New-York tribune., 1902-02-20

reputation so strong that she had absolutely
nothing to fear from the arrival OF beginner,
went to Mrs Wagner and refused TO appear asalh
the festival If the beginner were allowed TO re-
peat her success. And this kind OF thlhS IL Idi
from being uncommon In WoTd ana III uetu ti tiie
people constantly trying 10 huIt edclt ~
Who has forgotten Van DyckS description ol
Jean de ResZke as the last of the prlnha uolL-
nas?" Why. we repeat, should connection N'lH
an ART engender jealousy Ike this? In the CON
tinental opera houses things are much worse
than in England. Jealousy may be sald 20 pe G OF
ganized there to be developed into a reg
system Our musical critic described rev
weeks ago how the artists in a proNinclal + ttiCh
town paid a sort of counter clauue TO NilSl'e
and shout down their rivals. what Is 'he ie'-
for ii all? 800 1,to
The question is a very complicated one one. / ne ne
greengrocer. we have remarked, IS jealous "t
his more successful business rival In thal
sense every artist-Or nearly every artsl-ls d
very greengrocer. That kind or jealousy II
common; it may be disregarded, or almost as
regarded: the artist simply suffers from II III
common with the rest OF the human rae. -
more important point is that whereas IL IS
hardly possible for a greengrocer TO achleNe
distinction in his calling-beyond the distinction
of selling more cabbages than any one else
an artist must achieve distinction. must oe
we'll in the public eye. before he can consider
his livelihood assured. You cannot be poet
I'D live by your trade If you are gong 10 HNe
b. poetry you must be the poet, the man or the
day In painting the same holds in a lesser
measure: r.ore people can live by painting than
by poetry In military matters also the same Is
true: a man gets his promotion less through MS
merit than by being known. In music a com
fellows before he can earn his daily bread And
in singing, especially opera singing, a man or
woman must have a name" before he or she
consider his or her position assured rms
struggle for prominence would alone account
for much of the jealousy of the operate profeS-
sion-and also, IL might be added, OF the actor 5
profession But has not the fact Of appearing
under the public gaze some connection with the
matter?
There are few people who can be looked at
without deterioratng They become self-con-
scious. vain, and as soon as vanity comes in
FyfV,p nafI
whose future depends on the public appreciation
of him. and who becomes appreciated largely
through his personal appearance, must newt
ably come to think more and more or hltnSeIf;
and, thinking more about himself, it is in the
natural order of things that he should come
to detest the people VINO prevent the pubic
thinking the about him he himself
does. The vanity of actors is notorious, of
opera singers il is not so notorious. because
opera singers not constantly written
about in the newspapers actors are; but
nevertheless ii is just great And there alone
we find considerable part Of the explanation
of opera singers jealousy He wants the pub
lie TO look at him. to hear him, and every round
OF applause given to rival is a round Of ap-
plduse taken from him 1t would be surprising
if he did not become jealous: it is. after ALL no
matter for surprise that he invariably does.
There remains another fact TO be noted. We
have pointed out that jealousy prevails largely
in military circles: we have remarked that the
soldier gets on in life by getting known to the
public. Lord Roberts himself has arrived"
partly by being well advertised. He might have
been ten times greater or smaller a general:
one explanation OF the military mans jealousy.
Another fact to which wish to call attention
g that il is in mess rooms actors dressing
rooms. the wings Of the theatre-it is wherever
men or men and women gossip that jealousy
arises. Military men. actors, singers. all talk
d terrible amount of gossip. They begin by
talking shop talking shop entails talking of one
another; slight remark made by one is ex-
aggerated as it is passed round and ultimately
becomes something in the nature of a libel
Ihen II Is handed on to the person about whom
II was spoken, and, to speak the vulgar the
We're big minded. generous, there would be
neither scandal talked any of the jealousy
caused by scandal talking We do not believe
that any really great poet painter or musician
was jealous, not even of his more successful
rINaIS. But the world is not made up OF great
artlsts 1t contains great many small ones
and they are as we have described them TheI,
are mady jealous Of each other and the Dsy-
thought '''