Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-11
New York
Letter
NEW YoRK-within a few DAYS,

NEW YORK-within q few days,
Maude Adams is scheduled to answer
once more the call for rehearsal.
Yet even as Miss Adams pre-
pares 20 return to the stage after 10
years Of absence, the secrecy and
mystery surrounding the stages
favorite Of yesteryear continues. Nor
is there immediate sign that she IN
tends to cast off the wraith-like role
that has made her appear to De
some spectral figure lodging in and
out OF the public eye.
This much now appears certain.
At the age Of go she win 90 barn.
storming in Merchant Of Venice
playing the role Of Portia. She viii
insist or southern engagements dur
ing the cold months as a health pre-
caution. She will then play the
warmer eastern points and return
to the metropolitan centers when
climatic conditions are good: assum-
ing OF course, that she has not been
to fatigued by her trip.
But the problem still remains:
Will the public see Miss Adams only
too fatigued by her trip.
How will she be able to continue
her relentless game Of hide-and-seek
with the press? How car she avoid
eventual contact with the news
paper gents who have been trying
for years to tell the public some
thing about 1t? .
The answer cannot be learned IN
the Erlangef offices, where Miss
Adams again takes up the promise
she made a year ago TO John d. Will
liams, producer, that she would an
pear on the stage.
Will newspaper photographers be
allowed to picture Miss Adams as
she is today, OF as she appears in
her role?
The answer Is a polite: mo, they
will not"
Miss Adams will 60 to some rrl-
vate studio. There she will have
pictures taken. SLch pictures as are
agreed upon will be handed out TO
the press eventually. They may or
may not be in the costume Of Por-
tia. No one seems able to foretell
just what they will show.
Will Miss Adams talk with the
press? That's highly problemsf cal,
but at the moment it doesn't seem
so. She continues to shy at the
probability.
But VIXEN she starts or tour, and
travels on trains into small towns?
How can she continue to avoid at
tentionf . No one seems 10 know.
She will have a secretary, as usual.
She Will be surrounded by other
members Of her company. Every ef-
fort WI, be made TO accede TO her
requests. Mayhap, she will change
her mind.
And what. comes the next uues-
ton. does she look like today? Sure
" people in the office have seen
herl What Goes she do? Where does
she live? -. To all questions there
Is a discreet silence.
For al I know, the little old lady
that brushoc ny ME on the street as
I passed the Erlanger Theater was
Mauds Adamsl
BY MIDI October Miss Adams viii
be about ready to go on" again.
And one cannot out wonder about
her reaction to the folk in towns
where she once played and their
reaction to her. Time was when her
appearance caused schools to close
and mayors to put on their dress
suits. Today there may be no sucn
thing Is a legitimate theater left in
some Of these cities. There will be
times, no doubt. when she'll have to
appear in auditoriums and concert
halls.
A new generation, fed from the
cradle upon movies, will turn out 10
greet her. Many will turn out to
greet her. Many will have to be told
Of her by fathers, mothers and
srandmothers. since she has re-
mained so COMPLETELY in the silence