Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-10-07


| than go out on the road at good
salary for 40 full weeks. That Is one
| Of the caprlces OF the profession. Then
| there Is another lot that are very NEE
! docre They really Grant PLAYERS at
all. They bear the name because they
| are registered and have dabbed a bit
| in the business. But they can't act ana
| nobody wants them. sun. they must
| live. It's hard. and n ia wonderful how
! they mnnngc to exist waiting for the
| engagement thew never get
| An the conuanlcs have startel out
| now save vhlt urs known lg "the
late ones" the very biz productions.
And vet. Broadway is daily lined with
| Idle players
The conviction comes 10 the observer.
as Il most ultimately comes to the
hopelesslv idle plavor. that the profes-
sion Is ovcrcoWded By huge and
motley majority rs IL overlooked What
shall they "a? What can they do?
Back TO their former ayocatlons. no
matter how humble and obscure; back
10 the simplicity of the country; back
70 the bench ana TO the tools OF some
honest trade which they abandoned to
pursue that for which nature never de.
signed them, and 10 which art never
summoned them
Especially IS this mania 10 make
Broadway reputation. and to play New
York engagements wholly, prevalent
among actresses. The men do not seem
10 be nearly so perverse along this Inc
as the women, probably for the rea-
son that some few young women have
been very fortunate In stepping from
one New York production to another
and landing early In the group OF stars,
Of course without rhyme or reason,
except that somebody took interest
enough in then, to purchase stellar
chance for them
The reign of commercialism Is at
its height I'm theatrlcals. | know you
read about this often but / want you
to know that 1t Is fact And next
10 that | wish you to know that there
are other considerations underlying ad-
VGncement. / am not one of those who
believes that every young woman who
aspires 10 20 on the stage should be
warned of Of Broadway; because many
women are clever enough to engineer
their own affairs without a soil airy
concession. But IL you have, among
your acquaintances, a young woman
who fancles she can come to New York
and rise on the stage with nothing but
talent to forge her ahead. Just mark
this article and send It TO her.
bernard shaw II making MS OHen-
sive ogotlsm pick quarrel with the
only people on earth who attend his
plays, or read his books, IN numbers
II would promote Mr.. Shaws interests
and diminish his ohensiven ss II he
would cultivate a little modesty as
am erraucism
IN order that ! might judge II Mrs
Fiske has made such wonderful pro-
gtess az an actress. or II am irrcyoc-
ably prejudlced.I ia Ike to see her revive
"Foggs Ferry"
Nj George AIDES failure with "lrhe
Bad Samaritan" Is only n natural adj
tnonitiou, such as comes to all the sue
c,ssful not to get conceited. AIDE
hasn't lost his cunning but he mislald
IL while he was writing this play Hell
get It bnck again,
II is ON the carpet 20 send Harry
Dixey out on,e more as a star. For
the sake of the highest form Of art
[ hope plxev will appreciate this as
his opportunity: for there IL no abier
artist i'm the profession when he wills
il so
Ii may be news Ia you that n. s.
Wood C"the boy actor" Of other daysl
is now a man close on TO So and is out