The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-06

| ing that only a very youthful face
could stand-for nothing! Now that
she is being given a chance to show
what she can do in a role OF real dra-
matte proportions Frances White is
doing it convipcingly. Nobody can
watch her work in the musical comedy
IN which she is staring this winter at
the Apollo Theatre in New York City
without hoping she viii soon have a
play that will give real opportunity
,, for the expression OF her talent.
What is frances White like when
you meet her off the sta 90" Every
body wants to know that. "And does
she wear her hair brushed back and
CLOSED the same way?"
Yes, she does; and it looked very
neat and smart, that coiffure, in COM
pany with a fetching little frock of
dark brown Georgette and brown silk
stockings and slippers on her tiny
feet and adorable ankles. And she
has the winning, mischievous smile of
Jimmie" and the downright, sincere
and frank small-boyish way of Jim
mic" She shakes hands with you
frankly and pleasantly just as nice
boy would--no airs and graccs. no
pose whatever. And she looks
straight at you. You feel that in a
fash she has taken your number"
and you hope you have made good.
For you like her so much you want her
to like you back.
Her delicately chiseled little face
with its big blue eyes and its enchant-
ing smile can be very earnest. VERY
earnest 1t was as she spoke of her
ideals and ambitions about her work.
Frances White won't be satisfied to
play Jimmie" in musical comedy
very long; any more than she was sat-
isfied to- keep to the burlesque parts
she did so cleverIy in vaudeville. in
''Hitchy Koo" and in the "Follies.''
"Only," sighed she. "they won't give
me chance. They make me do
things like Jimmie It will take
big fight for me to get away from II
But one day I shall. I'll have a real
part to play"
And she will You cannot watch
her face in that scene where she
listens to her lovers song and dreams
of love and home and happiness with
out knowing that anybody who can
put so much of expressive feeling into
can accomplish much bigger things If
size has the chance. All the stage
struck girls who believe that Frances
White just stepped into luck because
of her clever vaudeville stunts ought
to know that her present triumph is
just another evidence that hard work
is what gets anybody TO the ton.
There is no Tuck" about it at all.
Every step of the way Frances White
has worked hard and faithfully for
her success. She learned to act as
most Of the good actors have learned:
by playing parts in stock companies
all over the country. For two years
she played about everything from
''Topsy" to Shakespeare's heroines. |
And all that time, in addition TO |
learning new parts, travelling about |
and living uncomfortably as members
Of stock companies on the road have :
to lives she was studying-voice. |
dancing and pan:omime.
Like any other girl Of her age she /
IS happy doing the things girls love to |
do in her own home. She lives with /
her mother at Kew Gardens, a charm
ing suburban community on Long ISL /
and, and confesses that she takes de- I
light in pottering about in the kitchen 4
and cooking things. Like every
body aIsA-" saws she, 1--WE have had t