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SHOWMAN
eyes popped open and stayed that way the rest of the performance. Here was Alice, dancing and singing right along with two of the best performers in New York and holding her own with no more effort than if she'd just been walking down the street. Every gesture was professional, every step neat and clean and charming, every note clear and sharp as Gilbert and Sullivan should be— she had style and presence and a technical ability I'd never dreamed of. You'd have sworn she'd been on the stage ten years and sung "The Mikado" once a week for five seasons.
After the performance I went back-stage, and with tears in my eyes, told her she'd won. Bill Brady's daughter was a chip off the old block and was going places. She was certainly going places if she'd walk chalk for me. That came a little hard for her at times. When I stepped her down to a one-line bit in a production called "The Balkan Princess," there was some trouble with discipline. But she was game to ride the bumps and learn the business as it should be learned, taking a forty-week tour with Hopper's Gilbert and Sullivan troupe next season, a tour studded with onenight stands and good old-fashioned theatrical roughing it. She is a trouper by birth. She still is, now that critics call her one of the great American actresses. In pictures of late she's been specializing in frivolous comedy roles. But there's still any amount of the oldtime versatility there as well. It isn't every famous actress who can turn her hand to everything with tremen
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