The New York herald., 1922-02-13

tuTHeC lnlS Way-DuOydEt, DrllnHlll
word comes that he will be back on
and laughter to all, and taat he co
fairies-the secret that wise men hay
the mystery of making the sun tax,
If the Illegory is not altogether
who has not been seen in public ST
to abandon her tour in Barrie's :"
recovered her health, and that Miss
Adams, devoting herself to science
for the sake Of the children Of Amer
lea, is close upon the discovery OF a
process for direct and instantaneous
color photography.
She will not only resume her stage
career next fall-a career covering
almost forty years Of steady success
but it is not unlikely that she will
bring with her from retirement a
prize that even Thomas a. Edison
has sought for in vain.
Has Recovered Health.
The stages woman of mystery, as
she has been called-a description
born of Miss Adams's infiexible aver
sion to talking about her affairs and
to her almost recluselike life-has told
A. L. Erlanger and Charles 3. Dilling-
kam that she has entirely recovered
her health, and that she hopes to ap-
pear under their management next
season in some play of promise they
may mutually select. While the
agreement is tacit, it is equivalent to
a formal contract because Of the es-
pecially cordial relations of those con-
cerned, both Mr.. Erlanger and Mr..
Dillingkam having been close friends
of Miss Adams and the late Charles
Frohman for many years.
I'VE confidently expect to present
Maude Adams in an important play
next season." Mr. D:,,.nsham's general
manager. Bruce Edwards. said yester-
day. Her health is now splendid and
she Is ready to return to her career.
Were this season not so far advanced
1t might be that Miss Adams could be
but there is little likelihood of that"
So that Peter Pan. probably the most
effective and delightfully."- appropriate
Of all her characters or roles. is surely
coming back. and there Ia actually In
tense interest In the precise and sober
world of science as to that prize from
fairyland she Is expected to bring with
her-the solved mystery of photograph
ing in colors-a gift plucked from the
solar spectrum to delight the children
of the United States and goodness
knows how many grownups.
1t is to solve this mystery that Maude
Adams, once again strong and vigorous
of body, has toiled for eight months In
the vast and throbbing manufacturing
plant OF the General Electric Company
at Schenectady and In an electrical
lighting laboratory OF her own Day
after day. from morning to night, keep
Ing a day laborer's hours. rislsirg actual
injury in playing with one OF the
dangerous forces in nature, Miss Adams,
usually entirely alone. has followed the
trail of her vision. One who went 20
call upon her quite recently heard that
she is near success. and that the be-
spectacled wizards OF the General Elec-
trio Company, a group Of magi headed
bv the great Steinmetz. havt been lfu-
pressed by her experiments and ideas.
Due to Her Love of Children.
Her interest in children-an interest
which engrossed her even before that
memorable day. long while back.
when Mr.. Frohman handed her the
manuscript OF play by Barrie, Peter
Pan" itself, saying: This is a charming
idea, a play for children. but I don't
think / will produce it'-turned her
mind to scientific inquiry. She con !.
ceived the idea that something should
be done to make beautiful motion pic
lures for children. pictures that would
displace the ugly and often harmful
screen stories offered to children. From
this idea grew the ambition to make
pictures in color; to make the sun re-
produce faithfully the colors OF Nature
and the colors that man has added to
those of Nature.
So Miss Adams went TO Schenectady,
the electrical genius center OF the
world. and talked TO Steinmetz and
his associates. They turned q laboratory
over to her; giving her every possible
assistance in the preliminary stages OF
her experimentation. She lived at the
Mohawk Hotel in Schenectady under Ter
own name for three months without
even the newspapers of that city being
aware Of the fact.
Presently she was competent to eS-
pertinent in a laboratory of her own,
and she took over stable at 109
South Church street. introduced power
wires into il from the General Electric
Company's plant. installed all the
necessary costly apparatus and inten-
sihed her labors.
Work Is Absorbing.
Miss Adams's work at Schenectady
has been very absorbing, but from time
TO time she has found relaxation over
the golf course OF the Mohawk Country
Club. In her apartment, the third floor
OF an old Colonial house at 45 Washing
ten strcet---a house OF wide Railways.
fioored with the wide, thick planSs that
builders can find no more with white
walls and broad stairways. with the
newell posts our ancestors liked 40 much
she entertains occasionally, sone-
times personal friends from New York,
cometimee residents OF Schenectady
whom she has come to know and like.
Her apartment Is attractively In keep
ing with the period Of the old house.
Now and again she has spent short
periods in New York, stopping with her
friends OF the Sisterhood of Our Lady
OF the Cenacle, resting in the peace and
seclusion of their convent at Riverside
Drive and 140th street. Sister Marie
Majoux. the Mother Superior. Is her
friend, and Il was not long ago that
Miss Adams gave to the sisterhood her
estate at Ronkonkoma. l.. T., gift
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