The New York herald., 1922-04-16
Miss Greenwood
Long in Stature
and Also Vision
Coincidence of LEFTY Pepper
Knows When Patron in y 204
Doesn't Like Show.

Charlotte Greenwood and go 10
see her in Lefty Pepper" at the
Vanderbilt Theater, please DO your
best to smile ait her jokes and her
antics, because it cheers her UP i'm
mensely. She admitted as much.
strange as it may seem. the other day
In her dressing room. Also don't think
to hide yourself in the back row Of
the theater, for she can see that far
back, and even IL you should decide to
escape the inevitable finale and sidle
out just before the last curtain, she
will spot you sure, and your detection
will cast her down and maybe cause
her last note to wabble.
The Morosco Coincidence Is able to
detect these reactions in her audiences
because OF remarkably sharp eyesight,
which artificial illumination apparently
hasn't affected as much as it has her
pet PelSingese. Probably her vision has
been kept unimpaired because her un-
usual height lifts her eyes SO far out
of the glare OF the footlights. She is
so tall as TO arouse the conviction that
Shakespeare never wrote . better line
than when he penned that invitation
to come and lie in the shade OF the
Greenwood tree. But, on the other
hand, Miss Greenwood is so gracefully
slim as to cast little or no shadow.
Still. when she is seated in her dress
ing room a male interviewer has the
uneasy feeling that he ought to be
standing out of politeness, being under
the impression that the actress Is really
OH her feet AS she made up before her
mirror the star wound her hair, almost
the length or the ordinary interviewer
and Of course all interviewers are ordi-
nary persons-around and around over
her head. after the windmill course that
her arms and legs take in the musical
comedy. Meanwhile she discoursed on
the way in which her clear eyesight
Is a liability TO her, rather than the
asset that subway motormen find such
an endowment.
Spots Finale jumpers.
'T can see all over the house." she
said, 'and it'll be the death or me yet.
can pick out my friends IN the audi
ence, and II they're not laughing at
what I'm doing freeze up stiff l can
notice things away in the back or the
theater, and the slightest movement
looks as II some one were about to
a
'"They say l look like the calmest
person on the stage but ! really can't
say personally. guess I'm actually
dying of nerves. II the audience doesn't
take to you at once-well you're licked
almost before the first punch has landed.
always try TO make strong inn
preston on my irst entrance, and ir
chat doesn't so over I'm prepared to
give up the ghost on easy terms.
r. l~r L.
the mood OF your part gradually IL you
60 on at night feeling out of huRor for
acting. but II the audience Is out or
humor for the piece you're ready to
hand them the decision. Some audiences
will sit there and dare you TO make
them laugh-and you have to take the
dare. And actors. Of course, are always
supposed 70 feel In the best OF spirits
for their work. night after night, with
out being bothered by mere variations in
temperament.
Audience Makes or Breaks.
Audiences make an actor much more
than is generally supposed. even by
themselves. LII Is really the patrons who
decide what type OF performance the
player will do. regardless of what he
thinks he ought to do. / didn't know /
was funny, but the audiences decided I
was. Every time / moved my arms and
legs they felt 1t was justifiable cause for
laughter. That settled it."
"Can you state authoritatively," she
was asked, whether when you raise one
foot at right angles to the first you are
at 545 or 6:45? There seems to be
some dispute on that point, and 1t ought
20 be settled"
II can't really say, personally" said
Miss Greenwood. You see, I never see
myself at that angle, so how am to