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rhotoplay Magazine
In their latest plays, John in "Richard III., ' and Ethel in ■"Declasse" — both at their best.
Beside this grace of abiding family loyalty, there dwells in her heart fellowship with her brother and sister mimes.
In that remembered girlhood on which I have dwelt she was addressed by one of the mimes.
'■It's splendid that society is so kind to you.'' she said. "It is a tribute to your personality and to the guild that was once described in the statutes as 'rogues and vagabonds'."
"Yes, it is pleasant." Her arm went around the woman's shoulder. Her fresh young cheek was pressed against the sallow, older one. "For a little while I enjoy it. But for real happiness, give me the companionship with you, mine own people."
It was this spirit that led her into the .\ctors' Equity strike. It was what placed her on the platform with her shy monosyllabic speeches, her Jean d'Arc command: "Stick. You will win, for you are right." It led her into the final conferences wherein the five weeks war was ended.
She is the actors' daughter, the actors' sister, the actors' friend.
LIONEL, second of the shining, disappointed ones, ser\'ed his apprenticeship to the art of the brush. He served it in a narrow rue across the Seine and near the playground of the Gardens of the Luxembourg.
May Irwin visited him and his bride, Doris Rankin, in their wee. high studio.
"You ought to see those dear young things beginning a painter's life in the Latin Quarter. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry," was the comedienne's summary of her visit.
But Lionel Barrymore learned that the rabbit's foot is swifter than the brush. He set his easel in the corner and tossed his brushes and paint tubes into a trunk. Swift is stage ascent to the feet of the gifted. Successively in "Peter Ibbetson," "The Copperhead." "The Jest," and "The Letter of the Law," he demonstrated that latent talent quickly reaches fruition. He shares the family gift of personal beauty and quick wit. His power is rugged and volcanic. His wit is of the swiftness of a sword and the crushing power of the bludgeon.
Lillian Russell and he were companions in a motion picture.
"Talk! Talk! Xo matter what you say! " cried the stage director". Barrymore leaned toward her and simulated con\crsalion. entirely to the director's satisfaction. Miss Russell says he invented a story that was the best she ever heard. She declines to tell the story.
"He has the quickest wit I ever knew," is Miss Russell's appreciation.
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