Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26
NEW YORK LIFE.
= nnIv Takes a TeaspoOnful of Brains
70 Re- an Actor or Anything Else.
-.-u On artist Found Model and Played q
Nv r-ooticoI Joke on Els Swell Acquaint-
snces-Man Cufed by Girl.
.ondence of the Gazette.

7rreckage OF seFeIaI sill1ll O@HhS' AA0 10
an IF the late Lester Wallsck. A
-.,,,a son of the actor keeps a hotel
-rs stand. Why didn't one or the
-.hsr Of these men extend the line of
.,.oassful Wallacks on the stage? Be-
oan.e they did not inherit the Wallack
beauty. Nature decided that Lester
.a,rI5 he the last of his race behind the
s...1f7bts The WaIlackian good looks
-.Sarsd short with that famous come
5..r and sDendthrift. You can be an
avcsiIent mimic hero without much
t~ajn or culture, as was the case with
.bo1o+e Charles r. ThOrne, Jr., but a
handsome appearance is necessary.
s,Wbat an awful lot of humbug there
= IN the so called art of acting?''
theatrical manager of long experience
cold GOOD actors are born so rather
+ben made so. Endowed with a fine
ornegrauce and a good voice, man may
-srv easily become a satisfactory i'm
,arsonator Of stage heroes. The small
Get amount of brain matter will serve
hts purpose, if only he knows enough to
snbmit to expert guidance. OF course
there are rare geniuses like Booth and
Salvini. who Undue the natural gifts
with all the subtleties which their keen
intelligence can devise; but l am speak
ing Of the generality, and L assure you
that the brainiest actors are often those
who do the poorest acting. The man in
q company who makes the most impress
Son on the audience is as apt as not
IN be the stage manager, under whose
Ill
ing man is coached into high esteem.
Why could name teachers of elocu
ton and the dramatic art, and mighty
good ones, too, who can t themselves act
in taking manner. Their looks are
against them, their voices are unpleas-
ant, OF they are not facile in employing
the knowledge which, nevertheless, they
can impart to less intelligent pupils. 1t
wouldn I do to give examples by name,
but the public would be astonished-
probably incredulous-if you were to
print the truth about the genius of
several highly successful stars.
-.
talked with a clergyman on the same
subject, and he declared positively that
he knew of fne-faced, full-voiced
preachers who were popular without a
bit of mental originality or power,
while uglY-visaged, ill-spoken men of
brilliant minds could not command a
congregation s attention.
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In other professions a man need not
look suitable for his work and yet sue
coed. To see the two men who buy the
matter for the two funny papers-Puck
and Judge-HarTy Bunner and Isaac NJ.
Gregory would say: 'Well, here are
two square pegs in round holes. - Bun
Rer looks like an English curate, with
his two bl8Ck-siders, and Gregory like
Well-to-dO lawyer, with his chin tuft.
There 5 not a mischievous twinkle IN the
eye Of either. Bunner is somewhat of
sDob, being the nephew of Lucius Tuck
erman, the friend and co-literary
worker of Washington Irving, and has
the swarthy Tuckerman skin. His
father was a customhouse officer. His
brother Is fair artist. Gregory is ge-
NAL, unpTetentious and popular. He
used TO m8nage the Graphic. Really it
IS a shame that these journals are not
willing TO pay for the first and
0est from the pens of such men as
Charles Dudley Warner, Mark Twain,
joel Chandler Harris and others Of as
high grade. AS it is, they are filled
from week to week with continual flow
Of only matter of average quality, but
aimed at a low target which il hits.
Iuey rarely contain anything that lives
10 De more than a week old. In this re-
spect they are failures. They have no
distinctive flavor. 1t is the same old
style Of exaggeration, and not true wit,
"hlch always sets forth possibility. We
laugh at these pictures but it is all above
lhe diaphragm.
-.
The material for humor is so plenty,
100. Observe the cranks; one wants to
4ooHsh vivisection; another printing
oNlces OF all kinds, save where the Scrip
lures are multiplied; another Is in favor
VI compulsory prayer; another, and his
name IS smith, wants nude models of all
H'uus suppressed. Well, there is no
uouot that Smith is a little bit right. In
'u'S city there is more or less abuse of the
so-eaited necessity of nude models in the
lame OF art. Every little youngster who
tlAS taken few lessons at the Art Stu
1su's league thinks he must have his
nuue model, and he gets her. The
question Is, in plain language: Who does
'Ns other the most injury?
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An artist OF excellent repute Was stroll
ny through the slums some months ago
- search Of artistic material when his
Iva was caught by the figure Of young
o o-l who was buying a can of beer IN
SoIAer saloon. He noted at once the
S-leuulu proportions of the shoulders,
btI bus ana bust, the grand curve of the
% 20 - lhe long limbs and the dainty poise
sao ,ue beautiful head. He resolved TO
80 her Tor a model, and, after she
oo 60 ieIt The place, made inquiries con-
Iouug her of the barkeeper. He
-a- .Leu that she was the daughter of
sba worthless people, and that, while
- was somewhat better than her peo-
~ ~. ana that, while she was somewhat
ioo. :; man her parents, she had no OBJ
EN-. ~ lie beyond the regular filling and
sip'sIug OF the beer pail. She was only
raoE' and had been at school up to
IN Tin, ago. having fair education. Get
ON, Het address, the artist sought her
toI,' only required some diplomatic
no-. ou MS part to get her and her
e~s =, 10 consent to her posing for him,
cIaon aue next day the girl, arrsyed in her
prta-esSS' attire, reported at the studio
r1o,' Since then she has acted as a
ST. oIeI Ior the artist steadily and has
such an aptitude for absorbing