New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

the aristocracy Of Ireland have an q
prehxed, and spell the name with an e.
like my esteemed co-player in 'Buddies,'
Virginia O'Brien."
AS long as Mr.. Brian effervesces with
wit, keeps the mesry twinkle in his
eyes. and finds no way of disposing of
his sassy, retrousse nose, there's nobody
in the world who's going to doubt his
Irish descent. Certainly not, if they
near his talk about his prospective va
cation.
Il shall spend it on one of the love-
liest lakes of the Maine Woods, body
OF water which lies just between New
Brunswick and Maine; I shall fish from
the New Brunswick side, where there's
no Eighteenth Amendment" he laughed
When I come back no one will know
whether I'm an Irishman or an Indian.
Speaking of. sports" Mr.. Brian con-
tinued, there's another sort of fishing
of which I am not quite so fond It's
fishing for golf balls in the rough. I
spent all of last Sunday afternoon doing
just that on my Long Island place.
Remembering which the interviewer
voiced surprise that the player should
want to get away from the charming
home which he has builded for himself
on the Sound. Whereupon the Prince
Kindness of ''Buddies" threw back his
head and emitted prolonged roar.
Whoever heard Of really roughing it
on Long Island, of wearing khaki to
dinner. of growing beard and forget
ting that there was ever a necessity for
drawing a salary?" he demanded.
The lovely Julie of "Buddes" was less
hilarious over her prospective respite
from playing. In fact, Virginia O'Brien
is so filled with her dreams of her pro-
fessional career that she begrudges her.
self any vacation at an.
When Julie sings her last plea to
Babe to Please Learn to Love- on
Saturday night, l will take the first
vacation / have had since / began my
stage work, in September of 1917"
Miss O'Brien admitted.
You see, ] went straight from my
engagement in The Girl Behind the
Gun to She's a Good Fellow without
days intermission between the close
of the one and rehearsals for the other.
In the same way I went from the lat
ter to The Royal Vagabond,' and came
again from that production to the Sell
wyn management to play SBuddies'
without a single day for rest. Not that
l mind" the delightful young singer
assured her caller.
"1n fact, l wouldn't utilize a moment
now for vacation-so anxious am I to
were it not that l want to 20 up to
Bennington, VT, to spend couple Of
weeks in camp with some friends of
my childhood. My parents lived there
from the time l was four years old
until was almost young lady, and I
have not had an opportunity to go back
since they gave up their residence
there"
Miss O'Brien confesses to no strenu-
Gus sports.
II just love the cool green hills and
long tranps in the woods" she con-
fded. But I don't swim, or row, or
do anything of that sort"
At the end of this week Ralph Morgan
will also forget the troubles of the
excruciatingly shy hero of "Buddies"
when he HES away to Lake Sebago, in
the woods Of Maine, where he deciares
that golfing will be his main sport.
Il don't take a vacation so much
through sense of joy in the thing as
do through a sense Of duty to my
stale if he doesn't get away from do
ing the same thing al the time. Every
time l see some report of a player who
declares that his role is fresh to him
after 500 performances in it, | marvel
all to myself. Personally | don't see
now any one can go on indefinitely
playing the same part without change
in between. | had just as soon spend
my vacation in a new dramatic crea-
tion as would to spend it in the Maine
woods. Any change is restful to me.
The thing that matters is just to get
away from the thing one has been do
ing constantly for long time"
Which is splendid philosophy, but
one which Mr.. Morgan's "buddies" in
the Hobart-Hilliam entertainment do
not share. In fact. there isn't one Of
them who is not this minute dreaming
Of trout streams, golhng, tramping or
Just loating away the hours far from
the fret Of The citu's croWds