The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-27
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scraping offices of Selwyn & Co. in upper beautiful and the little trio forming it.
 self about MT. Selwyn's desk veered into a three-cornered converse ton, instead of a duet, as I had expected.
 Mr and Mrs. Selwyn are adorable people-both of them. He is tall and dark, his wonderful black hair and big, brown eyes and unusual physical pull chritude making him the typical "mati nee idol" which he was for several seasons, while in contrast his tiny lit tie slip of a wife looks like doll-a brown eyed, pink tinted doll-a truly Baby Mine' sort of girl.
 Tn connection with the theatrical season." MT. Selwyn was saying, q be- lieve this summer and the following winter, New York will see it's most won
 derful season. Why? Because of the depression in theatricals abroad-the war; people can't get away-at least not the great swarms of them to Eu- rope as it used to be-and the public demands entertainment. That's why l say this year will be the best New York has ever had"
 "Another thing I would like say is something about the south in con nection with road companfes'-the One, O, No1 that is made about them not being as good as the original New York com pany," MT. Selwyn said. This isn't true. The public has come to regard name more than a play; they go to see the star-not the play; often in New York we have what we call an all-star cast; when a company is sent on the road, the cast is changed and the stars are left in New York and others employed +, mo that the road com pany isn't as good as the New York company, but it merely means that the producers cannot afford to employ the high salaried New York actor with a name, who has his own home or apart
 ment in New York and doesn't want to tleave it to go on the road, and if he | did, would demand fabulous amount 1 for his services"
 And what are you getting ready for the public ,now?" I asked. Has Miss Mayo a new play?" Miss Mayo having just at that mo- ment arrived spoke for herself, telling
 me that the next evening she and MT l Selwyn were off for Atlantic City to
 "try out" her new play she had writ ten for the Dolly Sisters and Rozika-which since my chat With MISS
 Mayo has proven a big "hit."
 ] What wonderful thing, thought, was this community of interests be- tween these two talented people; MT Selwyn, a noted actor, his last ap- pearance in "The Arab" scoring one 1 of the biggest successes of the day-re tiring from the stage to become great play wright and producer; Miss Mayo | formerly an actress-now one of the
 most successful playwrights we nave
 working, enjoying life together, anu
 being perfectly happy! 1 But after all it is quite natural,
 suppose, for as these clever people say; 1 sWhy shouldn't we be happy, for you l see people who like the same things
 usually like each other, and we are l interested in the same things, apso- lutely." l I discovered, among other things, that
 MT. Selwyn takes playwriting much more seriously than his merry little playWrlgn' wife, who made a fortune out or hei several contributions to the stage, even ! though she declares she doesn't know
 the first rules of the dramatist hand
 book, and is strongly inclined to believe | that it is also matter of luck.
 1 T never had read a play until l wrote
 my first one. Being on the stage TOT | awhile, I suppose I gathered some idea of the form a play should be In ana what it must resemble before it has ara matic qualities that make it possible to be acted" Miss Mayo said.
 1 You'll laugh when l tell you that wrote Baby Mine in very few days; 1 in fact, it just sort of wrote itself.
 wrote it lying flat on my little tummy and even had my meals sent to me
 while I was writing. Since then I've | improved I dictate everything now, fl
 you riease. Baby Mine was one o1 1 those plays where the ideas come to one so visualized and insistent that once | started they take form and rush right
 along to the place that is waiting fol | them Mir. William A. Brady bought il
 at oEce and really produced 1t long be-
 fore thought it was ready. It was a | success from the start"
 Was the story screamed forth in a big ! New York daily about you making s.,
 0C0.0o0 on Baby Mine really true?" asked.
 Tears come to my eyes when I think 1 of that story" she sighed.
 l T never said such a thing in my life