The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-10
Dolly Hears From Jeanne Eagles the Lovely Young Actress Her Viezvs
 Concerning the Heart Of dn "Outcasf
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

EdBleS uellclOuSly faSc1nat1ne A~ voice, drawled out yesterday
 morning Gas she sat in her apartments
 at the Tutwiler and slipped a bit of choc-
 olate) in much the same manner as the
 girl of the streets regales the three young
 bachelors in the first act'' of 'Outcast, T with her varied career, I want you to know that I lived like an actress"
 Miss Eagles declares that she never re. peats those lines that she. isn't inwardly | convulsed. for she knows what it is ''to live like an actress these days. and she VOWS it's a hard working existence. | I'm living in such a rush" she went on saying, catching trains, and playing one and two-night stands that I haven't time to breathe-or get my hair sham pooed only occasionally or to write let | ter"
 | Perhaps you remember Jeanne Eagles, with Julian Eltinge last year. when you were in New York. If so you recall wildly and with much admiration that adorable mouth of hers, and teeth that l look like pearls above a dimpled, sullxy, | sort of chin and under the soft brown cloudy eyes.
 Miss Eagles has an odd manner of | speaking back of her fine, strong mouth and shapely feet and ankles; a sketchy head bn a stem-like throat, which How ard Chandler Christy would adore; add to this the delicacy that can wear piquant little 'toques," and brand of person. ality that makes her marvelously fasci- I hating and attractive, and you have pen picture of her. She was the height that women sigh for; the right height to be graceful, yet always remain sweet and girlish and '.in- genue-ish.'
 Jeanne Eagles is one of the prettiest people I've ever seen, and her beauty is all so natural, sweet, so unaffected.
 "One's idea of the life of an actress" l suggested, going back to the conversa- tion we had left, Ifs breakfast in bed and all sorts of luxurious things"
 That's one phase of it." laughed the pretty young star "but the life of an &C., tress IS quite a tumble after all.' It may seem easy to those out in front but it is hard:'
 In speaking to Miss Eagles of all the praise that has been showered upon her interpretation of the Girl of the Streets ~AA Oa~SoSt, SAiO SlAillIlcQ tIlctL Sn6 QdS the very human weakness of vanity, and she likes to hear over and over again that her Miriam is a convincing and appealing creature.
 T am tremendously in sympathy with Miriam Miss Eagles said thoughtfully in that soft, pretty voice again, that might be taken for English, it is so musf- cal. You see, it is really the first big chance I've had. Always on account of my blondeness and youth, people have wanted me to play ingenue parts, and I've had to do so, but in this my chance haS come at last, which gives me scope for the spirituality that to my mind calls for the highest art of an actress. I put the best there is in me into my interpre- tation of the part of Miriam I'm terri ply absorbed ill it; in the first act I'm frightfully hard, because the girl is hard. Why, she has become what she is when fate, circumstance, what you will, has msfded her into person who bargains and sells where she can, interests me more than l can say, and I study her all the time. While I am playing this girl of the streets, the curtain might fall, from the top of the theatre to the floor at the wrong time and don't believe I'd ever know anything was happening That's just how much of me the part absorbs and how intensely interested am in the character
 ALWAYS there is sounding in my ears" she went on, ''the note that if the girls early life had been different-if her luck had been different how all would have been changed and I find myself trying to justify her to those out in front. It's what might have been made of a girl like Miriam that keeps throbbing in my heart.'
 The play. it seems to me, is a tre- mendous appeal for the redemption of of ,,s. .sex k.vx T -I-- a very good lesson" I suggested.
 Why not?" asked the Miss Eagles.
 Like RrieuX, I believe that the stage should instruct as well as amuse in the phases of life we need to know about, for our souls good, as well as the re- 
 Merry Needle club Thursday afternoon and Mrs. E. J. Robinson will entertain the Pierian club Friday.
 Mrs. J. A. Hendricks is attending the state convention of the w. M U. in Montgomery.
 MT. Carl Laster of Washington, D. C., is a guest of his mother, Mrs. James Las ter, in Irondale.
 Mrs. J. E. LaGore and her daughter, Miss Lillian LaGore, have returned to LaGore, Md, after sepnding two months with Mrs. J. w. Fortenberry
 Miss Ruth Fortenberry left recently for LaGore, Md, where she will spend the winter with her sister, Mrs. J. E. La Gore.
 Dr. Herbert A. Harris was host at box party at the Lyric Monday evening, com plimenting the members of the Harris- Kent wedding party. Those included in the courtesy were Miss Marion Kent, Miss Carrie Kent, Miss Mildred Jaffe, Miss Grace Hillhouse, Miss Ruby Hauff, Dr. Harris. MT. Oscar Berney, Dr. Howard Hay, MT. Willis Kent and Mr. Richard Lussier.
 Mrs. Joseph Scholl will entertain at 300 II [