The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
By JOSEPHINE NIXON HENLEY

''It is so nice to come back home," Blurred from New York. where she Is making a wonderful success for so |young an actress. and who will spend 7 the summer with her aunt, Mrs. c. c. Snider.
 T Miss Scales is one of th~ real Bir- mingham girls in whom everybody Is interested She Is tho daughter of tho late Mir Albert Scales and Mrs. Scales, and was born and spent her childhood in this city. The late Mrs. Mary Ware, well known as an Ala bama poet. was her aunt, as is Mrs. | Jerome Tucker.
 Miss Scales attended the Birming- ham schools. from which she went to Columbia institute, Columbia, l Tenn, and later to Virginia college i in Roanoke, and from there to the ! Boston School of Expression. She has been in New York for the | past three years and though she is very modest in telling of her work, her success is not surprising. Beau tlful, with big. luminous blue eyes, she seems peculiarly fitted in ap- pearance for ingenue parts and her lovely voice and the brilliancy of her intellect. promise many successes in her future.
 Tn looking for position" said Miss Scales, q went to an agency where some of my friends of the school of expression had gone before me. At these agencies they take a description of each girl and the kind of character for which she Is fitted, and when call comes in they have someone to fill it. The trouble has been this year that there were often many, many applicants for each place.
 "when I first went on the stage.' said she, fit was in special vaude- yille act of Cleveland Bruner, which was put on the Century building roof by the Schuberts. Afterward I played ingenue roles in sketches in New York until last September, when I went on the road with The storm Company. Before coming to Birming- ham, I had been understudy to Kath- crime Hayden, but was given the Beading role here and when we reached New Orleans l was made the Beading lady and held the part on tour through the middle west.
 When we returned to New York, II went into q production called The Charl4tan' at the Times Square theatre and on the night we closed I left flor Birmingham with my mother and sister.
 "T'he life of a young girl seeking to jestablish herself as an actress Is not all bed of roses" said Miss SHales." for there have been times in Between engagements when I have {been 'lookingf Rchearsals too are very hard and trying, but there is 8 fascination about the work which keeps one at it and I have never known anyone who has taken it up and laid it aside again.
 Happy Experiences
 My experiences have been very
 happy. for lots of young girls have such a hard time in having to live
 in rooming houses and drifting about
 with no home ties. I was very for < tunare in having my mother with me
 to make home for me.
 "when I appeared in Birmingham
 said she, T felt that must have
 seemed like an amateur. for l had had so few rehearsals and my study had consisted in watching the lead ing lady. But I was so kindly re- ceiyed here, and so well spoken of by the press that I felt very happy indeed. It is very trying for lead ing lady to have an understudy, and l thl,nk that is one reason stars are SC pbrvous and irritable, when each has Some one continually watching her and always hoping for an open ing tat her expense.
 yI was always so anxious to see the press notices of my playing, that I }was wide-awake when the papers we're brought up in the morning to rgad what was said of me. And I mo- ttced that the men and women of tho Companies. who had played for %cars, were just as eager.
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