| Show I OlAl E S MAKES A TIGRESS SEEM AS TAME AS LITTLE 1 KITTEN KIT T EN Magazine Writer r Describes Her ier Raving When He e Went to Interview the S French Frenc Actress 0 4 Arc Archie hi 0 Bell tho the l theatrical authority gives gie in the May fa Green r cn Book Magazine an an account of an interview visit isit he ha bad recently with Polaire the vaudeville actress ae ac h tress billed and advertised as ns t. t the c world ugliest woman in the tho As At I approached her hel door door door- writes Mr r. r Bell Ben I could hear bear her ber ra raging n spitting hissing and howling like a mad woman Perhaps sho was rehearsing and this was s my I moment o ent so soI I 1 t tapped at the do door r. r She Sho flung unlit it open api and andre greeted re t d m me cord cordially Kindly seat eat yourself your r self sel-f over there and excuse excuse e me she snapped app s as sIte she he pointed to toa a a. chair Instantly In she began gan again again- and I 5 saw W t that thata t ta a little musical director of the Grebes Grebes' tra was cowering before her ber He h had d lUin ruined d her big scene or or at le least t she SM told him that h ho had done so When sho gave v him t the cue f for r loud m music musiche jc he be stood there like a ninny or a a worse than ninny his baton limply in hand as as if he were asleep ep He had fail failed t to realize that he ho was directing th the music for P Polaire He had forgot forgotten ten that she sho ho was a Frenchwoman and an artist that she the was was on trial before the American t people that she had a anew new art a great cat art She he had been bean insulted in Bulled before re an audience Her art had suffered She called on all the furies to prove that what sh she said was vas true Musical director opened his mouth fo ro speak k but she care for ex ec If he had called caned to t explain explain ex ex explain plain shed she'd do that for him She literally literally lit lit- eray raved bounded about the room room like liko a tigress snatched up a a. trick knife and standing on a trunk runk waved it furiously o cr over her head ead She pointed it at him as she sho yelled She jumped down dow grabbed r bb d up a big b bath th towel squeezed it into a knot picked d u up rou rouge e jars and quickly had them all a au tossing through the air air like a trained juggler Then in the midst of the proceedings proceedings proceed proceed- ings sh she w would remember and and b bowing wi i quite politely would coma come in front of or orme m me and beg io to be excused She had bad been insulted her hor art had suffered Then she caught hold of th the knife a and d s screaming words a at the mu musician icia 1 waved waed the thing frantically over his hish h head bead ad Jn In reality she sho was s showing g him how to e waVe his hIS' baton I thought tb that t tL I- I Iwas i w was to bo ho the tb tb only witness of a a. murder mur mur der and I shamefully admit that I rather ratier looked forward to the spectacle All my iny life I had wanted to to tose se see see a aw w woman inan act act I I had spent many years t trudging down theatre aisles with that promise held out before me I was se seeing see seeing see see- ln ing re real l a acting ting ana I was as s satisfied d. d the tho musical director tor faded through the door He h had d been taught a a. lesson leleon What Polaire said faId she meant Woo roo to him If he ever again failed to give his hs t trumpeters the cue when she was as read ready Sit down I entreated after alter w we were left alone for tor she was still sUli pacing around nervously tossing toss the knife to the ceilIng cell cell- Ing and catching It dexterously by tho the handle when it came within reach Sit SIU she screeched back at me Why y monsieur perhaps I shall not be able to toBit sit Bit again this My 1 art has suffered suf suf- ahl ah I am Insulted before the American American Ameri Ameri- can people Go ahead ask alk mo me what you will and I will endeavor to answer I. I I I see they havo have you jou OU billed as Madame Polaire I I suggested Permit me to congratulate you I never heard that iOU ou had a husband a Idiots she yelled veiled Why do they do such things Madame Polaire 1 The very thought of ot it makes me sIck I 1 have ha havea a husband hu band I be a n wife It Is not for mists artists of or th the stage to become the wives I of or men We give what we have to get give g t to the people In ill the audience If we are true tru rUsts artists x e e care are not for husbands Moving t about before mo me was the ugliest face race I had ever ever seen scent therefore the the next question Is beauty an asset assetto to the a actress tress i I Polaire paused What has bas of face tace tot cot ot to todo do with dramatic art It Is ridiculous Art is something more than thana a smiling simpering face lice in fact tact art is something deeper than b beauty it is something some some- thing that has a a. soul something that Is warm or that thrills Bah Bali for tor fora tora a pretty face fac t Im I'm glad that I have my face ace which has been compared to e everything everything every every- ery thing from the Sphinx to a h hyena Ena But ButI I J am TU an an an- artist rUIt See Sea the people In n the audle audience ce tonight were they 1 looking for merel merely h pretty prett face 1 I spoke a a. foreign language but they the und understood me me that's that's S the thing to convey o ey a me message age to the tho people who come to see you jou ou You can p et tty faces on the street at church I. I Are we too refined too cultured l' l ire grabbed up up the bath towel I 1 again and sand waved aved It above her ber head as sh she Bhe emitted a a sound cound like ke a creech screech owl I 1 She Bhe She wrung It Into a a. knot and nd threw It i at the Window as she Jabbered She Slit t talked and talked and nd what she meant to toconey convey con was was that we have all become a lot of silI silly sUh little tittle monkeys puffed up our own on m knowl knowledge dge of oC things weaklings s who catch batch cold when a gust of ot wind strikes ns liS s sickly cr creatures who think a lot more about and bacteria bac bee teria than we do about having a good time Ume She Sh h v us us' us big fellows ys muscular and arid brawny brawn with beards on our faces and clubs in ou our han hands liand 1 to knock over the wolves olves In the tho forest forest- I If there were wolves and she believes that women should also be wild creatures with it strings of beads on and the inevitable Ine nose ring to Indicate their in- in f a a. symbol 1 of ot b barbarism |
