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Show -r-r.-a-u-aumwijn1.1 jL"-'-i .: 1 U 1 INTEREST IN STAGE CAREER WANES AND MISS MAUDE ADAMS BECOMES INVENTOR T 1 By RITH ABKLINC. SCHENECTADY, X. V. It was a red brick building on a side srrect i here, in appearance a cross between i store-house. and a church, in which I found what Maud Adams of "Peter Pan'' fame, coils her studio." There are tin signs, Garage," "Car Repaired," on the outside. No hint of Maud Adams, former Broad-wav Broad-wav litadliner j It was on the top floor of an old-fashioned old-fashioned house on another Hide I street that I found Misx Adams, her I secretary, Miss Boynton, and her housekeeper, ST .K INTEREST WANED With the death Of her close friend I and manager, Charles Frohman. who went down on the LusltahiSu Miss Adams' interest In her OWB stage cart er waned. Of late she h i ; been rotating between the red brick sludi 'j-laboratory and her top-floor ' apartment. I She devotes practlcaliy all of her! tiro- experimenuhg with llgh' and I ic-olor with a lew to movie reproduction repro-duction In colors. Occasionally, perhaps once in six months, she goes to hc-r apartment; .'.t st ,teui Convent, New York. Hd friends arc- aiding her In he-r ! color experiments friends who WOrkbd with her to get lighting effects ef-fects while she was on the stage. Lyman Clark, an attache of the office of m . p Rice, vice president of !tho General Electric company Is !her right-hand man. j "When Miss Adams needs a certain cer-tain Kind of light Mr. Clark hustles around and gets it for her," says Rice. PARTIALLY SOCCESSF1 I I The interior of the Adams studio Is arranged like a small theater In front and about two feet below th level of a small stage is a very I powerful electric light which illuminates illumi-nates the stage for photography In the first test Miss Adams mado she used real grass, ferns and foliage. The test film was sent to New York, ind tried out. It is understood her first experiment in color reproducing was partially successful. ! .... 1 MAUD ADAMS, |