Show Society Deb Makes I Good On Stage Wealthy r e a Il It Y Parents Par c n l s Arc Convinced COil Y i HC e d Y G a taIt p Y III t. fi Allys Dwyer jl nn an heiress well poised By NEA l Service JEw V YORK Nav Nay 20 Allys Allyn Allys Dwyer D er 1 I j 23 23 year old ear heiress to a a. sizeable s able fortune and society debutante of the very ery exclusive Westchester district of suburban New York made mother and dad proud In spite of themselves Three years rears ago her father Thom Thomas Thom Thom- Thomas as Augustin Dwyer vice Ice president of the Balke Collender com com- company company pany pam wore a lengthy face as he sat Silt satIE satIn IE In JJ at a family council at the Dwyer Dw cr home Mrs Dwyer D er wept Their beautiful carefully educated widely traveled tra and withal well-poised well daugh daugh- ter to had Just stormed informed formed them that she had signed a contract tract to go on the professional lonal stage s gc But I wasn't quite truthful said Miss alias Dwyer In her dressing dressin room at atthe atthe atthe the fourth Forty-fourth street theatre the tre where wh re she Is playing now I I hadn hadn't t signed a contract at nt all I had Just begun looking for one I put It the way I Idid Idid Idid did because I 1 new It would make the struggle shorter At that It was pretty bad THOUGHT IT MISTAKE lU They The thought I was getting gelling ready to male mae an awful s mes of my life lite They knew that I was ambitious and had to do something But nut they wanted another kind of life for me me- me anything but the stage However they let me go ahead Miss Dwyer went vent from agent to agent and finally booked with a 0 tour- tour tourIng tourIng touring Ing company tier Her first play was The Fool Mother and Dad jer D probably thought It an appropriate name for tor forthe forthe the beginning of her big mistake Later they began to wonder render tier Her next contract was as with the Henry I Repertory theatre In Boston a step up in her career She has kept right on stepping up up p. p But who put the wild stage st. Idea Ide Into her head After Atter making her debut In society taking a II B B. A A. A degree cum laude at the College of oC New Rochelle and studying medicine at Ann Arbor the young joung heiress boarded the Leviathan for a II vacation In Eu Eu- Europe rope Lee Shubert was aboard met mether mether mether her and offered her an engagement for musical l comedy Although I was always Interested In the theatre I had had ha no training and never had dreamed of ot being an actress she said Mid She Sho refused Shu- Shu Shubert's Shubert's Shubert's berts bert's offer otter but she thought a a. lot about It Then after aeter returning to America she made tho the announcement anno which brought about the family coun coun- council cil After I appeared on Broadway tills this year In The Five O O'Clock Clock Girl ev- ev everything was all right Miss DWer related Mother and father w were vere ere there for the first night and nd they were terribly e proud d Mother ot r was a so excited I she hardly could o see sec or hear hearan e an anything thing and had to go back the second night Father sent tent me lovely flowers He complimented me mo for forthe forthe the tM very ery first time lie He had seen me act before in fn Boston but his criticisms had always been b n adverse When the paint grease gr is 13 off and the wardrobe woman tucks tuck I the stage gowns go away Miss atlas Dwyer's personality Is s Isery ery very different from that of the mischievous mL vampire she portrays Her glance glanco Is straight sincere and se serious se- se rious Her sleek black hair Is long She dresses simply She plays Illas golf goU every day Now that she works wor she has not much time for fun and dances Just afternoons and week ends she he said Mid I don dont don't t miss mUs It much although al although al- al although though I Iii do like Ilke a II little fun NAVE NAME IN IV LIGHTS Boys Ive I've always ays known the old old- older older er and more serious ones I haven't ha leally scatty thought of oC marriage yet jet et I People say Its It's only In very cry rare instances that a woman can make a success of both professional and home life I believe I could Miss Dwyer Dwer enjoys enjo's the life lite of the theatre theatre and and nd her fellow professionals Im I m as congenial with them as with the people In my home set she remarked re remarked re- re remarked marked as she nodded to a golden- golden haired lady of the ensemble and a rouged be-rouged chorus lad who passed by lOOt Of Of course I enjoy my ampy tampy role but I hope later to get Into more se serious se- se serious serious rious drama I suppose Ill I'll aln always ays want something a I. I little farther on 1 I Just cant can't help wanting to see my name on Broadway In lights |