An Emotional Actress
"An emotional actress who can emote," is the description of a New York critic of Kathleen M'Doniiell, ylio will make her first appearance in Australia next month at the Criterion aia J elan (Wemster's (heroine 'in "iDtaddy Long Legs.'
Miss M'Donnell is young, just entering the twenties. She is a beaiutiful girl, with a wealth of copper-colour-ed hair. A poet has called her redheaded.
A Canadian, born at Toronto she' will interest women by lier skill " in dress. Men she will not tail to interest, for she is a distinctive type and feminine in lier soft outline.
There is a story told of her playing a scene in which she was directed to
scream, iWhen the first night of the play came she did not scream. She walked silently, slowly backward, out of the room, her face-rigid with horror. "It wias the inspiration of the moment," she explained. "It was more —an irresistible instinct to act that way. And the .author came back and thanked me. The strange part of it is that I did not feel responsible for tlie departure from the stage directions. It was really involuntary on my part."
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 March 1917, Page 4
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195An Emotional Actress Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 March 1917, Page 4
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