Evening star., 1919-03-02
Actress of Nofe.-Adelaidt

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An Actress of Nofe.-Adelaide
Prince. who plays Abby in adam and
Efa," at her home, at Delaware Water
Gap, Pa, has an unusual and treas
urAd collection of articles closely as
sociated with the famous Booth fam7
ly of actors, of which she is a member
bys marriage.
In private life Miss Prince is Mrs.
Adelaide Clarke, widow of Creston
sister to Edwin Booth and daughter
of Junius Brutus Booth. Mr.. Clarke
also was an actor of note.
Miss Prince ,egan her stage career
as member of the late AuSustin
Daly's famous stock company in New
York For five years she studied and
played under that master of stage
craft, going to London and Paris in
the spring of each year, playing in
London at Sir Henry Irying's Lyeeum
Theater She is one of the few Ameri-
can actresses who have the distinc-
ton of having played in English in
Paris, when she appeared with the
DaIy forces in Shakespearean and
other plays.
Miss Princes second manager was
C6arles Frohman, and she remained
with him until his tragic and untime-
lysdeath, playing in support OF every
star under his management. Later she
was under the Belasco management,
playing with Blanche Bates IN NO
bo4y's Widow"
Brcadhurst on Farce. - George
Broadhurst, the playwright, now
prnducer, and himself an adept at
farce writing. has disclosed some of
his-vie on the subject of writing
fafces.
"a farce is a delicate thing" says
constitution. 1t is a bundle of nerves.
a4sd the least little thing that goes
wrong upsets it, yet when everything
Rstfght in production and acting,
Nakat a, delightful form Of dramatic
routerfafnment it is.
Farce is the melodfama OF comedy.
It4e the most difficult form of drama
writing. farce is really hard work,
intensified brain work and careful cal
cu44tion. I do not mean to infer that
fhere is no characterization in farce.
foest would be quite absurd, but 1
: dQr mean that the situations and plot
OF story In farce absolutely dominate
the characters, no matter how well
drawn or humorous those characters
may be. Some of the characters in
we'll known farces have made stage,
history But IL those farces had been
written only with regard to the
acfers they would have died young.
mot only is farce the most difficult
form of drama to write, but 1t is the
most difficult form of drama to act
It. requires more skill, sincerity,
technique and pep on the part of the
actor to make a success in farce than
It does In the classic drama A really
great farce hit will live through a
generation of theatergoers and survive
to oentertain the next
Hry Nash.-If it hadn't been for the
hte eCharies Frohman Mary Nash might
haEs spent her entire theatrical life
pf<fng sirnpering ingenues
ye-was as an ingenue in the support of
E<tel Barrymore in "Alice- Sit-by-the-
Fff&' that Mary began her stage career
Ona day Mr.. Frohrnan sent for her and
told her that her hair was too black and
hsrfeatures were too womanly for her
toachieve success impersonating sweet
aud~innocent young things. He advised
het.to play leads. and shortly thereafter
M4E was leading woman for Andrew
Then Zelda Sears saw her at time
when the late Clyde Fitch was looking
'Ehs City" Miss Sears wrote to Mr.
FTtch. telling him she had found the
ven type of girl he was looking for
W6en The City was produced Miss
-S6Et0 was III inc cast 1t Was IN tnlS
play that Mary made her first big New
York hit
Then came 'aThe Woman" and .-The
Id-e" and other Broadway productions
that led to 1.-The Man Who Came Back, -
the@piay that put Miss Nash's name in
1e49ing role IN THE Big Chance"
a Hoosier Team-Beth Lydy and
Harry Benharn OF The Rainbow Girl"
are singing Hoosiers. she from
Frankfort, he from Valparaiso and
Goshen Indiana is not numerously
represented on the lyric stage. It has
produced playwrights by the battalion,
and the names of its non-singiug
actors and actresses would fn d
column, but a melodious Hoosier is
. said to be a rather rare bird
Miss Lydy attended school at
frankfort. her birthplace. Upon being
graduated she went to Chicago,
stHdied with several teachers of voice,
a4E then went out with vaudeville
aeW It took her 70 New York, where
sha quickly found employment as the
prtrpa donna of alone at Last
reaching the top in one bound. She
was the priIna donna of -Step This
Wy and Her Soldier Boy before
hG election to the chief soprano office
ins.The Rainbow Girl"
Harry Benham was born in VAL
pp.aiso, Ind; lived ten years in
GQShen and seven in Chicago before
taking to the stage in the chorus of
Peggy From Paris"-Si2 per week
bis-wage. He was leading man of the
sn1yy in it's third season. He has
sgnfe sung leading roles in THE
Srittan of Sulu." Woodland" Marry
: ing Mary" 'Florodora." THE Gay
M&ician." Madame Sherry and a
long list Of others. He silenced his
,sYHs for five years while taking the
.aSy money of the film studios, acting