The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-23
NATIONAL BANK OF SAVANNAH
HERMAN MYERS, President.
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The candidates soar above this green
table where the Jury Is ,t nsten wnedw dne
painted green and pink-like sherbet-is
quite sad, lighted on both sides by glazed
windows having in the rear, opposite tho
stage, a sombre box from which the en-
peror assisted at the tragic competitions
Of his time, and came to learn n there
were not coming new rival for Talma.
| The emperor must have found the box
very narrow AMI, in our time, a music
| critic would sternly object to It,. But
Bonaparte was not more at his ease IN ms
war carriage, and from this hole he could
listen and see without being seen.
1t is before this empty box and this
green carpet that, from noon no sunset,
for three days, pass the ainplli9us yNuIs
Rachel or Of Got II Is a singular crowd.
Formerly the candidates for the Conser-
vatoire were poor devils that ,le tar,,,
anee of some drama, while they listeneu
10 Melngue or saw Dumaine protecting
virtue with his powerful muscle ,5ci,o I ,nry
meets or Young girls in love with Tragedy,
which they saw from the topmost saller-
les of the Theater Francois
They were afraid of no obstacles or trou-
bles. They knew that apprenticeship for
the stage is harsh On the way TO the COL
den Fleece they were prepared 10 eat DIS
cults made OF stones ana Ihey wen ~ Joy; 10y
erv Reranger was still In the fashlon, anu
the people sang OF the poor VINO are SO
happy. -. 4. o,roar Ana what
a careeri The most brilliant often and the
most remuneratiye. One becomes an IL
tress Just as one becomes teacheri n sirt
nrasei3ts herself at the Conservatoire just
as she would present herself at the clty
hall for a diploma. girl goes INTO an elo-
cution class as a boy goes INTO lawyer
office.
- ~ the Roman Comique. How FAR dis
tant. even, is the time OF Albert tiaugny,
a poet who was proud OF playing the par
Of a second senator in Shakespeare
0thellol Parents know now that the stage
is a trade which is respectable ana sons
and daughters of superior oincers 90 not
disdain the Conservative where, in Ca
Warni's time the mothers Of actresses
were ianltors. The stage is now IKE the
painters studio. There is an invasion OF
aapnrentices II shall never make OF my
son "A spoiler of canvas, was the indig-
nant cry Of former days. SINCE Meissonier
and Detaille have found golden mines on o..
their palettes the ambition of fathers IS
nuite different. you do not draw Dauly;
WHY should you not paintT
1t is the same with the stage. Parlor
comedians abound. There Is everywhere
a spontaneous growth of actors, actresses
and reciters The entire world of sons
and daughters of merchants lawyers,
Professors and military men precipitates
itself upon the Conservatoire. They know
more than formerly. Are they as much
animated by the sacred fire?
II must be said that there is process Of
selection among candidates, and that the
IGNORANT impulsive and naive comedian
is a rare parsonage. This art Is consider
ed as a trade by everybody. There was
among the Judges this year a man who
received-would you believe it?-a letter
of recommendation from a nun in favor
OF a young girl whom her vocation com,
PEELED to quit the convent for the stage.
oh, how far distant from US Is Musset's
Perdican, who reproached the pale girls
that surrounded Camille with Sitting in
her all the signs of life! What would he
say of that sister, plous, doubtless, labor
ing to open 10 one of her pupils the doors
of the temple of perdition?
Among this crowd at the Conserva-
toire how few may entertain the slight
est hope of the future2 How many de-
ceptions are to overtake these young girls
in love with the stage? Got said: I'VE
are receiving too many of them, we are
ton. We are laureating too many of
them"