The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-08-11
A DRAMATIC WORKSHOP.
HOW YOUNG WOMEN ARE MOULDED
INTO STAGE IUlIeTS, ETC.
Developing Grace Ia Classic skirts-In-
shilling Elasticity Through the Agency
of Fencing Foiis-A Neritable Human
Workshop Picturesque Wives.


Workshop Picturesque Wives.
The first thing D. be done with the young
lady by the way, having paid Tor her
hrst course, she Is no longer young lady,
she Is ALI "Aspirant' /, to get her clothes To
hang They never DO i'm real life In real
life women dress In professional life thy
drals. 4 la,ly has plaits and thin-s An
actress has folds II she has embarked Oh
the sea Of high come iy she might a. well TO
gin by gettin, her sheets In the wind She
must look like Juliet before she can talk like
her
Here she is, learning sweep" pose r.
poe amt ~impos..' Tier first ilhes are In
her skirtA She has 20 get these before she
gets shakesIear All hrr lessons are
taken In costume She has TO manage her
train while tn teacher manages the train
ing She may 10 said to be hanging on the
tho skirt u the drama dress first, address
after ~sIds Tragedy begins with the monu-
mental ami ends with the sentimental
Aftor the asptrant has learned how to have
things hang right she must learn to have
them move right She has got to loosen our
her joints, and II Is proverblal that every
social young lady who has not become All
aspirant USES her arms from the elbow AMI
her elbow from the wrist and her wrist from
the finger. tips She cannot strike out nor
| stride She IL charming combination Of
siile, slope and sluml. She melt, from one
action - another in snow flake fashion
without muscular PURPOSE She has do
lightful inclination ~ glide when she ought
to step cut aggressively.
now To STAND, MOVE AND sfEAk.
SO she has the folls put into her hands to
loosen her up and astonish some Of the girl
muscles that have been lying dormant For
this exercise she dispenses with her skirts
and dons pair Of short trousers and blouse
jacket She looks very pretty IN 1t II she
has u trim figure. and IL Is interesting to
note how rapidly hsr supple body adapts
itself TO tho rules of tho art At first she
Is u little timid. She is afraid Of having
her eyes put out, and winks with her head
avertsd, and reminds you OF girl Oh
washstand killing musluitoes hut as soon
Us she finds out that she has iexors there Is
iino vital grace gots into her limbs anu u
tlne glow comes into her cheeks-two shades
excitement and ono shade muscular exercise.
Of late, boxing lessons have bocone quite
fashionable at the dramatic schools, most VI
tho aspirants preferring tho gloves to tho
foils, though AS u rule thcy 10 not take 10
them so weii, and certainly do not appear
u tho same pictures iue AL, antage AS with
the ,luellists weapons
Having learned how to stand and how u
move, tho next thing Is ~ learn how to
speak. Here comes IN tho whole elocution.
ary business Most VI the theatrical L, aches
have cut tho OH recitation nonsense. Aux
ltaliell," and tho Maniac" have no place In
their teNt books They put tho spirant
into an acting role ut once, AMI make her
20 through 1t with all the stage business, as
IL she were before an au,iiencr. Inc pro
fessor always lets her do 1t her own way
first, and enieavors to make hor think II
ont with her own intelligence, thus preserv
ing, II possible, hor Individuality AMI or
iginality.
1t Is u very pretty sight To watch some Of
these girls developing into stage III lures
from neophytes to nymphs a natural
nymph l, vi no account, 1t seems, tor tho
stage She has to bc reconstru, ted, have
her feet turmoil out, her knees stre,sg thencd,
her TOYS pointed, her arms bent into curves,
hut 1t all comes about by degrees She
gcts structural ease and poiso after awhile
finds out that she has legs instead II limbs
and begins to have pictorial sense OF
things And 1t IL tho achievement of these
technical grares that marks the aplonb OF
the professional actress
TRAINING foR rivTu nEsQuE WifLHuoh
This human workshop deals with two
kinds Of material Of late u new order of
| 'spirnnt has crowded into the field She Is
| the social declaiIner the amateur. profcs
sional who doesn't want to 20 on TIN stage,
only to make sensation in the salon with
"'CDstler joe" and similar s'ntlmcnt Eat
she wants to do 1t with the air Oh an actres,
who knows all about it. This order of
| 'spirant 1. distinct from the girls VINO mean
| business But 1t Is interesting IT, know tn i
she begins with the same methods and puts
on the gloves before she puts on the 'o'h ami
| bushin.
II you could drop In some morning on tho
| pupil, you would see Juliet IN all stages of
construction Kate, ethereal, voluhlr luiv
cring with intelligence, would have 'limbcd
past the hal ony AMI arrived at the potion
s,onn" Ruth trim AMI graceful as spray
| Of golden rol, would be hanging ut Romeos
bread basket AMI Cora would le har
arguing tho nurse or asking tho wall papr
| wherefore art thou" After which she
would throw herself into a cushioned chair
AMI present to us tho picture Of elegant 10
pose, out Of which stuck II little foot that
had more elocution In 1t than you can find
In some peoples whole bodies
| Doubtless there is M enormous advantage in
these lessons, even II the 'spirants never
reach the Pnrnas,tis Of the stage door, and
| only fall by tho way into some matt inonal
pitfalL They become at least picturesque
wives, and 1t is generally understood that
that Is what men want There is u certain
| charm In having wife who can receive like
| Mel,n and entertain like Lady Macbeth, who
can play the piano as II she we're playing
| l.ucrelia Bursla, AMI read the morning
| paper as II she were reading Dantc's an
| tsrno To ls able to make soup with a
| What ho!' and order the mill with u
| "lrithce come up" AMI dis, barge the rel.
healed coax with grand Me thinks this
| H. too much and wave away the gas man
NTH an arm sweep superb are attainments
that do not come b., nature New York
| World
| uiL ntle rUinpcy's dallantr,.
Uld Uncle rompey Camden lives in Ne
troit lie is past - years Of age, black as
the absence u all light and endowed with
tho qualities that make the natural courtier
1t is true that his occupation is nienial but
be- disnities even his old ash cart lie WAS
It'd, ing ny an alley for Cass farm patron
| the other day when the lady OF the house