The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-09-16
Yon,a Yan,a CHI Returns to BroQdway
With Nezu Outlook on Lite, Thanks to
Richard Harding Davis;s Baby Girl
Bessie Mccoy, Now Bessie
Mccoy Dsvis Who Has
''Sat in Front" for Five
Years, WIN Never Again
BE Worried by Little
Things That Used to Seem
So Large Behind the
Scenes, She Says.
~ M,xoLA oaEELev.sM,TH.

The -Yama Yama Girl Is coming
back to broadway.
The reason which brings her back
Is the reason which took her away.
The name Of the reason Is Hope
Harding Davis. 4 dimpled delightful
little girl who takes this world with
the soisnanity which only little girls
under three. feel It deserves.
The Attic daughter of Richard
Harding Davis and the dancer Broad
way knew ~ BESSIE Mccoy is a young
person nj many responsibilities
Though only 1.-TWO years and seven
months old, she Is the mother Of many
war orphans. IL il 10 make life smooth
for Hope and her war orphans that
Bessie Mccoy. the Yama Yama Girl.
is coming back to Broadway.
] found the, YaIna Yama girl at the
Century theater, where she is rehears-
ing for new production--a slender
blonde young woman with great blue
eyes which blurred. tragicaily when
she spoke OF the saddest hour OF her
life. when Richard WENT"
Ms, 4. II. Davis Now.
bessie Mccoy is not going back
on the stage," began Mrs. Richard
Harding DAVIS. 1t is Bessie Mccoy
Davis-a totally different person. n
far. tar better person, who will APP
pear on. the Century program under
her own name. Bessie Mccoy Davis.
No one could be with Richard Hard
ing Davis five minutes without becom-
ing a better human being. and I had
the luck to have him for five years.
know people who see me dance will
y M ~a,ha In Euc 1nf
little Hope so want to say to
them now: Little Hope will be safely
tucked away in her bed. She will have
ii bath given to her by her own mother
and will have eaten a supper which
her own mother cooked.
viii Ta,se Care o. Hope.
MIR. Davis used to say to me, I
don't see why Hope has a nurse, Bes-
sic. you do everything for her your
self And so | do! And ! shall keep
on giving her her bath every night
and morning and MASKING up her
vegetables and straining them and
fixing her beef juice-oh. l shan't
neglect the greatest business in the
world just because I'm going back on
the stage"
4 slight look Of apprehension
came into Mrs. Davis big eyes.
perhaps YOU ought not, to put that
in about MASKING Hopes vegetables.
1t will sound awfully dun to Broad
way, I'm afraid. But m really go
ing to be two persons-a sort of
JekyR- Hyde of the theater. III put
all the fire and movement that are in
me into my dances and then III go
back to the apartment where ] live
with Hope and Hopes godmother,
Miss Frey, and III turn the key and
change back into a woman interested
In what Broadway thinks are the
prosiest things. Ill be just a tlresome
little mother who has gotten back 10
the center Of her life-Hope Harding
Davis"
Baby Worth Everything.
You have been away from the
stage five years." I said. did you
miss it? Are you glad to go back ?
Did You never wonder whether
you had done wisely in giving up
a. your personal success to marry and
leave the country and have a baby
Bessie Mccoy Davis looked at me
for an astonished moment, then she
laughed a low. sweet laugh of in
credulity. Surely you're joking!" she
said. Why, / believe you really mean
it. l would give everything that ever
happened to me. would give all my
aife for one minute of my little girl.
/ want her to be a writer. Already
She sits at her little desk and makes
marks on u piece of paper like dad
dy.: she says. Mr.. Davis adOred her.
l remember once when she was IA
months old he tried to take her out
Of her carriage. but like any other
man he didn't know about the strap
that held her in and she watched him
Tor a while and then pointed to the
strap with her little hand TO show
him how to get her out. Mr.. Davis al
ways sent the magazines we had to
the hospitals and when Hope was
about a year old he said, Bessie. yon
will have 10 teach your daughter not
10 tear the ma ga zine covers. This is
SERIOUS. mean It. Sick men don't
like toxrcari magazines whose covers
have been torn Off ! laughed and
answered. RICHARD. this baby is "A
year old She will do much worse
things than tear magazine covers.
and he said, Give her anything
have or you have to tear up. but don't
lie, her destroy things that belong to
the sick. That was Just IKE Rlchard.
always thinking of other people. Whys
after he went (Mrs. Davis always re-
ierred to her husbands death in this
way) / got hundreds of letters from
people he had helped-from convicts.
from old ladies' whose coal he bought
every winter.
Richard Was Prince.
Richard was a prince and he
liveH like n prince. Why. ! re-
member lone day we were In Del
monicos and the waiter said. 1t is
just 20 years since I waited on
YOU first It's time old Louis had
a rest Richard said to me. and he paid
for q vacation for him, sent him to
Long Island for a month. That Is
the sort of thing that he did every
day. And when he came back from
the front, after he had been impris-
oned by the Germans and in great
danger Of being shot as a spy. ! told
him after he had been home a few
moments OF arrangements l had made
for poor doctor. a friend of his. who