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114 Picture Show Annual editorial powers. In fact, 1 got so sorry that one matinee day I hied me to the theatre where Miss Cooper was playing, and there, outside the stage-door, I waited until her car drove up. The moment she alighted* 1 was " on the job." Together we crossed the pavement, together we entered the stage- door, together we walked in the direction of the dressing- rooms. And all the time I fired questions at her with the rapidity of a machine gun. The final one was shot as she hurried down a flight of stairs, and she—good sport !— fired back the answer just as -she vanished from my sight. Tne fact that Miss Cooper bore me no ill-will was evidenced by the nice " talk for publication " she gave me four years later, when she was playing at the Gaumont studio, in " Bonnie Prince Charlie," with Ivor Novello. Mr. Novello, allow me to say in passing, is the Interviewer's Joy. Nothing less. I have interviewed him a number of times —in his home, at the theatre, and in the studio—and I kpow. A Contrast American stars, when paying us a visit, are rather more difficult of capture than our own celebrities, since their movements are more uncertain. One of my happiest interviews was with Fannie Ward, when that miracle of perpetual youth was staying at her London house in 1919 —such a delightfully " homey " affair, with Fannie presiding over a family tea-party and looking about seventeen ! But it wasn't obtained without a certain amount of effort, as may be gleaned by my hostess' joking remark : " There's been someone on my doorstep about sixteen times, to interview me : I suppose it was you ! My interview with another American star was of a very different kind. This young damsel kept a press photographer and myself waiting outside her hotel no less than forty-five minutes, at the end of which time the unfortunate man was dismissed without a single photograph, while I was obliged to do my interview in a taxi. Happily, such an experience is exceptional. May Herschel Clarke. Q George Robey, who is aluays in a hmry