The Mineral argus., 1884-10-30
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Queer ideas OF Certain Young von.,
From the New York Sun.
when a young woman gets the lila,
into her head that she is cut out for an
actress you can never convince her tina,
she is mistaken" said a theatrical man.
ager recently. 81 have been in IN,
business thirty-two years now, and have
acted in the capacity ofmanager for fv,
stars aad a great many companies. In
that time I have met scores of youno
women who were stage struck. Eight.
cen out of every twenty have turnedoui
to be fiat and dismal failures, but evey
one of them had an excuse to offer fu
her non-success. AS a rule, it is the
poetic and sentimental side of an actress
life which catches young ONE Then,
too. the romantic fancies which are
so much encouraged by indiscrim-
mate novel reading, and the stor.
les of such writer's as Ouida tend
to give them G false idea of the lif,
they are actually obliged to lead. They
saw that a painter will sometimes loob
at the subject he is trying to put on can.
vas so long and so earnestly that the
subject itself becomes imprinted on his
mind. and when he looks Mt his painting
he does not see what is actually daubed
on the canvas, but sees the subject it.
self. That is the reason so many paint.
ers whine about the unappreciative pub.
lie and the cruelty of the critics. The
same thing is true of girls who are anx.
ious to become actresses.
"You have heard girls relate 'Curfew
Shall Not Ring Tonight? Yes. Then
YOU will understand what l mean. You
have e a girl rise among a party Of
friends in a back parlor, strike a dra-
matte attitude and begin a poem. As
she proceeds toward the climax you
have heard the piteous shrek and yelp,
the mouthing, gulping and gasping, and
the final sigh. 1t is to vou and every
BODY else in the room but her a silly
bit of ranting. Do you know what it is
to the girl? To her it IL soul. You
can never convince her that she is not
giving the most ~stupendous elocution-
airy effect, and throwing a wealth OF pa
thos and feeling into the lines.
"The same is true OF a girl after she
gets on the stage. People smoker at
the bad acting of a poor actress, and
never realize for q moment not only
that she is doing her best, but that 1t Is
to her a great performance. She feels
that she Is as perfect Gs she can be IN
the lines, and hence she does not I'M
[ derstand the Indifference OF the audi
, ence. I don't know of a better illustra-
[ ton of the perseverance which a wom-
|, an will show in pushing herself before
} the public than that of a young woman
/ who came on here last season from San
Francisco. She is we'll known ont there
as a society woman, and is quite psFN
lar among the amateur actors. 1t Is
said that her people uue well to do, and
she has certainly spent a great deal oil
money of late. She decided to becom'
a professional actress, and, with the
{ usual modesty of such aspiSants, mad
arrangements to begin her career ut th'
top of the ladder. With all respect t
d her. and l esteem her very highl
as a lady, it must be said that sh
{ possessed fewer advantages IL a per
= sonal way for the career of an emotlona
+ actress than any woman l ever saw. Sh
was very thin and round shouldere
and extremely awkward. Her face wa
not only of a commonplace tpye, but
was of such a character that it was nj
= terly impossible to make it up so thu
/ il would look attractive from the from
When / tell you that she was also III
able to dress becomingly, you will pei
= maps suspect that she lacked some
: The elements that 60 to make a success
It ful and popular actress. She had
e series of costumes made for the role
le which she was to make her debut her
l. Each one was more grotesque than Il
: last. AS / have said, she was fragl
and light. The dress-maker CO
10 structed a serious af costumes whlC
s. would have been too big, too gaudy an
r too heavy for a woman fifty pount
heavier than she was. The actre
ID came on here, hired a theater and mac
he a debut. She had a good company
n support her, and it is said that her el
DO pertinent cost her family $4,000. ID
DO made an instantaneous and distinct tal
ure. She played Jalia, Pauline an
n one or two other standard romanu
IS, characters. She proved concluslyel
OF that she couldn't act at all"
Mt did she give up the stage and {
back to San Francisco"
in "Not a bit of it. She insisted tn
every one of her audiences for a wee
in New York, that every circle In u
city, and that every candid man VINO
advice she asked was leagued again
e' her She stuck TO the stage. She