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Photoplay Magazine
Family loyalty is one of the Barryraore characteristics. John and Lionel as co-stars in "The Jest.
was born there. I like its self better than New York's self."
She is sensitive to the printed word. She is hurt, fathoms deep, by unfavorable criticism. She declined to receive for an interview a man whose critique of her Camille displeased her. She severely punished a St. Louis writer for what she deemed a breach of confidence.
Miss Barrymore was playing in St. Louis. A young woman came from one of the newspapers seeking an interview. It was granted, given, finished. "I liked the girl and invited her to come next day and lunch with me,'" was the Barrymore version of the talo. "I told her Wf ."■hould simply talk as woman to woman."
There appeared next day IMiss Barrymore 's alleged opinions of that group of unhurried folk loosely characterized as "society."
Consequence: perturbation deeply and loudly expressed in the manager's oflice. Further consequence: a published denial by Miss Barrymore of the sentiments imputed to her.
" I never gave such an inter\iew,"' being amplified meant "I never said it for publication. She who violates a pact should be punished."
The St. Louis newspaper defended its representative. Questions of veracity were asked. But society, Miss Barrymores fer\ent admirer, was pacified.
ITF.R keen sensitiveness to the printed page is * no greater than her sensitiveness to eyes that are curious and may become critical. Because the gaze of her company makes her self-conscious, she rehearses her scenes behind a screen.
The conquering will that accompanies genius is hers. The mounting flesh that was hiding her girlish lines annoyed her but little until came the possibility of playing Camille. Who would lose the chance to portray the tormented tubercular heroine? Miss Barrymore had heard of a physician who melts flesh as an April sun a lingering snowbank. She rose before a window as the llesh dissolver entered.
" What do you want?" asked the gruff lord of lissomeness.
'T want to play Camille."
'Good Lord! When?"
' In May. This is December. You must get me ready for it."
To his credit and hers, be it said that he did.
A fine recrudescence — or it were truer to term it a survival — of Ethel Barr>more the girl in Ethel Barrymore the woman, remnant of the girl who would be a pianiste and give concerts, in the transcendent artiste of today, is her superb loyalty to her own. Though Mrs. Russell Colt and" mother of three fast growing children, she is still, as in her maidenhood, the head of the Barrymore family. Still she thrills with a pride half maternal in the success of "the boys."
' When you walk upon the stage are you conscious of your heredity? Does it bring a sense of power?" I asked her.
T don't feel it myself." was her answer, "but I do for my brothers. I know they can't go far wrong. I feel that with three generations of experience behind them, all the way from Great Grandmamma Kindlock, they can't make many or great mistakes."
Lionel s marriaijc was a success and now he and his wife. Doris Rankin, are together in"The Letter of the Law. " She played with him in the screen version of "The Copperhead. "
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