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"when young woman gets the idea into
her head that she 10 cut out for an actress you
can never convince her that she 10 mistaken"
said theatrical manager yesterday. Il have
boen in tho business thirty-two years now. and
have acted In the capacity Of manager for Ave
stars and great many companies. In that
time have met scores Of young women who
were stage struck. Eighteen out OF evory
twenty have turned out to be fiat and dismal
failures. but evory one OF them had an excuse to
ofYcr for her non-succees. As rule II is
the poetic and sentimental side OF an
actresses life which catches young women.
Then. too the romantic fancles which are SO
much encouraged by indiscriminate novel
reading. and the stories Of such writer's as
Ouida tend to give them Q false idea Of tho life
they are actually obliged to lead. They say
that painter will sometimes look at tho SUBJ
and so earnestly that tho subject itself becomes
Imp inted on his mind. and whom he looks at
on eo sass nSs S, see =
self. That 10 the reason so many palnters
whine about the unappIsclativc public and the
Of girls who are anxious to become Actresses.
have heSrd sys reTIis Cnriew shall
Sos rSa have ysa seem
sse aong pary 81 friends and 70 5ea ps51
heard tie piteoue shrek and yslp; the mouth
Ing. gulpng and gaspl9g. AM and the hnai NAL, sim; ~;
her silly bit Of ranting. Do you know what 1t
is to the girl2 To her i is soul You can can
most most. stupsnious eiocntionary. effect. and
throwing wealth OF pathos and feeling into
The same is true Of girl after she gets on
the stage. People snicker at the bad acting Of
poor actress. and never realize for z moment
Is to her a great performance: She feels that
she is as perfect as she can be IN tho lines. ana
Of tho audience. don't know. OF better illus;
SHOW in pushing herself before the public than
that OF 4 young woman who came on here last
season from San Francisco. She Is we'll known
out there as u society woman. and is quite pop.
her S ps"pis arc @ we'll to d. and she. has certainly
spent a great deal Of money OF late; She lie.
sna saTd With IL 0eiS%' tSs u.a. s
career at the very. top OF the ladder. with all
a lady. itmust bo said that she .poss sessed fewer
advantages in q personal way for tho career Of
saw. She was very thin and round shouidered
and extremely awkward. Her face WAS not
sn hn Il %ss Fl tSf6 o
make it up so that 1t would look attractive from
The 'front.' When tell you that she she WAS
haps suspect that She lacked some Of
the elsments that go to make UP q success
Of costumes made for the role in which she
was to make her debut here. EACH one wns
more grOteslue than the last As havo said.
she was fragile and slight. Tho dressnaker
constructed n series OF magnificent costumes
which would have been too big. too gaudy. and
too heavy for q woman fifty pounds heavier
than she was. The actress came on hero. hired
a theatre and nj ade her debut. She had II good
company to support her. and II Is said that her
experiment cost her family 5000. She made
an instantaneous and distinct failure. She
played ,!aiia. Pauline. and one or two other
standard romantic characters. She proved
oonclusiyely that she couldn't act at all;
Did she give up tho stage and 20 back to
San Francisco ~
Not q bit Of 1t. She insisted that every one
OF her audiences for a week In New York. that
every critic In the city. and TINT every candid
man whose advice she asked was lsRgued
against her. She stuck to the stage. She Is at
1t vet. About week t;xO saw H. despntch In
ono OF tho dramatic papers which told OF tho
hard treatment she had been subjected to In
one OF the small towns In the interior OF the
State. where she was travelling about with
small company OF her own. The audiences
were very rude. The fact is. they almost
will have no effect upon the young woman. She
will probably keep on acting forever.
There are hundreds OF women whose careers
on tho stage nre very similar to this. except that
thoy do not have the money to provide CON-
pany OF their own. They appear rs stars for
one consecutive ght. and are then forced to
take any sort Of q place that offers in a travel
ling company. Half the girls who are now
playing servants parts In small theatres or
dancing about Ia variety shows began their
careers as J'',et or J'ttid.