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By Teet Carle f The first time I ever feil madly in love with an actress in the flesh was long before I ever began my forty years of working with actors as a Hollywood Studio publicist. Yet she showed up briefly during my movie ballyhoo career. Her name was Jeanne Eagels and she just may have been America’s greatest actress. Remember her in “Rain”? Of course I had some puberty-years heart-flutters such as Pearl White, Ethel Clayton, Anna Q. Nilsson and Annette Kellerman (I’U never forget a scene she did unclad in “Neptune’s Daughter”) during those 1911 to 1914 years. But they were out of reach, being just flickers from a giant magic lantern. The pretty, thin girl on the stage at the Aerdome theatre in Emporia, Kansas, was almost within reach from the front row, however. And I actually got to speak with her. In that tiny open-air theatre built on a 50-foot lot of block from the main business intersection of my home town, I had my first glimpse of live theatre. The price of admission was 10 cents for seats in the rear and 20 cents in the first third of the rows of seats. Down-fronters received round straw mats to ease the solidity of the wooden benches. Adults buying 20 cent tickets could take their young fry along for a dime. Hence, my brothers and I always sat in the first row, a few feet from the piano player and the row of footlights. I always worked my way in. At the age of ten and eleven, I distributed handbills every Saturday morning. They proclaimed the traveling stock Company and plays for the six evenings the following week. That’s right, six! Never a show or movie or ballgame on Saunday in Blue Law Emporia, Kansas. The names on those handbills? Frank Readich Players, Lena Rivers, Ferguson Brothers, Lorrain Keene, Ruth Albright Comedy Troupe and The Hollinsworth Twins, Maude and Myrtle. And the comedies and dramas? “Adrift in New York,” “Sheridan Jeanne Eagels surely looked healthy and lovely in 1926 when she made “Man, Woman and Sin” at MGM with John Gilbert (right). Miss Eagels and Gilbert watch their director, Monte Bell, at the typewriter on the set. Bell was a two-finger typist, as noted. The girl who emoted under the stars