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Beulah Pojoiter



D EUL-^H POYNTER, a clever and magneiic actress, full of Ihe enthusiasm
'-' and ambition of youth, has mel with uncommonly sudden recognition, none
the less deserved, however, and she is well started upon a career that should
bring forth most brilliant results. A Missouri girl by birth. Miss Poynier,
after completing her studies, decided to make the drama her life work and
spent her novitiate days with a Denver slock company. The sound training
and solid experience that one gains
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fording her a most admirable
groundwork, and it was not long
before she determined to give her
powers the best sort of opportunity.
With this end in view, Miss Poyn-

d student, made a dramatization
Mary Holmes' novel, " Lena
vers," and starred at the head of
r own company, a position that
she has held with dignity and the
proper appreciation for the past two
rs. As an acknowledgment of
her powers, both as actress and play-
iTighl, one has but to quote a well-
nown critic who said : " Beulah
Poynier interpreted the admirable
little heroine and recalled to older
theatregoers, who saw her, pleasant
. of Maggie Mitchell and Fanchon. Her figure is slight, her
manner is elfish before she develops the character into its larger woman-
liness, her hair is of the texture and shade of cornsilk, her voice is ap-
pealing and her style of elocution is im conventional. She moves through
the play without lapsing into dullness and creates and holds the popular
sympathy. She has made intelligent use of the .salient incidents of Mrs.
