The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-07
Rv DOLLY pALRYMPLE

You don't expect a rose to sing or the sister of a rose to say Illuminating things about Bernard Shaw, but beau.i full Genevieve Hamper does both, he-
 sides adoring Shakespeare.
 I use the term, "The Sister of Rose,"
 in connection with lovely Genevieve
 Hamper advisedly and aproposely. I 1 really should say the The Little Sister
 of the Rose, for I have in mind Julia
 Marlowe, the Rose, and Genevieve Ham | per, 'the Little Sister of the Rose 1 Julia Marlowe perfected, matured. beau l tiful; Genevieve Hamper, young, bid- ] ding, exquisite!
 There was time, you know, that whenever you spoke the scared naine of | Shakespeare, at once Julia Marlowe
 arose in your mind, and nearly every remark made concerning the immortal
 Bard of Avon and his plays was pre- 1 faced with:
 | T saw Julia Marlowe in that, you
 know"
 | Julia Marlowe Is now retired from ! the stage clothed in the majesty of her | exquisite art and successful achieve
 ment, and Genevieve Hamper with her | marvellous beauty, tender youth, and l exquisite grace, just making her en- 1 trance, bids fair to wear the laurels so l glorously won by her predecessor whom she has always idealized.
 | It was last Monday afternoon Gar | field Day) when I called on Mr. and Mrs 1 Robert B. Mantell. This town had not then seen Genevieve Hamper except in ! moving pictures" and I was wondering
 all the way on my journey if she was as lovely in real life as she is in the pie lures; if she would deserve all the ad- jectives that have been used about her
 whenever her name has been mentioned; if anyone so young could play such roles IS Lady Macbeth and the rest, and then l reflected:
 within twelve hours we shall know" These thoughts lifted the Garfield gloom which spreads eagle-like, it's wings OCT all the world on days when Garfield is king, and reminds us of grim visaged war and all it's attendant sor- rows, as I sped on my way until reached my destination and in response Shakespeare, at once Julia Marlowe to my cards which had been sent to MT. and Mrs Mantell the twain appeared a few minutes later. My first thought as I looked at Gene
 vive Hamper, was: What beautiful creature''-and then
 mumbled something about being glad to meet you, and sort of embarrassed like,
 got settled and then started our con
 versation with something entirely bro-
 ni:dic, which afterward reserved itself
 into one of great interest to me, while l reflected: Here is a young woman who doesn't pose; she doesn't chatter about temper
 ament and her art; she doesn't say hor- rid things about other actors; and she is kind and sweet and keen and very much alive" If eyes reflect spiritual radiance. Gene vieve Hamper will never have to line up for "soul' card; she might be ar rested for boarding treasures if the war must be. won by charm and then her sentence would be the limit. I realized at once that this should be a "talkless' interview; that Genevieve Hamper was amply able to take care of the interview by her good looks even if
 she didn't utter word; but she did; and ar I said at the beginning, you don't ex- pect rose to sing nor ''The Sister of the Rose to say Illuminating things about Bernard Shaw, but Genevieve Hamper does both besides worshiping at the shrine of Shakespeare.
 The question of MT. Shaw came about through some reference to his outrage ous treatment of Caesar and Cleopatra" in his play of that name (not that they | should not have been treated outrageous I1y, but somehow we don't quite expect