The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-10

been In Bridgeport Q couple Of weeks but she has already eSdeared herself to a surprising number of people. i've become very fond of Bridge port, already" she said. ''I find the
 audiences very responsive and lovable
 :-nd I am altogether happy here and looking forward to one of the pleas antest seasons of my life.
 Miss Nudsen considers herself a Connecticut girl as she spent most of her life in Hartford. She was born in Vermont but moved to Hartford when @ youngster with her parents and went to school there. It was at the old Poli Stock Go. in Hartford, five years ago that she first broke into the theatrical
 been constantly busy in pictures, stock and productions, mostly the latter. She has played the lead in '"The
 Unknown Purple" and opposite Grant Mitchell in "Scrambled Wives in
 tryout production. This she left to play in opportunity" opposite James Crane, the husband of Alice Brady.
 Later she was in Personality" at the Playhouse, with Henry F. Dixie, and
 in Minus Marriage with Cyril Chad wick. She also was leading woman in the stock company at Seth street
 and Madison avenue. She has toured
 the country in vaudeville sketch of
 which she was part author and just before coming to Bridgeport, she closed in vaudeville sketch with Donald Brian.
 Helen MacKeIIar, now playing the lead in Fanny Hurst's Back Pay" is
 her sister and the two girls, although separated by their constant stage en- gagements, are devoted to each other. | Miss Nudsen gets her Danish name and features and her blond hair from her father who is of that nationality. From her mother. who is of English | descent, she inherits her wonderful | complexion.
 | ''I have never been stage struck" 1 she said, T just happened into the l profession but love the stage. I | spend most of my free time attend ing shows. I spent six months work | ing in pictures when I first went into | the profession, but I much prefer
 the legitimate stage. It's much more 1 satisfying. One feels the audience l responding to ones work and there ! is wonderful inspiration in it. i "Oh, I'm so anbitious!' she eX- claimed suddenly with a, little sweep | ing gesture of her hands. q want to | do so much. I want to work hard
 and go way up in the profession I'll | never be satisfied with a small place. l Perhaps I shall try pictures again | some time later rbut I want to make
 my name in legitimate work frst'' | Asked if she liked stock, Miss Nud- sen said that Of course, 1t was very
 hard work. but that she thought it | was wonderful training for q young l actress and that there was something 2 i fascinating about playing a different | part every week.
 Ta~re are things that this little actlt has wanted to do, such as | learning to ride and swim but her | short life so far has been so very full 1 that she hasn't yet found the time | to take them up.
 T like to walk" she said. That's l the only form of exercise which do. { but l tramp miles whenever I have 1 the chance"
 Miss Nudsen spent some time in California with her vaudeville sketch and as a result, like so many other customers. she has become g roote1, for that great state.
 It's one of my great ambitions to | live fn California" she laughed. oh for little bungalow at Berkeley | But I'm afraid 1t would be too DOT feet. It's such a wonderful place ! that I'm sure I'd just settle down and never work any more so it's, perhaps, | best for me to stay In the east There Is one other thing that l | love and that Is children" she added ! "I simply adore the little tots and am newer so happy as when I am with ! them."
 Among the many interesting pho- | tographs in the little sitting room. were several of handsome young men hinted at the possibility of a Head. ing man" for this little leading lady but she laughed and shook her head T don't think one has much time
 to think of getting married If one
 works hard and is ambitious in this | profession"
 ] But the love of children and the longing for a bungalow In California speak otherwise. Who knows, per- h2ps, some day? In the mean while Bridgeport Is to be paticularly favored in having Miss Nudsen for its i leading lady for tho season.
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