Show Return t to o Stage age Follows Loss Of Mother j The story of why Florence Roberts who is appearing in Sapho at the Wilkes theatre this week reversed her decision to retire from the stage and once more moro resumed her career was told by Miss Roberts between rehearsals to today today today to- to day at the Wilkes WIlI es I I had been on the stage since the age of or 16 said Miss 1 Roberts and and it seemed to me that a little rest was was In order So I 1 made all my plans packed away my thousands of or costumes in the garret and gave away my multitudes of or make make- up I combed out my wigs and laid them away In camphor and started fires with my prompt books I reveled in tho the idea of or doing nothing I was going to have time to do all the tho reading and traveling I 1 had alwa always s 's s wanted to do An actress you know reads with one e eye e on the clock and travels with but half hair an eye on the scenery I And I was going to get acquainted with my home It was a home very lovely lovely lovely love love- ly and well earned earned earned-a a cool white house perched on the side of or a a. and hill hill and such sucha a pretty garden It was really more mOle my servants' servants home than my home They lived there the year rear round while I spent only a few weeks there each warm season sea sea- son I sonSo So So I planned I 1 was to live home with my mother I 1 was to have all the time I 1 wanted to read slowly and take leisurely trips I was In short going to be a lady in private life liCe and forget all about the stage my career my achievement I would devote my life lite now to my mother Ah how she needed me mo and how I needed her I 1 will never forget torget her face tace when I 1 told her I was able to retire stop work I and travel travel and and stay with her We Ve had I I just lust six months of or unbelievable happiness happiness happiness happi happi- ness quiet and contentment when suddenly suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly my home my mind my heart my hands were unendurably unendurable empty for forshe forshe forshe she for tor whom I lived was taken from me Gradually I put t all thought u of permanent per ner- t ll t manent retirement e p fr from the stage of m m my mind I sold my home T could not live in it il without mv my mother Only one who has known the sudden Ruddell loss los of oi that which Is most dear la In if J I the emptiness of th the TU o the nothingness of or it ill alL for anything y u I ff lr z zall all the lack of a a care i J. J the the not Kor Joor the chief want la IA li fc w who who will make us dothel do the t ed p 1 T was without that eom turned tf to tn the ItA stage I |