The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-22
YOU'D Be AN ACTOR QUICK?
MISS NARTELL SAYS SHIELD
FIN yOT FOR YOUR MONEY.
she Is Explicit raj u WIN Cost You 500
TO $500 and Upward. but Indefinite
When Asked 10 Name One Who Has
Got Ills Moneys Worth From Her.

TO $500 ana Upward, but lndcfnite
When Asked 10 Name One Who Has
Got Ills Moneys Worth From Her.
The latest thing in get-there-quick
schemes is a theatrical agency that makes
actors and puts them before the public
for so much a put. Maude Adamses may
now be started toward the centre Of the
stage without years Of hard work and the
way to Henry Irving fame may be pur
chased at a price. Miss Marie Martell
holds out that kind Of hope, She has
opened an Office in the Broadway Theatre
Building from which she sends forth
her circular to people who want to go on
the stage and who reply to her advertise-
ments. II says with a variety of type
intended to make certain points impress
sive: .
The Dramatic Artists Exchange not only
secures entrance into the profession. but
continues to advance it, patrons by con
stantly looking after their interests, securing
better parts. greater parts and Public and
mans gerial recognition II places asplrants on
the stage and directs their stage career tor
atime-usually from twOto five years They
are coached until an engagement /, secured.
and at all idle intervals during term OF con-
tract Graduation or finish Of a course ~ a
school Of acting marks the stopping place OF
90 per cent Of those who study for the stage.
The real ob~t acle 10 getting on the stage ~
encountered when the aspiraut sets out to
secure an engagement He will find the
road TO success strcwn With seemingly lm-
pansibln obstacles. such A. SAINT oi an oppor-
tunity to play a part Ia which he can diSlln-
guish himself. failure TO keep employee;
inability to secure engagements with inc
larger mann gers. metropolitan appearances.
and 50 forth.
Feeling that a person who makes such
extraordinary promises would have some
thing interesting to say, n SrN reporter
called on Miss Martell. She shares Offices
with the Hallett Managerial Exchange.
and may be connected with that firm. She
il a plausible and encouraging talker.
The Dramatic Artists Exchange" shs
said, will act a. a stepping stone from
the repertOry. stock and smaller manage
ment which marks the boundary line Tor
so many clever people. whose ambition
and merit give way before IN" demands
Of necessity, To the combination and New
York management, leading To metropolis
tan Appearances. On the other hand,
can he a help to player J. need stock
work. You say you have never been on
the stage. Well, for slO1 We can coach
you and get an engagement Tor Nou lhts
l. no, a school Of acting. They ar" rather
fakes. Their object l. 10 keep "A student
studying IL long ~ I"Hll|F, N' ~ ~
the ices. With us II il desirable To- place
YOU AZ soon n possible. During the last
year ! have not kept a patron waiting more
than two months for an engagement, and
usually have placed them in two or three
weeks"
The reporter asked Miss Martell for refer
enCes, which she said she would he glad
To give, but instead she returned gllhlY
to the advantages Of her exchange and the
drawbacks Of III" @so-called school OF
49, a.. - It.,I1,. IatnK Y,raaGAH Tor
name, she meptiuned one comic opera.
prima donna, who il now Appearing out 81
Town in vaudeville.
But YOU didn't put her on the stage?''
"Oh. no, but We do all her Looking.
don't Saythat can promise a beginner such
a place as she holds, but 1t shows what
We do. Now the schools Of acting would
lead an aspirant Ia believe that all that II
necessary 10 get ON the stage l. 10 taEe
course Of instruction, when, az an absolute
matter Of fact, the applicant after he has
completed his studies soon learns thaJ
managers are prejudiccd az al II tie Schools
and that to mention one when applying
for M engagement ihvaflblN means az.
aster. The Artists Exchange avoids INV
prejudice and has established a reputation
Tor furnishing managers with clever be-
ginuers able to play parts al one" ~ a pro-
fessiOual way.
Miss Martcll ignored the fact that. con-
trary 10 her assertion, our i,adIrg managers
IeNIIlI NllfH illu'N ivy 80
several Of the Well-known dramatic schools,
and that Charles Fruhuau gives M strong
support 20 one OF them. She n'rIdftu
that the most the schools and dramalld
agents did for applicants wac &" take Their
money on promise = place on the stage.
and then merely got them INTO s1iuo cheap
cDUpauy for awhile. or sent on % iak' on"
for n few nights. m order 20 "vade legal
responsibility 40 other individual than
rhe laid. IN New York ur 10 all thls
- conducting my hind 81 q bu-i-
u'ss. or anything approaching o., nor can
lhoDD advantage d. bad lN dTy other dlr's-
iiun Nv tcru- ucp'ld uN 'he individual
and the ong Engagement dosir''. one apUh-
cant might D., placed 900 = minor par, Whus
another would g,i a l.aIIng s.-.fl'u ~
sdiaIcp iu 'hI- CITY IT," deposit
required uur- from tiH tu 80 aud up-
ward t2iu ietrg ilp usual sum 900 a%iNanc.
But d., i-I.rrrf o.llI hn' "uiaIu he
= auv ma. ag'I Nu' hal iIfcd one
- Ns- MAr.'I- DII.r '. nor any on"hl
Who iai ob'aIr'i a place through Ter.
She wac f-..lH To-. i.e"E'f i'ai ne Tee
o. ~ be- zach I.vu u advance 10" ~
came .u' II i,r ~" vfN lI-' ~.
mu,h money IL Boo ia..r- g. 'h"F lad
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