The Washington times., 1903-12-13

question Ought not 10 be entered at all,
that it's too full already; that 1t means
awfully hard work and little or no pay.
and all that. New, ] don't ike that.
II the young persons who ask the ques-
ton are in earnest they probably know
that there Il hard work ahead and ex-
pect it. The very fact that they ask
the question shows that they arc trying
10 make their own way easier by getting
the experience Of others who have pre-
ceded them
The Need for Scholarship.
so / didn't tell tl:e little girl not to
be an actress. j did tell her there were
lots of difficulties in the way, that she
would have TO put UP with many hard
ships. that if she had a comfortable
home she mustn't expect the same com
forts when she went on the road as she
would have 10 do II she became an ae--
tress. that she would have to bear
many disa ppointments. / told her. too.
chat no matter how much native dra-
matte talent she might be endowed with
she must still work and study and then
work and study some more II she wanted
10 succeed and accomplish anything.
1T seems to me that no amount of
learning can come amiss 10 an actress
l don't believe that II Is necessary TO
have a college education, but j know
a college education won't hurt. An ac-
tress may never have any use for Latin
and Greek and higher mathematics on
the stage. but IL she has learned them
the study has cultivated her mind and
made her capable of learning and study
ing other things all the better and more
easily. I'm a little bit naterialistic in
E-.Is -, et,..T
ought not to expect any more OF her
brain than she does of one OF her mus
cles. Now, II you have never done
hard days wFk IN your life you
would not thlrR-if you were sensi-
BILE you wouldn't-that you could
start right in ami 30 a hard days wash
ing and ironing. for instance. Your
muscles wouldn't be trained TO It and
you couldn't do IT. No more If you
have never studied can you expect
your brain to stand the strain of sudden
and unusual exertion-
Training for the Mind.
There have been pitiful cases Of ac-
tresses-usually in stock companies who
have at least one new part to learn each
week for probably forty weeks in the
year-becoming insane. 1 would not be
surprised IL in almost every such In
stance the unfortunate actress was a
woman who had not been accustomed to
study IN her childhood and youth. What
wonder the unusual labor her brain was
called upon TO perform proved too much
for *.
IF anyone wants to succeed IN any
business they must work and work
And naturally the better their muscles
and brains are trained the more work
they can do and the more easily will
they succ eed. / don't believe that a
young woman who has decided 10 be-
come an actress while she is still IN
school ought to take any special course.
That ought TO come later. Let her lay
the foundation first in the best general
education she can get and then let her
study the special things like elocution
department. and the art Of makeup that
every actress must know. But she can't
know too much OF history or too much
of literature OF too much of the lam
guages or too much of anything else
they teach in schools and colleges-they
will all be useful TO her some time or
] other"