New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Broadway Pastorals
Stars Who Are Rea Farmers Off STAGE.
Chatter of Their Rustic Lore

"ou'u 30 seVeIdI degrees DeyOnd the
limits.
Another drives about in a huge au-
tomobile, gray Of color and about 1900
of vintage, his face burned to a peel
end tn only words ever uttered by
him being Hello there, Hank" to
the village station master, or "Ry
heck, Joe!" to the town fire captain.
This man. on the stage, is the nattie.t
OF the smart young set, and goes glid-
ing about to the tune of fox trot. and
no one would ever suspect that he
could say "By heck" They change
thelr tone out there. And they do
wherever they are found on the farms.
According to Mr.. Ziegfeld, an actor
who goes to the country for summer
returns with added enthusiasm and
added ability and is worth fully so per
cent more to himself and to the audi
ences than if he had remained in the
city.
"a man or woman working unno,
such nervous strain.' he saws. "needs
relaxation. There are men who do
nothing all summer long except care
for their flowers. They won't have
men working around their homes. This
is a splendid form of relaxation. The
care of the flowers and plants takes
their minds from their work and still
keeps them IN the open air and sun
shine"
Girls who sing and dance and do
dramatic work on the Broadway stage
throughout the winter months would
not be known by the ordinary person
should he see them in their gardens in
their suburban homes, sunburned.
tanned, their hands knotted and wear
ing ragged clothing.
There is one woman at Bayside who
mas been engaged in d SUCCESS
ful Broadway production for more
than eight months, and there has
not been one day since she be.
gan her run here that she l.as
not hoed potatoes or corn or whatever
other vegetable was in season, and her
yard is trimmed until it looks Ike a
great~grcen carpet, and she does all
OF this work. You would not think 50
if you saw her in the play. Her hands,
carefully covered with powder, appear
white at night under the blue white
spotlight Her neck and shoulders.
painted with white cosmetics, lose their
red and brown of the afternoon. And
i - l, g. IL lax |.
felt better the last few months than
ever before in her life.
TOO many actors and actresses" she
says, "think their profession ends and
their usefulness is over when they get
out of the shadow of the buildings of
Broadway. That's the trouble with
them. If l had anything to do with it,
should advise every young woman
coming to New York 10 make a success
on the stage to get as far away from
Broadway a. night and her days off
as possible. The same holds good for
the young men,"
That the more experienced men and
women on the stage agree is evinced
by the fact that such persons as Jane
Cowl and Frank Bacon and Ed Wynn
and Fred Stone have established their
homes in the country. Of course.
there are scores of them.
One may pass the homes of many OF
these stars of the stage most any after
noon excepting Wednesdays and Satur.
days and find them bending over q
garden plot, raking or hoeing.
In many cases the homes have been
so constructed as to resemble a farm,
far away from any other dwelling, with
barn and sheds and tiny pasture
and a cow and a horse and buggy.
There is one Long Island actor-farmer
who has got beyond the press agent
stage, and therefore does not attempt
to use it as news-notice material, who
drives into New York himself about
twice week in buggy. II his friends
+ around Forty-second Street ever saw
him, he says. they would hoot him off
Broadway. But. just the same, he likes
i 1T, and he proposes to keep it up"
The whole answer is that Hroa adwsy
no longer is the restinsA spot Of II,
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