The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-17
Denies Study of
Mrs. Pat Campbell
Miss Mary Young Says She Is
Not Influenced by Personal
ity of English Actress.

Miss Mary Young says she was not
influenced in the slightest by the per-
sonality OF Mrs. Patrick Campbell in
her study OF the temperamental actress
at home In 1.-THE Outrageous Mrs.
Palmer" at the Thirty-ninth Street
Theatre-and yet she has already re-
ceived congratulations on giving
faithful If disguised representation of
the famous English star!
1T never saw Mrs. Campbell but
once" said Miss Young, caught be-
tween acts in her dressing room
the other night and requested to de-
liver some inside history. That was
when she was appearing In "Medea
and naturally you could not judge of
her private life from that. / never
have read stories of her life. and
Harry Wagstaff Gribble. the author OF
the comedy, has not furnished me with
anecdotes about her he gathered while
acting In her company, so you see am
not clothing myself In the mantle OF
Mrs. Campbell. Yet I have just re-
ceived a letter from a countess or some
member of the British nobility. who
wrote she knew Mrs. Pat and was de-
lighted to find 7 have done so well In
putting her on the stage-that is. Off
! the stage.
II have even been accused of attempt
| ing to measure UP to Mime. Bernhardt
! never saw the divine ona but once,
| when I was 9 years old, and while IT
| made a deep impression or me II was
| hardly enough to guide me In making
revelations of her fireside manner.
mo. this character is composite one,
and when I created Il in my mind l
I lust followed Mr.. Wagstaffs directions
| and made II up out of numerous ac-
| tresses-which was easy. For all ac-
tresses are temperamental. | am tenn
peramental myself. But that is just
| acting away from the footlights. They
get the habit. At bottom they are
calm. for they have to know what they
are doing to be emotional on the stage.
That Is why I make this woman take
| the report of her sons death very
| calmly and simply. without any faint
| ing or historical fireworks That is just
| how she would take it, for then the
| real woman comes out You see. she is
| very real to mel just live In her. ]
| never get tired of the lines or the char
acter. and at first when started acting
| the part had the greatest trouble
disentangling my personality from Mrs.
| Palmer's off the stage.
For two hours after leaving the thea
| ire l would talk with her throaty voice,
| and found to my surprise that when
| ever / met acquaintances on the street
z, | would greet them in the lofty fashion
of the high and mighty Mrs. Palmer.
| Especially in giving any one directions
| would speak as though the whole
| world centred about me. My natural
tones are much softer and more col
loquial than hers, but still 1t took some
| time before l could snap back from her
| character to mine without feeling a
| strain.
| Her character is so individual you
| cannot help being interested in IT, and
| the other day l accused Mr.. Gribble
rwhen he wrote the play of having been
very much in love with some woman,
because he has written as only lover
could. He denied 1t. but ! am convinced
1t is true. for every playwright has to be
J In love with every woman he puts on the
stage. else she is not a success there.
He does not know them well enough to
| make them seem actual otherwise. That
is why. In view of the numerous yet
| vivid women he drew. / believe Shake
4 speare was a regular gay Lothario.'