Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-22
STAGE REALITIES.
A Picture of the Home Life Of Actors
and Actresses.
Men and Women Who Powder Over
Tear-Stained Cheeks and Press
Painted Kisses on the Lips
OF Dying Loved Ones.
[Joe Howard in Boston Herald !

actresses have little to do beside posing
before admiring nlultitudes, for who they
draw large salaries, and having the Z. sure
of shifting the ever ascending ince-Se OF
alteration. The majority of girls picture an
actress as being of beauty, VINO sleeps
until noon, breakfasts on cup of chocolate
and roll in bed, drives out in the afternoon
clad magnifcently, is smothcred in bouquets
In the evening and revels in champagne sup
pers at night
Unfortunately such is not the fact. Even
Bernhard had her miseriea Clara Morris is
professional sufferer. Langtry, in spite of
her thick hide was sensitive 70 the ceaSeleSs
slight and cens11re and snub of the people who
were willing to pay to see her attitu'iinize,
but who.under no consideration could be in
duced to touch her hand or invite her to their
homes Patti, with her s., 900 night, has
carking worm not farfTom her heart. Nilsson,
in spite Of her magnificent presence, hen phe-
nomenal success and triumphant manner, is
troubled foueflfths Of her waking time, and
groanS in her sleep at night.
EDWIN BOOTHS UNRAPPINEss.
Booth, to whom Henry E. Abbey would
cheerful V pay 81 900 night for l50consecu-
tive ni% IS, is one of the most unhappy men
on the y of Gods earth He has buried
two wivt. been through the rnorsifcs.tions
of bal!-I7;. ICY, and, so far as worldly vseaIth
is concerned, = = as SIC comforts q 81 set
tied home @. yet TO make the CT and
secure the ot1sT.
This being the case, what do you suppose
is the fate Of the minor people! The fact is
that they work hard, are underpaid, never
play the part they p.eteT pay much, ty far
the greater proportion OF their salaries, for
stage costumes, invariably have q, 3 OF
hangers-on who eat tie bread they carr, are
out of engagements much OF the tia and
ninety times out of one HUNDRED die 50 poor
that they are buried at the expense Of their
fellows.
In the first place, it is extremely difficult
for them to obtain position and, having a
position. how few its advantages! They have
to rehoarse at announcement times; they &c
out in all kinds of weather, regardless of
their health or comfort or home desires; they
dress il outlandish Places either wet, damp
and chilly or overheated. They are 1T the
capricious mercy Of speculative ma GERS,
and, having found by experience that there
isvery little sympathy for them, either before
or behind the footlights, they wrap them
selves in q garment of mental Indifference to
appearances which is utterly misunderstood
by cynical and suspicious world.
Actors, so far as personality is concerned,
are before the public more than any other
people, and yet how little is known OF them.
The glare Of foot-ights, fictitious surround
ings characters and sentiments Numerically
different from their own, absolutely veil
them from the acutest gaze so far as TIER in
dividCalities are concerned. How often do
stars even sleep in their own homes?
TIE HARDSHIPS OF ACTRESSES.
During the long nine or ten months of the
season married actresses can have no comfort
with their children, no intercourse with
them. can take no care of them. l read q
day or two ago a story Of 4 girl who was
called to a Sunday night rehearsal. Her
father vas very ILL., but the rental of their
rooms, the fees for the doctor and money for
the drugs depended upon her attending to
her business. It was imperative that
she should 30 in the theatre at
half-past Z. Having arranged the
room as women only can, having placed upon
. table by the bedside Of her father his medi-
cine, she kissed him good-by and with low
ing touch promised to be back as early as
possible. YOU know what Sunday night re-
hearsals mean. They mean !, 2, 3, / o'clock
the next day. That is what this one meant.
The girl hasteEed home. The candle-light
had gone, the cold Sray of the early morning
was il the room, tie father was dead upon
the bed.
STAGE VERSUS HOME LIFE.
1 have known men to pley while their
wives were dying 81 home. Last season the
stage manager in one Of the chief theatres Of
New York had a wife and daughter The
daughter married. She was fragile, and the
pains Of approaching maternity compelled
81,
her work aud retire to her bed. The rage
manager had contracted rheumatic cold, and
was Likewise forced to take to his bed. The
wife and mother was in the ballet Of
one theatre the husband Of the daughter was
an actor in another theatre. Night came,
leaving the two invGlids IN tie care Of
young servant. The mother hurried TO the
ballet, ana the husband, q. comedian, to lis
fun and frolic. The illness OF the daughter
took serious turn, and ere the husband
could be summoned from his motiev. or
the mother from her peasants dSess,
she passed from pain into unconsciousness,
and before the morning dawned her
spirit had gone. leaving Ter father racked
with pain upon his bed in the adjacent room,
mCtherless babe crying upon the pillow,
the husband cTazei with disappointment and
grief and the mother worn to 6 shadow by
watching, anxiety and a divided duty. The
next night came. Was the mother excused
from her dance? Oh, no. She was central
figure. The management We're sorry, but if
she cared to retain her place she I.tlsJ per-
form her duty, SO she left her
dead daughter in one room and her
husband in the next, and did her devoir
like a woman. The husband, q man of exDe-
rience, twice the age of his child wife, was
the life and soul and humorous helm OF q
side-splitting play. Wos he excused? Not at
all. He had TO under-study. It was the
second week OF the performance. and 1t was
really essential that he should attend 10 his
part, so he left his dead wife in one roor,. ard
his suffering father-in-law in the other and
his little babe il the care Of @ wet n-lrs-. bor-
rowed for the occasion from a synpatiizing
neighbor. and never played 20 we'll IN his life
as be did that night.
The bigger INDIANS and Their Devil.
[Chico (Cal) EnteIprise.l
On SATURDAY tfe country around PlOOTDa-