The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-27

Isn't it something of a shock to find a vaudeville artist at close range-a sweet. smiling, lovable puffic'ly delicious girl, we'll say like Miss Bessie Wynn isn't it a bit unusual to find her, off the stage, even younger and lovelier than on 1t?
 Birmingham likes Miss Wynn; that Is plainly 10 be seen in the sincerity of ap- preciation that meets her speciality of fresh, breezy song number this week at the Lyric But society meeting her in the drawing room is captivated by her She came. pleasantly introduced through prominent friends. and has been so cordi- ally received that her prosac plan, which includr mostly rest and sleep quiet and the careful coddling of a lingering siege of grippe while fulfilling her Birming- ham engagement is already sadly awry though the week is yet young She has more social demands than her limited time away from the theatre will permit,
 Miss Wynn is delightful companion versatile accomplished, sympathetie-and R joy to look at! Her gowns, worn in her charming act at the Lyric are the envy of the women in her audience-all of them, from the delectable white chif- ion thing with it's satin border and it's saucy wired skirts, which she wears in the mushroom song to the pink kimono which she dons as poor Madama Butterly in her opera numbers They are no more attractive, however, than the jaunty luncheon and dinner frocks and bonnets in which she is seen at the Tntwiler where she is living during her Birming- ham stay. Tn short, she is recognized in passing. as a particularly attractive bit of young womanhood, but a cosy chat over a cup of tea conyinces one that her big brown eyes mirror a sweet, sym pathetic thoughtful womanly soul.
 Miss Wynn is not to be pinned down to the typewritten word. She probably had a Salem ancestor who bequeathed to her the power 10 read minds Anyway, yesterday at luncheon with party which included a young woman just re- turned from eight years of study abroad, several society women and a schoolgirl- she personally saw 10 it that the school girl had chocolate ice cream for her des- sert, and a box at the Lyric for Saturday afternoon, "close to me-" she said. "so that l may sing to you and your friends" that the young singer was posted as to the best method of entering the field of vaudeville acting which she is consider ing; that the pretty matron who is re- covering from a cold Knew one of her own comforting remedies and bit about her own dieting plan. and that everybody had her own chance for d wee bit of talk.
 My hobby she told me, lis my work When my season closes l return to New York for study with the woman who has for so long tyrannized over me, hypno- tized me, and loved me into doing the hard work that is now my greatest pleas ure. She is a great teacher, and l feel her influence as a compelling force for discipline just truly when on the road when l am ill her studio My mother, who was detained this week in Chicago, usually travels with me, and this affords me all the companionship I need, though an occasional meeting with friends in some stranger city is rare pleasure The war has greatly affected the theat-- 1ical profession l was booked for sev- eral German cities this season, but all my plans were upset, so, instead I am seeing the south for the first time. Last winter my mother and l spent in Cali fornia, and during the summers we go to the coast or visit friends, but really my idea of "good time" is the con sciousness that people like my work"
 Certainly this means a good time twice daily for Miss Wynn during her visit in Birmingham, which with all it's commer- cialism has an appreciation of the artis- tic quite capable of meeting an entertain ment feature of eXquisitely high type as that furnished by Miss Wynn.