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Show Actress Thinks She Was Chinese In Some Previous Existence NEW yORJi "American women lack poise. They do not understand' how to conserve their magnetji -r,:rk bj the repression of emotion.' I ' Florence Keed, picturesque star of, "The Mirage.' playing at the new Time.- ftiuare theatre in New York.; . ; this Is so Thl.s 15 the reason." she explains, "why American women are less i harm Ing and magnetic than thur European sisters particularly the w omen of the irient, Mil (l Rl POSJ Those who have watched Miss, Reed's swift transition from her emotional emo-tional loic to the exquisitely poised Woman she Is away from th. Stage, feoi she herself has learned the value ofVepose. If I we're asked W'hat the women ofi the Occident need more than any other one thing." she sayS, I would say the personal magctism that. Is horn oi poise And there Is no other nation from which they can learn this " well as from China. The Chinese have forgotten more than the west eev km n l heir wisdom Is centuries eld I'hil.e o;di"i - CM-n fuith'i )..-ieU than ConfUClUS builded their ideas on the theory of mind-control And for centuries th Orient has lived its phii-. phii-. isophy." Mias Bed's surprise is obvlOUS when she Is asked how she, an Anfcri-can Anfcri-can girl of American ancestry ahd tradition, knows o niUch of the wls-fjonl wls-fjonl of China. BELONGS TO l R!1 I "Why, I belong to the orienjU" is her answer "Back n a preiIoiis existence I was Chinese. 1 know 1'. not only he-cause he-cause I am steeped in Chinese ideas and Ideals but because my memory lre-quently lre-quently catches distinct impressions of a pre-exlsteritie. Vou see, i believe in r Incarnation- l have spent most of the money 1 have made In the tlvatre in the creation of i Chinese atmosphere in which to live. "When ' leave th theatre and step into m home slip into the tradition of that inserut ibh-land ibh-land to which. I am sure I belong Some day I shall ! t c laimed by it entirely, for my so..', u not of the Occident." i luiVe ppcnl most of the monies i have made In ihe tlicdtrc In the re-ntion re-ntion of a t Idncsi aimospherr In whh 'i lo llyc. |