Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-01-29 | Page 16 | Film Grandmaw-Girl Began Play Acting Career Long before Birth of Movies

Film Grandmaw-Girl Began Play Acting .Career Long Before Birth of Movies J nolda admitted sh Is something of a crank about food. Vegetarian? Vegeta-rian? "No." she said a little sharply, "I don't like to be labeled.' It I -want meat, I eat meat; but not often, and not much. Not too much of anything. You know, these bodies of ours are pretty fine things, or could be. I believe we ought to feed 'em at least as carefully as we'd feed a good horse." At Metro one day, Grammaw was to play a scene in a nightgown, and Brown told her to select the kind she liked any good, warm, old-ladylsh - garment. "But I don't like nightgowns,1 she protested. pro-tested. "How can our bodies breathe at night If they're wrapped In stuffy h ?" and her voice trailed off In embarrassment of what she had said. Pleat Inclose Envelop ... Adeline Reynolds has felt old In her time. At 40, when her husband died and left her with four children to support, people to whom ahe applied ap-plied for office work Indicated ah was too old. She got so mad she went home and ripped all the birth records from the family Bible, went out and took a business course, and soon was running a stenographic school. She felt old at 46, when the San Francisco earthquake and fir wiped out her business; but she built it up again. She felt old at 66, when a few professors pro-fessors tried to discourage her from enrolling as a freshman at th University of California. So she graduated with honors in French, and was able to make a living as a tutor after her savings sav-ings were wiped out by the depression. f if "" K ' ' ' ' i l - i ' 'If ' u ' ' v . ! .. f m ) - i FT . w' v 's it' A (Keesnd of two articles en Ade- Mm VYalt Reynolds, wh start-d start-d her movie rareer at 80.) By Paul Harrison HOLLYWOOD (NEA) Th movies' grandma-girl, Adeline de-WaH de-WaH Reynolds, says ahe began I play-acting at the age of 3 which f was 77 years ago. Sarah Bernhardt was 18 then, . and Edwin Booth just a young loading man. A kid of 18 named Thomas Edison hadn't even dreamed of inventing motion pictures. pic-tures. And small Miss deWalt, one of 13 children on an Iowa farm, had never even heard of a stage or a theater. "But even then." she says today, "I believe 1 knew that acting would be my beloved work." That phrase, "beloved work," is one used often by Mrs. Reynolds, and it assumes real meaning as she tells about her busy life and th many kinds of work that finally hav brought her to her cherished dream. You get a pretty good notion that K was the thing tht has kept her so lively and Alert aU this time. Morhrd Director I went to see the 80-year-old actress at the small house she has rented. It wasn't any use trying to . see her on the set of "Come Live With Me," because people always al-ways were hovering around her. They called her Grammaw, and she used their character names because, be-cause, she explained. It was nicer to think of them m the roles they portrayed than as movl stars. Sh always had lunch on th set with Director Clarence Brown, whom sh was worried about because be-cause he was tired and on the verge of a case of flu. Mrs. Reynolds Rey-nolds put up a lunch for herself and Brown and took it to the studio stu-dio In a brown paper bag. Sh lied him with fruit Juice until It almost ran out his ears, and after he had eaten she'd make him lie down and rest in her dressing dress-ing room. He finished th picture failing One. ' While I munched raisins from a big bowl on a table. Mrs. Rey- Adeline dWalt Reynolds and CUrnc Brown ... Th fruit juic almost ran out hit ears.