The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24
Mary Shaw an Enigma of Personality, Brilliant Exotic Only American Actress Who Ever Dined at Windsor Castle With the Late Queen Victoria Chats With Dolly About Bernard Shaw and Mrs Warren's Profession

i thing; her Ghosts" remains one of the
 superb things in the history of the stage; 1 her dissertation, Into the Unknown With
 lbsen," is a marvellous bit of word paint
 ing; her declaration that Ibsen is still
 the dramatist of the future"-still un- | appreciated, still uncomprehended, but
 marvellous-since none has written like
 him, either after or before his timeis
 q classic utterance clothed with truth.
 And when I met Mary Shaw and told
 her that 1 came with fear and trembling before brains, towering intellect and su- perb culture, mentioning her exposition Of Shaw and before him-Ibsen, she mere i ly replied
 Well, at least youll subscribe to the fact that I'm modern" ! It was the open sesame to q most de- i lightful chat l had with this clever wom- an-the only American actress who was ever invited to sup with the late Queen | Victoria at Windsor castle-which Mary Shaw did and of which incident our cryp- tic friend Mr Alan Dale observed: And she's never used 1t for publicity. "Of course you know I want you to talk to me about your experiences in 1 Mrs. Warren's Profession and what you think of the play and why you partici- pated in it's production when the clergy, the press, everything under the shining sun was riddling it world without end Amen.'
 Mary Shaw smiled in her peculiarly fascinating, magnetic way, which holds you tight and makes you listen. hard. as she said quite as casually as if she had been discussing the weather.
 "Of course you know l was arrested; ]; MT. Arnold Daly and myself and the en- tire company, in New York we were taken to the Jefferson Market court and turned Scott free. I believe MT Daly n ar1.I ,t... fA,.- 1rry afat when the judge rendered verdict in favor of the defendant, seeing, as he said. no reason why the play should not be produced, therefore it reopened and we played it from one end of the country to the other"
 '"rhe clergy, the press and the mothers organizations,' Mary Shaw said, were easily disposed of in fact, they helped to make Mrs. Warrens Profession a suc tess; people went expecting to see prurient, maudling exposition of immoral conditions done up in true Shawian style. but what they saw when they arrived at the theatre was a pitiful, pathetic, dissertation on motherhood.
 No woman was ever shocked at Mrs. Warrens Profession, Mrs. Shaw told me- Tt was the men, if you please; no man likes to see his sins--his sidelife, as
 it were-the things he is responsible for reducing women to-put before his wife, his sweetheart, his mother, his daughter. Women saw only the other side of It. 1t was the ingratitude of the girl-Mrs. Warren's daughter-that touched woman kind; 1t mattered not what Mrs. War ren was, she was a good mother and women would leave the theatre with tears ln uneir eyes and sobs in their voiceA crying over this poor, fallen creature whose own daughters ingratitude was a vodern example of Lear's immortal suf- fering when he said
 /" How sharper than a serpent's tooth It is to have a thankless child
 MT. Shaw said to me one day when l asked him why he made Mrs. Warren the common ordinary woman, the venal creature that she was,'' Mrs Shaw said,