Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-04-11
ANY, ONE CAN eE AN ACTOR.
Comedian sol smith Russell Tells Of the
Trials Of Theatrical lite.

Comedian SOL smith Russell Tell. Of this
Trial. Of Theatrical Lite
Queer idea the public has u stage folk
and their lifc," said Sol Smith Russell
THE opinion IL almost universally held
chat theatrical people live In the most lux
urlous fashion. eat pie every ten mlnuiel
and never do any work. The harlships o.
travel. the hours Of soul woayIns rohcArs
ais aud study. and the thousand aud one
trials that hcsel the actors life are not rec
ognlzci because they do not appear la the
performance They are behind the scenes
and therefore not movable to the public
Hut they exist aud are very narrowing.
1 remember u little Incident which
brought all this home to me. In making d
Jump bstwcen large cities u was Necessary
o. put la a week among the smaller town.
playing one night In n town. We had
played In one place. aud after the perform
Anoe had packed everything for fitting "a
the next stop. aud were ready to 20 to tbs
train. which was due nj midnight. When
We arrived at the station. however, We
found that the train was late.
How latcF We inquired.
Don, know, said the comforting In
dividuAl NJ the station. May be one hour.
may be two; might he three
I'VE didn't dare GO back 20 III. hotel "a
slees because Of the Uncertainty Of the
time when the train would come along. M
We sat around the waiting room. mlscrably
tlrc'l and sleepy, trying IN find comfortable
positions on the hsrbarous seats.
Eve waited there until nearly . o'clock.
and NJ last the train came an'l We bounded
aboard. Disguised. cross, sour. The run 10
our next town was something lcss than
two hour, 40 We could not sleep ON the
train except to catch enough of nan 10 In
sggrnyAiing and wholly liscompo.lng. Il
was about O'Clock when We turned on,
Of the ear at the town where we were Ia
amu-e folks that evening. Il was the gray
Of dawn. and In the pale light we wer- n
ghastly lot. The baggage smashers hurled
our trunks aud boxes out upon the plat.
form with glosful savsgcry. aud a. looked
about for some sort Of hack tn tako us TO
hotel heard the station agent, who WIS
assisting tho baggageman TO get our
trunks out, say 10 the trainmani
"'WhAt il all this baggage, anyway
"'Oh.' said the baggage man, with In.
finite disgust In his tone. II belongs TO
some show company. reckon. Anything
TO yet out OF workin''
Staten ,.s,, - \ ar,,,'I 1870" ' tn'
aud went aud Informed the company that
We would have to walk with our hand has.
ragr to the hotel, about eight blocks. Any
thing to gvt out Of workingi Dear me, IL
think m. stntion a.,rg, wonid ~ ~ -,
uobled ''''' ava
"on sno,b.r o,.,.t,, .o,,,. $50. &C..
now I ninysJ ,r !, .a,,ii 49, Nm. M, ~
Iray, un,Il No., ~ ~ ,,iia',l,' ~ ~
The for,naon nm siia,i, an,,n,., 10y ~
M. nho,,, IN t,",,J On. ~ ~" -"
h,,ie hssi,s,Ion cane S nv, ~ AZ n''e' sumo
he you the man that played las, night
~ We Ply house, -
",N"ms'. Ra,.sl, ' ass ,%,p,t'
81 AID II was "
"'wcll, / want to speak to You Abon. n
boy o mine. I've tried TO make a farmer
o. MN, an I've preniieed him out twice 10
stsbi. an'pn ha I'm pu. , nun "a Ivery
no use. hnInt leon NM ~ al, ~ ",'u
OF him. When seen You inst nlrht I
kinder thought maybe he'd make a cool
actor. Hes pretty much the same Kind Of
81. ~ ~ ~ ~, M; ...n.,
per and toi5 M, H. -, rs,,9n 'n'o 81,
doing pennnoc. i assured him ,ba, ,hs
stage was Just the thing for lis son, tint
u ttVNlftu no intelligence. no mental lHI.
nnee' no sort Of aoumen whatever to lc
successful actor that u was something