The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-20
By DOLLY
DALRYMPLE


saw on the wall hanging about
the other little dresses to be
worn in the play, while little MSS
Park stood before the mirror and
brushed her long. pretty curls round
her finger. one at time. wetting the
brush and patting them down, while
I asked her chow she did it, q mean
pack the playhouse-not how she made
| the curls).
ITS awfully simple" she smiled ia
dainty, as if it were just like falling
| off a log" "Work-work-wor con-
! scientious work; and then people, are
| so good to me and so appreciative. Do
| you know, 1 believe people must know
when an actress works and when she
wants to be loved and appreciated
don't you?'
! said did, and then asked her how
| long she'd been doing stock"
'T was born on the stage, so to
speak," Miss Park declared. MY faith =
er was in the theatrical business AMI
my brother Sam Park. and my mother
who is here visiting us. are both in
+. the show this week. I was sent. to
/ a convent when I was ever so little
| but not before I had appeared as
| Little Eva in Uncle Toms Cabin
/ that and Ten Nights in a Barroom,
! you know. are the Oldest and most
! popular plays in captivity and they
! are always used by stock companies.
stayed in the convent-it was st.
Aloysius in Pensylvania-until I was
grown UP, and"
"You are hardly that now" I inter
rupted.
| ooh, I'm 90" little Miss Park smiled
| back with a proud smile, land, besides,
| I'm a veteran on the stage Do you
know that 1 play over 100 different
roles-memorized- my finger tips
almost ready without rehearsal?'
mo, it isn't hard to do she ans
wered. as 7 commented upon her Won
! derful memory. 81 suppose I've just
a talent for remembering; and then,
too. I'm trained to it. you see. While
am playing one role in play I'm
rehearsing another, and"
Don't you ever get mixed up? ]
asked. "For instance. make Rebeccd
of Sunnybrook Farm say what Lena
/ Rivers ought to say. or-or-'
ooh. mercy. no. little Miss Park
emphasized, seriously. ga clever ac-
tress never does that. She couldn't do
that and hold her job-no, indeed-yp ~
an Richmond. where I've played in
stock for the past two years and
| which. by the way, is my home town.
Miss Park continued eve used to put
on three plays a week; now. that is
a real tax to the memory, If you should
happen to ask. Our work was all
very. very smooth though in spite OF
the many changes of the bill, and that
is one thing I like about our wort,
here: we have a director who's great
stickler for detail he wants every
thing Just So indeed, he won't accept
it unless it is Just So And that
| pleases all of us. because we are all
work ing to give the very best PEI
formances possible to the tremendous
audiences which honor us every matt
nee and evening.
"You ask what role like best" thc
enthusiastic little star answered III
reply to my question. ooh. that's easy
always a role which has to do witt
youth and innocence and birds ant
flowers: something human and gen
uine. [ adore child's parts like Ike
= becca' In fact. I don't know of az
part I'VE ever played that like more.
"Curtainr' shouted a big voice jus
outside the dressing room door, ana
little 'Rebecca'-or rather. little MAJ
Parl-snatched her macintosh OF
of the hook hanging high above he'