After studying elocution under Mr. Hermann A Vezin, Miss Lillah Mccarthy entered upon her stage career by taking a leading part as an amateur in the productions of the Shakespeare Reading Society and the Elizabethan Stage Society. It was as Lady Macbeth in the Siddons Memorial performance that George Bernard Shaw first saw her. He did not spare her. "I saw," he says, "a beautiful girl who did not know how to act or speak blank verse, or do anything, except how it ought not to be done. Still, she gave a remarkable performance all the same. I advised her to go into the provinces for ten years and learn how to act. One day there walked into my room where I was at work a lady of very striking and beautiful appearance, but quite unknown to me, who said, 'well, the ten years are up! I've done what you told me. Now, what are you going to do for me?' " It was Miss Lillah Mccarthy, and Bernard Shaw said instinctively, "Behold, Ann Whitefield!" This was the part she played in "Man and Superman," when she had to make love to her future husband, Mr. Granville Barker, in the person of John Tanner. Miss Mccarthy has appeared in scores of other plays, and is her own manageress at the Little Theatre.

Miss Lillah Mccarthy Shadwell Clerke