Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-10-24
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When q young woman gets The idea llsI \
into her head that she is cut out for an
actress you can never convince her thai lait1
she is mistaken, said a theatrical man e
ager recently. Sc have been 10 81 the the
business thirty 1.-TWO years now and have
acted ia the capacity Of manager Tor 1 i've
stars and great many companies 's ~ !
that time T have met scores OF young
women who were stage struck, Eight i
cen out of every twenty have turned out
to be fiat and dismal failures, but every
|ons of them lad an excuse TO offer Tor
her non success As q rule, It is the
poetic and sentimental side Of an actress
life which catches young women Then,
too, the romantic faneies which are
so much encouraged by ind dis q %. /
mate novel reading, and the stor-
les of such writer's as Oulda tend
to give them false idea Of the life
they are actually obliged to lead. They
say that q painter will sometimes look
at the subject he is trying to put on can
vas so long and SO earnestly THAI the
subject itself becomes imprinted on ms
| mind, and when he looks at bis painting
he does OF see what is actually daubed
on the canvas, but sees tho subject IT.
SELF That is the reason SO many paint
ers whine about the unappreciative pub
lie and the cruelty of tho critics. The
! same thing is true of girls who are anx"
ious 80 become actresses. +s.5s:. a,
"You have heard girls relate fCurfew
Shall Not Ring To Night? Yes. Then
you will understand what moan. 1ou
have seen girl rise among q party OF
friends in back parlor, strike a dra-
| matte attitude and begin poem. AS
she proceeds toward the climax you
have heard the piteous shrek and yelp,
the mounting, gulping and gaspiug, and
the final sigh. It Is to yon and every
! body else in the room but her silly
bit OF ranting. DO you know what it is
to the girl? To her it Is soul You
can never convince her that she Is not
giving the most st1pendous elocution-
ary effect, and throwing wealth of pa
thos and feeling into the Lines.
"The same is true of girl after she
! gets on the stage. People smoker at
J the bad acting of poor actress, and
never realize for moment not only
that she is doing her best, but that it is
to her great performance. She feels
that she IS as perfect as she can be in
the lines, and hence she does not I'M
derstand tho Indifference OF the audi
ence. I don't know Of better illustra-
: ton of the perseverance which a wom-
an will show in pushing herself before
the public than that Of young woman
| who came on here last season from San
! Francisco. She is we'll known out there
! al g. society woman, and il quite popu-
! lar among the amateur actors. 1t is
said that her people IRE well to do, and
she has certainly spent great deal OF
money Of late. She decided to become
! professional actress, and, With, the
usual modesty of such aepiraAts, made
arrangem ents to begin her career at the
top of the ladder. With Al respect to
her, and I esteem her very highly
as a lady, it must be sid that she
sonal way for the career Of an emotional
actress than any woman l over sew. She
was very thin and round -sneuldered
and extremely awkward. Her facs was
not only of commonplace tpye, but If
WIS of such character that it was ut
terly impossible to make it up so that
it would look attractive from the front.
! When I tell yen that she was also Nm
able to dress becomingly, you will per-
haps suspect that she lacked some of
the elements that go to make a SUCCESS
full and popular actress. She had d
series Of costumes made for the role in
which she was to make her debut here.
Each one was more grotesqus than the
last AS I have said, she was fragile
and light. The dresa- maker CON-
structed 8 serious AT costumes which
would have been too big, too gaudy and
too heavy for woman fifty pounds
heavier than she was. The actress
came on here, hired theater and made
debut She had good company to
support her, snd it is said that her ex
pertinent cost her family 5000. She
made an instantaneous and distinct fail
ure. She played Jalia, Pauline and
one or two other standard romantic
characters. She proved conclusiyely
that she couldn't act at all"
"Did she give up tbe stage and 60
back to San Francisco?"
mot bit Of it. She insisted that
every one OF her audiences for week
in New York, that every circle in the
city, and that every candid man whose
advice shs asked was leagned against
her. She stuck to tho stage. She 10
at it yet. About week ago ssw q
dispatch in one Of the dramatic papers
which told Of the hard treatment she
had been subjected to in ons OF the
small towns in the interior Of the state,
where she Vas travelling about with o
small company Of her own. The audi
ences we're very rude. The fact is. they
almost nobbsd her. All this is ds-
couraginp. but il will have no ca.."t -,''
| tho young woman. She will probably
keep on acting forever.
"There ara hundreds Of women whose
careers on the stage arc very similar to
this, except that they do not have the
money to provide company OF their
own. Iney appear .. Hs sfs So cna
consecutive night, and sxs then forced
to take any sort of place that offers in
a travelling company. Half the girls
who are now playing servants parts in
small tbeaters or dancing sbont in vsri~
ETY. shows began their careers as Jnliet
or Julia"
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