The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-11
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.nvAPPLICANT TO NEW YORK
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Goa g Young Lady Should First
v,o1s With Her Pepa's Coachman,
60 n'Ostler Joe, or Get Divorce.
Copyright 1897
80, YORK. July 6.-I determined few
Zoo to adopt acting as d profession.
A. least this was the avowed object with
- 7 sought interviews with one of the
.h.strieal managers.
- these days of stage-struck damsels,
-, averv amateur actress considers her
We a Rachel in the rough, it is said that
's-rr,onsgers are overwhelmed with offers
s e., Young women eager to take up acting
81 profession.
what reception is accorded to the would
-. .srirant for stage honors? 1t was only
~ acting the role of an asDirant that 1
aorld find a satisfactory answer to this
question. -,
Although not possessed Of dramatic abil-
~ enough TO make a successful call-boy,
stsrted out few days ago TO offer my ser
&c IN Mr. Frohman in the capacity of
1ao6i,g juvenile, walking lady or simply
~ anpariton if nothing better offered.
folgud NlT. FIOuuldil Ill niS OlllNCF WIltCh
e small room in the third story Of the
Lyceum. all .L;u o,,.
49,, man. with restless brown eyes pro
.octaJ Inv sUectscles. He has sallow COM
.Isviop 8 mustacbe and a slight SuggeS
!ion If a beard. He is ell attention to
business and so stated mine at once.
@AIr Frohmau, | am thinking OF study
;ng for the stage" remarked, without
rr8face or exordium.
Mr. Frohman slightly inclined his head
while an expression equivalent to II am
not AZ all surprised everyone is studying
for the stage" appeared on his face,
~ have come to you" I continued, "to
ask if you have any vacant place IN your
comDanyW
NO: we have none at present"
"Nor any i'll your ira velng companiesV
mo I an afraid every place is filed"
Then. after a pause, May ask what ex-
perience you have hadW
Nv experience was extremely limited,
hut / enlarged uDon the one occasion when
/ had displayed my ignorance of Shakes
reare in the character of Juliet at an anna
teur performance. That l could play one
mar. as well as another, might have added
without the statement being questioned by
nv worst enemy.
1--WE have a good many names already
on our books, professional as well as anna
tours continued Mr.. FTohman, to which
remarked that presumed he was besieged
with applications from amateurs.
They don't come in shoals exactly" he
remarked, smi!ingly, but they average
two or three a day"
DO You ever give any of them posi-
tionsm
Occasionally we are able to do so, and
if we think that they possess any ability,
we enter their names in our books against
any possible opening in the future If you
like he added, II will take your name
and address"
This was an act of self preservation on
Mr.. Frohmans part, evidently, for ! pre-
sure he thought that intended to remain
a fixture in his Office until he offered me
something definite in the way of an engage
ment.
thanked him for his offer, but remarked
tina, shat seemed sncn dubious way, as
vas worry anxious to so on the stage at
once.
II can suggest nothing better-unless
you should care to star yourself. If YOU
feel confident of your ability, and can find
no manager who needs your services, you
must be your own manager-although by
the way, do not advise such a course"
What does one do in such a case.'
You must first rent theater-you can
get one for about 50, 800"
Twenty five hundred dollars year7" I
asked, somewhat agha5t at the price.
mo, a week.
"Ohm l replied in feeble accents, but
finally managed to ask if that would include
everything.
go, you would have to engage your
company; that would be an additional
500 or $780, then the advertising would
cost 5000 or $500 more"
"Or about $4,000 for one weeks per-
formance?
yes, but then if you take you can, of
course, continue as long as you like, or if
you prefer to try single matinee, that
could be arranged for from $500 to 81 900. y
Acting seems a very expensive amuse-
ment, unless you can succeed in finding a
manager willing to undertake the financial
arrangements. | suppose l continued eff
one can manage get her name before the
public it is comparatively easy to find a
managar?"
AS | glanced just then at the picture of
Mrs. Blaine which nearly covered one side
OF the wall, suppose the inference was
plains instead Of replying directly to my
question, Mr.. Frohman said; II had q
contract with Mrs Blaine some time ago
which her marriage interrupted"
If you think seriously Of taking up &C
Ting as profession, | would advise you
nrSt to devote sometime to the study of the
dramatic arts. You must learn--if you
VIII pardon mellow to stand, walk. sit
Talk, and how to employ the arms and the
hands SO that the word may be united to
the gefture and the gesture to the word :
now neither you nor L could sit as we are
slttlng now, If we were on the stage: there
Is a certain style and way of doing every
tang which you must learn unless YOU arc
already possessed of a dramatic instinct
winch tells you just how to do the right thing
at the right time. Now it requires skill
more than you think for, perhaps, Just 20
Del walking lady. How to walk and git
properly are the first things taught in our
as there seemed no prospect of persuad-
ng Mr.. Frohman that possessed drama
Tic instinct enough to warrant him in Civ
ing me place, took ihy departure.
L next sought Mr.. DAILY. His right hand
Asn IS his business manager. Mr.. Dorney
eHd 1t was to this latter person that adj
dressed myself. He was stationed beside
the entrance to the theater foyer. one after
noon Just before the commencement of a
matinee. u @
win you tell me where can find Mr.
5D@aIyf' was the query put rather rneeklv TO
Nr' Dorney, whose somewhat fierce expres s.
SION was not altogether reassuring.
10 you wish to see him on theatrical
business ouSuiessF ne asked, replying to my cues
ZION by another one.
Y-e-s. III
Wei, Mr.. DAILY is too busy rnaa. he
replied 6rusquely, "to see any one without
bn appointment and if n is noca,-z',, ~ r. :