The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-02-15
Pretty Marguerite Gender

NR 7HEN you see Mary" the
WNW adorable musical comedy,
Wv which has been the rage in
New York and Boston for the past
year, you'll perfectly adore little Mar
guerite Gender, who plays the title
role.
When l met her yesterday. I had
string of "beaux" with me trailing
the foyer Of the Tutwiler, begging
for an introduction to little Miss
Mary" who wouldn't take mo" for an
answer, and declared they wouldn't
leave until they met her.
i've got a big brand new car, IL
she'll go motoring with me- said one
delectable bachelor.
II want her to have lunch with me-"
said another handsome beau land she.
may not want to go motoring with
my rival, but she must--eat."
The others (and they were mar
ried," but don't tell anybody I said
so; one is handsome visitor, and the
other-well he's one of the incest
men in town and has beautiful wife)
just wanted to meet the lady. They
were very urbane and gave way glad
ly to the eligible bachelors" I
did enjoy it all so much because-well'
you see / knew it wasn't going to
w. any VI lncili OIiC III VI SoONr Iva
Il suppose / shouldn't tell on pretty
little Miss Gender, she has real
honest-to-goodness sweetheart" and
he's a big lawyer in New York. and
he's the only boy she ever loved-and
he came from her own home town,
and they used to slide down the same
cellar door and desk" together at
school
Please let me tell you that Mar
guerite Gender is the very prettiest
little thing that have set eyes upon
old bachelors and married men. too)
for wanting to meet her.
She has the most adorable Titan
hair, bordering on the real blonde"
type; her eyes are big and babyish and
beautifully blue; her cheeks are as
pink as roses and her kissable little
mouth with crescent of snowy white
teeth and crimson lips--just makes
her the most ravishing little beauty
you ever beheld.
She's just about the size of watch
charm"-petite, dainty and only 80
too young to be out without her
mama" and she isn't, for Mama"
Gender was right with her little pet
lamb, proud to death of her beauty
child and declaring unstintedly that
she's the finest girl on EARTH
Little Miss Gender has been on the
stage only two years, if you please
and she's made the biggest sort of
"hit"-and when you realize that any
thing as lovely and as sweet and as
Charming came from Lima, O.. (now
I'm not talking about Lima" because
don't know anything about it except
that I've always heard of it just as
/ have heard of Kenosha, Wis, and
Schenectady. N. Y, and Kokomo, Ind,
where my adorable friend William
Hodge halls from), all I've got to say
is that / take off my new spring bon
net with the little flower upon it. to
Lima, o., U. $. A.!
please tell me how you ever hap
pened to even want to go on the stage
you little beauty girl--and so young
and alp I begged.
l always loved everything thea
trical," said little Miss Gender with
the quaintest little gfggle "and father
and mother nearly died when I even
mentioned leaving home and going on
the stage. NY chance came through.
my work in the amateur theatricals,
and all that I took part in at home.
Then the soldier boys came along and
had to be entertained and a group of
eight girls in Lima went down to
Chillicothe where the camps were and
we sang and played and danced for the
soldier boys.
There met the sweetest sort of a
girl whose husband had gone to
France" Miss Gender continued, "and
she was anxious to do some sort OF