The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-20

It is like 8 woman's beauty; it in- stantly reveals marked personality or
 an utter lack of it.
 Consequently while one may dash off''
 a story, one may not dash off, the title of 1t; nay, spend an hour or two on the story, but the whole 24 on the title. The small matter of being able to write grammatically, employing good rhetorec and having style, are simple the result of experience and all that sort of thing; anyone can write but those who carf choose catchy title, to a story are few and far 5etween, believe me.
 All of which has to do with the fact that the title of this story is used with malice aforethought with intent to delude and snare you, kind reader, into the be- lief that this is going to be a story full of light silly, frivolous talk-something to while away the moment with, when as a matter of fact the story which fol- lows is serious to degree.
 You remember when you saw "CoddleSnr last year-the poor, benighted, L servant in the house of T. Boggs! how the clever imperSonation of thN ney slavey enlisted your attention?
 Well, it struck me right between the
 eyes, too, with the conviction that it's
 one of the very clevereSt roles in the whole cast of "A Pair of Sixes," and while very few people, I imagine, would have thought of interviewing "Coddles,,
 I must say the idea caught me all in heap, and l made up my mind that if ever "Coddles" descended upon Birming
 ham again, I was going to have talk with her, and so l did yesterday, to my eminent delight and satisfaction
 Miss Georgia Harvey follows Maude Eburne in the role of Coddt tes-Maude Eburne who for 13 years worked to play on Broadway and finally reached her ambition two years ago when she played the cockney slavey in "A Pair of Sixes."
 Miss Harvey has been lucker. This is the first time she hasn't played on Broad way.
 And it's rather an odd story, too.
 I've always played wicked roles," she
 aughingly told me yesterday, the very
 last thing you'd ever think of her, be- cause her big, honest, blue-gray eyes and decidedly feminine mannerisms and charm make you think of almost any thing in connection with her except wickedness. For three years l played Madame Dondidier in The Pink Lady Thirty-four weeks on Broadway I played that part when Hazel Dawn was play ing title role. Then I played it in Chi cago with Cecil Cunningham for weeks and weeks, it was with sigh, for l said as I packed them away, I've loved that part and everything that went with it. And l did.''
 After that came a long engagement with Papas Darling at the New Ann sterdan in New York, and I played even a wicheder lady in that production. A chic parisienne she was-smilar to Mad anne Dondidier-but, oh! so much gayer and such a drunkard; she was dreadful!
 Rut I rathar liked the art ,'
 T know you are wondering how on earth l ever made such jump from naughty French ladies to poor, old, piti- full 'Coddles,' aren't your" Miss Harvey asked, smiling.
 1 confessed that I was and then she
 said quickly:
 T went to see "A Pair of Sixes on the opening night in New York, and I saw
 Maude Eburne play 'Coddles.' I made up my mind then and there that sometime,
 somehow, l was going to try my hand at that sort of game. Miss Eburne is a
 Canadian, and so am I, and I was very
 much interested in her work and her
 struggles for success, and wanted very
 much to play 'Coddles Fate intervened, fhowever, and I found myself making
 plans for an Australian tour which aft-' erward materialized, and there was L. not waiting at the church, but waiting for an engagement. 'Coddles loomed up OliShl anu ldppy III lily iHlilu, Dul lIitTc was no chance, sc l thought, and just at that time I was sent for to do part in new show on Broadway. At almost the identical moment I was offered the bart of 'Coddles in the company I'm playing with now to tour the south. l jumped at the chance, and here I am You sec, somehow I couldn't get away from poor old 'Coddles'-she pursued me, or l pursued her-which was it? Nor any more could I,'' said I pres- ently, and told her of how I'd always
 meant to have story with the very next 'Coddles' that came my way.
 You see, at first they didn't want me to do the part" Miss Harvey said. be cause I'd always done wicked French ladies. Why is it that once an actress | makes a success of a certain kind of role, all the managers in creation think | she's only fitted for that one particular | thing? If a German character role is attempted and done with success, always l that actress must play German charac- ! ter role; same way with Swedish prin- | cess or a French demi-mondaine, or an English impressionist decadent Little
 Miss Wisomeness must never play any, | thing but kittenish parts-but that's 1 where my stock training stood me in good stead, and so I won out.''
 1 'How do you like the thankless part of l Coddles?' I asked.
 T love it, Miss Harvey said gently. Do you know, there is much more pathos than comedy in Coddles to me? The poor, plain woman hired by jealous
 wife just because of her unattractiveness
 and loving the fat butler with as much tender devotion and as heart desiring affection as the youngest and most ravish- ingly beautiful debutante in the world. why, it's pathetic; it's not funny. It's the eternal feminjne-no matter how hideous | she is"
 | But don't you hate to make yourself
 look so homely?'' I asked.
 | T don't mind the hollows in the
 cheeks; and the sleeked-up hair and the awful figure,' Miss Harvey said, because it's all done for arts sake
 The one thing that appeals especially | to me about Coddles is that she has a sense of humor, little as you may think. Her smile indicates that, and you know a sense of humor consists first in appre-
 ciating one's own entologial apsurdity. and I believe Coddles really did this. I love the part: somehow it appeals to me tremendously. Although the audience laughs at the poor old cockney slavey. I almost weep over her'
 And I really believe what the clever &C., tress told me. because she seemed so ter. ribly in earnest
 Miss Harvey has a wonderful pt--- of eyes that could make you believe almost anything she wanted you to believe. the eyes of dreamer and achiever-the eyes
 of woman who can win any battle from playing naughty French ladies to a lCOckney Slavey all in seven yaars m q, |,