make things for the soldiers.
| have kept my cook there TO feed them,
and | pay each of them something for
their work. But il is so little, When
/ think of the rooms full Of blind men,
for example. for whom | used 20 sing
in the hospitals then | realize now
many there are for whom nothing can
be done nothing,
"But in one way IL is good 10 see
those things, don't you think? If they
must be. one Is fortunate 10 1--we
through them and witness them, for It
makes one appreciate and enjoy Lille
when Il is all over
And the future? Well, for the pres
eut. moving pictures. Since her arri-
val at the Savoy. said Miss Held, the
lobby had been simply cluttered up
with motion picture men. each trying
10 think OF a bigger sum OF money
than the rest could. So, finally, she
accepted the terms OF the most lavish,
and next month will see her in Los An
gales making her first picture
After that we'll. who can tell! Per
haps more pictures. perhaps vaudeville
and perhaps musical comedy. And per-
haps she will return TO Paris and keep
in condition lodging Zeppelin bombs.