The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-08-12

Mary says of her first appearance:
Now, am not sure whether
mother was right when she joked me
about being vain. All IHknow is that
/ was just crazy to see how / looked
on tie stage to other people.
wanted to know why II was that peo
pie applauded me sometimes when
did not know why they applauded,
and when they did not seem so
pleased as I thought they ought to
do over some Of my little speeches.
Some time later l saw myself act
for the first time. Honestly, ! near
ly cried. There were so many little
things / wished / hadn't done, and
Of course a screen is a great reducer
of bumps and vanity.
Well, some of the things / did in
that first picture l have never done
since. Some Of the things ! have
done in all the pictures have 80 far
been in I never will do again. By
looking at myself l am able to detect
awkward little gestures that ought
not to have been made or to see
some way in which | tnoy improve
my next appearance. So you gee
there is some sense in wanting 10
see ones self act and II may not BE
altogether vanity
Miss Minter was horn IN Shire re
port, La, on the first day Of April.
She is q. slight little girl with gol1an
curls and blue eyes end she cor
fesses that to write both poetry ana
prose is one Of her ambitions.
Madge Kennedy, >Goldwyn's de-
Iightful little commedienne. Is be-
coming more charming with every
to- nS oil
some, unaffected girl, although she
is conceded by Americas critics to be
a talented actress. versed in the sub
tleties Of characterization and mis-
tress of the technique Of the screen.
Miss Kennedy's achievements on
the stage before she elected to make
her cinema debute were calculated to
go to the head Of any young girl.
Yet when she became a cinema
star, and her first production,
Baby Mine" duplicated her stage
success and became a screen favor
tie, Madge Kennedy did not assume
an attitude. She did not adorn her
self in gorgeous raiment, nor did
she acquire an expensive dog and
retinue Of servants and limousine
with her crest emblaZoned on its
doors.
Instead, the young star set about
to master the difficulties Of acting
before a single camera instead of a
theatre crowded with chuckling,
laughing admirers. She remained
the same quiet, unaffected girl, far
more eager to improve in her work
than to demonstrate her success to
the public and her friends.
She lives in a modest apartment
in a conservative neighborhood in
New York, which she shares with
mother singularly like herself, and
Frieda, a devoted maid, who has
been with her for years. Coming
out Of the building in which she
lives, or leaving the studios in Fort
Lee, Madge Kennedy might be mis-
taken for a girl at home on holi-
school,
She is usually dressed in dark blue
and a small hat covers her dark
brown hair, which is always ar
ranged in soft coils. Often she car
ries a worn copy of Thackeray's
Vanity Fair" her favorite novel,
which she manages to read at least
once a year Miss Kennedy has no
fads or superstitions or idiosyncra-
sizes. She never uses perfume, but
says she is fond Of smelling salts.
She likes to wear old shoes and has
forty eight pairs. Her favorite food
is fruit; her favorite flower, the yell
low freesia. Each spring, she says,
she Is inspired to study French, but
she always puts 1t off.
She is just a normal American
girl who happens to have sought a
career as a player. 1t Is because
she is typical Of thousands of other
girls that she is successful in por-
traying that type.