The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
Beautiful Clara Kin1b0H YOunq
By DOLLY DALR YkSPLE

had do I like best?" Miss Clara Kim ball young repeated the question after me. That's an awfully hard question to answer when I've had Milton sills, Conway Tearle, Albert Cappelini. and William r. Carleton, who is playing in my picture that's now being presented here, Straight from Paris. Mfr. Carle- ton took the part of the Rev John Hodder, if you remember in The ln- side of the Cup l believe the most satisfactory leading man of any in mJ repertoire was Albert Cappelini the only objection to him was his height. or the lack of it. He was too short. An ideal leading man must be tall and slender, at least taller than the leading lady"
 And by the way" l inquired with true newspaper nose for news" just at this moment 'Is it Miss Young, or Mrs. Young?" GOT course, 1 always like to know how to address lady. In the case of stage ladies' it is usually safe to have list of their husbands. but 1t Is different with the movies and yeU-''
 Her lovely smile reflected sunshine as she laughingly answefed
 'I prefer Miss in any case. The public seems to be more interested in a Miss than a Mrs"
 1 declared that with her it didn matter, for the public couldn't help be- Ing interested in her whether she was a Miss" or "Mizzes," and, besides. she looked so much more like q Miss" just in her teens,--that we'd just let that settle the point, which We did, and then we fell to discussing her ambi- tons and her plans.
 You see what want to do," the pretty lady announced. lis to put on only the very best pictures. l should like to make Shakespeare popular not the tragedies but some of the come- dies. Rosalind' Is part 1 should like to play I've done Romeo and Juliet, and there are several others 1 want to do Besides, it Is educationalS think pictures should be that as well as en- tertaining and beautiful. l shall never produce trash; it is my aim and object to elevate the screen-to make pie lures that will always be remembered as something worth while"
 "ln regard to the legitimate actress making good screen actress, what are your views?" inquired.
 Youth is the main thing on the screen" was the reply.
 Tt doesn't matter whether you are a real actress or a discovery of the | movies just so you are young. You see. the screen actress can't make up; every line and every defect is shown by the camera; it's like a woman's & | mirror; it never lies it is brutally frank, as Mir. Kipling would say We only use 6 black and white makeup for the screen:. rouge and the grease pot are relegated to the shades of re- tirement; so you can see what I mean by youth being the most important fac- tor to the screen artist"
 l asIoa To ftIrY, Efa 0'f C Young repeated after me. "I love it! playing to tens of thousands of people l is wonderful On the real stage, play l ing to only few hundred at each per | formance is considered something. but on the screen we reckon in big mum l bers-thousands, Of course, we miss the applause-that is the audible ap- l plause but the fact that people have 1 their favortes on the screen and come l to see us whenever we produce a new
 picture, shows that there is applause although we may not hear it.