The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-18
AY IRWIN ATTACKED BY DOLLY'S
TROOP OF TRAINED ADJECTIVES
by DOLLY DALRYMPLE
~ RAY IRWIN is the incest woman
UW have ever interviewed" when
Is * cor,as IN the real woman.

| UNWlI have ever interviewed" when 1t
q VS. comes to the real woman.
! May Irwin. the actress; May Irwin the
/ suffragist May Irwin, the domestic scien-
| tist-each unique in its particular line
| but May Irwin, the woman with a heart
| as big as her body, and that's some
| big, stands high above all the other
| things that she is or ever could be.
| 1 must admit that May Irwin is al
most as much to meet As one can meet
in a single human being; she is broad
| abundant, billowy personality, with a
taste for suffrage and jokes and cooking
and domesticity and top notes and loose
! sleeves and sweeping gesture, that make
her seem more like an occasion for a
political rally in celebration of Wilson
victory than mere woman; her big, blue
eyes, her chin, her brows and nose seem
to be racing to the front of her as if eX-
cited by the clarion notes of her album
dant voice. the pinkness of her complex
ion is as exhuberant as her manner; eX-
huberant-yes, that's the word.
Evidently May Irwin was a big, bounc-
ing, bright, gaminesque sort of girl at
Is; very amusing, very much admired;
sho liked the role then and she likes it
now, and it is not that she has grown
so much older, but rather that she has
-er-er-enlargement; yes very
considerable enlargement, which is ter
ribly nice, since the larger she is, the
more there is of her for us to like and
everybody likes jolly, clever, sparkling
brilliant May Irwin.
May Irwin is wonderful looking
woman; she's quite the youngest thing
I've seen since Ethel Barrymore's new
sest baby; it has been limited at that
this popular Coincidence has found the
late Ponce De Icons fountain of
youth" which he sought long and vainly
for, and all reasons for believing the
rumor I think, are undoubtedly true,
after meeting Miss Irwin yesterday morn
ing.
AS / was about to say, May Irwin
doesn't look a day over 80 in--er--er citi-
zen's clothes, and with those things,
you know. sort Of pulled in tight about
the waistline; well, she never has let
herself go to waist!
AS ensconsced myself in comfortable
chair and asked Miss Irwin few ques-
tons, our story sort of took on one OF
those pianola effects; you know, the kind
that plays itself-for Miss Irwin, with
her trim, though exhuberant figure, the
laughter of innocent youth, the merry
sparkle in her eyes, and the charm OF
seriousness now and then when she re-
lapses into things real and big, is one
of the most adorable people l have ever
met.
"Of course, knowing your penchant for
housekeeping and the big reputation you
have as a domestic scientist" I VEN
tured, I'm going to ask you to tell me
about your home up in the Thousand
Islands," I suggested.
1.-THE happiest moments Of my life are
spent there Miss Irwin said quickly.
IT love to keep house and cook better
than anything in the world. Let me tell
you something, I'm always hearing
women complain of poor servants and the
lack of good help; do you know why
that is? Simply because they don't treat
their servants like human beings why,
I never had a cook in my life who didn't
like me land you know cooks don't gen
orally like the lady of the house, and l
never had maid who didn't want to
come back to me and that's saying
good deal because servants don't IKE
leaving gay New York and being tucked
away on little island up in the st. Law
renee"
women are curious, though, about lots
OF things" she went on. Didn't 1t just
hurt you the way they behaved in Hill
nois: turning all those votes over TO
Hughes? Speaking of Hughes, that re-
minds me of funny squib 1 picked up
in q Kansas ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
somewhere out there; 1t just shows what
mistakes printers can make; the Idea 10
be conveyed was that Mr.. Wilson and
Mr.. Hughes were to meet in Omaha and
the words read: Mr., Wilson expects to
meet Mrs. Hughes in Omaha; the cam
paign is beginning to warm up l
promptly clipped it and sent 1t to Mr..
Wilson. who is g. great friend Of mine,
and wrote beneath it: I'm surprised at
you.' Do I admire the President? That
doesn't express half what ! feel ABOUT
that big, splendid man; why, you couldn't
shake hands with him and look into his
heavy squared jawed face and see the
little crinAley lines of humor about his
ewes and not admire him and vote for
him: at least, I couldn't, if had the
vote"
''Will that pleasure ever be yours?"
asked.
absolutely; but let me tell you some
thing; wish women would get the no
ton out of their heads that when they
do get the vote they are going to purify
politics. Miss Irwin said vehemently.
.'They'll do nothing of the kind: just as
all men are not grafters, all women are
not honest; you know that. Women, as
a rule, though, are more honest than
men; perhaps because they don't know
how to be otherwise, or perhaps, WELL
anyway, when they get the vote they are
going to learn a lot of the dishonesty OF
men and that's no joke
"a funny thing happened" Miss Irwin
said. at was when Mr.. Wilson was first
elected President. I was playing a long
engagement in New York and in the hotel
where 1 lived there was young negro
elevator boy. He soon got to know me
and as I'd step in the elevator he'd say:
.Howdy Miss May There's no need,
after that, to say he was southern ne
gro
The day of the election when l came
home late after the theatre and got in
the elevator the boy said: Well Miss
May Wilson's elected; I reckons de mex
time you'll have er chanel ter vote fer
him. I turned to the boy and said:
How many times have you voted?' He
replied, Dis heah's de secon' time I
then said: Boy, do you know anything