The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
Dolly Declares That Dainty Little Marie Nordstrom
 Has Hooks in Her Eyes, as We'll as in Her Pretty d Frocks as She Pirouettes About the Stage \
 In Her Clever Singing and Dancing "Act'
ny DOLLY DALRYMPLE

Look and Listen" to dainty little
 Marie Nordstrom round at the Lyric as she pirouettes about the stage, dancing and singing and reciting her !pretty little verses-first about "The Marriage of the Hooks and Eyes" and then her Smile" story and the others.
 She flirts and flickers like a sun beam and now you see her, now you don't --is the camouflage that presents itself to your eager eyes as with her youth and beauty she .whisks and whirls, each movement as graceful as fawn. l Dainty little Marie Nordstrom is young-young with the beauty and strength of youth, with the energy and optimism of youth with the enthusiasm and willingness of youth, with the con- yictions and the sincerity of youth and she sort of ''gets" you, as it were, with those Hooks in her Eyes" Gas well as on her pretty froel1s) and you are hers, world without end when she sings her little Hat Song" and you
 keep wondering which bonnet you'd choose her in if you had to choose just I-one.
 be a terrible blow to the Tired Busi-
 ness Man." who sits in the front row and adores little Mare-also to the "Johnnies" who wait at the stage door for the Star" to come out)-well, I've got to tell it, so here it goes: She's married. Of course, I knew you'd say, T don't believe it." because she's so young and so pretty and so all that, but she is. nevertheless, and in private life her name is Mrs. Henry E. Dixey, if you please; yes, one and the same "Adonis" Dixey--the Matinee Idol'' of l the ages; so none need apply for even so mild hammered favor as a flirta- ton with this nice young lady, because lyou see. to be married to a real, honest to- goodness Matinee Idol' sort of spells you, and plain, everyday, ordinary peo- pie seem quite stale and unprofitable, I as it were.
 I When l went "back scenes" at the matinee yesterday to talk to little Miss Nordstrom I found that this clever and 1 talentpd young actress is no actress at all at close range, but just an earn /, est, natural sweet sort of girl, who takes herself seriously and her work gravely; in fact, many fine ideas abide under her amber colored coiffeur, which | 1 liked (the ideas I mean-yes-and the coiffeur, tool, not the least of which was suggested by her greeting to me- as she handed me a picture in lovely silver frame of the most adorable look ling child, saying:
 | Meet my daughter, Christine, Dolly IDalrymple; she is years old, if you please, and such darling; if I'd known you were coming to see me this after noon l would have asked her to come down to the matinee; as it is, she is strolling around somewhere, taking ad- vantage of the beautiful sunshiny 1 day"
 | Here was pretty touch of the real Marie Nordstrom who, if the truth were known, would rather be at home with her little family than galivanting over the country playing three day" shows Cher first, by the way, she told me).
 Presently Miss Nordstrom told me something else, and by all the rules of the game, and she had a perfect right ! to, yet somehow what she told isn't often heard, of her profound gratitude
 to her husband-"Adonis" Dixey-for | making her real Star" when she was still kid" enough to revel in sud- 1 den 'starship."N
 l I really owe it all to my5 husband" {" she said gratefully, for it was through him that I jumped into fame-over- night, as it were.
 l My sister, Frances Nordstrom, who
 by the way, wrote the sketch I'm do- l ing, as well as many other clever I putting on an act in vaudeville, and | he had advertised for an amateur; he didn't want anybody who had ever been on the stage; just happened to J go with her; we were both amateurs MT. DiXey took a fancy to me and asked me if I'd consider the subject and take part in his 'sketch;' my sister and l were Army girls, my father be-
 ing a captain in the Tenth cavalry, and we'd never been near the stage in all our lives This was just after my 1ather's death, and we had gone to 1 Washington, like so many army people;
 don't know why they drift there, but they do Anyway, we were there when this Incident occurred. Of course, I &C., cepted and made my bow on the stage,
 under MT. Dixey's direction, 12 years ] ago.
 | AIter that I went into the legiti- mate" Miss Nordstrom told me- .I was cast Tor Fanny in 'iIought and Paid
 For;' If you recall, K amy was fat
 girl, and was awfully fat at the time
 and suited the part Gin 'looks) perfect
 ". But let mo tell you something; that
 Ilrst legitimate part almost spoiled
 perfectly good stage career for me, for
 aftcr l played 1t 1 couldn't get a mana teer to cast me for any other sort of
 work except character parts and
 positively refused to be identified with only one lire of work, because, you see, could sing and dance, and 50 why be I limited to just one thing?
 l Ve never regretted the move" Miss
 Ncrdstrom continued. You see so many people have an idea that vaudeville aoes not call for refined. dainty work, but 1t does, The 'horsey.' .clap-trap'
 sketches of former times-the tough. acts get over for while, but (editor's