The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-03
Katherine kaelred Tells Times
Readers How She Changes
Her Disposition.
ACTUALLY LIVES HER PARTS
of Stage Is Counterpart Of
Women She Impersonates in
Screen Plays.
BY KATHERINE KAELRED.


Each new part / play feel to
such an extent that ! assume. even
off the stage, the characteristics
OF my new creation.
The personality of the original
Katherine Kaelred was lost In the
assumption of my first role; and
disposes Of the Katharine Kaelred
OF the role before. and leaYfs me
a different person, surrounded by
correspondingly different world.
live only in the present. The
Katharine Kaelred OF last season
is as unknown to me and as unfelt
as Is the Katharine Kaelred OF
next season. And when ] revive a
part it's like moving back into
an old neighborhood:
There's one great difficulty, how
ever. When / change. ! want new
ments of my new personality. This,
Of course, Is impossible, so / get
around II by attributing to my old
friends the personalities OF the
people with which the new person
that I am would naturally be sur
rounded.
Puzzles Her Friends.
They don't know II. but they're
different folks to me; and the man
who last season l went to with
all the intimate details of my
(then) character. l shun this sea-
son as one to whom II would be
certain disaster to confide any
thing!
queer: tell me they don't under
stand me at all; that sometimes
I'm the Joiliest friend in all the
world, while at other times I'm
insufferable. never realizing that
from my point of view they are
the ones who are changed, and l
the one who is delighted or made
miserable.
AS once. for instance. at the be-
ginning of a new season, l refused
to have anything to do with a
girl who the day before was my
best friend, because. In my new
life, she grated unbearably against
my nature!
even go to the length OF chang
ing the color and dressing of my
hair: of wearing bizarre, stylish.
or conservative dress to suit my
new temperament; and once, awful
season! l went through three
to conform with the character OF
a supersensitive, nervous abnor-
mality!
AIIUOSt 1C6ubtCIs
Another time / went to live In
the slums because I had the part
of a heroine of the underworld.
This was rather a tragic expert
once, because fell in love with a
teamster and became engaged to
him.
had almost married him when
our company suddenly jumped New
York and went on a tour of one
night stands. II was narrow
escape. afterward learned
that this man became a nissan
thrope and opened up fried fish
stand. ..
Then again, in the dead of win
ter, too. l took icy cold baths and
went around without an overcoat
or hat, because In my new self
/ was a peculiar combination of
health faddist with an ascetic con-
tempt for material Inconvenience.
OF course, / SMILED all winter.
Then again l shocked my friends
by taking to the use of narcotics
and drinking cologne, because I
was then a low person whose only
thought was the discovery of a
failure, thank heaven, or l don't
know where / should have ended
up.
Jealous-Loces Friends.
have just gone through another
disagreeable existence. This was
almost inconsiderable. however.
because 1t lasted a short while.
1t was in the Pathe play. THE
Girl With the Green Eyes"
screen adaptation Of the Clyde
Fitch play. In 1t. as Mrs. Travers.
the jealous wife of a famous actor,
/ am led to doubt my husband be-
cause I'm told by a friend" who
wants my love that my husband is
untrue.
But the part was eminently dis
agreeable. because ] went among
my friends, of stage, with a jeaI-
ously suspicious air that made
them nightly uncomfortable.
What do l do between seasons?
Why try not to have any between
seasons. But when ! do, I'm as
helpless as a baby; for my con-
slant sinking of myself in the per-
sonality of my creations has grad
ually done away with any distinc-
tive attributes l once had, and the
result Is i haven't any aversions
or predictions. and am as spine-
less as a boiled onion.
/ don't even know what food to
eat, and on these occasions / put
myself In the hands of my friends
and let them guide my goings and
comings till the start OF another
season.