Show AMUSEMENTS I The Youngest Leading Lady on the American Stage I i Pretty Maude Adams of John Drews company who is the youngest leading lady on the American stage is a Sal Laker She made her debut as an actress ac-tress when she was only a crowing t ny bit of a baby She is now regarded as a wonderfully clever and dainty commedlenne and this is but one of the lines of histrionisrh in which she has triumphed She became famous in a single night in New York by giving a delightful innoffensive womanly stimulation stim-ulation of tipsyness in one of the scenes of The Masked Ball which was the first play presented by John Drew after he became a star under Charles Frohmans management Alter Al-ter an entire season in this play she took the role of an ingenious Philadelphia Philadel-phia heiress in Henry Guy Carletons comedy The Butterflies in which Mr Drew figures pleasantly as a penniless but wellbred hero The comedy ran over a hundred nights in New York and the charming love scenes between Miss Adams and Mr Drew were the fashionable sensation of the theatrical season I is in The Butterflies that Miss Adams will be first seen in this city But perhaps the reader will be I more interested in learning how Miss I Adams debuted as a baby She tell I I the story best herself I I was only nine months old she said with a smile tI was in Sal Lake city My mother was playing in I a little piece called The Lost Child and as an important climax the recovered I recov-ered infant was brought in on a tray One night the small person billed for this part was most refractory and cried and screamed to such an alarming I alarm-ing extent that the thought of introducing intro-ducing such a howling success was out of the question I so happeded that I was cutting a tooth just at this time I and I also was inclined to be very naughty so the nurse took me to the theatre thinking that my mother might bring me to reason As I was seated on the nurses lap in I mothers dressing room the manager of the company care in and despairingly despair-ingly told of the trouble The was in I about a baby to fill that important role Seeing me without further comment f < fsl < 0 i1i he took me from the nurses arms and I I was carried on in time to save the situation They tell me I was very god the lights and music making me forget the misery of teething for a brief while From that time until I whie tme was 4 years old I did not appear again in public but at that age my mother was playing with J K Emmet in San Francisco and it was suggested that Maudie should go as a little boy My mother broached the subject to my father one evening at dinner and I all eagerness waited his consent He did not like the idea thinking I would fail but I assured him I would not and at lat in black velvet knickerbockers I made my second public appearance After that I went to school and upon up-on my fathers death joined my mother in the place where she a playing I used to go with her to the theater ever ev-er night and one day the manager asked me if I wouldnt like to go > in the chorus and earn a little pin money I was a stock company playing such things as Little Jack Sheppard once in a while and in this way it happened that I became a chorus lady They sent me in blue satin trousers but I wept so over the thought of wearing them that skirts were substituted and I instead of a little boy I became a little girl in blue I My first pin money went for a pair I of very elegant ties as I was proud of i the part and wanted to look as fine as possible From that on I continued to contnued play unimportant roles and at last I went east and got an engagement with 1 I The Midnight Bell I have been with Mr Sothern a short time and in Mr I Charles Frohmans stock Chares company playing in Men and Women and The Lost Paradise When Mr Drews company was organized was made its leading lady Miss Adams appears here shortly lwt Sam Drew |