The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-24
Tell My Friends in the South Ho7p Much Appreciate Their Loyalty and Kindness,
 Says Pretty Clara Kunbdu Young
By DOLLY DALRYMPLn
my friends in the south how
 much I appreciate their loyalty

n
 much I appreciate their loyalty
 -A- and kindness
 This was the message that pretty Clara Kimbal Young, one of the favorites of filmland, entrusted to me when I called on her during recent visit to New York and asked her some questions about her self and her plans.
 If I were asked who was the prettiest person I had ever met-"screen" or stage favorite-I almost believe should say Clara kimball Young.
 She is so pretty that 1t bewiders; to see anybody with as pretty teeth, as pretty skin, as pretty hair and as pretty smile, makes you sort of skeptical. You can't think they are real; somehow you sort of pinch yourself and look a little harder and keep saying over and over again: q wonder if I'm looking at real human being"
 One of my movie fam friends asked me before l went to New York if it were possible to be sure to meet Clara Kimball Young and find out if she was as pretty of" the screen as "on"
 can truthfully say that she is much prettier She is a tiny little thing. That may be a disappointment to some of her admirers, because she looks so regal and stately on the screen; just like Henry Walthall, who looks like a giant in ''The Birth of a Nation' when as matter of fact, he's a very small man; but the big gest little man I ever saw.
 Clara Kimball Young was the busiest r,orcor I foupd in Now York. JOhn Drew and James K. Hackett in their Palm Beachiest matinee idol days couldn't have been half as busy as this popular screen" star; she was at the studio was told all day long and often into the night making pctures;" q think that's the film expression). The rest of the time when she wasn't going to dressmakers (somehow you never think of screen stars as needing clothes, though of course they do, just like anybody else), she was busy down at the new quarters Of the Clara Kimball Young Film corporation, her town dear possession, if you please, of which she is star, manager, director, ana everything else combined.
 On my way to see the pretty screen lady. I kept wondering all the time what I'd ever seen her in on the stage UT course, she must have acted in something; they all do, you know, but to save my life I couldn't recall anything but her screen work.
 All the pictures I'd ever seen or her Tn magazines and things, had depicted her in dramatic poses which would have made the "Divine Sarah green with envy; imagined her tremendous woman, Ama- zonian in stature; a sort of tragedy queen in fact, a Lady Macbeth In a penltent mood.
 Instead when I met Clara Kimball Young face to face, I saw one or the sweetest. tniest, most adorably ingratiat- ing people I ever heheld, with the black est hair and the pinkest skin and a won- derful sort of animation; it wasn't pre- cisely the animation of the real ac- tress. but the sort of vivacity you see on the screen-"silent animation,' II there is such a thing.
 Clara I<imball Young is we'll named, for doesn't youth turk in her surname-youth' that beautiful flower which is the dear- est memory of the old and the soldeH oe- light of the young?
 What liked about her, too, besides her beauty. was that she didn't pretend to be scared or indifferent to chat as so many actresses and people of msh de- gree; she evidently looked upon me as part and parcel of the professional ma- chine and that was rather new to ours Truly" and I liked that. too.
 We sat down, side by side, in the big offices of the Clara Kimball Young Film corporation and the lady seemed to eX- pect me to begin my deadly work or in terview by a series of catchismal dues- tions such as "TIow old are you?" What is your favorte breakfast food?' and How many parents have you?" and "sich like" but I'm glad to say the pretty lady was disappointed, because l didn't get a bit rattled and as my methods never change, stuck to the old-time way and we got along famously.
 "Is it Miss or Mrs. 9 " I asked, be- cause I always like to know how to ad dress lady. Qn the case of legitimate stage ladies it is always nice to have Q list of their husbands, but as for movie ladies, well, I hope it's dfferenD.
 'T suppose it is Mrs " she laughed be ok, ''although prefer Miss as I don't think the public feels quite as much in- terested in a star whom they look upon as married, as they do upon a Miss, do you?''
 I said that with her it didn't matter;