St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-22

Rosa B0nheur, George Eliot, Marie
Corelli, Charlotte Cushmap, Mary An
derson (whO gave up her profession to
marry, Sara Bernhardt, who is thought
by some to be the greatest modern
actress. and who has married several
times. but the marriages have not re-
suited happily.
With men it is different. AS the poet
says
Love is of mans life thing apart;
'Tis woman's whole existence"
Shakespeare, Walter Scott, Dickens,
Longfellow, Mozart. Wagner, Rubin
stein. Titan, Raphael could succeed in
their life's work because to them Love
was thing apart" The great Ma
poleon Bonaparte," the soldiers idol, is
an eXemplification of the poets saying.
How easily he gave up his wife, the
beautiful Josephine. at the dictates of
his political advisers.
A woman would not have given up
the man she loved so easily.
All. me! Woman cannot serve two
masters. She must choose between
''Art and Heart" Which will bring
her the true happiness, art or heart?
"A woman's heart is like gold mine,
You never know what's thar till you pros
pect in it."
We can all succeed if we find out
what we are best adapted for, and fol-
low it out faithfully by being true to
ourselves. Some women are best adapt
ed for home ties. and these, l think. are
the ones who are loved best. That love
they feel and know. The love of the
public for their idols is fleeting and
thing of today. | recall the beautiful
lines of Virginius to his daughter. He
said to her: when your mother
placed you in my arms she said, L
wished it had been man. l answered,
She shall be the mother of a race of
men,
Ireceive many letters from girls who
wish to 90 on the stage. To those who
will take my advice, say don't. Not
one in hundred is successful on the
stage. 1t requires years OF unremitting
work. The public knows only Of the
few successful ones, and not of the
many who are failures.
To those of my sisters who choose the
stage for livelihood, my advice to
them is, study, work! work! There is
no royal road to success. Every one
laDors for everything. The little is
great, the great little. Some have to
work harder than others to attain the
same ends. Macready, the great En-
glish actor who flourished sixty years
ago, was striking example Of
h I,S, oil
hard work. He was educated for
the ministry, but chose the stage. AS
he wrote i'll his memoirs, he would stand
for hours in front of mirror. with his
hands strapped tightly to his side, and
recite the most violent, excitable pass
ages from Shakespeare. This was to
give him repose. Evidently he had that
passage from Hamlet's advice to the
players in view: Nor do not saw the
use all gently"
There is no rule set to work by. The
same result can be accomplished by diff
ferent methods. Macready was schol-
arly. 1t was all hard work for him. A
totally different type of man who was
contemporaneous with Macready was
Edmund Kean. 1t all came easy to him.
That is. the study part of it. lie was
an actor to the manner born. He was the
first actor to play Shylock in the "Mer-
chant of Venice" as tragedy
part. The comedian in those
days used to enact the role.
Edmund KeaD was short, dumpy little
man, unblessed by nature tor his pro-
fession. He was discovered by noted
London manager, playing in the prov
InceS. The manager was impressed by
his work, and engaged him for his Lon
don company to play minor roles. Sal
aries were very small in those days, and
young kean found himself without a
penny on the eve of his de-
parture for London. His wife
was about to be confined. No money
for bus fare. 1t was raining hard, and
London twenty-six miles Off. Nothing
daunted, young Kean took mis- wife on
his back and walked the distance, stop
ping now and then to rest under the
shelter of friendly hay rick. When
he arrived at the theater he was not
we'll received by his associates, who be-
Titled his provincial experience and di-
minutive stature. The partner of the
manager who engaged him said"he is too
small" But the man who can carly a
sick wife twenty-SiX miles i'll the rain
to get work to feed and clothe her and
her child has something in him. lie
cannot remain amongst the rank and
file. And young Kean's opportunity
arrived. The play was the "Merchant
of Venice" The comedian "a
great favorite) was sick and
unable 10 appear. Young Kean
implored the manager to allow him to
play the part. The manager stared in