The herald., 1898-11-17

"You are, perhaps, solely welded to your
art, as it were," said !, thinking was get
ting off something real cute.

"You are, perhaps, solely welded to youl
art, as it were," said /, thinking was get
ting off something real cute.
"Well, yes; you might say that" she re
piled, thoughtfully, though of course there
are also several gentlemen to whom hav,
been welded at various times. Still yot
might say that l am welded to my art, i
YOU care to-" s'One more will not make
much difference, anyway" she added, aftel
little reflection.
| shall never forget how shocked was
at that. "You are really married, then,
am to understand" said, after l had re
covered somewhat from the shock
She glanced hastily at calendar that
hung on the wall near by. 'Yes," she said
after short mental calculation; Eyes, an
married now, but l am still just as much
in love with my art as ever"
O O o
"Tell me about your life on the stage
does it-er-that is-does it seem to agree
with you" l asked, rather at loss, my
self, to know just what was trying to get
at.
''It is too lovely for anything" she said
at is so delightful and charming that it is
just simply gorgeous. 1t is such careless
free and easy life, and not bit monoto
nous"
mot monotonous? Why, l had sup
posed"
80, yes; l know what you are going to
say; you had supposed that the task of going
through the same thing night after night
would be very wearisome after while. Let
me hasten TO assure you that such is far from
the case. We grow more and more in love
with it. There are always new faces before
us, you know, and we move about from one
place to another, and constantly go among
new scenes, and things are always changing.
We even find sometimes that the sheets have
been changed in the hotels where we stop,
after we have been away long time, and
then come back. No, it is not monotonous,
/ assure YOU"
"But the work, the--what is il You call it
practice? No, not that; I mean.--let me
think-rehearsals. Are the rehearsaIs not
tiresome sometimesv
''Tiresome! How could you ever think
that? They are just too nice for anything.
o, l don't know what we would do without
the rehearsals."
/ was about to give guess at it, myself,
but recovered myself in time.
But l have always heard that there was
some one who stood over you at rehearsals
with a club and ordered you around and
made you keep your face to the front, and
wouldn't let You toe in, or lean against the
scenery-the stage carpenter, or someone
like that, think it is"
She laughed low. siMery laugh "What
an absurd idea," she said 1--WE always do
just as we please, of course. We select the
part we like best, and act it to suit ourselves.
There isn't any one to tell us what we must
do and what We mustn't do, at all. People
have such funny ideas of the stage"
II have heard, too, that there was al.
ways more or less rivalry. and-and- -jeal-
ousy and discord behind the scenes" | was
little afraid OF that, but it had to be done
some time.
''Bosh!" she exclaimed, with delightful
pucker on her rosy lips. ''Where could You
have heard such nonsense as that, I'd like
to know"
I withheld the information. and adroitly
turned the conversation into other channels.
o O o
"Does a stage career require much prep
aration-that is, does an actress have to 60
through long and severe course of training
You know, have heard somewhere about
an actress who was all right except that she
lacked that wilowy, lithesome, graceful car.