The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

I (vvho has. by the way charged the ending of the play three times since 1t has been on the boards). with her marvellous understanding of human nature.
 wept and walled and cried and then cried again, and as I went to the matinee all by myself I had no- body's hand to hold and nobody's blue serge shoulder 10 weep on. and the only even halfway sympathetic look ing person l could have turned to was a large, buxom. obese woman. the kind the corset ads" describe as | stylish stout" who munched chocolates. and got fatter by the minute.
 "A wind has blown a door open,' I hear Marjorie Rambeau sobbing tonelessly as Greenough Cher lover) lifts her hand while her husband. whom she still adores. leaves her forever. Perhaps 1t has blown an- other open"
 That's what I've hoped for. God knows" answers Greenough hope fully.
 Radiant Marjorie Rambeaul
 One of the quaintest and most old- fashioned figures I saw In New York was Mrs Admiral" Dewey. the wife of the late hero of Manila bay. Mrs. Dewey belongs, as far as ap- pearances are concerned. to the horse-hair furniture. bombasine- gown period. still wearing quaint | little brocaded black silk frocks with trails as they used to call than; she wears a ''bustle." that funny little ! kind that can only be found In Go dey's Lady's Book" and. would you believe it. she wears hat with one of those old-fashioned "bandeaux'' in it-which makes her funny little "ehapeu" sit up on her head like a peanut
 It was a very brilliant occasion and Mrs. Leslie Garter, after her Is years absence from the stage, received a great ovation John Drew received one almost as great. It Is pleasant I to record that both desered 1t by their work. not only by their age and fame. Both acted with an ease, an elegance, a quiet convincingness fine closeness to the actual facts of human life as vfslbly expressed, that cannot be praised too highly Miss Esteiie Winwood, one of the few actresses Ihave ever seen whose art &welops and improves from season to season. was not inferior to the | ford and Mir John Halliday were and this is sufficient praise-ade. quate to this occasion and to these associates.
 I'm speaking of The Circle" of course, Somerset Maugham's best comedy, with Mrs. Carter. her wonderful figure (for her age the most youthful I have ever seem and her hair of carroty flame color. which first attracted tho attention of the great Belasco when he presented her In "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Heart of Maryland" being the cen- | ter of interest"
 Visions of "zaza" came to me as Mrs. Carter offered her lip stick to the girl wife who was initiating her example and running away from her husband
 Do talse it, my dear; 1t is such a comfort in an emergencyl" Flaming Mrs. carterl
 Thank You" is a very enjoyable play. such as only Wlnchefl Smith can write. I was bored to a frazzle with "Dulcy," Pot Luck" was orig inal and well acted; "The First Year" was amusing and "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, with Ina Claire. a symphony In yellow gowns to match her hair, and Edmund Breese storm ] ing like he did in "The Lion and the Mouse" were among the best plays I Baw.
 Everywhere I went. everybody I met, mentioned Caruso. and what his death had meant to the musical world, and none is more affected by | his loss than his former secretary, handsome Bruno Zirato. | Mir. Zirato was married last spring. as you will recall. to the lovely Nina Morgana, the popular singer who | toured with MT. Caruso. and one of the great tenors wedding gifts to the ziratos was the use of his psaatial apartment at the Vanderbilt lntil November l.
 Mrs. Kettig and I had very in- teresting talk with MT. Zirato one day about Mir. Caruso; that is. as much as MT. Zirato can talk about | his beloved friend. for his heart Is sore touched with his loss, and his | brown eyes fill with tears at the mention of his name.
 T simply cannot talk about him." said Mir. zirato, without my heart being torn to pieces. I can't realize it., and yet it Is true that I shall see him no more"
 Mrs. Caruso will sail from Italy on October 23,' he continued. "as she has important business calling her back to the states, and then we shall l give up the apartment at the Van derbilt," Mir. Zirato said. which Mir. Caruso so kindly lent us.
 T am very busy at work. while | my wife Is concertizing, in collabo- ration with Pierre V. R. Key on Mir. | Caruso's life. and right here I am asking you, Dolly Dalrymple. for copy of the story you wrote three years ago about Mir. Caruso. to em- body some excerpts from 1t in our book. May have it7"
 Of course, I was flattered to death. .l for 1t matters not who L may meet in New York, nor Europe. should I ever have the good chance to go there-Asia or Africa-no friendship I have ever had could be more prized and valued than that I had with the | golden-voiced Caruso!
 Have I told you any news?
 Of course all this is little pink faced. chubby listed. four weeks-old story, which forces me to recall the question which was once asked of Amos Cummings. What is news?".-
 To which he replied:
 When a man bites a dog instead i of dog biting a man., that's news?"
 Hero also is news
 Philip Brenner. 67 years old, was playing poker, 10 cents limit. the other night.
 Every player held a pat hand. Mir. ' Brenner gazed on a royal flush ace.