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Show - - - -M Cloistered Life Leads Lillian Gish7Starof 'Way Down Eastr clasped hands whh me. I shall never forget It." 'The picture actress mioses all that applause. pot the most part people sit stolidly at picture shows, laughing perhaps, hut rarely applauding with tht hands. That is what la so d tat-on -cert lug one never knows the feeling with respect to oner efforts or per-sonsllty. per-sonsllty. The curiosity that stirs pass-eraby pass-eraby on the street to follow one with their eyes or even to rnaks remarks assures one that one's work la not unnoticed, un-noticed, but such recognition can be most embarrassing. Fortunately, I have had few unpleasant experiences snd I have the feeling now that the public has placed th picture on a new plane In regard so much higher than of several years ago when one was neld to b a sort of freak or a mere object of curiosity without -feeling and without with-out culture. I'sually when I am on th street I wear a veil, but the pur-pope pur-pope Is not wholly to escape attention. Veils to itie are a purely feminine attribute at-tribute to dress and 1 do so like to wear one. Of course, the veil does permit escape from too much attention, atten-tion, but, as 1 am not often In the city. 1 have no occasion to tr avoid , the people." IF THnnR ts any trotioti picture fa-vorlt fa-vorlt who lends a more cloistred life than Lillian f.iMi. who has made a tremendotm hit as Anns Moore In I. W. ;riffiih's "Way Down Fast," at the Salt Lake theatre tomorrow to-morrow evening for a week's run. with performances twice daily after the initial ini-tial presentation, that person has thus far escaped the attention of the elect. The (iishes Lillian, her sister lorothy and their mother, live at Mamsroiteck. in a house once occupied bv Stanford White and quite close to the (Griffith studios at what Is known as 'The Point." It Is a real home lire that the little family enjoys, with trips to New York Infrequent and with "p'Jblic appearances" ap-pearances" practically unknown. "That ts one of the disappointments of th screen." said Miss Olsh when she was I present recently at a presentation of "Way Down Fast." "and It was delightful de-lightful to hear the applaune of people when they saw Mr. Griffith's play. We who work In the studios do not really know whether we are sympathetically sympa-thetically regarded bv the public. It was, therefore, a great experience for me at the opening presentation to have the upectatora applaud me and I cannot can-not say how grateful I am for the many nice things girls and women said to me ! left the theatre ano inev TOLD IX A SK!"TKCK. James Korbes, who wrote "The Famous Fa-mous Mrs. Fair." in which Henry Mll-lsr Mll-lsr and Itlanche Bates are now appearing appear-ing with so much success at the Black-stone Black-stone theatre, Chicago, says that after I he has become acquainted with the j characters In the play upon which he . Is at work, knows all about them and ; thetr antecedents, and ha-a found out what their atory Is, he Is extremely f unhappy and dissatisfied If he cannot I put that story into a sentence. The preliminary sentence which summed up for him, "The Famous Mrs. Kalr" was, he eava, something as follows: "A woman actuated by duty engages in war work, winning honors and the loving admiration and encouragement of her family; but when on her return she, actuated by selfish vanity, again leaves them, the realization Is brought home to her tragically that a wife and mother can Lavs a career, but not at the expense of her obligations to tier home and family." U iK t curious thing, by the way. that many prons have found fault with "The Famous Mrs. Fair" because there is In It none of the direct preachment preach-ment so common In the serious drama of the day. Instead, in this play Mr. Korbes has done sli his preaching by the much more artistic mrthnd of telling tell-ing a story without any footnote. And for that very fUMin It Is all the more effective once the audience has gotten over Its bewilderment at the drama-Mat's drama-Mat's unaccustomed way of doing the thing. |