The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-02
During These War Time Days the Drama Beats Hurried Retreat While Moving Picture Stars Come Over the Top
 Which Introduces Petite Jean Sothen Round at the Lyric
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

7 7 oNEST to goodness, it has been so IIl long since I went ''a-interview- 0 O ing round at the pretty play house, the Lyric Cor any other theatre, as for that matter) that when l arrived yesterday just along matinee time l could hardly realize what was happen ing.
 You sec, it's like this: In these strenr- ous wartime days the drama has beaten a hurried retreat, at least during the good old summer time, and there are few actors available for interview pur- poses, and my hand would lose it's cum ming for this particular sort of woi t. I'm sure, if the moving picture stars themselves didn't come lover the top asio1aily ari give poor scribe chance.
 All of which serves to introduce a fs- nous screen favorite, little Miss Jean Sothern, who, sitting before the mirror in her little dressing room at the make up'' hour received me most cordially and was ready to talk about anything or anyoody; of how she liked Gall:- Curci, whom she heard warble last win ter in New York; how the hair dressers to do ones coiffeur; what brand Of cigarettes boasts her monographs; whether a bee is buzzing in her bonnet to go over there' and do Red Cross work, -well-happy idea-f she hal in mind war picture for the moves in whiel she'd be the heroine and the hero woudl be some tall, dark, handsome matinee idol, like Conway Terle or Wal lace Reid, or if bruentte was not avan- able the blonde MT. Harold Lockwood might serve.
 The ice thus artistically broken, my mind reverted to some incidents in Miss Jean Sotherns career on the screen that proclaim her one of the cleverest and most popular stars in the moving pie ture world today, a star whose work has richly earned for her shiny, glimmery, shimmery. cinema spurs, and
 But the and will take care of itself when I tell you that little Miss Sothern is just as big as an after-dinner coffee cup, all blonde and peachy skinned Miss Sothefn, l mean, not the coffee cup, and the most naive, deliciously ingenue per son you ever saw; a sort of cross be- tween Raphael saint and a Rosetti sinner in looks.
 The first comment I made about per- sonal things to this nice little lady was that her bea utiful blonde hair scene aWfully short, because when I'd seen her on the screen I remembered it as long and fluffy and very Mary Pickford-isn, and then she smiled, did this dainty lit- tie miss, and said quaintly
 You've guessed right the very first time; I've cut all that curly hair off just because l didn't want to locke like Mary Pickfor3 Everybody always said that, and l wanted an identity of my own, and so the barber's shears did their deadly work and here am I, shorn ct my locks, like Samson, when Delilah fin ished with him. But, unlike Samson, hope my strength did not lie exclusively in my blonde curls.
 And that being disposed of now, shall l tell you how I enjoyed making my first picture, The Two Orphans,' which MT Herbert Brennon engaged me for?'' Miss Sothern turned interviewer" and asked
 "Of course,' said l. that's just what all our movie fans will want to know,