The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
Introducing the Attractive Daughter of District
 Attorney E. N. Scudder of Mississippi, Who Is :,
 Playing Leading Role In "The Bird of Paradise
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

i IT 10RETTY little Celete Scudder, whose l IN father is the district attorney Of i Issaqueena county, Mississirpl,
 right next door to Vieksburg, of historic
 fame. if you please, is just the sort oI
 girl you'd like to Know, and you can't pay anybody a higher compliment than
 just that for the statement carries with | it something worth while, whether the person happens to be an actress, a movie star a singer, or just a plain, everyday
 darner of just plain sox. However, such
 utilitarian quality as the last-just
 '.plain iarner of plain sox"-doesn't seem
 to dovetail at all into the seemingly or
 nate scheme of pretty little Celete
 Scudder; not, mind you, that she would not let it do so if she had to, for she just that sort of a girl, but when you look at her before you get the signlfi- ! canoe of the mind and the heart of ner, you think of nothing more material than l lilies of the field, which "toil not, neither do they spin, and you just think of her as a lovely child with pretty gew- gaws and lots of frils and furbelows 1 and high-powered French cars carrying her pretty little self around, in your men tai fancy pumping into her smack, jamb some fine spring morning clad in white musins and fine ribbons ana frilled fschu effects and altogether al luringly feminine in wonderful old southern home, surrounded by flowers,
 tulips and jonquils, and roses and sweet 'lyssum and-and. we'll but l meant to tell you that she's clever too, as well as
 pretty. It's one thing to suspect pretty girl of having brains; it's another to be on her trail and so when l went a in terviewing yesterday and met little Ce- lete Scudder of Vicksburg, Miss, and found she knew everybody under the sun in my native state whom I'd ever known of heard of. and that besides being as pretty as a picture she was clever as she
 would be-weii. it was deliciously refresh ing to say the least of it.
 I was glad I had unearthed that rarest combination, a girl possessed of both good looks and gray matter, and her little story of the why's" and "where-
 fores" of the stage rang true, rang clever
 rang interesting!
 When l first went to New York with
 no money, no pettry clothes, no pull
 no experience" little Miss Scudder told
 me, T ensconced myself in a very nice
 girls home, where regular hours were
 kept and had to be observed, and for
 4 months l made no headway never getting beyond the telephone girls in the
 bS dramatic offices. Discouraged Yes.
 But happy as a lark because I knew 1 would make good some how, some
 way. ofte1==/aink when people speak. to me of sta#Nlstruck girls and how they should be severely reprmanded by their parents and put to bed-how much bet
 ter it is for parents to place them in comfortable, wholesome surroundings and let them have their fling at it, because they are either going to run away from home or-marry.
 T began at the very bottom rung of the ladder Miss Scudder said "I had a tiny little bit of a part in a musical comedy at first; pictures I did in the daytime and made little money: and then, finally, my chance came when l was offered the role of Frailty in Ex- perience.' l fairly danced with delight over the splendid prospect and 1 began to get myself together and oh, it was so nice to be independent and all that, and be able to tell the people back home that l had succeeded"
 Just here we will stop long enough to register ''joy unconfined for this dainty slip of a girl and to remark incidentally why she hadn't been able long before !