The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-25
TINE TRIALS or TIE ACTRESS
some OF her Disoomforts and AnnOyanees
DescrIbed-The Joys OF MidniGht Rail-
road TraveI-She Must Always be sweet
Whit Certain A Etrnnnna Mnat MANI e.

| UTDoOWInrI0 AnnOTnnCcU
. DesorIbed-The Joys OF MidniGht Rail-
road TrnveI-She Must Always be Sweet
, What CertaIn Actresses Most Dislike.
woman's room with Its sweet orderly dis
order, It's pretty litter Of feminine tribes, its
perfume and personality. its daintness and
suggestiyeness Of tho woman who inhablts 1t.
Heavy dull hanRngs sweep back the inquisl-
tive sunlight, sleepy hollow chairs and dressy
little rockers In sashes and frills hold out in
wiling arms. The now novel on the table hos
bit OF scented snowy film for q mark and the
ilrelight flashes out over tho etchings In their
white and gold framing and the bits OF quaint
pflc-a-brac scattered in artistic confusion on
mantel and cabinet The woman herself, fresh
and rosy and sweet from her morning bath, in
bewildering swirl OF silk and foamy lace on q
low divan in n nest OF ralnbow-tinted pillows,
iantly lpcrfumed, softly silken. On the little
desk with its silver trinkets Is o pile OF letters
illled with rapturous words OF compliment
anu adoration In tall, slim-necked
Jar OF old blue china are the great deep
hearted roses faint and dreamy with their own
sweetness, which were thrown at her feet last
night as one strews flowers In the pathway OF
queen. The applause and braves OF the peo-
pie still ring in her ears and will be echoed to-
night and tomorrow night again and again.
Ana yet this woman, in the freshness and
beauty OF her womanhood, at the head Of the
| profession she has chosen, iattered. petted.
praised. and feted. lies there with her bare
white arms, slipping from her loose sleeves
| ike lilies from a calyx, thrown above her
head against the crimson pillow talking Of
| nothing else in the world but the monotony OF
her life And 1t is monotonous and UNMARRIED.
she insists, rs that of n woman who keeps her
own house and minds her own baby. for GER
! tainy the woman doesn't COOK exactly tho
same thing for dinner every day and the baby
| doesn't wake md with fha ar h
| ache at precisely the same hour every plight.
| Think of it," said a well-known actress
| the other evening, you come to the the
| atre, listen to tho play single evening, and
1t is delightful to feel your visibility tickled
with the nonsense your sympathy stirred with
the pathos. 1t is so perfectly delicious to cry
little over grief that you don't really feel-al-
most rs fascinating as a Irritation. when you
play at being in love but experience none OF
real loves sadness. Now just fancy listening
to that same play. laughing at the same Jokes
weeping at the same misery in short, the
Same angels. same daisies same everything,
for 100 200, 300 nights. as plays rum besides
the matinfes.
We'll. then, try to imagine the sensation |
when 1t devolves upon you to make other peo-
pie laugh with your merriment. weep with
your suffering, enthuse with your enthusiasm.
Think OF laughing every night of the winter at /
thing. sobbng at three minutes after over
the same pathetic remark made by the same
man whose eyes are dancing with fun perhaps
all the time Why, there are times when you
have an almost irresistible desire to fly Off the
stage In the middle OF the act and you must
exert every faculty to tho utmost to prevent
yielding to the inclination.
/ knew an old Southern actor who couldn't
resist the feeling. and would frequently lay
down his hare foot in tho midst Of his make
up and saunter out OF the theatre in spite OF
the importantly and distress OF the manager to
return two. three. or even four weeks later,
when the spirit moved him. Then there's an
other thing about it tiresome enough to give
any one nervous prostration, and that is the
necessity OF looking pretty every night. You
know lL1fI every one has their days Of looking
paint won't save them. There's the day you
wash your hair. when you can't do anything
hair and ruins it. But you must look your
some one who sees you that night for the first
time in six months will say you are falling Oh
may make yourself as beautiful as great Juno
herself ne, stu you cannot remove the unfavora-
her CHEF stock In tade .Reses
solemn t II the h cqt Of bang grave serious
pigments rank in Importance far above histri- I
onic gifts and Delsartan graces.
again: an actress must never be III. never
world may have moods and lenses headaches
anu heartaches. but there's no lying around on
sofas in rieturesque convalesence for the ac;; /
ttess while some one reads softly aloud and !
flowers and fruit are sent by the basket. Yet. :
every one in her audience feels that she has has
robbed them; like hRhwayman. OF their !
hey are only receiving small per cent on a
dollar. as in financial smashup !
Another thing that seems to make the =
irE some & this. EOu la !
MT IN one part and forever afterward man t
ayers cast you for that particular line of work. q
ttlity. Once successful devoted daughter. or '
Tronged wife. or Intriguing gossip. always the :
,hievous tattler Now. 1t isn't S? bad when you !
are cast for part with little wholesome wick: =
seems 10 inherit from Mother Eve and it
lausted for the real side OF life. But If every =
light you must needs be long suffering. n
sunday school book heroine, why. don you see, u
naturally follows that you use up all the fac n
.y for rug y1q have and show
ty. Iust where you least desire them among Is
our friends. 4
hings get perfectly eXasperating, as they will
omelimes. you can shut Yourself up and scrib-
'ody for the paper next morning, while must g
mile languishngly and enderly into the eyes .
vhom Know are even then thinfing" Of nasty nasty
hings to write about my shortcomings"
The woman who keeps house washes on
Ionday and irons on Tuesday. sweeps on Fri m
ay. bakes on some other day and bundles the "
ably UP and goes visiting the rest OF tho time Is
N actresses days are all alike. In the first pI
lace each is only q fraction OF dav, for she IL
reak fasts when other people are taking their 81
inch. one hour Of the half day she must de- d!
ote to bathing and dressing another hour to 81
ris nor. You can't play IOtnue parts il You OF
'egh 200 and your waist line creeps up under n
our armpits. There are alkinP Delsarte "
half dozen things equally, tiresome~ asa M
emedy. but it Is only eternal vigilance that eekH
ut every blessed thing to eat and drink ia
hat YOU ENJOY. Thore is her mail to OK
lok over-tho Same struggling aspirants be
1r hstrionic fame who desire to recte before re
err or to have her secure position for them OF
1ually as good as her own from managers ma m
bdurate and deyoted to their own iriends as an
Official chiefs, the, autograph fond, the photo- l.,
ra oh collector who knows he could purchase In
or picture. but would prize 1t 80 much more WI
ighIy If she gave IT. to him. the rawlings Of the m
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