Actorviews (1923)

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Miss O’Ramey Concentrates 135 “The funny folk must love to see you in the audience !” “I don’t snitch anything from them. I never snitch from comedians. I’m essentially a burlesque woman : I learn from serious actors.” “I remember seeing you in Maxine Elliott’s company when she opened her New York theater. What did you learn from her?” “What not to do.” “Did Mr. Woods’ five dollar remark teach you anything?” “It didn’t teach me anything, but it proved I had a blush left.” And over our dessert she talked about what she had learned from the great of stageland, from the neargreat, and from Sir Herbert Tree. “Although,” she put in slyly, “I never could hope to be as comically Jewish as dear Sir Herbert.” “What did you ever learn from seeing Ethel Barrymore?” “Not to let myself get fat.” “From Mrs. Fiske?” “How to enunciate.” “From Louis Mann?” “Speed — how never to kill a good part in a good play by dragging it out with actor’s elaboration. And modesty I learned from him, too.” “From your work in the movies?” “That acting is only what it seems and that twenty-five dollars a week is no salary for a decent girl.” “Did the war teach you anything, Miss O’Ramey?” “Yes; it taught me never to use the abominable word, camouflage.”