The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
Lovely CeneDieDe Hamper

OR HERE are times when one saghs
 to be q poet! For instance, you
 sec If one were a poet. one could so perfectly describe the lovely Miss GeDevieve Hamper. whose exquisite in terpretations of Shakespeare during the engagement here of her distinguished husband, Mir. Robert B. Mantell, have 80 charmed and fascinated the scores ot people who have seen her.
 Mere prose from one who Is not an Arnold Bennett. nor yet George Moore is bound to be quite inadequate, quite short of the mark. however, as 1t must be prose; then my humble efforts must take that course
 There was time, you know, whenever you spoke the sacred name of Shake speare, at once Julia Marlowe arose in your mind and nearly every remark made concerning the immortal Bard of Avon and his plays was prefaced with:
 T saw Julia Marlowe in that, you know"
 Julia Marlowe is now retired from the stage, clothed in the majesty of her ex- quisite art and successful achievement and Geneveve Hamper. with her mar vicious beauty, tender youth, and exauis- ite grace, who Is just making her en- trance, bids fair to wear the laurels so gloriously won by her predecessor whom she has always idealized-
 The first thought that comes into my mind upon beholding Miss Genevieve Hamper is:
 What a beautiful creaturer'
 And then as I gaze at her marvellous rose-like skin, her luminous eyes and radiant dark hair, think of Julia Mar Icwe as 'The Rose"-mature, beautiful complete; and of Genevieve Hamper as "The Little Sister of the Rose"-youth- full. exquisite, immature!-
 Genevieve Hamper does not ''pose;" she is just beautiful to behold, but seems to have no more knowledge Of her great beauty than child.
 Neither does she "chatter'' about tenn perament and art; she doesn't say ugly things about other great Sbakespearean actresses, but she is kind and gentle and sweet and keen and very much aiivei
 Spiritual radiance beams from her love ly eyes which remind me of the blue fringed gentians we read about in poetry.
 Her tall, 1.-the figure. generously propor- toned, vet conveying the dominant idea of slenderness. is commanding, but her real charm, I think, lies in her beau tiful, smile-ready, earnest, winsome
 It's funny but when I look at Genevieve Hamper I think of her %lly as a radiant goddess, standing before
 'The fool who hath said in his heart
 There is no God
 and calling him to account!
 Remembering my pleasant acquaintance with Miss Genevieve Hamper when she was last here. l remembered also quite vividly that an interview with her would be "talkless," as far as I was concerned that she by her fair beauty and grace was amply able to take care of the story by those crowning attributes, even if she didn't utter a single, blessed word; but she did, and while you don't expect rose to sing nor yet the ''lit- tie sister of rose to say Illuminating things about Bernard Shaw, yet Miss Genevieve Hamper does both, besides worshipping at the shrine of Shakespeare 1 The question of MT. Shaw came about through some reference to his outrage ous treatment of Caesar and Cleo patra" in his play of that name (not that they should not have been treated oL trageously but somehow we don't quite expect them to bel and what some one said of, c. B. S.:
 Poets and prose writers from Sopho- cles to Shelley, have ranted and canted about incest and vice, but none has ever