The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03
DOLLY DALRYMPLE
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ous parts-I mean Camille or Mazda or the rest?" asked.
 That brings the we,l1s to my eyes, said the attractive star. That's one thing that I can scarcely speak of with out emotion. Histl I'll tell you a deep,
 dark secret. I meant to be a grand opera star. l started with Oscar Saen- ger. Impressano Oscar Hammerstein looked me overand heard me sing That settled It. All my asperations to be a wonderful Iooche-ya' or a 'Yee- sold 7 were shattered"
 But MT Catti-Cassazzi might have thought differently over at the Met perhaps" I suggested.
 Signor Cassozzoo," Miss Carus said faeetiously. T think he felt about me like the fellow said he knew why they called the Wagner Ring a 'Trilogy'-because It's to 1 shot that the fellow who heard Rhinegold' would never stay to near Goetterdaemmering So, as the 1n- ner man was calling, so to speak, and I had to have food and shelter and cloth Ing, l no longer followed the elusive muse whichever. one it is that beckons the uninitiate to. grand opera instead l went for things l could do things that paid! I'm a business woman first. last and all the time. Of course I love art A-R-T, for arts sake; but l think it's fortunate for myself and my public that l didn't become a Wagnerian prima donna 'Brunhild-ing' around. and Siegliend-ing' about, or even a barefoot dancer like lsadora Duncan or Ruth St. Denis, es- pecially when I aspire to be a Paylowa, and yet if anybody thinks that being comedienne and doing the dancing stunt that I do is an easy one, just let them try 1t. Being funny is far more serious than being serious. As I said before, you've just got to be funny naturally in order to be funny on the stage. Many a person. in order to be funny, has drank himself nearly to death-tanked up on stimulants-but l have never touched a drop of anything to drink in my life ex- cept coffee"
 One reason so many women are not funny on the stage is because of their vanity Miss Carus continued "They don't want to look ugly or make them selves grotesque Now I know, for in- stance, that l can't dance, that I'm as awkward as a COW, but that's just what makes my work funny burlesquing really beautiful dancing worlSi Gee. that danc- ing stunt do with all my avoirdupois in full swing. is harder work than that of dredger on the Panama canal when there is a slide in the Culebra cut. Talk about slavery. black white and green it's not in it with the way l work and work and work. Why, I'm big woman, and hauling around all the flesh I do, and skipping and running like a spring lamb with mint sauce is far from an easy task, l assure you'
 What besides your work interests you in the game? I asked.
 My home at Mt. Vernon, where have all the beautiful dogs and horses that l can buy" said Miss Carus. T adore horses and dogs, but I never carry any of my pet eanines about with me be- cause l don't want to submit them to the inconvenienees of a Pullman car or the hotels and especially the food that have to eat at some of them.
 Would you advise the average stage struck girl to follow the career of an actress?" l asked.
 Not always, was the reply. Some times l advise 1t if there is real talent and ambition, but the best thing for most girls to do these days is to marry and settle down--do plain cooking and get a butcher for a husband if possible"
 Why buteher?' l asked
 Because of tine high price of living Miss Carus laughed back. ''If you marry a butcher you will be sure of at least three square meals day, and that's l