The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
Dolly Declares as She Has Speedy Chat With Miss
 May Rot son That the Classic ''One Armed Paper Hanger With the Itch' Has No Modern Standing
 As a Busy Persons Compared to Her
By DOLLY DALRYMpUE

1o(ow Arnold Bennett ever managed IIDI to write How to Live on Twenty four Hours Day without hav- ing been poor, miserable wretched scribe writing for daily newspaper and
 seeing and knowing actors and actresses
 in action i=playing one, two and three- night stands and catching and missing tfains-getting on and off of them-ar- irving and departing from various towns
 and cities-is a mystery to me.
 Yesterday l experienced one-it was Miss May Robson, and I am morally sure
 that the classic "One-armed paperhangef with the itch' has no modern standing
 as busy person in comparison with this nice lady, or myself; hereafter, when l wish to indicate rapid motion, executive speed and hish-power efficiency. I shall merely suggest casually:
 "As busy as an actress playing one night stands and Dolly getting an in terview"
 You should have seen, for instance Miss Robson rushing in, bag and bag gage, registering at the hotel being assigned to her room, rushing up and brushing up, because, you see. she had |just about steen minutes to do her 'primping' prior to appearing before the Drama league as it's honor guest, and all the while Dolly trailing after her trying to get word ahead of the others and-and-
 Well, nothing is cleverer than the truth except the telling of it. That calls for a good deal, of course. To begin with, one has to see it. A truth against ones self is weapon in ones own hand. One has only to announce it openly to be com fortably disbelieved. Tell the exact truth and count upon it's dismissal az prepos- terous. If you have vice be absolutely frank about it and not soul will credit the report. If you own virtue you can be protected from it with equal ease In fact you are safe from anything that you mention. so I'll just mention one truth here, namely, that I'd rather be
 the mother of eight sets of twins Sounds like I'm talking about teeth, doesn't it?) with little old one-eyed, measley no count man for husband, that I'd have
 to support" and occasionally horse whip, I w stands for a season. There, now! The truths out! Next to
 the busy actress is the poor scribe who must trail her and get interviews Truth NO. Two! often feel that if I could just one time in my eventful career sit down comfortably and have solid, lazy, good, old hours chat with a celebrity might write satisfactory do mel story, use decent grammar and all that. But, this bird's-eye view which I am forced to get Is something terrific, However as bird s-eye views go, Miss Robson was 8 "peacherina. If every body who gets off of train looked al nice and behaved as nice and talked a, nice as Miss Robson, well the old world would be better off, and newspaper peo- pie would be treated always kindly and considerately--lik "sho nuff' folks -~ How do you manage it?" I asked quickly, "to look so presentable and havo such nice, unruffled disposition, and still race and tear and run all over the | country like mad as you are doing? always look awful. act awful and am
 awful when I get off of train, all dusty