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a party on a particular subject. It was a great,
great success.”
Wednesday is for Women ultimately won a Silver
Anvil Award from the Public Relations Society of America.

“We went to Chicago to get the Silver Anvil, and I’m going to tell
you, that was the high point in my life — winning the Oscar of the
public relations field. It makes you feel very good; it validates you
in your career choice.”
She has experienced similar satisfactions from acting, but then,
it’s a trickier field with plenty of rejection, some of which can hurt
for a long time.

“We actors get used to the rejections, but you don’t ever like it,”
Kauders said. “And I always examine it: I always try to figure [it] out.”
Fortunately, she’s learned how to size up a particular opportunity
and assess her chances.

“I went up to New York not long ago for an audition, and I looked
at my competition, and I wanted to say to them, ‘Go on home, girls.

This is mine.’ And it was, too. I got it. They liked the attitude that I
struck. These were like sweet little old ladies, and this was not a
sweet-little-old-lady part.”
One of her favorite recent roles was as Ginny in Inside Llewyn
Davis. Kauders is an avid supporter of the Free Library, and has
great respect for language and words. Good scripts make all the dif-
ference, she said, which is why working with the Coen brothers was
so much fun.

“Two brilliant guys like that, and to hear them laugh at your
delivery of their lines … The only thing that I mind is that they
haven’t starred me in a movie with George
Clooney so that I can go visit his house in Tus-
cany.” As exciting as that was, Kauders is even more
proud of a much more local acting gig she just had — a public
reading of Lost in Yonkers for residents of her apartment building.

“A friend of mine who’s an actress asked me to work with her
on a role,” Kauders explained. “She said that age-wise, she was
now too old to be cast in it, but she always wanted to do the role
of Bella in Lost in Yonkers. So she came over and we did some
work on it and she said, ‘You know, it’s really a shame we can’t do
this anywhere.’”
Kauders, who doesn’t generally see obstacles, said, “‘Sure we can.’
I booked our community room and on Saturday, April 9, we had a
free reading — not a performance — but a reading of this play.”
Kauders cast friends and neighbors in the other parts, and the
building’s residents came out in force.

“We filled the house and they loved it. They loved it. We had such
a wonderful time.”
Kauders said there’s one guy who still tells her how wonderful it
was every time she sees him in the elevator. She seems as pleased
by that as if he was Joel Coen, Ethan Coen and George Clooney all
wrapped into one.

“He said he’d even pay to see it!” she said with delight. “I’m still
basking in the glow of the approbation of the audience. You can al-
ways practice your craft. There’s always a way.” l
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