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Who Has
a
Kangaroo?
It's been four years
since Enid Bennett has tasted
Antipodean beefsteak.
By GENE COPELAND
Y
'OU should see the letters I get from there!" said Enid Bennett.
We were talking about Australia.
She had suggested tea, thoughtfully and enticingly with the added information that in her native Austraha it is the custom with a guest to knock at his door before breakfast and offer him tea. Thus the day is started and about six or seven times during its course you are asked to imbibe. The tea-drinking custom, and that of eating kangaroo beefsteak, are her childhood memories of her own land. She still likes tea but she says kangaroo is so hard to find in America that she hasn't had any since arriving about four years ago.
Enid Bennett and Fred Niblo, lier husband.
She has retained much in her manner that tells of her birth in Australia.
In Australia she began her stage career against great odds. Her father was a pioneer founder of schools and the family lived in about the smallest town in Western Australia. It was accessible only by stagecoach. But one day a show came to town, stimulated Enid's dramatic ambitions, and she left home determined to become a success. She played all kinds of parts until she was cast as Modesty in "Everywoman."
"When I wanted to come to America," she said, ''Mr. Niblo, who had been starring in the plays in which I had ingenue roles, gave me a letter of introduction to Mr. Frohman and I came alone. There were some uncertain and discouraging days as is inevitable in anything. But I finally was engaged for 'Cock o' the Walk' with Otis Skinner. Thomas Ince asked me to have a test taken before the camera. I came to the coast to make a couple of pictures, and here I am. I think I stayed because I could have a home of my own and could send for my mother and sisters who make their home with me now."
"How about the husband?"
"Oh," she laughed. 'T didn't have a husband . until eighteen months ago. When Mr. Niblo came out from New York to direct pictures we met again for the first time since I had left Australia." Now the Niblos are an Ince director-and-star combination.
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