Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-03-08

nrho" drama is being enacted in
police station, the theatre is packed
nifty and the police court episode
IN acts as fine advertisement for
much talked-of play. People are
beginning to question ii the papers
b critics had right to Jump on
thersole In the Elay as they did.
Il duty of the critic is sadly mis-
1erstood. He ought not to go tc see
play in hostility and scorp. The
five that impels thoughtful OBJ
yer to condemn much that is
bepted by the multitude is not the
De merely to iniure or deIide, but
4 desire that the age shall excel in
kinds Of worth, and that tho public
Iii have the best. The world does
prosper through being. tlattered;
critic who frankly tells the truth,
bn be it disagreeable, is a better
bind to mankind than the tlaterer.
Ter since the theatre existed it has
bn subject to attacks of tho critics.
II there is more than common need
Wholesome censure. All this talk of
immortality of "Sapho" and the
blicity given it by the newspapers,
scores of interviews with Olga
thersole, have put fuel to fever
Iii is forever in the land, that foot
ht,fever'' that attacks all stage
luck girls. A theatrical manager said
b other day that his mail on the sub
10 was always large, but that now
b hulk and nature of 1T positively
lined the seductions of his mntutinal
pper. There never was time whom
4 stage struck damsel was more in
idence than she is just now. The
.nagers can't escape her. If she is
u absolutely convinced that she is an
sipient Bernhard, there are hun
ed pretexts. She is in dire need
ualiy, she has an army of hungry
|tle brothers who must be fed, she is
xious to act lust to show those
rrid men who sit in the front row
at an actress can be great and good
the same time." She has always
ID success as an amateur and always
len praised by a lot of admiring
lends. She is generally as vain rs a
acock and ii is difficult to make her
lieve that she can't out-Sarah Sarah.
bw, il this sort of thing goes on
bnagers will have to engage audiences
ID not actors and actresses. We will
be acting instead of Watching
Do these stage.struck maidens ever
ink of the hard work tie actress has
do2 Work Work Work All, ii
ley will remember this, these stage
uck maidens, they will save them
Ives many agonies of disappcint
ents. The managers can do much but
10y can't "make silk purse out Of
BOWS ear" any more than the chill
len of Israel were able to make bricks
thout straw. Nobody does anything
this world without labor. And
hse-struck girls soc women like
ethersole, Julia Marlowe, Heller
|odjeska, Annie Russell, and say,
bh that is easy, all she has to do i:
90 on a little while and act. She
a cinch. " Or they say Of writer
bill he has to do is to sit down com
rtably at his desk and fill up space.
b. the fallacy of such thoughts! No
pdy does these things successful,
thout the anguish of hard work, tina
far more wearing than floor scrub
ng. The matinee girl sees Mis-
ethersole nestled among the flower
rown at her by her audience, be
egod by people anxious for her t
dorse styles of hats, wines, face
caches and hair restorers, or clamor
g for her autograph, for which, by
e.by, state on authority she ask
cents. / wonder if Miss Nethersol
hts that value upon her signature, 0
neither she thinks IL will dampen tn
dor of autograph fiends? ] think
@ would put her price higher
build make these same tiends restec
pre- highly the autograph. But 2
|nts, bah! / belong to that cam
|my of autograph. seekers, but don
Int Olga's at this price.
but to return to our mutton.
hat foolish women these stage-struc
bis are. They never seem to see th
30 her side of the picture. The fulfil
fuggles, the contest with prejudice
70 bitter disaprointments, the phys
exposure and hardships, the II
ssant hard work. 1t is the laz
ople in this world that believe gu,
ss is such simple thing. mot or
h. pman in II hundred ever reaches
1gh pinnacle of stage fame,' said
Unknown theatrical manager u
her day. and the few women wi
find that hard work has taken Il
II from the gingerbread. " Let II
bge-s struck giils think of this; i
EN- ask themselves If the game
ally worth the candle. No girl wan
60 on the stage TO play thinkir
ut or to say, "My lady, your wrap
BIT every stage struck girl pictur
,rself Sarah Beinhardt. Al tn
eans life of labor and the know
ge that there is no rest in tn
prld. Allan Dale says: Success
tragedy, for you never really get it.
: apot" Prof. William G. Sumner
Pile has brought about by his lectu
the holy bond of matrimony and j
sertion that so per cent of the MARI
Pople are unhappy. This bold ASSERT
Is wakened up his holiness Bish
pane OF Albany, Minot Savage and
fore of other well-known divine
l1arriage, says Savage, is mou'
Pap, easy tic get into and very hard
1t out Of" Some years ago one pC
sron said: "Marringe is the deaf
bel of love.'' Our Amelie Rives "
hown to write married life is ii
hampagne with the sparkle gone
evertheless, youths and maidens
walking under the yoke and {
frently seem to like the tie. Oar
bd Joan seemed to hit it off W
Dough together, ard the "honeyme
lip with 20 minutes for dive
bupons," is a joke confined to
Pnny papers or to such classes
lied the ''snart set," who thou
UGH talked of and written abo
ay but small part in the drama
lmanity.
Beth, who is a devoted admirer
be novelist Richard Harding Das
lis me that his trip to South Afr
as made at the instigation of