The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-18

Grand Opera Company. Friday afternoon,
what she thought of the interviews with
Calve. Miss Nethersole and others, re-
garding Coquelin's theory. thai to ac,
well. an actor does wrong to feel the
part in reality. says a writer in the
Philadelphia Press.
Miss Tracey agreed entirely with the
singer and actress of her own sex. She
had met NJ. Coquelin at a breakfast in
Paris. where he a made the same
statements to her. She told me of the
pleasant little contretemps they had
when she insisted upon disagreeing with
him. great artist as he was.
However, the famous Frenchman adj
vised her strongly that if she wished TO
succeed. she must never really feel the
role she was singing. He thought by SO
doing one lost command of ones self.
Miss Tracey thought otherwise; that the
person who loses herself in the scenes.
does just what the person she Is por-
traying would do under the circum-
stances. making, therefore, her acting
more admirable.
Miss Tracey thought great suffering
made a greater actress, the having felt
made ones power to appreciate strong
err. She cited Mile. Calye as an instance.
She told mi that the Spanish singer at
tracted only ordinary attention when she
first appeared. butsthe tragedy Of a love
affair. and that awful physical suffering
accompanying those tortuous months in
the hospital. of which all Calves admir-
ers have learned. gave to the world a
wonderful lyric tragedienne. Calve her
: self says she never sang till she suffered,
x 7 a sired Mics Q1roneu oIca of tho nj
for young American girls in Paris. Was
the field too full; were the triumphs
equal to the trials?
And she sighed, and / knew that meant
she had lived through It, understood its
slim chances and felt inclined to say, as
caive once did: Eyes, the field is full
and the chance are slim. If you nave
a friend who wants to go. tell her to
stay home and darn stockings"
Have i read your thoughts right.
Miss Tracey. I asked, when ! told her
what / OWNED.
Il think you have" was her answer.
Il always feel 50 regretfui when l hear
of a young girl, inexperienced, going
to that great city to study
but, THAT'S the way all people who
have made a success of their profession
talk, | interrupted. What good does
your advice do? You can tell a young
woman of the privations, the tempta-
tons, the d-.scouragements. 4 know. for
l went through them ALL you add. and
the young girl looking at you, success
full. courteds admired, standing on the
very pinnacle she wants. says. then if
those circumstances have produced you.
l am only too willing to so through
them also
Il fear thai again you are right" she
said. II had everyone's advice not to go,
the displeasure of my father, the incre-
dulity of my family-yerS little money
and yet 1 insisted on going, and went.
MY mother was the only person who had
faith in me
yet I think people who have lived
through all that 1t takes to mako a stu
dent into a singer or actor, by enforcing
upon young aspirant minds the knowledge
those hardships. the great battle Of
rk that 1t means to achieve even small
lee, the faith in the world, unendur-
Ing faith in ones self. the bitter strife
against encouragement; / say, if one
tells all this. the aspirant at least goes
to war with the secondhand shield and
helmet of experience-and that's worth
something.
Yes. Paris is crowded with American
girls, each with dreams Of greatness in
their eye AT least, there is this about
1t. That even If Disappointment come, as
it must to so many there, they will lave
seen a part of life. added to their charac-
ter. In a manner and with a strength
that nothing else gives like battle for an
aim In a great city with great competi-
ton.
THE girl who comes out of it un-
scathed, and I repeat the word with en-
phasiS has a wiseness and breadth of
liberation that no other of life's lessons
e~nforces as web.
Miss Tracey knows what this struggle
IS. Born in Albany, springing from the
pld Lorillard-Spencer stock Of New York,
she insisted upon going to Paris to study
when she was IS. Her entire family OPP
posed 1t, but in the end she just went. a
trusted woman servant going with her.
She had no one to advise her in the
French capital as far as her studies went;
she knew no French Inc learned quickly
that life was not a bed of roses for the
aspirant.
She found, what many foreigners find
when II is too late, that the main trouble
is In getting the right method. Every
teacher has her clique, and one may be
battledored and shuttleeocked in the pur-
suit of the proper method until there is
no voice left. A years wrong training
means two years unlearning.
The way she got her first engagement
was unique. She was practicing in her
teachers room, singing, If / am not mis-
taken. the music of Elisa in ..Lohen-
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