New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-14

only hAON AtAoN 80
You'd star
hats what happens after you see
-. kennedy. You go home and try
A' ';,, poetry. And being a student
-. ~colyum" school, you decide ef-
Of 'Is 6,st stanza that anyway you're
sH NH bad prose writer. .
20. sue IL in describing a little lady of
io V.nnedy's charm that a young
MISS T.ncv turns its back 10 the sub
nfh avnression Of everyday English
stsn"s ~ soar 20 the attitudes made
sec nv walkers Rhyming Diction-
Ey. ,rho recall the demure and
in.I creature that made Twin
vh ,ns.h o success il was last year Will
psa., A 20 know that another two hour
be owa,ts them at the Eltinge
ss where, as the winsome star o t
lnssrd Warmer" Miss Kennedy eN-
, TEL ,wo remarkable brown eyes and
oi'S rost delicious gurgle that ever
emerged from ''''
mouth. -. .. cIose range j.
. 5slectation visited upon lew, ana III
80 respects the business or inter
'Ssxing is even better than that OF IN
diting poetry .,.ss e,d an sbso-
,n,. sbsence Of Superficial lity have been
,ss nredominant factors IN the success
- Miss Kennedy's acting, and one mas
Wv 70 talk with her for fve minutes
"a discover why this is so. She Is
'.,nle sincere. wholesome American
wi with as much plainness and com
'san sense 20 her speech as there Is
lNar,v 10 her expression. In fact, one
I'D never expect that she were an
sctTess at all, she Is such an un-stagey
person 1o .bo rover ox-
,..,sd 70 be an actress. and never I'M
sssrwsnt any deliberate training. 1t was
y, an amateur performance OF one OF
,ho,s musical comedies written by IN
Wsbb bovs. a play with that sort Of p OF
y, connlicated that they have TO PRINT
~ arci,ment in its favor on the pro-
a.smme that Miss Kennedy made her
ttaSn, Starred as THE Dream Girl,
.bs IMMERSED an actor audience at
S;s..onset. where she was summering,
80 Nenry Woodruff offered her a part.
sn f she played in Over
n;eb, Little Miss Brown" and last
wear in Twin Beds.
%pidnt YOU find it difficult to memor-
go vour parts 81 first, with so little
sy,sy;snee?" Miss Kennedy was asked.
Cor no" she laughed land, bless her
bssrt with a gurgleD Learning a
nsrt is lust like fitting new dress on.
/ read through it several times at nrst,
snd il is sort of stiff. But gradually
sort Of 1T into it, and she made a
strs,chv movement which was extreme
ly fitting.
nsrts" abe was next informed, "but do
Won no, aspire TO higher rungs on the
ladder of dramatic art ?"
aYo.Y she said. T'm perfectly salts
fed 10 make people laugh. 1t does my
bssrt GOOD 10 hear a comfortable rum
bic of laughs roll over the audience on
to the Stage"
How about the movies? You'd get
lots more laughs there"
Maybe" answered Miss Kennedy,
pickering her lips thoughtfully: I've
had lots Of offers. But | guess I'll stick
10 the stage. One thing at time
Any. but you're sensible person;
commented the lNleTNltHtI' StSAcNAs
plsssed. but professionally discouraged
because of the dearth Of sensation.
sHoE do you like your present piayT
"0h. love it," she said. Especially
Ike second act, where We have the
drunken scene and drink all those
cocktails. It's such fun to pretend
you're doing something wicked. And,
you know, the funniest thing happened
when we opened al Syracuse a couple
Of weeks ago. The next morning when
] came down 10 breakfast the head
waiter said TO one Of the girls in the
company: Amt she a wonder! | never
did think she could get up after put
ting away all that stuff last night!
q think lot Of people would like
to know ventured the interviewer, in
& mad quest for news, what you think
about marriage"
~0h. now, you 90 long" gurgied
Miss Kennedy. and the reporter went
home humming a Mccormack tune,
looking at the sky and trying TO mar
shal four words that rhymed from out
Of bis vocabulary.