The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-01
Pretty Mildred Seals

THTNH ifs so nice to be back In
 ~W y Birminghemi Is there any
 place in tho werld half So splen1idP I dearly love my old homs town and all my sweet friends hero and am just as happy as I can be to be, back once more"
 These were only few of the ex- clamstions that pretty Mildred Seals gave expression to you yesterday when l talked with her for a half hour and she hadn't quite had time to take in' all that 1t meant to her to be back among loving friends and relatives since her long absence in New York.
 Her gray blue eyes sparkled and danced and her checks were as crim- son as a damRsk rose while hOr adorable smile and charming manner brought back the girl of yesterday- when she wore pinafoTes and pis- tails plaited down her back, and romped and played at the Margaret Allen school and later at tho Central High school. where she numbered her friends by the dozens.
 Mildren Seals has grown ever so many Inches, l feel sure since those days. and her tall, slender, girlish. flgure--and her charm and HrRos- certainly have gone very far in mRk- ing up the successful career she has had on the stage.
 Miss Seals relatives-and she has many of them in Birminsham--havo given her right royal welcome upon the occasion of her visit here-the first she has made since she went on the stage-and parties and teas and dinners and receptions have been showered upon her-at least the in- tention of giving them-but Anarly all of them she has declined as sha declares that the strenuous life she leads-traveling and working-realiy almost units her for social life and of the two she prefers work
 Tt hasn't been smooth---the way mean-al1 the time. not by any means" said Miss Seals when. l asked her what her advice to other Blr- mingham girls who were stage struck" would be. "Pd tell them If they asked my advice these stage struck girls'-that unless they were terribly in earnest and terribly de- termined to succeed--and willing to give up everything else. they'd better not attempt the stage as profession.
 Is it really as hard as all that, queried curiously.
 "Yes, and more" she declared. "Way back wonder when I was a little tiny girl l wanted 10 go on the stage. l studied old fashioned elocution when was a child; and then later. l had the very best instruction from Mrs. Margaret Ruff Hunt at the Mar garet Allen school Then when I at tended Central High school l studied with Miss Marguerite Weaver who had been a student at the Emerson school in Boston. TO these two teachers of mine I want to give all the pralse for my foundation work for 1t has certainly helped me greatly in my work on the stage.
 T later went to the Emerson school myself and there I took the dramatic course" Miss Seals said and having learned nearly every Shakespearian role that is in existence~-this for teaching purDosss-if I should ever desire to tesOh- more than for the stage-then cast my lot in big old New York.
 Beginners Luck is what I called It," she continued. flor I secured soon very nice position in The Midnight Founders, which was the midnight show on the Century Roof I re- WemDe Just aDout tniS time met Marjorie Rambeau, who Is so lovely and so charming and gracious; her play, Daddy's Gone a-Hunting.' isl one of the hits of the season, as you know. In New York. Whom l met her and I told her about my ambition tol do really serious, good work on the stage. she asked me what l was play ing in. I told her the show on the Century Roof and she said to me-: That isn't the place for you. my dear; you must have som ething bet ter Of course, I had thought that