Show 4 j pt I it h f tp S 1 4 J O The Gre Greatest test Emotional Actress A s t T Ti i fr rf 4 1 0 J Her er Time Now A Seventy Seventy- i Photograph j Three Cheerfully Refuses to toBe a at the Tims Tima Miss Morris j rl B Be T Venerable 7 bl and d S Says r Went Under the 1 e venera eJ an ays Management 1 of J q She Is s Living the Happiest Aol A. A M. M Palmer Wi 1 r. r 4 y x ti F. F f tI k Gf Aw Tr r iY y l yr N t fa v rJ r v q 4 Days of oj 1 Her er Life e ry ti rr i S J 2 l-f l g 1 r rF f r J J r r 11 3 I i. i f 1 J nwe r w y n n. n Trw i 7 ti tiA t A i Y F r 1 j 3 p J f Y j t i Lp t e t 4 K I i S SR T R i s Q I f i it J n ny t y t f v J t j i 4 r r 1 In the Part 1 r i of Evadne ii When W en She Came ame to Conquer New York s J By Ada a Patterson 1 s' s T TS T'S a game I 1 cant can't get used to this getting r I old old- 1 So JL So Clara Morris admitted that there thero is apart a 1 apart part she sho cannot play Having played Camille and end Ann Sylvestre Albee and Mss Miss Multon the the once greatest emotional actress in America confesses confesses confesses con con- that tho the role played by the silver-haired silver women with etched cheeks and eyelids and aed bent baffles herI her I 1 dont don't know how to act net old she sar says Maybe because I cant can't feel old I told her that age is a n part the playing of which requires no rehearsals She answered that ehe Me supposed some persons were born to tobe bc be patently old as some aro born to sing or dance or paint aint or write We Wo wondered whether the Hindu theory of old souls and young young those that t have lived before and those that haven't is the reason that some persons are old at 20 and others other's i. i are young at 60 GO J M Anyway I 1 cant can't get used to it she re- re affirmed A look into the mirror gives meI me mo I pause parse pause as Ive I've so BO many times said on the stage But But and and there thero came into her ber bluish gray eyes true Irish eyes b to their wide width and deep depths the turn n and sparkle and to her won won- mobile lips lipSy the merry twitch that caused A A. 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M Palmer to say that Nature cast her for a comedienne I I dont don't see very welL And I 1 can r sty y that my sight or the he mirror is at fault that r. r 4 5 T Lam Imn r not as old as I look n Morris Orris Today r s Hany any persona pe us have thought since the silence of ef retirement tram from tho The stage swallowed her up tIp that Clara Clam Morris Is fa dead The public Is apt to I think that of ot the player who has left off public playing Denman Thompson told me he be played short abort engagements because so 60 many persons person thought he was dead and he bo wanted t them hem to I know better Clara Morriss Morris's chronic illness baa b long prevented plC her playing an any en engagements gag c merits merits- Bat But those who class lass her among tho the dead may map accept my word that she is among the tho quick They may set down the rumor as did Mark Twain In to gross gross exaggeration 5 Many who concede her continued life re believe that she is blind I ask them also to take m my S word ward that though she was partially blind for sixt six t months sight has bas returned to the eye that had bad hadrY lost last it and that rY both still eyes twinkle at life Miss Morris lives at most times In to a n square yellow 1 among high trees at 1 N. N Y It has been her home for three years Characteristic of her ber is her remark to to me tae I call can it Ornith Cottage That is because y thero there are nm BO eo birds many in the tree branches r about They seem to like the house bouse as well wen I r do The he little rascals dispute as I wanted to ownership with mep me p call can it Bird Cotta Cottage but t I 1 feared what the would sa say Y w wh when n they learned the of the occupant Her nearest neighbors farther than a childs child's cry away o occupy cupy a small square white cottage Farther is on lS a more pretentious gray villa and then at cros crossroads roads the little E Epis is Ai copal church thickly P surrounded by modest white headstones She sketches tho the qu quaint int kindly t character of her rector who she i is says well named Darned Dr Wright She joys in the story tot told d by him of tho visa visit t of a high dignitary of the ther ii t r church J i It UIt was the first time shop had land visited w. w this town she says Dr Wright was driving wing ty him about bout and said In I i the yellow house lives fir I. I t R II r Y I IA If A A'S S f A r f 1 tara Clara ara Morris Tho The bishop asked whether it was wa the Clara Morris or some usurper of the name My rector said The real Clara Morris And he gave me what the few remaining maids call a character He said eaid She is a n good church church- woman To his astonishment the the tho bishop said aid Will Vill you please stop l' l Dr Wright asked i 1 if the dignitary knew me Know v her he sai said He took off his hat and looked up at my window I I Iam am baring my head to lo the woman who caused me Inc to steal change from my m- mothers mother's bureau drawer I stole stoIc it to buy seats scats in the gallery I make my obeisance to the woman who gave me a thousand chills in the back Though the resting sting tragedienne has lias named her Iter new abode Ornith Cottage Tuckahoe folk have given to it another name They call it The Lighthouse The rhe actress habit of late hours persists in her Although she wakes at 9 and never sleeps oJ t y i sZ r rM rl rk y M 1 tilt SF f t y C f r A Characteristic Glimpse e. e of t the he Great Actress in a Romantic Roman tic Role in the day hours unless illness compels sleep she is keenly awake until a quarter quartet of four Tho The players player's habit induced by the P players player's life of being ein in most physically alert and most acute at 8 o'clock has never yielded to her retie retired ed existence When hen it if is time for th the footlights to g glow low the tho lights in iri her long second floor room are bright bright- est cst From that hour until a quarter before the tho clock strikes strikes' four in the morning she reads ors or writes or studies studies reads reads read s the tho newest books for her face is turned turne l ever eve forward writes essays essays' and short stori stories s for she still appears rs' rs in print studies Spanish in which she has become profi profi- Her teacher an impoverished relic of a noble family disabled by a a. a fall and having to abandon his climb froth from the stati station n to the Li Light t. t r t J j jIn 1 r 1 ti pF t i r y In the Days of Her First Emotional Triumphs house sent the message Tell her she is so sowell sowell sowell well grounded that she needs no more lessons from me Tell her to read and write and when she can converse in Spanish and she will continue continue continue con con- to learn She has a mind that continues to learn Hers Her's a lonely life 7 No For this there thero is the reason of her absorption in the affairs of tho the world seen through her many windowed ever active mind The worlds world's events daily unfold for her as a 1 new and gripping drama rama She enjoys a chat with those neighbors who pay her brief unceremonious unceremonious un un- ceremonious calls of ceremony for her fame untold untold un un- told by her has percolated to the town among the New York r hills There is her guitar on which she fihe strums and to the accompaniment of which she sings a little in a 1 thin but not unmusical unmusical un un- un musical voice And there is Chilo Her Close Companions Chilo is a n bounding vibrant loving Pekinese spaniel that believes itself the head of Ornith Cottage and the guardian of its mistress The guitar lies on one side of the foot of her bed and the dog at the other Sometimes the restless puppy draws nearer to the big flat fiat instrument At my last visit his tail thumped vigorously upon its strings evoking strange monotonous sounds In one of Miss Morriss Morris's last appearances on n tho the stage the revival le of The uThe Two Orphans she formed a friendship with Grace George who was playing in the same company compan p. p Miss George is isone isone isone one of the visitors admitted to Ornith Cottage On one of these visits the younger star brought brough and presented Chilo He measured five inches in length and seemed to be composed chiefly of long Jong brown hair pierced by two large and brilliant brown eyes Miss Morris was delighted Was not the lawn of her time one-time home on the Hudson dotted wi with h 14 11 tiny mounds marked by a small brown h headstone adstone and inscribed To uTo my dog friends 1 The wee dog stretched himself along her wrist and looked trustingly into her eyes Little Chinese stranger sho she said to the Pekinese I christen you Chilo Chilo is one of Miss Morriss Morris's small collection of Chinese words Its significance is My child Not lonely no n nor tr sad is the shortening life of the woman who has been called The Rachel of Ameri America a the woman who by her stage representations representations representations rep rep- has hns caused more tears to flow than has bas any other player in in the world the woman Clara Morriss Morris's Home Ornith Cottage at Tuckahoe New York f r t I r ri 1 J i K rig l r A r w l f C ii S. S 2 j I 4 s j t d Nt rr JAr I pa r I Feature Service 1020 I t I 1 i of whom Sarah Bernhardt said uS She e does n not j jact act She suffers She talked cheerily with me on a re recent ent Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun- Sun day when I took train from the city and journeyed jour jour- to tho the quiet town for one of tho the many mans memorable hours we have spent together in years passing I am old they say and I know knowl I r am an invalid I 1 have e been alone husband hus- hus hns f band died five years ago and my dear mother left left me two years ago at 94 91 years of age But de de 4 spite all nIl this with only my kind Mrs Irs Murphy downstairs to take care re of me these are arc the happiest bap hap years of my life Great Moments and Moments and Happiness I looked d at the woman whose power in in swaying swaying sway sway- ing audiences no actress of the United States had ever equalled the woman who had been called The Queen of Hearts i f Happier than while you were on the stage I asked She answered the doubt in my y voice by a steadfast gaze Yes she answered for this is I happiness That was intoxication When the curtain has gone gone down on an act and hastily u again agam because the audience wills it so and when one stands and looks out at a st stormy sea of I human beings when handkerchiefs that are wet with the tears you have caused your au audience to shed are tossed as tributes across the footlights footlights' at your feet and men rise and wave the hats they have raised on canes one sups with the gods I dont don't believe they do that now Have jou you seen it 1 I answered No uNo with truth and md a little regret e Pasteboard Crowns side Beside side this picture there is a companion one in fn In an actress's mind said Clara Morris though she never realizes the picture the dred of it is alwa always s 's in her It is the passing of her hers sceptre There is an old saying that I have held in memory for 35 years It is something like Jike Seek that which gaining you may Inay hold I send copies of it to church bazaars bazaarS' and promise promis 10 to whoever can name the author Everyone Everyone Every Every- one answers that it is from the Bible or is a line from one of Shakespeare's plays But it is not rat Yes I know the source of it It is a secret I have ha never shared But it has a 3 great deal of wisdom that applies particularly to players I I. I have called them wearers of pasteboard crowns The liThe stage is a profession that demands health When mine fled I had to give up the boards If it had not left lct me I would still be inthe in the tussle As we ch chatted over a cup of tea she told of 0 another tea party one at which she Ebe was a guest of f honor Her IIer host said I cant can't reconcile your I gay y spirits spirit's this afternoon with the weeping part you yon will play tonight I swear never again ngun to allow myself to be moved by bj your jour stage sorro sorrows But that night as Miss Morris l was pouring forth her anguish sh as Miss Multon a version OJ of of- at a box wh where ro sher s 5 St t UE last East st Lynne she glanced up red and swollen with tae her host His face was misery she had worked She glanced arid winked For which he be said he would never wr- wr r. r give her The pale woman in the sky blue kimono mss 1 s' s laughing heartily at nt his hb discomfiture Laughing 37 Y years cars cars' after the event as though it were 7 yes yes- laughed bc d with tb m mo motZ ott No girl of 38 18 8 ever eyer sincere mirth It is true Nearing her birthday she i inot 4 old Theof The ro row I not learn the Uthe game of growing of an aged woman baffles her a ra r 1 |