New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Bv Harriette Underhill

..,, remained more or less true to an
.l,.sisncs ever since. AT that time
.. lost our heart to saucy, red-headed
III. who appeared with John Drew
:, my Wife" Next we saw her with
cvrl Keightiey in "Love Watches" and
than W. could hardly wait to see her
!, sMrs. Dot" and with each new view
9. became more fastly her slave.
Since then our fancy has strayed
osssionally to a smoothly coiffed bru-
,ette or a faxen- haired ingenue, but
.mays returned to our first inamo-
uts-yes, you have guessed it-Billie
Burke.
It wasn't long before every one in
America began to feel the same as we
about the little English girl and the
first thing you know they were nam
ng things after her. Billie herself
told US that the first time she realized
she was really famous was when she
vas having her hair dressed and
woman rushed into the hairdresser's
exclaiming, "Have you got my Billie
Burkes ready? I've got to catch a
train"
THAT was the first knew that they
called those punches of curls Billie
Burkes,' and it gave me the funniest
feeling"
"Of course" we assured her, eve all
wore Billie Burkes' and no we'll regu-
lated family was without at least one of
them"
When Billie Burke went on the
screen our joy knew no bounds, be-
cause it is possible to see so much
more of her that way, and she is al
most as lovely as she is in real life, but
not quite. Of course, d black and
white Billie cannot quite equal pink
md white, blue-eyed, red haired Billie,
and to-day she looks exactly as she did
at sixteen, when we saw her first She
S exquisitely beautiful and best of all
she has sense of humor that would
make even a plain woman lovely.
We have said this all before, but it
is brought freshly to our mind because
Se heard some one say only two days
lgo that Billie Burke was cup stage"
and while she has every right to be
ind We shouldn't blame her if she were
she isn't!
One day last week the telephone
,ang and it was the Paramount office.
What they said was Miss Burke is in
own for the day and wants you to have
ea with her at the Plaza"
"Oh, splendid" We cried; and then,
Can't do it. We promised to have it
With Conway Tearle."
wait minute" said the voice.
I'll see what Miss Burke says" Then
n a moment, Can you lunch with Miss
Burke at her home tomorrow
We thought quickly. 1t was our
,usy day, but we weren't going to miss
eeng Billie Burke and Patricia Burke
,legfeld, so we said "Delighted. aid
cent.
Miss Burke, or rather Mrs. Zieg-
Mat,cafly, when we see her at home),
ives in house called "Burkleign
Crest" We suggested "Burkfeld
Crest" and she is going to change it
1t the earliest opportunity. We in
listed OF having the male half of the
.amiy represented, for, although we
AVE met Mr.. ziegfeld only once, we
Inow we should like him because he
.lways sends us the best seats for
he "Follies," along about the third row
the centre of the house.
We told Miss Burke this and she
aughed. "He, is rather nice" she
'aid, which is quite an admission for
five-year-old bride.
Unless you happen to own car,
shch we hasten to assure every one
ye do not, lest we be thought prof.
ser, you 60 to Hastings on the train
md finish up in a taxi. Our taxi was
lesigned by an ignorant idealist, but
ne got sent home in an honest injun
curing car so we didn't mind.
Twice in the course of interviews
We have described Mrs. Ziegfeld's
nome, so wenl leave that out and skip
% Patricia. We have described her, too,
but Patricia changes and the home does
aot.
Billie Burke Ziegfeld runs her own
home. She actually does; that funny
little thing with her cherubic smile
md her dmples and her tousled hair
Euns that house, and it is, to us who
know nothing of the machinery OF
aome, an absolutely unthinkable task.
We groaned when she told US that
The loves it and wishes she had twelve
children, all of them like Patricia.
But one really can't blame her for
that Patricia is wonderful baby.
she looks exactly like Billie, so much
10 that you feel as though Billie had
mddenly decided to sit down on the
aoor and play with yellow cotton
luck and that Won wera pazinp at her