The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14


 She received f200 week in London, unheard-of sum in those days, and yet she always broke. That was one of the reasons she came to America in 1895. It meant more money and she was always hoping she would get out of debt
 ssShe started here at Roster & Bial's, simitat- ing Ada Rehan. She made the same instantaneous hit she had in London The public adored her. But she felt vaudeville second-rate and she fixed her eyes drama. In 1900, after much heartbreak, she divorced Mccarthy and plunged furiously into the deadening whirl of rehearsals for The Serio-Comic Governess,' adapted from story of Zangwill's. It wasn't much of success. so back to vaudeville she had to go, playing in Chicago in two houses simultaneously, which also broke precedent.
 "At this time she met Modjeska, and the great Polish star became interested in her. Cisse got a chance to do musical comedy called La Mascotte,, and at the same time Modjeska offered her part in Twelfth Night Cissie did the impossible by playing week in La Mascotte' and the next jumped to Modjeska's company and practically stole the piece away from her friend. But the engagement ended and there wers the vaudeville managers waiting Cissie, and she, driven to the wall by debts. had to return to the fold.
 fkT REMEMBER what a critic said of her at
 the time = There is about Cisse . sug-
 gestion of helplessness, a mute appeal of the eyes, . coquettish conflict against sense of impertinent effrontery that makes her so appeal ing that you have no idea whether she is great actress or not She is completely captivating
 "And she was completely captivating. Every man she came in contact with fell in love with her. Around her gathered group of ham gerson, that motley collection of impossible people who always follow the guileless artist and live on him. That group would give parties for her and Cissie would slip away unnoticed in the middle of them, if she had to stay, you would find her hiding behind tall chair tucked away in some far corner. wanting to go home but afraid of offending some one if she did. But it always she who footed the bills.
 "She worked very hard l have never known any who was mora sincere who felt deeper obligation to their public She dashed back to London every once in . while to play en- gagement, fully believing that this one whichever it was. would iberate her from her money worries but no engagement ever did. Her mother was drain on her, those myriads of worthless people were drain her, and yet if she had cent she could never refuse any one anything. And all tho while she studying like fend
 @She had definite ambition to dc Shakespear- ian roles and. impossible as it may seem. she actually succeeded Ellen Terry in Sir Henry Irving's company. That was in 1901, and critics and public alike went mad over her. Can you realize what an achievement that was! It vas as remarkable as would be the appearance of Eva Tanguay in Belaseo's Merchant of Venice She jumped from that to playing Peter Pan.' and III the while shs vas constantly making exeursions back into vaudeville s zsf -sse
 "Then in 1909 she married Chicago physician, Dr. A. H. Waterman. She had child by that marriage named after Peter Pan-Peter John Barrie Waterman his name is-and the deligAtful
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