Beatrice Lillie Finds Career Packed With Fun; Every Curtain An Event

"My relations with Harvard University are of a motherly nature," confided Beatrice Little recently in her dressing-room at the Music Box Theatre.

The noted comedienne explained, "I guess that may sound a bit 'screwy' to you, young man, but my son wants to attend Harvard after his graduation from Harrow, which fact, I believe, takes the kick out of my statement".

Enjoys Acting

The wife of a Peer, Miss Little acts from choice; she stated, "I love every minute of it, but if it ever does become boring I'm afraid I shall quit. Each performance is a new experience for me. I never deliver my lines the same--the audience really sets the pace for the show. If they play ball, I have a wonderful time doing my best to satisfy them.

"In 'set to Music' I have as good a time as possible, especially in the spy scene, where I can flutter about to my heart's content, distributing revolutionary propaganda all over the stage."

Prefers American Humor

When Miss Lillie was asked to compare English with American sense of humor, she said of the English, "What sense of humor? But they really aren't an had as all that; they've just been brought up wrong. I was in a revue over there this summer, a hodge podge of everything I've done here for the past five years, but the audience just couldn't see eye to eye with an American one is picking their laughs.

"Please don't misunderstand me. The humor is of two distinctly different types of and though they may both be very funny, never the twain shall meet. It may be true that a glimpse at "The New Yorker' would leave an Englishman cold, but 'Punch' is to no great laughgetter over here, while in England it has'em in stitches."

Miss Lillie closed with an observation on work in the movies, "It's lousy. You can't be funny without someone to laugh at you."